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Travel Stationary

by Bill Baird

a program that does its honest to goodness best effort to transport you somewhere, all from the comfort of your internet connection.It’s called travel stationary as a play on words. Because, yes, it’s like a place where thoughts get jotted down, as in stationary. It’s also…. You get to travel without moving. To be stationary. Hear me spin yarns and thoughts and meditiation and oblique examinations from the comfort of your ears.My name is Bill Baird, a lifelong musician, tinkerer, traveler, thinker, eater, lover, insecure male, reader, thinker, stinker, dabbler, do-er, and more. I am the host, writer and creator of the show but will be welcoming guests here from time to time.

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Episodes

  1. Mild Bill's Radio Hour: Austin Leonard Jones

    deep dive into ALJ!!!

  2. Mild Bill's Radio Hour: Jasper Leach (burner herzog, brazil, myonics, producer, collab w me)

  3. Mild Bill's radio hour: interview with Joe King Carrosco! + El Molino album

  4. Mild Bill's Radio Hour: Jason Chronis (belaire, voxtrot, tele novella)

  5. Mild Bills Radio Hour -- Quentin Stolzfus (mazarin, light heat, azusa plane)

  6. Mild Bill's Radio Hour - Jesse Woods

  7. Mild Bill's Radio Hour: Greg Olin (aka Graves)

  8. Some of My Favorite Elliott Smith songs

    just listening to elliott smith

  9. Mild Bill's Radio Hour: David Amram

  10. Mild Bill's Radio Hour: From Satie's Furniture Music to Eno's Music For Airports

    Wherein I make the link between Erik Satie, John Cage, and Brian Eno.

  11. Sunshine of Your What?? Abbey Road + Songwriting with Pete Brown

    Wherein your intrepid host records in Abbey Road and co-writes a song with Cream songwriter Pete Brown (RIP).

  12. Song Surgery: Eternal Space Bar (full album) - Part 1

    Wherein I describe each song on the Eternal Space Bar record.

  13. Mild Bill's Radio Hour: Moondog

    Survey of this amazing, amazing musician and composer. NYC's most famous street performer. Lived with phil glass. Etc.

  14. Mild Bill Radio Hour: John Oswald

    Famed collage sample artist. This is some truly bizarre music. I hope you enjoy!

  15. Mild Bill's Radio Hour: Todd Rundgren

    A quick survey of this legendary musician, featuring my favorite tracks from his solo records, the Nazz and his astounding production work with The Band, Sparks, XTC, Hall and Oates, and Badfinger.

  16. David Bailey and the Soul-Sucking Teen Vogue Photo Session (BEWARE)

    Wherein myself and my bandmates undertake a surreal NYC photo session with famed music photographer David Bailey.

  17. Tour Chronicles: Waste Vegetable Oil Disaster

    This tour was my attempt at a carbon neutral tour. Featured fly infestation, broken axle, unwelcome house shows, PTSD tow truck driver, a pit bull named Sunshine, a show on a weed farm, and oh so much more.

  18. Song Surgery: Lunar Eyes

    Wherein I describe the song.

  19. Song Surgery: Eat the Lawn / Pain Pile

    Wherein I examine two songs, recorded on successive days.

  20. Esalen: Naked Didgeridoo Massage // Scrub Your Toilet, Scrub Your Aura

    Wherein I describe my time at the famed Esalen Institute.

  21. Songwriting Class at Austin High

    This radio segment, originally aired on KUT Austin, follows me as I teach a songwriting class at Austin High School.

  22. Baby Blue Studio KUT profile

    Profile of me and my old studio on KUT.

  23. I Saw Frozen2 in a Mall Built on a Native American Burial Ground

    Wherein I describe the mall hellscape of Bay Street in Emeryville, CA, and watching Frozen 2 there, situated cozily atop a Native American burial ground.

  24. Celebrity Collision: Red Hot Chili Peppers

    Wherein I describe meeting these purveyors of modern schlock dumpster rock, and perform a karaoke version of "Under the Bridge."

  25. Oops. Here is "Man's Heart Complaint" Goodbye Vibrations style

    Oops. Here is "Man's Heart Complaint" Goodbye Vibrations style.

  26. Song Surgery: Man's Heart Complaint

    Wherein I discuss writing the song, recopying Whitman's Leaves of Grass (1st edition!), and share an unreleased version.

  27. Song Surgery: World Gone Deaf

    In which I describe writing the song and the story "The Fading Ear" which preceded the tune.

  28. Song Surgery: Goodbye Dear Friend of Mine

    In which I describe writing the song while working at the zilker train station.... and the various iterations of the tune.

  29. Song Surgery: When Perfect Flames Expire / Not a Perfect Person

    In which I describe the disconnect between effort and result in my own little personal hell of songwriting.

  30. Song Surgery: "We'll Meet Again Someday, or We Won't"

    In which I describe the arrival of the song "We'll Meet Again Someday, or We Won't" in a dream and its incarnations up to the present moment.

  31. Song Surgery: "New York Love"

    In which I describe getting rejected by my teenage first love and by Ethan Hawke. Describes background of the song and some associated humorous stories.

  32. Studio Life 3: An Interview with Tyrone

  33. Studio Life, part 2

    "Change is always the same" Moving in and out of studios. A continuation.

  34. Studio Life, part 1

    "Change is always the same" A description of my life moving in and out of studios.

  35. Lost Illusions I: Ozzy, Axl, Dylan, Brian, and the Zombies.

    In which I examine several incidents of lost illusions, focusing on over-hyped rock concerts.

  36. GS455

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

a program that does its honest to goodness best effort to transport you somewhere, all from the comfort of your internet connection.It’s called travel stationary as a play on words. Because, yes, it’s like a place where thoughts get jotted down, as in stationary. It’s also…. You get to travel without moving. To be stationary. Hear me spin yarns and thoughts and meditiation and oblique examinations from the comfort of your ears.My name is Bill Baird, a lifelong musician, tinkerer, traveler, thinker, eater, lover, insecure male, reader, thinker, stinker, dabbler, do-er, and more. I am the host, writer and creator of the show but will be welcoming guests here from time to time.

HOSTED BY

Bill Baird

Produced by Morton Baird

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a program that does its honest to goodness best effort to transport you somewhere, all from the comfort of your internet connection.It’s called travel stationary as a play on words. Because, yes, it’s like a place where thoughts get jotted down, as in stationary. It’s also…. You get to travel...

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Travel Stationary is created and hosted by Bill Baird.
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