The History Of Funk

The History Of Funk

10:00 PM Pacific Time: Fridays

Two hours of the strongest, stankiest, uncut funk anywhere on the airwaves, hosted by Rickey Vincent.

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The History Of Funk

The History Of Funk – April 1, 2011 at 10:00pm

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Genuine pirates host this five hour array of samplers, sampling, and copyright in music. Lots of music, new and old, from the history of sampling with a major focus on Hip Hop’s role, documentary clips on the practice, Negativland and others play with the U-2/Negativland copyright lawsuit, and Crosley Bendix discusses the Copyright Act.

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The History Of Funk – March 25, 2011 at 10:00pm

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A wide ranging mix of found sound relating to what art might be, including cartoon cell collecting from The Howard Stern Show, interviews with painters and sculptors old and new, critics’ commentary, descriptions of works, audio art pieces, and heavy traffic on our receptacle phones. 3 Hours.  

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The History Of Funk – March 18, 2011 at 10:00pm

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After a welcoming song by Allen Ginsberg, we range through a Dada inspired collage of Dada poems and other more modern vocal sounds and noises. Then it’s audio art pieces with commentary by artists and critics,  artist interviews, more music, more noise, and The Firesign Theatre brings us “Art Of The Insane.” 3 Hours. 

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The History Of Funk – March 11, 2011 at 10:00pm

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Adam Shaw and Don     Adam joins me to mix this tribute to a single artist, The Weatherman. With fully explained, on-the-air technical difficulties, we hook up with The Weatherman in Washington state via his computer there, plus his own self live on our phone. We cover a whole lot of Weatherman works, early and late, … Continued

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The History Of Funk – February 25, 2011 at 10:00pm

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Rebellion and rebels in modern art is touched on throughout, as well as David Ossman’s fight with NPR over John Cage and his collage radio show in the 80’s, more interviews with artists, the art of fashion design, literary criticism, and The Firesign Theatre on the air. 3 Hours.    

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The History Of Funk – February 18, 2011 at 10:00pm

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Beginning with Mingus, some jazz talk, and  “Certain Men” – a new Weatherman work mixed live, we move through an essay, “Radio Music,” by Jon Leidecker read by a computer, and various other art related talk and music. Lot’s of Receptacle callers. 3 Hours.     

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The History Of Funk – February 11, 2011 at 10:00pm

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Ringo singing out of tune with Melanie’s “What have They Done To My Song” begins this edition, followed by artist interviews and art descriptions, some very early radio work by The Firesign Theatre, Eno’s visual work, and a woman’s music with her synthesizer in and out of commercials. 3 Hours.   

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The History Of Funk – January 28, 2011 at 10:00pm

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With a recurring emphasis on Jackson Pollock (including a ‘50s interview with the man) and his wife, Lee Krasner, we also move through art museum architecture, designing products, other painter interviews, dueling painting descriptions, and a robot bassoonist.