Petra Haden Live — Tomorrow Night on KCRW 89.9 FM (Los Angeles)

Stop [blog] press!

This just in from LA:

Petra Haden and Mike Watt sit down with Gary Calamar to talk about the making of "Petra Haden Sings The Who Sell Out" and Petra's July 1 concert at the Ford Amphitheatre.

GET YOUR TICKETS BEFORE THEY'RE GONE!

The radio interview is tomorrow (Sunday, June 19) at 10pm (PT) on KCRW 89.9 FM (Los Angeles)

Or listen on line: http://www.kcrw.org

and congratulations to Petra whose CD was selected as "Best Home 4, 8 or 16 Track Recording" and Gary/The Open Road for being nominated for "Best Radio Show" at the LA Weekly Music Awards!

Wait a minute: 10 p.m. PT = 1 a.m. ET Monday morning.

That is SO past my bedtime.

I guess I'll just have to take a nap earlier in the day to catch this show; no way am I gonna miss hearing from the goddess (that would be Ms. Haden) herself on how she created her magical record.

Addendum: I just decided to see if I could really listen to this station live via my computer; initially, I was gonna just wait until tomorrow night (actually, early Monday morning, OK, but let's not be too picky,all right? sheesh) to find out that in fact I wasn't smart enough to hear the Petra Haden interview.

Because that way the possibility that I could would remain until that time, so I could be optimistic and have hope.

If I found out now I couldn't then I'd lose the excellent vibe of anticipation that would otherwise exist for the next 36 hours.

Quantum living, I call it; others might call it stupidity.

Perhaps they are synonyms. But I digress.

In any event, I just went to the station's simulcast page and voila, in a second or so I was listening to today's show as it happened.

What's more it was crystal–clear, sounding far better than a radio show sounds on radio.

Now I'm really stoked!

Addendum #2: It just occurred to me that because of the internet, people anywhere on the planet can listen to the show tomorrow night, not just those who happen to be within reach of the broadcast signal of KCRW 89.9 FM on your radio dial.

That is immense.

I guess the only hitch is you have to be a joehead to find out about it if you're not in KCRW's listening area.

But then, anyone on the planet — oh, why be modest? the universe — who can get to a computer with an internet connection can be a joehead: it's not as if the price of entry is beyond an individual's capability if they're willing to go without some of life's necessities for a few months....