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Air date:
Wed, 01/20/2016 - 8:00pm to 10:00pm
Dr. Demento comes to KBOO
Welcome again to the World Famous DR. DEMENTO to the KBOO airwaves! He'll be on 8-9 with Marcel, tune in for the good doctor!
Dr Demento will be back at Reed College for three shows on Thursday-Friday-Saturday, January 21, 22,& 23, in the usual Vollum Hall lecture auditorium, with all shows starting at 7 PM.
Dr. D's topics are:
Thursday, Jan. 21: A NEW SHOW! We’re All Americans Now – Diversity and Integration in American Music.
A survey of the many different types of music that have been brought to America through the years...music that originated in Africa, continental Europe, Asia, Pacific Islands, Latin America, and more...and how they influence what we hear today...and how the changes in the music reflect the relationships between the different peoples of America. With numerous audio examples.
And by popular demand for repeat performances:
Friday, Jan. 22: The Life and Music of Frank Zappa
The colorful story of rock music’s most brilliant satirist, and one of its great composers. With excerpts from my own interviews with Zappa, and many other audio and video examples.
Saturday, Jan. 23: Punk Rock from the Beginning
From the Ramones, the Sex Pistols and the Clash through the Dead Kennedys, Nirvana, Misfits, Meat Puppets, Bikini Kill and many more, into the 21st century. With audio and video examples. (Dr. Demento gave a talk on punk music at Reed in 1976, quite possibly the first lecture ever given on punk rock at any college campus.)
General public admission for non-Reed students will be the usual $5.00.
And just in case somebody doesn't know:
Dr. Demento, aka Barry Hansen, graduated from Reed in 1963 as a music major, earning some of his P.E. credits bicycling around Portland searching for old records. After Reed he earned an M.A. in Folk Music Studies at UCLA. While working in the record industry in L.A. he began doing a weekly radio show, just for kicks at first, drawn from his mammoth vinyl and shellac collection. That soon turned into a new career, as the Dr. Demento Show was heard on as many as 200 stations all across the USA. While he may be best known for “Fish Heads”, “They’re Coming To Take Me Away, Ha-Haa!” and the great success of his one-time protégé “Weird Al” Yankovic, he remains a true music scholar and historian at heart. “When I graduated from Reed,” he says, “I fully intended to make my career in academia.” Things turned out otherwise, but during Reed's Paideia week, you’ll see a glimpse of the twisted professor as he just might have been.
So put on your laugh-hat and enjoy!
Dr Demento will be back at Reed College for three shows on Thursday-Friday-Saturday, January 21, 22,& 23, in the usual Vollum Hall lecture auditorium, with all shows starting at 7 PM.
Dr. D's topics are:
Thursday, Jan. 21: A NEW SHOW! We’re All Americans Now – Diversity and Integration in American Music.
A survey of the many different types of music that have been brought to America through the years...music that originated in Africa, continental Europe, Asia, Pacific Islands, Latin America, and more...and how they influence what we hear today...and how the changes in the music reflect the relationships between the different peoples of America. With numerous audio examples.
And by popular demand for repeat performances:
Friday, Jan. 22: The Life and Music of Frank Zappa
The colorful story of rock music’s most brilliant satirist, and one of its great composers. With excerpts from my own interviews with Zappa, and many other audio and video examples.
Saturday, Jan. 23: Punk Rock from the Beginning
From the Ramones, the Sex Pistols and the Clash through the Dead Kennedys, Nirvana, Misfits, Meat Puppets, Bikini Kill and many more, into the 21st century. With audio and video examples. (Dr. Demento gave a talk on punk music at Reed in 1976, quite possibly the first lecture ever given on punk rock at any college campus.)
General public admission for non-Reed students will be the usual $5.00.
And just in case somebody doesn't know:
Dr. Demento, aka Barry Hansen, graduated from Reed in 1963 as a music major, earning some of his P.E. credits bicycling around Portland searching for old records. After Reed he earned an M.A. in Folk Music Studies at UCLA. While working in the record industry in L.A. he began doing a weekly radio show, just for kicks at first, drawn from his mammoth vinyl and shellac collection. That soon turned into a new career, as the Dr. Demento Show was heard on as many as 200 stations all across the USA. While he may be best known for “Fish Heads”, “They’re Coming To Take Me Away, Ha-Haa!” and the great success of his one-time protégé “Weird Al” Yankovic, he remains a true music scholar and historian at heart. “When I graduated from Reed,” he says, “I fully intended to make my career in academia.” Things turned out otherwise, but during Reed's Paideia week, you’ll see a glimpse of the twisted professor as he just might have been.
So put on your laugh-hat and enjoy!
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