Instrumental Invasion, 8/9/23: Show 175! Same Name Song Trios August 10, 2023

The August 9 Instrumental Invasion on WCWP was the 175th Wednesday night show. It was recorded from July 4 to 6.

The playlist was created on June 6, before the prior two shows. Again, I lost track of when I made annotations, but I drafted the talk break script on June 29.

The theme, same name song trios, was a step up from song pairs in show 150, a reflection of my current three-song set format.

Let’s get the scoped aircheck out of the way now:

I recorded one segment ahead of random daytime fireworks on the 4th of July. At the office on the 5th, I recorded top-of-segment talk breaks for all but the top of hour 2. That was followed by the second talk breaks for the other two hour 1 segments as I mixed them. From there, I opted to pump out the remaining talk breaks before leaving for home. Naturally, I struggled and drove myself mad, but I completed them. I didn’t think I’d have any trouble editing those talk breaks and mixing them into segments, which means I did have trouble.

While I made up a 66-second surplus from the first segment, the first two segments of hour 2 left me with 76 seconds! I only made up three in the last segment. Since this was a themed show, I couldn’t throw in a short song to make up the time. So, I had to painstakingly re-record talk breaks in all six segments at a slower pace. I padded transitions between three songs further by adding bumpers. Mind you, any talk breaks with 175th show references required a pass for the evergreen version (scheduled to air September 27). (10/12 UPDATE: It was delayed to October 11.) I had to have both versions in a segment’s multitrack session so I could save the milestone mix, then swap out and save the evergreen mix. Three hours and a headache later, I succeeded in breaking even at 1:49:00. It cost me my morning exercise routine, but I gained a Young Frankenstein reference when talking about Tom Scott following his father Nathan‘s compositional “footsteps, footsteps.”

Retreads:

• “After the Storm” by Norman Brown (11/4/20)
• “The Magician (El Mago)” by Nelson Rangell (4/15/20)
• “Shaken Not Stirred” by David Benoit (10/14/20)
• “Shaken, Not Stirred” by Pieces of a Dream (10/7/20)

One more show and my hiatus begins. It couldn’t come at a better time. (That’s how I felt on July 6.)

10/12 UPDATE: Here are the evergreen talk break variations heard last night: