Starting the Second Fifty: Radio Free Charleston 51 with Brain Trauma and Underdog Blues Revue
September 10, 2008 by Rudy PanucciEpisode 51 of Radio Free Charleston, “West Virginia State College Shirt,” is online now! This edition of the show features music by Brain Trauma and The Underdog Blues Revue, plus a Kitty Killton movie trailer and the debut of the Astonishing Finger Man!
Host segments were shot Friday at the Mound in South Charleston. We recorded these bits after the No Pants Players show, which was held down the street at the La Belle Theater, and we even enlisted a couple of passers-by to do our animation intro.
Our first musical guest is Brain Trauma. We first met Kyle and Toxik Flow at an IWA East Coast show more than two years ago. Scheduling demons prevented us from getting them on the show until now, but it was worth the wait. Using footage we shot at The Empty Glass last month, we created a music video for the song “Rock It.”
Rounding out the show this time is an amazing performance by The Underdog Blues Revue. This was recorded in July, at the last show UBR gave before going on hiatus for a year. This is one of mad genius Chuck Biel’s groups and he’s going to take a year off to go back to the lab and regenerate. Part of this is because the band is losing its bass player Eli Namay. Eli’s going away to school, so Chuck and the rest of the band, Matt Hively, Will Taylor, and Chuck’s son, Vince, are going to take their time to integrate a new member into the line-up.
Chuck and Eli were also in Punk Jazz, with Casi Null and Jimmy Holly, and you’ll see that band on episode 53 of RFC, our next “show without words.”
The song we hear from UBR is “What You Say,” and editing it was a real treat. I used multiple images and letterboxing to give the song a more dramatic presentation. How about letting me know in the comments if you’d like to see more music videos like this on the show?
That’s it for this edition of Radio Free Charleston. We might just be back in one week with episode 52 of the show.