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Alice Cooper, zzzzzzzzzzz

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OldPort

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Alice Cooper, carried here in Portland on The Bone, has been speaking with some random guy from Vanilla Fudge for TEN minutes. I'm about to throw my Olde English bottle at the radio! No songs, talking about bands nobody could care about anymore. Bring back Mitch and Bone After Dark nights! This is awful!
 
> Alice Cooper, carried here in Portland on The Bone, has been
> speaking with some random guy from Vanilla Fudge for TEN
> minutes. I'm about to throw my Olde English bottle at the
> radio! No songs, talking about bands nobody could care
> about anymore.

Did anyone even care about Vanilla Fudge back in the 60s?
 
> > Alice Cooper, carried here in Portland on The Bone, has
> been
> > speaking with some random guy from Vanilla Fudge for TEN
> > minutes. I'm about to throw my Olde English bottle at the
>
> > radio! No songs, talking about bands nobody could care
> > about anymore.
>
> Did anyone even care about Vanilla Fudge back in the 60s?
>
Fudge just recently reformed with many members of the original line-up and have been on tour this summer with the Doors, Steppenwolf, & Pat Travers. Perhaps this is why he is talking with them. Although I find it hard to listen to 10 minutes of babble about "back in the day when we were stoned" conversation as well.
 
> Fudge just recently reformed with many members of the
> original line-up and have been on tour this summer with the
> Doors, Steppenwolf, & Pat Travers. Perhaps this is why he is
> talking with them. Although I find it hard to listen to 10
> minutes of babble about "back in the day when we were
> stoned" conversation as well.
>

They were at at festival/concert at Meadowbrook(Gilford NH) ealier this summer, right?
 
> > > Alice Cooper, carried here in Portland on The Bone, has
> > been
> > > speaking with some random guy from Vanilla Fudge for TEN
>
> > > minutes. I'm about to throw my Olde English bottle at
> the
> >
> > > radio! No songs, talking about bands nobody could care
> > > about anymore.
> >
> > Did anyone even care about Vanilla Fudge back in the 60s?
> >
> Fudge just recently reformed with many members of the
> original line-up and have been on tour this summer with the
> Doors, Steppenwolf, & Pat Travers. Perhaps this is why he is
> talking with them. Although I find it hard to listen to 10
> minutes of babble about "back in the day when we were
> stoned" conversation as well.
>
Just a few points....

#1: The only way anyone could listen to (or care about) Vanilla Fudge without requiring long-term psychotherapy WAS to be stoned.

#2: Alice Cooper's "show" is, simply put, awful. He is not at all compelling or interesting, IMHO.

#3: Aside from the stink factor mentioned in #2, this show doesn't fit on The Bone. Mitch isn't a great DJ (again, IMHO) but he has the attitude and energy that people expect from The Bone (and sometimes he's pretty damned funny!). There's also the music. A fair percentage of the music on Alice's show is stuff that The Bone spent a year making fun of WBLM for playing. The late Johnnie Cochran might have said, "If the show don't fit, you must dump it!"

While Alice Cooper certainly is a problem for The Bone now there are bigger fish about to hit the pan.

The impending departure of Howard Stern is a huge problem. What to do when Howie and his cast of misfits is gone? Love him or hate him, there's no morning show out there that can fill the footfalls left by the Stern circus. Just ask Clear Channel about that.

If I were running the station I'd get rid of Alice now, shore up the night show and have everything outside of mornings running like a top BEFORE Stern goes. Unless of course the plan is to change format when Howard says adios, in which case none of the above really matters.

Despite it's signal weaknesses The Bone still has a lot of potential. I hope that at some point - and soon - that the braintrust at Nassau takes the proactive steps to take it to the next level.

That's my $1.02 :)

BB_B
 
> Alice Cooper, carried here in Portland on The Bone, has been
> speaking with some random guy from Vanilla Fudge for TEN
> minutes. I'm about to throw my Olde English bottle at the
> radio! No songs, talking about bands nobody could care
> about anymore. Bring back Mitch and Bone After Dark nights!
> This is awful!
>
I agree. I used to listen to the Bone at work,and for a while switched back & forth between the Bone & the Blimp once Alice came to the Bone,but now it's the CD player.
 
> While Alice Cooper certainly is a problem for The Bone now
> there are bigger fish about to hit the pan.
>
> The impending departure of Howard Stern is a huge problem.
> What to do when Howie and his cast of misfits is gone? Love
> him or hate him, there's no morning show out there that can
> fill the footfalls left by the Stern circus. Just ask Clear
> Channel about that.

Maybe the Greater Portland Market needs an entirely FRESH approach? Not an "old tired rock'n'roller" trying to relate to a partial audience of "dead-heads" and a bunch of young rappers?

As much as many of us have enjoyed Howard's on-air-antics....he was actually starting to sound A LITTLE TIRED!

You wanna wake the market up? Then perhaps a "morning show transfusion" is necessary? In other words, give listeners a personality who has ENERGY and A FORMAT THAT'S RELATABLE TO A LARGER AUDIENCE! [And before a PD or GM swears that EVERYTHING has been tried up here....what I have in mind.....HASN'T].

argytunes
 
Free Beer & Hot Wings

> > While Alice Cooper certainly is a problem for The Bone now
>
> > there are bigger fish about to hit the pan.
> >
> > The impending departure of Howard Stern is a huge problem.


The Hawk in the Lakes Region & Concord N.H. market has The Free Beer & Hot Wings morning show out of New Jersey on mornings.I haven't heard them,but does anyone think a possible replacement for Stern.How about some comments on the show from someone who has heard them. http://www.975thehawk.com/ http://www.freebeerandhotwings.com/
 
Re: Free Beer & Hot Wings

> > > While Alice Cooper certainly is a problem for The Bone
> now
> >
> > > there are bigger fish about to hit the pan.
> > >
> > > The impending departure of Howard Stern is a huge
> problem.
>
>
> The Hawk in the Lakes Region & Concord N.H. market has The
> Free Beer & Hot Wings morning show out of New Jersey on
> mornings.I haven't heard them,but does anyone think a
> possible replacement for Stern.How about some comments on
> the show from someone who can hear
> them.http://www.freebeerandhotwings.com/
>
Actually, this show originates from somewhere in the midwest....Michigan I think. Used to be out of Jersey but they moved som etime last year (it was on All Access, but I'm not sure exactly when the move ocurred).

At any rate, Free Beer & Hot Wings do bring a decent show to the table (you can check out audio clips at the web site mentioned in DidYouKnow's post). If it were me calling the shots I'd be inclined to go with Mancow and lean The Bone more Active Rock - essentially an "AOR" like back in the day, playing great new rock with a heavy classic library (ala WXRK (K-Rock) in New York, WYSP in Philly...you know the Infinity stations that will soon be w/o Mr. Stern).

There may be a wild card here: what about a live, local PORTLAND based morning show? Word is that Stern was/is costing Nassau in excess of $100K per year. The problem is finding a show that can "bring it", that's interested in working in Portland, Maine. Still, this would be an interesting, provocative choice for The Bone Braintrust.

Ahhhh....the joys of being an armchair strategist!

BB_B
 
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