{"id":140,"date":"2014-04-07T15:01:05","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T19:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danjoseph.org\/blog\/?p=140"},"modified":"2015-12-10T11:09:11","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T16:09:11","slug":"dc-in-the-1980s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.danjoseph.org\/blog\/dc-in-the-1980s\/","title":{"rendered":"80s DC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"180\" src=\"\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/widget\/iframe\/?feed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mixcloud.com%2Fdanjoseph%2Fwmuc-dc-set-1986%2F&amp;embed_uuid=15ab0ad6-3618-4608-9afd-b04c2c417886&amp;replace=0&amp;hide_cover=1&amp;light=1&amp;stylecolor=111111&amp;embed_type=widget_standard&amp;hide_tracklist=1\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"display: block; font-size: 11px; font-family: 'Open Sans',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 4px; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); width: auto;\">\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/danjoseph\/wmuc-dc-set-1986\/?utm_source=widget&amp;amp;utm_medium=web&amp;amp;utm_campaign=base_links&amp;amp;utm_term=resource_link\" style=\"color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_blank\">WMUC DC Set 1986<\/a><span> by <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/danjoseph\/?utm_source=widget&amp;amp;utm_medium=web&amp;amp;utm_campaign=base_links&amp;amp;utm_term=profile_link\" style=\"color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_blank\">Danjoseph<\/a><span> on <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/?utm_source=widget&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;utm_campaign=base_links&amp;utm_term=homepage_link\" style=\"color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_blank\"> Mixcloud<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; height: 3px; width: auto;\">\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/div>\n<p>\n\tDuring the summer of 1986 I hosted a weekly radio show on WMUC, the radio station of the University of Maryland, College Park.&nbsp; I wasn&#39;t a student there, but my friend Dave McDuff was the station manager and during the summer there was a chronic shortage of DJs. At the time I was living at 14th and Church Streets in NW Washington, DC and working at the nightclub\/bar\/restaurant\/art gallery DC Space. Having spent the early 80s playing in a string of local bands including 9353, Crippled Pilgrims and Troubled Gardens, I was very much still in the thick of the DC music scene.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tI recorded most of my radio programs on an in-studio cassette deck and I recently discovered several of these cassettes.&nbsp; This set of DC-area bands was somewhat of an anomaly, as most of my sets were dominated by the British and European post-punk, goth and industrial groups (4AD, Laylah, Les Disques du Crepescule etc.) I was then obsessed with. But all of these tracks are by bands I had a personal connection to (with the exception of Jad Fair), and all were active at that time. I played with some of these musicians in other projects, and all of them I heard live many times. Some are barely known today and I assume most of the tracks are out of print, but these were all great bands and offer a more or less representative slice of the DC scene at that time. Many of these records I no longer own (whoops!), so I&#39;m completely thrilled to have this time capsule!\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tA shout out to Sharon, Colin, Alex, Roger and Charles of <strong>Bloody Mannequin Orchestra<\/strong>, to Joey and Malcolm of <strong>Grand Mal<\/strong>, to Monica, Eugene, Danny and Norman of <strong>Madhouse<\/strong>, my then bandmates Jason, Bruce and Vance (RIP) of <strong>9353 <\/strong>and Jay, Scott and Mtich of <strong>Crippled Pilgrims<\/strong>, to Jeff, Dante, Steve and Mark of <strong>Grey Matter<\/strong>, to Alec, Chris and Mike of <strong>Faith<\/strong>, and lastly to the recently departed <strong>Dave Brockie<\/strong> whose early comedic-punk trio <strong>Death Piggy<\/strong> still stands as one of my all-time favorite bands of the region and period.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tMore about the DC days here: <a href=\"http:\/\/danjoseph.org\/dc\">http:\/\/danjoseph.org\/dc<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WMUC DC Set 1986 by Danjoseph on Mixcloud &nbsp; During the summer of 1986 I hosted a weekly radio show on WMUC, the radio station of the University of Maryland, College Park.&nbsp; I wasn&#39;t a student there, but my friend<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,4,17],"tags":[25,26,22,18,24,23,21,20,27,19],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-listening","category-radio","tag-25","tag-80s","tag-22","tag-dc","tag-dischord","tag-fountain-of-youth","tag-post-punk","tag-punk","tag-wmuc","tag-xxx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.danjoseph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.danjoseph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.danjoseph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.danjoseph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.danjoseph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.danjoseph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141,"href":"http:\/\/www.danjoseph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions\/141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.danjoseph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.danjoseph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.danjoseph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}