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DROP INS

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Lucylu

Has the use of the drop in become a lost art? I tried to listen to EEI on my way home, and the drop ins were stepping all over the live talk (which step all over each other enough as it is). Then I switched over to RKO to hear Howie being stepped on by his tired old drop ins (does anyone think hearing Teddy K say 'Hello' for the ump-teenth time is still funny?)

Fred Norris used to use them just right on Howard's show (don't know about now as I don't have Siruis). Before that, Charles LaQuidara's board op used to flavor his show with just the right amount of drop ins. Now a days the board ops/producer are trying too hard to become a part of the show with uninspired and intrusive sound bites. Spaz on AAF may be the worst, but the Big Show is running a close second.

Or has it always been like this and I'm just getting old and cranky? :-\
 
No Lucylu, i'm actually agreeing with you more and more and it is frightening me. :)

Howie's drop-ins are overused. Play some Jerky Boys or something Howie, really...

He's more like Howdy Doody than Howie Carr with his stale program.

All Severino seems to be dropping in is bumper music. But 3 minutes of him today was too much for me;
eeek...he is just as bad as I remember him and if not for Eagen & Braude I wouldn't have had to hear
JS again.

Production is a lost art. To quote Jim Morrison "Back in the 90s, when I was a young man back there in
seminary school...i mean...wcgy...there was a person who put forth the proposition...
 
Drop ins are very dated. It's very 80's even for talk radio.
 
Varulven said:
Production is a lost art.
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So true.

Listen to "Sounds In The Night," the Norm Nathan tribute CD, and you hear some of his production pieces that while not technological marvels by today's standards, were some of the most clever, well-timed bits ever done.

The problem with today's pre-produced audio clips is that more often than not, the bored op doesn't really know what the host is all about, nor does s/he care. It's just their entry-level job til they "get discovered." So on cue, they'll play it. Then they'll get some confidence, and think they know when it fits. And it doesn't. I've heard that way too often on the talk stations in town.

Lucy's right, Fred Norris was a genius with Howard in their terrestrial radio days. I assume it's the same now.
 
You would think but the strange thing about Howard now is that he has backed WAAAAY off of the drop ins. I dont know if that is Fred's doing or his decision but there are very few by comparison to the terrestrial show. The ones they do use now can be even funnier, they still use the Martin Landau/Bela Lagousi from "Ed Wood" drop ins of him saying "Bullsh*t" or the best is him screaming "f**k you", un-edited it is pretty hysterical when placed well, and as you say Fred is the master of drop placement!.
 
I was particularly fond of the Jack Williams "Yikes!" drop in the later years of the Big Mattress.
 
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