Amateur Hour Classics

 While around the time of the 2010 NHB telethon may have been one of the lowest points of the show, by telethon of 2011 things were quite up.  Quite a lot happened over that year, that perhaps will be featured on a future podcast.  But Niio reminded me of this epic telethon show in a recent tweet.  This telethon show was the first under the name of Suburban Homeboys.  This show was also the last time I ever took a shot of buttershots - drinking a whole bottle of that really put me off of that.  The thought never occurred to me to buy another bottle - but enough time has passed now maybe it's time to pick one up.  This was also the first Bob Ross painting show I did.  Unfortunately, true to the name "Amateur Hour" (despite this being under a different name), this was a show that was plagued with technical problems.  My setup had a nasty hum at the time, and was something I had fixed with the use of a ground loop isolater.  Why the damn thing picked ri

 August of 2010 is a dark chapter in the history of The Amateur Hour.  The show had been simulcasting on NHB Radio and WildBunch Radio on Saturday nights.  The shows had a revolving cast of regulars that would come and go, and would often go late into the night, some shows going up to 6 hours.  At this point in time, I had been a member of Rico's NHB Management team.  Much has been said and repeated many times about my time in this management team.  It's a story I've told many times, including in much of the audio that exists from this time period.  It boils down to me being very frustrated by being a member of the NHB Management team but having no means or access to actually do anything as a member of that team to make positive changes to the station or deal with many of the shortcomings that existed, and also by Damon showing up and bitching about how much things sucks and threatening to shut down the station, but not even taking my calls when I wanted to get serious about

 This past week, I did a little investigating into airfare prices, and dug up past emails of what I’ve paid for past flights to compare.  Which left me wondering – why did I fly across the country in May of 2013?  Unable to find the answer in email archives of the time period, I pulled up a few shows from around that time, and determined it was for a wedding.  But – then I got sucked into the conversations happening around the time about Niio and a guy she was interested in – which spreads out over a few episodes.  This is the one where it started.  And then I also got sucked into how much random silly stuff would happen.  We really were on a roll at this period of time.  So check it out – some classic fun times with the crew.

 This past week, I officially retire my 2nd computer build, which has me going through the archives to put together the story of how this machine came to be, because much of it is lost to time.Records show I bought the parts from newegg in March of 2007, so I've turned to those shows to review for the story.  Which has led me to this episode, a memorable one.Due to a series of hardware failures, I ended up turning to my AMD K6-2 computer I had recently re-acquired, and happened to be able to get it to work well enough to broadcast in a pinch.  I go more into that in the show.I reference looking to put in an RMA for the mobo - I do remember having to RMA that board a lot, so that may be what resolved it, as I did continue to use that mobo and processor for at least another year past this episode.  But, with the amount of RMA's, I guess I decided it was time to shop for new parts.  Which - I do reference noticing that 2 PCI slots was the norm at this point, which was disappointing.Damon

 Another long, late into the night, Saturday night/Sunday morning Amateur Hour.Most of the first hour of music pre-show has been cut, for copyright purposes.  I kept the beginning/intro to preserve the relevant ramblings that relate to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame topic that was discussed in the show, and to preserve the technical problems that occurred.  It sounds as if I was experiencing a problem with a cable - likely one side of the stereo cable running the mix from the board to the input on the Aardvark card on the broadcast machine. After the pre-show, I was joined by Gothard and Venison88.This is a notable episode, as it is the first episode in which Niio (who now goes by the username Lulu) wrote in, and then later called in.  She ended up staying on the line with us for the last hour of the show.

From the time period where I was simulcasting on WildBunch and NHB - with an hour of a pre-show music show on WildBunch only.  I've clipped out the first hour for copyright reasons.Joined by Venison88, Damon, Forge, and Leo.Later into the evening joined by Pedge.Recapping a recent visit to the East - reviewing recent avant-garde record purchases.During the time of rather frustrating telethon planning - I had been hoping to bring a few past shows back to the stream, which didn't really work out.  This was discussed at some point with Damon, and also is a topic of conversation with Pedge, as I was hoping he'd do a telethon show.  Venison went out for smokes, and ended up streaming from the Walgreens parking lot until his battery died.

Another show from the "lost era", courtesy of the Wild Bunch Radio archive of Zoe Ballz.From the era when the show would start at 11pm Eastern (8pm Pacific for me), and tended to go late into the night.  This is one of our longer shows, running 5 hours and 45 minutes.For this show, I was joined by Dark Druidic Witch, Venison88, and Gothard.Venison and myself went into one of our lengthy digital/analog debates at the end of this one.

Earliest show in my collection with Venison as a co-host.Once thought lost - found in the Wildbunch Radio archives of Zoe Ballz.Gators, Gothard, Forge, and Venison discuss laundry room etiquette, and a great new software by Microsoft called SongSmith.

The Amateur Hour 03-11-2006Genocide Rob visits MaineWeird sexual fetishesGeorge W. Bush true/false quizRye's first call into The Amatuer Hour, discussion about glory holes

The Amateur Hour 03-04-2006Not that interesting of a show, but Vamp called in a few times.

The Amateur Hour 02-25-2006Early chug with Vamp.Interesting dollar bin specials.

The Amateur Hour 02-18-2006 The first on location Amateur Hour.This show took place in the basement of my parents' house.Guests on the show included my sisters Stephanie and Amanda, my brother Greg, the other members of my brother's band Level One: Denver and Dan, and Amanda's friend Britney.It was quite a cluster fuck at times, but damn fun, and hopefully entertaining.I found a can of Busch that was in the basement god knows how long, and Dan took up the challenge to chug it.Dan got quite fucked up, which resulted in a funny commentary of the various drunk shenanigans he got involved in, which involved a lot of falling and knocking things over.This has been the only show that my parents briefly appeared on, during a phone call.Here are some photos from the show.  From left to right Stephanie, Greg, Dan, Denver  Dan chugs an old warm Busch  Dan falls out of his chair Group photo after show.  Back row l to r - Britney, Amanda, Stephanie, Gators, Greg.  Seated l to r - D

The Amateur Hour 02-16-2006A fill in show for The Annihilation PrincipleSolo show, so a bit boring at parts.Talk about internet issues, and revenge ideas.An epic phone call from Sloan, which causes me to get star struck.Phone call from Genocide Rob.

The Amateur Hour 02-11-2006 Two shows for the price of one!First I do a fill in show for Detox Radio, which is immediately followed by The Amateur Hour.Lots of calls from Vamp. First phone call from Barefoot Lurker.

The Amateur Hour 02-04-2006 Another early Amateur Hour show.Lisa calls....is full of shit.I knew she was full of shit, but went along with it anyways since she's hot.Which was a huge mistake.

The Amateur Hour 01-28-2006 The NHB army hacks the myspace account of someone who was nice very nice to my sister.

A fill in show on Monday for Stink Tank Radio.A Gators only show.Lots of interesting calls.Vintage audio porn.It seems there were technical problems around the end of this show.The show ends mid-topic with a fade, which I must have created at the end of the file, but I don't remember why anymore. Perhaps the computer crashed and that's just where it ended.

Myspace drama in the irc chatroom?  Wow, we used to use myspace and have an irc chatroom that was active.The true confessions of a former #sailormoon junkie.The first official Gators rant about Fox.Discussion about state slogans.An interesting dollar bin specials featuring a crappy bar band, mashing the classics, and Billy Joel.Talking about boners.Encore show:Fast food conversation.Mary Bang Kill with future co-host Genocide Rob.A call from VideoVamp.Another call from Greg.A call from the Kool-Aid guy.Lisa's first call (oh, god)Another call from my sister and brother.

Various discussion including, but not limited to, our college professor, mullets, postage machines and their tech support, the bluray vs. dvd-hd format war.We also go 80s with the dollar bin specials, and do the safety dance.

The first official episode of The Amateur Hour, but technically the 2nd show.Gothard, who was going by the name Sean Scott at this period of time, was unable to be there, so this was a Gators solo show.I had sound card issues, which resulted in me using the onboard sound card for this show.  While this had worked in the first show, this time around the sound card was plagued with a horrible noise.I have attempted to noise reduce it as much as possible, so the noise was much worse when it originally aired.This show includes a story about getting drunk with future co-host Genocide Rob.