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- Steve Yasko
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- Location: Baltimore, MD
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- "The Lungfish Radio Project"
- Summary: Punk visionary Daniel Higgs shares his thoughts on music at large and reflects on the 17-year history of his band, Lungfish, a group that’s shunned the mainstream music industry and amassed a devoted following that spans the globe.
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Review of The Lungfish Radio Project
Steve Yasko
Posted on December 31, 2005 at 12:39 PM
Making a dull artist interesting is a tough job.
This piece is too long to leave the listener interested in this pretty dull guy. Sometimes the quality of an artist's work and their abilty to tell an interesting story does not sync. Sorry. That's the bottom line on this piece. Lungfish is a pretty much a space case that I suspect will bore the heck out of anyone living in just three dimensions.
However, this is shining example of how a producer can make a very listenable piece. It is skillfully produced. The leveling and the pacing of the narration with the music are wonderful. There is just not much a producer can do speed up the subject's pacing or increase his coherency that doesn't include a narcotics conviction.
I can't say I could see this being aired in its current size on other statoins that are not fully vested in this artist. Reworked to about 3-5 mins and with some sort of hook. Several rounds of editing will make this a piece we would consider airing on our station.