"We made excuses to go for Saturday afternoon rides to catch Randy Bachman's weekly show "Vinyl Tap" on the CBC Channel, which entertains with good songs selected around a provoking theme and wild stories with various rock stars..." August 24, 2006 Excerpted from an article in the Wall Street Journal by reporter Sarah McBride, reviewing new radio formats and content. 1
Hi Denise and Randy:
I just have to let you know that not only am I a huge fan of the show (as per my previous emails), but you mentioned the pollutant testing (Tony Clement, Jack Layton, Rona Ambrose) on the show tonight. I am the Chair of the Board of the organization that did the testing and runs Canada’s leading pollution awareness website. The organization is called Environmental Defence (www.environmentaldefence.ca) and the pollution site we run is www.pollutionwatch.org. It is one of the most important environmental websites in Canada, anybody can enter their postal code and find out who is polluting in their neighbourhood, what pollutants, health issues etc. I just wanted to let you know that there is a great Canadian group with a great Canadian website that I am sure you and your listeners would find fascinating. CANCON for the environmental movement so to speak.
Still loving the show!
Cheers,
Bruce Lourie
I just have to let you know that not only am I a huge fan of the show (as per my previous emails), but you mentioned the pollutant testing (Tony Clement, Jack Layton, Rona Ambrose) on the show tonight. I am the Chair of the Board of the organization that did the testing and runs Canada’s leading pollution awareness website. The organization is called Environmental Defence (www.environmentaldefence.ca) and the pollution site we run is www.pollutionwatch.org. It is one of the most important environmental websites in Canada, anybody can enter their postal code and find out who is polluting in their neighbourhood, what pollutants, health issues etc. I just wanted to let you know that there is a great Canadian group with a great Canadian website that I am sure you and your listeners would find fascinating. CANCON for the environmental movement so to speak.
Still loving the show!
Cheers,
Bruce Lourie
Also, here is the place to hear the full audio recording of the Imagine song, by Noa and Khaled:
http://indoloony.com/2006/01/25/noa-feat-khaled-imagine/
And here's their description: "Known in Israel by her given name Achinoam Nini, Noa is Israel’s leading international concert and recording artist." She guests with Arabic singer Cheb Khaled on this cut.
http://indoloony.com/2006/01/25/noa-feat-khaled-imagine/
And here's their description: "Known in Israel by her given name Achinoam Nini, Noa is Israel’s leading international concert and recording artist." She guests with Arabic singer Cheb Khaled on this cut.
The web site for viewing the Noa and Khaled version of John Lennon's Imagine is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjaOO1hngsY
It's just as fabulous as a video!
It's just as fabulous as a video!
Here's a couple of web sites that dispute the accuracy of the Steorns' free energy claims. Read the pros and cons and make up your own mind....
In the meantime, there's still wind and sun to power us...
http://calladus.blogspot.com/2006/08/steorns-free-lunch-free-energy-i-think.html
http://randi.org/jr/2006-08/082506yet.html#i1
In the meantime, there's still wind and sun to power us...
http://calladus.blogspot.com/2006/08/steorns-free-lunch-free-energy-i-think.html
http://randi.org/jr/2006-08/082506yet.html#i1
Environmental notes:
The web site for Positive News is www.positivenews.org.uk for all who asked!
The web site for Positive News is www.positivenews.org.uk for all who asked!
Denise at the Studio
Hello Randy and Denise,
Thank you so very much for Vinyl Tap. The music, the relaxed but informative dialogue, and the affectionate interplay between you two, turns this program from just another music spot into a real gem. The tutorial was a wonderful idea. I'm sure I'm not the only listener who detects a definite reminder of Peter Gzowski in your easy, engaging manner.
I'm 70, and bought my first guitar at Acoustic Planet in Ganges (Salt Spring Island) at 65 when I realised that my tombstone would otherwise have said, "He always meant to learn fingerstyle guitar"! I've loved music for so long, I must try to participate before its too late.
Now there's a theme for a show. "IT'S NEVER TOO LATE"! I think of the 4 million guitars sold annually. Its sad to think that so many instruments are sitting in closets or attics, many of them bought by older music fans, I suspect. They need encouragement to DUST IT OFF, TUNE IT UP AND GET STUCK IN. Michael Jonathon always emphasizes this on Woodsongs, AM900. Turn off the idiot box and get involved!
I'm now able to play duets with my teacher and the sheer pleasure and sense of achievement is immense. I'm documenting my problems and fixes as they occur from an older, beginner's point of view. I found that tutor books and some expert players have lost sight of the very basic problems that often stop beginners in their tracks. And another guitar goes into the closet.
I would like to write to the head of programming at CBC about Vinyl Tap and the breath of fresh air you have brought to music fans. Could you please give me the appropriate contact and address (by post) that I could address this letter to? I don't want it to be lost in the organisation, or put into the round file!
Many thanks, John "Slow Fingers" Morgan.
Sure, John,
go to http://www.cbc.ca/contact/index.jsp
and fill in the form on that page for contacting CBC feedback. They will forward your message on to the head of programming for Radio One, who I believe is Jennifer McGuire.
Here are some other ways to contact them:
Toll-free phone (Canada only): 1-866-306-4636
TTY/Teletypewriter (Hearing impaired only): 1-866-220-6045
Mail: Audience Relations, CBC, P.O. Box 500 Station A, Toronto, ON, Canada, M5W 1E6
p.s. - Glad you've taken up music, there's no greater joy!
On 9-Dec-06, at 4:35 PM, Blair Davidson wrote:
Cool Show,
could you please tell me or ask Randy what defines
Miisissippi Delta blues? Because all the Delta blues
players seem to have been the state of mississippi
whereas the delta of the Miss.river is Louisiana.Perhaps
you people could straighten this out for my musical
education.
It has perplexed me for decades.
thanks,
Blair Davidson
Denise's answer:
Here is what the internet has to say, Blair, I will be reading this on the show, but in case you miss it:
from Wikipedia.org :
The Delta blues is one of the earliest styles of blues music. It originated in the Mississippi Delta, a region of the United States that stretches from Memphis, Tennessee in the north to Vicksburg, Mississippi in the south, the Mississippi River on the west to the Yazoo River on the east.
From the Delta Blues Museum (Clarkdale, Miss.) web site at www.deltabluesmuseum.org :
Only the Amazon and, barely, the Congo have a larger drainage basin. The lower Mississippi runs through what is known as the Mississippi Embayment, a declivity covering approximately 35,000 square miles that begins 30 miles north of Cairo to Cape Giradeau, Missouri (north of the Tenn/Missouri state line – even w/ bottom of Illinois!) — geologically the true head of the Mississippi Delta — and extends to the Gulf of Mexico.
[so: The Delta pretty much includes all of the western edge of Mississippi AND Tennesee states]
Denise Bachman
Cool Show,
could you please tell me or ask Randy what defines
Miisissippi Delta blues? Because all the Delta blues
players seem to have been the state of mississippi
whereas the delta of the Miss.river is Louisiana.Perhaps
you people could straighten this out for my musical
education.
It has perplexed me for decades.
thanks,
Blair Davidson
Denise's answer:
Here is what the internet has to say, Blair, I will be reading this on the show, but in case you miss it:
from Wikipedia.org :
The Delta blues is one of the earliest styles of blues music. It originated in the Mississippi Delta, a region of the United States that stretches from Memphis, Tennessee in the north to Vicksburg, Mississippi in the south, the Mississippi River on the west to the Yazoo River on the east.
From the Delta Blues Museum (Clarkdale, Miss.) web site at www.deltabluesmuseum.org :
Only the Amazon and, barely, the Congo have a larger drainage basin. The lower Mississippi runs through what is known as the Mississippi Embayment, a declivity covering approximately 35,000 square miles that begins 30 miles north of Cairo to Cape Giradeau, Missouri (north of the Tenn/Missouri state line – even w/ bottom of Illinois!) — geologically the true head of the Mississippi Delta — and extends to the Gulf of Mexico.
[so: The Delta pretty much includes all of the western edge of Mississippi AND Tennesee states]
Denise Bachman
From: Michael Daudlin
Re: New Year's Resolution & Show Idea
Hi Randy & Denise,
My name is Michael and I am in grade Seven in Victoria BC. We listen to your show every saturday no matter where we are and it is very cool. My new years resolution is to drink more milkshakes. My mom's is to sing more (which we are not necessarily pleased with). My little brother and I think that you should do a show about Billy Joel and if you do, please include the song "Running on Ice" from his album "The Bridge" because we can't find a copy of it on CD and would love to hear it like that.
Michael Daudlin
P.S. My brother wants to say that YOU ROCK!!!! and his favorite song is "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet"!
Re: New Year's Resolution & Show Idea
Hi Randy & Denise,
My name is Michael and I am in grade Seven in Victoria BC. We listen to your show every saturday no matter where we are and it is very cool. My new years resolution is to drink more milkshakes. My mom's is to sing more (which we are not necessarily pleased with). My little brother and I think that you should do a show about Billy Joel and if you do, please include the song "Running on Ice" from his album "The Bridge" because we can't find a copy of it on CD and would love to hear it like that.
Michael Daudlin
P.S. My brother wants to say that YOU ROCK!!!! and his favorite song is "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet"!
