STEWARTNESS!!!!! !!!!! aka Stewart's Gene Krupa show on BBC2

[Divemistress of the Dark]

Go click on Iain's link right now!!!!!!!!!!!

Just do it!!!!

Here, I'll save you the time:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00gkmrj

Man, do we owe Iain bigtime. Seriously. This is just unbelievable.

A four parter, you say?? Oh man oh man oh man.

EDIT....The BBC2 link only lets you listen to each episode for 7 days, so I'm Gigasizing 'em for your longterm listening pleasure. With the usual caveat: These things get commercially released, and we all gotta buy 'em. (Yeah, like that'd be pure torture, right? )

Also, changed the thread title so folks who didn't know Stewart was doing this - ahem - can find it.

Jan 9 episode: http://www.gigasize.com/get.php?d=mcwcgcnppdc

Jan 15: http://www.gigasize.com/get.php?d=lwn51p1b8cf

Jan 23: http://www.gigasize.com/get.php?d=98sr87zycjb

Jan 30: http://www.gigasize.com/get.php?d=cqg7vwfmncf

Feb 5: http://www.gigasize.com/get.php?d=b4xtxgwy03b

All five segments: http://www.gigasize.com/get.php?d=cqq1x0dbwnd

These links will all expire, so if you want me to re-up (probably the last one), just bump the thread or email me. Also, the files are small, so people can probably email them with ease. Thanks!

[luddite lady]

^
What she said. Totally!

[policerule]

Thanks, Dive!

and... FUCK! I'm having a problem downloading the player


edit: haha. got it apparently, we have 7 days to listen.

[Divemistress of the Dark]

I'll post this link in both threads...I feel kinda bad for taking thunder away from Iain's, but I was all excited and figured the thread header needed a ton of exclamation points to be sure folks didn't miss it...

This here's a 30-day link, as opposed to the Beeb's 7-day one...

http://www.gigasize.com/get.php?d=mcwcgcnppdc

Here's Iain's original thread:

http://www.stewartcopeland.net/forum/vi ... 543#158543

[shyvixen]

Niiice!

Thanks Iain and Dive.

[sockii]

Thanks guys!

Downloaded and will be listening in a few...

[Lynne]

Oh yeah ... this is FANTASTIC. Waves and waves of STEWARTNESS, along with really, really excellent content.

I'm fortunate that for years we had a long-time jazz journalist, Dick Buckley, who had a 3-hour radio show on Sunday afternoons where he'd play all of this stuff. He was actually around in the 1930s and saw a lot of these guys play in Chicago --Gene Krupa, Eddie Condon, Coleman Hawkins, etc. -- "the good old good ones", as he used to call them. He's in his 90s now and, finally, retired a couple of years ago, but we used to listen to his show faithfully every week. So I've heard a bunch of the stuff played in this episode before, and I am grateful to Dick Buckley for my familiarity with this outstanding music.

But yeah, Stewart is TOTALLY BUSTED! Allergic to jazz, yeah, whatever. What a blowhard (she says, lovingly of course) .

ETA: Eddie Condon, not Art Condon, d'oh!

[smudge]

A thousand thanks Iain and Dive for pimping the show in a way that the dear old BBC really didn't. And for the gigasize thingummy, Dive. I'm never sure what is and is not available overseas from the BBC website.

I've just listened to it again - it is so densely packed I couldn't take it all in first time. By all means throw rocks at my head for saying this, but the voiceover is a little pacey for my taste

The content though - wow. It is like a masterclass for this ignorant stick-wielding newbie.

And you have to love the line 'those are rim shots'

[DirtyMartini]

AWESOME.

Iain and Dive, thank you!

Stewart -- (I never thought I would say this) -- slow the fuck down!

[GinaSuperCat]

Hah, a few times in my life my past as a debater pays off--could speak and listen at upwards of 500 words a minute...this is one of those times <grin>

[DirtyMartini]

To be fair, the speed wouldn't be quite so noticeable if it were just Stewart and the music; the contrast with the other voices, though, makes him a bit of a tornado.

Some really nice stuff in the documentary. Thanks again for letting us know about this, Iain!

[Lynne]

[quote="smudge"]And you have to love the line 'those are rim shots' [/quote]

I have to say I didn't notice Stewart's pacing; perhaps I'm just used to it, because I've listened to that damn O'Reilly Mac conference thing so blasted many times!

I snickered at the rim shots line too, because it was cute, and because my brain was saying "oooh! rim shots!" just as Stewart was saying it, which made me laugh. On a similar note, I also likes the 'those are wood blocks' line, and how he explains that in some big bands wood blocks were the only things the drummer was allowed to play.

Love, love, love.

[animal]

Thanks Iain & Dive, downloaded will listen later.

You guys RAWK!!!

[TOWOS]

OK! Exactly WHAT do we have to listen to? The Gene Krupa program?

I see no Stew on the page.

[shyvixen]

[quote="TOWOS"]OK! Exactly WHAT do we have to listen to? The Gene Krupa program?

I see no Stew on the page. [/quote]

Yes, it's the Gene Krupa program.

Now I want to get The Gene Krupa Story on dvd.