Instrumental Invasion, 12/16/20 December 17, 2020

The December 16, 2020, Instrumental Invasion on WCWP was recorded over three days. I did the first two segments on my 39th birthday, November 17, the third segment on the 18th, and the last three on the 19th.

The playlist was created and annotated on November 15. It was the first with 18:45 segments in mind, but also the first that I edited down to 18:40 after another instance last week where the end of a show got cut off.

During the original recording session, I cut an anecdote about my 2006 interview with Bob James from the second talk break of the show, but clipped it as an outtake:

The last talk break was the hardest to record due to Gordon Goodwin’s shout at the beginning of “T.O.P. Adjacent” by his Big Phat Band.

The inclusion of “Friday” by Dan Siegel was another make-up for the unaired segments on April 8.

I chuckled while back-selling “Castles” from David Benoit‘s Shadows album because I originally quipped “castles have shadows.” That was a victim of the 18:40 edit.

The way I said Dave Yaden‘s name was an homage to Jerry Lewis.

In case you’re wondering, here’s how my backwards talk sounded backwards:

The compact cassette iteration of the 2-XL toy robot had tapes with a right side and a wrong side. The wrong side is where I would routinely listen to backwards speech. Even the buttons worked backwards. If you had to press 1 forward, you could press 4 backward and hear the same thing. Once I had a Talkboy recorder, I experimented in the same way I did on this show. Of course, it’s much easier to experiment these days with audio editing software’s reverse option.

The WDR Big Band posted a video for “Downtown” from their Jackets XL recording session with Yellowjackets:

There’s also a CD release video:

And a five-minute sit-down interview with the Jackets:

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