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Welcome to the Neil Gladstone and friends or radio show. Happy Saturday for it. Happy Saturday to you too. It's 12:00 noon and time once again for an hour of music and comedy mostly from the mind of Neil Gladstone where your host for the show. I'm Audrey Perkins. And I'm Fred Child. This week Neal takes us in search of a suitable pair of pants. The most things disregarded crew brings you the latest news Sergio's Wayne is back again with more casual chatting. Our featured Oregon musician this week is Eugene's pianist and composer Michael Harrison. And as he does every week Private Eye Nick Kristoff relates his latest exciting adventures and of course we'll hear music by Neil Gladstone. We hope you can stay with us for your early Saturday afternoon. We'll be right back after this important message. Have you been putting off that gallbladder operation because you can't afford it. You have a kidney stone that just has to come out then hey it's time you heard about Sam's discount surgeons at Sam's discount circles. We can save you a

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Happy birthday to sue Beakman and Audrey Perkins and everyone who has a birthday in June. Music by Neil Gladstone. It's time for another episode of Nick Kristoff private eye. When you left me last time if you remember correctly. I was breaking my

immaculate 1947 Rambler hyena out of Yellow Dog towing. When something horrible had approached me in the pre-dawn darkness what I thought was a 200 pound ball Garion blood pool. Turned out to be my old buddy Augie Manolo having an asthma attack. His foolish behavior had scared me out of my wits and nearly cost him a rap on my head with a tire iron. Nevertheless the breakout had been successful and I was on the road again in pursuit of Jaime fleet the criminal mastermind who had stolen my priceless baseball card collection. Chapter 11. As I cruised along Kanker beach expressway in Plano Pantra. I reviewed my plan to get hold of blackmail Klein my underground contact in the builder's district. If anyone knew where fleet was it would be Blackie. I picked up Cleopatra's mobile microwave tele communicator and bile the number of Gladys epiglottis

a singer at the pink stallion and an old friend the blackies. Oh yeah this is just awful on his block either call her soft neck just realize what time it is. Yeah it's a quarter to six. What's the matter don't you have a clock. Yes I have a clock. I know what time it is do you know what time it is. Yeah that's a quarter of a sax I already told you that. Why was she stupid. Do you want. I'm trying to get ahold of Blackie Marquet. Oh Klein I don't know anybody. Black Book planets don't play games with me. My name's not Gladys you jerk you've got the wrong number. I don't call people up at six o'clock in the morning. She was obviously protecting someone. I had to try another tactic. I passed under Beekman bridge the turnoff to my old girlfriends neighborhood. The memory of our unfortunate romantic encounter passed over me like the

stench from a steel mill. Against my better judgment I decided to give her a call. Right. I mean. Did you. Have to. Have it. I have you. Right now. I'm not. I'm a sign of not to leave a message. Oh well Paulette and I should never have gotten back together anyway. It was just too bad it had to end like this. I was weeping openly as I passed the Carmen Street exit when I realized it was time for breakfast. I stopped into this great little restaurant I knew called Molly's. I serve a terrific octopus spot show. And Bob always kept a

bowl of hot for me as I guzzle the fragrant pure re my digital smoke or crystal calendar began flashing a message. Today was the day I was scheduled to appear on piddle paddle. But television game show that everyone was talking about. I figured it was an easy way to pick up a few extra bucks while I was waiting for my clients to pay up. I had Bob put the soup on my account and I drove immediately to Zan cluster studio hours. I was two hours early but I managed to get the security guard to let me into the bathroom. Yeah right there I sat and prepared myself for the arduous mental challenges that lay ahead. On piddle paddled. For more adventures. Need to get something done right after this important.

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the hour. Asks this question please. All right. How old is my seven year old son. Now wait just one andan minute here. When do I get a turn please Mr. Druce so we must have total silence. I'm sorry but I want to know when I get my turn. You'll get your turn as soon as a lower grade misses a question. All right then. What was that question again. Low rate. How old is my seven year old son. I think I know that one. I know that my plea to Mr. drifts up your target lower rate. You know he's seven years. Oh good job was done just right. God damn man I swear that's dope and it's gonna be game is mistery. You will be disqualified if there's yet another outburst

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Every week on the show we not only feature the music of songwriter Neil Gladstone but we also take this opportunity to learn about other artists in our musically rich state. Today's Featured Oregon musical artist is pianist and composer Michael Harrison from Eugene. There are two Michael Harrison's in Oregon. Both of them pianists and I've now interviewed both of them the first Michael Harrison I interviewed actually goes by the name of Michael Allen Harrison and is from Portland. This week's guest is Michael Harrison from Eugene. Michael Harrison is probably best known for a piece included on Wyndham Hills piano sampler. In a moment we'll play that piece which is entitled in flight. First here's Michael Harrison talking about events that led

to his recording with Wyndham Hill and how that helped shape his own musical focus at the Oregon Country Fair. And I heard all the music all day that didn't do anything for me. And then I heard Michael had to step on stage you know when to hold guitar and if you know me they played it shook me up really bad and I went home that night and I started writing a piece that was just letting go of all the power that we've been letting it really come through in a way that I felt would really move people. And then I just kept going to the piano every night and working out this tape which is called inflight. Now after writing plays. I had this feeling that I had to get the music out. I put together a demo and I sent it to six different record companies and then I just left it and waited to see what happened. And around six months later I got a phone call from Wyndham hill and a producer said that she'd listen to my tape and she really wanted to use my piece in flight on their record.

Well I was really excited because women here with my first story on the record company. So after recording for Wyndham hell I felt to do my own album. To me the whole process of putting that album together and working for Windham Hill created this self image and that image is now it's somebody. I see myself as an extension of humanity as somebody that in some way to to move people to change people and to give an expression to the human spirit. The inflight by Michael Harrison from Wyndham Hills piano sampler

also the title cut on his upcoming album. Later in the show we'll hear more music and conversation with Eugene's pianist and composer Michael Harrison. Did you ever wonder what was actually in the center of those cream filled desserts that don't need refrigerating. Stay tuned for casual chatting to find out this and more. Good evening ladies and gentlemen welcome to casual chatting. Tonight we'll be talking with Common Ground vice president and general manager of the ding dong division of the hostess Corporation which is a subsidiary of the General Foods corporation which

in turn is a subsidiary of a Boeing Corporation. We'll be asking Mr. Dryland exactly what it is that goes into the making of a ding dong. Good evening Carmine and welcome to casual chatting on thank you sir. You know a common you know why we've asked to hear exactly what is it that goes into the average ding dong. Well I'm glad you've asked me that. You see we start with your basic ingredients water. As I look. SIEGEL final failing guar gum and MSD. Hold on a second problem. What is this is dramatic. Yes as I login through a single file of failing is a previous case. Xanthian from the triangle family. It's a semi organic orange colored substance with roughly the consistency of motor oil. I see you continue or surely now we subject this basic mixture to extreme temperature and pressure for approximately 36 hours. This gives us a splendid you restrict jail which after several additional processes provides the familiar substance found in the center of ding dongs Twinkies

snowballs beehives and many cans. I said I was thought that was whipped cream. Heavens no austerity no whipped cream is terribly unstable aren't actually 8 and is subject to a wide variety of bacterial invasions. I see than this. Screw you no substance on me. The substance you put in ding dongs doesn't spoil. Certainly not ever. One of the great advantages of preparation 2 3 1 is that absolutely nothing can live in it. I see all that is an advantage. Yes it is no color. How do you respond to charges from health organizations that nothing real is using your product. You know nothing that ever grew. Well certainly Xylo drains like a ctl file failing Israel. You mean it comes from a prom. Yeah actually it's refined from a byproduct of aluminum foil but aluminum foil is not known to have any nutritional value. You're talking about nutrition as well as well let me set the record straight once

and for all we add multiple vitamins to everything Daang manufactured. There's more vitamin A in one dingdong than in 100 pounds of pig liver. So what you're saying is the children could you ding dongs and nothing else and do just fine nutritionally speaking and without the mess and bother. Can you imagine feeding your children 100 pounds of pig liver. My God it would be a monumental task. I really think you've missed my point here come what I'm getting at is that history used to be made of flour eggs of cream that sort of thing. Pardon me Sankyo but you're terribly behind the times. The products you've just mentioned are obsolete. We don't use them anymore. Why should we. We have such marvelous substitutes. Frankly we couldn't make a ding dong out of those products. Well the next time I see my children eating mannequins will be hot. Feel good about myself as a parent. As you should see until they do common ground of all being my guest today. Join me again next time for another edition

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I'm Audrey Perkins and I'm Fred Child and we're your host for the second half of the new Gladstone and friends radio show. We have more comedy and music including more music from our featured Oregon artist this week Michael Harrison. And we'll go shopping with Neil as he searches for a pair of pants. We'll also hear another timely news report from our most things disregarded team. And we have one of Neil's songs coming up. Now would you introduce this song. This is a song about taking refuge in the blues. How comforting the blues can be when we're hurt and how hard it is to give them up. Audrey sings it. Through. Your. Let me.

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It's. Good to. See. More music by Neil Gladstone than some dark blue performed by Audrey Perkins

and the Oakland stone recorded in concert in July of 1996. This past week Barbara and Neil Gladstone went shopping for some new clothes. Barbara found a few things she liked but Neil had a tougher time and he has some thoughts on the subject. Boy do I hate shopping for pants. I hate flipping through the racks. I hate pushy salespeople and I hate spending 28 95 for something that cost me $14 last time. But most of all I hate trying pants on one by one. Knowing in

advance that none of them are going to fit me right they never fit me right. They're not designed for my body. If the waist fits the behind bags out like a parachute. If the behind fits they're two inches too small in the waist parachuter turn a kit. Take your choice. I've got a 33 inch waist but pastel usually come at 33. They come in 32 or 34 so neither one fits. I take 10 or 12 pairs into the dressing room hoping there's been a design error and one of them will fit me. If I'm lucky there's something to hang them on in the dressing room. Of course I can hang up 12 pairs of pants so I lay them on a chair. If there is a chair. But where do I put the pants I reject. I used to be considerate and try to reattach them to the hangers but now hangers have those little metal clips that make you fold the pants squeeze the plastic and slide the clips at the same time. Forget it I can't do it it takes three

hands so I end up throwing everything on the floor. If I do find a pair that has possibilities I have to walk over to the mirror which is on the other side of the store. That way everyone gets a chance to see me with my tags flapping in my pant legs rolled in the water around my ankles. This is when the saleswoman sees me. How we doing today. I'm not having too much luck really. Those look quite nice on you. Yeah but there are no back pockets in these That's the way they're wearing them now. I really need back pockets. Have you tried the leisure sport casuals over here they have the back pocket. Yeah I tried those but there are too big in the seat area. Yeah how about the Gentleman John. Which of those are more of a dress pant. I was looking for something more casual. Yeah I get fit you want a pair of wranglers stretch marauders. My husband's a Johnny No but like you and he just loves them really.

I seen it but what size are we about a 30. Actually I'm 33 and about what color are we looking for. Grey or dark blue maybe I'll be right back. Shoppers rule by God King as I stand there with my taxi holding my shoelaces untied. I have visions of some teenagers stealing my wallet which I left in the dressing room. Well there's no 33 days but I found 32 and they do stretch. Oh those are Wrangler stretched marauders. The Salvation Army thrift stores for them. I don't really care for those. They'll fit you beautifully. They're not really what I would just give em a try you'll be surprised. OK I'll try em. These are the ugliest pants I have ever seen. They look like car seat covers. Well maybe they'll look better. All right. I wonder if I can slide on over my shoes so I don't have to take my

shoes off again. I hope I'm going to have to take my shoes off again. OK. Here we go. She's waiting for me. How we doing. Well those looks stunning on you. Yes you're right me Dangerfield. What do you think. I think they're putrid and I want to go. Well you know they're on sale you know 30 percent off. Say you know they they do fit pretty well and I've been looking for two hours. Maybe with a different shirt. To look better. The sale ends today. OK I'll take a good Joy. Wait a minute that's what I might do me. Never wear these. They'll hang in my closet for two years till my wife makes me give them to the Salvation Army. That's how they got all those Wrangler stretched waters in the first place.

Will that be cash or charge. We're back with our featured Oregon artist Michael Harrison. Even though Michael Harrison grew up in Eugene and has developed musically here in Oregon we might have to take a break from calling him an Oregon artist for a few years as he is currently packing his bags for New York City. As with all successful musicians it is a certain combination of interest good fortune and a large dose of talent that brings them into the public eye. Talent tends to speak for itself but the evolution of someone's interest and good fortune is usually not as obvious. Having a grandfather who was the Dean of Science at MIT for 30 years and a father who studied mathematics at Princeton and did some composing himself probably helped shape Michael Harrison's approach to studying a musical instrument. Being thoroughly versed in music

theory and exposing himself to Eastern music contributed to his curiosity about why the piano is tuned in such a way so that at a certain point in his musical development the piano started sounding out of tune. After some investigation and experimenting he started tuning the piano to the overtone series instead of the traditional way of tuning. While on a trip to New York Michael Heard Lamont young a pianist who composes for this odd tuning which is called Just intonation. Moved by the beautiful and unusual sounds that the piano makes when tuned in just intonation. Michael Harrison decided to become Lamont Young's Apprentice and was accepted as his tuner. He just returned from New York where he played Lamont Young's five a piece called The well-tuned piano. This relationship with Lamont Young brought him to New York frequently which exposed him to the cultural influences of New York. But it also further changed his perception of the piano itself and has continued to help shape his musical focus. But wait a second. On music with I started realizing that the piano the

way it is is not a fixed instrument you know people are being continually evolving. And even the modern piano is only been around for another hundred years or so as I was working with my own money. I came across an idea. And I created this rhyme taking the normal piano with the modifications and everything you know so that it could play into a different tuning by putting a pedal. Now this piano has been created call it the harmonic piano. It's actually due to be done in a week or so. And my current project is sort of like at the piano I want to start writing music for it and then if I can and the music reaches a certain level of maturity or really an album Here now is a piece written and played using just intonation tuning it is from his album entitled inflight which will be released this fall and Fortuna records.

This is called Because Of You by Michael Harrison. Because of you from Michael Harrison's upcoming album in flight. Despite the

fact that Michael is about to move to New York City he feels and respects his Oregon roots. Oregon is really my home and Oregon is very much harder. And growing up in Oregon I really feel a part of the community and a part of the state. And I feel that my music has really grown out of the northwest. But moving from Oregon to New York City has not only helped liberate Michael Harrison's view of the piano but has also helped cause a shift in his view of himself as a musical artist. I guess I could say one other thing about another self image shift which the self-image shifts from being just the piano to being a composer and I think that's really happened recently in New York. When I heard one of Philip Glass opera and the whole thing of seeing this incredible opera. Then having an orchestra playing book inspired me to do more than just write can do with one instrument a piano and that

was when I started going to Juilliard and studying orchestration and composition. And I feel like this is something that will take years to evolve. But I it's a change in my image of being just you know being a composer and I want my music to be used all of the instruments. I asked Michael what messages he would like to give to audiences. Music is like speaking without words but with close eyes experience. What I really want to do with my music and touch people in a way that maybe they could never be the same again. And that's my ideal and it doesn't always happen but occasionally. And there have been some works of our sometimes I've gone to the concert or heard a performer would have came to me and I could never be the same again.

But I want to hear from one to argue for this week's Oregon artist Michael Harrison appears on Wyndham Hill's piano sampler and is about to release his own album records entitled in flight he can be reached by reading Michael Harrison 23 62 Malabar Dr. Eugene Oregon 7 4 0 3. A man in Omaha loses 50 pounds in three days on a slug and onion diet. The Gregory Brinkerhoff piano competition in San Francisco is won by a dog a 40 pound rat is discovered eating pets in a suburb of Minneapolis and a man in

India gives birth to an ostrich. I'm sorry Eve and I'm Jonathan Livingston. These stories and less on today's edition of most things disregarded. Dog Malone. A four year old cockapoo from fellowman Oregon emerged as the winner Friday in the Gregory Brinkerhoff International Piano Competition held annually in San Francisco. She was the first American to win the coveted award in eight years. She was brilliant absolutely brilliant. Competition director Georgette Blackman her control in phrasing worst perve she had the crowd in the palm of her hand. Malone while clearly pleased with her accomplishment was somewhat less sanguine. I felt good. Id Knight the Mozart rather well but I wasn't really. Appointed in the modern office my journals weren't quite up to par during the elective section of the E-flat.

Nonetheless the city was clearly at her feet Friday night and she dined with friends on the waterfront. When asked what she was going to do with the $12000 prize money she said I've always wanted a sports car. I guess now we can finally afford won. Malone plans to continue her education at the NEC open ski Institute of Music in Vienna this spring. Have you ever seen a 40 pound rat. Joe Flacco has. In fact he dispatched one with a snow shovel on June 11th. I thought something was fishy when our cats kept disappearing. But when the neighborhood kids went down there to play it never came up. I thought I'd better investigate. Police arrived at the completion of a two hour battle in which Joe at times had doubts about winning. It was a monster he explained with his eyes blazing. It wasn't going to give up easy. My shovel finally did the job. Police said there were piles of unidentified bones in a dark corner of the basement. There

had been reports of pets missing in the neighborhood for weeks. Mrs Pfleger plans to have the giant rodent stuffed and mounted over the fireplace Majo is not a match. But he sure comes through in a pinch. The flea goes had no comment on reports that a series of lawsuits are being filed against them by angry neighbors. In Srinagar northern India a 26 year old man has given birth to an ostrich doctor saying that is simply amazed so far as we know no man in his 30 has ever given birth to anything much less an oestrogen. Dr Singh is chief surgeon at Krishna State Hospital believes that hadn't received a good deal of attention as a result of this event. But I feel that the press has over literally acted somewhat at several stages things have happened.

When asked to give an example of something strange or doctor saying a swallowed a telephone book and walked on the ceiling. I'm Jonathan Livingston and I'm sorry. With most things disregarded. Well that's it for this week. I'm a little older and I'm a little wiser and I'm a little fatter. I like to say thank you all for your cards and phone calls and words of encouragement when you do a radio show sometimes you wonder if anyone's actually listening. Thank you. We would thank you all personally but we don't know how to pronounce all your names and write so if you have any comments or

questions we'd love to hear from you. Don't think we don't need you. We need you. You can get pretty lonely behind these mikes you know. The Neo Gladstone and friends a radio show was written by Neil Gladstone with additional writing by Audrey Perkins and Fred Child. This show was produced by Fred Child in the Gladstone friends this week included Virginia Breen as Mrs. for legal and Georgette blankman Audrey Perkins and Sara eaves the pants sales lady and Paulette Klump and Barbara Gladstone as the woman at the wrong number and fed child as Jonathan Livingston and Carmen grinder and Gladstone as Nick Kristoff Sergio's wiener dog Malone the game show host and various other personalities the Michael Harrison story was written and produced by Audrey Perkins. Our theme music is by Neil Gladstone and transition music by Fred Child.

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