Three Hour FriendsYesterday, May 12, WFMU's Kenny G played the final episode of Friends on his radio show. One catch: his program lasts three hours so the episode was stretched to fit. If you'd like to hear this epic moment in television slowed down to one-third normal speed (theme song, commercials and all), a page with links to streams, as well as a complete transcript, is here. The voices are all completely intelligible, except for the fact that everyone sounds severely medicated. And of course, there are no visuals. (The concept of Friends 3x was suggested by 'FMU program director Brian Turner, who says he didn't think Kenny "was crazy enough to do it.")
Oh my god. A few seconds is enough. The slowdown is done with pitch correction that has a vocorder-with-reverb sort of effect. The laugh track is particularly hideous.
KG is the stations terrible child. here is the thread that show generated on the wfmu message board. he has been doing confrontational radio work for years. the point many people missed was believing that it was a good concept that just didnt pan out in real time. i think it went down as planned, confrontational.
sounds normal to me. they should rerelease the song as the "heroin remix."
like the melvins covering the soporifics
haha this is awesome. the program director should've known better! kenny is crazy enough to try to speak every action he performs for a whole day, just for transcription; friends at 1/3 speed is nothin'.
this is so great. I LOVE IT. THANK YOU for this link....
This really is great. Douglas Gordon never had it so good.
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Three Hour Friends
Yesterday, May 12, WFMU's Kenny G played the final episode of Friends on his radio show. One catch: his program lasts three hours so the episode was stretched to fit. If you'd like to hear this epic moment in television slowed down to one-third normal speed (theme song, commercials and all), a page with links to streams, as well as a complete transcript, is here. The voices are all completely intelligible, except for the fact that everyone sounds severely medicated. And of course, there are no visuals. (The concept of Friends 3x was suggested by 'FMU program director Brian Turner, who says he didn't think Kenny "was crazy enough to do it.")
- tom moody 5-13-2004 9:26 am
Oh my god. A few seconds is enough. The slowdown is done with pitch correction that has a vocorder-with-reverb sort of effect. The laugh track is particularly hideous.
- mark 5-13-2004 11:30 am
KG is the stations terrible child. here is the thread that show generated on the wfmu message board. he has been doing confrontational radio work for years. the point many people missed was believing that it was a good concept that just didnt pan out in real time. i think it went down as planned, confrontational.
- bill 5-13-2004 3:29 pm
sounds normal to me. they should rerelease the song as the "heroin remix."
- dave 5-13-2004 5:56 pm
like the melvins covering the soporifics
- bill 5-13-2004 6:12 pm
haha this is awesome. the program director should've known better! kenny is crazy enough to try to speak every action he performs for a whole day, just for transcription; friends at 1/3 speed is nothin'.
- kelegraph 5-14-2004 10:15 pm
this is so great. I LOVE IT. THANK YOU for this link....
- w (guest) 5-14-2004 11:40 pm
This really is great. Douglas Gordon never had it so good.
- joester 5-15-2004 7:42 am