An 'Unknown' Podcaster - He Sounds Boring - He Is Fascinating
🎵 Despite my initial resistance to the 500 song podcast narrated by 🔗 Andrew Hickey .. I am now moving into my third … first ‘The Monkees’, then ‘Love’, now ‘The Move’. The depth of information flying through the speakers is really quite incredible - thoroughly researched, packed with information - some of which I know - a lot I don’t.
A particular speciality of his is identifying groups that todays’ mega stars played with in the very early days. Examples like when Albert Lee played with Hendrix and Jim Morrison wishing he and The Doors were as good as Love. Or how Graeme Edge and John Bonham both played in the same band - sorry, cant recall who replaced who … and and and … fascinating - and NOT information that is on ‘the wiki’.
So - I did some prodding around to work out who Hickey is - assuming he must have been a music journalist at some point - but no. At least not that I could find. He seems to be a relatively ‘unknown’ creator who writes books and does podcasts.
Interesting that in the search, I came across this review of his podcast : Pismotality: A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs that has one comment - from Andrew Hickey. He spends a little time talking about his accent and deadpan delivery … something I referenced in my first post on him, and it turns out there is a reason.
Anyway - suffice to say - if you love rock and related music genre and want to learn more - particularly about the genesis of the ‘names’ - highly recommend.
Rabbit Holes, YouTubes and Criminals
I wonder why this link is not actually on the MS site any more?
I mean, it seems like it would be important for people to know? Part of the URL reads ' host-clayton-morris-leaves-country-amid-fraud-allegations-lawsuits ‘- so you can guess what it is about if you don’t want to click through
Yahoo and many others still have similar links reporting the story.
I came across him today when a friend mentioned the YouTube channel - and after what I was being told, I felt it all seemed … shall we say odd?
Three minutes of ‘deep’ search found the info that really makes me wonder.
What’s worse is that according to my LinkedIN profile, I have one person in common with ‘Clayton’ … a person who is in a really senior person and has had many senior roles over the year. I can only hope that the connection is an old one when they might have crossed paths when ' Clayton ' was on Phaux News. But these days - you really never know do you?
Phaux News? I know right - that alone should have been a warning!
🔗 How to Add Chapters to Your Highlights in Readwise with Headings …. it is amazing how much stuff there is under the hood over at #Readwise.
February 9th.
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During their two weeks in New Zealand, they caused so much outrage in the media that the New Zealand Parliament addressed the issue of granting entry permits to musicians such as the Pretty Things.
Who knew they were so ‘badass’?
🪦 Farewell Burt. You had a great run. Thank you. Your music inspired many and was appreciated by so many more … even people who didn’t know you, knew your songs.
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February 8th.
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I didn’t watch all of the State of the Union … but enough to know that the Union is in one hell of a state.
I see Readdle’s Documents is celebrating 10 years, so I just took it for a little spin on the iPad. Conclusion … not sure I need it. Is it an app that used to add value, but improvement of Files over the years has made it redundant? Or am I missing something?
Today I learned that RapidWeaver is still around!
I know I am in LA because Apple is offering two routes. One route is roughly along one side of a rectangle - about 10 miles. The alternative is around the other three sides of the rectangle - about 20 miles. Time difference - one minute. 🤷🏼♂️
February 7th.
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🔗 Podsearch Reborn … from David Smith.
Interesting - and powerful.
This ‘little’ service is a welcome extension to my tool set.
“Don’t expect a TikTok style UI or the ability to subscribe to specific sites like you can in an RSS reader.
💬 Matt Birchler
Artifact didn’t make it to my ‘must try’ list. The implication of 100% AI crosses it off my list completely.
Bill Bishop is thinking about introducing advertising on to his Substack.
“The Substack model of “only ads” doesn’t make much sense long term for most writers. Even if they convert 10% of their audience, they’re making no money from 90%. Most businesses don’t operate that way.
This is not wrong, but I hope what Bishop means is what I call @gruber style advertising - and not seeking to ‘track the tar out of us’.
I also wonder how he will handle paid subscriptions (I’m not a paid subscriber of Sinocism) - will they see the ads aswell?
(Apologies. lost the source where I read this … it was a Substack newsletter)