Down memory lane folks

[Wheezer]

Louie,

Champlain Radio Group???!!! Watch your back and send out those mp3 files ASAP. Anything specific I could tell you would be deleted by our friendly and highly intelligent moderator. ;D Because they're hands down...well...let's just say they are the most awesome, honest and straight-shootin' bunch-a-buckeroos anywhere in the wild, wild world of radio. RUN!

 

[louiemanno]

Mr. Wheezer sir:

So as to pay proper respects to the Law Men (meaning The Board Moderators) …who maintain the peace in these parts. Let me just say (in the cartoonish cowboy persona that I have taken on as of late) the following. (Now you have to picture me leaning over the fence post, tilting back my Stetson and looking you square in the face, real neighborly like)

The subject of this thread is “Down Memory Lane”, witch I liken to a trail through time… This old cowboy has been on a desert trail or two in his time. And I have come to know the difference twixt a mirage and a fishing hole. Well sir, The Brooklyn Buckaroo has night crawlers in his saddle bag and one of them fancy pocket fishermen… (and before I hog-tie this metaphor) let me just say… I’m already baiting my hook and commencing to cast.

In other words what I see is real… Genuine people, open to ideas who hired me for who I am, not in spite of who I am. I declare, I am humbly grateful.

Haven’t seen any outlaws with black hats riding into town… don’t expect I will. But even if I do… This old cowpoke is going to take the back 40 of “Radio Land” that I have been given and grow his self a bumper crop of community radio.

I do not have the luxury of ignorance… instead I must shoulder the burden of wisdom… Which is a side-effect of being around the corral for a considerable amount of time. I’ll share a nugget with you….

If a cowboy is pure of heart and intention… And he has a mind to work hard and be productive. They’ll be no need for back watching. Because, every trail that I have the good fortune to blaze… will have revenue a riding sideboard. Makes a bunker a might unnecessary.

But partner, I am mighty appreciative of your kind admonishment… mighty neighborly of you.

Got to go now, it’s time to put fabric softener in with my britches.

Louie

Tip of the hat to Ms. Milk Maid… who’s breezy posting style is an inspiration.

 

[ken gilbert]

Louie, thanks for getting this thread back to the post. Any one out there that can add another memory that was left out, or if you have one, rock n roll!

 

[louiemanno]

Mr Ken Sir:

Always proud to hitch onto on of your “posts”

Louie, thanks for getting this thread back to the post. Any one out there that can add another memory that was left out, or if you have one, rock n roll!

Just rock and roll? Could it be a little bit country and a little bit schlock and droll to?

But I digress…. And to get back on track…. Advancements in the radio business must have really killed the degausser or bulk eraser industry. For you youngbloods that was the closest thing we had to delete back in the ol’ analogue days. Yep... There is nothing like the humming rattle of cart plastic on a bulk eraser in the morning.

Louie

 

[ken gilbert]

Yeah Louie,
Did you ever use a bulk eraser on a spot or psa you didn't like, and just tell the GM the cart machine ate up the tape. I did. Never got caught. Still can do it with a computer. Ha!

 

[louiemanno]

Ken

So that’s what happened to the "Reading is Fundamental" PSA. That’s OK Ken… I think when technology becomes obsolete the statute of limitations runs out.

Louie

 

[therealvoice]

Did you ever use a bulk eraser on a spot or psa you didn't like, and just tell the GM the cart machine ate up the tape.

I bulked a few only to get the, "Hey do you still have that last tape for ________? They decided to just re-use that last one." Of course, it would only be the most difficult customers who had 13 or so 60 second spots with individual tags for each one.


Of course, that begs the question, did you ever point one at the backside a salesperson who ticked you off, aiming at the wallet?

 

[MassMusicMan]

I've pointed something at a salesperson's backside before.







I'm not talking about a bulk eraser.

 

[bub]

Yeah Louie,
Did you ever use a bulk eraser on a spot or psa you didn't like, and just tell the GM the cart machine ate up the tape. I did. Never got caught. Still can do it with a computer. Ha!

Or did you ever hook the inside tape portion of a cart with a pen or a pencil and decide it had to have an accident? ;D

 

[bub]

Ken
So that’s what happened to the "Reading is Fundamental" PSA. That’s OK Ken… I think when technology becomes obsolete the statute of limitations runs out.
Louie

Or the Drugs Don't Work PSA's featuring Matt who had to have plastic surgery to repair the inside of his nose after snorting coke. And Debbie, who got dressed for the last time in all new clothes and she hates them because 2 guys she doesn't even know had to put them on her. All because she did a line, couldn't sleep, then went to the medicine chest and took some cough medicine. Like something out of Monty Python. ;D

 

[bub]

Did you ever use a bulk eraser on a spot or psa you didn't like, and just tell the GM the cart machine ate up the tape.

I bulked a few only to get the, "Hey do you still have that last tape for ________? They decided to just re-use that last one." Of course, it would only be the most difficult customers who had 13 or so 60 second spots with individual tags for each one.

And it probably took about 37 takes or so just to get the first tag.

 

[CrankyYankee]

Here's a question for you memory lane-ers...

Anyone out there in northern New England remember doing a crystal check with Mr. Cheeny of Cheeny Crystals in Massachusetts?

 

[louiemanno]

CR

I vaguely remember that… Was it for AM transmitters only? I seem to recall going to daytime power at night for a brief period. Was it an annual thing?

Louie

 

[magnadan]

Adding a few:

Part of your job was to clean the cart heads with alcohol during your shift.

You've ever had to re-cart all the spots you just did because the cart heads in the production studio were out of phase.

At least once a week, a song would start in the middle because someone didn't allow the cart to recue... or the cart would run past the cue and the song would start playing again during your weather forcast.

You ever had to search the floor for a piece of 1/4 inch tape tape that you accidently cut out rather than the segment you meant to splice out... and when you found it, you spliced it back in backwards.

Your multi-track production studio was two Otari reel to reels and a triple deck cart machine.

A cart was "upcut", so as it recued you would hear it "burp" on the air.

You knew exactly what to do if during your airshift you were in the breakroom and someone said, "Hey, your cart is dragging.."

You thought the coolest thing was loading two songs a jingle and another song in the cart machines and let the tones do the segues... you might actually be able to stay out of the studio for twelve minutes.

You've ever come back in the studio from goofing off down the hall to find that the needle was at the end of that segment of American Top 40 broadcasting the clicking silent groove and you wondered how long it had been that way... 5 seconds, a minute...Two minutes?

You could refer to your stations in the building as "the AM" or "the FM" and no one would have to ask "which FM?".

You ever made the decision which song in the gold library didn't need to be in rotation anymore because you needed the cart for something else.

You know what "slip starting" means.

You knew which songs to talk over to hide the cue burn.

 

[ken gilbert]

magnadan ....... Nice addition to the origional post!

 

[Butters925]

Saying i'll be in Production all day long, just so you don't have to deal with phone calls from P*ssed of Clients!

 

[bub]

Saying i'll be in Production all day long, just so you don't have to deal with phone calls from P*ssed off Clients!

I'm going to use that next time. ;D