Yesterday's radio commercials and related jingles are disposable flotsam and jetsam. Often rescued from the dumpster and tape eraser, here's where they live to celebrate another day, and give us a peek into the pop culture of the past. All material has been sourced from tapes or vinyl discs (records) used on the air at radio stations or dubs of said tapes, transferred for pristine quality when possible.
It's about timne I dropped by. Just under a year since my last post. Still it's an occasional thing now. The main project is to get the Jetsam exhibits over to our friends at archive.org for safe keeping for the end of eternity. Well, i'm hopeful for the eternity anyway. Brewster Kahle seems to be a bit eccentric rich guy, but I applaude him for preserving a lot of what wouldn't necessarily be preserved if he didn't do it. That's sort of the philosophy around here, so just glad to have a place to put my exhibits that don't disappear when the monthly hosting ends because I can't pay the bill. You know, the 6 feet under thing. The Grim Reaper won't do it for me. I've been thinking of preserving my work here somewhere, and as I use the internet archive for other things, it seems like a natural fit.
So far this date, 2010, 2011 and 2012 exhibits are all now on the internet archive, with links working accordingly. Any bad links, let me know, as tedious work as it is, I can miss a few things.
This however, is the first exhibit to go straight to the internet archive and linked here.
Based on a date label on the tape that the radio station put on the box, from September 1976 a rather lifestyle oriented leaning campaign for Miller High Life Beer. It seems to be a blue collar focus, but aren't a lot of these things? The refined gentleman sips fine wine, which the average working guy chugs down pitchers of beer as a reward for a hard working day to deal with. I get it.
