KDX stopped broadcasting about 9:15 PM and things became quiet for awhile, until just after 10 when I started to DX across the AM dial. I especially checked 830kHz after previously finding an amazingly talented personality there a few weeks ago. Wow, tonight he did the best radio hour I’ve heard since Bob and Ray in the 1950s. It seems that his producer had goofed up and not made contact with the scheduled guest and there was no backup phone number. The radio host (pretended) to throw a slow motion tantrum, starting with being rude to callers and complaining to them about how bad his producer was. Then he descended to saying he was in the mood to get fired and started throwing objects at the wall.
So I did some homework and have a full report for you here at part15.us because maybe you’d like to try him either by DXing the AM dial, listening to the live stream at WCCO, or catching the podcast, which is posted daily.
The guy’s name is Tommy Mishke, weeknights 10 – 12M
http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-nite-show-with-mischke/id391300270?ign-mpt=uo%3D4
That’s the podcast page, please look for the Dec. 15th show, 1st Hour.
I will be running his show many nights on 1550 AM since my hometown has nothing but sports and religion, the last radio personality known to work here was back in the 1970s, and he left town because the mediocre staff at his station resented him.
Reminds me of Pete & Geets,
Reminds me of Pete & Geets, hosts of various 80’s ‘alternative’ shows on The Spirt of Radio, CFNY, broadcasting out of Brampton, Ontario. When the radio station was purchased, and they changed their playlist to include such artists as Michael Jackson, they locked the doors into the studio and continued to play ‘their’ music until the station met their demands – some of which included beer in the refrigerator (and, no doubt, no Michael Jackson).
They continued this for a marathon session throughout the day. Great publicity for the changes, of course. In reality, one of them was an afficienado of country music, and the other collected vintage jazz (not sure which was which).
I produce and host a radio show for an hour every week which I call Surfin’ the New Wave, and while I don’t hold a candle to these guys in terms of radio personality, I affectionately model the music, at least, after their shows. They weren’t afraid to go off the beaten track and play obscure bands, and/or something different.
The Art in Artesan
That’s a big point, Artesan, that the creative talents we hear coming over the radio help provide our “schooling” in the experience of life. We can never imitate the talents exactly, but our own personality-style gets re-shaped and someday we are a “new species” having digested all these wonderful radio geniuses in our creative brains.
Even total imitation can happen in rare cases. There’s a stage show going through town called “The Rat Pack,” with perfect imitators being “Frank Sinatra”, “Dean Martin”, and “Sammy Davis, Jr.”.
We know when a talent is good because he or she is always somebody that sends our “love of radio” S-meters way up to a 10.
Reminds Me of
That Reminds Me Of My Late Good Friend John McCarty That Worked On My Hometown Station 97.5 K-Lake And 1570 KPYK Terrell, Texas And later He Was The Manager Of The Dallas Traffic Network A Had A Show On ABC Radio Network.