the Big Mattress - Freeform Interactive Radio on the Net

Welcome back!!! Now, if only we can get Duane back on Saturday mornings, life would be great!!!

so what time is it in new york if it's 6am in maui... i know i should know this.... and will they archive your show so i can listen any time?

The east coast is 6 hours ahead during DST. Hawai'i doesn't change clocks ever.

Archive? Again, this is a listener sponsored low-power radio station which, for the time being, is on the internet. You either tape it when it's airing or hope that some day the DJ has a flashback.

Congrats for getting back on the (cyber) air. Someone should call Jim Pepper. He might be getting a royalty check after all...

Like I told you in '75 this radio thing will never amount to anything for you:-) Brake a leg "Old Timer"!!!

Hi Charles,

The obvious (to me anyway) question is "what time in Boston is the show?" You start at 6 therefore yer on at midnight in beantown? You're on during the first few hours of my wife's birthday this year....You'll be ringing in at a special time ( for me anyway) ! LOL

Is this for real Charles? I was a huge WBCN listener in the 1970's because it seemed you were free to play your own music. It made you the voice of our times! Then you moved into the1980's and introduced us into the new wave of pop music. With the Big Mattress songs of the week. Like 'Ah Leah' Donnie Iris, 'Fashion' by David Bowie, and 'Fame by John Lennon and friends. We know Corporate took over when you moved on to WZLX and played only our past hits. We can see why you were stifled by the narrow, redundant play list. Even though, we still loved YOU!
To let your music be free again? On the air waves...Yes I will listen! And contribute if that is what is required! Talk to us Charles! We still want to hear your musical interpretation .

Chuckkkk, if you need a producer, I wouldn't mind you flying me out there every Wednesday -- I'd even work for free.
;-)

Chaz,
OK I can't spell..but how many of your fans can't read. I mean This time thing!!

Struff,
Eat me I've got dibbs:-)

It's amazing, isn't it? I say the show starts at 6 AM Hawai'i time and everyone has me on til midnight in Boston. I am not sure when Boston goes on Daylight Savings Time, but until then, you are 5 hours ahead of Hawai'i. So if my show starts on Wed morning at 6AM here in Hawai'i, you all will get it at 11:00 AM on the east coast. When DST kicks in, you will get it at noon, because HI does NOT turn the clocks ahead.

Your Producer? What does that mean exactly? I'm wicked smart! I'll come. Screw them them all. I'd love to see Hawaii. It's 6 hours different. If you do a 6:am show we get you live here at 12::noon . Day light savings time we Spring forward here in the North East. So the show starts instead at at 11:00 Am. How long exactly will your new show be? Mary

Great news..can't wait!!!

So what time is that show on Zulu time? And if two radio shows leave the train station at noon Pacific, headed in opposite directions, travel for 4 nautical miles, then turn left and travel for 3 nautical miles, how far apart will they be if it's daylight savings time and one of them is on the other side of the international date line?

Definitely been hoping you'd get the itch to get back on the "air." Can't wait to listen (gotta figure out how to tape it!) - and if contributions are needed, sign me up!

Hot damn! Congratulations and have fun on your new mattress!

Great news. Personally, a little less Duane and a little more of the great music the original Charles would choose, would be to my liking.
Radio can be alive!! But lets not get hung on the name 'radio.' Let's call it Broadcasting!!

YOU'RE BAAAAACK! OMG, I was so hoping this would happen! I'll even get up early to listen in. Very glad you changed your mind on this. PLEASE, SHAKE THIS SLEEPY LITTLE ISLAND UP, would ya? Maybe a 7.0 on the Richter scale, at least!

Great News Chuck!
Does Manaoradio know what they are in for?
LET IT ROCK!!!
Make certain you play "Goin Home" by the Stones if you are taking requests...
Can you play ROIO? (Recordings Of Illegal Origin...)

There's a wicked pissa 9min+ version of "Still A Fool" the old Muddy Waters song, done by the Stones, circa the Beggars Banquet era....Ping me if you need this...

Good luck, my friend. This is where you belong.
Some people are not meant to fade away OR ride off into the sunset.

FYI: just downloaded Freecorder (at freecorder.com). You can record manaoradio with it.

Choolie or Charles,
I've just downloaded this Freecorder.com website. Now what do I do to zero in on the show and record it?

h: Assuming that you already had downloaded winamp and were able to play the radio station by going to manaoradio.com and clicking "listen live"... Leave your winamp player going playing the radio station. Open up freecorder, and hit the record button. Give your file a name, and keep it going until you want to stop. Then hit "stop" and view files. You can play the file you just recorded by clicking on it.

And if you Mac users have already noticed that Julie's freecorder hates you, you can always downloadAudioHijack
It works great for Mac OSX

Hey, I can't help the fact that you Macsters insist on playing with your EasyBake ovens in a Viking world.

Okay, now I need help from all of you advanced cyber-thinkers.
My computer at work is being watched by Big Brother, aka Perot Systems (yes, Ross Perot's son) and when I put Manaoradio.com into my favorites a few years back, they censored it as "entertainment". So my problem is I can't put in the URL. Is there a way I can circumvent the URL by picking it up through a secondary source?

Example. If I Google a sight and go into Cache, I can get that URL minus...say the pictures.
Any ideas?
Thanks.

h: Perhaps you could do it without opening a web page in Explorer. Just open Winamp, choose File, Play URL, and when the window comes up asking for a URL put in the radio station's IP address: 64.62.252.134:4040

So Choolie you are obviously the Alpha Geek here and I curtsy deeply as I say so...when I try to tune into the station it breaks up into fragments of sound and silence. In Winamp, the scrolling window at the top right where it says 1.Manao Radio live from Maui changes to something like (Buffer 60%) with choppy silence then the live feed sounds for seconds then (Buffer 20%) again with choppy silence. Any thoughts on connecting to a smooth signal?

I guess they're trying to tell you something... Like, stop spending all the company (you "work" for)'s dollars playing on the computer. :)

If they put REAL Spyware on that thing, you would be working in your kid's cafeteria within two months.

Well, thanks for your advice Mahatma. Guess what? Some people can listen to music AND work at the same time? Would you believe that the human brain is so complex?

"Some people can listen to music AND work at the same time? "
h,
That is correct, you just aren't one of them. I think you will look cute wearing a hairnet in the Cafeteria...

h,
you might want to take that course in basic computer skills while your present employer will pay for it.

Thanks, everyone.
I already have a radio and tape player in my office. I listen to talk radio while I work (alone) or music. Sometimes I play CD's. The difference here would be that I would be listening to Charles' show for 4 hours once a week. If you are having some fun at my expense, fine. If you are trying to be condescendingly upright, I feel sorry for you.
Choolie, thanks for the tip- I'll try it and if it doesn't work, then I guess I'll just have to miss out.
-h

LadyArtist- I'm not really a geek, but I AM married to one. And my Big Manly Hunk of Geek wants me to point you in the direction of the manaoradio website, the link halfway down the first page for listening problems. It takes you to a problems page which talks about changing your buffer size. You could try following their advice. My husband's other suggestion: In your Winamp player, choose options, then preferences, and under the general preferences it asks you to select your internet connection type. Instead of telling it that you have a high speed connection, he suggests you try telling it that you are connected via dial-up modem. His thinking is that Winamp would then have to increase the buffer size to maximum, because if you're on a slow connection it would have to try to get as much information into the buffers at one time as possible. I am running it that way right now and it works. But then again, it worked for me when I told it I had high speed, too.

That's all I've got. Hope it helps.

"I think you will look cute wearing a hairnet in the Cafeteria..."

Ben,
If you think I would look cute wearing that hairnet, you should see me when I take it off....

Mahatma,
I'd love to work those Cafetaria ladies hours....
no weekends, no holidays, no summers, no mornings, no afternoons...
Ah...the life of The Ladies Who Do Lunch....

Charles......siitng here in NJ waiting to hear the first show...streaming thru my TIVO server....break a fingernail!!!!(Legs take too long to mend at our age!!)

Cathy

Wow! Chuck is on "FIRE" on his new gig!
Mannish Boy-Muddy Waters
Airport-The Motors

Wicked Pissa!!!

Thanks Charles-You transformed a gloomy and raw New England day. I jacked the heat up to 85 and danced around in a flower sarong. You still rock!
Sign me, Island Envy