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Anyone listening to the yacht rock weekend on klos

Yabadabado1 said:
I don't know about his so called on-air personality. That "Dead Dog Dedication" rant.......Well, let's just say that if I were a first time listener and heard that [Yeah, I know, it was a "leaked" tape.] I'd probably never tune in again. I have a feeling there were more then one of those meltdowns. Granted, probably a stressful, nationwide show to do and keep affiliates happy. I've worked with enough guys that sounded super friendly and fantastic on air and sounded like they had a great personality but once that mic turned off they were nasty, major-league A-Holes to everybody.
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Casey was not like that in real life. I know, because Kerri is a friend. (In fact, we aired her tribute special yesterday -- first time in over a decade that's played anywhere -- and she and Mike made that pretty clear.)

But all of us have meltdowns once the number of frustrations over time can't be suppressed any longer. Back in the day, I used to liken it to S&H Green Stamps. Every frustration was another stamp in the book, and once the book was full, it was redeemed with the full force of every "frustration stamp".
 
ChannelFlipper said:
So I am trying to understand this.

It is an obvoius put-down, but is the slur aimed at guitars? Doubtful, most people don't have an issue with guitars. Is it white guys then? Is being a white guy something to be ashamed of? Or is it only when they play guitars?
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Only if they're playing KLOS guitars:

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K.M. Richards said:
Sorry, I took that sentence to be a definition of the format in general.
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One could say a similar thing about country music. It's artists primarily live in Nashville. The songs for the most part are written in Nashville. The music is mostly recorded in Nashville using Nashville musicians. The record labels have offices there. A lot of country music institutions are there. There is an entire media structure based in Nashville. Lew Dickey even named a bunch of his radio stations "Nash."

And yet amazingly, the music is played on radio stations around the world.

However, when Nashville radio stations play country music, they often make reference to some of the geographic facts I listed above. In my view, that was an opportunity missed by KLOS for its yacht rock special. But that's just me.
 
K.M. Richards said:
Casey was not like that in real life. I know, because Kerri is a friend. (In fact, we aired her tribute special yesterday -- first time in over a decade that's played anywhere -- and she and Mike made that pretty clear.)

But all of us have meltdowns once the number of frustrations over time can't be suppressed any longer. Back in the day, I used to liken it to S&H Green Stamps. Every frustration was another stamp in the book, and once the book was full, it was redeemed with the full force of every "frustration stamp".
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Glad to hear he wasn't like that.
 
radiofan2023 said:
Unlike @Yabadabado1, I like Casey Kasem and think he was a nice guy.
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I never said I didn't like him. I'm glad he's [or was] a nice guy. I went out of my way to listen to AT40. It seemed to bounce from station to station here in the Cleveland area when he hosted it. Hell, I'm a night person and I dragged my ass out of bed on weekend mornings [which is what I considered as my middle of the night] to listen to them. Even found a record shop that had tons of AT 40 records for sale that someone "liberated" from whatever station they were at. If I hadn't been between jobs at the time and low on moolah, I would have snatched up the lot of them.
 
TheBigA said:
One could say a similar thing about country music. It's artists primarily live in Nashville. The songs for the most part are written in Nashville. The music is mostly recorded in Nashville using Nashville musicians. The record labels have offices there. A lot of country music institutions are there. There is an entire media structure based in Nashville. Lew Dickey even named a bunch of his radio stations "Nash."

And yet amazingly, the music is played on radio stations around the world.

However, when Nashville radio stations play country music, they often make reference to some of the geographic facts I listed above. In my view, that was an opportunity missed by KLOS for its yacht rock special. But that's just me.
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I agree with you on that last sentence, now that you've clarified what you meant. The comparison is totally valid. It would be the same situation if Country stations in Texas payed songs by natives of the Lone Star State, to take it one step further.
 
kevtronics said:
I've listened to the weekly Yacht Rock Radio show and its host has never referred to it as a uniquely L.A. phenomenon. The upcoming Yacht Rock Festival is being held in California... but in San Diego.

Yacht Rock Radio

yachtrockradio.com yachtrockradio.com
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I'm one of those guys who thinks a good radio station is a "soundtrack" for the city (yeah, I know, that depends a lot on the neighborhood in any city), and if I'm driving around San Diego, "yacht rock" (I still don't like the term) seems to play a lot better to me than it does in most of L.A.
 

michael hagerty said:
I'm one of those guys who thinks a good radio station is a "soundtrack" for the city (yeah, I know, that depends a lot on the neighborhood in any city), and if I'm driving around San Diego, "yacht rock" (I still don't like the term) seems to play a lot better to me than it does in most of L.A.
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The one time I was in San Diego was for the America's Cup. So there you go.
 
"Texas Country" is its own sub-genre, with a decent handful of stations in the state monetizing it as a point of differentiation. Some regionalism in music taste still exists, which I find refreshing.
 


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