PAST ANNOUNCEMENTS

Covering the year 2007 Part 1

DFSX Live?

I got my new computer and recently tested my ability to do a live show with a live playlists. Would you be interested in listening to DFSX Live?

Specialty Shows Taking August Off!

In August, DFSX is making a drastic change in its prime-time lineup. This means that every specialty show (except the DT20 Zone) is taking the month off! DFSX also plans to test some live playlists on some random days and times, most of which may air after Midnight Eastern Time.

And, yes, even our flagship radio show the "I Still Get Demented" radio show is taking August off. The last time that happened, we were converting 10,000s of mp3s from 24k to 128k so we could broadcast in 56k back in the Winter of 2004.

DFSXPod Updated

In case you didn't noticed, the XPOD playlist (runs when no specialty shows are scheduled) of June is 75 percent overhauled from this time four weeks ago. DFSX is rotating about 24 hours of demented music to keep the playlist fresh; as old songs are discarded because the ratings go down or the up ratings expire after 30 days, the new songs are uploaded and get played. DFSX has well over 10,000 songs in their library, yet can play only about 500 songs at a time due to the space restrictions imposed on live365 dot com. Wish these cheapskates would up the mp3 space to at least four gigs since hard drive space is on the cheap nowadays.

Thank you for telling your friends to listen. The more listeners, the better. If you're not telling a friend, then we can't spread the word of free streaming dementia, are we?

PROPOSED SERIES: GEEK-FM

What do you think of this theme idea? Got any requests? I plan to run them on Wednesdays as part of the Humpday Special. Request anything geeks like to hear (Sci-Fi, Space, Harry Potter, comics, cult, etc) to dfsx@dfsxradio.com and we'll showcase your requests once a month or more if this series takes off.

MAD MUSIC SHOW AIRS SATURDAY MORNINGS TOO!

Nothing to listen to on Saturday mornings? Check out the Best of the Mad Music Show hosted by Captain Wayne Saturday mornings at 10am ET/9am CT/7am PT & AZ.

A FEW WORDS ABOUT VOTING FOR SONGS

One person tells two people to vote and listen. That's six votes.

Now, each of those three people tell two other people to vote and listen. That's 18 votes.

Now, each of those nine people tell two other people to vote and listen. That's 54 votes!

Do you see how word of mouth works on the Dementia Top 20 radio show? Three levels of telling other people to vote and listen can make one song worth 54 votes. Wow!

All you have to do is to tell two people to vote and listen, and tell them to tell their friends to vote and listen, and so on, and so on, and so on, and so on...

Then, maybe we can start talking about a second DFSX channel once we can get 50,000 regular hours of listening such as all pre-1990s novelty and comedy. Please spread the word about dfsxradio.com in bars, at work, at a stopsign, at an escalator, as a tagline in e-mail, and even on your car with a dfsxradio bumper sticker.

Special Top 25 ISGD March 19

Monday night, I Still Get Demented celebrates its 100th DMCA-compliant (don't ask what that means, we're told what to say by our boss) edition as the show counts down the top 25 DFSX dementia artists of all time (well, since the station debuted in February 2000).

Acts in the running include Bob Rivers, Brobdingnagian Bards, Carla Ulbrich, Crazy Frog, Dan Hart, Drunk & Disorderly, Eric "Smooth-E" Schwartz, Henry Phillips, Jonathan Coulton, Ken Johnson, Lemon Demon, Logan Whitehurst, Matthew Hodgson, Nuclear Bubble Wrap, Possible Oscar, Power Salad, Robert Lund, Steve Goodie, Steve Jarrott Sudden Death, The Frantics, the great Luke Ski (who we told you earlier that he ranked #6), Throwing Toasters, UFO Phil, Weird Al Yankovic, William Shatner, and Worm Quartet. Some will make the Top 25, others won't, and some unnamed artists will surprise you.

Tune in to the "I Still Get Demented" radio show this March 19 at 8pm & 11pm ET/7pm & 10pm CT/5pm & 8pm PT on dfsxradio.com.

DT20 Shifts Time Slots

Beginning on the weekend of March 23, 2007, the DT20 Zone will be expanding to 3 1/2 hours and changing time slots on all three airings.

Friday March 23: new time 9:30pm ET/8:30pm CT/6:30pm PT
Saturday March 24: new time 7:30pm ET/6:30pm CT/4:30pm PT
Sunday March 25: new time 11:30pm ET/10:30pm CT/8:30 PT

This means more time for song requests for the last 60 minutes of the zone, so get them in at dfsx@dfsxradio.com.

Bonus ISGD Airing Added

Listen to a rerun of the "ISGD" show Thursday nights at 8pm ET/7pm CT/5pm PT, and repeating MID ET/11pm CT/9pm PT.

New Feature: Saturday Night Comedy Talk

Sketches and stand-up all in a row! Listen to a new feature that we now call Saturday Night Comedy Talk, Saturday nights at MID ET/11pm CT/9pm PT.

Happy Vernalmas Holidays

D.T. is taking a long deserved holiday break. The next edition of the dfsxradio update will be published Apr 7.

Tijuana and BCN Change Their Clocks Ahead Apr 1

After Mar 31, Tijuana's time is the same as PT. Times given for Tijuana are good for BCN. At 2am April 1, it becomes 3am, and Tijuana can use the PT times again.

Schedule Draft B

Want To Host the Humpday Special?

We're looking for a few good demented jocks who have a great set of music to play (or you can just intro and outro the songs that dfsx has and we'll produce them for you) for 50 minutes. Want to brag to your friends that you're on the radio but can't afford to get your own station? Now you can. Host can play comedy music and sketches, stand-up is okay, radio adventures, fake commercials, song parodies, and coment on topics.

No off-key songs, r-rated material, mash-ups, or songs by unknown are allowed.

Be sure to tell your friends about your special if accepted because I'm giving away CDs to people who can gather 100 listeners to hear your special.

E-mail me if you're interested in getting a CD in exchange for getting me over 100 listeners to listen to your show.

CDs I'm giving away include:

Richard Cheese "Silent Nightclub"
Da Yoopers "Songs for Fart Lovers"
Da Yoopers "For Diehards Only"
Whimsical Will's Summer Movie Adventures 1986-2003
Brett Eidman "What's So F#@K'N Funny?"
Dan Hart "Apocalypse Now and Then"
Dusty Reavis "What the Hell Is This?
Brett Eidman "I Don't Like Bush"
The Ostrich Back Riders "Riding Under the Influence of Dementia"
Steve Goodie "You Stink George W"
Steve Goodie "You Stink George W"
Ken Turetzky "Look What I Made!
Chaston & Groditski "30-Year Reunion Sessions"
Chaston & Groditski "Rugged Hoarhadees"
Cab City Combo "Cabbie Road"
Ginuwine "The Bacherlor"
Michael Bolton "The One Thing"
VHS: Space Jam
VHS: ET the Extraterrestrial
VHS: Raiders of the Lost Ark
VHS: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
VHS: Indiana Jones and the Lost Crusade
VHS: Back to the Future
VHS: American Graffitti
VHS: Jurassic Park
VHS: Ghostbusters
Any cassette tape of your choice available at http://www.davesfunstuff.com/5000.htm

DFSX Survey Results So Far...

Take the DFSX Survey: http://www.survey.dfsxradio.com/

22 responded as of last week. Another recap will occur when 40 respond.

Time Change

Sunday, March 11, is when most of the continential USA shifted their clocks ahead one hour so that 2am becomes 3am. On the first Sunday in November, the clocks get shifted back one hour. Arizona does not change their clocks ahead one hour because they say they don't want an extra hour of hot.

For our friends in Tijuana and other Mexican-border cities, they don't change their clocks until the first Sunday in April and back again on the last Sunday in October. This means that for four weeks, for example, San Diego will be one hour ahead of Tijuana for the next three weeks and one week after the last Sunday in October.

So as a public service to our friends in Tijuana, which is close to where DFSX originates, we will be announcing the times in Spanish, or rather, times for Tijuanaians to tune in to our speciality shows.

What do you think of this planned schedule of specialty shows? Let me know by e-mailing me at dfsx@dfsxradio.com

Times are ET/PT

Scheme: specialty shows starting at 8pm ET/5pm PT seven days a week and running eight hours.

dfs"X-pod": all times when no specialty shows or programming blocks are airing.

WEEKDAYS: 1pm/10am: New Uploads Hour*** (vote on new stuff!)
MONDAYS: 8pm/5pm: Manic Mondays
MONDAYS: 9pm/6pm: ISGD
MONDAYS: MID/9pm: ISGD
MONDAYS: 3am/MID: Manic Mondays
MONDAYS: 4am/1am: return to dfs"X-pod" programming

WEEKDAYS: 1pm/10am: New Uploads Hour*** (vote on new stuff!)
TUESDAYS: 8pm/5pm: 80s Dementia*** (2 hours)
TUESDAYS: 10pm/7pm: Best of the Mad Music Show
TUESDAYS: 1am/10pm: Best of the Mad Music Show
TUESDAY: 4am/1am: return to dfs"X-pod" programming

WEEKDAYS: 1pm/10am: New Uploads Hour*** (vote on new stuff!)
WEDNESDAYS: 8pm/5pm: Kahnman's Comedy Corner
WEDNESDAYS: 10pm/7pm: Humpday Specials
WEDNESDAYS: 11pm/8pm: Kahnman's Comedy Corner
WEDNESDAYS: 1am/10pm: Stand Up 'n Sketches*** (2 hours)
WEDNESDAYS: 3am/MID: Humpday Specials
WEDNESDAYS: 4am/1am: return to dfs"X-pod" programming

WEEKDAYS: 1pm/10am: New Uploads Hour*** (vote on new stuff!)
THURSDAYS: 8pm/5pm: New Uploads*** (vote on the new stuff I uploaded!)
THURSDAYS: 11pm/8pm: Best of Dave's Gone By
THURSDAYS: MID/9pm: 80s and 90s Dementia*** (4 hours)
THURSDAYS: 4am/1am: return to dfs"X-pod" programming

WEEKDAYS: 1pm/10am: New Uploads Hour*** (vote on new stuff!)
FRIDAYS: 8pm/5pm: Nutty 90s*** (2 hours)
FRIDAYS: 10pm/7pm: DT20 Zone
FRIDAYS: 1am/10pm: ISGD Rerun
FRIDAYS: 4am/1am: return to dfs"X-pod" programming

SATURDAYS: 10am/7am: ISGD Rerun
WEEKDAYS: 1pm/10am: New Uploads Hour*** (vote on new stuff!)
SATURDAYS: 2pm/11am: Modern Dementia*** (6 hours)
SATURDAYS: 8pm/5pm: DT20 Zone
SATURDAYS: 11pm/8pm: Best of Dave's Gone By
SATURDAYS: MID/9pm: Stand Up 'n Sketches*** (4 hours)
SATURDAYS: 4am/1am: return to dfs"X-pod" programming

SUNDAYS: 11am/8am: Kahnman's Comedy Corner
WEEKDAYS: 1pm/10am: New Uploads Hour*** (vote on new stuff!)
SUNDAYS: 2pm/11am: return to dfs"X-pod" programming
SUNDAYS: 8pm/5pm: Vintage Dementia***
SUNDAYS: MID/9pm: DT20 Zone
SUNDAYS: 3am/MID: Sneak peek of Monday's ISGD Show
SUNDAYS: 6am/3am: return to dfs"X-pod" programming

*** = host-free programming blocks. Content depends on the current X-pod playlist. Songs subject to change without notice. Playlists are not provided nor possible.

Schedule Draft A

What do you think of this planned schedule of specialty shows? Let me know by e-mailing me at dfsx@dfsxradio.com

Times are ET/PT

dfs"X-pod": all times when no specialty shows or programming blocks are airing.
WEEKDAYS: 1pm/10am: New Uploads Hour*** (vote on new stuff!)

MONDAYS: 8pm & 11pm/5pm & 8pm: ISGD

TUESDAYS: 8pm & 11pm/5pm & 8pm: Best of the Mad Music Show

WEDNESDAYS: 8pm & 11pm/5pm & 8pm: Kahnman's Comedy Corner
WEDNESDAYS: 10pm/7pm: Humpday Specials
WEDNESDAYS: 1am/10pm: Stand Up 'n Sketches*** (3 hours)

THURSDAYS: 8pm/5pm: New Uploads*** (vote on the new stuff I uploaded!)
THURSDAYS: 11pm/8pm: Best of Dave's Gone By
THURSDAYS: MID/9pm: 80s and 90s Dementia*** (4 hours)

FRIDAYS: 8pm & 11pm/5pm & 8pm: ISGD Classics

SATURDAYS: 9:30am/6:30am: DT20 Preshow (featuring Today in History,
O.B. Ranger, Demented News, and other features)
10am/7am: DT20 Countdown
11:30am/8:30am: New Strokes
12NOON/9am: Demented Resurrection Zone (60 min)
SATURDAYS: 7:30pm/4:30pm: DT20 Preshow (featuring Today in History,
O.B. Ranger, Demented News, and other features)
8pm/5pm: DT20 Countdown
9:30pm/6:30pm: New Strokes
10pm/7pm: Demented Resurrection Zone (60 min)
SATURDAYS: 11pm/8pm: Best of Dave's Gone By

SUNDAYS: 7pm/4pm: Vintage Dementia***
SUNDAYS: 10:30pm/7:30pm: DT20 Preshow (featuring Today in History,
O.B. Ranger, Demented News, and other features)
11pm/8pm: DT20 Countdown
12:30am/9:30pm: New Strokes
1am/10am: Demented Resurrection Zone (60 min)
*** = host-free programming blocks. Content depends on the current X-pod playlist.

Also, does anyone want a third airing of some of the specialty shows?

MarsCon 2007 Dementia Track Fund Raiser CD

posted by the great Luke Ski:

To the future attendees of MarsCon 2007 and all funny music fans,

Since 2003, the folks at MarsCon have graciously allowed us to create a wonderful piece of convention programming, the series of main stage comedy music concerts which is now known as the MarsCon Dementia Track, co-chaired by Earl “Wyngarde” Luckes and myself, Luke Ski. To the best of my knowledge, MarsCon is the only convention in the world with a dedicated dementia track, to which we all owe the powers that be at MarsCon a great amount of appreciation. While the con does provide for the Music Guest of Honor each year, it’s not in the convention’s budget to cover the costs of all of our other comedy music acts, who cover their own travel & lodging expenses just to come out and perform for all the fans at MarsCon. Many of them end up carpooling and staying at off-site hotels as a way to conserve their costs, which I personally feel is an inconvenience to them and takes some of the fun out of their MarsCon experience. This year, I want to change that, by organizing a way to cover the costs of the lodging for our other comedy music acts, while also getting them lodging in the MarsCon hotel itself. I have asked several of the dementia artists from this year’s and last year’s MarsCons to donate tracks to a dementia compilation CD to sell to you fans, with all of the funds going to cover the lodging costs of our other dementia artists, making it easier for them to come out and perform for all of you. So here it is, the track listing for…

The MarsCon 2007 Dementia Track Fund Raiser CD!
1. The A-Team is POed - Possible Oscar
2. Antihistamine Zombie (radio edit) - DJ Particle
3. Reelin' In The Grease (radio edit) - Carrie Dahlby
4. If I Did It - Carla Ulbrich
5. Cheney's Got Your Back - Carla Ulbrich
6. Nice Guys - Eric Coleman
7. Only Coffee House In Town - Eric Coleman
8. My Cat Is Afraid of the Vacuum Cleaner (unused original version) - Power Salad
9. Our Menu Has Recently Changed - Power Salad
10. Don't Shoot - Rob Balder featuring Worm Quartet
11. I'm Gonna Procreate (live) - Worm Quartet
12. I Can't Get A Job (live - radio edit) - Worm Quartet
13. Inner Voice (live at MarsCon 2005) - Sudden Death
14. Spam (live at MarsCon 2005) - Sudden Death
15. The Yolk's On You (live from Marscon 2006) - Hot Waffles
16. You Might Be A Trekkie (live at MarsCon 2006) - the great Luke Ski
17. Love Theme From Mystery Spatula Theatre 11 - the great Luke Ski
18. Theme From The Dork Of The Rings - the great Luke Ski
[19. A super secret unlisted new parody song track - the great Luke Ski]
Album length: 64 minutes

To order this album, just PayPal $15.00 to Sara Trice (our faithful Dementia Track assistant) at her email address, sara@saratrice.com, and your CD will be dropped in the mail, sent via First Class USPS, within a day.

We have initially only printed 50 copies of the CD, and it would help us out the most if you could purchase the albums ASAP, so we can collect the total raised money on Monday, February 26th in preparation to pay the hotel that weekend. There is no guarantee that copies of will be available at MarsCon itself, so if you’re interested in getting it, it’s better for you and us if you could order it now.

Also, I would like to personally request that those of you who purchase this CD keep “Track 19” to yourselves. It was made as a potential ‘exclusive’ for a BIG company, and I am still awaiting to find out what will become of it. But for the sake of sweetening the pot for this Fund Raising CD, I wanted to add it just for you fans. So please, no file sharing, and let’s keep it on the down-low, hepcats. ;D

So there you have it. I hope you’ll be willing to purchase this new comedy music compilation CD to aid the dementia artists in their quest to entertain you at MarsCon this year. Thanks, and as thr good Doctor always says, stay demented!

Luke Collis Sienkowski, a.k.a. "the great Luke Ski!"

GNOME Productions
LukeSki@Juno.com / http://www.LukeSki.com
AOL IM handle: thegreatLukeSki / ICQ info: Luke Ski, #19122313

DFSX Specialty Shows to Change Days and Times

Several readers e-mailed me back about the changes and suggested some days and times. Stay tuned.

DFSX Funny Music Show Playlists Now in RSS

Got an XML reader? Got a website you want to share the funny music show playlists with?

DFSXRadio has just launched RSS feeds of several of its active funny music radio shows such as "ISGD", "DT20 Zone", "Kahnman", "Dave's Gone By", and "Best of the Mad Music Show".

You can get the XML feeds if you have an RSS reader. If you are a website owner and want to share the latest playlists of the DFSX specialty shows on your website, now you can with JavaScript versions of the feeds.

For more information, visit
http://www.dfsxradio.com/9102.htm

10th Anniversary of Feb 4 This Sunday

What's so significant about this date in history? February 4, 1997 was the last day that the KSCA's AAA format existed and went Spanish the next day. Feb 2, 1997, was also the last day that Dr. Demento's show aired on KSCA, just as the WWW era was getting off the ground.

What happened to the dementia fans in Southern California? Some of them bought new computers that can get Real Audio feeds from radio stations broadcasting Dr. Demento on the Internet such as WMVP at 3am PT (for those who stayed up really late or got up really early) Saturday mornings. Those were the golden days of streaming audio as it was just beginning to become part of our everyday lives. Broadband cable was just on the horizon. 14.4kbps speeds gave way to 28.8 on the telephone lines, which most of the streams demanded, requiring me to spend $2,000 for a new computer.

While San Diego and Los Angeles radio went into a declining direction of quality (nothanks to Jacor and Clear Channel buying up and homogenizing the radio formats and hiring no talent unfunny morning show hosts), other cities finer than San Diego such as Chicago, Ft. Bragg, Kansas City, etc., continued to be affilliates with Dr. Demento, keeping us abreast of new demented song developments, even playing songs from artists in markets where there is no program director with a brain that embraces comedy and funny music enough to carry a radio show that features music that's fun to listen to.

Now with Internet radio and mp3 downloads fully entrenched as part of our daily lives, drdemento com is streaming the recent shows for a fee so that you don't have to be at the mercy of a radio affilliate or go without comedy music. The problem is that Talonian Productions went too far as to tell their affilliates to stop streaming the show, hurting their listener and profit potential by shutting out the out of market listeners. What is the best way to promote yourself? Give it away as a stream. Who wants to take a chance of paying for a stream if you never heard of most of the songs? Same way with CDs. Who wants to buy a CD if all you hear is one or two hit songs being played on the radio?

Talonian is an inept radio distributor with a staff on the same level as that of a local McDonald's franchise, that is, neither of the businesses are prestigious companies. It's run by people whose goal is to destroy funny music from the free broadcast airwaves. They would rather listen to CHR, Ryan Seacrest, right-wing wackos and convicted criminals with nothing to say than to support the health of funny music on the free radio stations.

They're destroying the show pure and simple. Radio affilliates that once streamed the show are finding themselves delisted from fan webpages resulting in fewer listeners. Sandiegoradionews.com, for example, no longer lists any stations carrying Dr. Demento or even lists the website for the show.

There is an upside to this: myspace.com, thefump.com, artist websits, and other websites that host funny music are exploding to fill the void. Some offer free downloads, and some just stream the songs. Sites such as picklehead.com, amazon.com, cdbaby.com, and others have replaced Tower and Wherehouse as premier sites where you can pay for comedy music CDs.

Streaming comedy music stations can be found with the help of a google search.

So as the mountain of choices of demented music continue to rise, why does it make sense for Talonian to pull Dr. Demento from the free Internet streams via radio station affilliates? It just doesn't make any business sense. It's totally bad for the genre.

Memo to Dr. Demento: get your ass back on the Los Angeles radio airwaves...NOW! Get your show back on the free internet streams, and promote the living daylights out of offering paid streams of past shows. People have known about it for ten years. Might as well bring yourself into the modern world. Modernize the production, expand it to four hours, offer your show to professional (not personal) Internet broadcasters for a modest fee, bring back the live Los Angeles broadcasts we used to enjoy through 1983, and invite musicians to be co-hosts. Get this show upgraded and move it back to 2007 and out of the stone age of broadcasting.

If Talonian doesn't like free streams, then find another distributor ASAP. Talonian sucks.

New Uploads Hour on DFSX

Weekdays (including Sat and Sun), DFSX is presenting an hour of recent uploaded dementia with an hour simply called "New Uploads", which consists of anything that hasn't been played on DFSX before, and a few that haven't since 2005. This is like the old DT's CD Dump and DFSX Lab blocks, except that it's on everyday.

AND...you can vote if you like the songs (thumbs up), or if you think the songs suck (thumbs down). Songs that pass get moved over to like status and will show up on the decade blocks and/or specialty shows. Songs that get thumbs down get tossed and won't return.

Listen Sun-Sat 1pm ET, NOON PT, 11am MT, 10am PT, and 6pm GMT.

DFSX Top 100 of 2006 New Years Eve/Day

Friggin' Not Here on WITR

I thought that the show was taking a holiday break, but it turns out that after four weeks, and a check on the modernmusicandmore.com website, the 10-year-old live request novelty song show "Friggin' Here", is no longer on the schedule.

Wayne posts on the rec.music.dementia newsgroup that ShoEboX of Worm Quartet was trying to get the show back on the schedule as the new host of it, but he doesn't know what reason (if any) the former host (TomCat) gave for leaving the station.

We hope that the show returns to the schedule as it provides a terrestrial outlet for novelty music in the Henrietta, NY area and worldwide on WITR's Internet stream.

The Dementia Top 100 of 2006 is ready to air!

The Dementia Top 20 show returns January 5 with new shows, and the ballot will go back online on January 2nd, 2007.

Listen to the Dementia Top 100 of 2006 year-end countdown at these days and times:

   SUN Dec 31: Top 100 of 2006 Marathon
               (6am, NOON, 6pm, MID ET/3am, 9am, 3pm, 9pm PT)
   MON Jan  1: Top 100 of 2006 Marathon
               (6am, NOON, 6pm ET/3am, 9am, 3pm PT)