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Quote from: area51drone on July 10, 2015, 10:39:33 AM
Man, I thought MJ was a good deal.   I definitely will switch to this after some of my MJ lines expire (I have 4 of them).    Only problem with it is that I don't think it offers 911 service?  So you're kind of fucked if you need it for emergencies.   For that reason it won't replace my regular home line.

I have the Obi202 and love it. It is capable of 911. Or more precisely it is the service I use with the Obi that offers the 911 (Callcentric) but I imagine others do too.

also

2001-04-20
1997-01-02 - not available as far as I know

Quote from: yumyumtree on March 31, 2015, 05:50:46 PM
The guy getting married, whose name I forget, had done business with Baronelle(the lady who owned Arlene's ) on other occasions. She had also employed gays. She didn't discriminate against gay PEOPLE, she just didn't want to do a gay wedding, because it would mean being there, being a party to a ceremony against her principles.

Yeah there is a big difference there. I'm sorry that this isn't understood and is instead scoffed at.

This law is flat out misconstrued in the media and by the public.

http://thefederalist.com/2015/03/30/your-questions-on-indianas-religious-freedom-bill-answered/
http://thefederalist.com/2015/03/30/meet-10-americans-helped-by-religious-freedom-bills-like-indianas/
http://thefederalist.com/2015/03/30/connecticuts-governor-doesnt-understand-his-own-states-rfra/

Enya - Cursum Perficio (1988)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd_DuEU6Mvg

Enigma - Goodbye Milky Way (2006)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-2zTOcagLg

In 5 billion years the Andromeda Galaxy will collide with our Milky Way
A new gigantic Cosmic World will be born.

Quote from: The General on March 07, 2015, 12:57:02 PM
If anyone knows any other bumps that aren't on this list, let me know.

General:  Nice list. I only have a mish-mosh list of "Coast" bumpers, where the bumpers which Noory added to Art's collection can't be distinguished.  It's good to have a list of *** Art's *** bumpers.

More of Art's:

Doors - Don't You Love Her Madly
Nancy Sinatra - Lady Bird
Asereje - The Ketchup Song
Gerry Rafferty - Get it Right Next Time
Bobby Sherman - Seattle
Peter and Gordon - Knight in Rusty Armor
Mamas and the Papas - Saw Her Again Last Night
Diana Ross and the Supremes - The Happening
Bee Gees - Night Fever
Andy Williams - Can't Get Used to Losing You
Turtles - You Showed Me
Irene Cara - Flashdance
Air Supply - Lost in Love
Reflections - Just Like Romeo and Juliet
Gary Lewis & the Playboys - Rhythm of the Rain
Dick & Dee Dee - The Mountain's High
Poetry in Motion - Johnny Tillotson
ELO - Rockaria
The Vogues - Five O'Clock World
Randy Newman - Short People
Four Seasons - Working My Way Back to You
John Lennon - Imagine
George Harrison - Blow Away
Led Zeppelin - D'yer Mak'er

Some of these are pre-1972 though, which doesn't help in putting together new bumpers.

I think some of these he might have played rarely - like Short People, lol. 

The General's list is on p. 17 of this thread if anyone's wondering.

Quote from: Schlyder7 on March 28, 2015, 03:37:47 AM
Remove the s from the https in the link.    I just discovered that too.

Thanks!!!

Quote from: Art Bell on March 27, 2015, 09:37:52 PM
Well the really good news here is that a 24ghz Microwave shot was made to my property today with really awesome high speed Internet so many things are now going to be possible besides high quality transfer of the show, for example we are going to use SIP service for phone lines which will allow toll free lines for International callers. It's a new World.

Art

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3N9SVfs0jg

All Over the World  -  E L O   

I'm missing something with how to embed these - oh well, next time....

Great stuff.  All the best, Art.

Would love to get this PM..  (((( !!!!! ))))

Is my account screwed up because of the name change?
not sure I ever posted it
january fka jan78

Quote from: phrodo on January 31, 2015, 02:25:47 AM
Dreamland was definitely my favorite and I still listen to the archives over and over (along with selected C2Cs). Every time I hear "The Oh of Pleasure" it just sets the mood for interesting entertainment. Hope he re-includes The Oh in his re-boot show.

yeah I never tire of hearing the Oh ! Love it.  There's nothing else like it.

Quote from: henge0stone on January 18, 2015, 08:22:45 PM
Fricken Awesome torrent Williedee and everyone who helped with it!'
I love the massive amount of Dreamland shows in this archive. Finally I got to hear Max the Crystal Skull, John Anthony West, John Mack and so much more, I'm just getting started. I love the show lists too they really put things in perspective as to when shows aired. Good work everyone!

You are most welcome! Great to hear.

Noticed that Coast has begun airing new SIT material - a complete new one, and one that we only had part of.  Trying not to read too much into this. Probably some fluke...

Quote from: rvkitty on January 14, 2015, 11:59:38 AM
I really love williedee's archive. It's pure gold! In it is Hour 3 of the Sept. 27, 1996 show. Does anyone happen to know why the other hours aren't available? I'd really love to hear the whole thing. It's Art Bell interviewing Graham Hancock, Richard C. Hoagland & Robert Bauval talking about controversies surrounding the Sphinx. Fascinating!

Hi there rvkitty,
We DID have 2 hours dated 9/27/96, but it turned out that ~1.5 hours of it was a repeat of another Hancock show (6/18/96), so.... it only made sense to include the 35 mins. that were unique to 9/27/96.   
Unfortunate, I know! 
(and the full interview with that panel is probabably 4 hours)
Great to know that you and others are still enjoying this

Quote from: Jackstar on May 31, 2014, 08:36:15 PM
Wow! Hi! Thank you!

So, did you have these shows in a longer format before, and then the files broke, or did you get them broken?

I think it was a whole show that partially bit the dust - as I ended up with other partials that previously had all their parts - but can't say for sure any more with respect to that particular one.  Yes, frustrating...

The Nov. 14, 16 are in the old listings (After Dark, etc.), is what I meant.

Quote from: albrecht on May 31, 2014, 07:16:02 PM
I'm still looking for the "feral human" show with Art and guest Jeff Holland back in 97. I swear I heard it and the interwebs show references to it but never able to find it on youtube, torrents, SIT replays,etc.

For some reason only the first hour (news and open lines) was recorded (8/18/97) and that much is in the torrent but no more.

Quote from: Jackstar on May 31, 2014, 07:23:19 PM
November 14, 1997. There's a nice copy of the first hour or so in the .torrent. The best parts I remember are, of course, farther towards the end.

November 16, 1997. The following Sunday, Dreamland is short. I don't know if it is cut off, or if that's all that they made. Dreamland was pre-recorded, wasn't it? And then sent to syndicated affiliates? I don't remember, if I ever knew. I'm not even sure if Art took calls on Dreamland.

Hi J. Those partial shows about Lights over the Northwest were from me - I acquired them in 2006.   Danged if I know why they're partial..  but sometime in 2008 I had a hard drive mishap and a bunch of shows I had were trashed that weren't backed up, and I think those were among the casualties or partial casualties. 

Nov. 16 seems to end the topic at the first segment - first half-hour. Next it goes to Mark Ritchie.  Would love to hear that one...

Both shows, Nov. 14 and Nov. 16, were sold on tape by Premiere, so they may yet turn up...

Dreamland was pre-recorded on the Friday before the Sunday broadcast, but I'm not sure when that started - at least in 1998, maybe earlier.

Quote from: coreywoolsey on May 31, 2014, 11:55:18 AM
Hey friends,

I am curious to see if anyone has the episode with David Skal from 10/29/2002. I know it was not in the ultimate collection. Just thought I would ask.

Thanks guys,

Corey

Hello Corey, I do have that show - it's Noory.

I guess you're looking too albrecht.  The one I have is 2:51 in length so it's the full show.

Quote from: jazmunda on April 25, 2014, 01:30:41 AM
I actually like all the local news from the 90s. There is just something nostalgic about it. Funny thing is is that when I was listening live all those years ago I hated all that stuff. Now I can't get enough of it. Don't get me wrong I listen for Art. I probably wouldn't listen to the stuff on your cutting room floor if Art wasn't the pay off in the end.

I'm glad it was OK with you.  Some news I never heard the first time - so it was quite fascinating to listen while editing (at least as time permitted). Also I love getting Art's take on '90s news. There was a pretty interesting political hour, with Art (non-SIT version only, included for that reason) (2/18/98).  Same issues, different day.

Quote from: zeebo on April 25, 2014, 09:52:48 PM
January thanks for the conscientious care you took with the project.  You and Williedee and all the other noble souls who helped out with this have delivered a great gift to us.

Thank you very much.

Quote from: Paper*Boy on April 24, 2014, 07:21:34 PM
It builds their name recognition, which turns into campaign volunteers and donations, which turns into them being portrayed as 'electable'.  They are not.

Indeed.  Elect me because I'm electable, basically.  Awe-inspiring.

Quote from: jazmunda on April 24, 2014, 05:09:53 PM
The commercials are the best part! I love hearing about human growth hormone, hard water and technoginals.

Art does do a good commercial....   

The Dreamlands do have all their commercials.  Didn't have the heart to lay a finger on them.

Quote from: mikealden on April 24, 2014, 06:05:38 PM
Whoa! Awesome detective work!!!

Thanks! 

Quote from: mikealden on April 24, 2014, 06:05:38 PM
Also thanks for purging some of those commercials. There were a bunch of shows that I never listened to because I didn't want to deal with all the commercials in a 5 hour show! I'm listening to the 1997-1-21 show for the first time ever today!

I concur mike. What I targeted the most were those 5-hour shows with local news/commercials, now 3 and a half hours, or less, without that.   

Before anyone freaks... I was conservative with editing otherwise.

There've been so many philosophies of how to edit.  I say, ...

Remove bumper music?  NEVER.

Remove Hour 1 or Open Lines?  Of course not.  If a show doesn't have those, it was already like that, or it was recorded that way, and no one has ever had different.... that we know of.

Remove transitions? (that is, the chatter by Art and Ross et al. on the half-hour) (Is there radio lingo for that?) No, I always keep that... except for ads .  But some show editors did remove all that stuff (or it never got recorded).  If a show is found like that in this archive, it was already like that.

Quote from: bigchucka on April 23, 2014, 08:42:46 PM
Think I might have seen a Romona and a Molten, but it isn't like I'm grading English papers, and I'm sure there was a fuckton you did catch and fix.....  thanks for the hard work!

>Romona

Oops, that show - Feb 9 1994 - was up for deletion. It's really 9/3/93 + excerpts from 9/2/94 we already have. 

That Art and Ramona Triangle Sighting show has been around forever, and when I finally decided to scrutinize it, it was curious what I found. The Triangle portion plus intro, I realized, dates to late Aug/early Sept. 1993, which you can tell by the news and other items in it. The Coast listing has a Lear show on 9/4/93, but that was a Saturday, so it seems they meant 9/3/93 (Fri->Sat).  The Triangle part and intro with Lear go for about 38 minutes. Then, the rest of the show after that could be eliminated - it was the Sept 2 1994 Lear show we already have, but with 5-10 minute interview segments chopped out here and there (go figure).  I redated the good portion to 9/3/93.  It is really a cr@pshoot what some of these shows really contain(ed)....   weirdness, junk, and nice surprises.

In other words you can remove Feb 9 1994 from your archives because you have its contents elsewhere already.

Thanks! Hundreds of hours went into fixing errors, resolving dates, splitting/joining, purging commercials, finding/synching best version of a show, etc. - on my part.  So no problem, it is useful to hear about anything else found, which it surely will be.

There are glitches, but you may not run across them for a while.

Go ahead - the first one to find a total of 10 errors gets a free Art Bell archive!  Oh wait...

---
Seriously, point them out if you want to, it's useful.

Quote from: january on April 20, 2014, 12:50:49 PM
about 250 Dreamlands from 1994-99

250 wasn't right. It was about 210.  Sorry about that

Quote from: phrodo on April 19, 2014, 12:09:18 AM
What about his Dreamland shows? Anyone know how many of those he did. I really like Dreamland... and that totally cozmic 'Oh of Pleasure' theme.

Art did about 250 Dreamlands from 1994-99

Before that, Dreamland was Area 2000.  Would love to hear some of those.

Quote from: OldTimeRadio on April 16, 2014, 10:43:35 PM
Somewhere around 89/90/91, I heard my first batch of C2C shows, I think.  It wasn't for another five or so years that I started listening regularly.  I don't know if it was called Coast to Coast back then, but it was Art Bell talking abotu Bigfoot and aliens.  This was in Oregon, BTW.

As far back as Dec. 12, 1992, the earliest show we have, he was calling it Coast to Coast.

Quote from: ItsOver on April 16, 2014, 08:19:50 PM
Primarily curious about the total number of C2C shows Art hosted over the years.  I've been wondering about how many shows could end up as a SIT broadcast.

I figure it will take them 25 years (!) to run out of candidates for SIT shows.  At least under the present scenario.

# of AB shows
(non-replay)   
------------- 
2010     10   
2009     12   
2008      9   
2007     55   
2006     72   
2005     60   
2004     93   
2003     38   
2002    145   
2001    163   
2000     50   
1999    166   
1998    209   
1997    219   
1996    210*       *estimate - no complete index exists
1995    210*       *estimate - "
1994    210*       *estimate - "
       -----   
       1,930     

Exclude
shows
post-
2002   -349
       -----
       1,581  minus 334 SIT shows = 1,247 / 50 = 25 years

They've drawn SIT from 1994-2002 almost exclusively.  I wish they'd widen it to 1990-1993 too.  But on the assumption they won't....

Let's see, they started SIT in 2007, so we've had ~7 years already. 7 x ~50 shows a year - that's about 350 weeks for SIT shows - that roughly checks out with the number we have to date (334).  They do repeat them on occasion.  Subtracting those already broadcast as SIT, that leaves 1,247 possible candidates for SIT or about 25 years' worth. 

Hmmm.  They could EASILY widen it to 1990-1993, put out 2-3 or more SITs a week and still get vast mileage out of this.  That is if those years are available to them.

Quote from: williedee on April 14, 2014, 09:36:48 AM
Sorry ya'll, I was out of town since wednesday for an event, but I'm back. pretty much all that's left is renaming about 200 or so shows because they had a lot of spelling errors or missing info. I'll be able to take care of those quickly

I wouldn't say there were "a lot" of spelling errors...  We have our act together by now   It is just a few embarrassing ones, lol. And a few other nits I thank you for doing at the last minute.  Not all shows have first hour guest info but I did add some more of them to the titles, even though it made the titles a bit longer.  I did once spend an age trying to find the show with Gordon Lightfoot. I figure it is worth knowing of others interviewed in a given show, even if just so you know what you want to skip over

Quote from: NIN2 on April 04, 2014, 04:53:36 PM
is this the offcial list of what the torrent will contain?

http://pastebin.com/Jsd6hVkE

i went their and saw a bunch of errors in titles and scrolled down and tried to edit didnt work :-(

That list is a draft from 6 weeks ago.  Much has been corrected or added since then, mostly for  the pre-2000 time frame. 

We were at 1141 shows then,  and it's about 1290 now. And that is before the news of today - more yet to  be added...

Quote from: NIN2 on March 20, 2014, 01:38:39 PM
Just wondering if you ever matched these dates and topics up with the old artbell.com webpage?  If i remember correctly Keith had a huge list of his shows not sure how far back keith went tho.

Yes, the old artbell.com is a gold mine of info back to Sept 1996 when it starts.   Also helpful in id'ing shows is the Premiere tape list that widespread scanned for us.  It doesn't list every last show, just those offered on tape - starting with all of 3 shows in 1993, about 50 shows in 1994, and increasing from there... up to 2001, when the list dates from.  At the peak maybe three-quarters of the Coast shows were offered on tape (very rough estimate), and just about all of the Dreamlands. 

jimg and onan: 
Thanks!  I'm glad that others share in the sense of mission, because that's how I feel about it.

Quote from: Renton on March 11, 2014, 01:09:42 PM
That's confusing, are you guys going backwards then? I'm obviously wrong, but id assume that the older the shows the harder it was to check the labels, dates etc.

For one thing, I find that the later shows refer to the earlier shows much more than the other way around, so that reviewing backwards has been a boon for filling missing info on earlier shows as I move back in time. It's true that the earlier years have gone more slowly due to there being more uncertainties to resolve, plus the remaining loose ends on integrating the collections from j. and w.  Thanks all for your patience, what's left of it 

Getting close to lift-off now

Quote from: albrecht on March 03, 2014, 10:16:04 PM
I can't wait, will seed. I can't imagine the hardwork!!! From tapes, dupes, partial shows, and the frustrating naming issue on files and previous torrents, youtubes, archives, etc helping to confuse things. Plus the various and sundry ownership and 'disappearing' shows (I'm still trying to find that elusive "feral human" show!!) Thanks for the hardwork!

You're welcome. You get the picture Also, replays vs. originals... Then you have the shows that are one file with one date but in fact are 2-3 or more shows or parts of shows merged together, that need to be split and identified - all kinds of fun. Some gems did turn up that way.

From here on, things will speed up... I keep saying saying that...  but 1998 was the most work of all, 1997 is easier.

The feral human show is still elusive...