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[chuckyd4]

Anybody else heard of this guy?

I was listening to this tonight:



(get it! now!!!! if you don't have these recordings)... and I wanted to check out something, so wandered over to AMG. Low and behold, there was a review from one guy I've started seeing connected to a lot of the reviews of early stuff - goes by the name arwulf arwulf. Well (especially sans caps), thats the kind of name that gets your attention - I even contemplated if it might be Deep taking up a career in writing about music. He seems to know his stuff, writes lucidly and with a splash of humor, and seems interested in a broad variety of stuff.

So I googled him - turns out he's a DJ in the Ann Arbor area, and has been involved in some other areas of music. Do any of our Detroit-area posters know this guy's work???

I did find this page (WARNING: VULGAR LANGUAGE, you sissies), which takes a swipe at his name, and at which I wanted to laugh my ass off, but was afraid the Detroiters around here would beat me up if I laughed since I'm not from there. At least they take a funny swipe at Thom Jurek in the middle of it too.



(edited for hellacious punctuation and spelling mistakes)

[Frisco]

Arwulf is very cool. I don;t know him real well but have had the pleasure to talk with him briefly a few times. He's one of this old breed of Ann Arborites like John Sinclair that have championed liberal causes, individual freedoms, etc....I don't see him in Detroit very often. He came out to a Sam Rivers and a John Tchicai show that I did sometime ago. But I think he pretty much does his things in the Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti area.

He does one of the (if not THE) only vintage jazz shows on the air at WEMU called "Sunday Best" on early Sunday mornings. He also writes (or at least used to write) for an Ann Arbor paper called "The Agenda" where he took some well targeted, cynical slaps at many of the outrageous and outlandish things happening in mainstream scoiety. he always expressed a lot of bitterment at the way that Ann Arbor changed from a modest, liberal community to a mecca of yuppiedom. Definitely a unique and creative individual, and I'm sure that I know only a very small part of Arwulf's endeavors.

[bostontricky]

Definitely miss Arwulf from my A2 days. The Agenda column was a big hoot, and I think he had a show on WCBN called "You've Got to Be Modernistic" where he spun all those old 78s.

Is he old enough to have been around with Sinclair and those guys? I'd peg him for close to 50 by now.

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Bio here, WEMU website. He's 47 or 48...

[GoodSpeak]

Arwulf?

There. There wolf.

[bostontricky]

Originally Posted by GoodSpeak

Actually, not too far off...