Sir Pent and the LFA masterpiece Giant Robot on The Bugcast
For the first time, Giant Robot has been played on a podcast. While following a link about…well, us…I stumbled upon a list of podcasts that play indie music. On that list was a little something called The Bugcast. It was too good of a name to pass up.
I sent lovebug our info and (no surprise?) he emailed back. He said he’d be happy to play our stuff…but which one. I suggested Giant Robot. It’s a song a think we all feel very strongly about and have received a lot of positive feedback on. Oddly, of all the podcasts we’ve been featured on, Giant Robot has never been used.
I offered up the option for a recorded intro to the song. Big mistake…he took me up on it. I recorded it and sent it off. I sound like I have a brutal headcold…and that has nothing to do with this recording. I sound like that all the time and hence should NEVER be recording my voice.
So go over and check out The Bugcast:
http://bugcast.thelovebug.org/media/bugcast-032-20081017.mp3
You’ll hear not only the “broadcast premiere” of Giant Robot, but my debut as well…and hopefully my finale.
You can also find out more about The Bugcast at:
http://www.myspace.com/thebugcast
Sir Pent
October 17, 2008 at 8:01 pm
I really, really do hate the sound of my voice. From now on, one of you other guys MUST do these kind of things.
October 17, 2008 at 8:05 pm
Also, first week of Steely Dan Fake Fact posted on front page.
October 17, 2008 at 8:19 pm
Na. It’s always that way. For some reason, the acoustics inside your head don’t correspond to the outside world. The intro sounds pretty good! My wife even said you have a nice voice. I mean, not as good as mine, but that goes without saying.
October 17, 2008 at 8:36 pm
Ugghh. I just hate it.
I tried to disguise it by putting that repetitive snippet of Giant Robot in the background. It didn’t help.
I didn’t hesitate to send it to everyone I know, though…because my need to self promote far outweighs the hatred of my own voice.
The things I will do to get our music heard…
October 17, 2008 at 10:37 pm
You did a fine job, it sounds awesome and I like what you said.
And thanks to lovebug for playing the song. Metro is right, that’s a good song and I’m glad some more people will get to hear it.
Even Ricky DeGrimes asked to hear a couple LFA tracks a second time on the ride home from Chicago (sorry, Berwyn), this one and Clipboard.
On another subject – Hawthorne was depressing. I had a great time, but I was disturbed by the number of people there with their young kids. On a school day. At a gambling facility. Kind of icky.
Also, there were totally mobsters. Dic and I discussed it on the way home, and we’re completely convinced that the people at the table one level up from us were connected. I sat in fear that Metro was going to do something to get us whacked.
October 18, 2008 at 6:28 am
Just needlessly to add praise: I think that little USB condenser mic also provides some pretty good sound. Makes me think again I should invest in a low-cost condenser of my own.
October 18, 2008 at 7:32 am
Actually, I recorded the promos just using the built in Mac laptop mic. (Was too lazy to go into the basement.)
Hawthorne was an enjoyable day…until the creepy trip downstairs. Ewww.
I don’t think those were mobsters. I checked them out on a few of my several trips to burn a mule…they’re just regulars.
October 18, 2008 at 11:40 am
Chicagoland. Gambling. Mobsters.
October 18, 2008 at 11:47 am
Nope. I know mobsters…those my friend, were no mobsters.
October 19, 2008 at 11:35 am
Holy Guacamole.
The cluster map on the front page has really gone up in the past day.
Nice.
Thank you bugcast!!
October 20, 2008 at 9:20 am
Weird…Cluster Map recognized a hit from South America but nothing from the hit tracker on wordpress, and the hit tracker on wordpress shows a hit from Aussiepodcast (Australia) but nothing on the Cluster Map.
Could cluster mapping be a day behind?
October 20, 2008 at 11:25 am
Map is slow. However, hit came from a link on the Aussie podcast, not necessarily from Australia. Could have been anywhere.
Stats are gimpy.
October 20, 2008 at 12:35 pm
Well, I’m done with submitting to podcasts for a few weeks. Basically, just about everyone that responded so far has pretty much said they WOULD play us…but also that they are a couple of weeks ahead.
I want to start looking into Japan because that could be a great market for GR, MrP and JAG.
October 20, 2008 at 10:23 pm
OK…I lied. I submitted to a few podcasts out of Spain and, after an exhaustive search, a couple in France. (LOTS of techno podcasts in France…)
October 21, 2008 at 6:31 am
You know those French. If anybody knows how NOT to rock, it’s the French.
October 21, 2008 at 6:45 am
Well…the French DID have one about something called EXTREME METAL, but I figured there was nothing extreme or metal about us so I just moved on.
South America and Australia…LOTS of podcasts about “technology”. (computers, home entertainment systems, phones, etc.) I’m not sure what I was expecting, but I thought that was interesting.
October 21, 2008 at 7:56 am
le metal extreme, c’est tres vite, tres dur, et pas tres cool.
October 21, 2008 at 8:47 am
No. It really isn’t any of those things.