Sunday Night Odds & Sods

25° - overcast at 10:48pm

Watching: As I post this - The History Channel's "1968" - hosted by Tom Brokaw. Great television and worth "rolling tape" on. Lots of music connections.

For a list of future air times click here.

Reading: Multi-tasking tonight watching both the above-mentioned TV show and reading "WHOoPLA: The Greatest Rock Radio Stunt Ever" by V Scott Beddome.

A wonderful piece on FM rock radio wars in Milwaukee back in the late 70s/early 80s. WQFM vs. WLPX.

Seven chapters posted so far with more on the way. Read here on the 93QFM: The Halcyon Daze blog.

One chapter features comments from former WQFM Program Director Lee Arnold:

“The most important thing- as a program director- is to make your staff believe that you’re going to win- and get then pumped up to the degree that they’ll do anything to make that happen."

"Back then...everybody had a real passion to do great radio. I had a staff of Rangers! We owned the streets! We did stuff to them (LPX) that made them just cry. We were horrible to them! It was great!”

I love reading these stories! Thanks to Scott Beddome for getting it all down in writing - preserving history - about (what had to be) a great radio battle! Can't wait for the next chapter.

Noted: Kurt Hanson's RAIN website now with a fresh redesign. Always worth your time and now easier to read. See here.

Sunday Morning Odds & Sods

38° - clear at 12:53pm

Happy Sunday. Next week the routine returns to normal. Whatever normal is.

Wireless router troubles this morning. Signal kept disappearing. The hammer was a passing thought. This happens once or twice a week and requires powering the router off and on a few times before it gets stable. A replacement on my wish list; perhaps one with built-in DSL modem.

Friday I wrote about Consultant Jay Mitchell and his new blog. Jay's blog has in fact turned me on to another great blog: Greg Cavanaugh's Triple A Tunes.

In his latest post - Greg writes about Bob Seger - and Tom Petty - and how Classic Rock Radio largely ignored their recent releases. Well...some did/some didn't.

Check out Greg's blog here.

This blog: due for a facelift (new imaging!). Have been looking for a new template to freshen things up but nothing has caught my eye.

Listening this morning - between wireless outages - to WDRV's Bob Stroud (as usual); this morning highlighting the year 1973. Bob played Cheech & Chong's "Basketball Jones". Its been decades since I've heard that!

And yesterday I was sent an MP3 (dubbed from vinyl) of the late 70s Canadian prog rock band "FM" and their album "Black Noise". Something else I haven't heard for at least a few decades; and an album I played on the radio when it was new. Very tasty stuff!

More music: Randy Raley has been writing about his Top 100 albums of all-time; plus his "one-hit wonders" - reminding me of some great music long-forgotten. Scroll down on his blog here.

TV: Caught promos last night on The History Channel for a new special on the year 1968 - hosted by Tom Brokaw to debut on December 9th. I've marked my calendar. Read more here.

Back to radio tomorrow. Have a great Sunday.