The Lorenzo Commentaries Podcast: Recent Episodes
Lorenzo Raffa
This weekly commentary is heard on WMPG-FM's "Hukkin' a Chainek" hosted by Steve Hirshon. Sometimes funny, sometimes serious, other times totally out there, but always worth your two to three minutes. Lorenzo has been a part of 'MPG since it was a mono, 50 watt station out of the University of Southern Maine's Gorham campus in 1988. His show, a formatless affair entitled "Emotionally Bankrupt & Morally in Debt" ran for six years; the commentaries will begin its third year in July '06, and are are one of the most downloaded achives on wmpg.org. Enjoy!
My friend Steve Hirshon passed away December 1st, 2017. As The Lorenzo Commentaries started on a magazine show Steve had in 2005 and continued when he moved to Thursday morning as Hukkin' a Chainek I realize with Steve gone, it's time yo retire TLCas well.
This is a compilation I put together for a remembrance for Steve in January at Jay York's Last Church on the Left in Portland, but technical glitches wouldn't let it play in its entirety.
Here it is now. I miss you every day, Steve, but especially Thursday mornings.
This is it for morning drive time! Coming up soon and an afternoon Talk show, continuing to carry The Lorenzo Commentaries. Details to be announced.
Thank you Steve!
The Found Footage Festival, the acclaimed touring showcase of odd and hilarious found videos, will bring its new 2017 show to Portland. Hosts Nick Prueher and Joe Pickett, whose credits include The Onion and the Late Show with David Letterman, are excited to debut their new program at Space Gallery (538 Congress Street) on Friday, October 13th at 6:45 and again at 9:30pm. Tickets to the Found Footage Festival are $12 in advance ($15 at the door) and are available at foundfootagefest.com.
Thanks to Kevin Oates.
WMPG needs podcasts, because no one chose to air this before the concert!
This Saturday is my Dad's Rememberence in New York put together by my brother Don.
Here's my tribute.
Here we are, one divorce, two vehicles, one marriage, two employers, one relocation, and two grandchildren later.
And I lost my 160 gig iPod!
If you can't make it to the Portland Museum of Art 11/1/16 at 4pm (call 8741065 to RSVP) catch "The Reel Snow White" on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/JE51X_4dni4
My Tribute to Myron, which took third place as Best Feature at last Saturday's Maine Association of Broadcasters Awards.
Live on WMPG, please call to support us 207-874-3000 and tell 'em the The Lorenzo Commentaries Podcast sent ya!
on to the Maine Association of Broadcasrers Awards!
Sorry the conversation starts about a minute in; I had a recording glitz I've never encountered before...
On this, the 3rd anniversary of John's passing, I repay this great recollection of John's participation in history.
Next week, subbing Hukkin a Chainek, I present an all Monkees show on the eve of the release of Good Times.
2016...the year of The Monkees!
2016: The Year. of the Monkees
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpp-Ry2ZNhY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_D6XNpYxdU
Update: still rocking the smart phone, enjoy having data on the go. Still miss the iPod Touch, though.
Lorenzo, Steve and newsreader Grace taste 8 varieties of chips in Lays latest promotion, the FlavorSwap live on WMPG . The conversation wanders to Poland Spring water, the f'd up marijuana referendum, and the candidates overtaking Maine pre-caucus. Bon appetit!
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Vacation's not over yet but I couldn't stay away.
i got half as many downloads in July as I did in June. What's up?
Recorded live on WMPG's Hukkin a Chainek 7/9/15. Steve and my final (virtual) Grateful Dead experience.
Please excuse the relaxed tone...I fell asleep on the couch before realizing I needed to record and put this up for the morning!
Chris Brown didn't answer my e-mails this year, but I have my audio files and the ability to edit!
A chat with Spurwink's Sue Murphy & Simon McDonald. Not listening in Maine? Go to http://gosprout.org/sprout-touring-film-festival/ to see if and when it's coming your town.
To celebrate Fall Begathon 2015 I fit 10 years of commentaries in under 5 minutes! Enjoy!!
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Please chock it out!
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Yes, off the air due to a holiday snowstorm, but the show must go on...this is what WMPG's dedicated streamers heard!
Vote vote vote November 4th!!!
And don't forget Mainers, a vote for Cutler is a vote for 4 more years of LaPage aka Maine's Embarrassment !
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Includes "New Car Smell" from 2007.
I'm hosting Hukkin' a Chainek next week, AKA Begathon! Call 207-874-3000 and pledge (please?)
The contenders: Bacon Mac and Cheese, Mango Salsa, Ginger Wasabi, Cappuccino (!), and it being 7:45 AM!
Sorry for the every other week deal. I promise from this point on to fill in the gaps even if the pieces fail to run on WMPG due to technical difficulties (or Steve messing up)
On 6/11/14 Empire in Portland, Maine Clash of the Titans presented It's Guster's v. Dispatch version, when who shows up? None other than Guster's own Adam Gardner!
Seems we can look forward to an interview with Adam when the new Guster's album drops!!
You can check out "Lorenzo's First Commentary", "My Song", and the Radio Open Mic promo right on this site!
My, Crys, and Sam's Hukkin' a Chainek show stream: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/72701894/20131226%200628.mp3
A bare bones "Oh The Bells" for the new WMPG newscast.
Merry Christmas!
Lorenzo, Crys and maybe even Sam hosting Hukkin' a Chainek on Boxing Day!
Prof. Pierson is the author of Breaking Bad: Critical Essays on the Contexts, Politics, Style, and Reception of the Television Series, available here:
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http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/breaking-bad-david-p-pierson/1116561174?ean=9780739179253
Will I make this week's "WMPG Reports"? Tune in this Monday at 1pm at wmpg.org and hit "listen" !
Guest commentator this week...my #1 daughter Crys talks about turning 30. I'm proud and thankful to be her Dad. Happy Birthday, Boo!
Sorry for the tinny Baby Blue; a home, not studio production. Lynn & I were married 10/19/03, BTW.
It's Begathon time!!! Please call 207-879-3000 to keep WMPG on the air, the home of The Lorenzo Commentaries!!!
My goodwill to Goodwill!
Begathon next week September 24-30!
Please listen in and donate!!
WMPG Fall Begathon is comng: Tuesday September 24 through Monday September 30! Tune in! Donate!! wmpg.org
If you download the Renz Comm and enjoy them (or hate-listen?!), please e-mail me at radioopenmic@gmail.com! I'd love to hear from you!
This Wednesday, July 24, 6:30-8:30 am ET is the final "Reasonable Music" program. Check it out at wmpg.org!
Radio Open Mic streaming link: http://media.usm.maine.edu/~wmpg/archivefiles/Lorenzo/OpenMic2013/WMPG_RadioOpenMic20130606.mp3
Spiniron Playlist:h ttp://spinitron.com/radio/playlist.php?station=wmpg&month=Jun&year=2013&playlist=8191
It's not to late to send an MP3! (unless the show has ended) E-mail an MP3 to radioopenmic@gmail.com with ROM in the subject line. DO IT NOW!!! The show airs today, Thursday 6/6/13 3-5pm ET and streams on wmpg.org (and is dedicated to my friend John L.)
Send an MP3 file for Radio Open Mic #10 to radioopenmic@gmail with ROM in the subject line. Broadcasting on WMPG 90.9 and 104.1 FM in Southern Maine and streaming at wmpg.org on Thursday 6/6/13 3-5pm ET. C'mon podcast listeners!
It's all to much!
(psssst...Radio Open Mic!!! June 6 3-5pm Live In-Studio and live on WMPG and wmpg.org. Send MP3s to be played between live acts to radioopenmic@gmail.com, please!
The Beagathon's over for now, but you can still go to wmpg.org to donate. On to Papa Nez!
This is the "unplugged" version, recorded in-studio during WMPG Spring Begathon. the server was down, so the on-air version (w/music from Eels) is lost in the ozone. Support the podcast by supporting the commentary by supporting WMPG by calling 207-874-3000 or give online at wmpg.org . Thanks!!!
BTW, this year's Spring Begathon is April 4-10, with Hukkin' a Chainek kicking off the fesivities
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/72701894/DID.mp3
The Bio:
Lorenzo Raffa is a legend in his own mind. Lorenzo hopes that's not what people perceive, but that's his favorite quip when someone mentions that they've heard him at some point on WMPG in the last quarter century. Lorenzo (or Lo, Zo, Renz, or Renzo, the only current nicknames come from clipping off a syllable or two) grew up loving radio, and being raised in the New York City suburbs in the 1960's He got to hear some of the best soundwaves ever broadcast: MusicRadio WABeatlesC, Dan Ingram, the WMCA Good Guys, "Cousin" Brucie, Scott Muni on WNEW-FM, Punk and New Wave breaking out on WLIR, even ImusInTheMorning before he became a cranky old man, and Howard Stern before you needed special hardware and a monthly fee. It was all glorious audio and his hope was one day he could recreate radio as he remembered it: the DJ playing records and talking...to an audience of one...the listener. Flash forward to Waterville in the late-seventies/early-eighties (Lorenzo never really felt at home in New York; Maine seemed a much better fit for this neohippie), there was WBLM, Today widely considered the Snidley Whiplash of local commercial radio. 'BLM back then was the real deal. Have a request? pick up the phone and chat with the DJ. As much fun as Cousin Brucie was, there were many gatekeepers between you and your cuz. Lorenzo was born in Dobbs Ferry, NY (a Westchester County suburb outside of New York City) on June 17, 1957. Lorenzo has almost an obsession about his birthday, as listeners to The Lorenzo Commentaries can attest. Celebrities such as Barry Manilow, Joe Piscapo, M. C. Escher, Newt Gingrich and Venus Williams share the date, as Lorenzo will tell you ad nauseum. Lorenzo was the first born to his parents Janet and Larry (yes, the Anglisized version of Lorenzo, but please don't call him Junior), a year and a half later in Hastings brother Donald joined them, and after buying a house in Haverstraw, a village in nearby Rockland County, sister Nancy made the family complete. Larry, a post-Korean War vet, was a plumber, active in the union. Janet, also known as Jenny, from a German family in upstate New York was a stay-at-home mom and housewife who loved reading and bingo. It was an idyllic suburban family, whose happiness was altered only by Jenny's declining health, suffering from emphysema, and passing away when Lorenzo was 15. Fifteen was a big year year for Lorenzo. His mother's passing hit him hard, his father, while a great provider, had no idea how to be a suddenly single parent. Lorenzo met his first love Terre at North Rockland High School, soon after that Larry met a divorced woman, Marilyn, with 3 sons in their father, a successful psychiatrist's, custody. When the doctor passed away suddenly of a brain aneurism, Larry and Marilyn quickly got married to gain custody, which retrospectively may not have been a move benefitting anyone involved; however, the deed was done, custody was achieved, and the two families, virtually strangers, became one, with Lorenzo and siblings moving across the Hudson to White Plains. Lorenzo and Don spent their first year in the new home on rollaway beds in the former Doctor's office, under Marilyn's orders to keep the environment as as it was found. No Alice Cooper posters here! For Lorenzo and Terre it might as well been worlds away; shortly after that Lorenzo was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes. Being 15 sucked. Life did get better, Lorenzo and Terre would be reunited in time (more on that later). High school was a welcome change from the hell that was middle school. Lorenzo , who would grow to six feet by age 12, but had little or no athletic ability or interest (putting to rest the "you should be a basketball player" comments by strangers and family members). At White Plains High Lorenzo played tuba in the concert band, Sousaphone in the marching band (to this day, even after sitting through 100+ games Lorenzo has no idea how football is played), and stage crew, where one could be involved in theater without memorizing lines. Being different was finally OK. After a year at Mercy, a local commuter college in hometown Dobbs Ferry (or, as Lorenzo is fond of calling it, 13th Grade), he decided it was time to move on from New York, a place that never quite seemed the right fit. Waterville, Maine came first, discovered when father Larry couldn't find a local plumbing work in the Ford/Carter era recession, finally finding work building a New England paper mill. Then the short lived Lorenzo/Terre reunion in Manitou Springs, Colorado, followed by stints in Texas and Alabama, and finally back to New York to crash with family. The "lost years" continues: Lorenzo met a free-spirited woman who called herself Sunshyne, and in a month long whirlwind romance they eloped as the eighties began. To say it was a rocky marriage would understate it. Daughters Crystl (now known as simply as Crys) and Faye were born in quick succession. Lorenzo craved the serenity he found years back in Maine, and for the most part found it in Portland; he was able to slip into the stay-at-home-Dad role. This was the time Lorenzo discovered the then 50 watt WMPG discovering a "become involved" flyer at Cumberland Electronics. After a phone call and a two hour training "Emotionally Bankrupt & Morally in Debt", a Thursday afternoon formatless program where Lorenzo joyfully recreated the free form radio of his youth. The show had a six year run, and off the air he would go on to become volunteer Music Director (CDs started to trickle in at this point), Promotions Director (coming up with a regular snarky 2"x3" ad in the Casco Bay Weekly in this pre-Twitter world), and a volunteer board member, a role that continues today. When preschool rolled around, and days were freed up, finally getting a degree seemed like a good plan, and Lorenzo enrolled at USM, majoring in Communications. One thing the move to Maine didn't fix was Lorenzo and Sunshyne's rocky marriage. They spent as much time apart as they were together; it was during one of the separation that Lorenzo met Lynn, a divorced mother of two, also attending USM as a nontraditional student. The attraction was immediate, but was not to be. Not yet. Although no longer in love, Lorenzo assisted Sunshyne as her health declined; with the worst sense of déjà vu: COPD, emphysema, and oxygen tanks existed alongside smoldering cigarettes. It was a difficult couple of years ending with Sunshyne dying before her time, but during this Lorenzo finally found his career direction and started working with people with physical and developmentally disabilities, a profession to this day Lorenzo likes to say where "I don't wake up dreading the day." As the new millennium dawned, Lorenzo found himself a single father, but thankfully reunited with Lynn, truly his soulmate. Married a couple years later by Lynn's daughter Heather, Lorenzo's wedding ring reads simply "lobsters" because "lobsters mate for life." Which brings us to today. For nearly a decade, Lorenzo has produced a weekly short feature entitled, appropriately, The Lorenzo Commentaries, heard on WMPG Thursday mornings at 7:45 on Steve Hirshon's Hukkin a Chainek. The RenzComm's format is as varied as Emotionally Bankrupt & Emotionally in Debt's was in its day: it might be his views on popular culture and life in general, interviews (Paula Poundstone, Harry Shearer, Guster's Adam Gardner), and all out studio productions (does adding sleigh bells to "Eve of Distruction", "99 Problems", "Girlfriend in a Coma", and "Hurt" make them holiday songs?). Lorenzo refers to the Lorenzo Commentaries as "cheaper than therapy and more fun." The RenzComm is one the the few WMPG shows podcast and can be found at thelorenzocommentaries.libsyn.com and on iTunes. Another source of pride for Lorenzo on WMPG is Radio Open Mic, created when Lorenzo guest hosted Some Folk some years ago without a scheduled guest; he invited all comers to the studio, many came, and a tradition was born. There have been eight or so since, and the last few have been presented in front of an audience, live and unedited on WMPG! Another edition is in the works, because the shows been legendary, which brings us back to... Lorenzo Raffa is a legend in his own mind.
The Sonds:
There's Nothing To Do Today - Soupy Sales (Spy With a Pie) As We Go Along - Monkees (Head Soundtrack) Deacon Blues - Steely Dan (Aja) Better Things - Kinks (Give the People What They Want) Roll With the Flow - Michael Nesmith (...and the Hits Just Keep On Coming) Jesus, etc. - Wilco (Yankee Hotel Foxtrot) I'm So Tired-Nellie McKay Rocket Man- Samuel James ( And For the Dark Road Ahead)
Hey, I forgot to mention I'm on Desert Island Discs Monday 2/11 at 10am. Please tune in!
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Post- Clash of the Titans Monkees and TD Garden Dylan and pre-TG Day feast!
I'm thankful for 100,000+ downloads. Thank you!!!
For those of you outside of Maine (are you listening San Antonio?), please call (207) 874-3000. Thanks!
Ads mentioned in commentaries:
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http://protectmarriagemaine.com/video_posts/tv-ad-they-sued-us/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmzVeNo_OjY&feature=plcp
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I posted the rough, unedited version last week.
Sorry, let's try it again!
and...mangia!
One of my favorite commentaries, performed live!
See the (unedited) video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMqv7GwlsEY&feature=g-upl
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As a diabetic I had some pop tarts in my knapsack (and was prepared to to declare it as a medical necessity because of the heat, etc.) and as a result of the loooooong lines (I spoke with fellow concertgoers and 90 minutes was an underestimation) those were what I consumed that day! Someone I spoke with waited in line for over 2 hours, and when near the front was told the booth was out of food; rumors abounded that another booth out of food were selling plain rolls for $2. On her way there she encountered an enterprising (greedy? opportunistic??) young man selling the 4 $8.00 burgers he had for $13.00 each! This is not my idea of a good time!
And with 2 stages why a 30-60 minute wait between sets? Nateva in 2010 had 2 stages, and the flow between acts was seamless.
The smoking ban was ignored and unenforced, but at least most smokers hung by the outlaying fences
On the plus side, I appreciate I didn't have to buy water to stay hydrated, Lack of shade was an issue for me, as I'm not a sun worshipper, but for an outdoor show, I suppose it's the nature of the beast.
I wasn't overly impressed with the daytime acts, though they were pleasant enough, But the Dropkicks had a great (though brief) set and Mumford & Sons made the day worth it! And fireworks to boot!!
I feel if we were stop #4 in the GotR tour rather than the premiere, it might have gone smoother. but all in all it was a great day for Portland, Mumford & Sons, me, and my 15,000 other concert buddies!
My love affair with food trucks started with a simple Taco Truck, not far from where Lynn and I were staying on Upper West Side of Manhattan in 2005. welcome to Portland, ME!!
Spurwink Presents the Sprout Film Festival 2012 Help us to celebrate diversity and combat discrimination! Entertaining and enlightening short films by and about people with disabilities. June 12 Augusta, Noon & 6:00, at the Holocaust & Human rights center, UMA. By donation only. June 14th noon & 6:00 at Waynflete School, Portland. Tickets on sale now: http://spurwink.eventbrite.com/FMI: http://www.facebook.com/SpurwinkPresentsTheSproutFilmFestival2012 and http://www.gosprout.org/film/
this was supposed to run 2 weeks ago, and last week we aired a peice my daughter Crys did a few years back.
Support your local record store this Saturday! Go to recordstoreday.com or bullmoose.com for more information.
More thoughts on Davy, the Boomer Generation, and, well, the sweet spot (Thanks for the title, Steve!)
OK, so it's not Radio Open Mic, but it is an open mic, and it's on the radio, and it's an honor to be part of WMPG Poer Up! Party.
Tune in on 1/21/12. My deal airs 4-5pm. Better yet, come down and play1
http://spinitron.com/radio/playlist.php?station=wmpg&month=Apr&year=2010&showid=133
http://obituaries.pressherald.com/obituaries/mainetoday-pressherald/obituary.aspx?n=ambrose-berry&pid=155021564
watch the video: http://www.wpix.com/videogallery/66087317/News/Mocker-Covering-Up-Hate
...and I survived!
Hey podcast audience! WMPG came up short for last week's Begathaon. If you can help us out, please give at this link. Thanks! https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_flow&SESSION=SWY4xojjECVlZ7wJQysEDUc_nMDk3AyNKhc0edT0T0G65HbUxijIpQQlByK&dispatch=50a222a57771920b6a3d7b606239e4d529b525e0b7e69bf0224adecfb0124e9b61f737ba21b081988562bf19d61623c669b34e5cd175ba4a
Yup, it's been a year, and here's the interviews I've been sitting on since then! (My apologies to the nice family from SC and the guy at the gate...too much backround noice)
Two edited commentaies from the first year for the price of one!
Hats off to the best Music Director ever, Ron Raymond!!!
Spurwink is raising awareness, and helping to reduce the stigma associated with mental health issues, through its presentation of the Sprout Film Festival. Please join us Thursday, June 9 for the 12:00pm and 7:00pm showings at One Longfellow Square in Portland (corner of Congress and State Streets). For information, call 207-797-2512.
Lawrence S. Bliss, commonly known as Larry Bliss, is an American educator and former politician from the state of Maine. A Democrat, he served in the Maine House of Representitives (2000–2008) and the Maine Senate (2008–2011). He resigned as a senator on April 15, 2011 after accepting a position as an administrator in the University of California system and leaving the state of Maine.
In an e-mail sent to ticketholders on April 1st the Oxford, ME-based Nateva Festival announced the cancellation of its 2011 festivities after promoters found themselves “struggling at every turn as we have tried to push forward with preparations for this summer.” The festival, scheduled to go down August 4th-7th, would have seen performances by STS9, Guster, Gregg Allman, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, and more. The e-mail went on to say, “In the end, it’s all about being able to put forth a first rate event that everyone can be proud of and that our customers can enjoy. We just don’t have the confidence to go forward at this time.” I spoke to Nateva organizer Frank Chandler last week about the cancellation and last year's festival held over the Fourth of July weekend that featured Moe. Flaming Lips, and Further..
"The Big Uneasy" plays at the Nickelodeon Theater in Portland, ME one night only April 14, 2011 @ 7 and 9:15 pm.
In 2005, a disaster struck New Orleans. You know the rest. Or do you?
The first documentary by long-time "mockumentarian" Harry Shearer, The Big Uneasy follows three remarkable people--the leaders of two scientific investigation teams, and one whistleblower--as they reveal the true story of why New Orleans flooded, and why it could happen again.
Shearer gets the inside story of a disaster that could have been prevented from the people who were there. His dogged pursuit of facts reveals that some of the same flawed methods responsible for levee failure during Hurricane Katrina are being used to rebuild the system expected to protect the new New Orleans from future peril.
The Big Uneasy marks the beginning of the end of ignorance about what happened to one of our nations most treasured citiesand serves as a stark reminder that the same agency that failed to protect New Orleans still employs the same flawed science in many other cities across America. Without improvements to engineering and accountability in oversight, the film cautions, we will be very sorry to see history repeat itself elsewhere. feature-length documentary The Big Uneasy, humorist and New Orleans resident Harry Shearer gets the inside story of a disaster that could have been prevented from the people who were there. Shearer speaks to the tireless investigators and experts who poked through the muck as the water receded, and uncovers a courageous whistle-blower from the Army Corps of Engineers. His dogged pursuit of facts reveals that some of the same flawed methods responsible for levee failure during Hurricane Katrina are being used to rebuild the system expected to protect the "new" New Orleans from future peril.
What a great guy! Adam chats about Guster's new album Easy Wonderful, how it almost wasn't, life in Maine, saving the earth one tour (ang cruise) at a time, and, sadly, looking forward to Nateva. And much more. Thanks Adam!
Tune in 1/17/11 (MLK Day) on WMPG (and wmpg.org) for the Book Reading and interview special 2:00-3:00pm!
Last Saturday night Portland's DEELY STAN performed at the Venue with very special guest guitarist Jon Herington of Steely Dan. Last week Jon spoke with Lorenzo about his band and new solo album "Shine Shine Shine". This week Jon talks about his work with Steely Dan.
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Oops, sorry, audio didn't post...coming soon!
Recorded live on Steve's Hukkin' a Chainek
Ignore the Morrison part; their beautiful new facility is now open in Scarborough (& I don't work there anymore)
call! 207-874-3000. This was the "second take" done when I guest-hosted "Whee Doggies" 3/11/10
BTW, I didn't win. Congrats to Dan Bernard, Michael Townsend, Dick Dinman, DJ Roy, and the kid from Blunt!
Sorry for the delay...Steve decided to hold this commentary for a week to coincide with an intewview that will take place next week. A possible sequel? We'll see.
Cut & Paste in Address Bar: http://media.usm.maine.edu/~wmpg/streamedshows/LandOfTheLost/20091008/RadioOpenMic20091008.mp3
The show actually starts 3:20 into the stream...and rather abruptly at that. Also. we went 5 minutes over, and that was cut off the stream. Besides that, enjoy!
A version created for WMPG's Fall begathon 10/15-21/09. Call 207-874-3000 to pledge if you're inspired!
A great show...Over a Cardboard Sea is amazing. I hope they come to Radio Open Mic Live!
This is the ROML! show in its entirety,,,a listing of guests/songs to follow. Enjoy! I did!!
Lorenzo chats with Monkee Historian Andrew Sandoval at the WMPG Friday Night Fall Film Festival screening of HEAD, 10/31/08.
From 1/09...I have 32 friends now! (& join the Chinese Hopping Vampires Were Us group om FaceBook right now!)
Carmie says "You going to join the loyal order of former VPort employees already?
We can post a link to your podcast. I saw Steve at the museum on
Friday but he looked very serious and I didn't think he was supposed to be
talking to any silly people."
While in Racine, WI I chatted with producer and host Matt Sommer of "That's What She Said", the best and only podcast you need about NBC's "The Office".
Recorded live on the air during WMPG's Spring Begathon. The second voice is that of Chris White, Steve's sub that week. BTW, the offer is still good for pledges to 207-874-3000 or wmpg.org . You name it, I'll give you a Lorenzo Commentaries premium!
WMPG Election Project contributor Lorenzo Raffa thought he might spend an hour, maybe two, tops at the Democrat Caucus in South Portland. He was thrilled to be wrong. Here's his report...
I should have more to say in the show notes, but I rarely do. Have you checked out www.foneshow.com yet?
That's right...just for you dear podcast listener. BTW, it's cattlesnore@verizon.net. Be kind!
Seriously, listen to Tuesday Night Talk Radio Club on WMPG @ 7:30pm this week (12/11/07)! I mean it!!!
By the way...LORENZO RAFFA (“The Lorenzo Commentaries?) presents RADIO OPEN MIC 5**
Friday night, November 16th 7:30-9:30 (Local Motives/Stay Rude*’s usual time slot)Simply drop by WMPG Studios (92 Bedford St., Portland) Friday, November 16th between 7:15 to 9:15 PM with (or without) instruments (acoustic preferred, but if not, we can deal) and sing &/or play a song or two LIVE on WMPG 90.9 & 104.1 FM and streaming on wmpg.org!*
Up to five performers at once; no drum kits, please!
Comedians/spoken word artists also welcome!
Can’t make it in? No problem! Send an MP3 to radioopenmic@gmail.com & he’ll play it! (Deadline for MP3s: 5PM, 11/15/07)
Be a part of radio history!!!
FMI check out wmpg.org or e-mail radioopenmic@gmail.com
Sorry! The Patriots' Day storm knocked out power at WMPG and as of 4/19 it's still not up.
Talk to ya next week!
Knocked off the air this week for political programming, here's a promo I made for WMPG to air on our local AA station, but it sadly never made it... might have offended some corporate types! Here it is for you!
Recorded live on WMPG! I did end up on YouTube later that day...check out http://youtube.com/watch?v=oxjdfO2Mt5g
This one's from last year. This year I didn't get a card at work even though I sign every one else's that comes my way.
many subjects, one commentary!
This is an older commentary that I posted as a test. For more "classic" commentaries check out the WMPG achive website: http://wmpg.org/?archive. Also, I run an "encore presentation" (sometimes with new intros) once a month, and I'll podcast those as well. Welcome to my world, please enjoy!