The Not Important Radio Show with Trey and Adam is back, and its been through a sort of upgrade. Now available as a podcast!
Most of you were not around in the Fall of 2005 and Spring of 2006, when the Not Important Radio Show made its biggest but modestly-sized splash. Fewer still can recall the Fall of 2006’s change of cohost and its much smaller splash. But hopefully, with time, The Not Important Radio Show (Version 3.0) will make not only a splash but it’ll keep the waves coming.
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A So-Called Brief History: (by Green @ NirMedia.)
The Not Important Radio Show (The NIRS) began in August of 2006, when two friends/roommates (Adam T. Croft and Trey A. Simmons) signed up to work for Roanoke College‘s newly developed radio station– WRKE 101.3fm. The two decided since they love to ramble on and on about music, movies and pop culture while listening to music they would cohost a show.
The Not Important Radio Show, began as Trey and Adam claimed for themselves the Wednesday and Sunday night final show spot–11pm to Midnight. Sunday and Wednesday were shown to unpopular time slots, and therefore their dream of a Heavy Metal/Hard Rock show, in their conservative surrounding, was able to be realized. Metal music was not popular on the campus either, and its with that in mind that the show’s name came to be. The Station Manager (also Manager of the Building the studio was housed in) told them not to worry about a show name because their show is not important. It stuck, and The Not Important Radio Show was born.
The show grew slowly… Trey picking music each week based on what was new, what currently caught Adam’s or his own ear, or eventually what was requested of them by audience members. Adam would handle controlling the boards, editing the lyrics and running all equipment. Trey would do the talking to the people, while Adam answered to the bosses. It only took them about two shows before they realized just how far they could take it and the show was given another hour– 11pm to 1am– an hour after the building closed (because Trey’s job was to lock-down the building at night). Adam and Trey soon found that despite the Antenna’s limitations (3 mile radius), that the internet, word of mouth reviews, and the support of Roanoke Area Musicians gave the two young men an extremely wide audience. By the end of the fall semester, The NIRS had the second-largest listening audience at WRKE 101.3fm. And the two realized the potential of supporting, encouraging, and hosting the local musician’s on the show. Many interviews were conducted, many friends were made. Everything was bliss.
Then several things broke it all apart. First, both young men allowed their ideas to expand beyond plausible reach, by attempting to started a community themed grassroots record company simply called Nexus Recordings. Second, Trey ended leaving Roanoke College to move to a new city and new school an hour and a half away. Third, one of the band’s Nexus was heavily supporting split up, the other had a major change in direction and attitude. Following all of that, Nexus was unofficially abandoned. Adam, who had been trying to keep The NIRS going with their friend Aubrey Page, finally called it quits. Trey’s life grew busier–Full-time student by day, full-time ABC Manager at a Gas Station by night. Adam’s life at Roanoke College grew busier and busier as well, as he began to near graduation. By the beginning of 2007 The NIRS and Nexus Recordings were effectively dead. All that remained behind was a hope in the two young men and their peers– and a psuedo-new-group-name they mumbled around their social circle. Trey and Adam, remained quiet and away from the spotlight– they, along with their peers: T. Garth Simmons, Tommy Custer, Billy Hinton, Chris Hodges, Aubrey Page, Wayne Pucket, Shawn Unroe and the late John “The Phantom Critic” Persinger (R.I.P. my friend) began to make plans and decisions. They were just waiting for someone in the group to make the first move.
Then, in October of 2007 Trey to Adam and the other that he planned to move to CA in the Summer to attend a 1 year Film School. Shortly thereafter, in a failed attempt to disprove his mother’s opinions of Grad-School, Adam found himself wishing to further his education at a school for Audio Engineering, this school is also in California. In January 2008, the two made their commitments to the school’s and in late July, they drove across the country to Los Angeles to chase their dreams the intelligent way. They had effectively taken the first step, towards the group reaching their dreams, and this bold move shook things up for the rest of the group remaining in VA. Adam and Trey are working on getting the doorway into the entertainment business open, and then will be holding it open for the rest of crew to step through. Adam and Trey’s plan to start a company was transformed from Nexus Recordings into the idea of an intitiy much larger and more expansive; with more possibilities of exploration and creativity– a goal they all feel strongly about. And it is with that in mind, that Adam and Trey want to bring back a little bit of the beginning… The Not Important Radio Show. So, as of January 27th, 2009 the first Not Important Radio Show podcast became available for streaming:
The Not Important Radio Show Season 3, Episode 01: This is a test…
(74 mins) Adam T. Croft & Trey A. Simmons (recorded January 26th/27th, 2009).”
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How the show will work from now on:
We plan to record one show a week: more if we feel the need, or less if we don’t have the time or material. We’re aiming for the show to run about an hour and a half– 50 minutes to an hour of music; 30-40 minutes of Trey and Adam discussing new releases, giving reviews, and talking about whatever Music/Film information happens to be on their minds. However, until we start getting music submitted to us from musicians, the show will feature a lot more of Adam and I talking and will have distinctively shorter run times. After we record the audio, in another day or two we will have the completed show online and available for streaming. It will be available on the Myspace page, The Blogspot page, and for those who are crazy enough to search for it… the Podcast hosting site, as well.
As far as the music goes… we are two broke young men and therefore, we cannot afford to pay for licensing and copyright permissions. Legally we are required to pay any artist for the right to play the artist’s music on our show. However, to get around that we have a Music Submission Form, that the Rights Holder (and the Band, if two different parties) will have to sign, and send back to us– BY FILLING OUT THE FORM THE ARTIST/RIGHTS HOLDER AGREES TO GRANTING THE NIRS PERMISSION TO PLAY SAID MUSICIAN’S MUSIC ON THE PODCAST, AT THE LEISURE OF THE SHOW’S HOSTS. After we have obtained that written agreement and understanding from the musician and Rights Holder, we can accept music from the artists. It’s going to be a slow to start process but we’re going our tracks and the artist’s that way. True, as an artist and Rights Holder, it is unfortunate that we cannot pay you for your materials. We are also aware that a trust must be developed. Too easily do people steal music and ideas from others these days. And we understand that concern, because we are/have been artists of some kind ourselves. Our intention, is to play music by unsigned musician’s, for the sake of all the talented musician’s that are out there who cannot seem to get their sound heard. We seek to become a voice to the voiceless if you will, or better a microphone to amplify a sound. We want to help promote the artists. To help get the musician’s we play and their respective music and into the universe, into cyberspace, and hopefully into the hearts and minds of music lovers everywhere.
We will not slander, or harshly criticise any artists who take the time and energy to submit to us, even if we do not like your music. If music is submitted and it is not played on the next posted show, remember we do not record live. We also must warn about discouragment if we do not play a piece of music submitted to us. We are most definitely do not have the only audience, and we are certainly not the only amplifiers. Every musician has there place, the key is finding it.
Now, I am not the business guy. I am he who handles dealings with the people at large, all I have said above is my understanding of the business terms we worked on. Again, I do not know business at all. That is Adam’s deal, and he has made available online a link to the Submission form, for any one to be able to read. I must apologize for anything I said above the was not mentioned in the documentation/form or seemed to not follow the Forms specification. When all else fails– THE FORM IS CORRECT. I may have misinterpretted something, misunderstood Adam, or a million other mildly-valid excuses. Just remember, go by what the Form says first and foremost, don’t just take my word for it.
Anyways, we need musicians. So whoever you are… please, if you know of a talented musician of any sort, at least give us a shot. What have you got to lose?
Here’s where you can find it the PodCast and more information:
The Not Important Radio’s MySpace Page |||||||||||||| The NIRS Blogspot Page
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oh and One Final Thing…
The first podcast is posted and available for streaming. However, warning, this was simply made as a test run. Its been 2 1/2 years since I was last on the air, and 2 years for Adam. Also, our studio is our apartment in Los Angeles, rather than an official Radio Station– oddly enough, we have better mics and equipment now! Furthermore, we are both accustomed to recording the shows live with an audience listening and calling in, we are used to having to follow FCC Regulations and we are used to doing shows with Music…since, this show is based around Adam’s and my own love for music. Most of that has changed–Some have changed forever, some only temporarily. The music will be coming soon (I hope!), the audience/live bit, well, who knows maybe someday soon we’ll figure that out. An actual studio–c’mon a boy can dream, right? But say goodbye forever to the FCC and to low frequency FM antennas. The internet has been a proven aid to us in the past and we are seeking its assistance yet again.
So keep in mind… if you plan to brave your way through the first podcast– It is 74 minutes of Adam and I talking non-stop. We are rambling on and on, sporatically shifting from one topic to another, and staggering our way through our words as we simply try to get ourselves comfortable with the routine all over again.
By the way: If you can get all the way through the first podcast (The All Trey & Adam Talking, no music Podcast), well, then I owe you a cookie.
We plan to do one podcast a week… they’ll get better as we go, of course, and as more music comes to us.
-Trey A Simmons.
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