A little over a month now of live broadcasting and I wouldn't say that NOTIMEWARP RADIO's setting the internet on fire. In this day and age of ipods, clouds, and Pandora, people tailor their listening to specifically what they wanna hear. And who can blame them? The music industry (labels and FM radio) really drove everyone away by shoving the same crap down everybody's throats alla the time. I haven't listened to FM radio in over 3 years except for a peak just for my own amusement every now and then, and they're STILL playing the same songs! One problem they started that does carry over to the personal listening approach is how does one get turned on to new music? Yeah, there's a lotta different outlets out there to explore (to say the least) but, really, there's almost too many. Now, as much as I don't like Pandora ('nother story, 'nother time), it has turned me onta some pretty cool stuff. It's not without it's advantages. Turning people onta music while listening to music I like has been the premise of NOTIMEWARP RADIO. While my tastes are a tad eclectic, it is for the most part groove orientated, so there is a common thread in there. While alla this radio stuff makes for a cool hobby and good intentions of turning people onta stuff, with alla the competition out there, I'm gonna make a slight adjustment to the format (while there aren't that many people to upset by the change). You may or may not have noticed some of the cool stuff I've collected and photographed for my Flickr page . I started collecting around the mid/late 70's and never really stopped. Along with records, tapes, CD's, I also collected the stuff most fans do; posters, buttons, programs, concert shirts, post cards, books, magazines, etc. Now, I've amassed a pretty decent collection over the last 35 years or so. While a small portion of it is on display in my apartment, most of it is contained in boxes and plastic bags. Seems kinda a waste, don't it? I'm NOT interested in selling any of it, but what'd be really cool is to display it for fun and profit and just good ol' educational purposes. So what I've decided to do is shift the emphasis to the Flickr page and hopefully build interest there to people that are interested in displaying some of these items for the public to come and see. The radio station will be (to an extent) an audio accompaniment to that. Most of the items will have music corresponding on the station. I'll still keep a good variety of tunes on there since a lotta my stuff would fall into the Classic Rock category. Plus, I don't want it to be dominated by artists I've have a lotta items from. It'll still be, I think, one of the coolest sounding radio stations out there so I do hope everyone checks in for a while time to time! Still groovin'...
