ace was in a ska band
Ace has been bored so he got some podcasting equipment and answered some reader questions.
SEGMENT ONE: BASKET-SKALL
My solo project can only start one way: by matching each Michigan rotation player to the instrument they’d play in a mid-aughts ska band.
SEGMENT TWO: BASKETBALL
starts at 11:35
Michigan’s late-clock offense has looked funky at times and it looks like that could improve with some shot redistribution—and perhaps a shift in approach as the shot clock winds down. Also, how else can Michigan get more on the offensive end of the floor? (And do they need to?)
SEGMENT THREE: BASKET-CLONES
starts at 22:05
Choosing one player, past or present, from whom to create an entire team of clone-ballers. Trey Burke is a bit short, unfortunately, and the bulk of Beilein’s guys weren’t defensive killers, so I reached back a bit for my selection.
SEGMENT FOUR: HEALTH UPDATE
starts at 27:20
Where I’m at right now, where I’m hoping to be in the short term, and what I’m doing in the meantime.
MUSIC:
- Intro: “Traveling In Your Mind”—Loyalty Freak Music
- “Nervous In The Alley”—Less Than Jake
- “Dave’s Friend”—The Slackers
- “Road Rash”—Mad Caddies
- Outro: “I Want It That Way”—Backstreet Boys
THE USUAL LINKS
- Helpful iTunes subscribe link
- General podcast feed link
- Direct download link (right-click/save-as)
- What's with the theme music?
Ace: "I only want to note that I didn’t write the lyrics for this song"
He hid it pretty well. And impressively, Ace's friends and Facebook friends stayed loyal through the entire search. But there are deep corners of the internet. Deeper than the places even an internet wizard like Ace knows about. I'm talking about Russian servers that downloaded everything free music sites were putting out in 2002 before the DRM people got good at it. Even if the servers have been wiped, the information is still there. Information like the names of band members (excavated from Twitter by kevin holt):
@cjane87 Holy crap, Jonny has made some major moves since being the drummer in our high school ska band.
— Ace Anbender (@AceAnbender) May 29, 2015 Like a woolly mammoth from the 2000th century BCE, it takes only a small effort to bury things and a massive coordinated project to dig it back up. This could not have been unearthed without the help of a massive team of excavators. In particular user Knight followed the crumb above to get where JZ, Dave and I did last night (we were working through a list of local ska bands), then took it a step further by finding a recording in the Ann Arbor District Library. A2Photonut and Skurnie both got the track from the library and emailed it to me. The latter, whom you may remember as the guy who writes our M soccer posts, also offered a suggestion:
Now we need someone to mash up this song with a Happy Gilmore montage.
Done. If anyone else would like to lose their dignity in solidarity, here's the thread.
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