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Professor Mikey's Old School

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 The educational underground pirate radio Old School podcast with Professor Mikey featuring rarities, stories, and surprises from the last half of the 20th century. A eclectic variety of discovery for newer music lovers, a reconnection for the rest of us, present in a theme format that thinks outside the album cover. Rock, country, blues, and anything else that might have captured the 20th century imagination, updated for a newer audience while remaining a comfort to older rockers. Professor Mikey spent over 50,000 hours in various broadcast booths in 60-some markets, taking to the air at 16 a couple of months before The Beatles released Revolver. He rocked, informed, and amused his listeners in six different decades. Old School is his attempt to put it all together in a great set. He is confirmed AM-FM Positive.

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    • OS92 Psychedelic Ceremony

      OS92 Psychedelic Ceremony
      Jan 24 2026
      Professor Mikey here, going through boxes of forgotten psychedelic gems. There’s a little bit of everything: RUBIES, diamonds, sapphires.No sooner had the garage phase of rock and roll kicked in when it was joined in an electrical romance by the sounds of psychedelia. Mind bending songs of fever dreams and mutated fairy tales took up their own hallucinogenic airspace. Artists expanded their horizons with kaleidoscopic under the counter pharmaceuticals. The mind blowing effects of LSD, mescaline, magic mushrooms, and what ever else might bend reality altered normal brainwaves into fountains of color and memory. The stars became a dot to dot puzzle and the consciousness expanding less than legal substances connected the dots.Before we overdose on the introduction, self realize that this is not a history of psychedelics, its just a walk in the wobbly woods. From late 1966 until half past Woodstock, music in general got a synthetic kick in these very personal moonlight serenades.Author Michael Hicks explained :“To understand what makes music stylistically “psychedelic,” one should consider three fundamental effects of LSD: dechronicization, depersonalization, and dynamization. Dechronicization permits the drug user to move outside of conventional perceptions of time. Depersonalization allows the user to lose the self and gain an “awareness of undifferentiated unity.” Dynamization, as [Timothy] Leary wrote, makes everything from floors to lamps seem to bend, as “familiar forms dissolve into moving, dancing structures”... Music that is truly “psychedelic” mimics these three effects.pSYCHEDELIC cEREMONY pLaYLiStis everybody in? the doors with william burroughsmy crystal spider sweetwaterLSD / midnight to six man the pretty thingsNo silver bird the hooterville trolleyValleys of neptune jimi hendrixMagic colors teddy robin and the playboysMy mirage iron butterflyMatilda Mother pink floydparallelograms linda perhacsthe red telephone lovetwo heads jefferson airplanethe sounds ten years aftera thousand shadows the seedspsychedelic shack the temptationsitchycoo park small facesMusic created under the influence of LSD and other psychedelic drugs—primarily known as psychedelic rock or acid rock—is designed to replicate, enhance, and mirror the altered states of consciousness induced by these substances.Technically and stylistically, this music is described by several core characteristics:1. Sound and Studio TechniquesMusicians used cutting-edge production to mimic the sensory effects of a “trip,” such as depersonalization and dechronicization (the bending of time).Layered Audio Effects: Frequent use of extreme reverb, phasing, flanging, and echo to create swirling, disorienting soundscapes.Tape Manipulation: Use of backward tape loops and reverse recording to create surreal, dreamlike atmospheres (notably in The Beatles’ “Tomorrow Never Knows”).Panning: Moving sound aggressively from one side of the stereo track to the other to create an immersive, moving “soundstage”. 2. InstrumentationPsychedelic music often incorporates non-traditional or electronic instruments to expand the listener’s sonic reality. Electric Guitar Effects: Heavy use of feedback, fuzzboxes, and wah-wah pedals.Exotic Influences: Integration of Indian classical instruments like the sitar and tabla to provide “Eastern flavors” and drone-like textures.Early Synthesis: Use of keyboard instruments like the Mellotron (an early sampler), the theremin, and electronic organs to provide haunting or “trippy” textures. 3. Compositional StructureThe music often departs from standard 3-minute pop formulas. Fluid Structures: Abandonment of traditional verse-chorus-bridge formats in favor of disjunctive or free-form arrangements.Extended Improvisation: Lengthy, “rambling” instrumental jams and solos (central to bands like the Grateful Dead and Pink Floyd) that allow for musical exploration.Tempo and Key Changes: Sudden shifts in rhythm and unconventional time signatures meant to create a sense of instability or “vibrant textures”. 4. Lyrical ThemesLyrics often diverge from straightforward narratives to explore the internal landscape. Abstract and Surreal: Use of whimsical, esoteric, or dreamlike imagery that often alludes to the drug experience itself.Literary Inspiration: Many songs drew from authors like Aldous Huxley or Timothy Leary (whose The Psychedelic Experience manual heavily influenced The Beatles).Philosophical Focus: Exploration of inner consciousness, social transformation, and a sense of “unity” or “interconnectedness”I hope you’ve enjoyed this Psychedelic Ceremony on Old School. The previous hour or whatever it eventually ended up being was not intended to endorse or condemn hallucinogenic drugs, but rather to explore some of songs that were heavily influenced by this mystery trend, mostly of the late 60s. I find the edgy, weird, and a lot of fun so if you have some favorites you ...
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      1 h et 11 min
    • OS#39a: New Year's Revolution

      OS#39a: New Year's Revolution
      Jan 1 2026

      Welcome to a Retro New Year’s celebration from the before times! Professor Mikey, a firm believer in the healing and hopeful aspects of music, takes off on another holiday musical expedition, this time to discover the heart of everybody's favorite midnight party.

      What is a Lang Syne? And how Auld is it? What do Bing Crosby, Spike Jones, and Blind Lemon Jefferson have in common? Do New Year's Resolutions really work? Is the best New Year's duet of all time sung by Otis Redding and Carla Thomas? And what's Carl Sagan doing in here? Don’t say he is back to tell us not to look up!

      These and other timely questions are answered in this full hour celebration of New Year's music. Plug in and buckle up, it’s going to be a bumpy year. Get ready for Blues classics like Smokey Hogg's "New Year's Eve Blues" from 1948, a New Year's Eve 1970 appearance by Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin, an absolute wacko resolution romp with the City Slickers and many, many more. The genres melt into each other, the human condition gets a good going over, and we all resolve to be better next year!

      Happy New Year, push play, and be sure to click and download New Year’s Revolution to your podcast player!

      Playlist

      What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve? King Curtis

      Happy New Year Spike Jones and His City Slickers

      Let's Start the New Year Right Bing Crosby

      Happy New Year Blues Blind Lemon Jefferson

      Auld Lang Syne John Fahey

      Auld Lang Syne Frank Sinatra/Dean Martin

      Auld Lang Syne The Beach Boys

      Auld Lang Syne The Cucumbers

      New Year's Resolution Otis Redding/Carla Thomas

      What a Year for a New Year Dan Wilson

      A Glorious Dawn Carl Sagan

      Happy New Year Lightnin' Hopkins

      New Year's Eve Blues Smokey Hogg

      New Year's Resolution Blues Roy Milton Solid Senders

      New Year's Resolutions Scary Gary Alan

      What Are You Doing New Year's Eve Nancy Wilson

      The Closing of the Year The Musical Cast of Toys feat. Wendy & Lisa

      Auld Lang Syne Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians

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      56 min
    • OS90: Lounging Around the Christmas Tree

      OS90: Lounging Around the Christmas Tree
      Dec 21 2025

      There is something about true lounge music that is slightly radical. It’s not another kind of rock n roll. I haven’t had that much egg nog. But still it is a departure for most of these artists because of the audiences they were used to playing to.

      You’ve seen them, smoking and knocking down martinis two at a time. Hanging out in the clubs and hotel hideaways on Mad Men. Providing seductive and mysterious backgrounds in old movies. Everybody dressed to the nines, our parents and grandparent’s generations, looking for a late night don’t kiss don’t tell hookup.

      But when the biggies of that era of music switch to Christmas music, there’s a bit of a warm and wacky disconnect. Somewhere, deep down, the singer knows he or she shouldn’t be singing in a swanky saloon. The old suave crooner know they should be home with the first wife and her children on Christmas, not showing up sometime before New Years with a limo full of toys.

      It’s for the kids, you know? And that damn cowboy Gene Autry made a mint right next to the old corral when he had 15 minutes left in a recording session and relented to his wife’s wishes and recorded “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.”

      All that aside, here is a glimpse at that diamond ring and Cadillac world from a place way in the future. It’s a Marshmallow World of White Russians and Hot Buttered Rums, and baby, it’s cold outside.

      The Old School format is slightly different here. I took some mixer’s liberties that this music usually doesn’t experience. It has a more presentational form because it was created for public radio stations around the company to use over the holidays and perhaps move some Santa in the snow to make a small donation to an industry that has received nothing but coal lumps all year long.

      So hop on for the ride. It’s slick, its hot, its ritzy and glitzy and downright weird at points. Perfect for a celebration, for background while you are ripping into presets, for whatever floats your Deville. Think of it as mink seatcovers from another time.

      Merry Christmas Baby, you sure did treat me nice.

      —Professor Mikey

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