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Lost DJ'S Where are they now

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cahokia

DJ'S I HAVEN'T HEARD IN YEARS, Gene West, The Deaner KPRI 106.5, Jesse Bullet, Chris Cane, DJ Mckay KSEA.97.3, Willy B Goode, Danny Wilde, and a KCBQ DJ FROM THE 60'S Huckleberry, Chuck the Magic Christian, Lenny mitchell. Can anyone tell me what they are doing now?
 
OK since we're talking "blast from the past", doe's anyone remember Ed Chandler who was the programming guro at KSON in the 70's. He was the first to program "Southern rock" with Country. Sounded great. He also was the first to have Wolfman Jacl gueat on his morning how. It was Jacks first time on country raadio. Where is he now?
 
iused2bsomebody said:
OK since we're talking "blast from the past", doe's anyone remember Ed Chandler who was the programming guro at KSON in the 70's. He was the first to program "Southern rock" with Country. Sounded great. He also was the first to have Wolfman Jacl gueat on his morning how. It was Jacks first time on country raadio. Where is he now?
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I knew Ed Chandler and I never knew him as any sort of programming genius but then he surprised me by getting a very high paying gig in Los Angeles. He eventually ended up back in his home state of Texas and is on KILT Houston: http://www.kilt.com/Ed-Chandler/79982
 
cahokia said:
DJ'S I HAVEN'T HEARD IN YEARS, Gene West, The Deaner KPRI 106.5, Jesse Bullet, Chris Cane, DJ Mckay KSEA.97.3, Willy B Goode, Danny Wilde, and a KCBQ DJ FROM THE 60'S Huckleberry, Chuck the Magic Christian, Lenny mitchell. Can anyone tell me what they are doing now?
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Jesse Bullet was last heard of being a station manager in Palm Springs and then in Lake Tahoe (in about 2005 or so) under his real name: Richard Bullen. In Tahoe he worked for station owner Dex Allen, who was the GM when I worked for then program director Jesse at KPRI and later KOGO. Reportedly he retired back to the Palm Springs area after Dex sold his stations.
 
Lenny Mitchell

Seen playing pool in San Elijo Hills on occasion. Remains a Dodgers fan.
 
Bob_Hudson said:
iused2bsomebody said:
OK since we're talking "blast from the past", doe's anyone remember Ed Chandler who was the programming guro at KSON in the 70's. He was the first to program "Southern rock" with Country. Sounded great. He also was the first to have Wolfman Jacl gueat on his morning how. It was Jacks first time on country raadio. Where is he now?
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I knew Ed Chandler and I never knew him as any sort of programming genius but then he surprised me by getting a very high paying gig in Los Angeles. He eventually ended up back in his home state of Texas and is on KILT Houston: http://www.kilt.com/Ed-Chandler/79982
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By the way, for anyone who might think I'm taking a dig at Ed - not at all. I just never knew had been KSON's PD. I knew him only as an announcer and entrepreneur. He and Tony Maddox took a stab at operating a production facility, sometime after Tony and I returned to San Diego in 1980 after working at KHJ (Tony & I both got hire from KCBQ to go to KHJ - he got hired a week before me and fired a week after me).

When Ed went to LA I remember hearing he was making $100,000, which was not much less than Rick Dees was making at KHJ at that time. I knew Ed as your basic good old boy from Texas and couldn't quite fathom how anyone in country radio could be worth that kind of money. He now does weekends only at a station that has one of those fake Hudson and Harrigan mornings shows (there have been many incarnations of H&H but the ones now at KILT are true pretenders even if they do well in the ratings).
 
Bob, Thanks for the info on Ed! I contacted him by email at KILT in Houston and he responded. First of all he said to tell you Hi and that he remembers you as one of the Great newsmen of the day. He said he worked with you at KCBQ. I guess you were right when you said he was a entrepreneur. He has owned and sold serveral business ventures and is now simi-retired. He said he works at KILT just to keep his "feet in the water," and still does alot of voiceovers from his home.
 
richaroo said:
i went to a radio school run by ed and tony in 79. big thrill was running tony's board his last night at kcbq
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Did he show you the KCBQ radio school in the basement, the one where they had boards on the floor so you wouldn't not get your feet wet when the basement flooded?

Ed and Tony and I some good times (as much as I can recall) in 80-81. Tony Maddox later married a preacher's daughter, reformed his evil ways (no more Mad Dog Maddox). Tony moved back east - to Arkansas - and does voiceovers, among other things: http://voice123.com/tonymaddox - he has a great set of pipes.

Here's Tony's San Diego radio resume:

KBZT-(K-Best-95) -& KSON San Diego-Program Director/Air Talent –October 1991-January 1993

XHTZ-Z-90FM San Diego-Program Director/Morning Drive - February 1987- September 1991

KOGO-AM – San Diego- Operations Manager/Mid-day Air Talent November 1981- to- August 1983

KCBQ-San Diego-Mid-Day/Afternoon Drive AirTalent –August 1976- to-August 1979
 
RadeoEngineer said:
Tony wasn't PD at either KBZT or KSON during those periods. He was an interesting member of the part time staff, and a very, very good man.
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That info came from his profile on a voiceover talent site.
 
Ya' know Bob I take that back. Somewhere in the cobwebs it seems that Tony did serve as PD at KBZT when they were still in the La Jolla studios. Definitely not KSON. Those years would have been Mike Sheppard.
 
Ditto on the good man accolade. Great, even.
I've seen Mad Dog Maddox make the transition to a relentless disciple of Peace. Tony shines a
powerful light from within that normal guy exterior, and I think the world of him.
Terrible driver, though. Almost as bad as me.
 
Back to the original question...Willy B. does afternoons at WNTR/Indianapolis these days.

D.J. McKay of KSEA was the baby DJ name for Bill Stairs, who later returned to San Diego as the PD of KFMB-AM in the 90's....
 
Stairs was at KFMB about 5 minutes. What a twerp.

Hell yea Tony Maddox was at K-Best, he put the damn thing on the air as PD.

K-Best was a good plant, I'll take that analog production studio I worked in
to most of the digital brittle crap out there now.
 
Ed and Tony were my mentors. I attended the broadcast school they had and ended up with a great career in radio that was more fun than it was work. Thanks Ed and Tony for sharing your experience with a kid that wanted to be the next "Boss Jock".
 
Ed Chandler....I humbly trained at the feet of that great man... Brother to brother. .. He influenced many greats... www.440int.com is a great database to find former friends... idols.... and coworkers.

Tenderloin,
Sam
 
what year did you attend their school? i was there in 79 there were about 10 students at that time. ed got me my first nonpaying gig at krtm in temecula.
 
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