How About an All Grateful Dead Format???

[Brooklyndon]

Seriously though, given the recent popularity of WCBS, perhaps the New York is ready for an all jams all the time station. I think CD 101's will translate well to this new format. get a nice mix of the Greatful Dead, Santana, Phish, Dave Matthews (even though he's wicked lame), and, like, the Rudy Brown, and I think you have a viable format with an outstanding built in tsl. All jam bands, all the time. Listen, I went to UMass Amherst with tons of Long Island and New Jersey/Westchester kids....they all loved two things: acid and jam bands. I think this format will work in a city full of burnouts and burnout wannabee's like New York. Any thoughts?

 

[Walter Graff]

Sirius has one but it would not fly on old fashion radio.

 

[OldiesCat]

Sirius has one but it would not fly on old fashion radio.

I agree with you- way too narrow and specialized for terrestrial radio. Somebody on another thread a couple of months ago suggested an All-Psychadelic music format- same thing (not to mention there's not near enough familiar music to sustain it over any sort of long haul).

 

[manwhore]

Even better idea. How about an all GRATEFUL DEAD format? Great songs, Uncle John's Band, Sugar Magnolia.
I don't know if the Greatful Dead even made an album.

 

[chuckydoll]

In the early 80's a small AM station near Houston went all-Beatles. The format lasted 6 months.

In the mid-80's a daytimer in Philadelphia went with nothing but Beatles and Motown. The format lasted 6 months.