Wayne's Words

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette> endorsed Sen. Barack Obama for president.

So did
Bruce Springsteen

I got distracted by a MySpace page that my friends in the band Renmibi helped me set up for my book,
"A Brief History of Rock, Off the Record." It's been an interesting distraction—a little mini-hobby—that has allowed me to connect or reconnect with some real friends and acquaintances and give some "friend" space to acts I like. Just before the Rolling Stones concert movie "Shine A Light" opened, the MySpace home page flashed an offer hard to resist: Martin Scorsese wants to be your friend. So I sent one of my favorite directors an invitation, and of course, Marty has been one of my top friends ever since!

I was so distracted that I neglected to even post a happy anniversary to this blog, which was 6-years-old at the end of March.

While I adjust the protocols to link to the book's page, you can visit it at:
http://www.myspace.com/briefhistoryofrock





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We had a great time at the "Audience With...Wayne Robins" at the Intercollegiate Broadcasting System's convention March 8 at the Hotel Pennsylvania in Manhattan. My friend Norm Prusslin, IBS president and convention chair, hosted the one-hour informal conversation. Among those who attended were people from Goucher Student Radio at Goucher College in Towson, Md., WTHS/Hope College in Holland, Mich., WCPR/Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, N.J., and WUSB/State University of New York at Stony Brook. Before and after the presentation, we were also delighted to meet some radio personalities we've long admired and enjoyed, such as Claudia Marshall of WFUV, "Broadway" Bill Lee of WCBS-FM and Jerry Schaefer, who hosts the "Graveyard Blues" show Sundays from 8 p.m.-10 p.m., beaming and streaming on Long Island's 103.9 WRCN. We also met one of the guys from the band Holler, Wild Rose, who came up at the end of the session to give me a copy of their album, "Our Little Hymnal," a record I've had and enjoyed for a number of weeks.—Wayne Robins






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My review of the Waco Brothers' "Waco Express: Live and Kickin' at Schubas Tavern, Chicago" is the review of the day (March 6) on
eMusic.

I also got a note from Dave of the Loved Ones. He thought the post here about "Build and Burn" was "rad."





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We usually don't do referrals to YouTube weirdness, but this one sent to me by longtime sidekick TV Tom is too astounding to pass by.

We Are the Worldimitators on Japanese TV. Check out the "Norbit"-like Stevie Wonder, the bogus but credible Cyndi Lauper, the incredibly facetious Lionel Richie clone, the strange Michael Jackson wannabe (how would one know?)...A Tina Turner right out of MAD TV, grotesque Billy Joel and Ray Charles caricatures...What's not to like?

By the way, we now have a MySpace page for the book "A Brief History of Rock, Off the Record."
http://www.myspace.com/briefhistoryofrock



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