002-Shaolin Records Podcast: "Welcome to L.A." was recorded in 1979 or 1980.

Shaolin Records Podcast

Richard Del CONNOR talks some more about his teenage years in Newfoundland and his band Lukey’s Boat. The song, “In The Darkness” by American Zen, is explained. Today’s basement tape is a song from the early 80s “No Hope In Surrender.” This acoustic guitar plus vocal song has never been performed until now. Richard sings along in his new baritone voice. Using his baritone voice Richard Del Connor is considering performing under the name, RICH CONNOR.

I've just listened to the tape. I still like being or now trying to be a tenor vocalist. A couple of my friends have been pushing me to sing lower... but some songs are more expressive in my high voice. So I've been practicing singing to some female vocalists and straining my voice... but the voice is like a muscle, you have to work it to strengthen it.

I tell a little about working with Frank Zappa in 1980. I told the stories about Frank Zappa on another podcast and the brand new microphone I was using totally crapped out on me and had static in the middle of the show. I didn't notice the defect until the next day when I listened to the entire podcast. But by that time iTunes had also noticed and took my "Richard Del Connor Philosopher Poet" podcast down. They took down the entire podcast series. I can appreciate their quality control. So I erased that podcast with a bunch of Frank Zappa stories on it, then recorded a new podcast with a better microphone.

Tomorrow I will walk to UPS and return the new microphone from Neewer for a new one. It's a USB microphone I could plug directly into my iMac. I'll let you know how the replacement works.

Hopefully iTunes will repost my "Richard Del Connor Philosopher Poet" podcast. See if you can find it.