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Old Petty Playlist for WRIR

October 13, 2021 / admin / 0 Comments

An old playlist from show prep for an End Of The Century episode on WRIR, Richmond Independent Radio.

These are songs the same year that new Tom Petty songs came out. Not all are included on the playlist.

This was not long after he passed.

End of the Century
10-07-17

1976
TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS – TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS
Fooled Again (I Don’t Like It)
-Hits: Breakdown, American Girl-

DAVID BOWIE – STATION TO STATION
Stay

EARTH WIND AND FIRE – SPIRIT
Getaway

FLAMIN’ GROOVIES – SHAKE SOME ACTION
I Can’t Hide

1978
TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS – YOU’RE GONNA GET IT
When The Time Comes
-Hits: Listen To Her Heart, I Need To Know

WIRE – CHAIRS MISSING
I Am The Fly

ACE FREHLEY – ACE FREHLEY
Snow Blind

KRAFTWERK – MAN MACHINE
Metropolis

1979
TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS – DAMN THE TOPEDOES
You Tell Me
-Hits: Refugee, Here Comes My Girl, Even The Losers, Don’t Do Me Like That,

AC DC – HIGHWAY TO HELL
Walk All Over You

THE SPECIALS – THE SPECIALS
A Message To Rudy

JOE JACKSON – LOOK SHARP!
Got The Time

1981
TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS – HARD PROMISES
Something Big
-Hits: The Waiting, A Woman In Love (It’s Not Me)
-Tom demanded that the label charge less than the label wanted to charge given his new A-list status after the success of Damn The Topedoes.

RICK JAMES – STREET SONGS
Ghetto Life

IRON MAIDEN – KILLERS
Wratchild

MISSION OF BURMA – SIGNALS, CALLS AND MARCHES
Academy Fight Song

1982
TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS – LONG AFTER DARK
The Same Old You
-Hits: You Got Lucky, Deliver Me, Change of Heart

ROXY MUSIC – AVALON
More Than This

X – UNDER THE BIG BLACK SUN
 Under The Big Black Sun

GRANDMASTER FLASH AND THE FURIOUS FIVE – THE MESSAGE
The Message

1985
TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS – SOUTHERN ACCENTS
Spike
-Hits: Don’t Come Around Here No More

TOM WAITS – RAIN DOGS
Downtown Train

THE REPLACEMENTS – TIM
Hold My Life

ROBYN HITCHCOCK AND THE EGYPTIANS – Fegmania!
My Wife and My Dead Wife

1987
TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS – LET ME UP (I’VE HAD ENOUGH)
Let Me Up (Ive Had Enough)
-Hits: Jammin’ Me, Runaway Trains, Think About Me
-spent most of ’86 as Bob Dylan’s backing band – turned them back to towards more of a roots rock approach after the slick Southern Accents

JOHN HIATT – BRING THE FAMILY
Have A Little Faith In Me

PIXIES – COME ON PILGRIM
Caribou

ANTHRAX – AMONG THE LIVING
Among The Living

1989
TOM PETTY – FULL MOON FEVER
Feel A Whole Lot Better
-Hits: Free Fallin’, I Won’t Back Down, Runnin’ Down A Dream, Love Is A Long Road, Yer So Bad, A Face In The Crowd
-produced by Jeff Lynne

BOB MOULD – WORKBOOK
Wishing Well

MINISTRY – A MIND IS A TERRIBLE THING TO TASTE
Burning Inside

SICK OF IT ALL – BLOOD, SWEAT AND NO TEARS
My Life

1991
TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS – INTO THE GREAT WIDE OPEN
All Or Nothin’
-Hits: Learning To Fly, Kings Highway, Into The Great Wide Open
-one of 8 songs co-written with Jeff Lynne

SLINT – SPIDERLAND
Breadcrumb Trail

THE ORB – ADVENTURES BEYOND THE UNDERWORLD
Earth (Gaia)

TEENAGE FANCLUB – BANDWAGONESQUE
What You Do To Me

1994
TOM PETTY – WILDFLOWERS
Hard On Me
-Hits: Wildflowers, You Don’t Know How It Feels, You Wreck Me, It’s Good To Be King, Honey Bee
-produced by Rick Rubin

PAVEMENT – CROOKED RAIN, CROOKED RAIN
Elevate Me Later

PORTISHEAD – DUMMY
Sour Times

R.L. BURNSIDE – TOO BAD JIM
Shake ‘Em On Down

SOUL COUGHING – RUBY VROOM
Blueeyed Devil

KEPONE – UGLY DANCE
Leadbreath

1996
TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS – SOUNDTRACK FROM “SHE’S THE ONE”
Walls (Circus)
-harmony vocals by Lindsey Buckingham

STEREOLAB – EMPEROR TOMATO KETCHUP
Metronomic Underground

NEUROSIS – THROUGH SILVER IN BLOOD
Eye

STEVE EARLE – I FEEL ALRIGHT
Feel Alright

1999
TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS – ECHO
Swingin’
-Hit: You’re A Free Girl Now

SPARKLEHORSE – GOOD MORNING SPIDER
Pain Birds

THE APPLES IN STEREO – HER WALLPAPER REVERIE
Strawberryfire

AT THE DRIVE-IN – VAYA
Metronome Arthritis

XBox Game Trailer – Jay Smack VO

September 28, 2021 / admin / 0 Comments

I love doing gaming vo – characters, trailers, Kickstarter campaigns, ALL of it. As a voice actor you get to stretch out and inhabit a fantastic domain. You’re very aware of the community, the creativity, the producers, designers, writers, composers, coders – it’s an amazing world and one of the most important and fastest-growing genres of voiceover.

Musical and visual tribute to science fiction writer and philosopher Stanislaw Lem – Jay Smack VO

September 27, 2021 / admin / 0 Comments

Sometimes you get to play a small part in a big deal.
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Highest gratitude and respect to composer Norbert Palej, whose breathtaking composition “Return From The Stars” provides the emotional foundation for this production and informed the narration.
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About the piece: This beautiful tribute to science fiction writer and philosopher Stanislaw Lem is presented by the Polish Science Fiction Foundation in collaboration with Ars Activa. It features footage from the European Space Agency and an introduction from the International Space Station by astronaut Thomas Pesquet.
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Shout out my voice acting coach Nancy Wolfson. We’ve worked on vo for this exact type of production in which the goal is to serve the images and the music and remain (almost literally) invisible. I still find voice acting, every aspect, fascinating, and I try hard not to get in the way, but rather do justice to the vision of the writers and producers.

Sci-Fi Mystery – Jay Smack VO

September 20, 2021 / admin / 0 Comments

This project is a mystery in more ways than one. Not only is it a sci-fi mystery itself, but my voice is a mystery and I love it! You can’t tell it’s me, but that’s because my character requires that his voice be distorted due to the fact that he’s an “insider” and can’t risk being caught giving up any inside information. This is a series called “Wanderers” reminiscent of the classic radio dramas of the 30’s and 40’s in which your imagination plays a huge part in your experience. Enjoy!

Video: Go Forward Team Ride

September 20, 2021 / admin / 0 Comments

The 2021 Go Forward Team Ride to benefit the Forward Foundation is in the books. We had great weather with lots of families on-site during the ride. The 50-mile ride itself went smoothly. No incidents, crashes or punctures – all-in-all a picture perfect day for cycling. Huge thanks and gratitude to everyone that came out to support the Forward Foundation. There was a 20-miler, a 10-miler and kids’ ride and lots of fun, food and activities at Dorey Park this weekend. Please consider making a donation in support of this great organization led my Executive Director and CEO Andrea Starr. They work tirelessly to provide support and resources to single parents in financial crisis. See you next year!

Forward Foundation

Watch clips from the ride:

If you’re on the activity tracking platform Strava you can check out the ride here:

From The Booth – David Whyte – Friendship

September 17, 2021 / admin / 0 Comments

Friendship
“All friendships of any length are based on a continued, mutual forgiveness. Without tolerance and mercy all friendships die.”
-David Whyte, poet and philosopher from Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words

The book is available on his website: https://davidwhyte.com/

Also available on Amazon.

David Whyte’s conversation with Sam Harris on Sam’s podcast “Making Sense”

C.S. Lewis said of friendship that it is “one of those things which gives value to survival.”

Full passage:
“FRIENDSHIP is a mirror to presence and a testament to forgiveness. Friendship not only helps us see ourselves through another’s eyes, but can be sustained over the years only with someone who has repeatedly forgiven us for our trespasses as we must find it in ourselves to forgive them in turn. A friend knows our difficulties and shadows and remains in sight, a companion to our vulnerabilities more than our triumphs, when we are under the strange illusion we do not need them. An undercurrent of real friendship is a blessing exactly because its elemental form is rediscovered again and again through understanding and mercy. All friendships of any length are based on a continued, mutual forgiveness. Without tolerance and mercy all friendships die.”

Frankie’s First River Visit

September 16, 2021 / admin / 0 Comments

Like many folks shut in and isolated due to the pandemic, in need of connection and new, positive energy, we got a “COVID dog” last year. The decision was much deeper than that as we had missed our beloved Gracie terribly in the couple years she had been gone and we were ready. Besides, Jackie P, our little corgie mix firecracker was ready for a new trainee, having taken copious notes during her training from Gracie and prepared to bring a new dog up to speed on dos, don’ts, shouldn’ts and only-if-you-don’t-get-caughts. She didn’t actually know she was ready for the role of trainer and new head of household, but she ultimately proved that she was. So Frankie the Golden mix pup entered the fray. She was a combination rescue/litter pup. We looked all over for a Golden or Golden mix from non-breeder options (breeding just isn’t our scene) – SPCA, rescues we had adopted from in the past, even connecting with a Golden rescue organization in Pennsylvania that family members had adopted from, but it was COVID and everyone was adopting. Which is awesome. We finally found a litter in Rockingham County, Virginia. A young couple had a Golden momma who had had a litter with a Golden mix daddy, and they couldn’t keep the puppies. We contacted them immediately and went up there that weekend to meet the momma and her pups. We chose the smallest one which turned out to be Frankie. We went back after she had some time with her momma and brothers and sisters and brought her home. This was her first official test drive of her water instincts. Consider all boxes checked.

Capital One’s “The Match” on TNT: Brady, Rodgers, Mickelson and DeChambeau – Jay Smack VO

September 13, 2021 / admin / 0 Comments

I worked with Turner Sports to bring this promo for Capital One‘s The Match on TNT to life. Golf Hall of Famer Phil Mickelson and seven-time Super Bowl Champion Tom Brady played against 2020 U.S. Open Champion Bryson DeChambeau and NFL MVP Aaron Rodgers, in Big Sky, Montana to raise money for charity. I love performing this gritty, gravelly, Western-type, “Sam Elliot”-ish delivery. It’s always a lot of fun.

#jaysmackvo #turnersports #capitalone #voiceover #postproduction

UPDATE – Go Forward Team Ride and Tour de Midnight

September 12, 2021 / admin / 0 Comments

The Go Forward Team Ride and the Tour de Midnight have joined forces. Ride the Go Forward Team Ride this Saturday and you’ll receive a code to ride Tour de Midnight at a discount.
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The 2nd Annual GO FORWARD Team Ride to benefit the Forward Foundation is this Saturday Sept 18 from Dorey Park
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The Tour de Midnight to benefit the Epilepsy Foundation of Virginia is Saturday Oct 16 from Midnight Brewery
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REGISTER HERE, for the Go Forward Team Ride or click the link above.

#goforwardtogether