"Live From Studio 5!"

The BEST of "Live From Studio 5!"

Due to an unexpected glitch on the 215^th edition of “Live From Studio 5!” we had no live band.  The last time this happened we actually found a band, with their instruments, hanging around in the alley between KFAI and the Acadia Café.  They were not prepared but gave it a shot.  One of the bandmembers had burned her legs in a motorcycle mishap and her legs were bandaged but they rallied to the cause and we had a surprisingly good show.  This week we also ended up with a good show but  without a live band.  I told Dew Glass and Georgia Cady to take the night off as well as Wyatt Sarber, the best sound engineer on the planet, even though he had already set up the basics for an expected live performance.

    So, Casey Moo and I dug into my stash of “Previously” segments and plugged my laptop into the board so we could play some of the hundreds of our You Tube videos.  (You couldn’t see them but you could hear them and you can see them later on our You Tube channel.)  We started off with a segment from four years ago, almost to the day:  The music of “Days of Rae”.  I had forgotten how good they sounded.  Listen to them here:  https://archive.org/details/6DaysOfRae   The Flickr pix are here:  https://www.flickr.com/photos/kfai-fm/sets/72157624544426155/  After that we played a video by “Venus on Fire” from June 27, 2012 that had been seen by almost SIX THOUSAND viewers, a great performance and you can see it too:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNuszCtiMAI&list=UUMeJC71i9gFjLQ8jjM2DHWA .  Flickr pix are here:  https://www.flickr.com/photos/kfai-fm/sets/72157630336557316/   And the entire show is on our FOREVER archives here:  https://archive.org/details/105VenusOnFire  After that, it was time for Haley Bonar to entertain us from a show on April 21, 2011.  https://www.flickr.com/photos/kfai-fm/5641259462/in/set-72157626422438431This is the all-time champion video of ours with  11,564 total viewings.  Check this one out here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iL9PyXO6CwM&   The Flickr pix are here:  https://www.flickr.com/photos/kfai-fm/sets/72157626422438431/  And you can re-live it on the FOREVER archives just by clicking here:  https://archive.org/details/431FalderalsHaleyB

At this point in the show we took a break from the “Previously” segments and brought back one of our FAVORITE female artists, Lady Tobalyas, who has performed on  “Live From Studio 5!” many times.  On this occasion she brought along one of her bandmates, Tracy Peterson and   they introduced us to a number of cuts from their new album entitled “Solaris 4” which sounded awesome.  I was only going to play about three cuts, but once Lady T gets into the studio, you would need tear gas to get her out but it was well worth it.

After that live segment we played the video from “Project Make Sound” aka the found-in-the-alley-band.  It was a cover of Madonna’s “Born This Way” and in the video I jam-packed it with pix of Madonna but I also sneaked in two pix of Lady Gaga.  Can you tell which is which?  This was from July 17, 2013: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMpBsQcmB9Q   Flickr pix can be seen here:  https://www.flickr.com/photos/kfai-fm/sets/72157634696894346/ The show is archived here:  https://archive.org/details/1601ProjectMakeSound

Then we did an abrupt switch over to the “Hell Country Truckers” from April 27, 2011.  The video is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRVCZHKS5X0   Flickr pix are here:   https://www.flickr.com/photos/kfai-fm/sets/72157626475170675/ The entire show can be heard on the FOREVER archives here:  https://archive.org/details/44HellCountryTruckers

In another abrupt turnaround we played a video by none other than the “Brass Barn Polka Band” playing the Beer Barrel Polka from January 18, 2012..  This video had over 3,000 views: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26TVgXw3XRI   Flickr pix of that night are here:   https://www.flickr.com/photos/kfai-fm/sets/72157628948239631/  And that show is archived here:  https://archive.org/details/82BrassBarmPolkaBamd

Then yet another genre switchover to Oni Sakti’s band, “Ephedream” which played dreamy ethereal music which was originally broadcast on July 31, 2013 here: https://archive.org/details/1621Ephedream 

We rounded out this special edition of “Live From Studio 5!” with the sultry sweet sounds of Amber Anne Love who appeared on our show on August 3, 2011: https://archive.org/details/58AmberAnnLove   Check out her Flickr pix here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/kfai-fm/sets/72157627242411315/

On “Live From Studio 5!” we truly cover every Genre of music from A to Z and this show will give you an idea of what I mean:  (From our FOREVER archives)  https://archive.org/details/215TheBestOfLiveFromStudio5  That should keep you busy for a long LONG time!

Tune in NEXT WEEK for the music of “Farewell Tenney”.  (I hope.)