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            <title>Goodbye City Lights</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[I just heard that CIty Lights record store in State College, PA will be closing soon.  I spent a lot of time in that store checking out albums (yes, the vinyl kind), tapes, CDs, books and magazines.  Greg, the owner of the shop, was like a master of ceremonies as he presided over the scene.  He could direct you towards music you were bound to like because he knew your tastes in recordings.  It was like the human version of the "People who bought... also like" links that appear when you buy online.  I suppose buying online is one of the reasons why City Lights and numerous other independent record stores are closing their doors.  I miss the good old days of going down to CIty Lights and hanging out, but I am not completely nostalgic about those times.  These days there is so much more music available to the average consumer.  Long ago I used to read about a release and spend weeks or months trying to track down a copy.  I did find other great stuff in libraries and enjoyed trips to larger cities to search in bigger stores but overall it was just more work.  I know that many artists who work in niche genres are able to sell much more music now online.  I used to sell my indie releases at City Lights and now they sell all over the world on iTunes and other online download shops.  So overall, there is much that has improved for musicians as well as fans.  So what do I miss?<br />I miss the human interaction.  More often than not I'd not buy anything at the record shop, but would hang out and talk music with Greg or any number of other patrons who were in the shop.  I miss seeing bands play live, being able to sit two feet away from Greg Ginn flailing away on his guitar was amazing.  I think that online retailing of music has many more benefits for the fan and the creator of the music but it misses the human interaction and connection.<br />Maybe the future will bring coffeehouses or listening centers that are primarily for gathering with other fans of recorded sound.  I don't feel bad about buying a CD from a band on it's website, but I miss having a great place to hang out.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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            <title>On The Air</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[I'm back on the air.  In case you didn't know I worked in radio for about ten years on the air and as a writer and producer.  I grew up listening to the radio in the 1960s and 70s.  I would sleep out in my treehouse on summer nights and listen to the magic sounds drifting in through the two inch speaker on my radio with the antenna pointed to the stars.  Cousin Brucie would speak to me from New York City, I'd hear the sound of Philly Soul on WFIL, CKYW would come in all the way from Canada.  There was the "Groovology" show on the local station WMAJ, not to mention the wonderful sound of baseball games on radio.  Even today, the sound of a crowd in the background and the slow measured cadance of an announcer describing the pitcher's preperation for the next pitch is one of the most beautiful sounds I know.  And yet, as much as I loved the experience I don't recall that it was a dream of mine to be on the air.  I was probably more interested in being a rock and roll guitar player (which I also got to do as a full time job for several years) I stumbled into radio actually.  My friend Ron Adams was already working for radio stations in State College, PA, my hometown and he eventually pulled me into doing commercials or small bits on the air reading the weather etc.  Soon after that, with art teaching jobs in short supply, I found myself working full time on the air.  My last regular broadcast was in 1991 and while I've missed the excitement of the medium, I haven't missed the stressful, uncreative world that radio was becoming even in my last days on the air.  Fast forward to 2009, the same Ron Adams now owns a station in the lovely, small town of Ligonier PA and since it's automated, or pre-recorded it means that I can "do" a show even from my home in Colorado.  A good microphone, digital recording and the internet are all that's needed.  So tune me in sometime on AM 1620 in the Laurel Valley of Pennsylvania or at <a href="http://www.ligonierradio.com">www.ligonierradio.com</a> on the internet 12 midnight to 5am Eastern Time Mondays through Fridays.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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            <title>New Band Name</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[When in the course of human music making it becomes necessary to seperate a band from the name it has previous used etc.  You know how it goes.  For over a year now I've played with two other musicians as the Slick Allen Trio, three people - trio, everyone's last name was either Slick or Allen, made sense, but also sounded too much like a jazz trio to me so we've changed our name to Big Sky Radio.  Well, what does Big Sky Radio sound like? I'd love to know.  For now you can find us at <a href="http://www.myspace.com/bigskyradio">www.myspace.com/bigskyradio</a> and on Facebook as well.  I'm still here and if you're here that means you've found me.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title>End of Summer and I remember</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Les Paul died on my birthday this year.  I think I may have seen him on my birthday once.  When I lived in New York I went over to the Iridium Jazz Club to see him many nights.  I wonder if he kept the drawings I did of him.  One night I was drawing during the show and afterwards he asked for a couple of the sketches.  My birthday is a good time for me to think about time and how we move through the years.  Perhaps it was this nostalgic mood that had me re-listen to my cover versions of songs by the well known and loved State College, PA band Cartoon.  I posted them on my page at MySpace - <a href="http://www.myspace.com/kevinslick">www.myspace.com/kevinslick</a> so you can have a listen if you like.  The crickets are singing outside the window tonight, the air is still and warm, the last rays of sun have gone behind the mountains to seek the farthest shore to the west ... "As far as Selidor" now that reminds me ...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title>summertime</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[It's summer and I've been spending most days tossing the wiffle ball, throwing the frisbee or helping my son learn how to ride a two wheeler.  When not doing that I've been working on movie music - This year's silent film is The Magician, which will have it's premier in June at The Monster Bash.  I've done music for two short indie films, one a documentary, the other a 50's sci-fi spoof called "Attack of the 50 ft Ghoul Girl".  There's also the new Lon Chaney double feature - Outside The Law and The Trap from oldies.com featuring my music.  The Slick Allen Trio continues to spin our folky music around the front range and at least two of us are going east this summer to play some shows.  You can find out more about the band at <a href="http://www.myspace.com/slickallen">www.myspace.com/slickallen</a> trio. <br />One of the most meaningful works I've taken on this summer has been writing a memorial or requiem for Forrest Ackerman.  This will be premiered in June.  I used sound bites from an interview I conducted with Mr. Sci-Fi and then used the music to express what the words could not.<br />I hope you're having a wonderful summertime, drop me a line - come on out to a show, have a good time!]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title>New DVD</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[My latest film score for a classic silent film is out now on DVD.<br />Here's the link:<br /><a href="http://www.oldies.com/product-view/5800D.html">http://www.oldies.com/product-view/5800D.html</a><br /><br />It's a double feature with Lon Chaney - Outside The Law, directed by Tod Browning and a rare Chaney film The Trap which paired Chaney with Irving Thalberg plotting the film.  The Trap is short, very little of the film remains but they did a great job restoring the film.  the Trap is also interesting in that it's Chaney's most stage-like acting on film and one of his rare flops at the box office.  Still you can see elements he would bring back in later films.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title>Earth Day</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[More words of wisdom from kindergarten.  After talking about Earth Day and what we can do, one boy said "Wow, Earth Day is really a hard day".  When I asked why he said "We've got to take care of the whole planet!"]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title>What's new? everything</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Springtime in the Rockies!  The weather changes every few minutes, sunshine and seventy degrees followed by two feet of snow.  Reminds me of the story where a king asked his wise men to boil down all the world's wisdom to one sentence and their response was "This too shall pass."  The story goes on to say he next asked them to condense all the world's wisdom to one word.  After a few years work they returned, the word was "Maybe"]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title>Wasn't That A Time?</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[I couldn't begin to tell you all the times I cried today.  Seeing Barack Obama hug John Lewis on the steps of the capital, hearing Aretha sing, listening to the soaring melody of "Simple Gifts", hearing the thoughtful, soulful, heartfelt words of change, seeing the ocean of beautiful humanity that stretched across the mall and truly transformed the city and made a people's history.  That's only some of the moments I'll remember and cherish.  But alone in my car tonight driving home after watching the replay with friends I was listening to Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes singing "Wake Up Everybody" and I was so filled with joy I just started shouting and crying and singing.  The words of the song where like dynamite exploding a dam inside me that held back joy, hope and faith in the future.<br />Isn't this a Time? Isn't this a wonderful time?]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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            <title>All Colors</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Today as I thought about Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday 80 years ago today I recalled the words the words of Abraham Lincoln when, at Gettysburg, he talked about it being up to us to carry on the great work that others had begun.<br />Later in the morning at work as I talked with kids about King's message we were coloring pictures of him.  One child said "I'm going to color him all colors because I think he'd like that".<br />And I thought so too.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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