With the news of Danny's illness emerging causing waves of good will messages to surge across all medias, myself and other members of the Internet Treehouse message board, on the fine Baker fan site www.internettreehouse.co.uk have been busying ourselves collating, uploading and more importantly listening to vintage shows and clips to fill the void left by Danny's enforced absence from the airwaves with the old Baker Magic!
In this pursuit, a link to a website was posted http://www.theadbs.co.uk/* which is admirably providing downloads of all of the All Day Breakfast Show Podcasts, and to my surprise noticed a link that looked very familiar at first glance and, yes it's this dear old blog, started over 2 years ago and left gathering dust in all of that time, with only three of the podcasts reviewed(!!!!)
I have long been a Danny Baker fan, somesay obsessive, but quite recently, as mentioned I've been revisiting some of his past broadcasting genius moments recently due to Danny's current malady, including the ADBS, and so I feel in the spirit of wishing Danny a speedy recovery and a return to the wireless, I will resurrect this project and continue where I left off starting with episode 4 of the prototype shows very soon.
One of the reasons I couldn't commit the time to it was I felt I was giving too detailed 'guides'. The idea was to give people who hadn't heard the ADBS shows little tidbits and morsels to tempt them into seeking them out and discovering the genius within. What I did was all but transcribe the shows essentially, so future guides will be bite-sized and therefore, hopefully posted more frequently.
And we may just get to the end of them.
Watch the skies, as someone once said.
Danny Baker
Trying to find the off position on the genius switch
1 comment:
Hi there, I'm similarly a massive fan of the ADBS and it bizarrely came bursting into my life abruptly once again this very weekend. I remeber there being a small section one of the early shows about Tuva singers and how he and Ross Noble then got talking how it sounded like Bruce Forsyth if he were a car starting.
How did this come up?
I was at the Sydney Festival First Night and there was a group called Hanggai who are a Progressive Chinese band who employ tuva techniques. Do you know which show it's in and where I can get it as I've been trying to relay the story to my girlfriend but without the show it's inevitably falling flat.
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