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Greaseman

Greaseman belongs on satellite and it shows that the folks that run Sirius and especially XM can be just as narrow minded as their broadcasat friends. Its a giant oversight.

Having said that Grease is not for the masses. His show requires a degree of attention that most don't today and a bit of a Monty Pythonesque sense of humor. Grease has more talent than Howard ever will (or Imus for that matter) but he's out on a non-PC edge that is a problem for some.

Put Grease and Imus on the same channel.
 
I've collected hundreds of hours of Grease's material over the years and, for me, it never gets old. The best story-teller on radio!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Greaseman has more talent than most everyone in the freaking city of Washington DC...it is a shame that he is not in the spot light. Everyone makes mistakes. Forgive and move on.
 
Sorry but Grease is not a talent, he sounds dated as hell and has for years!!.. and as much of an elephant grave yard for radio as Sirius is he's not going to drive any subcriptions there.

Howard had a great line about Greaseman the other day, he was talking about him being on AM and barter stations and he said " Greaseman is on 1650 Am, any further to the right on the dial and you're in the glove compartment"

I almost crashed my car I was laughing so hard. That is what I love about Howard, he still throws in stuff for the radio geeks listening.

:D
 
I agree. Grease is on a station that covers the entire market during his airshift and he has a 0.0. If he was any kind of talent he could at least beat WWDC.
 
I can agree with everybody here...both grease and howard are great. Both of them are starting to show their age over the air, though. The problem is, there seems to be no heir apparent to these types of folks. I guess with more yung'uns switching to iWhatevers, nobody has (or probably ever will) get to the level of humor that these guys have/had.

Oh well...let's enjoy 'em before they retire to the Hamptons ;D

Radio-X
 
Im PD of a classic rock station on the Miss. gulf coast. We used to carry Walton and Johnson. About once a week Walton would talk about Grease or use one of his bits and give him credit. It used to piss me off, cause there is only one Grease. He is half the reason I got into radio. Howard is the other half.
 
BostonRandy said:
I've collected hundreds of hours of Grease's material over the years and, for me, it never gets old. The best story-teller on radio!!!!!!!!!!!
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I agree, however it seemed that when he went syndicated back in the 90's, he started to do things like give love advice to teenage girls, which does not appeal to 30 or 40 something year old men, as far as I know. Plus, IMHO, he doesn't have enough material to fill a whole 4 hour show without music and news thrown in. His classic bits are great in between the music. But to me, there's not enough good material to take the place of the music. Same thing with Don and Mike. I thought they were great doing mornings on WAVA. When they were palying music.
 
Except D&M still get numbers.

I was shocked when I listened to Grease last year about this time, and he had a 13 year old girl who called in, crying because she was dumped by her boyfriend. He talked to her about how there will be other men, then invited her to sit on his knee so he could giver her a "pony ride".

Then he asked how fat she was and told her she was dumped because she was chubby.
 
I became a Grease fan during his days at the Big Ape in Jacksonville. I'm surprised that one of the major stations in Jax hasn't lured him back. He'd kill down here. Although Jax is not a major market (#47) it is a great place to live. And the major players--Clear Channel & Cox--could certainly afford him, even if their corporate cultures are too conservative to accommodate someone with real talent.

The love/hate theme in this thread speaks to Doug's brilliance--he ain't your average run-of-the-mill jock. We'd get the same kind of opinion split if we were talking about Howard, Mancow, D&M, O&A or any of the other dramatically different acts on radio. BTW, Grease is a hell of a nice guy, too. He deserves a break.
 
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