Radio Free Colorado Springs
I was listening to Chris Russell the other night on Sports Radio 1240 KRDO. Russell hosts a national sports talk show on the weekends and has a devoted listenership and call-in base. While I was listening, Russell took a call from a guy who ended up blowing his nose on the air during the call. It cracked me up because to me, who in the hell would call a national show and blow their nose on the air?
Then on Sunday morning I ended up waking up early enough to listen to Sunday in Mexico, one of the public affairs efforts of KRDO. I touched upon this subject in an earlier post, but I wanted to expand a little on the guy who DJ's the show.
I have no idea who this guy is, but he should be doing something in radio other than running some public affairs show buried early Sunday mornings. Unfortunately, the Colorado Springs radio scene tends to frown upon such "unprofessionalism."
For those who don't know, this guy plays Mexican mariachi music on his Sunday show. Except he has a lot of fun doing it. He plays a song, then breaks into the middle of the tune to sing along with it on the air. He spends a lot of time breaking into the middle of a song to fire off a quick barrage of enthusiastic Spanish. He doesn't count down his time to the top of the hour correctly, so that he has to play his station ID right in the middle of a song. In short, he rules.
Colorado Springs probably hasn't heard anything quite like this on the radio since, well, since the very early 1980's when my friend Mike and myself hosted a Wednesday night show on KEPC. You see, Mike and I also would break into the middle of songs and start singing along, particularly if the song was by Michael Jackson or The Jacksons. That allowed us to use our terrible falsetto attempts and ruin the song. We'd also add our own grunts and other sound effects to songs such as Tour de France by Kraftwerk.
On the show, we would make up fake life and death situations happening right in the parking lot, usually ending up in carnage and death.
I only wish I had had the idea to blow my nose on the air. Hell, I wish I had thrown up on the air - I'd have been a legend if I had only done that.
Rock on, Sunday morning guy on KRDO, rock on.
This post goes out to all everybody down at the Detox Center.
Then on Sunday morning I ended up waking up early enough to listen to Sunday in Mexico, one of the public affairs efforts of KRDO. I touched upon this subject in an earlier post, but I wanted to expand a little on the guy who DJ's the show.
I have no idea who this guy is, but he should be doing something in radio other than running some public affairs show buried early Sunday mornings. Unfortunately, the Colorado Springs radio scene tends to frown upon such "unprofessionalism."
For those who don't know, this guy plays Mexican mariachi music on his Sunday show. Except he has a lot of fun doing it. He plays a song, then breaks into the middle of the tune to sing along with it on the air. He spends a lot of time breaking into the middle of a song to fire off a quick barrage of enthusiastic Spanish. He doesn't count down his time to the top of the hour correctly, so that he has to play his station ID right in the middle of a song. In short, he rules.
Colorado Springs probably hasn't heard anything quite like this on the radio since, well, since the very early 1980's when my friend Mike and myself hosted a Wednesday night show on KEPC. You see, Mike and I also would break into the middle of songs and start singing along, particularly if the song was by Michael Jackson or The Jacksons. That allowed us to use our terrible falsetto attempts and ruin the song. We'd also add our own grunts and other sound effects to songs such as Tour de France by Kraftwerk.
On the show, we would make up fake life and death situations happening right in the parking lot, usually ending up in carnage and death.
I only wish I had had the idea to blow my nose on the air. Hell, I wish I had thrown up on the air - I'd have been a legend if I had only done that.
Rock on, Sunday morning guy on KRDO, rock on.
This post goes out to all everybody down at the Detox Center.