Dick Vaughn's Moribund Music Of The '70s is a collection of recordings edited from a wealth of material broadcast on KPFA

KPFA

KPFA is a listener-funded progressive talk radio and music radio station located in Berkeley, California, broadcasting to the San Francisco Bay Area. KPFA airs public news, public affairs, talk, and music programming. The station signed on-the-air April 15 1949, as the first Pacifica Station...

's Over the Edge

Over the Edge (radio)

Over the Edge is a sound collage radio program hosted and produced in the United States by Don Joyce.Joyce is also a member of the pioneering sound collage band Negativland, members of which frequently make guest appearances on Over the Edge. A series of Over the Edge episodes have been released...

radio show, hosted by Don Joyce weekly and featuring members of Negativland

Negativland

Negativland is an experimental music and sound collage band which originated in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1970s. They took their name from a Neu! song, while their record label is named after another Neu! song...

, as well as material recorded at a Live Negativland show just after the "U2 Scandal." The recordings are broken up into two discs, and within that contain bits and pieces of many different Over The Edge Shows.

Everything centers around one recurring character that has made many appearances on Over The Edge, that of radio personality Dick Vaughn. Track 1 of Disc 1 is taken from a recording that was played to live audiences during the tour that took place just after the U2 Scandal. Tracks 2 - 9 are taken from "The California Superstation" broadcast, which presented Over The Edge as the kind of corporate station one would hear at the time, hosted by Dick Vaughn, and performed with Negativland's typical tongue-placed-in-cheek. Tracks 10 & 11 are snippets taken from other Dick Vaughn pranks, in both cases involving other people's radio shows. Tracks 12 & 13 of Disc 1, and Tracks 1 - 6 of Disc Two are taken from the "Moribund Music Of The '70s" show, in which Dick Vaughn begins the first-ever "'70s Nostalgia" broadcast, complete with authentic '70's radio gimmicks, commercials, and the usual Negativland sense of humor. Tracks 7 - 10 of Disc two are all taken from different shows, and feature commentary on the "Moribund" show, another classic Dick Vaughn prank, and a 15 Minute excerpt from the "Dick Is Dead" show. Finally, Tracks 11 & 12 are taken from a live Negativland performance, and includes the complete tape that opens the CD.

Originally released in 1990 by SST Records

SST Records

SST Records is an American independent record label formed in 1978 in Long Beach, California by musician Greg Ginn. The company was initially called Solid State Transmitters through which Ginn sold electronics equipment...

 on cassette only, it was re-released in 2001 by Negativland's own label, Seeland Records

Seeland Records

Seeland Records is an independent record label created by Negativland in 1979 to release their own recordings. It is a reference to the song "Seeland" by the band Neu!, who also gave Negativland the basis for their name, Sea-Land Corporation, a freight company, and the micro-nation of Sealand,...

, as a CD

Compact Disc

The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,...

. The CD version contains material not included on the original release.

Track listing

DISC 1

1. "Introduction" (1:37)
2. "Ron Baile's School of Broadcast, The Mating Line, More On Music, etc." (8:14)
3. "James Gabbert's Delight, Pat Boone's Cow, Evening Magazine, etc." (7:44)
4. "Roy Storey's Sports Line #1" (2:46)
5. "More More On Music, Suicide Man, Idle Threats, etc." (7:51)
6. "Celebrity Wives Quiz, More Idle Threats, People Are Talking, etc." (9:29)
7. "Roy Storey's Sports Line #2" (3:18)
8. "Earwitness News and Back to More Music, etc." (9:00)
9. "TV Trivia, Dick or Dukes of Hazzard, More More on Music, Suicide Man Again, etc." (5:34)
10. "Ringo is Dead" (6:55)
11. "An Apology to Roy (Roy Storey's Sports Line #3)" (3:14)
12. "Introduction, Witness for the Documentation, Disclaimers and Floaters, etc." (8:03)
13. "More Music, How to Use Your Cubulax, Ford For President, etc." (5:14)

DISC TWO

1. "Off-Air Comments #1, Household Vocable, Wrong Cues Begin, Is He Stoned?, etc." (4:27)
2. "News Headlines, More Wrong Cues, Top 10 Countdown, etc." (6:15)
3. "Off-Air Survey: You MUST Be Hearing These Recordings!" (6:58)
4. "Countdown Continues, Still More Wrong Cues, Moribund Music of the 80's, etc." (5:17)
5. "Off-Air Comments #2, Suicide Man: It Doesn't Seem to Be Flowing Very Well, Ruining the Concept, Six Months of My Life, etc." (7:41)
6. "More Off-Air Surveys: Rainbow Gets Jammed, Suicide Man's Universal Theory" (6:38)
7. "Oslo Norway and Psychic Freeze" (4:38)
8. "Crosley Bendix and the Damage Done" (6:30)
9. "Dick Vaughn, Popular TV-mentalist" (1:22)
10. "Dick Is Dead" (15:20)
11. "A Tape for All Deaths" (5:00)
12. "The Hell-Bound Plane" (7:13)

Personnel

• Don Joyce
• David Wills
• Mark Hosler
  Mark Hosler
  Mark Hosler is an American musician who is a founding member of the sound art collective Negativland.- Career :Through his public speaking, lectures and extensive interviews, he serves as the primary spokesperson for the group...
  
  
• Richard Lyons
  Richard Lyons (musician)
  Richard "Pastor Dick Seeland" Lyons is one of the members in Negativland. His personas in the band include Dick Vaughn, 5-time Cali Award winner; auto trivia expert...
  
  
• Chris Grigg
• Ian Allen
• Earl Yazel
• Jim Bryan
• Doug Wulff.
• Rob Wortman
• Arne Ryason
• Brook Hinton (Kings House)
• Dr. Oslo Norway
• Crosley Bendix
• Peter Conheim
• George Prepared
• Enrico Gomez
• Steve Vernon