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The Greaseman back in the news-Z 93 stories?

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The Greaseman has just gone back to work in his native Jacksonville, FL. Does anyone have stories here about when Z 93 in Atlanta aired the national feed of Greaseman in the late 1990`s? I remember that some people almost caused a riot up there to get him off the air! What all offensive did he say?
 
Z93 had Grease from 1993 until about 1996-1997, when he was replaced by ATL radio veteran Gary McKee. McKee didn't have his fastball anymore but still did a good job.

The legend has it (and please forgive me if I start a flame war here) that Jesse Helms was threatening to block Infinity's purchase of Z93 unless they promised to not put Stern on it. Grease was Infinity's #2 choice for Z93.

Everyone knew or quickly learned that Grease's show was NSFW or children and adjusted their radio accordingly.

Nobody really protested the content of the show. Rather, people eventually quit listening because, c'mon, how many times can you tell a joke with, say, the rape scene in Deliverance as the punch line and keep it fresh? If you listened to his show for a month, I would imagine you've heard every gag and every song and every code word. Although one memorable, rare live comment went something like this...

Traffic Guy: A wreck on the Downtown Connector has traffic SNARLED!
Grease: You mean someone's snarlin' the traffic? Hmmmm...

I'll leave it to you to look up what "snarlin'" is a code word for.

Sometimes he would present them differently, but it got old quick as his shows were not topical (as Stern or TRG are).

Grease got pulled in ATL long efore the "drag them behind trucks" comment.
 
The Greaseman was not well received in Atlanta. I think part of that had to do with his show not really being local, at least most of the time.

Personally, I think the Greaseman is one of the greatest radio talents ever. He has enormous creativity. I'm glad to see he finally has a legitimate radio job after being exiled for years because of the overreaction of radio to the ridiculous but predictable reaction of those offended by a careless remark he made.

I've heard the Greaseman on a lot of stations. He was at his absolute best on DC101 in Washington and WAPE in Jacksonville.

By the way, we all know how hard replacing a legendary morning show is. Yet when the Greaseman replaced Howard Stern at DC101, the station didn't miss a beat. And that was a local Howard Stern show.
 
Glad to see SOMEONE has the good sense to put the Greaseman back on. SOmeone worth listening to.

Are they streaming so I can listen?

I'm so sick of just read the liner, shut up and play the hits DJs. And that's all they are..DJs, not personalities.
GO SARGENT FURY!!!!
 
The reason the Greaseman was not well received locally is because he was painful to listen to. All I can remember from those days is that he would take a joke you could have heard in the Catskills in the 1940s, stretch it out to five or six minutes with insufferable sound effects, and then hit the punchline (which was never funny) with another fx explosion. Terrible, terrible radio.
 
I loved the Greaseman. I though it was smart that he created his own vocabulary, so he could talk about anything and get away with it because terms like "whet fer" were impossible to define for those who weren't in on the joke. I also considered him to be a lot like a skilled novelist, except the phrases he coined we sent out on the air instead of onto the page. The guy was a wordsmith, and the fun of his stories/jokes was in the journey, not necessarily the punch line. Saying he wasn't funny is like saying The Aristocrats is a crappy joke.

Also, I'm pretty sure he indeed got the boot from Z93 in the wake of his Lauryn Hill/pickup truck crack. In any event, I'm glad to hear our "Diddy-Boppin' Daddy" has once again found a gig of some significance. He is a unique talent, and god knows those aren't exactly a dime a dozen.

Hobble de ga-ga!
 
Shades of The APE! The Man is back in Jacksonville.
Had they run him at night live here, he might have done better. And as someone pointed out, there wasn't any localization to amount to anything in the feed. They tried, but missed. Tracht is a master of theater of the mind, but to make it work makes the bits longer than morning radio can tolerate.
Meantime, Grease gonna do a little offshore drillin' to-nite.
 
Long-time 96 Rock listeners might remember that Christopher Rude used to do a devastating parody of the Greaseman with a terrible joke about a man who had eaten a plate of beans. It was absolutely spot-on and funnier than anything I ever heard from Z-93 in those days.

But hey, if you like the Greaseman, then congratulations on your guy coming back.
 
Rude was one of the better talents to appear on mornings on a rocker around here. I never quite understood why he left. Money differences, p'raps?
 
I heard 'The Grease' left Washington, DC....for the second time.

Anybody else hear anything/details?
 
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