Big Green resuscitates its lost January episode with a gripping new installment of Ned Trek, two Big Green songs, impromptu harmonizing, and other mindless drivel. Great way to spend a snowy afternoon (if you don’t have a hangover).
This is Big Green – February 2014. Features: 1) Ned Trek XVI: A Mock Time; 2) Put the Phone Down: Changing our name to Oliver Remote Control; 3) Why Andy Williams never did a special with us; 4) Matt’s Andromeda period: 100x worse than Neil Sadaka; 5) Remembering Pete Seeger; 6) Song: Paradise, by Big Green; 7) Song: Kublai Khan, by Big Green; 8. Matt’s plans for Super Bowl Sunday; 9) Time for us to go
Big Green declares open season on reason with the November episode of their podcast, featuring Ned Trek 14, The Wrath of Carl, and several Big Green songs. Boy howdy.
This is Big Green – November 2013. Features: 1) Ned Trek XIV: The Wrath of Carl; 2) Song: Volcano Man, by Big Green; 3) Put the Phone Down: Matt and Joe talk about the start of hunting season and its random killing; 4) Electon 2013: The Gleason effect; 5) Big Green’s live days: Matt on horse, Joe on cow; 6) Song: Little Pig Flies, by Big Green; 7) A visit with Anita Bryant; 8) Random Extra Song: Good Old Boys Roundup; 9) End time
Big Green resurrects the lost September episode of their podcast with the epic Ned Trek 13, featuring five or six new Big Green songs. Found at last.
This is Big Green – October 2013. Features: 1) Ned Trek XIII: Specter’s Stepchildren, featuring five (or six) new Big Green songs, including (a) Ashcroft’s song, (b) Nixon’s song, (c) Ned’s song (Get me outa here), (d) Romney’s song, (e) Doc’s intro, (f) Doc’s song (Bye-bye freedom), (g) Pearl’s song; 2) Put the Phone Down: Matt and Joe discuss news of the day and engage in other pointless jabbering; 3) About the spokesperson for Armstrong; 4) Dad: A brief history; 5) Space probe news; 6) Time for us to go
This is Big Green – August 2013. Yet another special 2-hour podcast, featuring: 1) Ned Trek XII: The Manassery; 2) Put the Phone Down: Matt and Joe look back on two years of podcast not-so-goodness; 3) Woodpecker nest report; 4) Brubaker: A brief history; 5) Googling Cavanaugh; 6) Song: Plenty of Time, Plenty of Blood, by Big Green; 7) NSA spying scandal; 8) Song: Ask For Leave, by Big Green; 9) Exit, already. Download at your own peril … but for chrissake, download it!
This is Big Green – July Jubilee 2013. A special two-hour Big Green podcast, featuring 1) Ned Trek XI: The Space Libbies – Beaming Down to Ayn; 2) Put the Phone Down: Matt and Joe consider problems with the sun, damage at Spring Farm, and other issues; 3) Remembrance of things past (not Proust); 4) Song: Nothing But Time, by Big Green; 5) Big Green considers evident racism, among other things; 6) Live impromptu performance: All I Want, by Big Green; 7) Ideas for promoting Big Green’s new album, Cowboy Scat, in outer space; 8. Song: In Your Dreams, demo version, by Big Green; 9) Exit.
Hey, why wouldn’t I want to explain our podcast? You think it speaks for itself? It’s only a little podcast; it needs someone to run interference. Not so hard to understand.
Did you listen to this month’s podcast, THIS IS BIG GREEN, the May 2013 episode? I’ll take that as a no. Still, you might be missing out on something extra … well … strange. Wouldn’t want to be the only one who didn’t partake, right?
This was a relatively lively episode, full of bright sallies of wit and infinite jest. Here are some highlights (and no, I don’t mean the magazine most often perused in dental office waiting rooms):
NED TREK X: A PLEA FOR ARMS – Our latest installment of our increasingly possible podcast dramatic series, Ned Trek, featuring Captain Willard Mittilius Romney, commander of the starship Free Enterprise, and his talking dressage horse / first officer Mr. Ned. This time out, Willard leads a landing party back to one of the outerspace backwaters he attempted to convert during his callow youth. Special guest star is …. (that would be telling!)
PUT THE PHONE DOWN – Matt and I talk through a broad range of topics and pull news from the pages of the October 1941 issue of Country Gentleman. Care for a Lucky, anyone? It’s the cigarette recommended by 6 out of 10 doctors.
SONG: Surprise Party – This recording was made back in 1987 on a four track Tascam portastudio casette machine; another deep archival bit, rescued from a murky past. Written to mark someone’s birthday.
SONG: Don’t Tell Rick – First posting of a rough mix of our new song, Don’t Tell Rick, which will accompany the release of our new album, Cowboy Scat: Songs in the Key of Rick. We are having second thoughts about all the stuff we said about Rick, obviously, and well, he’s got guns and rangers. Any questions on that?
SONG: Dinos – We’ve played this number before on the podcast. This has got to be the most ridiculous recording we’ve ever made, but you be the judge. I simply can’t say anymore.
Hey, may … download it. It’s freakin’ free, which means you, too, can afford it.
The thing is, you have to take a crowbar to the lid, like this. Unggh. Unggggh. Arrrgh! Okay, that’s harder than it looks.
Visual Approximation of Podcast
Oh, hi, stalwart friends of Big Green. It is I, Joe of Big Green. Just caught me in the process of trying to get the lid off of the latest episode of THIS IS BIG GREEN, our very popular (in the plant kingdom) monthly podcast, just posted over the last couple of days and ready for download. We want to give people an idea of what they can expect when they download this sucker – all 1 hour and 45 minutes of it, or thereabouts. Wouldn’t want you having to cope with a pig in a poke, especially a porker of those dimensions. You have a right to know what’s in that great big bag of stupid… and know you shall.
Here’s what’s included in March Fiendraiser 2013 (our bogus fundraising episode), to wit:
Ned Trek VIII: The Corn of Ozark Five – Captain Willard Mittillius Romney and First Officer Mr. Ned (the talking dressage horse) are invited down to a little get-together with Louie Gomert, governor of Ozark Five … only to find their commander thrown into a titanic battle, mano-a-mano, with a hideous creature from beyond space already. Introduced by former Secretary of State and War Criminal at Large, Dr. Henry Kissinger.
Put The Phone Down – Our monthly gab session covering a range of topics, from birthday wishes to the entire universe, this month in dead famous people, strange reappearances, and so on. We also shake the tin cup for financial support. Or at least moral support. (We have even less morals than we do financials.)
Previously Unreleased Big Green tracks – We toss up three recordings like skeet and invite you to blow them to bits with your pump rifle of music criticism (talk about tortured metaphors!). Two demos from our 2008 International House album project; one that didn’t make it onto the final album, a song called Round Up; the second a demo version of Matt’s song Come Back Home. There is also a new, first-draft recording of a song we used to play in our terrestrial live performance days – a song called The Milkman Lives.
So listen in good health, friends. As always, let us know what you think … even before you think it.
Hey howdee, everybody! It’s your old friend Joe of Big Green. Yeee-haw, have we got an amazing blog post for you this week. Shit boy howdy. (Did I say “howdy” yet?)
"Cousin" Rick
My apologies. I’m just practicing up for the promotional tour we’ll be embarking upon to plug our new album, Cowboy Scat: Songs in the Key of Rick, a collection of songs written by, for, of, and around our dear cousin, Rick Perry, governor of Texas, author of all we hold dear, inventor of the syrup gin, holder of the three-cards (in 3-card Monte … don’t know where I’m going with that). Rumor has it that the album is a recreated soundtrack from a musical that was lost over the side of a pleasure craft on Lake Tahoe in 1978. Someone apparently went back in time for that particular Nevada vacation. Rumor has it, anyway.
Okay, so … we’re practicing, to be sure. What else? Well, we posted the February episode of our ludicrous podcast, THIS IS BIG GREEN, just this past week. What kind of trouble did we get ourselves into? That’s a tall order, my friend. Just download the sucker and find out. It’s about 100 minutes of pure audio ecstasy, prepared for pod by yours truly and my somewhat more complicated brother, Matt Perry esq. Here are some highlights:
Ned Trek VII: The Last Moon of Frutoonius – the latest episode in the continuing saga of Willard Mitt Romney, commander of the starship Free Enterprise, and his talking dressage horse / first officer, Mr. Ned. This month, Willard, Ned, and Doc Coburn lock horns with rogue operator Newt Gingrich and his strange, other-worldly (or other-moonly) alien fifth wife.
Songs – We spin “Asteroid” from our album, International House, in celebration of our recent near-miss (or in the words of the immortal George Carlin, “near-hit”) by a large asteroid. We also play a lost demo from that same project, a song called “Say You Will” that never made it on to the finished album. Lastly, we play “Beautiful Grid”, a recording from about 1991 or so produced by Bob Acquaviva of Mere Mortals fame, featuring Tony (Ace) Butera on guitar – this is off our “President’s Brain is Missing” EP.
….and several butchers aprons. Got to get back to it. Time’s a-wasting. Enjoy!
This is Big Green – February 2014. Features: 1) Ned Trek XVI: A Mock Time; 2) Put the Phone Down: Changing our name to Oliver Remote Control; 3) Why Andy Williams never did a special with us; 4) Matt’s Andromeda period: 100x worse than Neil Sadaka; 5) Remembering Pete Seeger; 6) Song: Paradise, by Big Green; 7) Song: Kublai Khan, by Big Green; 8. Matt’s plans for Super Bowl Sunday; 9) Time for us to go
Did you listen to this month’s podcast, 
