Beware: Pirated Copies of Steve's Wolfman Jack "Howlin on the Air" CD Sold on eBay *

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=300240425176&ssPageName=STRK:MEWN:IT&ih=020

Seems legit. The seller has never had any negative feedback. If this is the real deal, it's a great buy.

 

Someone did, not me

-s1m0n-

 

I have a copy of that CD and think you did a great job, Steve. Would you be able to share any experiences involving the making of the CD?

 

Ill jump in and ask. How did the idea come about for doing this? Was the Wolfman involved?

 

Thanks Steve! I love it that you were able to mooch off Rick Dees! I'm amazed that the XERB tapes were in such good shape. I'm an aircheck collector and I've dealt with the varying quality of tapes and many sound pretty bad. These must be from the collection of so-called "live" tapes recorded in Hollywood at the studios of XERB and shipped across the border to the transmitter site in Baja? I'm assuming most of the XERB tapes were originally recorded at 15 or 30 ips to retain quality for broadcast?
Did you end up making the CD by piecing many of the bits, gags, intros and outros together or did you end up using longer, uncut segments from the tapes?
I guess the million dollar question is this: Were the tapes mostly scoped or unscoped?

 

My apologies to whomever bought this cd. I received mine today and it is a cd-r. I am going to request a refund.

 

Are you able to post a pic/scan please?

 

I can't since I already prepared it for return shipment.

The seller kindly refunded my money.

 

I guess I'll be sending mine back as well, when I receive it.

 

I emailed her asking if the others are cdr's and this is the response I got


"They are supplied by Lou Lamb Smith, Wolfman's widow. If they are she had them made. They sound great. I am blind so I can't comment on the inserts. Judy"

 

This seems to be the only Wolfman title with counterfeits floating around.

 

Thanks for your comments on the disc, Steve. I have no idea regarding the XERB phone line.

Those unscoped tapes need to land in syndication. Too bad they haven't yet

 

I found one of these "Howlin' On The Air" CDs online this week (sealed and hopefully not a CD-R: eek: ). Hopefully it will arrive today and I'm really looking forward to hearing it.

 

I bought one of these (sealed) via eBay a year or so ago. It was a CD-R, and not a very good one. It was full of skips and errors.

The seller had a similarly suspicious tale as to the provenance of the CD-Rs, which I won't repeat here.

Too bad, 'cause it's a great sounding disc, and lots of fun.

Chris

 

After reading this thread (wish I had read it earlier ), I don't have a good feeling about my disc. I'll have to wait and see what shows up but I have a feeling I'll be asking for a refund.

 

It arrived today and it's definitely a pirated copy. It looks like someone with a pile of CD-Rs and a laser printer is churning out copies of this thing. Hopefully, I'll get a refund.

To prevent anyone else from getting soaked, I think it would be a good idea to change the thread title.

 

Still waiting for mine to come.

 

Opening the package...top label looks printed/copied with "Mastered By Nimbus" LOL. Guess it's time to inquire for a refund.

 

me too