Lonestar 92.5 Day 1 Music Rundown

[MacOConnor]

Here’s a rundown of the 76 artists played on Day 1 of Lonestar 92.5, listed according to plays per artist (as detected by an online automatic logging site that may have missed a few songs):

The top 14 artists had 147 spins. The remainder accounted for 127 plays.

Classic Rock/Southern Rock Artists (45)
19: ZZ Top
14: Lynyrd Skynyrd
12: Bob Seger
10: Black Crowes, Bob Dylan, Stevie Ray Vaughan
9: Allman Brothers, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Tom Petty
8: John Mellencamp
7: Bad Company
6: Bruce Springsteen
5: Charlie Daniels Band, Eagles, Rolling Stones, George Thorogood
4: 38. Special, Grateful Dead, Little Feat, Steve Miller Band
3: Eric Clapton, Marshall-Tucker Band, Molly Hatchet
2: Greg Allman, Arc Angels, Blackfoot, Steve Earle, James Gang, Jonny Lang, Outlaws, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Joe Walsh, Neil Young
1: The Band, Jackson Browne, Derek & The Dominoes, Doobie Brothers, Fabulous Thunderbirds, Georgia Satellites, Janis Joplin, Ozark Mountain Daredevils, Ram Jam, Chris Rea, Rossington-Collins Band, Wet Willie

Country Artists (21)
9: Hank Williams Jr.
7: Waylon Jennings
6: Pat Green
4: Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson
3: Drive-By Truckers, Jack Ingram, Travis Tritt
2: David Alan Coe, Reckless Kelly, George Strait, Dwight Yoakum
1: Jason Borland, Brian Burns, Confederate Radio, Bleu Edmonson, David Frizzell, James McMurtry, Sam Roberts, Billy Joe Shaver, Jerry Jeff Walker

Roots Rock Artists (10)
4: Wilco
2: Jayhawks, Lyle Lovett, Old 97’s, Todd Snider, Son Volt
1: Ryan Adams, Robert Earl Keen, Tiesto, Whiskeytown

Here’s what we didn’t hear on 92.5 day 1 (308 artists):

Old-KZPS Core Artists That Could Be Included In The New Format (6)
Jimmy Buffett, Dire Straits, Golden Earring, Head East, Don Henley, Kansas, Thin Lizzy

Old-KZPS Core Artists Not Included (72):
AC/DC, Bryan Adams, Aerosmith, Bachman-Turner Overdrive, Beatles, Pat Benatar, Black Sabbath, Blue Oyster Cult, Bon Jovi, Boston, David Bowie, Cars, Cheap Trick, Phil Collins, Alice Cooper, Cream, Crosby Stills Nash (& Young), Deep Purple, Def Leppard, Rick Derringer, Doors, Electric Light Orchestra, Fleetwood Mac, Foghat, Foreigner, Peter Frampton, Free, Peter Gabriel, J. Geils Band, Genesis, Grand Funk, Guess Who, Guns N’ Roses, Sammy Hagar, Heart, Jimi Hendrix, Billy Idol, Jefferson Starship, Jethro Tull, Joan Jett, Journey, Kiss, Led Zeppelin, Loverboy, Manfred Mann’s Earth Band, Eddie Money, Nazareth, Night Ranger, Ozzy Osbourne, Stevie Nicks, Ted Nugent, Pink Floyd, Robert Plant, Police, Queen, R.E.M., Red Ryder, REO Speedwagon, Rush, Santana, Scorpions, Steppenwolf, Styx, Supertramp, Triumph, U2, Van Halen, War, Whitesnake, Who, Edgar Winter Group, Yes

Classic Rock Artists Than Could Be Included In The New Format (From KZPS A-Z list of mid 90’s) (11):
Atlanta Rhythm Section, Elvin Bishop, Brewer & Shipley, Buffalo Springfield, J.J. Cale, John Fogerty, Mountain, Poco, Traveling Wilburys, Vaughan Brothers, Warren Zevon

Classic Rock Artists Not Included (From KZPS A-Z list of mid 90’s) (126):
Ace, America, Argent, Asia, Babys, Badfinger, Russ Ballard, Jeff Beck, Blind Faith, Blues Brothers, Blues Image, Tom Bolan, Byrds, Canned Heat, Chambers Brothers, Joe Cocker, Count Five, Spencer Davis Group, Donovan, Dave Edmunds, Electric Prunes, Emerson Lake & Palmer, David Essex, Faces, Firm, Five Man Electrical Band, Glenn Frey, Gary Glitter, Norman Greenbaum, George Harrison, Hollies, Bruce Hornsby, Human Beinz, Humble Pie, Ides Of March, Iron Butterfly, Tommy James, Jefferson Airplane, Billy Joel, Elton John, Greg Kihn, King Crimson, Kingsmen, Kinks, David Laflamme, John Lennon, Little River Band, Loggins & Messina, Dave Mason, John Mayall, Paul McCartney, Don McLean, Meat Loaf, Lee Michaels, Mike + The Mechanics, Moody Blues, Van Morrison, Mott The Hoople, Graham Nash, Nashville Teens, Nillson, Robert Palmer, Alan Parsons Project, Point Blank, Pretenders, Procol Harum, Pure Prairie League, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Gerry Rafferty, Rare Earth, Lou Reed, Romantics, Roxy Music, Todd Rundgren, Leon Russell, Mitch Ryder & Detroit Wheels, Boz Scaggs, Seeds, Shocking Blue, Simon & Garfunkel, Small Faces, Spirit, Squeeze, Billy Squier, Standells, Ringo Starr, Status Quo, Steelers’ Wheel, Steely Dan, Cat Stevens, Rod Stewart, Stephen Stills, Sting, Strawberry Alarm Clock, Sugarloaf, Sweet, T.Rex, Talking Heads, Tarney Spencer Band, James Taylor, Ten Years After, Them, Billy Thorpe, Three Dog Night, Thunderclap Newman, Toto, Pete Townshend, Traffic, Trapeze, Triumph, Troggs, Robin Trower, Tubes, Turtles, Uriah Heep, John Waite, Bob Welch, Steve Winwood, Gary Wright, Yardbirds, Youngbloods, Frank Zappa, Zombies

Other Traditional Classic Rock Artists Not Included (93):
10cc, Alarm, Ambrosia, Animals, April Wine, Autograph, Bad English, Black Oak Arkansas, Blood Sweat & Tears, Gary U.S. Bonds, Doyle Bramhall, Brownsville Station, Lindsay Buckingham, John Cafferty, Tony Carey, Chase, Chicago, Clash, Climax Blues Band, Commander Cody, Elvis Costello, Coverdale/Page, Robert Cray, Roger Daltrey, Damn Yankees, Chris Deburgh, Chris Duarte, Duke Jupiter, Melissa Etheridge, Donald Fagen, Don Felder, Jay Ferguson, Bryan Ferry, Firefall, Fixx, Focus, Dan Fogelberg, Frida, Lou Gramm, Jeff Healey Band, John Hiatt, Gary Hoey, Honeymoon Suite, Hooters, Ian Hunter, INXS, Donnie Iris, Chris Isaak, Joe Jackson, Mick Jagger, Eric Johnson, Freddy Jones Band, Judas Priest, Knack, Mark Knopfler, Julian Lennon, Le Roux, Huey Lewis & The News, Lighthouse, Marillion, Richard Marx, Christine McVie, Michael Stanley Band, Midnight Oil, Kim Mitchell, Gary Moore, New Riders Of The Purple Sage, Randy Newman, Aldo Nova, Rik Ocasek, Omar & The Howlers, Pablo Cruise, Page & Plant, Graham Parker, Michael Penn, Rainbow, Bonnie Raitt, Paul Rodgers, David Lee Roth, Leon Russell, Sanford Townsend Band, Shooting Star, Paul Simon, Smithereens, Al Stewart, Stephen Stills, Henry Lee Summer, Survivor, Talk Talk, Tesla, Tragically Hip, Pat Travers, Tubes, Peter Wolf

There much opportunity for a classic rock station to feature what Lonestar is not playing. Bone, are you listening?

92.5 could not make it through the first day without repeating songs. Playing the Black Crowes 10 times a day is not sustainable.

Are the Lonestar’s only female vocalists Janis Joplin & Rossington-Collins Band?

 

[GRAYWOLF]

There is absolutely no reason to repeat a song the first week.

Playing different songs by the same artist isn't that big of a deal.

 

[MacOConnor]

Having over half of your playlist dominated by a mere 14 artists could lead to burnout (on no, we just heard them...).

A no repeat week would require a playlist >1500 songs. Their list is likely well below that number.

There were actually only nine Black Crowes spins on day 1 (I had marked a Black Oak Arkansas song in the wrong column). Jealous Again was played at 0022 & 1715 hrs. As of 1300 hrs day 2, the Black Crowes netted one additional play, a repeat of Hard To Handle.

Their are likely other repetitions showing up, but I'll leave that analysis to someone else...

 

[Robert Bass]

There were actually only nine Black Crowes spins on day 1 (I had marked a Black Oak Arkansas song in the wrong column). Jealous Again was played at 0022 & 1715 hrs. As of 1300 hrs day 2, the Black Crowes netted one additional play, a repeat of Hard To Handle.

The odds of the same listener(s) catching all three airplays at the times you've posted, are quite slim. It's a different audience for all three of those dayparts.

R

 

[GRAYWOLF]

They claimed to have a playlist of over 1000 songs prior to the flip, it wouldn't be that big to have added 500 more by expanding genres.

I actually heard Stoney LaRue played twice Monday...the same song. I don't know how many other times it was played.

 

[guy_gadbois]

I would really like to hear some 80's R.E.M. stuff like Rockville, So. Central Rain and Driver 8 mixed in there, also Lucinda Williams and Calexico.

 

[GRAYWOLF]

I would really like to hear some 80's R.E.M. stuff like Rockville, So. Central Rain and Driver 8 mixed in there, also Lucinda Williams and Calexico.

According to the article in the Observer, starting Monday you will be able to request it and they will play it....

 

[MacOConnor]

These artists were added on Day 2...

Classic Rock
Doors, Mountain

Country
Alabama, Bellamy Brothers, Drivin' N' Cryin', Merle Haggard, Highwaymen, Kentucky Headhunters, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Billy Joe Shaver, Randy Travis,

Roots Rock:
Jonathan Edwards

Black Crowes aired 5 times on day 2 with 4 of the 5 being repeats from day 1.

Drive-By Truckers - Gravity's Gone (2006 release) played 4 times on day 2.

 

[VERITAS DE VOCE]

I would really like to hear some 80's R.E.M. stuff like Rockville, So. Central Rain and Driver 8 mixed in there, also Lucinda Williams and Calexico.

According to the article in the Observer, starting Monday you will be able to request it and they will play it....

Great. So it's JACK-FM for the Fogeys in Big D?! ;D

 

[guy_gadbois]

I would really like to hear some 80's R.E.M. stuff like Rockville, So. Central Rain and Driver 8 mixed in there, also Lucinda Williams and Calexico.

According to the article in the Observer, starting Monday you will be able to request it and they will play it....

Cool. Thanks for the heads up, Graywolf. I need to read that article. I like the fact that Redbeard is the Music Director, I really liked Q102 back in the day.

 

[GRAYWOLF]

I would really like to hear some 80's R.E.M. stuff like Rockville, So. Central Rain and Driver 8 mixed in there, also Lucinda Williams and Calexico.

According to the article in the Observer, starting Monday you will be able to request it and they will play it....

Great. So it's JACK-FM for the Fogeys in Big D?! ;D

I don't know that i would call them fogeys, but those between the boomers and Gen X. Maybe it is less for Dallas and more for FW? 8)

 

[julesism]

"Roots Rock Artists (10)
1: Ryan Adams, Robert Earl Keen, Tiesto, Whiskeytown"

Tiesto? Roots Rock Artists? on KZPS Lonestar 92.5? weird. ???

 

[TheRover]

"Roots Rock Artists (10)
1: Ryan Adams, Robert Earl Keen, Tiesto, Whiskeytown"

Tiesto? Roots Rock Artists? on KZPS Lonestar 92.5? weird. ???

It's just too bad that KZPS would rather play Whiskeytown, than than play Van Halen's "Take Your Whiskey Home". But that VH wasn't a single or a video, so why the Hell would that be on anyone's radar screen??

Corporate Circular Argeuments never appealled to me....

You know.... "the station/corporation/chain agrees (accept payment in the usual way) to play a song a lot, then, the listeners start requesting the song alot, so we play the song... alot. And then we say, we play that song a lot, because its what the listeners want. And we want to serve the intersts of our listeners. And, bty, listeners haven't been requesting the song you wanted to hear, and so, it's not one of the songs our listeners want to hear."

 

[smashedcd]

Drivin' N' Cryin'

uh thats country?? huh?? fly me couragous was played on zrock in the 80s. not country. unless it was im going straight to hell??

 

[MacOConnor]

Day 3 Update:

New Artists Added (No Classic Rock):
Tracy Byrd, Keith Fowler, Robbie Fulks, Mandarin, Rhett Miller, Roger Miller

7 Black Crowes songs aired. Of the 9 Black Crowes songs on the play list, all have been played at least twice so far and 3 have been played three times.

Tiesto - Carpe Noctum was listed as being played on Day 1. This is electronic music and seems out of place, It is the #2 song on KZMP's playlist.

The Drivin' N' Cryin' song was Honeysuckle Blue (1990) and does not resemble Fly Me Courageous. Let's call it Southern Rock. This song is closer to being country than being Z-Rock.

I would expect/hope that the playlist will evolve next week when the talent appears.

For me it's too country and too narrow in it's classic rock offerings.

There are major formats missing in this market now that shouldn't be: AAA, Hard Rock, Heritage Rock & Smooth Jazz that should be picked by one of the market's weak performers.

 

[GRAYWOLF]

"For me it's too country and too narrow in it's classic rock offerings."

I agree. They need to stick to the outlaw/alternative/red dirt/texas country and avoid the Nashville country like Alabama/George Strait/Tracy Byrd. Play more than 1 or 2 songs over and over by those artists. I have heard Stoney LaRue's Oklahoma Breakdown nearly half a dozen times this week (including right now), but nothing else by him. Reckless Kelly has some really rocking songs I have not heard as does Cross Canadian Ragweed, Shooter Jennings and Hank III.

I am hoping the limited play list is just because they are still trying to figure out what they are doing.

 

[Robert Bass]

I am hoping the limited play list is just because they are still trying to figure out what they are doing.

That's the kind of decision they should have made prior to the flip, not after.

R

 

[PamelaStone]

"For me it's too country and too narrow in it's classic rock offerings."

I agree. They need to stick to the outlaw/alternative/red dirt/texas country and avoid the Nashville country like Alabama/George Strait/Tracy Byrd. Play more than 1 or 2 songs over and over by those artists. I have heard Stoney LaRue's Oklahoma Breakdown nearly half a dozen times this week (including right now), but nothing else by him. Reckless Kelly has some really rocking songs I have not heard as does Cross Canadian Ragweed, Shooter Jennings and Hank III.

I am hoping the limited play list is just because they are still trying to figure out what they are doing.

Our Mandatory FM crew would be more than happy to consult them on the music they SHOULD be playing. But, then again, they'd have to HAVE all the music that we play!

 

[gtb0014]

I've never seen a format flip get so much attention.

 

[VERITAS DE VOCE]

YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR... er... uh... I mean, they earned it. Yeah, that's it. Just ask Willie in between tokes.