REMEMBER RADIO?

Weekends are a great time to
look at all the 45 records,
staff pictures,
newspaper clippings,
stolen equipment,
station LPs,
reel to reel air checks,
pink slips, lawsuits WON over pink slips, "THE LIST" (those who are dead),
awards, bumper stickers,
billboard pictures,
coffee mugs, promotional crap and rooms full
of T shirts
that represent three decades of
radio adventures.


Ask any old (and unless they are on THE LIST
they are OLD)radio alumni and all will
tell you there was always ONE station
they would have PAID THEM to be able
to work there.

Another common
thought among the vanishing
tribe of old radio kids
is they never were paid so little
to have so much fun.



The magical epicenter
of the industry
was the station.

Week days the only
draw backs were people
who wore ties (all were
avoided by the inmates)
and anything that was
called a meeting.

The exception to the week
day rule was Holidays.
A holiday was an excuse
for the ties to not show up
and with no ties guess
what no meetings!

If the holiday was in celebration
of our Lord and Saviors birth
the ties left at least
a week early after
announcing that everyone had bought
their advertising in the fall and they were too busy
selling their crap to talk about buying more.

Often the holly days included a
standard out of station Christmas party
(traded for advertising)
featuring the ties and with a dress code
that included a clean T shirt
and shoes.

The REAL Christmas parties were held
in the STATION

and consisted of breaking and entering
certain offices that
were known to contain brown whiskey.
These very private social
gatherings became a daily event starting
after lunch on the 20th of December
and running into Christmas Eve night.


Full details of said parties will
be revealed when a few more
participants make THE LIST
(see above)
or the alimony time line is completed.


Radio stations were gathering places on weekends.

The ties were never there
and very late on Saturday night and very
early on Sunday morning
they didn't catch the stoppage of the fifteen
required hits in a row
and three men telling jokes and talking dirty
on the air to callers.
No one EVER got fired on a weekend!

Ok a few did on Monday morning, but weekends were a wide open
fire zone
and the (always 18 or older)
female callers were
a target rich environment.

There never was or will ever be another work place
that people wanted
to get back to as they left
and could transform so completely
from GEEK LAND to FREAK LAND
depending on the hour or the days of
the week as the STATION.


Our favorite radio history blog
is asking for radio stories so
naturally staff thought we should
just rippp off their idea.

IF you have them send and also
fire them off to the guys at 101.
Remember unless the accused are
on THE LIST we sure won't add them here!


PS
Thanks for coming out to
hear the old man band (themountainfolkreunion.com)
Friday at Look Rock Grill. What a great
mob we had and as always the band
was amazed at how many knew all the
words to the songs!
COME sing with us again on the
13th of this month, check the web
site (themountainfolkreunion.com)
for particulars!