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Originally posted by Paul Farnham:
Who's Skip Weshner?
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Skip Weshner as a google search should tell you was a Disk Jockey in the City
Of The Angels
indeed from the above wiki link
"Skip Weshner (1927-1995) was a disc jockey on stations in New York and Los Angeles from the mid 1950's until the mid 1980's.
In particular, he hosted a popular show on KRHM-FM in Los Angeles. He is known for inviting artists such as Gordon Lightfoot
and John Denver to his show" and Wayne describes Gord's visits in four of the first seven entries on:-
http://www.lightfoot.ca/radioapp.htm
As I understand it, since Skip's death a number of recordings from his broadcasts have surfaced and a simple "weshner" search
right here on corfid reveals Gloria's posting in February 2005:-
topic: For Trade: Lightfoot 1968-70 KRHM The Skip Weshner Tapes 4CDR's
at:-
http://www.corfid.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ul...c;f=1;t=003004
these have also been available from time to time as a "torrent"
"torrents" wot r they then??
Again see corfid for some details
http://www.corfid.com/ubb/ultimatebb...=003236#000003
I believe that the original prime source of torrents was
http://www.easytree.com, and although that site seems to have for most practical purposes disappeared, it has been supplanted by
dimeadozen.org for torrent listings, yet there is still a most useful "artwork" depository at:-
http://artwork.easytree.org/
which is a page entitled
"artwork.easytree.org - Yet Another Artwork Source".
There you will find an enticing "Artist Selection" tab clicking which moves on to show a drop down artists box logically prefaced by "Please select an artist:"
scrolling the resulting list about half way down you will find betwixt Dave Liebman (who he??) and Lightning Hopkins Sam
a familiar name:-
Gordon Lightfoot (9)
clicking which will open:-
a GL page showing 9 sets of artwork including 3 for the various "Skip Weshner" CDs for example
<a href="http://artwork.easytree.org/artwork/grdl/grdl_1968-1970_skip-weshner-show-los-angeles-ca_inlay-card.jpg" target="_blank">
</a>
(Click on that picture for a larger version of this sample CD jewel case inlay)
and better (less garish) artwork for the 1967 Montreux Festival
note that all these items are ROIO
(Recordings Of Independant Origin) as dimeadozen likes to call them in their site's disclaimer
"DIME is merely a BitTorrent tracker for audio and video recordings of independent origin (ROIO) which have not been officially released. No audio or video content is hosted here. We only provide meta information files for the ROIOs.
If you're an artist (or a legal representative of an artist or its estate) and you don't want your ROIOs shared on DIME for
free among your fans, you may opt out any time by sending e-mail to the site admin. We will then put you in our list of not
allowed artists, known as the NAB list. This will halt all sharing of your ROIOs using DIME's trackers within minutes.
BTW, the ROIOs exist, you can't make them vanish. So, why not let your fans get them for free from one another instead of
having to purchase them from commercial bootleggers on auction sites"
