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Episode 33: C.J. Starkey

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CJ the DJ as he was known in the 90’s when he spun records and CDs at the Metro and other places around Richmond. Now you may know him as DJ Curtis Strange if you know him at all. CJ split Richmond in 1995 for the promised land of Utah where he is involved in the world of Tattoo arts at Lost Art Tattoo in Salt Lake City and has published a book of Tattoo Art on Skateboards called Board to Lose as well as a badass deck of Tarot cards, each illustrated by a different Tattoo artist both available from CJ through Flaco World Productions. For the last few years he’s been an organizer and promoter of the Richmond Tattoo Arts Festival. For me though, he will always be the guy who ushered me into the 90s world of music and culture with his voracious appetite for music and all that was cool. We had us an old fashioned pre party posse at the Marriot downtown recorded for posterity.
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Episode 32: Wren Lanier

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Wren is one of the organizers of the Bill talks in Richmond. A counterpoint to the TED brand. Something maybe a little more egalitarian and affordable. She shares her inspiration for it and I am inclined to agree though I’m fine with what TED is. I like the idea that everybody should get a turn on the mic, (obviously). This is all the blurb I feel like writing, did you even read it? I thought not, chumps.(Photo borrowed without permission from the guy who’s name is in the bottom left corner)
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Episode 31: Beau Butler

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Beau Butler the Flava Flav of Avail is one of the most memorable characters I have known in this town. Regular followers of this podcast will note that I wasn’t much of a hardcore, hardcore punk or just plain punk fan coming up, so I was aware of Beau and Avail mostly as something to avoid as a likely occasion for violence. It wasn’t until I was 300 miles away in NY working as the night manager of a music venue that I finally saw Avail and that there weren’t nuthin to be skeert of. I had a great time sitting down and butting heads with Beau, its a podmosh.(photo Chris Boarts Larson, duh)
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Episode 30: Austin Fitch

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Austin is one of those guys I originally encountered in the early nineties at VCU one of wave of people who’d come to Richmond for Art School at VCU formed a band while they were at it. Although Austin has been in many bands since, the first one I saw him in, King Sour is not just a band to me but a capsule of associations that were so quintessentially Richmond around VCU in the nineties. We talk about some of that and his recent resurgence as a painter. Begin side one.(Photo courtesy of Scott Miller)
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Episode 29: Prabir Mehta

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Prabir Mehta musician,science afficianado, and biness man. Always I have known he was out there plying his craft making his sounds, cutting his swathe but I never until recently payed a whole lot of attention, my loss. Last summer I checked out Goldrush at Bandwars with Horshead and became an instant fan of his band and now I am a fan if his, period. He’s a righteous fellow and another RVA treasure.
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Episode 28: Chuck Wrenn

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Chuck Wrenn is one of the most dynamic dudes I’ve ever known. When I was kid he seemed to have living the good life down to a science. I don’t know anyone who has made as much of a continuing contribution to the cultural cornerstone of live music in Richmond. As a 30 year contributor to the great neighborhood get together that was High on the Hog he was part of a group of neighbors that gave something special to the people of Church Hill and Richmond that was a huge part of my upbringing, an annual fall ritual, a bachanaal of beer and butts that gets me all misty when I think about it. As the CPC always used to say E BOGUS BETTERI!(oh and I stole this picture from Terry Rea that’s him and Chuck back in the day)
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Episode 27: Scott Hudgins

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Although I’ve known Scott for years I haven’t until this conversation linked together his, dare I say, legacy in the Richmond music scene. He has been in Brainflower, Slang Laos, Tulsa Drone and Hex Machine, to name a few…and that’s just a few. Lately he’s been working in the electronic medium as ENE. By the way I chose this picture above because it embodies for me the way Scott’s been there in the greater context of the musical fabric of RVA.. always somewhere in the pic, guitar in hand,foot on the pedal never ever false metal….anyway.

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Episode 26: Parker S. Galore VIII

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Parker is a ringmaster and ringleader of Gallery 5, the Carnival of 5 Fires and a founder of RVAMAG. He is painter in his own right and a “Burner”. I talked to him in the offices of Gallery 5 and got some insight into what has motivated his numerous projects as well his connection to Burning Man and the culture that continues to exist when the burners leave the desert. Fire in the hole.(Photo courtesy of Jay Paul)
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Episode 25: Coby Batty

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Coby is a self-professed shaman, musician, actor, vagabond and Richmond icon. I have known him longer than I remember and maybe longer than that. He came over on a sunny fall Sunday and we got into some T.C. in the afternoon, talking about The Fugs and his recent acting roles and philosophy or in my case sophistry. Try to keep-up and if you’re not careful you just might learn something.
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Episode 24: Sorvino

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Mike”Sorvino” Bauer is a world travelling tour manager and local guitar hero. He’s played in many bands but his baby is Channel 43, who recently released a record from the vaults of their Ellwood days. Over the years Sorv hit me up when he came through the Twin Cities with various bands he was leading through wilds of the touring landscape and it was always great to see his big grinning mug. Mike check.
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