Happy Birthday Carter Alan!

[Varulven]

November 21.

I sent Carter an l.p. DELANEY & BONNIE ON TOUR WITH ERIC CLAPTON & GEORGE HARRISON, produced by
Jimmy Miller, oh about 15 years or so ago, for his birthday.

happy birthday Carter.

 

[Lucylu]

I sent Carter the knife he stuck in the late Daryl Martini’s back when he refused to go to Daryl’s wedding because Carter claimed it made a ‘mockery’ of born-again the “Allen’s” marriage (which, if memory serves, is to his second wife).

Happy Birthday hypocrite. :-*

 

[Varulven]

Carter & his second wife are "Born Again"? WZLX is in need of a little resurrection and restoration itself.
Are we ready for the Sunday Morning Gospel hour?

Darryl Martini deserved better from his colleague
http://lovestarz.com/saturn2.html

There's a similar story regarding a quip Oedipus allegedly made to Matt Schaffer at an inappropriate time and place...after Culture Vulture split for another station. Maybe if Oedi touched the holy water it singed his forehead? and upset him? Thank his lucky Sy Sperling there are remedies for that!

http://encyclopedia.quickseek.com/index.php/WBCN
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WBCN

 

[TowerBuzz]

Im not so sure that he's gone as far as being born again but he is very religious. As for the Muffin wedding, people are entitled to their beliefs whether we agree or disagree and it is his perogative to abstain if he does not believe in the cause. Think about this; Being so religious if he had gone to the wedding and he didn't believe it was right even though they have been friends for years would THAT not have made him more of a hippocrite?. It may have had less to do with him being a **** phobe and more to do with his not wanting to be near Oedipus who married the couple

 

[Lucylu]

A pious jackass in a Planet of the Apes hair cut is still a pious jackass in a Planet of the Apes hair cut, no matter how you slice it. ;D

Anyone who puts their invisable friend Jesus before people they call their friends on earth will have their names written in the great book and be cast into the lake of fire. - LUKE 3:16

 

[Varulven]

note to TowerBuzz it is hypocrite and homophobe. We had a poster here who had the same keyboard errors that you display. Perhaps you both bought the keyboard at the same store?

Also, "very religious" is a nebulous term. Saddam Hussein thinks he is "very" religious. Bush thinks he's a
"religious" man.

1 Corinthians 13 1 "If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don't have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal."

http://scriptures.lds.org/en/bd/h/75

BIBLE DICTIONARY
Hypocrite
The word generally denotes one who pretends to be religious when he is not (though it is sometimes used to mean simply a bad man, e.g., Job 8: 13; Job 13: 16; Isa. 9: 17; Isa. 33: 14). Hypocrisy was the besetting sin of the Pharisees, and was severely condemned by the Lord (Matt. 23: 13-33; Mark 12: 38-40; Luke 11: 37-44; Luke 20: 46-47).


In any event, LucyLu is right about Carter's haircut - John Travolta is envious!

 

[TowerBuzz]

Varulven loves to quibble I think becasue he is fixated on the sound of his own voice even if it is only in print, and if it's mostly bile like it usually is. For somebody to constantly criticize Carter Alan's showand on air performance, and bash wzlx's playlist as often as you do then to wish him a happy birthday looks very disingenuous. I guess you think you can say whatever you want about others and then try to say something nice and that makes you exempt from all critiques. Then if anyone says anything even a little out of agreement with your weird opiions you freak out and start spouting off about things and people from years and years ago that mean nothig.

It's Just boring.

 

[Varulven]

It is obvious you read ALL my postings chapter and verse, and respond frequently./

The only thing Boring, TB, is those responses you post, along with your decimation of the English language.

That being said, Carter did a great job on the Aerosmith interview; it was too bad the "wedding crasher" oedi forced a useless host onto that same radio special, but that's politics in radio. We have seen how similar politics have ruined WRKO.

My position is very clear regarding WZLX. I've stated from day 1 of Carter's hire - he's a great music director, he is not a very witty or compelling host. He and Chuck Nowlin are Sominex personified. Keep Carter in the music department. Put Gerry Goodwin or Wharfield or Julie Devereaux or J.J. Wright on the air - or Ed McMann. Carter can't compete with those voices. Little Walter would add a jolt to WZLX, I just don't think he would want to play the music.

WZLX's music is holding its numbers, the lack of quality on-air talent is what is hurting the station.
Programming classic rock is a no brainer, probably the easiest format to program. The Who, Aerosmith,
The Stones, The Beatles, not hard to make people happy. Carter popping in with his "classic rock knowledge" would be a nice diversion - but having him on mid-day is just a cut above DePetro.

ZLX wants to save money and have people do double duty. The deficiency is obvious, and reflected in their inconsistent ratings. The music holds the fort, the lack of on-air talent brings the numbers down.

p.s. you can spell disingenuous! Wow. That's a first.

 

[TowerBuzz]

I read the threads that I find interesting unfortunately you respond to every thread here so your ramblings are unavoidable but don't flatter yourself into thinking that anyone is paying that much attention to you. It is like arguing with a whiney child!. Little Walter would be great on WZLX? it's frightening how completely out of touch you are. Completely detatched from reality.

 

[Varulven]

Well, if you say so, man who needs to hide behind an internet handle because your thoughts are not welcome here.

I kindly requested you not respond to my posts, but you can't resist. Go start your own thread.

 

[Eli Polonsky]

My position is very clear regarding WZLX. I've stated from day 1 of Carter's hire - he's a great music director, he is not a very witty or compelling host. He and Chuck Nowlin are Sominex personified.

I'm sure I'm not your typical WZLX listener. At 50, I'm too old, and I'm mired in memories of the "FM underground hippie" radio era. But, to my tastes, Carter is the most listenable host on WZLX. Of all their hosts, he comes across the most like a friend listening to music with you, not an egotistical cooler-than-thou DJ talking down to you, and he shares bits of his knowledge of the music. I know that most commercial radio listeners nowadays only want to hear the music itself and don't care to hear any information about it, but I'm in the minority who appreciates it, and he keeps it to an amount which seems to be acceptable to their audience.

I can also enjoy listening to Nowlin. His act is to be somewhat smarmy in a self-effacing, tongue-in-cheek way. He's very good at what he does. I can't listen to K&M. A very bottom-line rock radio morning show. It's a shame WZLX hasn't acquired a quality morning show since Laquidara, their last dinosaur (and an all-time great one to say the least), had left. Sweeney tried to keep it a cut above, but his delivery was much too low-key for a major market rock morning show. K&M have energy, but providing quality content along with it is the real challenge that they don't meet for me.

Keep Carter in the music department. Put Gerry Goodwin or Wharfield or Julie Devereaux or J.J. Wright on the air - or Ed McMann. Carter can't compete with those voices. Little Walter would add a jolt to WZLX, I just don't think he would want to play the music.

I think J.J.'s style and great, big voice lends itself better to Oldies. He's so versatile that I'm sure he could make himself fit Classic Rock as he did very well with Classic Hits on WROR, but I think he's a better fit for Oldies, or any other higher-energy format. It's unfortunate WODS ended up putting him on overnights, but as far as his own career goes, I'm sure he's nevertheless better off there than he would be at WZLX.

I'm sure Goodwin or Wharfield could sound good on WZLX because they're seasoned AOR veterans, but they would have start anew to try to build an audience in their middle-ages. Very few of WZLX's current listeners would remember them from their Boston AOR heydays in the 70's and 80's. The last bastion of that generation of listeners left WZLX with Charles and are now listening to retro AOR shows on satellite radio, and to their own mixes on their iPods. (A very small handful of them are even listening to my show on WMBR).

WZLX currently programs to the generation who discovered the greatest hits of Led Zep, Pink Floyd, The Beatles and the Stones when they had already been Classic Rock songs for twenty or thirty years. The older end of their target demo may have grown up with U2 and Tom Petty, but most weren't even born yet when Jimi, Jim and Janis were still alive.

As much as I love what Little Walter does, his style wouldn't fit WZLX at all. His caricature of the screaming late 50's/early 60's Top-40 DJ would nowadays only fit a "Real Oldies" format, or a retro oldies show such as his own "Time Machine". In that context, he's one of the all-time greats, but not for Classic Rock. Julie Devereaux is very good, but she's probably better off keeping her gig at WROR than trying to move to WZLX.

WZLX's music is holding its numbers, the lack of quality on-air talent is what is hurting the station... The music holds the fort, the lack of on-air talent brings the numbers down.

WZLX is apparently not interested in hiring heritage, or even proven, on-air talent at this point. I know a number of heritage Boston area FM AOR jocks who were shown no interest when they tried to apply to WZLX. They've been recently hiring some of their weekenders and fill-ins from out of their pool of interns from Emerson and other broadcasting schools, who are only half the age of the music that they're playing.

These are their first commercial on-air gigs, on a major market CBS owned Classic Rock station. I guess they learned how to do the kind of delivery that they want to attract the thirty-ish male demo they're going for, but whatever happened to aspiring young DJ's paying their dues working on small-market or college stations before moving up to commercial major market airtime?

It's strange that WZLX doesn't seem to see that the strength of another station in their same cluster, WODS, is in their experienced, proven, veteran airstaff. I have seen some stations in which the PD and/or GM prefer to boost their egos (and keep their payroll down) by grooming and molding inexperienced, malleable new DJ's, rather than hiring experienced veteran talent. They're easier to keep under their thumbs. I have no idea whether or not that's what's been happening at WZLX, but I've seen it happen elsewhere.

 

[redbaron]

My position is very clear regarding WZLX. I've stated from day 1 of Carter's hire - he's a great music director, he is not a very witty or compelling host. He and Chuck Nowlin are Sominex personified.

I'm sure I'm not your typical WZLX listener. At 50, I'm too old, and I'm mired in memories of the "FM underground hippie" radio era. But, to my tastes, Carter is the most listenable host on WZLX. Of all their hosts, he comes across the most like a friend listening to music with you, not an egotistical cooler-than-thou DJ talking down to you, and he shares bits of his knowledge of the music. I know that most commercial radio listeners nowadays only want to hear the music itself and don't care to hear any information about it, but I'm in the minority who appreciates it, and he keeps it to an amount which seems to be acceptable to their audience.

I can also enjoy listening to Nowlin. His act is to be somewhat smarmy in a self-effacing, tongue-in-cheek way. He's very good at what he does. I can't listen to K&M. A very bottom-line rock radio morning show. It's a shame WZLX hasn't acquired a quality morning show since Laquidara, their last dinosaur (and an all-time great one to say the least), had left. Sweeney tried to keep it a cut above, but his delivery was much too low-key for a major market rock morning show. K&M have energy, but providing quality content along with it is the real challenge that they don't meet for me.

Keep Carter in the music department. Put Gerry Goodwin or Wharfield or Julie Devereaux or J.J. Wright on the air - or Ed McMann. Carter can't compete with those voices. Little Walter would add a jolt to WZLX, I just don't think he would want to play the music.

I think J.J.'s style and great, big voice lends itself better to Oldies. He's so versatile that I'm sure he could make himself fit Classic Rock as he did very well with Classic Hits on WROR, but I think he's a better fit for Oldies, or any other higher-energy format. It's unfortunate WODS ended up putting him on overnights, but as far as his own career goes, I'm sure he's nevertheless better off there than he would be at WZLX.

I'm sure Goodwin or Wharfield could sound good on WZLX because they're seasoned AOR veterans, but they would have start anew to try to build an audience in their middle-ages. Very few of WZLX's current listeners would remember them from their Boston AOR heydays in the 70's and 80's. The last bastion of that generation of listeners left WZLX with Charles and are now listening to retro AOR shows on satellite radio, and to their own mixes on their iPods. (A very small handful of them are even listening to my show on WMBR).

WZLX currently programs to the generation who discovered the greatest hits of Led Zep, Pink Floyd, The Beatles and the Stones when they had already been Classic Rock songs for twenty or thirty years. The older end of their target demo may have grown up with U2 and Tom Petty, but most weren't even born yet when Jimi, Jim and Janis were still alive.

As much as I love what Little Walter does, his style wouldn't fit WZLX at all. His caricature of the screaming late 50's/early 60's Top-40 DJ would nowadays only fit a "Real Oldies" format, or a retro oldies show such as his own "Time Machine". In that context, he's one of the all-time greats, but not for Classic Rock. Julie Devereaux is very good, but she's probably better off keeping her gig at WROR than trying to move to WZLX.

WZLX's music is holding its numbers, the lack of quality on-air talent is what is hurting the station... The music holds the fort, the lack of on-air talent brings the numbers down.

WZLX is apparently not interested in hiring heritage, or even proven, on-air talent at this point. I know a number of heritage Boston area FM AOR jocks who were shown no interest when they tried to apply to WZLX. They've been recently hiring some of their weekenders and fill-ins from out of their pool of interns from Emerson and other broadcasting schools, who are only half the age of the music that they're playing.

These are their first commercial on-air gigs, on a major market CBS owned Classic Rock station. I guess they learned how to do the kind of delivery that they want to attract the thirty-ish male demo they're going for, but whatever happened to aspiring young DJ's paying their dues working on small-market or college stations before moving up to commercial major market airtime?

It's strange that WZLX doesn't seem to see that the strength of another station in their same cluster, WODS, is in their experienced, proven, veteran airstaff. I have seen some stations in which the PD and/or GM prefer to boost their egos (and keep their payroll down) by grooming and molding inexperienced, malleable new DJ's, rather than hiring experienced veteran talent. They're easier to keep under their thumbs. I have no idea whether or not that's what's been happening at WZLX, but I've seen it happen elsewhere.

I like Carter and Chuck very much. I don't know much about the hiring practices but do have to disagree with you on the parttime staff comment seeing as there are a number of WZLX staff member who have been on-air fulltime at other stations in town. Another thought--ever think some of those "veterans" you mention may have egos of their own and wouldn't even consider a parttime gig?
Right.
Let me add old. I'm just saying.

 

[Varulven]

I would have no problem with Alex McNeil or Eli Polonsky being on the WZLX airwaves.

File them both under: OVERQUALIFIED

 

[Lucylu]

The answer to Eli's question lays in the fact that the new PD has replaced Kevin Quinn as the voice of most of the promos and he fills in for Carter or Chuck when need be. Isn't Bill Abate on the station? Having management on air is never a good idea. :

 

[Eli Polonsky]

The answer to Eli's question lays in the fact that the new PD has replaced Kevin Quinn as the voice of most of the promos and he fills in for Carter or Chuck when need be. Isn't Bill Abate on the station? Having management on air is never a good idea. :

Bill is still doing some weekend day shifts. I don't know if he's on regularly, but I heard him this past Saturday afternoon.

 

[TravisWMLN]

Speaking of ZLX weekenders...what has hutch been up to post DLR? well besides counting the millions of dollars one by one....

 

[redbaron]

The answer to Eli's question lays in the fact that the new PD has replaced Kevin Quinn as the voice of most of the promos and he fills in for Carter or Chuck when need be. Isn't Bill Abate on the station? Having management on air is never a good idea. :

Bill is still doing some weekend day shifts. I don't know if he's on regularly, but I heard him this past Saturday afternoon.

Bill does Sundays. It wasn't him you heard.

 

[Eli Polonsky]

Isn't Bill Abate on the station?

Bill is still doing some weekend day shifts. I don't know if he's on regularly, but I heard him this past Saturday afternoon.

Bill does Sundays. It wasn't him you heard.

My mistake, I said the wrong day. It was Sunday then, because I definitely heard Bill identify himself. I was working both days this past weekend (not at my radio job), so both days seemed the same to me in my memory.