Episode 7

It’s a snowy night here where the Dark Asteroid landed on Earth; Moose the Dog has been running around the back yard with his nose under the snow like a 70 pound snowplow and winter is here for real. The Dark Asteroid is back with his usual mix of musical styles and commentary, this time taking a poke at Sony BMG Music for their nasty DRM (digital-rights management) software — which they placed on a large number of CD’s over the past few months in an attempt to defeat music pirates. The purpose of the software was to allow a limited number of legal copies to be made and then no more. Unfortunately, the software was installed on the computer of the CD purchaser without his/her knowledge and was so poorly written that it left the computer vulnerable to exploitation by hackers, crackers, and other assorted nasties. As promised in the podcast, you can click HERE for the link to the Washington Post article.

The link was accurate as of the time and date of this post.

Artists and titles from this episode included:

St. Somewhere — (Whisper)
Super 400 — (Green Grass End)
Spero — (Beauty Queen)
From the Club Gigolette — (I’m A Dirty Dancer [But Only For My Man])
Verbal Kint — (Seabreeze)

St. Somewhere — The band is from Knoxville, Tennessee. St. Somewhere consists of a unique blend of sounds, pivoting mainly on the Caribbean influences of Calypso, Reggae, and Latin Rhythms blended within the North American influences of Rock and Jazz. The Steel Drum, invented in the late 1930’s, is the only acoustic instrument to be invented in the 20th Century and is the key ingredient exploited within St. Somewhere’s musical design. Members are Quincy Yeates on keyboards, steel drums and Vox, Kevin Wiley on drums and Vox, Christian Lay on Guitar, Chris Towson on Bass, and Myron Scott on Percussion. Find out more about the band at http://www.stsomewhere.com.

Super 400 — Troy, New York is the home of this trio, consisting of Lori Friday on Bass, Joe Daley on Drums, and Kenny Hohman on Lead Guitar and as Lead Vocal. They’ve been getting quite a write-up in the trade magazines and you can look for them to continue on their upward path. Find them online at http://www.super400.com.

Spero — A group of friends that formed in the summer of 2004 who all have strange, natural, innate senses of music that cannot be explained by rational thought. (According to them.) They all share the same common love of their music and wish to share it with whomever will listen. They are from Cullowhee, North Carolina. Members are Adam Blythe on Acoustic and Electric Guitar, Erin Justice, who sings the Lead Vocals, and Michael Cannon on Drums (and who is also the group’s producer). No web site could be found for Spero.

From the Club Gigolette — ALL MEN ARE DOGS is the musical sex comedy telling the story in song and dance of The Wife fighting a battle for her philandering husband vs The Other Woman. The action takes place in the fictional Club Gigolette, a small topless bar.

All Men Are Dogs has been performed at a number of theatrical venues and clubs in Southern California and Las Vegas, most recently for two sold out months at the world famous Coronet Theater in West Hollywood and prior to that at WeHo's historic Masquers Cabaret and NoHo's Chandler Theater.

All Men Are Dogs was inspired by Ray Combs, the late host of the game show Family Feud, and his heroine of a wife Debbie who since has remarried and is living happily ever after. She's given birth to two more beautiful children in addition to the original six, for a total of eight, and still looks great.

Verbal Kint — Verbal Kint was featured in Episode 4 with “Harbor Lights.”

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