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Topic: Dr. Demento's disiciples, audience on the move
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Started by: kturet
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d I actaully sent Dr Demento several things before he played Have A Peanut Butter Sandwich.
My boombox cassette tape was totally egnore but I think around 1998 or 1997 when they put him back on in Madison temporarely I sent Dr D a couple of CDs and he sent me a letter saying they might play one of the songs but he couldn't promise anything.
Then Dr D went off the air here again and I never got to find out until more recently when I check the song title search engine at www.dmdb.org
So then in 2001 wanting to get my new CD a little further I discovered the Dr Demento website www.drdemento.com and read On his website it says pick out 5 songs you think Dr Demento should listen to so I sent Dr Demento Reinventing Myself with Have A Peanut Butter Sandwich on it but Have A Peanut Butter Sandwich was not one of the 5 songs I suggested he play.
I recently recorded the remix and posted it at
www.myspace.com/artpaultheremixproject and have sent a copy of the song to Dr Demento do you think he will play it ?
I sent Dr Demento the Tribute version of Have A Peanut Butter Sandwich by Anthony A-log but Dr Demento didn't play it.
When I sent Dr D Reinventing Myself I think it help that I didn't send him more than one CD this time and maybe it also helped that I played keyboard instead of guitar ?
I think Dr Demento will play alot of stuff especially if it's up his alley but he also relies on the request of the audiance.
So he might play anything once and if he really likes it he might play it twice but unless it makes the Funny 5 I doubt he'll play it more and in order for a song to make the Funny 5 alot of people have to request it.
Since Have A Peanut Butter Sandwich was played on Dr Demento I've had several songs played but only one of them Vote for Me/It's a Joke got back in the Funny 5.
I think it helps to tour which is what some of the fump artists like Sudden Death & The great Lukeski do which I feel I might need to do more.
But it's kind of interesting Vote for Me/It's a Joke did better on
www.dfsxradio.com then Have A Peanut Butter Sandwich did on
www.dfsxradio.com so it could be the audiance ?
If you knew who was really listening to Dr Demento and what they thought was really funny then maybe you could know what would forsure be a hit.
But I'm not sure I would have ever recorded Dead Puppies or Fish Heads.
--- weirdojace
By that logic, I'm honestly surprised my song "I Cannot Sing" got played twice.
He's ignored everything I've sent him since then, however.
--- DJ Particle
Luke Ski wasn't accepted into Dr. D's playlists until he was able to get into a real studio, for example.
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d By that logic, I'm honestly surprised my song "I Cannot Sing" got played twice.
He's ignored everything I've sent him since then, however.
--- DJ Particle
Luke Ski wasn't accepted into Dr. D's playlists until he was able to get into a real studio, for example.
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d With any mainstream radio broadcast sound quality is always going to be an issue. You don't necessarily have to master your work at Bernie Grundman, but it has to meet some basic broadcast standards. If the recording sounds cheesy and it works as part of the joke, that's one thing. If the bass is distorted, the guitar's too loud and you can't understand the lyrics...well...
Unfortunately, a lot of so-called "professional" recording gear sold in big-box music stores these days really isn't: $150 condensor mics, $200 channel strip preamps, etc. They don't live up to their advertising hype, and users often feel it's their recording skills rather than the gear. Sometimes it is, but not always.
--- DJ Particle
--- Spaff.com
Dr. Demento's playlist is getting narrower? I see just the opposite: he's always adding new artists and songs.
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i think what may have been meant is that an act like Weird Al, who in the late 1970s recorded himself originally in less-than-professional settings, would never make it on Dr. D nowadays.
Luke Ski wasn't accepted into Dr. D's playlists until he was able to get into a real studio, for example.
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d
--- Spaff.com
Dr. Demento's playlist is getting narrower? I see just the opposite: he's always adding new artists and songs.
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i think what may have been meant is that an act like Weird Al, who in the late 1970s recorded himself originally in less-than-professional settings, would never make it on Dr. D nowadays.
Luke Ski wasn't accepted into Dr. D's playlists until he was able to get into a real studio, for example.
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d Dr. Demento's playlist is getting narrower? I see just the opposite: he's always adding new artists and songs.
xoxox
Spaff
--- ktguitar
A tentative, alternative Dementia movement is afoot, with comedy podcasters beginning to explore a break with the genre's spiritual father, whose own playlist grows ever narrower.
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d Up to the East side, , ,
--- nutcase
"Ain't no stoppin' us now, we're on the move..."
Thanks Ken.
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d Look Barry is great, I grew up listening to his show and probably wouldn't have heard 99.99% of demented music if it wasn't for him. And I still love to listen to HIM and the music, but he hasn't been kind to his fans.
I appreciate him and everything that he has done. But HE isn't dementia. He was one of the forerunners. And guys like Wayne who have talent and want to run in the relay are just as loved and appreciated.
`That's my two cents!
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d "Ain't no stoppin' us now, we're on the move..."
Thanks Ken.
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d And that is the truth (as I see it too)!
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d Dr. Demento's disiciples, audience on the move
A tentative, alternative Dementia movement is afoot, with comedy podcasters beginning to explore a break with the genre's spiritual father, whose own playlist grows ever narrower.
In fact, Wayne Ross founded the Mad Music Archive as a tribute to Dr. Demento, but shifted focus when his site drew unwelcome attention from the distributors of the Dr. Demento Show.
"Anything destined to be loved is also destined to be hated," Wayne writes on his site.
 Now, Wayne hosts (as Captain Wayne, the funny music pirate) the Mad Music Show, providing an almost-weekly selection of songs by his favorite artists.
Along with other podcasters (among them David Tanny, Tom Rockwell and Tyrone Kahn, all of whose own programs are available on MMA), Wayne mounts an edgy, but not quite rebellious challenge to AM radio-bound Dr. D.
I'm happy to contribute an overexposed tune of my own to the cause. Wayne played My Fat Ass Itches as part of his recent People, Places & Things episode.
"We're gonna start off with a fat, itchy thing," Wayne says by way of introduction.
The new shows don't exactly reinvent comedy music, and honestly, the audience for this sort of content ain't all that large to begin with.
But Dr. Demento's disciples are more accessible to artists and listeners than the original. If he's wondering where his audience is moving, all he has to do is check out the MMA.
kenturetzky.com
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