Acts of Volition Radio: Session Three

Acts of Volition Radion: Session ThreeA little overdue (if that’s possible when you have no deadlines or schedule), here is the third session of Acts of Volition Radio. This session is based around artists that I’ve had the pleasure of meeting at some point.

Acts of Volition Radio: Session Three (37MB MP3)
An hour of name dropping – music by people I’ve actually met. Recorded Sunday, December 21, 2003 by Steven Garrity. Run time: 40min.

Session Three Playlist:

  1. Strawberry – I Miss My Mom
  2. Eyes for Telescopes – My Boy
  3. The Rude Mechanicals – Needles in the Hay
  4. Sloan – Nothing Lasts Forever Anymore
  5. Mike Knott – Rocket and a Bomb
  6. Adam Again – Worldwide

I hope I have the voice at a better volume this time (let me know). Also, I got some great tips on how to avoid peaking the recording levels by not punching my Ps and Ts from the lady of radio, Ann Thurlow. However, the advice came after I recorded this session, so my new expertise has not yet been applied.

Thanks to Stephen MacLeod and Dennis Arsenault for helping me track down a few of the rare tracks.

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15 thoughts on “Acts of Volition Radio: Session Three

  1. Keep up the good work! I really enjoy your radio shows and they introduce me to lots of new music. I especially like “The Rude Mechanicals – Needles in the Hay” and “Sloan – Nothing Lasts Forever Anymore”. Thanks!

  2. This is great – ‘Rocket and a Bomb’ is one of my all-time favourite albums!! Its rare to find people of have heard of it, especially in the UK. I look forward to hearing the others…

  3. Jon – You’re not alone! My friend Dan J. and I went to see Mike Knott in Ontario back in 1999. Here are some photos of the show.

    To make you feel even better, here are some other webloggers I know to be fans of Mike Knott:

    I wrote about the Mike Knott concert in an old Acts of Volition feature called Rock Concerts Remembered – but a platform switch broke the links a while back. I’ll try to get them fixed.

    In the mean time, here’s a rough draft of what I had written about the concert.

  4. Great show Steve. Nick Hornby wrote about “Thunder Road” by Bruce Springsteen that the song somehow “knew who I was” and that this is one og the great cosolations of art. I think Mike Knott somehow did that for a bunch of us. Somehow, in his songs about people he met in dive bars in Orange County, he knew me and where I was coming from, even when I didn’t. I would have been scared to meet him just in case he was a jerk. Thanks

  5. I am on dial up this week. Happy that downloads resume, is that on your end or my OS (win2k)?
    Anyway, three calls and I’m halfway finished downloading… it better be good!

  6. Another solid show. I think we have different tastes in Sloan songs though. I love the riff-rock stuff.

    Worldwide was catchy, but I didn’t find it anywhere near as catchy as the Darkness song you played in the first show. That one stuck with me for weeks. Gotta pick up that CD.

    Keep em comin’

  7. Another great show Steven. You might have flubbed on some of the details about Mike Knott/Gene Eugene though. Gene passed away in 2000 and you went to Mike Knott’s show in 1999. I think the painting you were talking about was the one you got Dennis which read “We Miss You Dennis” on it. I can’t for the life of me remember who his friend Dennis was though.

    I just finished listening to ‘Worldwide Favourites’ by the way. I agree- ‘Perfecta’ is a mindblowing album.

  8. Ahh…so there were. So he painted the ‘Miss You Gene’ painting before Gene Eugene passed away? Interesting.

  9. Actually, you guys must have seen him in 2000, because Gene Eugene had passed away by that time – thus the painting. The “Miss You Dennis” painting was for Dennis Dannell, former guitarist for the punk band ‘Social Distortion’. Knott had been working with him in a band called ‘The Strung Gurus’, when Dannell died suddenly of a brain hemorrhage. He had lost two very close friends within the span of a few months, then went on tour. He painted those two signs during the tour and displayed them on stage until the end of the tour, which happened to be the night you guys saw him in Ontario. And you were nice enough to get the “Miss You Dennis” one for me. One of the coolest gifts I’ve ever received.

  10. Holy cow, the Internet is an amazing place. It was April 10, 2000. The most amazing thing about the Internet? In looking for this date I found it here. Yeah, that must have been us :-).

  11. Steven, thanks again for another great edition of AoVR. Special thanks for your inclusion of the The Rude Mechanicals, of which I am possibly the rudest, in such illustrious company.

    Yeah, so about you not “getting it” before. You’re not the only–we didn’t get it either. We like to think that with this new record we finally get something though.

    Speaking of the new record, whose status you seemed unsure of, it’s out and available online at New Music Canada. If any suckers such as myself still buy records you can pick up a copy at Back Alley Discs in Charlottetown. Wider distribution is on its way.

    One more thing: We did indeed play with Horton’s Choice on more than a few occassions. A couple I remember are 1) at a UPEI “Battle of the Bands” (such events should be outlawed) and 2) at a UPEI Theatre Society fundraiser at Piazza Joe’s. I seem to recall you guys getting kicked off the stage that night for being “too loud.” And I lost a power bar that night, so if you see one lying around…

  12. 1st time checking out the show, great stuff.

    Good call on the Rude Mechanicals. I’d seen them live a couple o’ years ago & didn’t ‘get it’. Then caught a recent show at Baba’s in Ch’town, & was blown away. Awesome. Great show. The new album is good. IMO Needles.. is not even the best song, on there!!

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