KSWD The Sound to stunt a KMET Weekend (11/1 - 11/3)

[erwin33]

Good to read that KMET is coming back to life as an internet tribute station. Hope other great stations, like WNEW FM NYC (KMET's sister station, also MetroMedia) folowing the same way to the internet.

 

[Hot Hits]

I'm sorry but these eloquent, well written fond memories of KMET are not shared by all? KMET made me burp!



As a side note Fred Cote programmed his 99.9 KOLA right from the back of R & R and the KMET reporting charts.

 

[davideduardo]

As a side note Fred Cote programmed his 99.9 KOLA right from the back of R & R and the KMET reporting charts.

Yeah, Fred really knew how to do a "hit".

 

[SuperRadioFan]

How can you say such a thing? Don't you still have an upside-down KMET bumper sticker on your car?

Just catching up to respond to some of this thread.

In answer to the above: No. Never had the sticker. For the record, I moved to Orange County from NJ in Jan 1985 and I was not a listener to KMET. Even though rock music and rock radio formats have been, for the most part during the rock era, what I like the most, I have gone though periods where I strayed i.e. disco in the mid 70s to early 80s; country early 80s, and CHR during much of that time. Oh, I still liked rock, just listened more to other musical flavors. When I arrived in SoCal, KIIS-FM got much of my listening time. So I really didn't sample KMET much. I also got into KUTE The Quiet Storm up to the time it went off the air.

Ironically KUTE was replaced by what soon became one of my all time favorite stations albeit short-lived: 101.9 KMPC-FM/KEDG The Edge.

 

[SuperRadioFan]

To Super and LARadio: Balderdash! .... for both good and bad, it is now gone and can never be (nor should be) replaced. It is something that belongs to it's own time place.

But all that said, what is wrong with letting some old rockers take a stroll down memory and try to recall the good times in the midst of the calamitous mid-life crisis, which is of course the result of the life choices many of their listeners made during those times, that has been brought to bear in the here and now? Throw the geezers a bone! ..... reliving those moments sure beats another Sound "Triple Play Weekend" where you get to hear Santana Sing "Evil Ways", "Black Magic Woman" and "Oye Como Va" back to back.

Channel Flipper re-read what I said in my first post in this thread: "It's always amusing to see something like this. Not because it's not worth listening to, but because IF it is SO exciting for everyone, why not update the idea to current times? Why not have the "format" 24/7??? WHY? ... because most ppl in SoCal who would appreciate this have LONG abandoned OTA rock music radio in LA/OC. Good luck to The Sound but their 25-54 #s will be the same as usual."

So I wasn't against the idea, just why bother when what matters is what's played today whether it be something from the 1950s ("Rumble" anyone?); 60s "Can't Explain"; etc along with current stuff (now I realize I may lose some of you) by artists like Brett Dennen, Matt Nathanson, Tired Pony, Tame Impala, Broken Bells, The 1975, Mowglis, Serena Ryder, Avett Brothers, Head and the Heart, Frank Turner, et al along with artists you know like Pearl Jam, Sir Paul, John Mayer, Arcade Fire, Coldplay et al, as well as CHR darlings Lorde, Bastille, Capital Cities (sounds like a radio group LOL), Avicii, Imagine Dragons et al. [BTW I don't think any of the latter group broke on CHR].

So to review the point, in THIS radio market, most listeners like me are NOT being 'served' so I use other facilities that please. I cannot be the only one.

 

[SuperRadioFan]

I would add to your beefs that the playlist was basically the Sound's current playlist, albeit with anything post 1986 removed. KMET definitely was tightly formatted, but there were TONS of other songs played back then.

And The Sound's current playlist is BORING and BLAND. (Sorry Dave Beasing you're a nice guy but your playlist is stale and your ratings are stagnating.)

 

[erwin33]

Are there some airchecks from the last KMET weekend available? So yes, where can I find them?

 

[SuperRadioFan]

Good to read that KMET is coming back to life as an internet tribute station. Hope other great stations, like WNEW FM NYC (KMET's sister station, also MetroMedia) folowing the same way to the internet.

What was that line in "Garden Party"? Oh yeah, "If you gotta play at garden parties, I wish you a lotta luck
But if memories were all I sang, I'd rather drive a truck"

I loved WNEW-FM but you can NEVER recreate what was, but you can update it as it would sound today after a natural evolution.

 

[erwin33]

Nonsense! You always can create a station how it was, but also if it was still around to day and how it sounds these days. Yes, you don't have the jocks and it's not on FM, but the vibe and the music, station ID's is a good impression how it sounds these days. There are lot of tribute stations on the net. So it's possible.

 

[SuperRadioFan]

Nonsense! You always can create a station how it was, but also if it was still around to day and how it sounds these days. Yes, you don't have the jocks and it's not on FM, but the vibe and the music, station ID's is a good impression how it sounds these days. There are lot of tribute stations on the net. So it's possible.

How it WOULD sound today is my point. For example if FM 101.9 'LA's Finest Rock' KSCA was still on the air it would have evolved into (hopefully) sounding like a station like KFOG or KINK sound today. With LIVE jocks (not V-T'd) who care about the music, know the music, and get out of the way of the music. Listen to some of the stations like KINK, KFOG, WXRT, etc; stations long in the format and you will hear what a good AAA station sounds like. They sound somewhat different from what they sounded like 10-15-20 years ago. Too bad the demographics of the LA basin make it impossible for a full-signal station with the format to survive. Thank God and Al Gore for the Internet and streams!

 

[Thomps2525]

When KSWD went on the air in April of 2008, I thought the station sounded like what KMET would have sounded like if KMET had survived until 2008. Adult album alternative formats don't seem to woirk well in Los Angeles---KSCA lasted less than three years and KACD/KBCD's "Channel 103.1" triple-A format lasted only two years. It took KSWD around two years to become just another boring repetitious classic-rock station, not much different from KLOS.

 

[SuperRadioFan]

I agree with you. The early edition of The Sound was nice, while far from perfect, it WAS acceptable for fans of the genre.

 

[Thomps2525]

When I typed the word "work," I bumped two keys at once and it came out as "woirk." It was unintentional---I wasn't trying to sound like Curly of the Three Stooges.

Could we consider the 1970s KNX-FM "mellow rock" format to be a forerunner of triple-A? I don't remember any other Los Angeles station playing Kenny Rankin, for example.

 

[ChannelFlipper]

Well put.

In a collision of media eras, I streamed the Dr. D show on the plane yesterday. His stories were indeed riveting, and like you, despite listening to his show every week from perhaps age 8 to 16, I learned new things. I've always wished the good doctor would have a non-novelty based show - his knowledge of music history and radio history is fantastic, and he is just a class act on the air. Total joy to listen to. He made his name on the novelty tunes, but there is a whole other side to him, and not hearing that is a loss.

I would add to your beefs that the playlist was basically the Sound's current playlist, albeit with anything post 1986 removed. KMET definitely was tightly formatted, but there were TONS of other songs played back then.

Sorry, for the late response, but I wanted to say that I agree with both of your points. I believe if the Dr. had his own show, it would be similar in content to the Bob Dylan and Tom Petty shows on SiriusXM. Both are very good and play known great songs and, as Tom calls them "Buried Treasures". When the good doctor is talking about music, both conventional and novelty, I am closely listening.

The playlist was much more well-chosen on the first KMET day in 2009 and more representative of the songs that made KMET different from other stations back in the day and with KSWD and most classic rock stations now. Excellent observation.

As for the folks trying to re-create KMET either as it was or what they think it would sound like today, I say good luck, but I won't be joining you. I live in the here and now, not in the 70's and 80's.

 

[mighty met]

Ironically, it is now KLOS that plays the deep tracks and does the quality speciality weekends.

This weekend they have an all-cover weekend that is featuring all kinds of rarely played tunes. Unlike most "weekends," it's 100%, meaning every song is a cover.

More please!

 

[erwin33]

I don't know what's the difference between The Sound and KLOS anymore. Exactly the same playlist what I hear.