- Feb 2
A few weeks ago I went online and searched out some of my old articles on Tripod. Tripod was at the beginning of the century, before Highwire Daze’s Editor Ken Morton created Highwire Daze Online at www.highwiredaze.com. We each had our own Tripod page where we put up articles, photos, interviews, live and album reviews and our own editorial pages. I found so many great articles from my page, but didn’t read them. I did plan to go back and include those links for all of you kind readers to digest, to see that I’ve been a music fan for quite a long time and I was a decent and thoughtful writer. But come the beginning of this January, all of the links were broken. No Tripod! But now, as I’m about to send the blog to webmistress Dani, they are back up! I’ve included some page links below.
I still do have many articles up on the Highwire Daze website, so thanks to Ken Morton for keeping my past writing around. So, while listening to Eardrum Buzz Radio at www.eardrumbuzz.net, please check out www.highwiredaze.com. Search “Bret Miller” and read some fantastic reviews and thoughts on some of my favorite musicians of the time I had with the long-running Los Angeles fanzine.
I’m really proud of all that went into my time with Highwire Daze magazine: The late nights and early morning hours putting together the layout pages, the arriving early before shows to do interviews, helping putting on sponsored events, the long drives to venues outside of Los Angeles, the long hours of distributing the print issues to record stores and venues and Canters and Amoeba. The interacting with musicians and music fans at the shows, the appreciation from the bands I talked with as well as their passion for getting out on the road and driving the highways and freeways across the country, or flying into the States from around the world to present their passion. For being able to meet some of my heroes like Jaz Coleman and Alex Patterson and Dave Mustaine and Brendan Perry and Supersuckers and Adam Franklin and all the creators of my favorite music to this day.
Start here for Tripod:
And here are most of them from www.highwiredaze.com:
Beyond the Beaten Tracks is now new on the second Sunday of the month at 9am & 7pm Pacific time. Greg Fuhs and John Clarke continue to dig up music that one or both of them haven’t heard before, especially when they have guests on with them. They each pick a handful of songs and discuss what they’ve heard. Their most recent show had the younger generation, one of their sons and a couple friends talk about some underrated bands. BTBT is the throughline for me of the thoughtful long-form album or song reviews I used to read in the magazines I’d get from the cool record shops when I was younger. Along with hearing the shows on Eardrum Buzz Radio, you can catch older episodes on our Podbean page.
Echodrone bassist and host of Souvlaki Bass Station and live bootleg show You Are There is taking a break while getting ready for a tour with the band. You’ll still hear older episodes of the shows at their regular times on Sundays at 1pm & 9pm Pacific. Maybe he’ll play something you like or something new? Regardless, the songs will have memorable bass playing!
A few months back I streamlined the station’s song rotations. While I use genre tags for each band and song, sometimes a few at once, I only use these tags as shorthand ways to label their sound. But if you grew up listening to the likes of Siouxsie & The Banshees, New Order, The Cure, The Police, The Church, Smashing Pumpkins, Soundgarden, Depeche Mode, Bauhaus/Tones On Tail/Love & Rockets, all the great synthesizer-based bands of the 80’s, the College/Indie Rock of the 90’s, the twee pop, the punky side of music, PiL, Dead Can Dance, the soundtrack to your glorious youth, fun times and breakups, Eardrum Buzz Radio should be your soundtrack now. I add new music weekly and showcase as many current and deserving bands as I can, while I and all the excellent DJ’s also play the classics along with the new tunes as they see fit. Whether the bands have been around for decades or recently started their first band or do it all themselves, I’m excited to present to you passionate and emotional music all year-round.
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