Three years ago www.thegazz.com and PopCult. relaunched Radio Free Charleston, the web's most popular videocast featuring music, film and comedy from West Virginia. The new video incarnation of my old radio show has just reached its 75th episode, and we're going stronger than ever.
Unfortunately, we've been so prolific that we filled up the servers at The Charleston Gazette. For some reason the higher-ups here seem to think that "news" and "sports" are more important than RFC. You can find older episodes of the show at our RFC TV Archives here at MySpace, which you can locate in our top friends list.
Music
Yes, please. The good stuff.
Movies
We are also looking for (very) short experimental films and animation.
Television
Real TV? We're working on it. Harder than ever, now.
Really.
Books
"How To Talk Dirty And Influence People" by Lenny Bruce.
"Captain Marvel Adventures" by Otto Binder and C.C. Beck
"Love And Rockets" by Los Bros. Hernandez
"God's Other Son" by Don Imus
"Plastic Man" by Jack Cole
"Hate" by Peter Bagge
"The Beatles Illustrated Record" by Roy Carr and Tony Tyler
"The Spirit" by Will Eisner
Heroes
The Challengers Of The Unknown
The Metal Men
The Doom Patrol
Monty Python
Ernie Kovacs
The Beatles
The guy standing in front of the tanks at Tiannemen Square
Radio Free Charleston is a web-based TV show featuring new music, primarily, but not limited to, musicians from West Virginia. We feature any and all genres. http://thegazz.com/gazztv/
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Rudy of Radio Free Charleston The RFC 2009 Halloween Special with Unknown Hinson, The Big Bad and Flare Baroshi is ONLINE NOW! Posted at 6:42 PM Oct 28 view more
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Above you see our epic 2009 Radio Free Charleston Halloween special,"HallowEast Shirt." I'm going to post very detailed production notes about part of the show later this week, but first we do have some folks to thank for making this year's Halloween show happen.
Specifically, Mark Wolfe and Amy Williams and The Charleston Area Alliance East End Main Street, Eamon Hardiman, Razor Sharp Productions,The No Pants Players, The Book Exchange and Flare Baroshi all went above and beyond in helping with this year's show, which was our most involved episode yet. It's also our longest, clocking in at just under half an hour (and that's after we jettisoned two complete songs and a couple of short films).
Those moving images you see floating above this text is the latest episode of Radio Free Charleston. "The Watchmen Shirt" features music from Shindig and Joseph Hale, plus a commercial for the new official board game of RFC, and a long-awaited announcement. We announce the name of the winner of the First Great Guitar Giveaway.
Our host segments were shot in Barboursville at Route 60 Music, where we held the drawing for The First Great Guitar Giveaway. You will see the drawing, and find out who won. You'll also get to see some of the cool stuff that they have down at Route 60 Music. It truly is West Virginia's guitar Mecca.
Above you see "Silver Surfer Shirt," the 83rd episode of Radio Free Charleston. In this episode you'll find new music by Mother Nang as well as footage from the Tuesday Open Mic at Sam's Uptown Cafe by James Brown, Sierra Ferrell and Patrick Stephens. We also have a Plant Ro Duction Mini Movie.
You also don't want to miss out on the chance to win a beautiful Danelectro 1963 Reissue Guitar from Route 60 Music and Radio Free Charleston. Our contest, The First Great Guitar Giveaway, is drawing to a close. You have until midnight, September 30 to enter. Watch the show and enter. You'll fling yourself into a deep depression if you miss the chance to win this fine instrument.
RFC is the legendary Charleston, West Virginia radio show, transformed into a new videocast, hosted at The Gazz.com.
Rudy Panucci is the producer and host of RFC, and he's also the author of the PopCult blog at The Gazz. You should read PopCult regularly, as it will eventually reveal all the secrets of the universe. Also, you can read about comic books, movies, Radio Free Charleston, music, toys and whatever the hell else He feels like writing about. Rudy gots him some carte blanche.
Rudy is a freelance writer who has been published in Non Sport Update, The Charleston Gazette, Toy Trader Magazine, Baby Boomer Collectibles, Record Collector, The Gazz, United Airlines in-flight magazine, Anything But Monday, The New England Journal Of Medicine, Cracked Magazine, and at Mastercollector.com. He was the editor and contributing writer/artist for Coda, West Virginia's first nationally-published comic book. Rudy has also been a disc jockey, program director, photographer, speechwriter, painter, record producer, concert promoter, cartoonist, television producer, shaman, caregiver, musician, and astronaut. He is older than he looks, so don't be fooled. If you see him in the wild, do not approach him as his nature is unpredictable, and he may lash out with his fearsome claws. No wait, that's the badger we were thinking of. It's okay to go up and talk to Rudy.
Radio Free Charleston is interested in contacting and showcasing cool independent musicians, animators, and filmmakers based in, or at least aware of West Virginia. Our show presents an eclectic range of musical talent, from punk to pop to Celtic to blues and beyond. Nobody will get rich from being on Radio Free Charleston, but it will give you a warm and fuzzy glow that some people may mistake for radiation poisoning.
Who I'd like to meet: Musicians, actors or filmmakers who want their work on our show. We can guarantee that there's NO MONEY INVOLVED!
About the no money thing. Remember, we're a non-budgeted show. Have you ever tried squeezing money out of the freaking Gazette? It's easier to squeeze cooking oil out of your farts.
Also, we'd love to meet anybody who wants to buy the overpriced crap at my Cafepress stores. You can buy RFC and related merchandise at the following Cafepress stores You'll have to follow a couple of extra links, because MySpace is being a total bastard and disabled all links to Cafepress stores and didn't bother telling me, so I hope they all get itchy privates and have to sit uncomfortably for a very long time.
You can find links to all three stores right here. I'm leaving the descriptions below, but due to the Soviet-era information kontrols implemented by Czar Tom, you'll have to go to this old PopCult post. to find working links.
Radio Free Charleston (featuring merchandise from our show)
The PopCult Store (featuring art and images from the PopCult blog and
The Monday Morning Art Store (featuring a wide variety of shirts and other crap featuring the image of that week's Monday Morning Art from PopCult. These are available for ONE WEEK ONLY, then they're taken out behind the barn and shot.
Sorry for making you jump through extra hoops to order my cool, overpriced crap (now at record-low prices!) but I didn't realize what pricks MySpace had become.
Check my Videos for more music from RFC! and visit The RFC TV Archives for our older shows. Even more detailed production notes and more personal observations can be found right here at the MySpace blog. Click your way there up in the corner of the profile page.
Rudy of Radio Free Charleston's Friend Space (Top 40)
Hey, I recorded a new song a few days ago, it's called Masquerade--based on the ballroom scene of Romeo and Juliet. Just wanted to stop by and give you the free download if you'd like it and haven't picked it up yet:
I hope you enjoy it; if you do, please pass it on to your friends and spread the love :)
Whats goin on? Just stoppin in to let you know that if you sign up for our mailing list at www.decadentroots.com you will receive a FREE copy of our 1st single Relapse. We have also made the entire album available to download for only $5.00 in the online store! We also have just posted a new song by the name of Haunting Memories, give it a listen and let us know what you think. It is a huge, epic sounding tune that we wrote at practice on September 12, 2001, so you can probably guess what its about. Weve also got some new pics up of us with the boys from Down up in Cleveland. So stop by the myspace page or the .com and give the songs a listen, check out the merchandise, sign up for the mailing list, and drop us a line, we love hearing from you! Keep in touch.
Thanks,
DR
Saturday, October 24th, Anne Feeney and David Rovics in Concert @ UUC, 7 30pm: Accomplished singer-songwriters 'Union makes us Strong' Midwest Tour, supporting environmental, labor, women’s and anti-war movements. Both regularly tour throughout North America, Europe, and Australia. Admission $15, no one turned away for lack of funds. http://www.myspace.com/annefeeneyreally and http://www.myspace.com/davidrovics
We also have a regular drum circle on the third Sunday of the month at 5 30pm, this time around Oct. 18th if your so inclined.
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Undead Special Issue, Scream Queens Special, Flash Horror Fiction
Special coming soon!
Plus Christopher Golden, Michael Laimo, Ray Garton, Joseph D'Lacey,
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Looking for something FREE to do this Thursday night? Come one down to the Blue Parrot at 12 Capital St for the Thirsty Thursday Throwdown! Live music from the Rabble Rousers, Drew Carter & the Family Conspiracy, Spirit Molecule and more! 21+ to enter No Cover Live music from 10 until the bar closes Hope to see you there!
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