Radio:was: OFF: Re: Hi again

[Cliff & Pam Wheaton]

I detest radio. Here in Boise, we've got Citadel  & Clear Channel stations.
There's still a couple of independents, but we've a choice of: Pop, Classic
Rock, Country, then there the college/NPR station which does Classical & Jazz
during the day, and Edges & Echoes in the eves, with some sort of weird stuff
on the weekends.
Not a very nice mix. One I found funny, tho: I got a high muckety form Citadel
one evening out of the airport. Taking him home, I asked his line of work. He
told me, then asked my "unvarnished opinion" of Boise radio. He got told that
they used 3 CD's: One ads, the rest tunes "mixed" of course. Told him that was
the month's format. Kinda made him a bit angry. I probably  hit too close to
the mark. Needless to say, I got no tip on that one!
It was fun, tho.....:)
Pam

Carl Edlund Anderson wrote:

> Stephen Swann wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 05:38:26PM +0100, Carl Edlund Anderson wrote:
> >>Man, I gave up on radio when I was a teen; actually, from basically the
> >>first moment that I took an interest in contemporary "pop/rock/whatever"
> >>I realized that nobody was playing anything I liked on the radio.  Some
> >
> > See, the NY/NJ metro area is the first place I've ever lived
> > where radio really, truly just sucks ass.
>
> Yeah, that's where I grew up, and yeah, it sucked giant flaming
> pox-ridden asses :)
>
> (Well, when I was in high school, there was a classic rock station that
> played a "psychedelic six-pack" special every so often, and though in
> reality it wasn't that adventurous, it sounded pretty far out to my
> then-virgin ears.  That was about it, though!)
>
> > Even in North
> > Carolina, where commercial radio is still stuck on Tom Petty
> > and the Eagles,
>
> There are far _worse_ things ;)
>
> > I haven't been as engaged in chat groups and mailing lists
> > as I used to (well, I am, but not music related ones
> > recently).
>
> Likewise.  Though I seem to hear about enough interesting new things
> that I still can't anything like afford them all (though this is due
> more to budget reduction than music explosion ;)
>
> > For a while I
> > thought the "return to roots rock" movement of the Strokes
> > and Jet would do it, but they haven't ignited a revolution
> > yet.  And I'm also not convinced that going backwards is the
> > right answer to the problem.
>
> Yeah, as far as the Strokes, it's like: I've heard this before.  I'm all
> for rocking out like they used to rock out, but maybe not _quite_ so
> clonified ....
>
> > I'm sure that somebody
> > somewhere is recording something that I would like.  The
> > problem is how to get to hear it, since Napster and its
> > clones got litigated out of existence, and (the once
> > awesome) MTv2 went pop-commercial...?
>
> They need to let you tape their gigs, get a fan buzz going (by actually
> being good), and the you score the FLAC files via bittorrent :)  After a
> while, you've heard such amazing stuff that you say "Goddam! I'm gonna
> buy their album!" :)
>
> Cheers,
> Carl
>
> --
> Carl Edlund Anderson
> http://www.carlaz.com/