Jason Wolfe, genius?

[Varulven]

Why would one put re-runs of Howie Carr on a Saturday night AFTER a Red Sox game?

Howie, who can't do a compelling show live sounds like 12 day old milk left in the hot sun after the fact,
sour and useless.

Perhaps Jason is forcing the sports fans BACK to WEEI by not having live and local on weekends.

WRKO just doesn't care, it doesn't exist. All Red Sox All The Time is the only way it will survive.

The Red Sox are now to WRKO what Howard Stern was to WBCN

my two least favorite stations showing why they are so awful

 

[newsbot]

And yet, you CAN'T STOP LISTENING. Those who can, broadcast; those who can't, have the free time to post on Radio-Info 2,455 times.

 

[Neggy]

Economics? It's cheaper to pay the board op to play Carr than to pay a host and producer to sit there playing Fish until the game is over.

If you are listening to WRKO on a saturday night you need to get a life!

 

[Infidel]

That's better than WCRN's offering after the game.

 

[raccoonradio]

The same thing was happening last week...I thought they were supposed to carry best of Jeff, er, Glenn
Beck. Actually in some ways it was a service as a lot of Howie's show got pre-empted by the Sox
home opener on 4/10 (but WRKO re-aired it on Sat 4/14)...for example, Howie was talking about the Imus
situation and then interviewed Col. Hunt (an interview later replayed on C-SPAN) but folks in Boston,
the Cape, and Worcester were unable to hear those when they first happened due to the Sox opener.
"We're off in Boston for the first two hours today but you can hear us online." Yeah, but I can't
hear it in my car (neither could many other people)

"The Carr that drives Boston home--Except For When The Sox Pre-Empt Him" (fortunately the only
pre-emptions for Howie now will be that last half hour, as weekday aft games are on WEEI)

 

[Varulven]

Neggy writes: "If you are listening to WRKO on a saturday night you need to get a life!"

Hey Neggy,

I was leaving the recording studio in Wilmington and had the car radio on. You gotta be kidding.
What am I supposed to do, drive in silence? Actually, that is better than listening to RKO come to think of it.



Newsbot is missing the point and twisting things like the Bush Administration.

We tune in to hear THE RED SOX. When you get back into the car and turn the ignition, no Kevin Weeks hasn't planted anything, RKO has, Carr's voice booms out.

And the station quickly changes.

Get it, Newsbot? We listen to the Red Sox. RKO tries to force Carr on after the game and we tune in to
99.1 or 104.9 or Oldies 103.3

We aren't listening to that bigot!

Get it "straight".

 

[raccoonradio]

the idea is to help promote the RKO lineup in part--note the airing of promos (including for Felon Finneran)
during the game. Maybe people will stay tuned after the game and hear Howie; maybe not...or the old
"my clock radio was set to hear the Red Sox last night and this morning it's still set on 680"

...and you get to hear Finneran. Yikes.

Imagine, if you will:

PROG TALK & SOX 680
Joe Vig Morning Show, Stephanie Miller, Ed Schultz, Afternoon Drive Local Talker etc
and then the Sox at night
Saturday night: hear the best of Joe Vig after the game...

Consider this: among "MOSTLY" TALK stations in 12 plus, WRKO is #1 (WBZ, remember, is only talk at night).
Higher ratings than Plagiarism In The Morning on WTKK, or the non-existent in the ratings (or at least
they get below a 0.4) WTTT, etc.

 

[Varulven]

Raccoon, if people heard the best of Joe Vig, interviews with Doris "Just One Look" Troy, Mark Farner of Grand Funk Railroad, Joe Quesada of Marvel Comics Group (editor in chief) talking about Captain America or
David Koepp (Jurassic Park scriptwriter, Spiderman) talking about Spidey, Ray Manzarek, John densmore of
the Doors, Felix Cavaliere, Dennis Lehane, they might actually like it.

A lot better than hearing Howie Carr push his book of old Herald clippings.


Note to Sonic Al: I tried 1510 after the Sox Game. it was Nascar. I hate Nascar.

 

[raccoonradio]

Actually in all honesty Boston talk radio could use talk like that; Tai did so some musician and comedian
interviews on his old 10 pm WRKO show. (Tai called me once to ask me how to get in touch with the guy putting together the old Winter Island Blues Fest so he could get an interview with one of the artists like maybe
Koko Taylor...)

>>Mark Farner of Grand Funk Railroad
From Mikey Moore's hometown of Flint I do believe (name is a play on "Grand Trunk Railroad")

Howie has talked to Ray Manzarek at least a couple times (Al Kooper, too)

 

[Varulven]

I drove Ray Manzarek and his wife to The Howie Carr show.

Tai doesn't do very good interviews, sorry. He's Sominex plus.

You have to actually know the subject matter. Howie Carr asking Davey Jones if he is Peter Noone or his famous Diana Ross faux pas is just unacceptable, so was: Harvey Wharfield talking to Alvin Lee about being in the John Mayall blues Band (Alvin was not in the john Mayall blues band but was a gentleman about it), WZLX's Anne Cody allegedly asking who Richard Starkey is (duh, a.k.a. Ringo Starr) "Lennon, McCartney, Harrison, Starkey, who is this Starkey guy?" was the alleged quote, Nik Carter thinking that Otis Redding wrote (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (that has to take the cake), and notice all but Carr are off the air in these parts.
And when someone did have a little knowledge, Thomas A. Irwin, they were just plain B O R I N G.

Ridiculous. Totally unacceptable.

Raccoon, why would RKO or ZLX want to broadcast fun, fact-filled interviews that can be heard/viewed over and over again and still keep their sizzle? My Al Kooper interview is classic. "What does Al Kooper do for a good time?" "I'm Anne Frank with a satellite dish" (he wouldn't sell his book so we talked about Indie movies).

The station manager told me I should've thrown Al off the set for being uncooperative, but I turned it into 60 minutes of revealing stuff, because that's what a pro does. Sadly, people who love their craft and know their stuff aren't valuable to Corporations who force Todd Feinstein. Spencer Whitley, Happy "Tattoo" Shack and Savage O'Reilly down our throats.

by the way, we'll be posting my interviews with Margaret Cho, Bill Press, Dick Morris, The Troggs, John Cale, Lou Reed, Vincent Bugliosi (the guy who put Charlie Manson away), Suzanne Vega, Ian Hunter, Ray "In Search Of Dracula" McNally, Richard Paul Evans (The Christmas Box), Marty Balin, Prairie Prince (the Tubes, Jefferson Starship) and more online for people to hear when they choose.

"Thank you for the reviews, Joe" Alice Cooper (WZLX d.j.)

"I want to thank you for reviewing my records" Tommy James to Joe Vig before the interview, coming out of the dressing room to thank me personally.

 

[raccoonradio]

>>I drove Ray Manzarek and his wife to The Howie Carr show.

Name dropper

Interesting about those other hosts. I thought Tai was OK (not boring)

 

[TowerBuzz]

LMAO



A. Newsbot is correct, for someone who cannot stand RKO but talks about it constantly, you are obviously listening to it constantly to have something to talk about.

B. IF you're only listening to hear the red sox games as you assert, and they re run Howie AFTER the red sox game is over as you stated, what do you care what they run AFTER the game if you're not listening to it anyway?.

C. Have you got anything to post of anything you have done with anyone who means something in 2007?

D. Joe Vig's more knowledgable than everyone on the air now, Joe Vig is more entertaining than everyone, Joe Vig is more interesting than everyone. Ok so WHERE IS YOUR SHOW TO PROVE IT?. My friend no one takes ANYONE seriously who only talks about how much better that he is than the many seasoned pros that he bashes when the basher is not even doing anything on the air. Just a lesson in logic.

 

[argytunes]

Towerbuzz...

I'm not going to dispute your Statement D.....but I think you have to consider that the entire radio listening audience doesn't eat, breathe and sleep to the beat of Joe Vig

If they did...there would be no need for any other types of radio shows (PUBLIC RADIO PROGRAMS INCLUDED)!
:-*

argytunes

 

[dumber than a box of hair]

Raccoon, if people heard the best of Joe Vig, interviews with Doris "Just One Look" Troy, Mark Farner of Grand Funk Railroad, Joe Quesada of Marvel Comics Group (editor in chief) talking about Captain America or
David Koepp (Jurassic Park scriptwriter, Spiderman) talking about Spidey, Ray Manzarek, John densmore of
the Doors, Felix Cavaliere, Dennis Lehane, they might actually like it.

A lot better than hearing Howie Carr push his book of old Herald clippings.

IOW: You engage in the same kinds of interviews with irrelevant has-beens that you accuse Carr of doing. News flash: Carr has a best-selling book (irrespective of whether or not you like the contents), a syndicated radio show and a newspaper column. You keep proving to us, by posting here, why you don't have any of those.

 

[Smoke]

I was leaving the recording studio in Wilmington and had the car radio on. You gotta be kidding.
What am I supposed to do, drive in silence? Actually, that is better than listening to RKO come to think of it.

Maybe listen to a station that plays your music? Oh, wait...

You should drive in silence so the evil audio from the radio device doesn't distort your lucid programming. Actually, I'm disappointed that Visual Radio isn't available on YouTube.

Jason is a genius at taking established stations and running with the oil and gas lights on, and then bailing just before it goes Ka-Pop.

 

[Varulven]

Now we know why you are "Dumber than a box of hair", go to the library and pick up any of the 7 books I'm
credited in. I didn't have to cut and paste old herald columns (that would be my Top 10 reasons why
howie Carr was separated at Birth from Eddy O'brien)...like Howie did for his alleged "book", if you want to call it that, Virgin Smoke.

My apologies for not being able to respond to the board today but I was back at the Wilmington studio being interviewed by a film crew in from Germany working on The Bobby Hebb Story. great stuff! His tour with
The Beatles (1966), the Yardbirds with Jimmy Page, the Grammy award for Lou Rawls singing Bobby's song
"A Natural Man", his hit records in England, "A Satisfied Mind" - Top 40 U.S. hit - Bobby bringing Country/Soul
into the mix. Great day. It's 11:11 PM - again, apologies I'm not on the board all day long like Argy, Smoke,
Dumber and TowerBuzz but some of us are actually productive in this life - even on Sundays.

For Towerbuzz all I have to sing is "You can't Get No..>Satisfaction"

I would be ASHAMED to post if I told people Otis Redding wrote "Satisfaction!"

 

[jacobr]

"film crew from Germany working on Bobby Hebb story"............sounds like it has box office smash written all over it.

 

[Varulven]

well, it depends on which "box office", it's for European TV, just as our radio special aired on the BBC last year.

It's so refreshing to be with supportive, professional filmmakers who are flying around the world getting the story - to be around people actually doing things that matter. Billy Cox of the Jimi Hendrix Band Of Gypsys taped on Friday(he grew up with Bobby Hebb) - of course if you aren't interested in the Beatles 1966 tour, Jimmy Page & The Yardbirds, Bobby's work with Dr. John, Bernard "Pretty" Purdie, Bo Diddley, John Lee Hooker, Poppa John Gordy (H o nk ey Tonk Piano legend and father of football hero John Gordy Jr.), Roy Acuff & The Smokey Mountain Boys (or how Acuff was the guy who worked to get DeFord Bailey and Bobby Hebb into The Grand Old Opry, two of the first three Afro Americans to perform at the Opry; Acuff one of the first major figures to fight segregation and get somewhere doing so), the great Roscoe Shelton who influenced Otis Redding & Wilson Pickett, and the covers of Bobby Hebb by Frank Sinatra, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Oscar Peterson, Grady Tate, Pat Martino, John Scofield, David Pike and other jazz legends, then you'll have no interest in this 90 minute film.

It's a great American story far beyond "Love Love Love", "Sunny", "A Satisfied Mind", "You Want To Change Me" and "A Natural Man". "You Want To Change Me" / "Dreamy" goes for 50 - 100.00 on eBay, the first
collaboration between Bobby and Gamble & Huff. Simply great American music history. Of course if fighting segregation in the 50's doesn't seem courageous to you, perhaps your dream is to produce Don Imus.

Just touring with The Beatles in 1966 would put anyone in the history books, but this story is far more compelling and important to American music history. Snippy comments about important art speaks volumes about anyone throwing criticism while hiding behind a fake name.

 

[dumber than a box of hair]

Now we know why you are "Dumber than a box of hair", go to the library and pick up any of the 7 books I'm
credited in.

"Credited in"...as in, "I didn't write them and don't make a dime off of them." I smell jealousy.

I didn't have to cut and paste old herald columns (that would be my Top 10 reasons why howie Carr was separated at Birth from Eddy O'brien)...like Howie did for his alleged "book", if you want to call it that, Virgin Smoke.

His "alleged book" is actually being bought by real people. Whether or not they're rehashed Herald columns, he wrote them, and he's making money from them. In fact, he's clever enough to have been paid for them TWICE...once in the Herald, once in the book. How's your book doing? Oops...almost forgot...you never wrote one.

My apologies for not being able to respond to the board today but I was back at the Wilmington studio being interviewed by a film crew in from Germany working on The Bobby Hebb Story. great stuff! His tour with The Beatles (1966), the Yardbirds with Jimmy Page, the Grammy award for Lou Rawls singing Bobby's song "A Natural Man", his hit records in England, "A Satisfied Mind" - Top 40 U.S. hit - Bobby bringing Country/Soul into the mix. Great day. It's 11:11 PM - again, apologies I'm not on the board all day long like Argy, Smoke, Dumber and TowerBuzz but some of us are actually productive in this life - even on Sundays.

Wow. The Bobby Hebb Story. That'll pack 'em in.

BTW, post some proof that I've been on this board "all day long." I'm waiting. Unlike you, I don't have to prove to the world, via this board, that I'm productive.

 

[raccoonradio]

Howie's book was a NY Times best seller and got lots of great reviews on amazon.com. Excerpt from one:
"In a clear, sharp narrative Carr maps out the lives of both brothers. Throughout the book, I was filled with mixed emotions of anger and hilarity. I was often furious at how dozens of police, FBI agents, and U.S. Attorneys looked the other way as Whitey Bulger murdered dozens of people"

Varulven's reviews do appear in several books including the All Music guides to Country, Blues, and Rock

Ha--I do notice when you type Howie's name into the search at amazon you get the following excerpt
from Kevin Weeks' book (which did not sell quite as well):
"Excerpt - page 219: "... one that never failed to enrage us was the name Howie Carr, a piece- of-s--- reporter. ..."
One reviewer of Weeks' book said they read the book in a chair at Borders because they didn't want to give
"that SOB (Weeks) a nickel". To be fair, Weeks book did get many good reviews. To be fair, Weeks book
was also ghost written.