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WHAT WAS FRIENDLY PERSUASION?

Friendly Persuasion was a radio show that featured the spinning styles of screaming birds in a tropical forest, soundtrack power packed action hitters, drowsy ambient ‘get your butt into bed’ mood mosaics, drugged out hippie masterpieces, prog chants for dragon fighting kings and queens, down home country jigs, your mother playing piano, and a cross-section of the animal kingdom.

Every genre was welcome for there is something good in every genre. The best way to say what we played is… we played what we liked and what we wanted to share. Beginning with show #250 in 2010 Friendly Persuasion moved to a vinyl only format. The only selections played that were not vinyl were show IDs by various friends.

CAN I LISTEN TO THE SHOW?

Yes! You can now listen to the show on Mixcloud,
http://www.mixcloud.com/friendlypersuasion/
As we slowly add past shows to Mixcloud you can listen to them over at Mixcloud.
We have a lot to upload, working on it, slowly.

Our good friends at Audioclash have a small number of shows available for download as MP3s, http://www.audioclash.com/Friendly-Persuasion/

And that thing about new shows… we shut it down. The show has officially ended and there are no permanent archives for past shows online. We only have a small handful of recorded shows saved and anything broadcast prior to 2002 was never recorded as it was all streaming live via (showing our age here) RealAudio.

WHO WAS FRIENDLY WITH PERSUASION?

Otis Fodder hosted the show from 1999-2010. Mingo L’indien co-hosted with Otis in 2010.

Past guests:

Michel Alario
The Apartment
Steve Asparagus
Basic Hip
Scott Bass (Gift Wrapped Crap)
Satan Bélanger (Sonowax)
Michelle Boulé (WFMU’s Incorrect Music Show)
Dana Countryman (Cool and Strange Music Magazine)
dAS (Big City Orchestra / UBUIBI)
Mr. Fab (The RIAA / Music For Maniacs)
Fortyone
Edith Frost
J-Dub
Simon Leclerc (Psyquébélique)
Will Louviere (Show and Tell Music)
Mew
Adam O’Callaghan (Le Nouveau Raymond Scott “Quintette”)
Marc-André Roy/Rakam (Rakam)
DJ Pantshead (The Evolution Control Committee)
saus.experiment
Sébastien (Patrimoine PQ)
BC Sterrett (Lost Media Archive)
Stimie Stilton (Revenant Glint)
Bob Thompson Jr.
Jan Turkenburg
Unknown Band
Patrick Vezina
Jonathan Ward
Frank M. Young

Past guest appearances, ids, themes and general ramblings by:

Jim Allenspach, Perry Amberson, Suzanne Baumann, Bentley the Butler, Bulldog Brannigan, Brute Force, Bertrand Burgalat, Catherine Le Secrétaire, Christina Le Secrétaire, Dana Countryman, Dimas, Dominique Le Secrétaire, Eddie The Rat, Ev Ehrlich (Red Shadow), Dominique Ethier (Plaza Musique), The Evolution Control Committee, Mr. Fab (RIAA), Flipped Out, Fortyone, Steve Garfield, Girl Talk, Naomi Hall, Carl Howard, Ingrid Le Secrétaire, Michel LeGrisbi, Alexis Lopez (Lullabelle), The Lounge King, Henry Lowengard, Loco Luiz, Peter Martin, Hornytoad McSlade, R. Stevie Moore, Zeb Navarro, Norah Le Secrétaire, Penelope, Jean-Jacques Perrey, Bob Purse, Moritz R. (Der Plan), Rebecca, Seksu Roba, Christy Shivers and the Sunsets, Paul Shrug, The Space Lady, Joe Tepperman, Tripwire Magazine, Jan Turkenburg, Uncle Bri, April Winchell and Zorgal.

Plus:

Friendly Persuasion was sponsored by Cool and Strange Music Magazine (1999-2002) and the official show of the magazine.

The Friendly Persuasion logo was designed by Suzanne Baumann of Fridge-Mag Concoctions.

WHERE HAS THE SHOW AIRED?

The radio show got it’s start on Pirate Radio in Seattle in 1999. Later that year it moved to Antenna Internet Radio. Since then, the show has broadcasted off and on for over a decade on various stations. Some carrying the show for many episodes while others, special one-off shows were created.

Past highlights include: over 150 shows produced for one of the first internet radio stations Antenna Internet Radio (1999-2002), a exclusive broadcast featured in Real.com’s RealPlayer (2000), a high school band episode for WFMU’s Listener Hour (2004), thirty one hour episodes for Luxuria Music (2005), twenty short episodes produced for the Lounge King show (Mix96/Virgin Radio, 2007).

2010	Radio23 (USA) DFM RTV INT (The Netherlands) KAOS Radio Austin (USA) unaRadio (Argentina)
2009	DFM RTV INT (The Netherlands)
2007	Horizonte Imer (Mexico) Ibero (Mexico) Ibiza Global Radio (Spain) Iceberg (Canada) Lounge Radio (Switzerland) Mix96 (Canada) MondoEZ (Italy) Radio Lounge (Germany) RMX (Mexico) UC Radio (Mexico)
2005	Luxuria Music (USA) Shirley & Spinoza (USA) Hellbound Alleee (Canada) unaRadio (Argentina)
2004	Luver (USA) WFMU (USA)
2003	Luver (USA) Back To The Basics (Germany) Radio Lora (Switzerland) Radio Nova (Norway) Solid Steel (UK)
2002	Antenna Internet Radio (USA)
2001	Antenna Internet Radio (USA)
2000	Antenna Internet Radio (USA) RealGuide (USA)
1999	Antenna Internet Radio (USA) Free Seattle Pirate Radio (USA)