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It’s the day after a big drinking holiday, but also on Wednesday afternoon, The AIR brings you new installments of Curtain Call and Beatles Blast, each of which offer their own distinctly different topic.  You can tune in at the website, or just stay right here and  listen to the convenient embedded radio player lurking elsewhere on this page.

At 2 PM (EDT) Beatles Blast brings you a solid hour of very rare archival recordings of The Quarrymen, the group that evolved into The Silver Beatles, and then simply, The Beatles.

You will hear recordings that the band (pre-Ringo) made around 1960 at Paul’s Dad’s house. We also bring you both sides of an acetate that the band cut in a recording booth at NEMS in Liverpool.

You will hear early compositions by the band, as well as cover tunes that they later recorded (and some they didn’t) and a couple of longer jam sessions.

Just check out the playlist…

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The Quarrymen

“I Lost My Little Girl”
“I’ll Follow The Sun”
“Hello Little Girl”
“I’ll Always Be In Love With You”
“Wildcat”
“Some Days”
“You Must Write Everyday”
“Cayenne”
“Well Darling”
“The One After 909 (Acoustic Version)”
“The One After 909 (Electric Version)”
“Hallelujah I Love Her So”
“Matchbox”
“Movin’ And Groovin'”
“You’ll Be Mine”
“That’s When Your Heartaches Begin”
“Untitled Instrumental Jam ”
“The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise”
“Come On People (And Important Number)”
“That’ll Be The Day”
“In Spite Of All Danger ”

Beatles Blast can be heard every Wednesday at 2 PM, with replays Thursday at 11 PM, Friday at 1 PM,  and Saturday afternoon.

At 3 PM (EDT) on Curtain Call, Mel Larch brings you the first of two episodes devoted to The Book of Mormon, which celebrates fifteen years since its Broadway debut this June.  Written by South Park creators Trey Paker and Matt Stone, with music by Robert Lopez, who went on to compose the music for Disney’s Frozen, The Book of Mormon still plays to sellout crowds, and has an ongoing national and international tour. The show is so popular that it played in Charleston twice already.

For these two mixtape/mashup shows, Mel will present the composer demos of some songs right before the version from the original Broadway cast album. You’ll get to see some of the changes made during the creation of the show, with trunk songs, major lyrical changes and different arrangements.  Originally the show took place in Somalia instead of Uganda. That’s why it takes two episodes for the full immersive and not-safe-for-work experience.

The musical tells the story of two very different Mormon missionaries who find themselves sent to Uganda to spread the word of their holy book. Elder Price and Elder Cunningham find themselves reversing roles as the earnest leader and the perineal screw-up, and they wind up putting a whole new spin on their own unique interpretation of the gospel.

The Book of Mormon is one of Mel’s absolute favorite shows. In fact, the first song you’ll hear this week is the very first song Mel played on the very first episode of Curtain Call, almost ten years ago.

We will bring you the rest of this salute to The Book of Mormon next week.

Curtain Call can be heard on The AIR Wednesday at 3 PM, with replays Thursday at 8 AM, Friday at 10 AM, Saturday at 8 PM and Monday at 9 AM. A six-hour marathon of classic episodes can be heard Sunday evening starting at 6 PM, and an all-night marathon of Curtain Call episodes can be heard Wednesday nights, beginning at Midnight.

Tuesday is NEW RFC DAY The AIR  and this week we devote our first hour to this Saturday’s WV Punk Rock Flea Market, in Huntington. To listen to The AIR, you simply have to point your cursor over and tune in at the website, or you could just stay here, and  listen to the cool embedded player found elsewhere on this page.  

You can hear Radio Free Charleston Tuesdays at 10 AM and 10 PM, with boatloads of replays throughout the week.

Radio Free Charleston brings you a new show with three full hours of great local and independent music.

Our first hour is devoted to The WV Punk Rock Flea Market, which takes place at The Marshall Health Network Arena in Huntington this Saturday.  Five bucks gets you in the door for an all-day lineup of great regional bands, plus over 85 vendors selling cool stuff like art, zines, trinketry, jewelry and band merch.  Much of our first hour is taken from  The WV Punk Rock Flea Market Mixtape Volume One, which is a “pay what you want” deal on Bandcamp, compiled by Coffin Curse Records, who did the heavy lifting in making this event happen.

RFC and PopCult are not involved in organizing or running this show, but I wanted to jump in with both feet to promote it. I’ve been excited about it since they announced it last year.

It’s going to be a cool day, starting at noon and running to 10 PM, and yours truly will pop in for a bit of it. The event is being recorded by younger and more able folks, and I will be recovering from an eye procedure, so I won’t be shooting much video or taking many photos, since I’ll probably still be wearing shades, but I wouldn’t want to miss this inaugural event for anything.

And if that weren’t plenty cool enough, our second and third hour plunge into the free format that our listeners know and love with brand-new music from David Synn, Spencer Elliott, A. J. Rosales, The Paranoid Style, Sam Robinson, Squeeze, Soft Machine, Big Big Train and more. We even have some classic local and independent tracks for you.

Check out this playlist, with links to the artist’s page…

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hour one
Common Ground 304 “To Live And Die In West By God Virginia”
Golden “Gotta Let It Go”
Jerks “Riptide”
PRSCTT “Honey Bee”
Torches From Above “Slow Down”
Better From Here “Get Me Out”
Jay Parade ” “Mental Trillness”
Low Season “Dead Inside”
Quilt Monsters “Movie Buff”
Best Dressed Ghost “Heather, I Hardly Knew Her”
Bingo Boys “Cheap Gas”
Mr. Clit & The Pink Cigarettes “Shake, Shake, Shake”
Between The Backwoods “Stomp”
Jerks “You’re So Cool, Brewster”
Jay Parade ” “Three Cheers For A Goner”
Golden “Defeated”
Common Ground 304 “Priosner Taking (Reprise)”
Holden Caulfield “From Rockport To Rhode Island”

hour two
David Synn “Manipulation of Time”
AJ Rosales “Dreams”
The Paranoid Style “Last Rites For The Comeback Kid”
June Swoon “Water Baby (Remastered)”
The Loud Family “I Think I See The Light”
Felix Hagan “Happy Songs”
Squeeze “Hell on Earth”
The Settlement “Get Up And Go”
Blue Twisted Steel “Lowlight”
Free Whenever “Day One”
Sam Robinson “The Gatekeeper”
The Heavy Hitters Band “Come Dance With Me”

hour three
Mind Garage “Star Goddess (1968 DEMO)
Big Big Train “The Artist”
Soft Machine “The Longest Night”
Joe Satriani & Steve Vai “Sea of Emotion”
Neal Morse Band “Love All Along”
Steven Wilson “Abandoner (live)”
Spencer Elliott “The Beacon”

You can hear this episode of Radio Free Charleston Tuesday at 10 AM and 10 PM on The AIR, with replays Wednesday at 9 AM,  Thursday at 2 PM, Friday at 9 AM, Saturday at Noon and Midnight, Sunday at 8 PM and  Monday at 11 AM, exclusively on The AIR. Now you can also hear a different classic episode of RFC every weekday at 5 PM, and we bring you a marathon all night long Saturday night/Sunday morning.

I’m also going to  embed a low-fi, mono version of this show right in this post, right here so you can listen on demand.

After RFC, stick around for encores of last week’s episodes of  MIRRORBALL at 1 PM and Curtain Call at 2 PM.

At 3 PM get ready for two classic episodes of The Swing Shift that feature Benny Goodman’s legendary 1938 Carnegie Hall concert.

 You can hear The Swing Shift Tuesday at 3 PM, with replays Wednesday at 8 AM, Thursday at 9 AM,  Friday at 10 AM and 8 PM and Saturday afternoon, only on The AIR . You can also hear all-night marathons, seven hours each, starting at Midnight Thursdays and

Sundays.

This week’s art is a sloppy small-scale painting on an old piece of loose floor tile, done with gloopy old acrylics and old brushes.

My fingers weren’t working well enough to use the good stuff. It is, of course, Godzilla, or to be more precise, it’s a Shogun Warriors Godzilla action figure that I saw at The Winterfest GI Joe show a couple of months ago.

I had reference photos I took, and felt like painting Mr. Zilla this weekend.

I wish there was more to it than that, but it’s pretty much just what I said.

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Meanwhile, over in radioland, Monday beginning at 2 PM on The AIR,  we bring you a classic episode of Psychedelic Shack, and then at 3 PM we do the same with Herman Linte’s weekly showcase of the Progressive Rock of the past half-century, Prognosis. New shows are on the way this month. You can listen to The AIR at the website, or on the embedded radio player elsewhere on this page.

Psychedelic Shack can be heard every Monday at 2 PM, with replays Tuesday at 9 AM, Wednesday at 10 PM, Friday at 1 PM,  and Saturday at 9 AM. You can hear Prognosis on The AIR Monday at 3 PM, with replays Tuesday at 7 AM, Wednesday at 8 PM, Thursday at Noon, and Saturday at 10 AM.

Tonight at 9 PM we bring you our Monday night line-up featuring two hours each of Curtain Call and Beatles Blast, plus six hours overnight with an assortment of our programming from Haversham Recording Institute. The Haversham stuff starts at 1 AM and tonight it’s three classic episodes of Prognosis.

Fifteen years ago, because an episode of Radio Free Charleston was going to be delayed, I decided to make it up to the folks who had been expecting it.  So that our local music fans didn’t feel neglected, I posted then-recent clips of several local bands performing live. With changes in the way video coding works, and the many times this blog has been ported over the years, the original post, from fifteen years ago this month, is filled with dead links, but no videos. This week we’re going to fix that.

This was back in my superhero days, when I was able to crank out so much video of local artists that I had more than I could use on RFC. I miss being that prolific, but my knees and back and need for sleep don’t.

We’re going to kick things off with a reprise of two clips that we had just debuted the previous Friday, after recording them the night before at The Pour House in Dunbar.

Above you see Sierra Ferrel with friends Mo and HoboClay, having a blast at the jam session. Sierra’s done pretty well for herself since then.

After the jump you’ll see Johnny “Hurricane” Compton, then the host of The Pour House Thursday night acoustic jam, plus several other clips of live music from area venues.

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This week we head back to January, 2013 for the fourth “Show Without Words” in the Radio Free Charleston video library.  This is also our only show with no host segments. By this point I’d run out of gimmicks.

Our music in this episode was provided by Doctor Curmudgeon and TriElement from Charleston and special guests, Grounded, from Asheville, North Carolina. Computer graphics throughout this episode are courtesy of Frank Panucci.  The show kicked off with the cartoon, Too Many Amps For Doctor Curmudgeon by Jason Myer.

Our first musical guest for this show was Doctor Curmudgeon, who cut loose with a largely improvised nine minute sonic epic. This incarnation of Doctor Curmudgeon saw maestro Chuck Biel back in the saddle on guitar, loops, and power tools, joined by the amazing Sean Sydnor on bass, and incredible C.W. Riley on drums.

From Doctor Curmudgeon, the show blends into a performance from Asheville, North Carolina’s Grounded. In this show we brought you an excerpt from “Its Everything Except What It Is! (Improv 01)” You can find the full performance posted as an edition of Sunday Evening Video.

From Grounded, we meld into TriElement. Kenneth Booth, Dave Roberts, and Joey Lafferty man this tightly run progressive metal trio. We wrap up our show this week with two numbers from TriElement.

The original production notes can be found HERE.

The PopCulteer
March 13, 2026

The PopCult Toybox

Just to be clear about the headline, “Big Rubber Guys” is a line of action figures from Major Toys, inspired by the 1980s LJN wrestling figures.

LJN made the first WWF action figures, and they had zero points of articulation. They were essentially semi-soft rubber statues. That made them ideal for kids to smash into each other in mock wrestling matches. Having no joints they were nearly impossible to break, and being larger than the average action figure of the day, they could be more detailed and look more like the actual wrestlers.

A lot of kids grew up with these figures, and the nostalgia for them is tremendous. Over the years the LJN style of figure has been copied by Jakks Pacific’s WWE line, AEW’s action figure line, and currently, with the LJN trademark under license, by Mattel and WWE for figures sold exclusively at Target.

In 2019, the revived LJN brand was used on a set of pre-AEW figures of The Young Bucks that made their way into that year’s PopCult Gift Guide.

Major Toys (AKA Major Bendies) is a toy company started by former WWE stars, Matt Cardona and Brian Myers (Cardona has recently returned to WWE after six years away). The duo hosted a podcast devoted to wrestling action figures, and when they were released from WWE, they started their own company, at first to make Bendie figures, but they later branched out to Big Rubber Guys, in the style of the LJN figures.

And that’s where my interest was piqued. See, I did NOT watch wrestling in the late 1980s. I never cared for Hulk Hogan or the “Rock and Wrestling” era. I was familiar with the toys from my mother’s day care, but I had little interest in them.

When I started watching wrestling around 1999, and paid attention to the LJN figures, I saw that they had their own inherent charm. I don’t really care for the initial wave of LJN figures, save for Roddy Piper, but over the years I’d pick up a few of the odd “throwback” figures done in that style, like Trish Stratus, C.M. Punk, and a few other that I was able to get cheap. They were sort of the non-articulated version of “ReMego” figures, which are made in the style of classic MEGO figures from the 1970s.

In the beginning, Major Toys was sticking with classic and indie wrestlers, but now they’re branching out into movie licenses with figures already out based on Kevin Smith, Jean-Claude Van Damme and Sylvester Stallone movies. They’ve also got a deal with MLB to do licensed figures of mascots, and Macho Man Randy Savage in gear inspired by different Baseball teams. A

Shotzi!

I’ve been keeping an eye on what Major Toys has been doing, and when they signed on to do a Big Rubber Guy (Gal?) of one of my favorite recently-released WWE Superstars, Shotzi Blackheart, I pre-ordered it.

It arrived, and I was sort of hooked. Mel got me a Danhausen figure for Christmas (and he recently debuted for WWE) and since then I’ve picked up a few more, including “Monster in my Pocket” limited edition tributes of Shotzi and Danhausen made in solid colors.

At Toy Fair, Major Toys announced upcoming deals to produce figures based on The Princess Bride, Flash Gordon, The Phantom and The Blues Brothers. lso at toy Fair, they announced a series of figures based on AEW stars, like Toni Storm.  With the future of AEW’s action figure line from JazWares unclear, these might be the only AEW figures available after July.

The Big Rubber Guys are around eight inches tall, very well-sculpted and have terrific paint detail.  The figures display well with MEGO figures and Adventure Command. They run around fifty bucks each, which is not bad at all considering the very limited runs of figures they’re doing. The shipping is quick and customer service is great. They know that these are collectibles, and not an impulse buy, and they go the extra distance with resealable display packages and top-flight design.

Also, these are built like a tank. If they shelf-dive, you can be sure that they’ll survive completely intact.

Let’s take a closer look at a few of them, shall we?

WWE’s newest Superstar, Danhausen, who will arrive at your door shipped in a sturdy crate, if you’re lucky enough to get him before he becomes the property of Mattel.

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Over the weekend the GI Joe Collecting community (of which your blogger is a proud member) was saddened to learn of the passing of James DeSimone. He’d been dealing with health issues for years, although he had recently been well enough to make the trip from California to Louisvile, Kentucky for The Kentuckiana GI Joe Toy Expo . He recently lost his wife, and that seems to have been too much for him. He was around 70 years old.

DeSimone was a key person when it came to convincing Hasbro that there was a viable market for GI Joe nostalgia in the early 1990s. He’d published a couple of books, and had started a “club” newsletter, and Hasbro honored his contributions to the hobby by including his name on the back of the box for the GI Joe Hall of Fame series, which restored Hasbro’s Man of Action to his original 12″ height. It was largely through his lobbying efforts that Hasbro brought the 12″ GI Joe back to toy stores in 1992, after a fourteen-year absence.

I only met the man once, at Kentuckiana, and our meeting was brief, basically just an introduction and a handshake, but the fact that there was a Kentuckiana GI Joe Toy Expo, and JoeLanta and before that The Official GI Joe Club Convention is all because of the initial efforts of James DeSimone.

He was a powerful advocate for the hobby, and he was also a tireless self-promoter, which rubbed a few folks the wrong way. He could be a controversial figure in some circles, but it was his tenacity that kept the first ever action figure from disappearing into obscurity.

After Hasbro granted the license for the Official Club and Convention to Brian Savage and Fun Publications, DeSimone concentrated on creating replicas of the GI Joe Race Car and Panther Jet, as well as a “gray area” 1/6 scale version of a vehicle made famous by a certain caped crusader.

He also wrote a few books about GI Joe, including a licensed photo guide, which for years served as the bible for the hobby, before it was supplanted by more comprehensive books and websites. His book, The new official identification guide to GI Joe and accessories, 1964-1978 is still held up as the standard by many.

We can’t overestimate how important James was to the GI Joe collecting hobby. He wrote the first major book, organized the first conventions and created a newsletter that, in the days before the internet, was the only way for fans to keep up with what was going on in the hobby.

PopCult sends its condolences to his family and friends.

You can pick your poison of the unluckiest day, the day they got all stabby with Ceasar, or the day where we celebrate the luck of the Irish this week as we collect a list of cool STUFF TO DO all over the state, to tell you about, noted as briefly as possible. brevity was tricky this week because we have everything from theatre to film to rock music to the symphony, wrestling and more.

Again, I’m just scratching the surface here. Please don’t think this is there is to offer.

As always, you should remember that THIS IS NOT A COMPLETE LIST OF EVENTS.  It’s just a starting point, so don’t expect anything comprehensive, and if you feel strongly about me leaving anything out, feel free to mention it in the comments.  Also, if you have a show that you’d like to plug in the future, even if your promotional graphic uses cruddy AI art, contact me via Social Media at Facebook, BlueSky , Spoutible, Instagram or Twitter.  I dont charge for this, so you might as well send me something if you have an event to promote.

Our feature event this week is a play that begins its run at The Alban Arts Center this weekend…

We are very happy to remind you that Cristen Michael has created an interactive calendar that is way more comprehensive than this list of STUFF TO DO, and you can find it HERE. Just click on the day and the event and you’ll be whisked away to a page with more details about loads of area events.

Most weekends you can find live music at Taylor Books. There is no cover charge, and Friday and Saturday shows start at 7:30 PM.  Many Sunday afternoons at 2 PM they also have live music. This weekend you can hear Steve Himes on Friday and  The Carpenter Ants on Saturday. At the WV Music Hall of Fame Sunday afternoon they’re having a film event, and The Carpenter Ants will be performing there, too.

You can find live music in and around town every night of the week. You just have to know where to look.  Keep in mind that all shows are subject to change or be cancelled at the last minute.

Among the notable music venues in town are The World Famous Empty Glass Cafe, Live at The Shop in Dunbar, Louie’s, at Mardi Gras Casino & Resort, In Huntington, there’s local institution, The Loud (formerly The V Club),  The Wandering Wind Meadery is on Charleston’s West Side, Plus there’s music in Charleston at The Blue Parrot, Sam’s Uptown Cafe and Fife Street Brewing.

You might also find cool musical events at Route 60 Music in Barboursville and Folklore Music Exchange in Charleston.

To hear music in an alcohol-free enviroment, see what’s happening at Pumzi’s, on Charleston’s West Side. Saturday at 7:30 PM Pumzi’s welcomes The Dynamic Duo and Two Roommates.

You can also visit Coal River Coffee in Saint Albans for live music in an alcohol-free environment.

For cutting-edge independent art films, downstairs from Taylor Books you’ll find the Floralee Hark Cohen Cinema by WVIFF. Each week they program several amazing movies in their intimate viewing room that you aren’t likely to see anywhere else.They have an OSCAR party this Sunday, if you’re into that sort of thing. I gave up on awards shows decades ago, myself.

Please remember that viral illnesses are still a going concern and many people who have very good reasons are still wearing masks, and many of us, understandably, are still nervous about being in crowds, masked or not. Be kind and understanding  while you’re out. And if you’re at an outdoor event, please remember that it’s awfully inconsiderate to smoke or vape around people who become ill when exposed to that stuff. If somebody asks you to refrain, please respect their weishes and don’t be a jerk about it.

Keep in mind that all shows are subject to change or be cancelled at the last minute.

Here we go, roughly in order, it’s graphics for local events happening over the next several days that I was able to scrounge up online…

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Tuesday is NEW RFC DAY The AIR  and today we prove it with a newish episode of Radio Free Charleston to excite and delight you and yours.To listen to The AIR, you simply have to point your cursor over and tune in at the website, or you could just stay here, and  listen to the cool embedded player found elsewhere on this page.  

You can hear Radio Free Charleston Tuesdays at 10 AM and 10 PM, with boatloads of replays throughout the week.

Radio Free Charleston brings you a new show with one brand-new hour, and a special encore of the second-ever episode of Radio Free Charleston International, from over a decade ago.

The reason for this is Myasthenia Gravis, which has your humble blogger and radio host a little more humbled than usual. Looking back through this blog’s archives, It seems like I get hit pretty hard every late-February/early-March.

Still, I bring you a killer first hour, with new music from Tape Age, Heavy Hitters Band, Stitch Jones and his Bionic Marines, Gardenn, The Paranoid Style and more.

Our second and third hours show you what kind of stuff I’d been dying to unleash on the world back in 2016.  I was a little surprised to discover that I’d been playing Moron Police for that long. As you can see, it’s free-form radio at its most freeformy.

Check out this playlist, with links to the artist’s page in the first hour…

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hour one
Tape Age “Bizarre Love Gun”
Heavy Hitters Band “Ornithology”
Stitch Jones and His Bionic Marines “Buddy, Brotha From A Different Motha”
The Carpenter Ants “It’s Time”
Gardenn “Put It In Work”
Moron Police “Okinawa Sky”
Neal Morse Band “The Great Withdrawal”
The Paranoid Style “Known Associates”
Massing “Chemicals”
The 4D Man “Dyslexic Cinema”
Samuel S.C. “Evergreen”
John Radcliff “Not Satisfied”
Frenchy & The Punk “War On War”
The Settlement “Work”

hour two
Oingo Boingo “Helpless”
Weezer “Do You Wanna Get High?”
Dubioza Kolektiv Pirate Bay Song”
Jane Wiedlin “World On Fire”
Adam Ant “Cool Zombie”
Moron Police “Who’s That Chicken”
The Aquabats “Sequence Erase/Giant Robot Bird Head”
The English Beat “Click click”
The Creatures “Killing Time”
Julian Cope “Beautiful Love”
Genesis “Return of the Giant Hogweed”
Ian Gillian and Rick Wakeman “Light My Fire”
The Pretenders “Private Life”

hour three
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes “Believe”
Pete Townshend “Empty Glass”
Frank Zappa “Uncle Remus”
DethKlok “How Can I Be A hero”
Men Without Hats “Underneath The Rainbow”
XTC “It’s Nearly Africa”
Elvis Costello “Tramp The Dirt Down”
Joe Jackson “Soul Kiss”
Can “Outside My Door”
Marianne Faithfull “Why’d You Do It”
Captain Beefheart “Veteran’s Day Poppy”
Laura Mvula “Living Without You”

You can hear this episode of Radio Free Charleston Tuesday at 10 AM and 10 PM on The AIR, with replays Wednesday at 9 AM,  Thursday at 2 PM, Friday at 9 AM, Saturday at Noon and Midnight, Sunday at 8 PM and  Monday at 11 AM, exclusively on The AIR. Now you can also hear a different classic episode of RFC every weekday at 5 PM, and we bring you a marathon all night long Saturday night/Sunday morning.

I’m also going to  embed a low-fi, mono version of this show right in this post, right here so you can listen on demand.

After RFC, stick around for encores of last week’s episodes of  MIRRORBALL at 1 PM and Curtain Call at 2 PM.

At 3 PM get ready for two classic episodes of The Swing Shift that feature Benny Goodman’s legendary 1938 Carnegie Hall concert.

 You can hear The Swing Shift Tuesday at 3 PM, with replays Wednesday at 8 AM, Thursday at 9 AM,  Friday at 10 AM and 8 PM and Saturday afternoon, only on The AIR . You can also hear all-night marathons, seven hours each, starting at Midnight Thursdays and Sundays.

With the last week having been a bad MG week, this week’s art is one I pulled from the slush pile.

A few years ago I took a series of photos looking up while standing at the base of a very tall building in Chicago. I used one of those photos for the basis of a color piece that I ran in this space a few years ago.  However, before that, I attempted to do something different. I had a couple of pieces of weird, glossy black paper, cut into squares, and I decided to try to do something unusual with it.

I drew an architectural-style image based on the photo, but deformed, in pencil on the black paper. Then I “inked” it using white acrylic paint.

The problem was…I had smudged up a lot of the glossy black surface while pencilling it, and wasn’t happy with the end result. So it got the boot.

While going through my reject file to find something to run here this week, I came across this piece and decided that it didn’t look as bad as I’d remembered, and that, if I cheated and cleaned up some of the black areas digitally, it might not be a bad Monday Morning Art piece. And so, here it is. Technically, it’s mixed media, being a pencil/paint/digital hybrid.

If you want to see this image larger, click HERE.

Meanwhile, over in radioland, Monday beginning at 2 PM on The AIR,  we bring you a classic episode of Psychedelic Shack, and then at 3 PM we do the same with Herman Linte’s weekly showcase of the Progressive Rock of the past half-century, Prognosis. New shows are on the way this month. You can listen to The AIR at the website, or on the embedded radio player elsewhere on this page.

Psychedelic Shack can be heard every Monday at 2 PM, with replays Tuesday at 9 AM, Wednesday at 10 PM, Friday at 1 PM,  and Saturday at 9 AM. You can hear Prognosis on The AIR Monday at 3 PM, with replays Tuesday at 7 AM, Wednesday at 8 PM, Thursday at Noon, and Saturday at 10 AM.

Tonight at 9 PM we bring you our Monday night line-up featuring two hours each of Curtain Call and Beatles Blast, plus six hours overnight with an assortment of our programming from Haversham Recording Institute. The Haversham stuff starts at 1 AM and tonight it’s three classic episodes of Sydney’s Big Electric Cat.