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What's amazing about the dementia music and sketches of David Tanny is that anybody can enjoy it, from the mainstream pop purists who like stuff like "Witch Doctor" and "Disco Duck" to the geeks who like stuff like "Star Trekkin'" and "Take Off". The subjects span a wide variety of topics about television, celebrities, commercial take-offs, and othet cutting-edge dementia that few people ever thought of doing.

David Tanny is an Internet podcast host as well as a comedy music parodist and sketch creator, as well as a webmaster, news blogger, and commentator.

Tanny hosts a radio podcast called "The Mad Music Comedy Zone" where he plays what he likes, from dementia to comedy standup and sketches. He even dares to play his own stuff, as well as off topic songs that he likes that's not necesairily dementia.

Tanny also writes, produces, and engineers dementia music and sketch comedy from his home with a computer software program whose production rivals those of other homemade recordings. Topics of his dementia and comedy material include reminiscing of the old times; topics also include video games from the 80s: "Centipede" and "Pac-Man"; some adult cartoons: "South Park" and "Space Ghost"; about sexuality: "What if Your Wife was a Man" and "Girl, You Drive Me Wild"; numerous TV shows: "Beverly Hills 90210", "Eight is Enough", "All My Children", "Jeopardy!", "Hollywood Squares", and "Pokemon"; salutes to demented icons of the past: Cheech and Chong, Bob and Doug McKenzie, Napoleon XIV, Odgen Edsl, and the Not Ready for Prime Time Players; break-in interviews whose style was originated by Dickie Goodman; famous celebrities: David Hasselhoff, Alyssa Milano, Britney Spears, Hilary Duff, Lindsay Lohan, Mariah Carey, and Sarah Michelle Gellar; fast food such as Papa John's, Kentucky Fried Chicken, and Taco Bell; other topics include commercial parodies, beer, Michigan J. Frog, Wacky Packages, and many more recorded since 1998.

Tanny's parodies are part of a long line of funny musicians and hobbyists who make fun of the lyrics of the original songs by writing up a new set of lyrics to go with the melody, thus, he's been on the same line of work from everybody from Allan Sherman to "Weird Al" Yankovic to Bob Rivers to Robert Lund and beyond.

Since 1998, Tanny has released five CDs, including a 30-minute break-in interview recorded in 1980 using analog tapes, back in the time before digital editing and recording took over. A sixth one is on its way in March and a 10-year Greatest Hits CD with some new material will be out before the Christmas shopping season.

Back in 1966, Tanny unwittingly created a song parody in first grade. While his class was standing up to salute the United States Flag, they recited Pledge of Alliegiance, sang The Star Spangled Banner, and in between, the song he parodied, Flag of America. The first grade teacher wasn't impressed when Tanny substituted the word "Bank" for the word "Flag" so that he was singing about a "Bank of America", because that's the place where his parents banked back then. Thus, a parodist, whether he knew it or not, was born. That song will be on a future album.

In 1972, he got a tape recorder and recored excerpts of TV shows while doing an Ed Sullivan impression to introduce the next recorded track. His favorite topics were The Electric Company, Zoom, The Mouse Factory, and The Flintstones.

In 1998, he recorded the first songs that would later become part of his Stupid Audio CD series, which were first released in 2004 on CD, and before that, only to select funny music shows on cassette in 2000 since the CD burner in his old Sony VAIO computer didn't do the job of buring audio discs right.

In 2000, he created two funny music streams off of a streaming provider that doesn't need to be mentioned. When that company started charging for its use in 2002, Tanny closed down a channel and kept the one going through mid 2007 when his funds to operate it ran dry and the economy sagged severely.

Trivia

Tanny has been on the Internet since 1994. His website, [http://www.davesfunstuff.com Dave's Fun Stuff], has been serving up news about the genre of dementia music since September 16, 1995. Formerly centered around Dr. Demento when it started out, the website covers the entire genre of comedy music and sketches from the commercial releases to the notable obscure that deserves to be covered.

Tanny maintains a website about a TV show [http://www.eightisenough.com Eight is Enough] since 1997.

Tanny got airplay just once so far on the Dr. Demento Show on July 2, 2006: "Mariah's Greatest Screamin' Hits" featuring excerpts of Mariah Carey's screaming in some of her songs. It was repeated one mroe time on the July 23, 2006 show.

Tanny's favorite TV shows in 2007 include mostly the adult cartoons found on Fox-TV and Cartoon Network's Adult Swim, as well as Comedy Central's offerings like South Park. He also tapes both Jay Leno's and David Letterman's late night shows and watches them the next morning back to back.

Tanny's favorite TV shows of the past include anything from the genres of variety, comedy, game shows, cartoons, and sitcoms.

Tanny's favorite music artists include The Rolling Stones, "Weird Al" Yankovic, The Beatles, Frank Zappa, Led Zeppelin, Bob Rivers Comedy Corp, Van Halen, Spike Jones, Monty Python, and Mariah Carey.

Discography

Stupid Audio 1.0 Cassette (2000)
Stupid Audio 1.0 CD (2004)
Stupid Audio 2.0 CD (2005)
Stupid Audio 3.0 CD (2006)
Rap With Howard with Mike Hayward CD (2007)
Stupid Audio 4.0 CD (2007)
Stupid Audio 5.0 CD (February 26, 2008)
The David Tanny 10th Anniversary Collection (late 2008)
Stupid Audio 6.0 CD (sometime in 2009)

External Links

[http://www.davidtanny.com David Tanny]
[http://www.davesfunstuff.com Dave's Fun Stuff]
[http://www.sandiegoradionews.com San Diego Radio News]
[http://www.eightisenough.com Eight is Enough]
[http://www.dfsxradio.com DFSX Podcasts]