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OK, this is really starting to get on my nerves.

Regarding the “Dr. Dan” triple M theme…

The excerpt that Dr. Dan and Triple M used happens between 3:06 and 3:35 into the Mike Batt song “Introduction (Journey of a fool)”. Only about 30 seconds long. This was released in 1979, and mentions have been made of since, however:

Dr. Dan did a REMAKE. Slash did a REMAKE. (I’m sure Def FX did one…? The version played on The Rock Factory from 1998 anyway).

Don’t believe me? Click below to hear where Dr. Dan (and co.) drew the inspiration from.

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That should straighten things out a bit!

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They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.

Lest we forget.

The David Oldfield switcheroo is confirmed

(Credit: Samuel’s Blog

Sam’s blog is carrying an interesting story this morning about ex-2GB’s David Oldfield. He seems to have joined the 2UE bunker! Apparently, David will be filling in for The Two Murrays from May 3rd to May 7th, and then for two weeks commencing May 10th for Stuart Bocking.

This is really interesting – and what makes it so is that on the eve of this happening, 2UE’s program director, Greg Byrnes, has resigned to take up a senior role over at Sky News. Is it just coincidence the program director resigns just as someone comes over from 2GB to do fill-in’s, and losing the prodigal son back to 2GB (Jim Ball)?

Poor Jim has gotten so used to saying 2UE’s number of 13 13 32 that it crossed 2GB a few times since he’s been back and I must admit a grin crosses my face when he realises his mistake and has a chuckle about it all.

If you also haven’t caught up yet, 3MTR, 2GB’s melbourne talk station has launched, and not without some teething troubles it would seem. I must say I’m not quite used to hearing Chris Smith’s show set up for network and at the end time for Sydney listeners only hearing the theme play out. Still, it’s probably just that, needing to get used to it. I’ve been reading on various forums lately though that some are having trouble hearing it in various parts down there, presumably there’s a transmitter problem they’ve gotta fix or when it was 3MP they didn’t have enough power to begin with. Or the tower’s facing a certain way when it should be facing another. Who knows. Checking out 3MP’s tx site on google earth (and I don’t know if it’s the same set up now) it does seem like it could do with a little improving – am I wrong in saying 3MP and the defunct rock of melbourne 3XY shared a transmitter site? (shared in this instance meaning the same block of land rather than two stations on the same tower, ala 2SM and 2UE up here).

Whatever the case may be I wish MTR all the best, it’s a decent line-up but I wonder how long melbourne will put up with Sydney-only issues.

G’day folks,

Almost time for our next reset so grab anything you haven’t downloaded yet as it’ll all be going on Monday April 26th at 10.00pm AEST.

If you’re not aware of what a reset is or what it does, basically because of the limited space we have currently on the server, we usually delete older material which frees up space for newer material. Stuff continues to be uploaded each update until the server space gets full or nearly full, then a reset takes place which clears the server for newer material and so on. Usually I post a message a few days before the reset so you’re not caught short if you’ve been meaning to download what you need but haven’t got around to it.

I get questions as to why I don’t resume my Youtube channel. Well there’s a reason for that – it seems lately there’s just too many aussie TV history channels on there that are sadly getting shut down for copyright issues. I would hate to put so much work into it and then find it’s zapped. (yes, believe it or not, even for 30 or 40 year old material). Coupled with lots of doubling up between users and some of my stuff not even coming close to what others have, I wouldn’t generate enough interest to keep it going – at least I don’t think so anyway. It doesn’t seem to matter much when I look at it as a few of you download the videos and re-upload them to Youtube, complete with watermark, but also crediting where you got the clips from – which I really appreciate. A simple credit makes it all worthwhile.

…and so remains this site where you can cruise on in and check out all the various goodies on offer. This’ll be here for the foreseeable future.

Gudday WordPressers,

Well hasn’t this here blog grown in the last few weeks eh? Quite a few sections up now – hopefully I ain’t losing you in the shuffle!

One of many sites I frequent regularly is Wireless Fodder. Run by Matt, the blog now features reviews more than anything else and if you’re a regular reader you would’ve noticed, but reading through his latest missives today I came across a post that I thought I should point you towards!

If you’re in another part of the world, we have an all night music video show down here our government-funded ABC-TV runs by the name of Rage. It goes to air on friday and saturday nights, with friday nights being devoted to hits and new releases, while saturday nights are devoted to guest programmers and Countdown episodes during January of each year.

Matt has written a post that I think should get Creativity Of The Year award. His “voice drops” in particular are very well thought out and I found a couple just plain hilarious! The stories behind some of his choices are really interesting but they also have a humourous side to them.

Rage, take note, you’ve gotta see what you can do about getting him to do that guest programming – it’d be awesome to see it in video form. Maybe he can weld it all together in podcast form in the meantime? Yeah I know, the issue is copyrighted musical works but maybe someone can sing 5 seconds of each?

Check it out anyway – aforementioned post is here – tell him Frankster sent you!

G’day folks,

Well, of course you’ve probably heard all about tonight’s Earth Hour event. If you’ve been living under a rock, we all switch off our lights for an hour for the benefit of warming. Notice I didn’t say “global”

Had this silly thought while I was in the shower this morning. Why only turn off your lights?

Let’s extend Earth Hour and call it “Power Hour”, sponsored by Woolworths, Coles and Aldi. What you do is turn the power off at the mains for an hour, sit down and watch the food in the fridge spoil, and then wait for the big 3 to arrive at your door with fresh food to replace the spoilt food!

Yeah, right…

G’day folks,

This video I had up here some time ago has been downloaded and reuploaded to youtube by “zampakid” – but the one difference is the fact zampakid had actually credited the source, in this case us.

This is what I like to see, I don’t mind if you download and reupload my videos to youtube, complete with the frankster.zanyspace.com watermark, but credit the source when you do so – don’t pass the clip off as yours. Zampakid had credited where the clip originally came from and therefore there’s no problem with Zampakid using it on their Youtube page. If Z had simply downloaded and reuploaded it without any credit, then I’d be pissed off.

If you’re thinking of doing it, then download and reupload to youtube as often as you like – but credit where you got it from. With the watermark it sort of makes it obvious anyway but take the extra few seconds when putting the description up and whack in a credit. It makes everything easier and won’t lead to me giving up in frustration and terminating the site.

Thanks Zampakid, you rock!

G’day folks,

As a regular listener to Sydney talkback radio, I find it interesting that the political satirists behind “How Green Was My Cactus” appear to have been dropped from the 2GB on-air schedule.

This segment was played between 2.30 and 3.00 pm each weekday during Chris Smith’s show. The last play for the segment was on Monday March 8th and it hasn’t been heard since. Whether or not it’s been moved out of Chris Smith’s slot and put somewhere else in the schedule I don’t know, but it does seem strange it’s suddenly gone just like that, and as with most 2GB programming changes, the poor ol’ listener is ALWAYS kept in the dark. Not one mention that it may have either been the end of the segments for the time being or if its changed timeslots or what – and that’s annoying if you’re a fan of it like I am.

So 2GB programming, I ask you – what’s happened to Cactus?

G’day folks,

Well I must admit I didn’t believe it when I got an email from a mate this morning stating Jim Ball had quit 2UE, but it turns out it’s true!

Radionews also suggests he’s gone. I wonder where he’s heading to? Surely 2GB aren’t thinking of once again rejigging their weekday overnight programs? Will be interesting to see what happens from here.

G’day folks,

Well it would seem that the Vega brand of radio stations is now dead. Enter from tomorrow morning, March 12th 2010:

“Classic Rock 91.5″ for Melbourne
“Classic Rock 95.3″ for Sydney

Hmm…I don’t know about this one. Apart from the fact it’s kinda stomping on Triple M, I really hope it’s not gonna be same old, same old. Content is king with radio and at the moment all we have is just copies of each other.

Interesting move anyway.