I finally, finally got my stream and source material for the podcasts up to this long overdue number; what it should’ve been by August 7, 2017! Looking back…hey, I hit 16,000 a little over a year ago. I’m getting better at this! I’m only six years or so behind. A major help recently has been another side project for Series 1 of the KMAG podcasts, the lost years. If you care to know, the majority (1-16) were made from the end of 1992 to early 1994. Then I regained some inspiration, seeing a Peter Murphy video at JC Penney’s, to bang out three more (17-19) in the Summer of 1995. Only regained enough energy, suggestions and time to make one (20) for commuting several times between Austin and Houston until Doc left for Japan in 1996. I still wonder why I never bothered to make any when I had some free time in 1997 or the slight abundance in 1998 while I was packing for Austin in my escape from Really-Dull, NC. It would’ve been cool to have a little “soundtrack” for those long drives with each year. I never stopped buying new stuff to pack them with “currents.”
Fear no longer! While I’m making those other ‘missing’ greatest hits for the Nineties (1998 is in flux and I hope the Aughts will gel), I started poking through the holes in KMAG’s master playlist and found additional tracks from my album collection, many which were, hmm…quite an oversight on my part. I’m also getting better at ‘Find & Replace’ commands in BBEdit and Pages to tweak my algorithm so the streaming would randomize like it were the missing year. By year’s end, KMAG will have an episode put together as if it were 1997!
Until next time, on to 18,000! Suck it FM radio with your crap, Lee Abrams bullshit!