This news is just too good to pass up...

If you tuned into ESB a few times last year, you might have heard some brief clips from Radio First Termer, a pirate radio show in Saigon headed by Dave Rabbit, his engineer Pete Sadler, and a co-host named Nyugen (all pseudonyms). They stole a 50 watt signal from the airforce and broadcasted a nightly 3 hour orgy of "hard acid rock" and anti-war satire at 69 megacycles on the FM dial, using a local whorehouse as their makeshift station. It lasted about three weeks, in January of 1971.

I first heard about Dave Rabbit it in a high school computer class. I was sitting beside this kid whose dad had served as a chopper gunner late in the Vietnam War. "My dad used to listen to a pirate radio show when he was over there," he told me, and he took me to a wesbite that had numerous audio files, digitized from several generations' worth of bootleg tapes. It took about seven seconds for me to realize that this was probably the craziest, most ballsy, most incendiary and most entertaining radio programs of all time.

Dave Rabbit has come out of the woodwork, and while he has not totally identified himself, he has written his own testimonial, appeared on a Citizens Against Lies podcast, and is currently in Iraq, somewhere in Baghdad, doing the same thing he did in Vietnam.

Listen to the above podcast, and if you get the chance, tune into some of the Radio First Termer bootlegs...Dave's story is fascinating, a true testament to underground media, and the original show is off the wall.

Tune in tomorrow for new material from Ghostface, Amy Winehouse, Quiet Village Project, and more...in the meantime, enjoy some Dave Rabbit wisdom:

RADIO FIRST TERMER - Sign On
RADIO FIRST TERMER - Introduction to the Evening's Program
RADIO FIRST TERMER - The Pusher
RADIO FIRST TERMER - Weather Report with Captain Ivan Pansy
RADIO FIRST TERMER - Dave Rabbit Philosophy

BONUS!!! Our good friend Siktransit put a little piece together earlier this year, making a track out of a RFT clips:

SIKTRANSIT - Radio First Termer Cut Up



ESB PLAYLIST 11/28/06

QUIET VILLAGE PROJECT - Circus of Horrors
AMY WINHEHOUSE - Rehab
GHOSTFACE ft. Amy Winehouse - You Know I'm No Good
CHROMEO + DJ MEHDI - You Know I'm Somebody
MOSES MAYES - Space and Time
MAYOR MCCA - DGU
B.A. JOHNSTON - Sleeping With My Walkman
ANDY RUDOLPH - On the Town
TEENAGE BAD GIRL - Ghost House
ACID JACKS - Pump it Up
ARCHITECTURE IN HELSINKI - It's 5 (Poutine Dream Mix 33hz + Ming)
PETER, BJORN + JOHN - Let's Call It Off (JD Twitch's Optimo Remix)

Gabe Knox and Johnny Hockin, of spiritlive.net's Beatdown Radio, start a residency next week at the Drake Underground, which lasts a month. I knowwwww you gonna dig thisssss.

Also in the news:

According to my buddy Hopson, who's currently doing a To Sir With Love routine over in the wastelands of Sheffield, UK, a guy named Colin Murray, a BBC football commentator, is my exact double, or as Hopson puts it, The British Stevos. You be the judge:








ESB PLAYLIST 11/21/06

ARCHITECTURE IN HELSINKI - Do the Whirlwind (YACHT Remix)
D.i.m. - Sisyphos
BOOKA SHADE - Darko (Hot Chip's Sleepy Karaoke Remix)
BONDE DO ROLE - Melo Do Tobaco (Bonjay Remix)
THE KNIFE - Heartbeats
THE KNIFE - You Take My Breath Away
SPIRAL BEACH - Day OK (Stop! Die! Rescusitate! Remix)
JOEY FEVER - Love Around HEr (Boj Lucki + 0=0 Remix)
SIKTRANSIT - Big Guitar 2
A GREAT WHITE BIRD - Prince Edward Island Answers
PANDA RIOT - She Dares All Things
ARLING + CAMERON - Walk That Way

ESB PLAYLIST 11/14/06

THE BLACK ANGELS - The First Vietnam War
KAREN DALTON - Katie Cruel
JACKIE MITTOO - Soul Bird
SPANKY WILSON + THE QUANTIC SOUL ORCHESTRA - I'm Thankful
INSIDEAMIND - Laughing Life
NO LUCK CLUB - Better Times Will Come
MODERN BOYS MODERN GIRLS - Edge of My Blade (Remix)
CHICKS ON SPEED - Myspace
ALEX GOPHER - Dust
ALL SAINTS - Rock Steady (MSTRKRFT Remix)
DAEDELUS - Remix of Nothing
BOSSANOVA - French Accent
DARK DAY - Nudes in the Forest
JUDY NYLON - Jailhouse Rock

ANNOUNCEMENT:

Tomorrow is our FUNDRAISING SHOW, which means, it's your time to shine! Support your favourite campus radio station and become one of the brave, proud and few...become a member of the Friends of 89.5FM!

Call us up tomorrow at 416-946-7800 (or toll free at 1-888-204-8976) during our show hour, from 5-6pm ET, and pledge $25 or more to become a member. You get some shit out of it, too, like dope t-shirts that look like this:


Also, you'll be entered into the Grand Prize Draw, in which some lucky folks will win the following:

- Artz-n-Kultcha-Supa-Pak, which includes $500 of gift certificates from Soundscapes, VIce Recordings, Bloor Cinema, Festival Cinemas, Il Fornello Restaurant, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Dufferin Mall, and a whole host of other spots.

- A $500 bike from Cycle Solutions.

- A one year membership at the U of T Athletic Centre, so you can stay in shape for the amount of cash you'll be lifting up to drop on us for next year's fundraising drive.

You don't have to become a member, though. Don't see the $25 pledge as an absolute minimum. If you've only got the bank for a couple of bucks, and still want to support community radio but don't need all the membership stuff, we'll take those contributions gladly. You can donate any amount of money, like, in theory, you could even pledge us 25 Serbian dinars, and if we could accept things like party hats, poutine, and city council election lawn signs as contributions, we'd do that too, but I doubt we'd get much out of it.

We represent your voice, your opinions, and your music...so give us your support this week and become a member of the Friends of 89.5FM!!!

!!!!!!416 - 946 - 7800 or 1 - 888 - 204 - 8976 TO PLEDGE!!!!!!!!

Check out CIUT.FM for more details.

MUSIC THAT YOU WILL HEAR ON THE SHOW TODAY (but not necessarily in this order)...

GUY STEVOS - Voodoo Bateria
GHOSTFACE ft. Mr. Maygreen - Good
JKERS OF THE SCENE - Juggle It
MARTINI BROS. - Big+Dirty (Tiga Remix)
JACKIE MITTOO - Soul Bird
GORILLAZ - Dare (Soulwax Remix)
DJ MINI - Tchak
MOSES MAYES - Rock it So Hard
ACID JACKS - Awake Since '78 (MSTRKRFT Remix)
LADY SOVEREIGN - FIddle With the Volume (Ghislain Poirier Remix)
ARCHITECTURE IN HELSINKI - Do the Whirlwind (YACHT Remix)
BOOSANOVA - Rare Brazil
A-TRAK - Knucklehead
MODERN BOYS MODERN GIRLS - Edge of My Blade (Remix)

ESB PLAYLIST 10/31/06

ACID JACKS - Awake SInce '78 (MSTRKRFT Remix)
GHISLAIN POIRIER ft. Jacobus Maleco - Avec La Musique
LADY SOVEREIGN - Fiddle With the Volume (Ghislain Poirier Remix)
DJ MINI - Tchak
LINDSTROM - Cane It for the Original Whities
LCD SOUNDSYSTEM - selections from 45:33 Original Run
THE RAPTURE - Get Myself Into It (SebastiAn Remix)
PETRA HADEN - Thriller