Ed's Note: This original script, like the shows, were pretty raw, and because the Internet always changes, some pages aren't accessible anymore, or have changed url's. For the sake of having an accurate record of the internet AND Cleveland's Alt. scene at this point in history, I'm not changing any of the script...er, ah, and I'm a little bz for all that work anyway. However I'll add new websites or any changes as you read along. "End-joy" :-)

 Show for: 12/01/96
Tonight's theme: Hippie music! 
This Week's Tuneage
First tune
Morcheeba
Second Set - 3 tunes
Phish
Blues Traveler
Wall Flowers
Third Set - 2 tunes
Rusted Root
Alanis
Fourth Set - 2 tunes
Kula Shaker
Lenny Kravitz
Local tune
Oroboros

Pat/Intro Music
Turn off your Tv's, Turn on your Computers, and turn up your Radios! It's time for
WEBSITE, our weekly surf through the Internet checking out cool musical websites. 
 

Tonight's theme: Hippie music! We'll be visiting web sites that recall the revolutionary spirit of the '60's with the revolutionary new technology of the Internet. 
 

Everyone listening to this show has had some kind of hippie influence in their lives.
Everyone listening to us through the Internet is no doubt someone who is kind of a "Web Hippie", In a definition of web hippie, from the www.webhippie.com site,  we are people, immersed in the new culture of the WWW; which emphasizes freedom of information and access to it, as well as individual freedom and freedom of expression."

We'll be exploring this culture and some hippie oriented bands and websites with the help of bands like...

Regarding Morcheeba, nice, visually pleasing website. 4 sound bites using real audio,
good bio:
both Paul and Ross were influenced by classic sixties American icons like Crosby, Stills
and Nash, Neil Young, Bob Dylan and Marvin Gaye.  Paul offers, "we would listen to those records a lot. Growing up, they imparted the only sense of  real calm we knew. And now we find an honesty and purity in that music that we both  feel intuitively drawn to."

How do you see the internet affecting the music  business, and what efforts are you making on-line? 

We hope the internet takes music out of  the hands of the record companies as they are always making ridiculous creative decisions. Sounds like a typical hippie attitude, also, this website reflects the hippy/internet culture of better to give than receive...
Free Stuff!!! Morcheeba silver metalflake sticker
(Current website missing that)
 

Label site, ok; does have a dry goods store where you can order merchandise; looked at some of their warm threads gear, click on the penguins....Interesting, add stuff to shopping cart, pass through a "secure server" can see the threads; can't see the patches though. 
blobs of color. Ok to see those onstage, want a little more definition when buying a 38
dollar sweatshirt. Might stick with local places for stuff like that, like Hempfields on the
west side, (east side?) online shops are still cool to browse through, we'll cover more after some music. 
 

We're doing hippie websites tonight, a frame of mind that has spanned the generations.... That band  The Wallflowers fronted by the son of one of the leaders of the hippy music movement in the 60's. www.jakobdylan.com
Nice website, Showed it to Cap from the band Blue Taxi, he got lyrics for that song, learning how to play it is easy. Nice bit of info on that site. They're opening a lot this year for BT

The Blue Isles is the name for the Beautifully graphic BT website. A pirate chart of different Isles each with its own theme. Nice little way to navigate through this site. Is G. intensive though.
They have a great concert Chronology, you can see how they used to play all sorts of hippie bands like the Dead when they were just starting out. This is one of the cooler things about the web, people archive things like set-lists from their favorite bands,  and you could see how they grow and gradually drop the covers and do their own thing.

Except during Encores, Right?

Yeah, usually bands pay homage to their influences during encores, you can see all these through the years through their website too. Find the Blues Traveler homepage by going to www.bluestraveler.com

Next band has a tribal following, inheriting the Dead Legacy in a way. 
Local too, played in our region for a long time. Had a lot of cool things on their website
last year, based out of PA, traders club, fan club, rust-tribe, the mailing list. Very inspirational, good example of how to start a movement...which since then HAS affected their website... but it's still pretty cool, check it out through our playlist, or by going to rustedroot.com
 

Haven't heard that one in a while, That's Alanis flashing the old Peace sign. there are jillians of sites for her on the net, including one based out of CWRU, Jay Onifer's tribute to Alanis with our own Sue Csendes's interview transcripted up there on the Internet. Very hard work to do, thanks Jay! Need the URL? Need other Alanis resources. Heard anything on the air here at wenz and need to find out more. Subscribe to the end-list, our Internet mailing list. Ask a question, probably someone on the list will have it. Might get back to you in a few minutes, who knows. We'll have subscription details in after this next break, Can't wait, mellow out.......just visit our homepage.

If you have a netscape browser, hit open button and type in hippy it defaults to www.hippy.com which is one of the cooler places on the 'Net to find out about this culture. This is the place for old hippies, new hippies, web hippies, amnesiac hippies, cyber hippies, etc. Here you can tune-in, turn-on and drop-"dead". You can find   anything you need here from astral travel to Zeppelin. "Just trip around our web  space, you never know what you'll find".... 

Find some more hippy influenced artists of the 90's both of which have K's in their names. Think about it....Next

Commercial Break
 

Fourth set: (2 songs)
Kula Shaker
Lenny Kravitz
 

Steal it...the hippy movement involved a  revolutionary named Abbie Hoffman who authored "Steal this book" ; in keeping with our theme tonight, go ahead, steal this code. 

Kula Shaker, very trippy website. Lot's of visuals, contests, 
We're only just on our feet so there's lots more features and illuminations in the process of   being set up for the near future. The group are personally involved in organizing this site, the idea being that fans can directly access the band, what they're about and where they're at, without distortion of facts and fabrication of events by psychotic journalists or envious critics,  OUCH!!

To subscribe to the End-list, our new mailing list on the Internet, where you can find out
about End stuff, express your opinion on the music we play, find out from other End fans information about concerts, bands, anything End music related, send e-mail to
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We have various interactive features now, R U Pissed, or like to interact, or just fire off some bellets through the grapevine, you can find it here.)

the first line of your message should be 
subscribe end-list (your e-mail address)
very simple, very fun. If your mail box gets flooded we'll let you know how you can subscribe to a digest mode of delivery.  Thanks to Scott and Brad of Harbor Communications for setting this up, Harbor Communications is a low cost Internet access provider, they're based out in the snow belt, Painesville, and they help take the Pain out of getting on the Internet for you. During the Blizzard we were testing it with  a few high schoolers out there who are harbor Com clients and no one ever had a problem getting through to the list. And on those boring days the list was a great thing to have. (This show was done a few weeks after the big blizzard of 96) Now we're getting people who're subscribing from College and other places around the US, former Clevelanders, lovers of End music, it should be a fun list. Check it out.

Commercial break
 

Oroboros is playing in town several times in December,check them out, and 41 other
Cleveland based bands on the Internet through our CBB page. (That was before the occupation. Now it's our Local Artillery page. Spread the word if bands want to join) Support local music online and in person, chat with you again, next week

Local tune
Oroboros
 

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