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| Topic: | Little Bit of Heaven 94.7 KMET Tweedle Dee, and What FM Radio used to be. This thread has 29 replies. Displaying posts 16 through 30. |
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| Post 16 made on Monday December 28, 2015 at 21:39 |
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On December 28, 2015 at 21:29, Fins said...
How many of you sat around all day long waiting to hear DJ play your request? A bit easier when you know the DJs but working at a stereo store with the station on because we advertised with them, it was like a free spot.
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| Post 17 made on Monday December 28, 2015 at 23:52 |
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| OP | Post 18 made on Tuesday December 29, 2015 at 00:46 |
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On December 28, 2015 at 21:29, Fins said...
How many of you sat around all day long waiting to hear DJ play your request? Not long with KMET, that was the beauty of that station, If you got the request in you were usually on the air live making it. Gotta love free-form radio, evidently it does not pay the bills though.
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| Post 19 made on Tuesday December 29, 2015 at 01:26 |
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On December 29, 2015 at 00:46, Hi-FiGuy said...
Not long with KMET, that was the beauty of that station, If you got the request in you were usually on the air live making it. Gotta love free-form radio, evidently it does not pay the bills though. I grew up at the tail end of the radio era. While stations still took requests, the reality was they only recorded phone calls and played ones that matched their preprogrammed songs. But for a very short time, at the very end of the 90's/beginning of the 21st century, a station out of Charlotte hired a young DJ with an old school style crossed with a Howard stern attitude. He was awesome. All I know about him is he went by the name WILSON. Had some great intros that used old Dennis the mennnis clips. He got suspended from the air a few times before the station finally gave up. But probably his most infamous bit was "Name the Ugly Bride". This contest was played on the same day of the week that the Charlotte news paper printed their bridal announcements. Callers were to give first name and last initial. The station finally cut and run around late 2001 when many FCC rules started to change
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| Post 20 made on Tuesday December 29, 2015 at 01:34 |
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You guys totally missed KPPC, 106.7, which many of us in LA considered the underground station. KMET was a commercial station in comparison, and yes, the KMET you're talking about. KPPC had daily news broadcasts by the Credibility Gap, a group of comics, The Credibility Gap was a satirical comedy team active from 1968 through 1979. They emerged in the late 1960s doing comedic commentary on the news for the Los Angeles AM rock radio station KRLA 1110, and proceeded to develop more elaborate and ambitious satirical routines on the "underground" station KPPC-FM, Pasadena, California. Founded as loose collective centered on KRLA staff members Lew Irwin, John Gilliland, Thom Beck, Richard Beebe, and folk singer Len Chandler, the group is chiefly remembered today for its 1971-1979 line-up, comprising Beebe, Harry Shearer, David L. Lander and Michael McKean. And we've heard of a couple of those guys since, two of them in Spinal Tap! KPPC was at 106.7 and operated out of two small studios in Pasadena. In addition to the actual daily comic presentations, they had such stuff as a cartridge in the cart player that said "The DJ has made a mistake! The DJ has made a mistake!" Every once in a while the DJ would flub something he was trying to say and he'd be interrupted by that cart playing. They played complete albums, complete long songs when AM played the short versions, and were just all over the place introducing new music you couldn't hear anywhere else. From Wkipedia: Hosts included B. Mitchel Reed, Steven Segal (aka "The Obscene Steven Clean;" not related to the similarly named actor), Susan Carter (aka "Outrageous Nevada"), Barbara Birdfeather, Jeff Gonzer (aka "Bonzo" Gonzer), Tom Donahue, Program Director (2014 Rock Radio Hall of Fame inductee) and deejay Les Carter, novelty music historian Dr. Demento, Charles Laquidara, Ted Alvy (aka "Cosmos Topper"), Elliot Mintz (whose late-night Sunday show played everything from Baba Ram Dass lectures to listener-created recordings), blues archivist Johnny Otis and comedy troupes The Credibility Gap (featuring Harry Shearer, Richard Beebe, David L. Lander, and Michael McKean), and The Firesign Theatre. Station promos were sung by the a cappella singing group The Persuasions. Doctor Demento got his start there and then went commercial on KMET. Sorry, but it has to be said. Ditto the Firesign Theater. Around 1972 the station manager fired the entire crew. His reason? He didn't like them. I never got any further understanding of it. That opened the door for others to try their hand at this stuff... Basically, I hung out there after the firing and missed the coolest period of their existence. I did have one nice experience: Someone suggested that I might be able to handle a substitute gig when one of the DJs, Bob Sala, went on vacation. So I was given Monday through Friday, 7 PM to 10 PM (IIRC) to fill. I was surprised when I walked in on Monday and Johnnie Otis was there. Nobody had told me I was to engineer the last hour of his show. So I did. After that, it was music for the week. I'm still proud to say that my personal catalog and knowledge at the time was such that in the fourteen hours of music play, I did not repeat anything. Hell, they even paid me. Sooner or later, the station was sold, and one day, from the same studios, it magically became The World Famous KROQ. Those guys knew how to shape a brand: put "World Famous" in your name on the first day of business. There are many other stories to tell...
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| Post 21 made on Tuesday December 29, 2015 at 09:09 |
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Wait a minute. You used the name Johnny Otis. Shuggy's dad? The Johnny Otis? The one who brought Etta James to the world? Hand Jive Johnny Otis?
That is cool.
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| Post 22 made on Tuesday December 29, 2015 at 13:32 |
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On December 29, 2015 at 09:09, Fred Harding said...
Wait a minute. You used the name Johnny Otis. Shuggy's dad? The Johnny Otis? The one who brought Etta James to the world? Hand Jive Johnny Otis? Yes. I remember hearing Hand Jive on the radio when I was about five years old. The Johnny Otis who was walking around in Watts during the Watts riots, and people were told to leave him alone because "he's blood." Yup. That one.  That is cool. So true. A couple of years later, during our short life as a live recording company, we live-broadcast his review from The Ash Grove in West Hollywood. Over KPPC. In Quad. (Sansui, unfortunately, not Columbia)(was Columbia the competitor?) At that time the review included Eddie Clean-Head Vinson, The Three Tons of Joy, and Littler Esther Phillips. Shuggie came up on stage and played a number or two. This was about two years after Strawberry Letter 23. Oh, yeah -- our first live quad broadcast, also on KPPC, was John McLaughlin, playing at The Whisky A Go Go. It was a bit of a thrill to switch from our local monitors to the FM broadcast. The FM sounded pretty good! Anyway, that's what I did over the summer....................
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| Post 23 made on Tuesday December 29, 2015 at 13:39 |
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Thank you....
Likely the John McLaughlin Mahavishnu Orchestra days. If you haven't read the Peter Guralnick books, including Mystery Train, you should.
My. Johnny Otis, one of my musical heroes.
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| Post 24 made on Tuesday December 29, 2015 at 13:52 |
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We had a guy in MKE who did a blues show on the channel owned by the MKE Public School system, which he recorded to tape and sent to the station over the phone. Audio was OK for AM, but it was an FM station. Didn't care- the music he played was so good the sound quality didn't matter.
Ernie- any idea how old Lew Irwin was or if he may have lived in the Bay area?
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| Post 25 made on Tuesday December 29, 2015 at 13:55 |
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On December 29, 2015 at 13:39, Fred Harding said...
Likely the John McLaughlin Mahavishnu Orchestra days. Yes. I remember the name Lew Irwin, but nothing more comes to mind. Sorry.
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| Post 26 made on Tuesday December 29, 2015 at 14:42 |
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On December 29, 2015 at 13:55, Ernie Gilman said...
Yes.
I remember the name Lew Irwin, but nothing more comes to mind. Sorry. OK, I just googled him- I had a great uncle by the same name, but it wasn't the same person. Wiki mentioned The Credibility Gap, so I knew I had the right one.
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| Post 27 made on Tuesday December 29, 2015 at 18:19 |
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And I just realized I was thinking of Stu Irwin. His show was off the air by 1955, so keep walking, nothing to see here.  And it was Erwin, anyway, not Irwin.
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| Post 28 made on Tuesday December 29, 2015 at 19:27 |
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On December 29, 2015 at 01:34, Ernie Gilman said...
You guys totally missed KPPC, 106.7, which many of us in LA considered the underground station. KMET was a commercial station in comparison, and yes, the KMET you're talking about.
KPPC had daily news broadcasts by the Credibility Gap, a group of comics,
And we've heard of a couple of those guys since, two of them in Spinal Tap!
KPPC was at 106.7 and operated out of two small studios in Pasadena. In addition to the actual daily comic presentations, they had such stuff as a cartridge in the cart player that said "The DJ has made a mistake! The DJ has made a mistake!" Every once in a while the DJ would flub something he was trying to say and he'd be interrupted by that cart playing.
They played complete albums, complete long songs when AM played the short versions, and were just all over the place introducing new music you couldn't hear anywhere else.
From Wkipedia:
Doctor Demento got his start there and then went commercial on KMET. Sorry, but it has to be said. Ditto the Firesign Theater.
Around 1972 the station manager fired the entire crew. His reason? He didn't like them. I never got any further understanding of it. That opened the door for others to try their hand at this stuff...
Basically, I hung out there after the firing and missed the coolest period of their existence. I did have one nice experience: Someone suggested that I might be able to handle a substitute gig when one of the DJs, Bob Sala, went on vacation. So I was given Monday through Friday, 7 PM to 10 PM (IIRC) to fill. I was surprised when I walked in on Monday and Johnnie Otis was there. Nobody had told me I was to engineer the last hour of his show. So I did.
After that, it was music for the week. I'm still proud to say that my personal catalog and knowledge at the time was such that in the fourteen hours of music play, I did not repeat anything. Hell, they even paid me.
Sooner or later, the station was sold, and one day, from the same studios, it magically became The World Famous KROQ. Those guys knew how to shape a brand: put "World Famous" in your name on the first day of business.
There are many other stories to tell... Did KROQ continue through the years in the same building? For being world famous they sure had a weak signal in the LA area. A great station for music!! The morning show with Kevin & Bean, Jimmy Kimmel, and Adam Corolla was a great way to start the morning as well.
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| OP | Post 29 made on Wednesday December 30, 2015 at 01:44 |
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Its time for number one, this is it, here it is, NUMBER ONE! I used to listen to DR.D before he went to KMET (had to hide from my parents to do so) and then not to long after that I stopped listening to him. I went back a few years later and could not listen for the whole show any longer. You knew the end was near when the top 20 got turned into the top 10 got turned into the funny 5.
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| OP | Post 30 made on Wednesday December 30, 2015 at 01:57 |
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