Instrumental Invasion, 9/21/24, 12AM (Homecoming Weekend) October 4, 2024

Other posts: 9/20 2PM live show recap, comprehensive Homecoming Weekend recap

The prerecorded edition of Instrumental Invasion for WCWP‘s alumni-run Homecoming Weekend programming block aired at midnight on Saturday, September 21, eight hours after the live show concluded.

Again, let’s get the scoped aircheck out of the way before the behind-the-scenes details.

Just before my unscheduled Twitch stream on Tuesday, September 3, Homecoming Weekend co-coordinator Jeff Kroll called to ask if I could do record a second show to air in the early mornings on September 21 or 22. It was to be a three-hour show, the first time hosting a three-hour since I filled in for Martin Phillips on Thursday Night Jazz on October 29, 2009.

Since I had used up my 60-year musical journey format on the live show, this prerecord would adhere to the segment formats I used when Instrumental Invasion aired weekly. As a refresher, the final version of those segment formats was:

• 1984 and earlier
• 1985-97
• 1998-2009
• 2010-20
• 2021-present

To make things easier, I recycled songs (and one whole set!) from various weekly shows when creating the playlist on September 4. Annotations and the script draft were adapted from original annotations and scripts, except for songs I’d never played before. I wrote new material for those. Annotations continued into the 5th while the script was drafted from the 4th to the morning of the 6th.

Inspired four of my early Twitch streams before the push to video gaming, I streamed recording sessions on Twitch from September 6 to 8. All the while I had no idea when the show would air, though I assumed it would air Sunday morning. I don’t regret the “Friday” references despite the show airing mere hours after I was live. One pickup was seen on stream on the 8th, a slower reading of hour 2’s first talk break. Another pickup was done on the morning of the 9th prior to submission lest anyone think the Casiopea-P4 song I played was stylized as “Dreamers’ Dream” rather than “Dreamer’s Dream.” The show featured three songs by Casiopea from their 1st, 2nd, and P4 eras; along with two by T-Square (one as The Square). (I also played one song each by Casiopea and T-Square in the live show; back-to-back, at that.)

Upon completion, the Adobe Audition multitrack session looked like this:

For good measure, I present the three recording session Twitch streams at 75x speed set to “Mid-Manhattan,” the second song of the show.

And that’s the story of this show. Now, get back to the main recap, picking up with Magick Mike Hendryx at 3AM.