Switched On Audrey

Currently I DJ at Luxuriamusic.com an internet radio station specializing in Lounge, Exotica, Jazz, Surf, Go-Go, Psych, Garage, Bubblegum, …basically every genre of cool music. I do a Bossa Nova/Samba/Latin show called "Pretty World" Sundays from 2-4 Pacific Standard Time. I often fill in for the other djs on Luxuria when they can't make their shows making me the "Girl Friday". Fridays are usually the day that I fill in on the "Mod Quad" a great line up music with "Volcanic Action", Surf and Exotica with Domenic Priore, "Kaos a Go-Go" with Agent Kari, a mixture of psych, yeye, easy-listening. "Bubble Gum and other Delights" with Traderbeck, as the name implies, and then again Domenic's show, Riot on Sunset Strip, a show that features Mid-'60s bands that played on the Sunset strip. I have also filled in for Sheryl Farber and her all girl group/vocalist show called, "Splendor in the Grass" as well as for David Ponak's "the Nice Age" which features a lot of male vocalists like Scott Walker and a mixes it up with a lot of newer bands like Caribou. Basically, you can listen to Luxuriamusic.com all day, all week, and never be bored. We have a fantastic team of Djs that I am very proud to spin with! Where did it start for me? As a child I discovered the Beatles and Rolling Stones records in my Mother's closet. Soon after I started washing cars to raise money for my newfound passion, record collecting. I became a more serious record collector after meeting Greg Shaw when I had just turned 18.Greg and I became fast friends and he gave me a job at Bomp Records helping Suzy Shaw with mail order and then moved up Art Director for Voxx Records. I had toyed with being in a band and was asked to join the Pandoras at one time by Paula Pierce. The selection was based my appearance rather than my musicianship, which was nonexistent. My love for dancing to music has always outweighed my desire to play it. I could always be seen frantically dancing away in front of all my favorite bands like the Crawdaddy's and then running off to the DJ decks. I started to spin at a club called "The Action" in downtown L.A. that I promptly renamed the "Rave Up!" When the club was forced to close, Greg Shaw founded the "Cavern Club" in Hollywood. He asked me to DJ and make flyers for this new 60's haven. The club got a surprisingly amount of press from major media outlets such as Newsweek, 20/20 and People magazine. Squares flocked to see "the freaks" and eventually the novelty wore off and the Cavern closed. Fortunately Greg had audio taped many of the bands played there and now Tim Gassen (Knights of Fuzz) is re-mastering the lives tapes soon to be released on Bomp! During the Cavern time, Domenic Priore author of "Look! Listen! Vibrate! Smile!" came to the club after reading an interview with me that appeared in "The L.A. Weekly." He told me about his idea for a TV show he wanted to call "It's Happening!" It was a Shindig/Ready Steady Go styled TV program that would soon feature bands like the Tell Tale Hearts, Unclaimed, Fuzztones, Untamed Youth, Loved Ones, Quagmires, Nashville Ramblers, just to name a few. Well, it wasn't long after our first meeting that we started a friendship and partnership that would last for 20 years. We had hosted, directed, edited, decorated, and danced...you name it, and we did it, all without any sponsorship! "It's Happening!" received much publicity and offers from MTV, but in the end nothing happened. Sadly, we stopped doing the shows; it became too much work with little return for the efforts exuded.Now we have plans for sometime in the future to release a best of "It's Happening!" on DVD. The project will take some time to complete due to legal issues and our inability to find some of the band members that performed on the show. We need those before we can complete the project. Right now we have most all the band members but we are missing a few like the Leopards. As well as "It's Happening!" I produce a more recent show called "The Now Sound", also with live music from bands such as the Venue and The Soundtrack of Our Lives from Sweden and the Masonics from London. At the moment, my show is on hold while I work on the legal issues concerning the release of DVDs.My future plans include a documentary on 60’s fashion genius designer Rudi Gernreich. It will include interviews with Peggy Moffitt, William Claxton, Layne Nielson, and Leon Bing. My main source of income is manufacturing '60s based designs in plastic as well as having an retail space in the 111 Antique Mall in Palm Springs. I specialize in '60s and'70s home décor, jewelry, art, and clothing. After years of full time professional hoarder of everything nobody needs, it was time to let go of some things.But of all the things I that I am most crazy about is my dog Benjamin! He is an Australian Shepard/Catahoula mix, smart, sensitive, sweet, funny, charming, and multi-lingual as he spends a lot of time around my European friends. He is just the best friend in the whole world! I adopted this little gem after Hurricane Katrina, and haven't regretted a single moment. Except for water, (understandable) he loves everybody and everything! Being from the "Big Easy," Benjamin is easy going and just what I need to ground me no matter what is going on in my eventful life. It is the best feeling in the world coming home to unconditional love, it really is.