haha now I don't have a radio show...
 

I used to. But the FCC took my baby away.

Oh baby, baby, baby let me blow your mind away.

they took her away
away from me...

Ring me, ring me, ring me
Up the President
And find out
Where my radio show went
Ring me, ring me, ring me
Up the FBI
And find out if
My show's alive

I don't have a radio show, but I DO tune my iPod's car adapter to the local christian rock station (my car also has an AUX plug, so I don't need to tune it to an off channel to listen to it myself).

this way, when ever I pass someone who's listening to the latest in Kumbaya, they get an earfull of whatever happens to be playing on the iPod at the moment.

the last person I passed with that station's bumper sticker got a dose of Skinny Puppy. it's fun to watch them look around in anger and eventually start banging on the steering wheel!


them a' call us pirates. illlllleeeegal broadcasta's.

I'm getting a radio show again. This time I'll be on the college radio station. I'll have to be careful about my albums and CDs with the f-word, since I'll have to play strictly by the man's rules this time around.

I wonder how long till they forbid for stations to play Rape Me?

yu sirius?

i got a "what the fuck" on the radio once. we made a log entry.

I'm serious. I'll be the oldest damned DJ they ever had, I know that much. I wonder if they realize I'm an old man. I did identify myself as a university staffer not a student. I start June 4, Mondays, 8-10 pm.

SWEET. avoid boomer classics and you'll be on safe ground.

Heh, yeah. I don't want to be their classic rock DJ.

I know that feeling. Our AM signal at KPSU is leased from the Portland School Districts, who are stricter than the FCC. And there's this jerk from the school station who's in charge of the contract, listening all the time with hopes of busting us and suspending us or shutting us down for good. Probably 2/3s of what I play is instrumental anyway, but you forget about stuff like Sun City Girls tracks where they go off with tourettes syndrome sessions in the middle of a song and stuff. I've definitely had some stuff slip through that made me sweat out the rest of the week wondering if I still had a show, or for that matter a station, a few times.

What's the story on the show you lost?

How's the record store business going?

Embryonically.

I'm trying to write a business plan and figure some stuff out. Won't happen for at least several months, though. I haven't even moved to our new state/city, so it's hard to do some of this in advance 1,000 miles away. Don't even want to collect inventory (used records, CDs) because of the hassle of moving more stuff.

But I'm working on it. I'm also writing a business plan for a freelance writing business. I might do both, especially in the beginning when I'm sure things will be slow. Writing would provide an income (hopefully) that I can manage from home in free moments from working on setting up the store.

The FCC took it away. Shut down the whole station. It was a pirate station. The owner fought the FCC once before, about 5 years ago, and WON, and I think he was feeling pretty cocky, thinking they wouldn't come after him again. Well, they did. Apparently some listener called the FCC and complained about profanity, and a couple of goons showed up on this guy's doorstep and made him shut down. They also asked for the names of all the DJs (gulp) but he told them he knew us only by our DJ names, and anyway, oops, what do you know, the computer file he kept them on was accidentally deleted somehow...

The thing is, there's a lot of "profanity" in rock music. There's a lot I don't even realize or remember is there until the song is underway. How careful do you have to be?

I'd like to listen to that. Will it be broadcasted online at all?

Yes. All the shows on this station are streamed. I'll keep you posted when I start up.

This will be nice because the station is legit, and nicely funded (by the U), so I'll have those perks like the streaming and a large in-studio CD collection (won't have to drag my collection in necessarily), and up-to-date digital technology and so on.

Nice that you at least get another opportunity for a show though. I'd like to get the link too and listen in !

Will you play the gamut in your playlisting ? from 20s and 30s blues to today's SY noise ? :D

Do you play randomly gmku or do you devise a somewhat cohesive 'show' each 2 hour timeslot ?

I've always wanted to DJ. Not so much for blabbing..but just to play music and info to got along with it. I fantasize about it . :)

I have to be insanely careful. It's a pain in the ass, when many of your favorite musicians traffic in being sneaky about this stuff. Aphex Twin, the Melvins, Sun City Girls, even Sonic Youth, have a way of putting little dj traps in their songs that I totally admire, but fear when I'm on the air!

I go for loose cohesiveness. I'll sometimes think/plan around a vague theme and then watch it fall apart as I'm on the air and decide I'm bored with the theme.

And yes, inclusive... whatever happens to strike my fancy. Usually it's a lot of what I'm personally listening to at the time.

At least that was true for the pirate station shows. I haven't gone through orientation at the new station yet, so I'm not sure what the rules are about playlists. I'm pretty sure we'll be asked to consider listener requests--another big difference from the pirate show, which had no phone line for listener call-ins. It was always like putting a show on in a vaccuum.

I just clicked your 'My radio show' link, Dead-Air...saw your page and clicked on the autopilot high bandwidth dealy and got no sound. Is this the streaming link and it's just no on-air now ?

I saw your list too..at least the 5-12 one..I'll check the other's...Cool ! :D

oh and gmku...

That's how I'd play too....have an 'idea' of stuff to play, but then allow for total spontaneity. And listener requests could be cool, it might remind you of something not on your mind at the time and you'd go...YEAH ! That sounds good ! :)

Do you ham it up ? LOL

No, I'm not much of a ham by nature. If anything, I'm too quiet on the airwaves. My last radio boss kept telling me to speak up.

And yeah, listener requests might also be a good way to discover new stuff.

Excellent. Thanks!

Hmm. It worked right away when I tried it. It can occasionally go down like anything on the net, but we streamcast 24/7. When there's not a real dj on, there's an automix filling in (which obviously isn't as good, and is completely random.)

You can download my old shows as MP3 or listen to streams of individual shows HERE. I've noticed a few fo the MP3s have turned up on LAST-FM, which is cool.

I'm going from freeform at the pirate station to regimentation at the college station. I-emailed the program director about the format and this is how I'm supposed to run the rotation during my show: new, not so new, old, option (my Cd or LP or other), then back to new, not so new, old, option..., ad nauseum. In between, requests from listeners take priority. Everything should be from the station's inventory, except my options. The show also has to "promote alternative music (no Metallica)." His words. This might not be as much fun as I thought. I put up with enough rules and regulations at work.

fucking college brats!!

well you can run circles around him. what's he gonna do. fire you?

besides, what if the listener request mariah? (the singer, not the song).

what a bunch of shittyfucks.

in any case-- best wishes sticking it to the man! even if "the man" just moved out of his parents' house...

yeah, I figure (or at least hope) he won't be around on my shift. Anyway, I have a really odd time--10 to mid, Sunday. !! Who the freak's gonna even be listening? I'll see how the first night goes, but I intend to blaze my own path.

Ha! Yeah, I can always play the respect-your-elders card...

a few semesters ago, i had a morning drive shift (6am-9am) and it got ganked midway through the semester, because a power shift occurs every few years and all the cooler people get booted out and replaced with more conservative folks. out goes the good music, in goes the 311, dave matthews band, primus, and garden state soundtrack.

i've been back at the station for about 1.5 years and now i'm station manager of life.