Over the Edge
12:00 AM (Midnight) PST: Fridays
Themed mixes are made live and spontaneously on the air from a variety of formats and equipment. There is a plan and there is no plan. The mix consists of found sound of many kinds and from many sources, old and new, put together on the run as the continuous audio collage continues. OTE sometimes employs “Receptacle Programming,” which means you.
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Over the Edge – “Universe” Part 14 What About The 60’s? D”
We spread out for 5 hours as we bring early 60’s comedy and sex together, including some extensive ramblings by Lenny Bruce, Helen Gurley Brown (“Sex And The Single Girl”) addressing a live audience in ’64, all but the forbidden words from “The Sensual Woman,” and a lot of “Sex Dirt” from The Weatherman. Though … Continued
Over the Edge – “Universe Part 12 What About The 60’s? B”
As NASA’s Mercury Program continues to launch in the early 60’s and UFO sightings continue unabated, our radio goes top 40 and our music goes surfing and then romantically pop. Also, comedy from Jonathan Winters and acid parties with Timothy Leary and Alan Watts. 3 Hours.
Over the Edge – “Universe” Part 11 “What About The 60’s?”
We begin a sub-series on space in the 60’s which also focuses heavily on the music of the decade. This one is all about the early 60’s, including NASA’s Mercury Program launches from Cape Canaveral which put America’s first men in space while music became folk-inspired and psychedelic drugs began to appear. 3 Hours
Over the Edge – “Freddy’s Back”
Ann McGuire, Wobbly, Don. Crosley Bendix hosts songstress (with an emphasis on stress) Ann Mcguire, appearing with Wobbly as Freddy McGuire, for a night of her poems set to improvised music. Will this be the show that finally puts her over the top of fame and fortune? Crosley is convinced but all of entertainment is … Continued
Over the Edge – “Universe” Part 9
Our selective overview of the Universe and its other life expands to comedy with The Firesign Theatre’s “Everything You Know Is Wrong,” plus intermixing two 50’s documentaries on the flying saucer flap from America and Britain, lots of Pink Floyd, and Wobbly can’t borrow my Booper. 3 Hours.
Over the Edge – “Universe” Part 8
Back to unidentified flying life in the Universe and what that makes us feel about everything. Bits from “Moonrock Footnotes #13” continue, along with what the Bible says about flying saucers, old radio science fiction and documentaries about same, scientists describing the Universe, and songs that are trying to get to a point too big … Continued
Over the Edge – “Universe” Part 7
Suicide Man, himself, shows up for a live, 3 hour talk show about the universe. We take calls and discuss the many mysteries of space as we understand it, which isn’t that much as it turns out. An unusual encounter with Suicide Man, one of our oldest and most dedicated callers to Over The Edge. … Continued