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Bottomless Pit #43 : "A Salute to the Fender Jazzmaster" (c. 2011-12)

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#43- circa 2011-12: "A Salute to the Fender Jazzmaster"

One from the very early days of the Bottomless Pit on WFUV (I don’t have the exact broadcast dates on the first few dozen shows because of the weird way I used to index them).

This one starts off with a two-part salute to the Fender Jazzmaster, which is of course an iconic American object from the mind of American genius Leo Fender. It made its debut in the Fender catalog in 1959, is of course still popular, and has been used over the years in ways that Leo Fender never could’ve imagined. His intent was to create an instrument for the Jazz guitarists of the day- it didn’t quite work out that way, but again, the instrument is still beloved, and still inspiring people. I’ve had a couple of nice ones over the years, but I mostly like to hear other people play them.

Tune in and hear the sounds of Lightnin’ Slim, Roy Lanham, Rich Fifield, Tom Verlaine, Nels Cline, and other legends.

And then Pt. 3 of the show is another tribute to the late great Cub Koda- just a brief one this time, but worthy.

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I did a one-hour radio show on New York’s WFUV from 2011-18, every Saturday night (until it got switched to Sunday nights during late 2017). But the show originally started on WKZE in the Hudson Valley during 2005-6; then I brought it back at the station’s request during 2010. (RIP, station owner Will Stanley.)

I always loved doing the show and was proud of it. It was “a weekly roundup of items from my personal record collection”- a large percentage of the records that got played over the years were things that I had some kind of longstanding emotional connection with, but I also played lots of things that I happened to be discovering during the moment at hand. 

It’s nice to be able to say that nobody at either station ever said a negative word to me about what I was playing, or suggested what I should be playing, etc., so the show was pure self-expression for me. 

I eventually had to pull the plug on the whole thing for various reasons at the end of 2017, but thanks to a suggestion from webmaster Franklin Odel, I’ll be posting reruns of the show here on YouTube! Watch this space!..

MC

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