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Kogar the swinging ape January 21, 2009 -
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Well, here we go, the last 4 songs for this volume of More Mad Mike Madness.
Song Twenty-Six: the revels – rampage – I imagine this song being played at dances and the crowd sounds in the song mingling with the actual crowd. I wonder if the kids knew it was on the record? Or if they just thought it was the “crowd”…?
http://www.box.net/shared/t8hblbl7h4
Song Twenty-Seven: the keynotes - zenda – Mad Mike named his German Shepard after this song, so I had to include it here.
http://www.box.net/shared/yfgz65ujuy
Song Twenty-Eight: chuck daniels and the classics - glass pak – Mad Mike said to someone that this was the 45 he wanted to be buried with.
http://www.box.net/shared/1mlqt55n6k
Song Twenty-Nine: The Poets - Dead – This was the last song Mad Mike played on the radio before he passed away on Halloween night 2000.
http://www.box.net/shared/rcyppe8s4u
So, like I said in the first part of this series, I had originally intended to this to be a music only compilation. Something quick, something easy. But I came across these Mad Mike shows and decided to edit them together so people could get a feel for what a Mad Mike show was like.
Over the course of a few weeks, going thru the “tapes”, it was pretty striking some of the stuff I came across. It was kind of eerie how things just sort of fit together. I had decided that “dead” would be the last song (it just seemed like a natural ending point), but the sampled bit at the end of the song gave me chills the first time I heard it. I knew right then and there that this would be the ending point.
Obviously, this bit was taken from a Halloween show, but was it from his last show? I don’t know.
What are the odds that one of the existing shows that someone recorded had this bit about him “looking down” at us, and us “looking up” at him? It is at this moment, and the bits preceding it about the notebooks, that you can really see why people from Pittsburgh were so crazy about this guy. You can hear the passion he had for the music (and life) in his voice. He speaks of kids, and he SOUNDS like one!
I hope everyone enjoyed this compilation. I really had a blast putting it together. But it doesn’t really end here, or with the Norton LP’s. There are tons of songs that didn’t end up on this compilation. I literally have 3 or 4 more pages of songs that he played, and I’m sure if I dug deeper, I could find tons more.
This is/was the power of Mad Mike. Getting people so jazzed about something, that they had to do whatever they could to find and identify this music.
So, hopefully now you have the “Mad Mike Bug”. Go out, do some research, listen to some great music….spread the word about Mad Mike!
Kogar
Ps
Umm, if you haven’t by now, please march out and buy the Norton lp’s! Also check out the Mad Mike Myspace page! There’s more info (and music!) over there for you to experience.
Also, listen to Fool’s Paradise on WFMU and INTOXICA every chance you get. Both shows feature tons of songs in the “Mad Mike” vein…
PPs
In the coming weeks, I’m going to try something new. Instead of posting songs a little at a time, to fill a cd, I’m going to post links where you can download entire compilations that I’ve made all at once.
I’ll post a link to a zip file…download it…unzip it….and viola; instant compilation…
I’ll probably start with my lux and ivy’s favorites that many people have downloaded from napster back in the day, and soulseek now…
This is mainly for folks that don’t do file sharing programs.
Seeya then…
