Crash Course In Brain Surgery

Putting off my next big radio show until Monday gives Kurt & me some time to pore over our combined music libraries. It's a monumental task.

Between us we easily have 40,000 songs to consider. The goal is to fill any gaps where the Houndstooth was somehow missing either a great song from one of our/your fave albums or that great obscure gem only we can give ya.

In the past week alone Houndstooth Radio's on-air music library has increased by over 800 songs.

Boston Bruce & The Garage of Doom

Against common sense and doctor's orders I just spent the morning in the garage digging through my vinyl. Now I've never painted myself in a corner tho' I have seen others do it. I was so focused on the task at hand I managed to literally box myself in!

Suddenly I was surrounded by thick walls of vinyl. I low on water & out of food. If I had any hope of doing another radio show anytime soon, I had to act. Grabbing a stack of priceless rare wax I made my move.

I squooze thru a crack between the boxes triggering an avalanche of one-by-fours. I hurdled my work table. Just as I reached for the doorknob, a giant lawn umbrella whizzed toward me javelin-like. Fortunately, it only scored a glancing blow. I was home free.

Harrison Ford has nothing on me.

CDs As Far As The Eye Can See

I'm beat. But building Houndtooth Radio is the most fun I've had in years.

Kurt picked up our new hard drive Friday nite. In between shifts at KROQ & a few hours off to attempt to have a personal life, he's been doing production, downloading what I've been uploading, programming Houndstooth & explaining to me how this whole silly thing works. I've been putting together my first radio show in 13 years, learning Peak software, getting comfortable w/the studio (where I nearly destroyed the console when CD player 1 died), uploading like crazy and brainstorming. We both been converting MP3s to the AAC files Live 365 requires (a total pain in the ass) & poring over the library.

My first show airs sometime tomorrow!

Time to sleep.

Cheers,

Bruce McDonald

Broadcasting to the World from One Man's Garage

My friend Kurt St. Thomas & I have a new internet radio station: Houndstooth Radio. We worked at WFNX/Boston together years ago. I was one of the folks who started that station in 1983. For a few great years Kurt & I raised hell together. Fellow ex-FNXer Angie C is a huge part of Houndstooth too.

Spent the last few days re-building the Houndstooth music library. (Thank Jeebus for iDisk & Zip files). Having done this before at a bunch of stations, and I think Kurt would agree with me, I find this a familiar time-consuming, brain-eating drill. Yet somehow I always enjoy it. It pays immediate on-air dividends. And this time we have Complete Control!

Cheers,

Bruce McDonald