Crisis? What crisis?

At the risk of grasping at ever thinner straws, I believe that the "mid-life crisis" is a reasonable title for the program as it represents my reverting to an earlier place in life.

I'll grant you that hosting an internet radio program (on RandoRadio of all places) is not the stereotypical image one sees of such an event; it is usually symbolized by an overtly expensive red sports car, or by divorcing one's wife and keeping company with someone at least twenty years younger. For a number of reasons, neither of those options were open to me at the time I took up with the RandoRadio crew. Playing music from my collection of stuff seemed like the better option.

I had done radio in college and at a small cable radio station until about 1976. A lapse of over thirty years gives me a perspective I didn't have in my younger days, and perhaps leads to a greater comfort level with this kind of programming. Then again, I've been wrong before.

The greater crisis that we at studio 2B are working to mitigate is the lack of places where a musical "stream of consciousness" can flow. With more entertainment outlets being taken over by huge corporations there are fewer outlets where a free association of different musical styles can exist. In their need to supply commercial sponsors with targeted demographics, they will have playlists of fixed genres to reach those targets.

I think individuals are smarter than that. I feel justified in bringing a variety of music not just to my program as a whole, but sometime to each set (group of songs/musical pieces). A classical piece after a rock song after a Tuvanian throat-singing ballad is my way of shifting the musical breeze (although some may argue that such a schizophrenic mode may simply be breaking musical wind). Each RandoRadio on-air host brings their own mindset to the table in their own way.

We can't do this on a long term basis without your support. Please go to our website (in a spirit of unabashed promotion I have sprinkled hyperlinks throughout this post). Do what you can to keep us going and keep us growing. Please spread the word that you have found a safe haven for free-form radio that is presented by PEOPLE and not computer programs. That's right, we are just like Soylent Green! Kind of. Except we aren't crackers.

Next time- more on the throat-singing thing. Until then, please be kind to one another.

Peace be with you,
Glenn