anyone need a pd gig ??

[deltas69]

http://nashville.craigslist.org/tfr/481095281.html as always, comments richly encouraged ;D

 

[Tibbs4]

At first, I though you had Thanksgiving mixed up with April Fools. Then again, this is Music City,
there should be lots of people with rock experience ready to e-mail Dean who just hang around
Craig's List waiting for such a chance. Love live rock. SAVE US SCOTT -- APPLY. Only after the
Christmas Music of course. Maybe ole Bud (Walters) will pay you better than most. Otherwise,
it's just more un-interesting radio on auto-pilot in Nashville. This is a desperate plea. Bring us
that Kick-Ass Rocker.

 

[junebaby62]

Really, maybe they will hire scott and swisvol as a duel,and bring back real rock in nashville!

deltas: i'm glad to see you post man, i was beginning to worry about ya!

 

[SwissVol]

I'm googling the discography of The Red Hot Chilli Peppers now just so I can know kind of music they play.

 

[scottwmro]

At first, I though you had Thanksgiving mixed up with April Fools. Then again, this is Music City,
there should be lots of people with rock experience ready to e-mail Dean who just hang around
Craig's List waiting for such a chance. Love live rock. SAVE US SCOTT -- APPLY. Only after the
Christmas Music of course. Maybe ole Bud (Walters) will pay you better than most. Otherwise,
it's just more un-interesting radio on auto-pilot in Nashville. This is a desperate plea. Bring us
that Kick-Ass Rocker.

Hey Tibbs,

Got a big laugh out of that one! I wished ole Bud Walters would pay me to make 102.9 really ROCK, and I'd and tear into 105.9 and leave them hanging out to dry. The secret formula is to Rock and be able to make it adapt to the ad agencies buying habits of today.

Now I'm like you and the rest of us on here, if one was to hit the lottery with a great some of money, we would just Rock and tell the ad agencies to take a hike. I know those ole naughty places like the "The Hustler Joint" on Church St, all of Nashville's strip clubs, the gay clubs, etc, would buy ads on a butt kickin rocker.

Oh well, back to reality, (what happen to sit-coms?) hope you didn't eat too much yesterday & had a good thanksgiving day. I think I gained 5 pounds and I'm hiding from the stores today! ;D

MY SONG OF THE DAY:
Cat Scratch Fever from Ted Nugent. After all, that's what those fools are doing at Rivergate Mall today, Cats with shopping fever! I'm hangin out in my quiet radio station today doing nothing!

 

[SwissVol]

Hey ScotWMRO, I am just curious. If you were hired to be music-program director, just off hand, what artists would be the core of your "Kick ass rocker"? If I were running things, (Which I am most certainly am not), but if I were, I'd have artist like

A Foot in Cold water- Eric Burdon and the Animals- Blue Oyster Cult- The Byrds- - CCR- Crosby, Stills and Nash, Canned Heat , and so on and so forth. You see my version is more vintage and more like older FM rockers. Trick would be to make the music flow even with bands as diverse as Blue Oyster Cult and the Byrds. Deep Tracks on XM pulls it off, but what works for satellite would probably never work on terrestrial radio. Deep cuts or deeper cuts would dominate the playlists, but with old favs mixed in just because those songs are great. Man, am I totally out of touch with the listening audience or what? LOL Seriously, give me or us a sample. Just curious.

Googling 3 Doors down as I speak

 

[deltas69]

deltas: i'm glad to see you post man, i was beginning to worry about ya! well..i decided since i don't have any real radio nashville conections..i'll just watch for the most part..most of you guys worked around town and have first hand knowledge of what goes on..and reading posts as well as between the lines, i have a better understanding of why dumb things happen in radio down there..still don't understand any of the thinking that goes on in the cloak rooms of the suits..i can't relate on a personal basis like most you guys can since you've been in the trenches..my experience was more of a big fish in a little , but well run pond so to speak. never really had a bad radio experience..but then..never tried to work in nashton. when a radio gig went south, i'd just go do somethimng else..didn't have to rely on radio to make a living. i enjoyed the music, the production, and all the FUN,FUN,FUN..but what i miss most is working with talented, creative people. where i work now the conversation goes like this :"i hate that dam jeff gordon"/ "did you see beyonce's new outfit?", or the subtle nuance of pauly shore cinima....and my wife wonders why i drink.. i'd love to find a gig doing production, cut/paste/point/click..etc..i've put together some cd's that even oldbud deems quite worthy..

 

[olebud]

and delta69 says: i'd love to find a gig doing production

don't send it to scottwmro ==== he'll climb on that horse and tell you to retire

 

[olebud]

I left out the part that he'd suggest that you retire....after he heard what you were listening to, good ole rock and roll....60's style. ;D

 

[deltas69]

........and the horse he rode in on...

 

[scottwmro]

........and the horse he rode in on...

To both of you:

I was just thinking about guys that have worked your era. Kris Eric Stevens of the old WLS fame, all have production gigs, but they built studios in thier homes. The trade mags have loads of people that do production, and the majority of them have studios they built in thier homes to do thier stuff at home and make good money.

TELL ME........Why do you feel like you have to get in the car (with the high price of gas), ride anywhere from 10 to 30 miles, just to be in a "radio station building" just to do production? I guess it just make you older (35 and up) guys feel "a part of something", just to be in that building. Just a theater of the mind thing I guess for some of ya.

My opinion is, radio today is NOT like the old WKRP-AM fantasy, and we did everything live from that old downtown building on the 10th floor. We don't have to even get out of our driveways anymore to be on the air. That old show is getting close to 25 years old. Radio has changed, thanks to the PC's we use each day.

Pat, I'm shocked that you, as much as you've talked about it here on this board and with your computer skills being high, you have not put your home studio to use making you money, and your not advertising in Radio and Records, Radio Production mags, that you can do spots, promos, voice tracks shifts for stations, charge a decent fee for your services, and do it from your home.

WMRO does not have a production room, I moved it to my house, due to 99% of the production is done "out of house" and email to me, OR downloaded from an ftp site. I barter with a company to do my weather forecast. It's up to date, and my on air PC downloads it and puts it in rotation for me. Just like programming a DVD Recorder, set it, and forget it!

With the internet and the advent of mp3 audio, we can do that stuff on our PC's at home, or I've seen guys do production with just a laptop, battery powered mixer and a studio mic in a hotel room.


Buddy, there is a guy that does local news for a town that is 400 miles away from his home. It's update and fresh, every morning for that station!

What I mean when I say that you should "retire" is that you don't have to get up and leave home during the middle of the night, (right now as cold as it is) just to have local news on from a building 30 miles from your house. You could do several station's "local news" from you home studio and make mega money, stay in your sweats, and not have to leave home! With your talent, that would be a cool thing for you!

No disrespect here, but just living for the future.

 

[deltas69]

if i had a room dedicated for homework..and a couple more pc's to mess with..i'd love to do that..maybe i need to investigate further..but i have zero contacts since i've been out of touch for so long..scott you haven't been married all your life...some of us LOVE to leave the house..whatever the price of GAS .. : there is a lot to be said about working along side other creative people to bounce ideas off of..something you can't do at home..sometimes you need multiple voices ..guess i need to look into teletalking..or whatever..for guys like bud and me..as well as others our age..it's in our DNA..gotta sign on..flip switches, turn knobs..do eight different things at once..it's just the way we learned...the primary reason i didn't stay at 1510 was i didn't have enough to do...just could not get used to standing there eight hours watching other people on the air and pushing buttons occasionally...maybe i'm a control(room) freak...i have to do it all..just to make sure it gets done right... ;D

 

[scottwmro]

if i had a room dedicated for homework..and a couple more pc's to mess with..i'd love to do that..maybe i need to investigate further..but i have zero contacts since i've been out of touch for so long..scott you haven't been married all your life...some of us LOVE to leave the house..whatever the price of GAS .. : there is a lot to be said about working along side other creative people to bounce ideas off of..something you can't do at home..sometimes you need multiple voices ..guess i need to look into teletalking..or whatever..for guys like bud and me..as well as others our age..it's in our DNA..gotta sign on..flip switches, turn knobs..do eight different things at once..it's just the way we learned...the primary reason i didn't stay at 1510 was i didn't have enough to do...just could not get used to standing there eight hours watching other people on the air and pushing buttons occasionally...maybe i'm a control(room) freak...i have to do it all..just to make sure it gets done right... ;D

Oh, I did all that before I got married. I get to the station, and in my box was a hour's worth of production left for me to to do, then work the 12 Midnight to 5:30AM shift. One of my former hobbies was to restore old transmitters and consoles, but after I got hurt moving that big old CCA Transmitter out of here, I sort of slow down, and actually stop that hobby. I love the glow of tubes, but when I really got into working on PC's, I sort of left that old equipment hobby.

As like you, I worked at daytimers or "daytime only" stations, especially working the whole day from sign on to sign off, this month it is 6:30 AM to 4:45 PM. I was in my 20's then and had the lots of energy. Now in my 40's, I don't know what has happen to me. Maybe I've gotten lazy and gained to much weight. The last time I weight myself, I was in shock! The downfall of PC's are that we sit in front of them, eat, drink and GAIN WEIGHT!

When I was at WVOL, there was ALWAYS something to do, buttons to push, old equipment, etc. Since we were a directional station, we had to make sure the daytime and night arrays stay in tolerance, in addition to doing your airshift. The production room was like going back to the stone age days for me, an old RCA Console, turntables with those bigger platters than the standard 33 1/3 record, worn out ITC cart machines to record on, patch bays, etc. Sound effects came from records.

The day the old 5 KW RCA transmitter caught on fire was fun, smoked up the place, and watching Clinton Hooper and Carl Campbell rebuid that old thing. Hanging around those guys teaching me engineering. Now, a 1 KW transmitter can fit in the trunk of your car, and it's so easy to fix (built in modules) my little 11 year old niece could fix it.

And ture, I haven't been married that long, but I'm on my 2nd marriage. My first marriage ended in disaster after 7 years. Me and my current wife have only been married about a year and one half.

 

[Evangelist]

It's nice to do some of your work at home, but I agree all the way with the guys who say it's good to get out of the house. At our stations, there are people off whom we can bounce ideas and it helps us keep in touch with everyday, real life. In my first stint at Metro Networks, one of the things I liked a lot about working there was our downtown location. Lots of people, lots of activity--it was very energizing, not to mention convenient for covering stories at the Capitol or City Hall.