The homie Benji B of BBC1Xtra was kind enough to allow yours truly on his world renown "Deviation" radio broadcast last night to yap a buncha mambajahambo, wasting away valuable airtime that he usually devotes to playing fresh new music no one else on the planet has. Oh, I also got a chance to present a brief mix of old folks' choonz, and plug the gig tomorrow night at Plastic People presented by my peeps at spinemagazine.com (peace, Zaid - one of the few, the proud who may actually be reading this).
Although I enjoyed some real limited radio experience several years back when Danny Rudder, Ricky Powell, Frankie Inglese and myself were doing our thing on WKCR, I only had a chance to (illegally, sans license) man the board unsupervised on a few occasions. And even doing that - steering the college radio ship on the sneak tip - was somewhat unnerving. Like driving on the FDR whilst eating a messy chicken sandwich (not that I would ever attempt something so reckless). Anyways, every time I'm in the presence of actual broadcast professionals in their element I'm reminded of how much goes on behind the scenes to keep things running smoothly on the air. (It's never as glamorous as these guys made it look.) So props to Benji and co. for letting me hang out at the station and goof around while they maintained their world class operation.
Thanks to the magic of tricknology, even if you missed it live you can peep this week's show (my UK radio debut, yo!) here.
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