I can NOT agree with you more Sybil. I am in the music business, but all
that means is that I have far less influence than anyone else does as a
consumer. You answered your own question here in your fifth paragraph. It's
really ALL ABOUT THE MONEY. I don't even think the request line has that
much to do with it anymore. Maybe it's time to band together and and create
our own cause and boycott all these corporate monsters and make a change. I
have control at work where I program my own radio station on Sonicnet, but
it has its downfalls as well. I remember when I was a teenager living in
Honduras and we use to go out to the drive ins or wherever and tune into
KAAY out of Little Rock, Arkansas, late at night they had a show called
"Beeker Street" and they use to play some amazing shit. As I was atelling
Victor and Bob as we left the Yes show and tuned
92.thesame200fuckingclassicrocksongswealwaysplay, and they proceeded to play
pre approved music from Yes that the first 3 were all songs by the Yes West
Band (WITH Trevor Rabin Owner of a Lonely Heart, It Can Happen, and Love
Will Find Away-ALL GREAT SONGS MIND YOU and then of course fucking
Roundabout) The committed to his audience DJ took phone calls from the fans
and of course the majority of them all mentioned "the hits" even if they
didn't know the correct name of the song (Runaround is almost the title)
well you get my drift/diatribe. HOW DO YOU THINK STEVE HOWE WOULD FEEL??????
What if his savvy Tour Manager Paul would have said lets tune into
92.whatever and promote the upcoming album and the band is in the limo
listening to this shit on the radio and they play 3 tunes from a band that
doesn't even exist anymore??? Don't get me wrong I love Trevor, but
commercial success isn't everything. Oh well I guess you have figured olut
by now i have a couple of opinions about radio. What do you say we join
forces and take down the machine? UP the MUSIC revolution!!!! Singer
songwriters should not have to go on their knees, into debt, give up points
and percentages, for anyone to get played on the radio. They ought to hire
*****people***** to work as DJ's and let THEM pcik what they wanna play. And
let the people who listen to the stations pick the DJ's they want to listen
based on their performance of their job. YEAH thats it!
Paz (obviously on my second martini)
on 8/20/01 10:16 AM, Sybil Skelton at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> This excerpt is from a piece by the radio columnist for the Fort Worth Star
> Telegram. I was reading his column today, and this just hit me between the
> eyes. This is exactly how I feel about radio these days, and if there are
> at least two of us there must be more.
>
> If I ran radio, here's what you'd hear
> Robert Philpot - Commentary
>
>
> "Hey, it's nice to be noticed, but it took awhile to catch my breath after I
> fell out of my chair laughing at the thought that a radio station would
> actually listen to me. If radio programmers listened to me... oldies and
> classic-rock stations wouldn't play the same 400 songs over and over and
> over and ...
>
> If radio stations listened to me, Richard Thompson, Elvis Costello, Joni
> Mitchell, the Specials, Lucinda Williams, Randy Newman, Morphine and '80s
> R.E.M. would get a lot more airplay than they do now. The rockingest songs
> of Stevie Wonder, War, the Temptations and Sly and the Family Stone would
> play on stations that play Bob Seger, Led Zeppelin and Bruce Springsteen,
> like they did when I was growing up. If radio stations listened to me, I'd
> never have to hear Stairway to Heaven again, and anything from what was once
> known as side three of Led Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti would serve as an
> acceptable substitute.
>
> If radio stations listened to me, they would probably go broke. Radio
> stations listen to their corporate owners, to Arbitron, to advertisers, to
> focus groups and to request lines, in just about that order. Which is why
> everything is so danged bland."
>
> My question is why don't radio stations listen to him??? I honestly believe
> that Stairway to Heaven is probably the greatest rock song ever, but I don't
> fully appreciate its greatness when I hear it EVERY DAY. And what is up with
> the narrow focus of playlists? Why can't you hear a Temptations song on the
> same station that plays Springsteen? I hear Lifehouse and Creed on the same
> stations that play Nsync and Destiny's Child - what is the difference?
>
> Aren't some of the listmembers here involved in the music biz, albeit
> perhaps not directly in radio. Perhaps someone can enlighten me.
>
> And last but not least, why don't I hear Joni on the radio at all any more?
> GRRRRR
>
>
> Sybil
>
>
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