I was lucky enough to be invited on Talking Out Loud this morning with wonderful hosts Felicia Sullivan and Charlotte Crockford. The live show was aired on UMass Lowell’s radio station, WUML. I mostly discussed AmeriCorps*VISTA and the CTC VISTA Project and had a blast.
Fellow VISTA Leader Danielle was awesome to make this recording for me. We made one from the soundboard, but our recording device accidently had its internal mic on as well, so there was lots of extraneous noise; though Danielle’s was made by putting a microphone up to the computer speakers.
Danielle also made me the picture below.
I was up at the Abbey Lounge last night in Somerville checking out "Dave Alpert":http://davealpert.com, a local singer/songwriter. I met him a few weeks ago at a video-blogger meetup in Jamaica Plain.
I ended up recording the performance on my cheap, iPod fool-you-once-knockoff, defunct Japanese company's mp3 benchwarmer. It's got a crappy built-in mic I used, and a line-in that probably isn't worth a decent microphone that I don't have anyway.
Any audio crappiness is the mic and my poor mastering skills, not Dave or the free, open source multi-track audio editor "Audacity":http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ that I used to clean and split the tracks.
_A couple tracks from the show:_
# "Other Assholes":http://island94.org/files/Dave%20Alpert%20-%20Other%20assholes.mp3
# "Rude Awakening":http://island94.org/files/Dave%20Alpert%20-%20Rude%20Awakening.mp3
# "Lovesong for the Wrong Person":http://island94.org/files/Dave%20Alpert%20-%20Lovesong%20for%20the%20wrong%20person.mp3
The songnames are mostly wrong, just relating to how Dave described the songs. Lastly, the mic was sitting on the bar, so any thumps or clicks are people setting down their glasses. Any guffawing is probably me--at the jokes, not the music.
