Detroit Radio

[frank - up in grand blanc]

That said, I still wish to hear no songs ever again from the following classic rock bands:

REO Speedwagon
.38 Special
Styx
Foreigner
Moody Blues

Dude... how about these seldom-heard offerings?

REO Speedwagon - Only the Strong Survive
.38 Special - Chain Lightning
Styx - Loralei
Foreigner - Dirty White Boy
Moody Blues - Sitting at the Wheel, Lovely to See You Again

Radio blows because it's like they only have two or three 45s from every used-to-be-big band. Join the dark side, Mr Bug. Pop for the hardware and subscription to XM and you'll be excited to turn on your radio for the ride to work, the ride to the store, and everywhere else.

[Mud Bug]

Join the dark side, Mr Bug. Pop for the hardware and subscription to XM and you'll be excited to turn on your radio for the ride to work, the ride to the store, and everywhere else.

Okay there, Dead Ed.

[gullycanyon]

Yeah, I have a weak spot for "Dirty White Boy," and the Moody Blues have a lot of material that has stood the test of time largely because, as we are discussing, time hasn't tested it every three hours for the past 35 years.

I saw the Moody Blues, about (zircon-encrusted "Gakkh!!) 40 years ago.
Van Morrison performed before them. He stood at the mic, utterly still, and sang for about 45 minutes before-- the very moment when his last note was sung-- turning on his heel and walking off the stage as the band finished up.
I heard, later, that he was not fond of being on-stage in front of big crowds.

I was at a lot of shows wherein the "opening" acts were very good. Saw Wishbone Ash that way, once; maybe before Alice Cooper or Traffic.
That was the cute thing, back then; one could see shows where there was a noticeable incongruity in the line-up of performers.

[gullycanyon]

Yeah, I have a weak spot for "Dirty White Boy," and the Moody Blues have a lot of material that has stood the test of time largely because, as we are discussing, time hasn't tested it every three hours for the past 35 years.

I saw the Moody Blues, about (zircon-encrusted "Gakkh!!) 40 years ago.
Van Morrison performed before them. He stood at the mic, utterly still, and sang for about 45 minutes before-- the very moment when his last note was sung-- turning on his heel and walking off the stage as the band finished up.
I heard, later, that he was not fond of being on-stage in front of big crowds.

I was at a lot of shows wherein the "opening" acts were very good. Saw Wishbone Ash that way, once; maybe before Alice Cooper or Traffic.
That was the cute thing, back then; one could see shows where there was a noticeable incongruity in the line-up of performers.

[The Beav]

REO Speedwagon's Golden Country is one "classic" of which I've never tired. Journey's Feeling That Way/Anytime is held in the same regard. Other songs by either band, not so much.

Also, I still don't think I've ever listened to Drew and or Mike...ever.

[gullycanyon]

Jesus Chrysawmighty, The Beav, ya got a few special favorites from Air Supply, too?

[The Beav]

Jesus Chrysawmighty, The Beav, ya got a few special favorites from Air Supply, too?

No Air Supply, but there are a few early Chicago songs I can listen too over and over.

[gullycanyon]

Hey, Chicago was pretty snappy for a couple of years. There are even some tracks from their third LP that are tasty.

Again, the same thing: heavy-handed over-playing of a small bundle of tracks has triggered a sour attitude toward a musical act that had some really good moments.

[D-Day]

Does Terry T. Brown still do traffic on the radio up there?

WLW's normal traffic guy must not have been out yesterday as I heard him doing traffic on the WLW on my way home from work. The guys that were on was having a field day with him (they're not much easier on the regular guy....Do the traffic, fatty!). It was obvious that he was reading from somewhere else, he sounded like he was trying to put everyone on the road to sleep, and he mispronounced a couple roads (it's Reading Road like the railroad.....not Reading Road like what you do to a book)

[frank - up in grand blanc]

Does Terry T. Brown still do traffic on the radio up there?

At last check this was true, but things in that business can change fast.

Before XM I would sometimes amuse myself with long-range searchs on the AM dial: things like a station with a big-band format out of Cincinnati, blue grass from Nashville, news-talk from Boston, etc. Anyway, one night on the way home I heard the weather report from a station in NYC, and moments later when I dialled by WWJ the same voice and name delivered the Detroit weather. The guy was probably covering traffic all across country from a home studio in Ya Mar's neighborhood.

[D-Day]

Radio here is awesome....we have WLW that broadcasts 24/7 100% local content with the exception of America's Trucking Show..but even that is somewhat local as it originates from WLW's studios.

I was listening to the draft coverage on WLW and they had local sports geek, Lance McAlister along with former Bengals players Artrell Hawkins and Dave Lapham analyzing the draft. And they were doing a pretty fair job, too, of going through each pick without giving a Bengals slant. Much better than I would have gotten on ESPN where I would have been subject to:

A:) Mel Kiper justifying why his "draft board" is as fucked as my NCAA tournament brackets
B:) Chris Berman...'nuff said

So, once the Bengals drafted at 17 and traded away 21, I decided to switch the computer to Detroit radio and get the reaction from their pick at 23. Here's what I got. Living outside of Detroit maybe I missed a station but here's what I got when the Lions made their pick

97.1 - Commercials
1130 - Commercials
1270(they still have the Tigers, right?) - some discussion about government spending...hardly draft talk

So I switched back to WLW...where they were breaking down the Lions pick (and saying it was a good pick). Back to Detroit radio

97.1 - Commercials
1130 - Some national broadcast talking about the Jets at 16
1270 - Didn't even go there

Absolutely no local reaction to the draft....terrible, terrible, terrible

[pdtpuck]

Yeah, I have a weak spot for "Dirty White Boy," and the Moody Blues have a lot of material that has stood the test of time largely because, as we are discussing, time hasn't tested it every three hours for the past 35 years.

*I saw the Moody Blues, about (zircon-encrusted "Gakkh!!) 40 years ago.
Van Morrison performed before them. He stood at the mic, utterly still, and sang for about 45 minutes before-- the very moment when his last note was sung-- turning on his heel and walking off the stage as the band finished up.
I heard, later, that he was not fond of being on-stage in front of big crowds.

I was at a lot of shows wherein the "opening" acts were very good. Saw Wishbone Ash that way, once; maybe before Alice Cooper or Traffic.
That was the cute thing, back then; one could see shows where there was a noticeable incongruity in the line-up of performers.

That's the biggest sin of one of the more popular "classic rock" stations here. I believe they have a loop that never gets changed. Same four or five bands, same two or three songs by said bands.

*I saw the Moodys on their "MTV-era" The Other Side of Life tour in '86. They played NO new songs, and I discovered Justin Hayward is a very underrated guitarist. Played about a ten-minute guitar solo on "I'm Just A Singer (In a Rock 'n Roll Band)" and absolutely nailed it.

[Putski]

106.7 has become the go to station for rides to the arena with junior. It almost always provides entertainment by either playing metal that is so so good or so so bad. So you can either rock out or make fun of it. Considering my time behind the wheel is almost exclusively to shitty points of geography that so happen to be graced with ice and packs of kids playing hockey it provides a good escape from the hell of driving.

[frank - up in grand blanc]

106.7 has become the go to station for rides to the arena with junior. It almost always provides entertainment by either playing metal that is so so good or so so bad. So you can either rock out or make fun of it. Considering my time behind the wheel is almost exclusively to shitty points of geography that so happen to be graced with ice and packs of kids playing hockey it provides a good escape from the hell of driving.

On that recommendation I buzzed by this morning, leaving adrift my XM and 'rif. I got a station ID and then the open chord of "Bang Your Head." Cool tune, but back at The Boneyard I got "Christine Sixteen" which is even cooler. The ten or 12 bucks subscription each month is an irritant, but having ten pretty good stations in heavy rotation and another 20 in the second string is pretty awesome. Third string has -what?- another 100 or so...

[Sterile Whites 48313]

106.7 has become the go to station for rides to the arena with junior. It almost always provides entertainment by either playing metal that is so so good or so so bad. So you can either rock out or make fun of it. Considering my time behind the wheel is almost exclusively to shitty points of geography that so happen to be graced with ice and packs of kids playing hockey it provides a good escape from the hell of driving.

On that recommendation I buzzed by this morning, leaving adrift my XM and 'rif. I got a station ID and then the open chord of "Bang Your Head." Cool tune, but back at The Boneyard I got "Christine Sixteen" which is even cooler. The ten or 12 bucks subscription each month is an irritant, but having ten pretty good stations in heavy rotation and another 20 in the second string is pretty awesome. Third string has -what?- another 100 or so...

I was always a fan of Little Steven's Underground Garage on Sirius. Talk about some off the wall rock-n-roll.