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KFOG's 10@10 / Re: 16 April 2007-it's 1979

« on: October 20, 2021, 09:53:50 AM »

Is it acceptable to necropost? Greg posted a recording of this show to his and Renee's Patreon today, and I wanted to dig up the playlist. https://www.patreon.com/posts/kfog-morning-10-57638315

At any rate, extremely late BOS vote for "Girls Talk". And what was that bit from Dave at the end, after Diana Ross - "The Boss":

> Good thing comes to those who wait... disco terrorist.

?

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Stream of Consciousness / Re: 10@10: Alternative Takes

« on: February 12, 2021, 11:22:06 AM »

Huh - Greg decided to post this as "Dave Morey's 10@10 Valentine Day?" today:

> There's more questions than answers when it comes to this truly bizarre 10@10, one that's ostensibly a Valentine's set. We've no idea when it first aired but we're guessing the mid 80's? With barely a recognizable tune in here and the fact that it includes the uncensored "Don't Fuck Around with Love" by the Blenders, one has to wonder who was in charge back then!? Anyway, we hope you enjoy and have a wonderful Valentine's weekend!

Should we tell him it's a "fan 10@10"? Maybe he knows?

Sort of a rush job, here's my 3rd Valentine's Day set:

 1. The Bomb Bassets - Please Don't Die
 2. The Blenders - Don't Fuck Around With Love
 3. Blossom Dearie - Down With Love
(TV: Sanford And Son: Redd Foxx and Scatman Crothers - All Of Me)
 4. Frank Sinatra - All Of Me
 5. Till There Was You suite:
      Eileen Wilson - Til I Met You /
      Peggy Lee - Till There Was You /
      The Beatles - Till There Was You
 6. Gloria Jones - Tainted Love
 7. If Not For You suite:
       Bob Dylan & George Harrison - If Not For You /
       George Harrison - If Not For You /
       Bob Dylan - If Not For You
 8. Lou Rawls - Love Is A Hurtin' Thing
 9. Michael Nesmith & The First National Band - Different Drum
10. Lyle Lovett - God Will

https://soundcloud.com/capnjack-1/421-10-10-valentines

Short and sweet (just over 35 minutes) - Happy Valentine's Day!

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Stream of Consciousness / Re: Local (and other) radio news

« on: October 08, 2020, 03:22:50 PM »

Ohai all. Greg posted a set today on the Pop-Up Patreon: "10@10 from 1978, which includes "Running with the Devil," as a tribute to the late, great Eddie Van Halen who passed away Tuesday at age 65."

He prefaced it with: "Took us a while to dig this up (the cataloging of the archives is done almost entirely by memory)"

Would y'all be ok sharing the Shraydatabase with him? I told him I'd ask.

Thanks!

--Darryl

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KFOG's 10@10 / Re: 5 Sept 2019: 10@10 marathon

« on: September 05, 2019, 11:07:39 PM »

I am an amateur. But also, now that I see how beautifully MShray cleaned up my craptastic data scrapings, I would like to make this into a bonafide database. Or at least something that's more easily searchable and formatted.

Looking to see if there's any SMF modules that let have an arbitrary database that's searchable.

Darryl, let's get together sometime to go over the site's capabilities.  I'm getting overwhelmed by some of the tech stuff.

Happy to help where I can. I think the database thing would have to be separate. I was poking around the SMF docs and it seems strictly about forum stuff, which is fine. There's probably some way to slap a "search engine" in front of a Google Sheet...

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KFOG's 10@10 / Re: 5 Sept 2019: 10@10 marathon

« on: September 05, 2019, 09:58:02 PM »

I am an amateur. But also, now that I see how beautifully MShray cleaned up my craptastic data scrapings, I would like to make this into a bonafide database. Or at least something that's more easily searchable and formatted.

Looking to see if there's any SMF modules that let have an arbitrary database that's searchable.

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Stream of Consciousness / Re: KFOG, But Not 10@10

« on: November 19, 2018, 11:18:51 AM »

Oh hey all... I was listening to Greg and Renee's recent post (Finn Brothers' "Weather With You") and hearing a little of Dave's voice at the end was enough to get me reminiscing. I wrote a comment on Facebook and Greg asked if I had audio of Dave's last show (12/19/2008). I could've sworn I did, but I can't find it online now.

Does anybody else have a copy or a copy of the link I may have posted up?

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Stream of Consciousness / Re: KFOG, But Not 10@10

« on: May 21, 2018, 11:19:48 PM »

I wouldn't mind hearing Childish Gambino on KFOG. It killed me that KFOG always played the non-RAP version of the Gorillaz's "Feel Good Inc." (the rap is literally is like 45 seconds long, and then there's a few "Don't stop get it get it" at the end.)

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Stream of Consciousness / Re: KFOG, But Not 10@10

« on: October 19, 2016, 02:37:44 PM »

Schock is the Program Director, the guy who created the trainwreck that is "The Evolution of KFOG"

To be fair, unclear whether the Evolution was his idea, or if he was the one brought in to implement the crappy plan.

https://radioinsight.com/blog/headlines/105671/bryan-schock-to-program-kfogksan/

Well, maybe it was his idea, or Cumulus is throwing him under the bus:

VP/Market Manager JUSTIN WITTMAYER said, “BRYAN’s vision and passion for KFOG and KSAN are unrivaled. This is a transformational time for KFOG. We are confident that his plans will exceed the expectations of both of our audiences.”

Still, if Ben Fong-Torres is to be believed, things were already underway by the time Schock was brought onboard the sinking ship.

http://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/radiowaves/article/Clearing-some-of-the-air-at-KFOG-7957920.php

When he got the job, he knew that changes were being made. That is, the “evolution” was already under way. He knew that key DJs were being let go, and that Pinfield — whom Schock had hired for a station in New York — had already signed on.

“Evolution” was a marketing ploy, and even after three weeks, not much more. “People expected this instantaneous thing to happen,” said Schock, “but evolution happens over time. It was just a first step.”

Article is worth a read, if only for this B.S.:

That said, why couldn’t the musical changes have been made without dismissing Renee Richardson, Bill Webster, Annalisa and Dred Scott, all of whom can sound youthful and talk about music with authority?

“My understanding is that they tried to do it over the last several years, with different programmers, and nothing made much of an impact,” said Schock. KFOG’s ratings had been stagnant for several years. Management, he said, “had to make a statement, that we’ve made a change, and get the attention of people.”

I don't think being known as the radio station that shits on its longtime DJs and brought in out-of-towners to replace them is the right kind of attention you want.

Lastly, I wonder if this still holds true (article is from June 1, 2016):

It’s still early in the “evolution,” but Schock said that since the change, “in mornings we’re already seeing an increase in the ratings.”

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Stream of Consciousness / Re: KFOG, But Not 10@10

« on: October 18, 2016, 02:30:16 PM »

Still wake up to KFOG at 7AM, but more recently have been shutting it off almost immediately. This morning heard a new voice teasing "a crazy sad thing that happened the other day", right after the next song. So we listened through Elle King's "Ex's & Oh's" and I think it was Bryan Schock that told this story of an employee getting killed chasing a guy stealing wooden pallets (this as in San Leandro: http://abc7news.com/news/suspect-in-san-leandro-fatal-hit-and-run-identified/1559574/).

He then related a personal story about seeing a guy walk out of a store with cereal and milk and asking the cashier, "You're not going to stop him?" and the reply "It's not worth my life."

Yadda yadda, Pinfield and Alicia Tyler putting in their two cents.

What struck me was 1) they've brought Schock in, and Pinfield was there too. Is that an acknowledgement that  Pinfield/Tyler are pretty boring together? 2) Adding Schock to the mix didn't make things any better. They're all pretty meh. Pinfield's voice is distinctive, but for everyday morning talk it's not like he has a lot to say.

He talks *a lot* when it's a subject that he's researched. I heard the laboriously hyped Pinfield Playlist pick yesterday about "Love", and how the singer's father is a famous Canadian producer and his mom was one of Warhol's factory girls, blah blah blah. Then he played "Think I'm in Love" as if it was the rarest B-side you'd never heard of.

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Stream of Consciousness / Re: KFOG, But Not 10@10

« on: August 22, 2016, 12:38:53 PM »

They have a producer. It's Charlene Goto (@ProducerChar on Twitter). She's got her own Production company (http://www.go-toproductions.com/#!about/c4nz) which is certainly wise, considering the volatility of working at the shitshow that is KFOG right now.

I've never heard her on air. Her LinkedIn says she's done the production (starting with Sarah & Vinnie in 2002) for a while. Greg's LinkedIn shows a few more years under his belt, but he also grew more comfortable being on the air over the years.

All this is to say that maybe a lot of this came down to budget. Irish Greg, Renee, Annalisa, Webster, Dred -- they probably had (slightly) larger salaries than relative unknowns like Charlene and Alicia Tyler.

The stupidest thing in my mind though is that they probably had to pay a premium to get the "name recognition" of Matt Pinfield, whose biggest claim to fame was 120 Minutes that was cancelled back in 2003. Pinfield's Twitter had photos of ginormous crates of vinyl that he was shipping to California, which I'm sure KFOG sprung for. And both he and Tyler have talked about AirBNBs and temporary housing that they've stayed at in the city. Relocation expenses are not insignificant.

The biggest shame though is that I'm mainly just bored whenever I tune into KFOG. While this has been true musically for years, I think the only thing keeping it tolerable *was* Renee, Irish Greg, yes No-Name, and of course Annalisa, Webster and Dred.

Oh, and I know nobody else cares, but they're continuing to push the Pinfield's Playlist as a "thing". (I guess they paid for the fancily produced intros, so they want to wring every last cent out if it.)

They're not being diligent about tweeting it, but last Thursday Pinfield went into an overly long intro for Burning Sensations' "Belly of the Whale": "This band was founded by Tim McGovern of The Motels..." trying to make it sound like a huge rarity...

Except... Dave used to play this all the time on 10at10.

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Stream of Consciousness / Re: Pinfield's Playlist

« on: June 04, 2016, 05:29:01 PM »

More boringness:

* May 20 - Celebrating #NationalLearntoSwimDay - R.E.M. "Nightswimming"
* May 24 - Did you know it's #NationalAviationTechnicianDay? - Red Hot Chili Peppers "Aeroplane"
* May 26 - celebrating the @SanJoseSharks in the #StanleyCu Finals w/ a song about #Sharks. - ?
* May 27 - Playing a little @AliceInChains on #PinfieldsPlaylist right now. - Alice In Chains "No Excuses" - but why? Oh, Sean Kinney their drummer turned 50 that day. Yawn.
* May 31 - Today, Matt's digging into #Memory banks... - The Smithereens "Only a Memory"
* June 1 - Happy #GlobalRunningDay! Today for #PinfieldsPlaylist, @mattpinfield celebrates the day by digging up a song about running... - Kate Bush "Running Up That Hill" (Ok, I can respect this one)
* June 2 - Celebrating Charlie Watts of the @RollingStones Birthday today in #PinfieldsPlaylist. - Rolling Stones "Waiting On a Friend" (accompanied with mandatory story about how Matt got to interview the Rolling Stones all together for the first ever in New York since the 70s or something, ooh!)
* June 3 - It's #NationalRepeatDay! @mattpinfield celebrates it in #PinfieldsPlaylist w/ @TheKinks & @GreenDay #MorningsOnKFOG It's #NationalRepeatDay! - Huh, I'm guessing they interpreted Repeat as a Cover? Yawn. So they probably played Green Day's cover of The Kinks "Tired of Waiting for You"

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Stream of Consciousness / Re: KFOG, But Not 10@10

« on: May 23, 2016, 10:22:37 AM »

It was lovely hearing Rosalie back on KFOG on Sunday morning. I'll have to see if I can dig up old Acoustic Sunrise playlists from the web archive, but I could've sworn there was a touch more 80s-90s stuff on there (Mraz!), but not sure.

Still she played all the faves, Dixie the Tiny Dog, 1952 Vincent Black Lightning, so def satisifed some of the faithful.

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Stream of Consciousness / Re: Pinfield's Playlist

« on: May 20, 2016, 01:23:08 AM »

Found May 11 - Hear a song & a story about something that barely exists anymore: "Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth With Money In My Hand" by Primitive Radio Gods

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Stream of Consciousness / Pinfield's Playlist

« on: May 19, 2016, 12:16:36 PM »

So they've been doing this bit around 8:30-9:30AM where Matt digs through his "deep musical collection and knowledge and playlists" to make some "amazing" pick relating to the topic of the day.

Let's take a look, eh? (BTW if anybody happens to know what they played on May 10, 11, and 16, I'd appreciate being able to fill this in. I'm looking at my playlist and nothing jumps out at me, all of the songs played during that timeframe seem to be from the main playlist. So *maybe* they were rare enough to not be recognized by TuneGenie? Seems pretty damn unlikely though.)

https://twitter.com/hashtag/pinfieldsplaylist?f=tweets&vertical=default&src=hash

May 19, 2016 - Joey Ramone's Birthday: "What a Wonderful World"

May 18, 2016 - #SongsAboutGold: "Golden Years" by Bowie

May 17, 2016 - #HallandOates: "I Can't Go For That" (with an overly long intro and then like only 10 seconds of the excellent Nicki Bluhm & The Gramblers Van Sessions cover) (Also, they were giving tickets away to Hall & Oates show at Concord Pavilion)

May 16, 2016 - ?

May 13, 2016 - #Fridaythe13th: "Get Lucky" by Daft Punk (with overly long intro re: the great Nile Rodgers, yes yes, we know)

May 12, 2016 - #BiketoWorkDay: Infamous pick "Fat Bottom Girls" by Queen (as opposed to the "obvious" pick of "Bicycle")

May 11, 2016 - Hear a song & a story about something that barely exists anymore. ??
- I'm guessing it's a payphone.

May 10, 2016 - Garage Rock Songs & their Covers: ??
- Was it "Big Yellow Taxi" by Joni? Ok, that's weird. Then again, it did follow Jewel's "You Were Meant for Me". Oh, that's probably when they had Jewel on. Weird!

May 9, 2016 - Whistling Songs: "Games Without Frontiers" by Peter Gabriel?
- Yeah, probably this. I believe the pattern is they play the pick early in the morning and then repeat it later. In this case it was spun at ~6:51AM and then later at ~8:45AM. There's a line in this song, "Whistling tunes we piss on the goons in the jungle". So... yeah, ok.

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Stream of Consciousness / Re: KFOG, But Not 10@10

« on: May 19, 2016, 11:39:08 AM »

A pretty good analysis of KFOG's history...

http://www.playlistresearch.com/article/kfog.htm