jean sheperd!!!!

[reeshy]

I found a great website about Jean

jean sheperd archives.com

just thought some of you would like it!!

[Lawson]

Very cool! Thanks

Somehow the link ended up being:

http://shep-archives.com/

[Fat_Sunny]

Thank You, Lawson! F_S Was Struggling To Get To The Right Spot!

[OGC]

since all of his old radio shows are in the public domain I don't think it would be wrong to say that there are plenty of his shows available by torrent.

[docgoblin]

This link from the archives will get you all you need: Clicky (http://shep-archives.com/netjuke/search.php?do=search&col=ar.name&val=Jean+Shepherd)

I've gotten stuff off there for years... They've got hundreds of shows. Even better, they have a bunch of the interviews Shep did on other shows, not to mention the great tribute done by Alan Colmes after he died. There are a few great Ann Liguori and Alan Colmes shows that Shep called in to near the end of his life.

[reeshy]

Thank you . guys!!!!! and Jean thanks you too!!!!!!

[FezPaul]

Thank reeshy et al, I'm reading "Excelsior, You Fathead!" And would love to hear the man's voice!

[docgoblin]

Thank reeshy et al, I'm reading "Excelsior, You Fathead!" And would love to hear the man's voice!

The book is great. It shows all the warts. They actually did a stage adaptation of the book at a little theater in Patchogue, Long Island over the winter. It was very good. Eugene really does a fantastic job of giving you all of what Jean Shepherd was all about. You have to admit that he was one of the true pioneers of talk radio. In the late 50's the guy could do 4 0r 5 hours all by himself. No callers... No music (unless he decided it fit into the fabric of the show)... It was Just Jean talking without a script... The man is so underrated in the history of broadcasting.

[drjoek]

Thanks Love Jean Sheppherd

[Mike Teacher]

The book is great. It shows all the warts. They actually did a stage adaptation of the book at a little theater in Patchogue, Long Island over the winter. It was very good. Eugene really does a fantastic job of giving you all of what Jean Shepherd was all about. You have to admit that he was one of the true pioneers of talk radio. In the late 50's the guy could do 4 0r 5 hours all by himself. No callers... No music (unless he decided it fit into the fabric of the show)... It was Just Jean talking without a script... The man is so underrated in the history of broadcasting.

To me he was the best storyteller to ever stand in front of a mic. ever. Bar None.

The book is awesome, and the fact that the sites now have hundreds of shows available.

Shep-heads like me used to trade cassette tapes, then CD-Rs, and now if you want you can buy a DVD-ROM with hundreds of MP3 shows for next to nothing theyre out there. Wonderful. These also include live shows he would do from The Limelight in NYC, on those you hear actual audiences and laughs and that's very cool stuff I didn't even know existed.

Shepherd was great in that he could go off on what seemed these fantastic sidebars in the middle of a story, and then pull it back right at the last minute. Like said above, he started out with 1, then 2, then up to 4-5 hours, no callers, just him and a mic and a couple of songs and maybe some reverb/echo effect if he got really fancy.

I think he was, because of the timing and because of the wave propagation of nighttime AM, the equivalent of what Wolfman Jack had, a huge captive audience at a time where there werent 800 other listening options.

I have a couple of the 'Shepherd's Pie' TV episodes he did on PBS. One shows South of the Border and segues into an episode on July 4th Fireworks. Another showed the 'Flagship' that's out on Rt. 22 in Union. Little slices of Americana, like the radio show.

Shep was a sucess in Writing, radio, TV, movies, and books, decades before someone else would lay claim to being 'king of all media'.

[sailor]

Thank You, Lawson! F_S Was Struggling To Get To The Right Spot!

that's what she said!

[reeshy]

I just finished listening to 2 hours of Jean.....and Mike the teacher.....if you can ....can you direct me to but some tapes of our Jean????

[reeshy]

Goodbye, droopy drawers.....I'm gonna have a guineia stincker!!!!!!