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Old Airchecks....

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dabutler

I think it would be cool for someone to put together a web page of air checks from Maine. Dub them over to MP3 and share them with the world. I'd love to hear jocks that I hadn't heard in years, or even jocks who are still on the air. It would be a nice way to take care of the fleeting history of the biz, and I would particularly enjoy listening to them. Anybody else feel the same?

I have a bunch of tapes in my basement of other jocks who I recorded over the years... Keryn Smith, Thom Osborne, Chuck Foster, Tim Moore (I used to record other jocks and dream of the days when I would be one... I know.... Geek). Many of those tape were stolen a few years back, and probably dubbed over. For what is left it would be nice to preserve, and share them with others...

However.... Some of the best stuff I've ever done on the radio is lost for ever, and some of the worst has been captured on tape.... Go figure...
 
Take a look at northeastairchecks.com , some good stuff there and old jingles too, and you can add yours there too if you like.
 
I've seen that site, but I am more interested in Maine air checks the pine tree state has had some real great radio over the years, and it gets lost in the major market buzz. I might be willing to set up a site if people were interested...
 
A Maine aircheck site might be fun. I think I might have some material to contribute.
 
A very cool idea...for a Maine radio website. Just Portland itself, has seen alot of good radio come and go
from 1960s WLOB-1310, to late 70s WLOB-FM 100.9, WIGY-105.9 etc...
 
As a child, I used to record the jocks so I could learn what they are doing. Sadly I lent many of the tapes out and they were never returned, so I don't have as much as I used to.... But I have stuff from "Kiss 94.5" "Fox 104.7" & "OLDIES WWMJ" kicking around.

Plus my own stuff from WLKE, WHSN, WABI, WKSQ, WBFB, WWBX, and WNSX!

I would love to listen to some of your old stuff Chuck... I have a tape somewhere of you and I on the all hit Fox 104.7. You gave me a copy of Bruce Springsteen's Tunnel of Love!

I am very seriously considering setting up a site, but only if I wasn't the only person using it.
Plus it would be a nice way to get an out of market Mainer to critique your skimmer tape for a fresh perspective.
 
Ironically, I was just looking at northeastairchecks.com and saw that they prefer airchecks prior to 1980, and running the risk of revealing my age, I was too young too roll tape back then on any jocks, but I do have fond memories of Rock and Roll on AM!

Ah... The good old days!

I did my first on-air shift on WHSN in September 1992.

Bill DaButler.
 
dabutler,
I have gigs of maine airchecks and would love to contribute. I was getting together stuff for a WJBQ tribute site, but when I started to get it together my backing fell through. During my search for WJBQ stuff I got to be friends with a few aircheck collectors around the country and now I have stuff from stations from around the state. I also got to be friends with the former G.M. of JBQ, Rick Snyder. And Harry Nelson. Let me know if this is something you would like to do, I will contribute, and help anyway I can.
wthorne

P.S.
If anybody else would like to have some of these airchecks let me know. Also I have 50 WJBQ bumperstickers circa 1980.(reproductions)
 
I would totally love to check out those airchecks.... If anybody wants to send me some, hit me up on e-mail, or call me at WNSX!

Thanks,

Bill DaButler,
 
Dabutler,
I will start putting them up on sendspace.com as often as I can, I drive transport for a local energy company and do not have the time I used to but, I will put them up as often as I can and we all can use them as a discussion on the boards.
Wayne
 
Hi all! Doug here. I was Doug "Shannon" and Doug "Driscoll" during my Maine Radio career. I went to Florida in 1990. I started at WRUM in Rumford in 1976. I worked at WGUY in Bangor and then WZON when Stephen King hired Mitch Mitchell and me. Mark Osborne hired me in 1982 when he just built KISS-94 FM. I was the night guy, Doug Driscoll. I worked with Keryn Smith, Tim Moore and Mark. I sadly have no airchecks from that period. On Nov 2nd, 1982 (election night) at 11:10pm, an accidental open mic caught me swearing up a storm. The F and S words, the whole she-bang.

I went back to WGUY and hit number 1 in my time period! Then it became WKIT and I went to WZON until Stephen King sold the station to a dentist in 1990. I'd love to hear an aircheck or two from that period! Great thread guys!

Doug Shannon
 
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