Listening Through the Graveyard, Part Two

“Every time someone wants to do this, the universe gets in the way,” lamented Dave from the Grave during the latest of several phone conversations meant to set up an interview with him. I, evidently, am not the only KCSBer to attempt a first-hand investigation, nor the first to hit snags. These plans always derail, according to Dave, whether by organizational snafus, scheduling troubles, or natural disasters.

This time around, blame biology for the delays: Like all too many of us this season, he’s caught one of the viruses going around. The freakish element is that, unlike most victims of the usual winter infections, Dave rarely leaves his house. A daily schedule dominated by listening to KCSB indoors turns out to be an imperfect bulwark against transmissible illness; Dave suspects he caught the bug from a visiting friend.

He left first notice of this in my voice mail, saying he had bad news and good news. The bad news is obvious. The good news is the cache of old notebooks that he reported finding. They are perhaps 30 in number, containing various notes, remembrances, favorite song titles, and music references to follow up; all filled, of course, while listening to KCSB. This massive handwritten record of one man’s prodigious listening habits would certainly come in handy during our interview — should that interview ever come to pass.