It was 20 years ago today....

[inthebag]

> Hot Scott. In Florida but where?

Hiding under the palm trees down here in Miami, where all the drinks have little umbrellas in them. I took my leave from Brown Bag Productions/Clear Channel in September of '05, and have now partnered with Brown Bag founders Mike and Bob Lee in a new company, HDFX. You'll be hearing a whole lot from us very, very soon.

 

[lost]

> > Hot Scott. In Florida but where?
>
> Hiding under the palm trees down here in Miami, where all
> the drinks have little umbrellas in them. I took my leave
> from Brown Bag Productions/Clear Channel in September of
> '05, and have now partnered with Brown Bag founders Mike and
> Bob Lee in a new company, HDFX. You'll be hearing a whole
> lot from us very, very soon.
>

As you know it's ok for a dude to have a little umbrella in every drink when in south florida!!! Not "Brokeback" at all!! haha
I know "sar" is "walking in memphis"

 

[radiosaur]

> As you know it's ok for a dude to have a little umbrella in
> every drink when in south florida!!! Not "Brokeback" at
> all!! haha
> I know "sar" is "walking in memphis"
>

Yes, but not in the biz any more. Actually, right now I am in Northern Florida, and with any luck there will be a mini-Zoo reunion if I can manage to hook up with Bag later in the week. I saw Shadow Cruise last year.

No one seems to know where Jon Allen went to. I think Marc is or was still in radio in Florida.

Bob Brown (Bag's successor) is running a production company out of Ocala, FL.
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[MichaelHibblen]

I know it's an old posting, but boy I enjoyed reading about Zoo 98. I was in junior high and high school during those days and it was a favorite for me and my friends and was part of what drove me (or cursed me) to eventually get into radio. I remember a guy down the street from me won a car from Zoo 98, which was covered in zebra stripes, and he immediately defaced it by putting Magic 105 and KZ95 bumper stickers on the back. It was such a shock to me when it changed formats to B-98.5. Even though I live in Miami these days, I still think of it because I often notice an old Zoo 98 bumper sticker, that great, cool round design, on a trunk in my living room.

 

[prodgodbufu]

I was in junior high and high school during those days and it was a favorite for me and my friends and was part of what drove me (or cursed me) to eventually get into radio.

Me too. My first girlfriend got me listening to Greg Geary every night for about three months and that's how I started thinking "gee, what a great thing to be a deejay." I managed to meet Greg at a remote at a shoe store near where I lived and was amazed that the voice I'd gotten to know was coming from someone that wasn't nine feet tall.

By the time I hit 10th grade and gotten heavy into bands like Iron Maiden, I flipped to 105 but still kept an ear out for what Zoo was up to. I've got a cassette tape with songs I got off the radio back then, including Jerry's song about "Terry and the Majorette" (to the tune of "Super Freak"). I might have to dig that sucker back out.

Course, I'm gonna have to hook the cassette player in my prod room back up...

 

[radiosaur]

Wow, how things have changed...I was just reading this resurrected post when my 8-year old came in to show me his new toy. It seems like (and is, I guess) a lifetime ago.

I grew up listening to WMPS and WHBQ...and think of them as legends and part of my youth....To have another generation think the same of something I was a part of...that's really cool.

But like everyone else, I guess, we didn't think of it that way at the time.

I was fortunate to have worked at KZOU...and also fortunate I didn't die or get arrested back in those days...I know neither Hot Scott nor Bobby would have bailed me out because they would have been in the next cells.