Seven Original SpiritPlants Shows This Week Including Two New DJs

Hi everyone,

A record number of SpiritPlants Radio shows will be on this week, seven shows in all. Among them are the first episodes of "The Golden Era" with DJ Influenza and "Merry Go Round" with DJ Mateo. Really good new shows, to join those by DJs LeAnn, Papa Delicious, Tom Ellis, OpaqueLens, and myself.

This coming weekend (Mar 28-29)'s scheduled programming includes:

*New* Original SpiritPlants Radio programming:"Within's Within: Scenes from the Psychedelic Revolution" with DJ Soulard - Show information: http://geocities.com/scriptorpress/withinswithin.html
*New* Original SpiritPlants Radio programming: "Audiophoria" with DJ LeAnn - "'90s Alternative Rock, Part 2" - Show information: http://audiophoria.blogspot.com/
*New* Original SpiritPlants Radio programming: "The Golden Era" with DJ Influenza
*New* Original SpiritPlants Radio programming: "Merry Go Round" with DJ Mateo
*New* Original SpiritPlants Radio programming: "Tripology" with DJ Tom Ellis
*New* Original SpiritPlants Radio programming: "21st Century Schizoid Show" with DJ Papa Delicious
*New* Original SpiritPlants Radio programming: "ShamanicFreedomRadio with Opaquelens": Episodes 16: "Opaque's Brush With the Law" - Show information: http://shamanicfreedomradio.podomatic.com
* "Comedy Hour" featuring Nick Di Paolo, "Road Rage" (2004)
* "Notes from the Psychedelic Salon" #175: “The Intelligent Use of Drugs with Dr. Timothy Leary” – Show information: http://www.matrixmasters.net/blogs/?p=1083
* "Taran's Free Jazz Hour" - Show information at: http://www.taransfreejazzhour.com/
* "News Hour" featuring "Democracy Now!" New reports on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan - Show information: http://www.democracynow.org/shows/2009/3/26
* "Long Live Rock!": "Grateful Dead Listening Guide" #1: "Audience Appreciation" - Show information: http://deadlistening.blogspot.com/2009/01/gdlg-001-audience-appreciation.html

Four months along, and the station's re-launch is going well these days. Keep along.

Peace,
Raymond,
Station Manager

Encore Weekend!

Hi everyone,

This past weekend (Mar 21-22)'s scheduled "Encore Weekend" programming included many of the original SpiritPlants Radio shows from the past month:

*"Within's Within: Scenes from the Psychedelic Revolution" with DJ Soulard - 3.14.2009 Broadcast - Show information: http://geocities.com/scriptorpress/withinswithin.html
* "ShamanicFreedomRadio with Opaquelens": Episodes 14-15: Aeolus Kephas interview part 1 and 2 - Show information: http://shamanicfreedomradio.podomatic.com
* "Audiophoria" with DJ LeAnn - LeAnn devotes this episode to 1990s alt-rock (part one of two) - Show information: http://audiophoria.blogspot.com/
* "Eavesdropper by AbandonView" ( http://wetscraps.blogspot.com )
* "Creepshow with DJ Abdn" ( http://wetscraps.blogspot.com )
* "Radiohuasca" with DJ Zart - this program is a production of the Ayahuasca.com community (http://forums.ayahuasca.com)
* "Regional Cuisine: Deep Fried Roots Music" with DJRL
* "21st Century Schizoid Show" with DJ Papa Delicious
* "Awoken a Dream: An Ambient Suite" by Slave to the Wave
* "I Love Rock n Roll: An '80s Mix" with DJ Loro
* "Eclectic Fusion" with DJ Loro

New programming resumes next weekend!

Peace,
Raymond,
Station Manager

Radio DJs Add Blogs

Hi everyone,

I wanted to note in the new schedule below that the shows for AbandonView and DJ LeAnn now have blogs associated with them. This is an interesting development; the radio presence moving out a little further into the 'net. I find it encouraging, and hope more listeners and new DJs are brought on board by these new pages.

This coming weekend (Mar 14-15)'s scheduled programming includes:

*New* Original SpiritPlants Radio programming:"Within's Within: Scenes from the Psychedelic Revolution" with DJ Soulard - Show information: http://geocities.com/scriptorpress/withinswithin.html
*New* Original SpiritPlants Radio programming: "ShamanicFreedomRadio with Opaquelens": Episodes 14-15: Aeolus Kephas interview part 1 and 2 - Show information: http://shamanicfreedomradio.podomatic.com
*New* Original SpiritPlants Radio programming: "Audiophoria" with DJ LeAnn - "T. Rex's Spotlight Hour" - Show information: http://audiophoria.blogspot.com/
*New* Original SpiritPlants Radio programming: "Eavesdropper by AbandonView" ( http://wetscraps.blogspot.com )
*New* Original SpiritPlants Radio programming: "Radiohuasca" with DJ Zart - this program is a production of the Ayahuasca.com community (http://forums.ayahuasca.com)
* "Comedy Hour" featuring Henry Rollins, "Think Tank" (1998)
* "Notes from the Psychedelic Salon" #174:“Pushing the Envelope with Terence McKenna” – Show information: http://www.matrixmasters.net/blogs/?p=1062
* "Psychonautica" #68: “Psychedelic Families: What Do We Tell the Children? with Alex & Allyson Grey” - Show information: http://dopecast.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=438006
* "Taran's Free Jazz Hour" - Show information at: http://www.tfjhp.blogspot.com/
* "News Hour" featuring "Democracy Now!"'s round table discussion of the growing drug war on the US-Mexico border ( http://www.democracynow.org/2009/3/13/obama_signals_readiness_to_further_militarize ) & "The Rachel Maddow Show"'s interview with Marijuana Policy Project's Bruce Mirken ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOO9JC7J2RI )
* "Long Live Rock!": The Who, live at Philadelphia Spectrum (12.4.73)

Next weekend is a "Free Form Weekend" with encore broadcasts of recent shows. Taking me a break :)

Peace,
Raymond
Station Manager

Flash Player Added to Radio Web Page & new DJ too this weekend

Hi everyone,

This week's big news is that the radio's Web page -- http://www.spfradio.yage.net/ -- now has an embedded Flash player. So just clicking on that link brings you to the page and starts the radio stream in your browser. A big thanks to Eupho at SpiritPlants Chat for his help on this!

This coming weekend (Mar 7-8)'s scheduled programming includes:

*New* Original SpiritPlants Radio programming:"Within's Within: Scenes from the Psychedelic Revolution" with DJ Soulard- Show information at: http://geocities.com/scriptorpress/withinswithin.html
*New* Original SpiritPlants Radio programming: "ShamanicFreedomRadio with Opaquelens": Episode 13: Fraser Clark Obituary Schedule - Show information at: http://shamanicfreedomradio.podomatic.com
*New* Original SpiritPlants Radio programming: "Audiophoria" with DJ LeAnn - LeAnn devotes this episode to 1990s alt-rock (part one of two)
*New* Original SpiritPlants Radio programming: "Eclectic Fusion" with DJ Loro - featuring a variety of indie music
*New* Original SpiritPlants Radio programming: "Creepshow" with DJ Abdn - featuring a lofi-tribal-electro-indie-creep clusterfuck - http://wetscraps.blogspot.com
* "Electronica with DJ Veronica" featuring Future Sound of London's "Environments I & II" (2007/2008)
* "Comedy Hour" featuring Lewis Black, Black on Broadway (2004)
* "Notes from the Psychedelic Salon" #172: “Shulgin: How I Go About Inventing New Drugs” – Show information at: http://www.matrixmasters.net/blogs/?p=1050
* "Taran's Free Jazz Hour" - Show information at: http://www.tfjhp.blogspot.com/
* "News Hour" featuring "Democracy Now!" Afghanistan Special & The Rachel Maddow Show
* "Long Live Rock!": U2, live at Orpheum Theatre, Boston, MA (5/6/83) & Interviewed (9/8/87)

Note the "Creepshow" progam listed above; Abdn is an old friend of mine who recently got back in touch with me. His show is surely gold among the plenty this weekend :)

Peace,
Raymond
Station Manager