The Last Exit For The Lost Apocalyptic Underground Radio

This was the night that we go on Daylight Savings Time, so, at 2:00 A.M., we spring ahead one hour, and it becomes 3:00, so it was a five hour LE (although for the internet, an extra hour was added in at the end). This night is when we always have our Glam Hour, in the hour from 2:00 A.m. to 3:00 A.M., which Just Joe always gets really excited for every year, because he has no memory, and isn't the brightest bulb in the chandelier either, so he always forgets every year that, of course, there is no 2:00 A.M. to 3:00 A.M. on this night, and this year was no exception, he was all excited. Present were, Just Joe, as I just said, EVD, Tim, and, Gumpty Hump, another one of Crappy The Clown's alter egos. Azkath told Just Joe, that he wasn't going to do The Tribute To Glam this year. Just Joe was extremely disappointed. Azkath told him he had a deal for him, they would let Russian Roulette decide, if a bullet played, Just Joe would get his hour of glam, and he would even play Europe's "The Final Count Down", which he has banned from this program forever, if no bullet, then... Just Joe was wearing a watch that measured his vital signs, told his pulse and such as one of it's features, and he was dumb enough to let Azkath know that. Azkath told Just Joe, that if no bullet played, he had a special room for him that he would have to spend time in, they were going to test out the watches feature. No bullet, which Just Joe, Tim, and I were all very disappointed by. So Just Joe was locked in a very tiny room, and, after a while, he noticed a spider. Azkath told him that there were at least thirty of them in there. Just Joe began whimpering, and wanted to get out, but, of course, the door was locked. They asked him what his pulse rate was? It got up to 110 by the time they let him out, which isn't really all that high, for someone who is supposed to be as terrified of spiders as Just Joe is. Tim was stupid enough to say that he was also afraid of spiders, so, of course, they sent him to let Just Joe out, and, of course, told Just Joe to throw him in there and lock him in. Tim was also heard whimpering, but he wasn't wearing a watch with that feature, so we had no way to measure his pulse. Eventually he was let out, but both he and Just Joe had spiders on them, Tim said he was going to go get in the shower and wash them off. Just Joe joined him, and they washed the spiders off each other, and I don't wanna know anything else that they might have been doing in the shower together, but, oddly enough, Just Joe's pulse was a lot higher when they came out of there than it had been when he was trapped with the spiders. He said that it was because he had been so happy seeing all the spiders go swirling down the drain... I'm sure that's why his pulse rate was so high. And, just for the record, what's with all these wimps and spiders?! I like spiders. Azkath wondered if maybe Just Joe's body was becoming immune to spiders. He found some jellybeans, for some reason, Just Joe is also afraid of jellybeans, who's afraid of jellybeans!? Only Just Joe. But that didn't really cause that much of a rise in Just Joe's pulse rate either. But Azkath finally found something that did... He reminded him of all The No Pants Days, when Randy was in a mankini, or was the world's ugliest woman, who had the terrible taste in men to have the hots for Just Joe, and was all over him, stuff like that. That did it! Just Joe started blubbering and his pulse rate shot up to one fifty six. Azkath kept reminding him of all the hideous things Randy's done on No Pants Day, and Azkath reminded Just Joe that we are only a couple months away from No Pants Day, and told him that Randy says he is going to raise the bar even higher this year, just think of what that could mean! All the horrible possibilities! Just Joe was already quite severely traumatized. Um, Just Joe, a bit of friendly advice, in future you might want to consider leaving that watch at home, or you will be subjected to more tests to see what will raise your pulse rate, just a thought. Azkath brought up the topic of re watching the first "Indiana Jones" movie and comparing it to the new one, and that how that, if the first one were made today, it wouldn't be the huge hit that it was back in 1981, because of the huge role the Internet plays in judging and critiquing movies now. There were segments of Movie Time. Tim told us about a concert he had attended earlier in the night, which was why he was later than he usually is. The last hour was The Old School Hour...  - Fire Eater Wizard

The Plank Boys were an Ithaca, NY based Punk band in the early 2000's. They recorded a demo, I believe in 2003, and then released their one CD in 2004. The demo was initially also titled "Hangovers and Heartaches", but I just labeled it Demo to clarify which is which. The Demo has some early versions of songs that appeared on the CD. The recording for the demo is nothing great, although the opening track is pretty awesome. The CD has a nice raw sound to it, and has remained one of our favorite CD's to this day. A lot of fun, some HP Lovecraft, and catchy songs. What more do you need? At some point, around 2005, The Plank Boys relocated to NYC, and broke up some time after. I inlcluded a live show below as well. They put on some really fun shows as this video will attest. 

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Big Hair were from Rochester, NY. They had a pretty hard to describe sound, that included Primus, Punk, a Fiddle, and just some general strangeness. PJ's Pig Roast was an event that occured, I believe, just outside of Rochester. I don't know how many years it went on for, but I seem to remember a lot of pretty awesome local bands performing. This was Big Hair's performance from 1993. Big Hair was Tom on Guitars, Obadiah on Fiddle, Andrew on Drums, and That Tod Guy on Bass and Vocals. Putting this up now in memory of Tod, who passed away on February 20, 2015. 

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This show was dedicated to the memory of Todd Wirschem, otherwise known as That Tod Guy or Tod Schmod. Todd was a talented musician, heading the band Big Hair back in the 90's. He also played with Grimskunk, Girdle (with Bill from Mastodon and Erik Burke), Brain Tree, and Ludivco Treatment, to name just a few. I've always found the Rochester music scene to be so full of talent, and Todd was definitely a part of that impression. Back in the day he had his own label called Pokin Records. We play a bunch of Big Hair material in this week's show, as well as some Girdle. Pretty awesome stuff. Thanks go out to Spoth for sending along some of it. Todd died from natural causes on February 20, 2015. He was 44.

I will be adding some Big Hair material to The Old School Reclamation Project soon. I have also linked here a video of Big Hair, from someone else's YouTube. Decent for the time, but the vocals are hard to hear. 

We also commemorate the passing of Leonard Nimoy, who died on February 27, 2015 at the age of 83. Through the years we have often had fun playing some of his and Shatner's music, including tormenting Zoltan the Avenger with it ages ago. We play a few of those fun songs this night in memory of a great actor. Besides Star Trek, I always loved him in In Search of... and Fringe...

In studio we were joined this week by EVD, Eric of Ire Clad, Rob of Thirteen South, Mr. Linda (who we strongly suspect is in some way related to Crappy the Clown), and Tim Binder. We discuss movies, some documentaries, Net Neutrality, the new Odd Couple, that dress, and stupid politicians. Lots of new music to play, and of course the traditional Old School Hour at the end.