Comedy on Vinyl Podcast Episode 361 – Nathan Rabin on Weird Al – In 3-D

Not even Weird Al knows as much about Weird Al as author and podcaster Nathan Rabin does.  He’s written more books on Weird Al than any of us have, and he has many thoughts about In 3-D.  This episode is a blast.

Host: Jason Klamm
Producer: Mike Worden
Guest: Nathan Rabin

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Comedy on Vinyl Podcast Episode 330 – Lisa Popeil on Bob Booker and George Foster – You Don’t Have to Be Jewish

Lisa is a voice teacher and a performer, who talks to me about working with Weird Al and Frank Zappa, including as a background singer on Al’s song about her father, “Mr. Popeil.”  I stand by my dumb food dehydrator joke, but for the record that one is Ron’s.

Host: Jason Klamm
Producer: Mike Wo

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Comedy on Vinyl Podcast Episode 313 – Tony Thaxton on Weird Al – In 3-D

Tony Thaxton returns and we finally get back to in 3-D!  Check out his new podcast, Bizarre Albums!

Host: Jason Klamm
Producer: Mike Worden
Guest: Tony Thaxton

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Comedy on Vinyl Podcast Episode 302 – Chris Houghton on Weird Al’s Debut Album

Our second Houghton brother joins me, this time to talk about Weird Al’s debut album, and it’s a blast.

Host: Jason Klamm
Producer: Mike Worden
Guest: Chris Houghton

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Comedy on Vinyl Podcast Episode 161 – Julia Prescott on Weird Al – Mandatory Fun

Julia is a stand-up and the host of the Simpsons podcast “Everything’s Coming Up Podcast!” and she decided to do something unusual.  She picked an album only a year old – the newest vinyl album we’ve ever talked about on the show.  Weird Al’s Mandatory Fun, regardless of age, is classic Al, so

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EXCERPT: Chapter 9 – Punning With Scissors: The Downside of Uploading

Chapter 9:
Punning With Scissors: The Downside of Uploading

Regardless of one’s position on the issue of file-sharing, there are a few cases that stand out for both sides of the arguments for and against the controversial practice. While mainstream artists both derided and endorsed the practice, the latter for its sheer ability to spread the word about talented music acts, some of them faced genuine obstacles in having to embrace not just the attitudes and habits of a new generation of music listeners, but an entire new era of technology and communication. One such artist was a man thought by most of his fans to be immune from “techno-fatigue” — “Weird Al” Yankovich.

When Napster was at its absolute peak in 1999 and 2000, “Weird Al” was in the middle of his “Running with Scissors” tour, premiering such hits as “The Saga

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Comedy on Vinyl Podcast Episode 149 – Craig Rowin on Weird Al – Off The Deep End

Craig Rowin of Your Pretty Face is Going To Hell drops by (and so do I, this was “on location” in Hollywood) to talk about Weird Al’s perfectly-timed “Off The Deep End.”  Now, before you write me an e-mail about this being a CD-era album, I’d advise you to go to the Netherlands.  Where they released this album on vinyl, apparently.  Craig squeaked it, but I’m glad he did.  This has one of my all-time top Weird Al songs, and we had a blast talking about (individually) meeting Weird Al, as well as, in his case, working with him.

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