{"id":158,"date":"2005-04-06T21:53:12","date_gmt":"2005-04-07T02:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/?p=158"},"modified":"2005-04-06T21:53:12","modified_gmt":"2005-04-07T02:53:12","slug":"the-ice-cream-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/the-ice-cream-man\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ice Cream Man"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nNot the emperor of ice cream, mind you, though I wouldn’t be surprised a bit to learn his curds were concupiscent….<\/p>\n

Going back to the radio daze archives for this podcast<\/a>. From about 1985 to 1988 (I’m fuzzy on the beginning date), I worked as a DJ at WWWV-FM in Charlottesville, Virginia, where I was in graduate school at UVA. For the first year or so I had my own special show: “Late Night With Gardner Campbell.” Highly imaginative show title. The cool thing about the show, for me anyway, was that by running from 10-1 at night I got to be more adventurous than my non-late-night colleagues. I played some music from the playlist, but I played other music that was off the playlist, and on occasion I would do special shows. My Neil Finn interview dates from this time. So does tonight’s podcast, which features a special guest I refer to merely as the “ice cream man.”<\/p>\n

Now it can be told that this man was none other than Eddie Dean, a terrific music writer who’s been published in The Washington Post<\/em>, The Philadelphia Inquirer<\/em>, the Washington, D.C. City Paper<\/em>, and even in Best Music Essays of 2000<\/em>, a collection edited by the extraordinary Peter Guralnick. At the time Eddie was finishing up his undergraduate career at UVA, where he was my student in the very first college class I taught all by myself: Freshman English Composition.<\/p>\n

Eddie was obviously special from the get-go. He’s still probably the single most imaginative and intense writer I’ve ever taught–and I’ve had some fine writers, believe me. Along with our common literary interests, Eddie and I also shared a deep love of popular music. He used to come visit me in my grad-student cubbyhole and we’d argue the merits of everything from Yoko Ono to the Guess Who for hours, just ranting and raving and having a great young time.<\/p>\n

I miss Eddie. He followed his muse and I followed mine, and though we still keep in irregular touch through friends and family, I haven’t seen him in a while. But every now and then I’ll see one of Eddie’s pieces in the Post<\/em> or elsewhere, and he never, ever fails to satisfy and inspire me. Truth is, I probably learned more from him than he ever did from me.<\/p>\n

This podcast demonstrates just how zany we could get. I have no idea whether anyone else will find this funny, but as I listen to it again two decades later, it still tickles me, and I hope you enjoy it.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/podcast\/Ice_Cream_Podcast.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div>

Podcast: Play in new window<\/a> | Download<\/a> (10.7MB) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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