For the solstice of 2007 Radio8Ball welcomed San Francisco’s Dream Date as our musical guest with regular contributor to the show, Eden Sky and comic provocateur, Andy Dick. It was Andy’s birthday and he was in great spirits. Eden Sky was, as always, insightful and Dream Date were what we have come to expect quirky, adorable and oh so good.
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On August 16th, 2007 Carmaig DeForest was our musical guest with comedian Andy Dick. These two cats had never met before but, damned if Carmaig’s muse didn’t match Andy’s misbegotten karma to a T.
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On July 12th, 2007 Central Services were the musical guests on Radio8Ball. Andy Dick (News Radio, The Ben Stiller Show) was scheduled to be the musical guest but we couldn’t reach him, so at the last minute we invited his old comedy partner (and friend of the show) Dino Stamatopoulos (Community, Moral Orel) to fill in for him, and we had a great time. Andy did eventually show up and it’s always fun to hear the two of them riff.
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With this song about unquenchable desire Candypants brings the 5 of Wands to life.
Candypants is a superior pop band from Los Angeles, CA
featuring Lisa Jenio, who turns emotional strife into musical brilliance on this song, and many others.
Lisa and Andras collaborated on several songs for a yet-to-be-completed project, Smartypants,
exploring the lives of great writers who moved to Hollywood and hated it.
Lisa and Andras have also performed together in Andy Dick’s Bitches of The Century,
and on Shmushkin’s Total Fucking Bullshit CD.
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Willie Wisely embodies The Ace of Fire with “Go!”
recorded in Minneapolis, Minnesota
with John Fields & Mike Ruekberg
Willie and Andras have collaborated on numerous songs and projects
including Wisely’s songs ”
Vanilla“, “Joke”& “Drink Up”
as well as the Andy Dick CD The Darkest Day of The Year
and Shmushkin’s Total Fucking Bullshit
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The Devil is a very misunderstood card.
He represents masculine procreative energy
and a wicked sense of humor.
Andy Dick is our personal Devil card,
a man whose phallic nature is reflected in his name…
and his life.
This is a song he wrote with Andras Jones about seducing “straight” men in bathrooms.
From Andras Jones:
I met Andy in 1988 through Anthony Rapp with whom I had just worked on the film “Far From Home”. They knew each other from Chicago.
Andy was living in an apartment near the Scientology center in LA with his young wife and child. When they moved back to Chicago he stayed on my couch for months.
I was in the original Circus of Freaks with Anthony, Andy & Dino Stamatopoulos.
One of my proudest moments.
Over the years Andy’s has ripped me off,
claimed credit for my work,
publicly insulted me,
and physically abused me.
I still consider him one of my best friends.
Such is The Devil’s talent.
Writing “with” Andy Dick pretty much meant following him around with a guitar
and turning his daily devolution from morning health freak to afternoon wino to nocturnal erotic pac man,
into “writing sessions”.
These sessions yielded songs I would later record at Willie Wisely’s studio in Laurel Canyon.
Andy would come in once the song was done, and sing on these tracks.
At his best, which is rarely, Andy is a comic genius.
I call him the “comic monster”.
He is also one of the most expressive pure rock singers I’ve ever worked with.
Writing with Andy in Hollywood
felt like working with the guy Jim Morrison wished he could get away with being,
in the same neighborhood.
Most of these songs ended up on Andy’s CD “The Darkest Day of The Year”
or in his feature film directorial debut “Danny Roane: First Time Director“.
Despite writing the songs, co-producing the tracks, and lining up most of the musicians, I was never credited.
This is what happens when you work for The Devil…
…you get fucked.
If you’re lucky (and I was) you enjoy every minute of it.
From left to right: Adam Carolla (and the Bitches of The Century)
Mike Ruekberg, Ryan Dapple-Perez, Lisa Jenio, Andy Dick, Andras Jones & Willie Wisely
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Just before breaking up as The Dutchess and The Duke, Jesse Lortz and Kimberly Morrison stopped in to Theater Off Jackson as the Radio8Ball musical guest with Andy Dick Skypeing in from someplace strange and Emmett Montgomery keeping things surreal.
Bleu has a reputation as a pop wizard. He joins Radio8Ball for a show on a southwestern themed set at Theater Off Jackson with Andy Dick Skypeing in from a good place, and the adorably acerbic Barbara Holm as our welcoming comedian.
