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Xann Posted July 9, 2011 Author Share Posted July 9, 2011 ^^^^^^^^^^^^ Spokenwordtastic Another great voice - John Rydgren - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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leviramsey Posted July 9, 2011 VT Supporter Share Posted July 9, 2011 Psychedelic Christian Radio When Liz played Pastor John Rydgren's Rinky Dink last Tuesday, I was reminded of just how great and weird Rydgren's radio spots were, and what a strange confluence of events created the country's only Psychedelic Christian format back in 1967. Heading into the Summer of Love, Rydgren was the crafty head of the TV, Radio and Film Department of the American Lutheran Church. Years before the words "Jesus" and "Freak" became joined at the rib, the straight-looking Rydgren created a daily radio show called Silhouette in which he became the reassuring, resonant-voiced Hippy for God. Rydgren wrote, announced and programmed Silhouette, taking his musical and cultural cues from The Electric Prunes, Herb Alpert and the cover of Time (Is God Dead?), with a vocal delivery that was straight out of the Tom Donahue / Scott Muni / Ken Nordine school of breathy baritone radio seduction. Silhouette dropped all the counter-cultural codewords of the day into a heady mix of Peace, Love, Sex, Drugs and Jesus. Not to mention Fuzzy Guitars. New York's WABC-FM picked up Silhouette on a daily basis after the FCC forced them to stop using their FM station to re-transmit WABC-AM, their Top 40 powerhouse. Faced with an immediate need for a new format, ABC signed on to Rydgren's Psychedelic Christian thang, at least for part of the day. The FCC rule in question - the non-duplication rule - sent stations all over the country scrambling for formats at a time when youth counterculture ruled the zeitgeist. Yes, the same rule that created the Psychedelic Christian format also gave birth to the commercial freeform radio movement in the US. ABC quickly dropped Silhouette from its lineup, and flailed around for three more years before finally changing the station's call letters to WPLJ in 1970 and finding their calling as one of New York's eminent Album Oriented Rock stations throughout the 70's. But Rydgren and the American Lutheran Church aggressively syndicated the show beyond New York, and in that effort, they issued a double LP in 1967 called New Life Radio Spots and Cantata, which distilled Rydgren's swinging message of redemption into bite size bits for other radio stations to play. If they liked the Silhouette segments on the New Life LPs, they could pick up the whole show, as American Armed Forces Radio did in 1968. The 2-LP set was issued to radio stations only, but the segments were later reissued a few years ago on a single LP called Silhouette Segments. That reissue wisely omitted the LP-length Cantata, which was along the lines of (but far worse than) The Electric Prunes Mass In F Minor, as I recall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted July 9, 2011 Author Share Posted July 9, 2011 William Burroughs & The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy - 'Spare Ass Annie' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Daweii Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 I absolutely love that band always gets me pumped up and ready before I go to the gym. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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theunderstudy Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 Weezer - Buddy Holly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Xann Posted July 13, 2011 Author Share Posted July 13, 2011 3 Mustaphas 3 Somewhere I have a solo CD by one of the Mustaphas that i was going to give to my friend Joie - they were his favourite band, still got it somewhere 15 years on. You might like the Baghdaddies, they gig from time to time fronted by by the magnificent Nana Obscuri. :winkold: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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