Well it looks like this is gonna be a year of change for yours truly.
As you know I got the job of Forum Coordinator just the other day, and I'd like to thank everyone in Admin for their support, and I'd also like to thank you guys here for all the congrats and happy thoughts!

However, last night I got somemore great news. Having completed a training course in Radio Presentation last year I've been given my own radio show at our local hospital radio station - Radio Bronglais (87.8fm)!  And what's more, it's a Rock Show!

I really wanted to give something back to our hospital after 18 years of calling on them to patch up my family's injuries, curing illnesses and delivering babies to various family members, but especially for last May when they fixed up my son and I after our car crash.

When this opportunity came up I jumped at it with the result that on Thursday 31st from 7-8pm GMT I'll be 'going live' with my show 'Bronglais Rocks!'

As it's Hospital Radio you won't hear it on the net - more's the pity - but  I'll play one for you guys anyway. You're my family and it's the least I can do!

The Bryster

big congrats to you Chris glad things are looking up for you :O)

cool..congrats!
just wish we cld hear you over on the net...

They won't let you set up a shoutcast stream? I thought that was something which is possible through VideoLAN, and not just listening or watching. (But knowing how to make that work correctly is another issue.)

Looks like your year Chris! Good luck on Radio Bronchitus! lol.

Good for you man...it's always great whem you get a fast rewards [instant karma] for hard work...adds incentive to the next project.. ...

Congratulations and WOOOOOHOOO!!  Can you play Werewolves of London by Warren Zevon for me.  If not, then Starman by Bowie.  Thanks.  I gotta find the tab to Werewolves of London.  Dan wanders off looking for tablatures.

Attached Link: Werewolves of London Tab

Hey Bryster - congrats!
By the way - I have some free stuff I've been working on on and off for QUITE A WHILE that I want to give to the community and I wanted to know if you can host some of it - message me back and we'll exchange email addys.
YES FOLKS - I AM STILL HERE!
Just on and off because of work and other stuff.

Well, it looks like things are looking up for some members of this forum and I am very glad for you. I don't want to jn things by saying things so I'll leave it quietly alone.
:m_bouncy:

TS working behind the scene to get some good karma going...

:b_grin:

Thanks Bobby.

Yer most welcome Dan.....

* "I have some free stuff I've been working on on and off for QUITE A WHILE that I want to give to the community* "

There is ShareCG...that's what they set it up for, and it's free as well...the kerfuffle a while back was the greed heads trying to make bucks from it and consequently jamming up our Free Stuff here which I as a Free Stuff Moderator as well as a Bryce Mod found to be a Royal Pain but we do welcome genuine gifts to the Community thru that avenue...give er a try and I'll approve em as fast as the rules allow.. ...
 

Congratulations!!

Congrats Bryster....it does indeed look like the year is full of new and good changes for you! Glad to hear it too.

Hey Bryster, that sounds just great, is that going out AM, or is it just internal to the hospital?

Ack!!!
:b_rolleyes:
Hands out this year's 'Can't Read' award to FranOnThe Edge

 ***Radio Bronglais (87.8fm)
***I even have my own jingles!! and if I can figure out how, I'll post one or two of them here.

ALRIGHT!  If any of you guys want to hear my intro jingle you can find it on my hompage here on the Rend. Look for ARTIST INPUT and you should see my jingle there.
Hope you like!

Awesome....That's a Hot Jingle!

Bolt on your wheelie bars Pal......Good things come in 3's!!!

Wow...sounds great...takes me back to '68 when I was helping make strange stuff for friends doing campus radio here..,The NowFlower Show...pure psychedellic.. ...

Ohhh I like it

Quote - ALRIGHT!  If any of you guys want to hear my intro jingle you can find it on my hompage here on the Rend. Look for ARTIST INPUT and you should see my jingle there.
Hope you like!

Well that's certainly not smoooooooth jaaaaazz is it?

Quote - Ack!!!
:b_rolleyes:
Hands out this year's 'Can't Read' award to FranOnThe Edge

 ***Radio Bronglais (87.8fm)
***I even have my own jingles!! and if I can figure out how, I'll post one or two of them here.

Thank you, I will treasure this - always. holds award aloft proudly

Lol!  You're quite right I just didn't see it.  But wow, FM is expensive, I know cos the University Radio is trying to persuade TPTB to just fork out for AM - FM isn't even dreamed of.

Love the jingle - wickid!

not bad at all!

Wayyyyyyyyyyy  to go.  Will you be commuting from Mars on Thursdays or doing a remote broadcast? 

Glad you like the Jingle!

UVdan gets runner-up in the "Can't Read" award ceremony.  It's a Rock Show Baby!

Skiwillgee: Commuting - Telepod permitting ;-)

Hey the songs I suggested are ROCK!!!

UVDan: I didn't recognise the track 'Werewolves' so I had to look it up. If it's in the station's library I add to my playlist. It's a great track!

Hey congrats! :-)

It's jingletastic pop pickers! lol. Nice one Chris!

Hey Bryster, bet you can't play "Ace of Wands".

Thanks, JohnyF !

Fran: considering I've never heard of it,  then no. ;-)  Who's it by?

(Too tired to google)

Attached Link: Toffee Sunday Smash - With Ace of Wands

Link to the actual tune - in's a fair way down on "side 2" but I quite liked some of the others too, not that I'd play them much, unlike the metal I usually like, but it was nice to hear old stuff like that.

Hint, if you want to go right to the track, try moving the bobble to the down stroke of the "p" in psychedelia.

I wonder therefore if that could be classed as "early Quo"?

FRan: I have absolutley no idea what you just said.........

Attached Link: Ace of Wands TV Show

Did you try the link?

This is what you see at that link, and if you move the button to at the downstroke of the 'P' as indicated, or just slightly before, then hopefully you'll hear the DJ from ToffeeSundaySmash introducing Andy Bown's (of the Quo) piece called "Ace of Wands" which is the theme tune for the show of the same name that ran in the 70's on UK TV.

The link to a site about the show is above and here's a link to the lyrics:

http://www.clivebanks.co.uk/Ace%20Intro.htm

• most of which I got wrong as a child - actually thinking the chorus went "Tarot comes, Tarot Phenomenon, Tarot comes, the Mystic man" - see what happens with today's better sound production and reception?

(wanders off muttering to himself.....)

*Fran said:
It's by Andy Bown, it's the theme tune to a 70's TV series that I've just found, the series was originally called "Tarot" but was changed to "The Ace of Wands" - so it's no wonder I never found it before since if you put Tarot into google all you seem to get are about 500 million pages about mucking about with funny cards.

*The ace of wands is one of those cards, [from a tarot deck].    :biggrin:
I guess they thought using one of the cards was better than naming it after the whole deck.
It's equivalent to the ace of clubs in a regular deck of cards.
[Just a little piece of useless trivia ]   :biggrin:

wicked! congrats bryster! Play some ZZtop for me if u can iight? now if i only remember to come back to this thread to check out the jingle when im back home again.. I dont think i should play sounds in the hotel lobby :-P People already turned their heads when my laptop stated "Activating startup sequence" in a female voice.

Quote - (wanders off muttering to himself.....)

Oh just play a bit of Meatloaf then.

At least I won the bet... Lol

Quote - wicked! congrats bryster! Play some ZZtop for me if u can iight? now if i only remember to come back to this thread to check out the jingle when im back home again.. I dont think i should play sounds in the hotel lobby :-P People already turned their heads when my laptop stated "Activating startup sequence" in a female voice.

They were probably looking for the bomber.  Lol

Now there's a thing.
Since I got the job, I've been banging my head trying to remember head-banging bands.

So, You guys would be doing me a big favour by listing your favourite rock bands on this thread!!!

I've got my playlist sorted for this weeks show (my first) so far so good. Now I just gotta remember which bit is the microphone, what a cd-player looks like, er....faders...er...oh...urm....?

Favourite rock bands?  Fairly normal really:
Led Zeppelin
Queen
Black Sabbath
Genesis
ELO
Emerson Lake & Palmer
Pink Floyd
and loads more....

LOL@ Fran....Well you just listed the cream of the crop!
 Four of those are in Thursday's playlist.....need to make a big entrance!!!

Many Thanks!

Can't believe I forgot Deep Purple.

Live
Matchbox 20
The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
Iron Maiden
AC/DC
Van Halen
Guns 'n Roses
Velvet Revolver
Metallica
ZZtop
Limb Bizkit
Def Leppard
Red Hot Chilli Peppers
Bright Eyes
NOFX
All Systems Go
The Subways
Keane (sp?)
3 Doors Down
Nickelback
Golden Earring
Steve Vai
Ted Nugent
Meat loaf
etc.

How hard do you go in terms of rock? Cuz i know plenty other bands but I wouldnt want to be blamed of someone old getting a lethal heart attack while getting over-excited headbanging to "Angel of Death" by Slayer or someone getting knocked out in a moshpit on "Blunt force trauma" by Damageplan (R.I.P Dimebag :-()... but if you dont shy a bit of the harder bands, you can't really fail with:

Metallica
Disturbed
Mudvayne
Vader
Slayer
Drowning pool
System of a Down
Korn
Apocalyptica
etc.

quite a few of the above plus Rammstein (have reise, reise on at the moment while I work a naughty image for 'rotica)

@ Ray: Great list!

I don't do 'Thrash Metal', but Evanescense is cool and I've got Steve Vai's 'Liberty' for my theme tune. 

Deep Purple...Of Course!!! Saw them live in 74. Awesome.

My 4yo grandson loves Nickel back!

Keep 'em coming folks! ;-)

I dont like Rammstein :-P That's why i didnt put 'em in me list! :-D muahahaha

Oh btw, you can also try....
Nightwish
Lacuna Coil
Machinehead
Rage Against the Machine
Linkin Park
10 CC
Intwine
Anouk (dutch rock singer, very good, and with english lyrics)
Papa Roach
Dragon Force
Rancid
Republica
Joe Satriani

Also if u want a good laugh, throw in Hayseed Dixie's Hillbilly tributes to AC/DC they're wicked!

Evanescence is cool indeeds! Their new album rocks B-) If you like Evanescence you might enjoy the 1st 2 of my previous post also :-) and "Within Temptation" is quite good also!

Btw, is it my memory or did we actually forgot to mention jimi hendrix???? :-/

Jimi Hendrix is de rigure(ss)

Lacuna Coil are awesome and exactly like Evanescence! Gotta love 'em.