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Dan Fogelberg, Jackson and WZZQ
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When I was a teenage disc jockey in small town Mississippi in summer, 73 or 74, I wandered into the beasley road offices of JDX/ZZQ and sheepishly asked for a tour late in the workday. Was intoduced to Johnny Summer and mentioned to him that I wanted to see what a real radio station looked like. He smiled and told me something of the effect of " well,we're a little ahead of what the other stations are like". I had no idea how true that comment was at the time. Later,when I got to actually work with Wayne,Perez,Fitzhugh,and the other "cool" kids across the hall, I always appreciated how ahead of the curve they were. Glad you're still around, Mr. Summers.
Hey, TZ, and welcome to the Mississippi boards, Johnny. I worked across the hall from the Q as "Bobby Grey" not long before you headed for NY. I have tried to describe the WZZQ sound and experience to today's youngsters, but I feel that "you had to be there" to really appreciate the impact the station had on listeners and their lives.
Good grief. I haven't seen Johnny Sommer around in ages- last time I saw you was when I was leaving JDX in 1975 for KSLQ in St. Louis. It's great to see you here!johnnyv said:
Any chance you have a copy of that Fogelberg show still? I've always remembered his "Best Of My Love"...
beachguy3b said:
Hi, Dave,
Nice to hear from you. I assumed you were the guy I was hearing on the CBS radio network doing news. There's a guy named Dave Blair. I guess it's not you!
I'm down in Tampa (since 1982) left radio in 1998. Happily married and working for the Post Office. They can't sell that out from under me like the last 2 radio stations I worked for!!!
As for Fogelberg, no such luck, I have no idea what happened to that tape.
Johnny
I got out in 82, then back in a year and a half later when I got offered too much to turn it down. Got out again in 1990, did some part time stuff, but when I moved here to Atlanta from St. Louis (yeah, I was one of those "he worked all over town" guys in StL) I made it a permanent end. I work for a software company.
Shoot me a private message with contact info- next time I'm in Tampa (used to go there often but haven't been in a while) maybe we can hook up; I'd love to have a chance to sit and reminisce about the good old days and pretend they were great. LOL
Shoot me a private message with contact info- next time I'm in Tampa (used to go there often but haven't been in a while) maybe we can hook up; I'd love to have a chance to sit and reminisce about the good old days and pretend they were great. LOL
Re: True story - NOT a joke...
Bingo...
rfburns said:
Bingo...
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Hello WZZQ fans...the Dan Fogelberg concert has been discovered on a reel to reel tape and is now on you tube. The quality is a little wobbly...after all it was recorded by a ZZQ listener at home and is 40 years old but the content is fantastic. Home Free was what we called a hit back then. ZZQ and a few other free form stations played that album. The concert is on you tube and is almost complete...according to Sebastion, the MC that night, and my limited memory, Dan sang There's a Place in the World for a Gambler as an encore and the audience sang along, the audience knew every word.. here is the link// http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTAEvRx-omk
I will tell you of two more stations that played Dan Fogelberg. WMMR in Philadelphia, PA and in the 70's the KATT in Oklahoma City. Where I heard Dan Fogalberg in the Late 60's Early 70's was WMMR. When I moved to Oklahoma it was on the KATT in about 1976. Both stations were of the same caliber as WZZQ way back when.
Wow Bruce, thanks for the link. Just from hearing the first words "I take it you folks in Mississippi like the country, huh?" for the first time in four decades, I am taken back to my memories of that show.
I have the concert on cassette; it's been so long I've forgotten how I got it. Must have taught my Mom what buttons to press while I was at the show
Thanks
Paul Burt
Baton Rouge, LA
I have the concert on cassette; it's been so long I've forgotten how I got it. Must have taught my Mom what buttons to press while I was at the show
Thanks
Paul Burt
Baton Rouge, LA
I must have seen Dan play live 7 or 8 times. Never a disappointment, never a weak show.
Now if I can just get Johnny V's attention now that we're "neighbors." It would be great to see him again. He was a master at waiting until the very last second to set up for the next set, and still make it on time B-)
Now if I can just get Johnny V's attention now that we're "neighbors." It would be great to see him again. He was a master at waiting until the very last second to set up for the next set, and still make it on time B-)
J Boyd, he was Jonny Summers at WJDX. I *think* but am not sure that he worked at WWUN, but it would have been well before I was there. He lives up the highway from me in Tampa.
If I can find him, I will definitely do so.
This thread brought out some great memories of a great artist, and I just rediscovered Dan's other music recently. The thing I remember most about Dan was in the early 1980's he was booked to perform at Humphrey Coliseum at MSU. He started out singing the real band-heavy songs and got the crowd going. When he sat down to perform some of his songs with just a guitar, somehow the crowd started booing... for what reason I don't know. He cut the concert short and left the stage. All I could think about was that many of those in the crowd really lost out on hearing a real musician in the era of disco (this was at the time when other big MSU concerts included Earth Wind and Fire, Billy Joel, and Kenny Rogers).
I am a firm believer in "less is more" It is amazing how audiences these days have forgotten how to listen to music. I've attended many concerts in which people are talking loud and walking around throughout the auditorium totally ruining the experience. What I don't understand is that people actually PAY to hear a concert and they won't sit long enough to actually listen to it. The worst offenders are those that wait to hear their favorite song, and then head to the exits when the concert is not over yet, of course blocking everyones view, knocking your knees and making noise on the way out. Some of the worst offenders are actually the county fans. The last several country concerts I went too were horrible. The sound was so loud and compressed it sounded like a Guns and Roses concert. You could barely hear the soloist under the electric guitar and drums, combine that with the constant hoots and hollers from the audience and bad acoustics of the collesium made it not worth the money. And please, would someone tell the ladies in the audience to quit doing the white girl dance in front of me, and the lady behind me hollering "woo" in my ear every 5 seconds. Oh, and newsflash the cellphone video camera is turned the other way idiots.
that's my rant of the day folks. sorry.
that's my rant of the day folks. sorry.
Personally, the best Fogelberg concerts I saw were Dan and only Dan. The man was a master.
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