Welcome to the 10@10 club

[RGMike]

Hi, I'm Ken.

Thanks to Geoff, I am the latest member to this forum.

I've been a long-time listener of KFOG's 10@10 -- started listening around the time Monty Hall had replaced Don Pardo doing the intros for Dave Morey.  I've been a lurker on the old Yahoo group and more recently here.

Looking forward to posting here regularly. 

Welcome, sir!  we're snarky and opinionated, but friendly.

[Here'sToYa!]

Hi, I'm Ken.

Thanks to Geoff, I am the latest member to this forum.

I've been a long-time listener of KFOG's 10@10 -- started listening around the time Monty Hall had replaced Don Pardo doing the intros for Dave Morey.  I've been a lurker on the old Yahoo group and more recently here.

Looking forward to posting here regularly. 

Welcome, Ken!

[urth]

Hi, I'm Ken.

Thanks to Geoff, I am the latest member to this forum.

I've been a long-time listener of KFOG's 10@10 -- started listening around the time Monty Hall had replaced Don Pardo doing the intros for Dave Morey.  I've been a lurker on the old Yahoo group and more recently here.

Looking forward to posting here regularly. 

Greetings, Ken! Glad you decided to come forward and take part in the conversation hereabouts. If you date back all the way to the Yahoo 10@10 Club then you will probably recognized a few of the people here.

[radical347]

Hi, I'm Ken.

Thanks to Geoff, I am the latest member to this forum.

I've been a long-time listener of KFOG's 10@10 -- started listening around the time Monty Hall had replaced Don Pardo doing the intros for Dave Morey.  I've been a lurker on the old Yahoo group and more recently here.

Looking forward to posting here regularly. 

Welcome!

[Tinka Cat]

Hi, I'm Ken.

Thanks to Geoff, I am the latest member to this forum.

I've been a long-time listener of KFOG's 10@10 -- started listening around the time Monty Hall had replaced Don Pardo doing the intros for Dave Morey.  I've been a lurker on the old Yahoo group and more recently here.

Looking forward to posting here regularly. 

Ahoy Cap'n!   (any relation to Crunch?  Love that guy's products!)

[dischead]

Greetings.

I'm a new kid on the block here, so per request of the admin,
here's a bit of the relevant biography.

I am (mumble) years old, which places me firmly in middle age.
Funny, I don't feel that old.  (Well, sometimes my knees do.)

I guess I can credit my parents for my interest in music.  When I
was still in single digits, I was instructed in the care and use
of my father's "high fidelity" system.  In those days, a hi-fi had
one or more components that was built from a kit or scratch.  We
had both.  And tubes!  It took at least thirty seconds for the
amplifier to warm up.

Our collection of long-playing record albums was probably larger
than most, and included a diverse selection.  Broadway shows
(Oliver, Bye-bye Birdie), folk music (Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Peter
Paul & Mary), comedy (Alan Sherman, Lou Monte's Pepino the Italian
Mouse), jazz (Ramsey Louis Trio), classical music, spanish guitar,
and even some accordian records were just some of the highlights.
Stereo LPs were still a relatively new technology, and many album
jackets carried a prominent notice explaining that "this stereo LP
may safely be played on monoaural equipment" with no loss of
listening enjoyment.

I was born and raised in the Garden State, and my earliest radio
memories are of listening with a transistor radio to Dan Ingram
and Cousin Brucie on WABC.  In the late '60s my family purchased
some FM radios.  Soon we discovered what was the greatest radio
station of all time, bar none:  WNEW-FM, out of New York City.  I
will brook no argument on this point.  I grew up listening to the
likes of Scott Muni and the legendary Nightbird, Alison Steele.
Sadly, the radio-listening experience has largely been going
downhill for the past forty years since those heady times.

These days, outside of 10@10, I don't listen to the radio very
much.  And I haven't been paying a lot of attention to popular
music for the past twenty-five years or so.  The broad genre
encompassed by the term "rock" has gotten a little long in the
tooth, in my estimation, so rarely do I hear something that
strikes me as fresh and interesting.

I still enjoy a wide variety of music.  I guess there's only two
kinds of music I don't like -- country and western.  (Ha!  I make
joke.)  Actually, I'm not a fan of what passes for country these
days, which sounds to me simply like a particularly twangy version
of rock, as opposed to bluegrass, which I greatly enjoy.  And I
never could muster any appreciation for opera.  At the other end
of my musical spectrum, I am most interested in progressive rock
and jazz fusion.

[RGMike]

Greetings.

I'm a new kid on the block here...

Welcome, sir!

I'm also well into middle age and grew up listening to Dan Ingram and (as I entered teenhood) WNEW-FM (tho' I was more fond of the pre-playlist, free-form version of WPLJ)

We're snarky and opinionated here, but harmless. We loved Dave Morey and Annalisa's versions of 10@10; Renee's... notsomuch. But we still listen, if only to bitch about Mr Constantine's "improvements".  We also keep track of the other 10@10s and 9@9s around the country (LA, NY, Chicago, Austin, and... Redding).

[CapnJack]

Greetings.

I'm a new kid on the block here

As the second newest member to this forum, welcome! 

[Tinka Cat]

Greetings.

I'm a new kid on the block here, so per request of the admin,
here's a bit of the relevant biography.

Hi Dischead, glad to have you here!  nice intro/bio, btw...  and nice .sig!

[Big Fingers McGee]

Greetings.

I'm a new kid on the block here, so per request of the admin,
here's a bit of the relevant biography.

I am (mumble) years old, which places me firmly in middle age.
Funny, I don't feel that old.  (Well, sometimes my knees do.)

Welcome to the club!

[Here'sToYa!]

Greetings.

I'm a new kid on the block here, so per request of the admin,
here's a bit of the relevant biography.

I am (mumble) years old, which places me firmly in middle age.
Funny, I don't feel that old.  (Well, sometimes my knees do.)

I guess I can credit my parents for my interest in music.  When I
was still in single digits, I was instructed in the care and use
of my father's "high fidelity" system.  In those days, a hi-fi had
one or more components that was built from a kit or scratch.  We
had both.  And tubes!  It took at least thirty seconds for the
amplifier to warm up.

Our collection of long-playing record albums was probably larger
than most, and included a diverse selection.  Broadway shows
(Oliver, Bye-bye Birdie), folk music (Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Peter
Paul & Mary), comedy (Alan Sherman, Lou Monte's Pepino the Italian
Mouse), jazz (Ramsey Louis Trio), classical music, spanish guitar,
and even some accordian records were just some of the highlights.
Stereo LPs were still a relatively new technology, and many album
jackets carried a prominent notice explaining that "this stereo LP
may safely be played on monoaural equipment" with no loss of
listening enjoyment.

I was born and raised in the Garden State, and my earliest radio
memories are of listening with a transistor radio to Dan Ingram
and Cousin Brucie on WABC.  In the late '60s my family purchased
some FM radios.  Soon we discovered what was the greatest radio
station of all time, bar none:  WNEW-FM, out of New York City.  I
will brook no argument on this point.  I grew up listening to the
likes of Scott Muni and the legendary Nightbird, Alison Steele.
Sadly, the radio-listening experience has largely been going
downhill for the past forty years since those heady times.

These days, outside of 10@10, I don't listen to the radio very
much.  And I haven't been paying a lot of attention to popular
music for the past twenty-five years or so.  The broad genre
encompassed by the term "rock" has gotten a little long in the
tooth, in my estimation, so rarely do I hear something that
strikes me as fresh and interesting.

I still enjoy a wide variety of music.  I guess there's only two
kinds of music I don't like -- country and western.  (Ha!  I make
joke.)  Actually, I'm not a fan of what passes for country these
days, which sounds to me simply like a particularly twangy version
of rock, as opposed to bluegrass, which I greatly enjoy.  And I
never could muster any appreciation for opera.  At the other end
of my musical spectrum, I am most interested in progressive rock
and jazz fusion.

Lots of interesting details there. Welcome, sir.

[dischead]

Greetings.

I'm a new kid on the block here...

I'm also well into middle age and grew up listening to Dan Ingram and (as I entered teenhood) WNEW-FM (tho' I was more fond of the pre-playlist, free-form version of WPLJ)

Oh, we listened to WPLJ too.  If memory serves, they started the
tradition of playing Arlo Guthrie's "Alice's Restaurant" in its entirety
on Thanksgiving.  That seemed like a big deal back then.  I did do a bit
of dial-hopping, and listened to perhaps a half-dozen different
stations.  But as you know, this was well before digital pre-sets, and
as WPLJ and WNEW were essentially on opposite ends of the dial,
eventually I settled on the best one.

You might be interested in:

FM:  The Rise and Fall of Rock Radio, by Richard Neer

Although largely focused on WNEW, it also talks about other New York
radio stations (like WPLJ), and even other "free-form" stations around
the country.  How can you go wrong with a book that devotes an entire
chapter to Alison Steele?

Speaking of the Nightbird, a couple of years back I found a collection
of MP3s of various snippets of her patter; hearing them again really
took me back.  You might try searching for your favorite DJs -- it's
always amazing what one can find out on the Inter-tubes.

And then there's this web site:

www.nyradioarchive.com

News clippings, magazine articles, air checks, and even some lengthy
recordings of DJs' shows.  Warning:  do not go to this site if you are
busy!

[dischead]

As the second newest member to this forum, welcome! 

Kudos and thanks to CapnJack for posting the results of the best of set
voting every day.  With the current minimalist approach of the RR era,
that information is no longer noted on the set lists on KFOG's web site.
It doesn't seem as significant as it once did, but it's still nice to
see what was most popular.

[ggould]

I'm a new kid on the block here

The most interesting thing Dischead (he has a name, I'll let him share it) told me during my aggressive interrogation, was that he claims he still uses a modem!

[RGMike]

You might be interested in:

FM:  The Rise and Fall of Rock Radio, by Richard Neer

Although largely focused on WNEW, it also talks about other New York
radio stations (like WPLJ), and even other "free-form" stations around
the country.  How can you go wrong with a book that devotes an entire
chapter to Alison Steele?

Speaking of the Nightbird, a couple of years back I found a collection
of MP3s of various snippets of her patter; hearing them again really
took me back.  You might try searching for your favorite DJs -- it's
always amazing what one can find out on the Inter-tubes.

And then there's this web site:

www.nyradioarchive.com

News clippings, magazine articles, air checks, and even some lengthy
recordings of DJs' shows.  Warning:  do not go to this site if you are
busy!

Yes -- I've read Neer's book. Fascinating stuff, and he was one of my faves on the station.