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WNAP 70s & 80s

Well, I'm waiting bigtime. You care to wager on this? I'm interested in a bet here. I'm taking you up on your challenge. You said my statement would "be impossible". I'll take anything from you that you have to offer. Just name it.

- Keith Kidd
 
Oh so you're talking about a version that wasn't even aired during WNAP's golden era of 1968-1975. Mike Griffin might have put a race car sound on it at one time too. Remixes are irrelevant.
 
In response to the post discussing the "lightening bolt" FX, I stated that it was mixed in later by Buster Bodine and where that FX came from. YOU said it was impossible. So no, it isn't irrelevant.

- Keith Kidd
 
WNAP was one of the most unique stations in America and it excited a whole generation of central
Indiana kids. But after 1975, it lost it's spark. I don't think Chris Conner loved radio anymore after
that point. I turned the Eagle off. Loved the Buzzard with Chris Conner The Mad Hatter.
 
I hear there is now a station bragging on the air that they are even better than the old WNAP.
Is this another joke liner? Or is there a station owner with a big fat ego?
 
I'm not sure I get it. You'll have to give more info on what is being said, who is saying it, etc., for us to understand that.

- Keith
 
Chris Conner didn't follow some corporate cookie cutter formula. He wasn't some rebel
wannabe.
He made his own rules. He was the real thing!!! NAPtown was lucky to have
him and WNAP.
 
Flying-Dutchman said:
I hear there is now a station bragging on the air that they are even better than the old WNAP.
Is this another joke liner? Or is there a station owner with a big fat ego?
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That would be WKLU - where's the 'ho on this?
 
Oh! Russ Oasis again! Figures! Forget it! Nobody can ever duplicate or copy
what Chris Conner and Jim Hansen did, programming WNAP.

They were the greatest!
 
Timewarp, you have experienced the power of what good radio really is to give you such an impression. That's the kind of power radio lacks today. BTW, Chris Conner was a big Barney Pip fan and emulated his high pitched style. Pip was popular at WCFL in Chicago when NAP hit the airwaves.

Every major city of the day had a 'NAP'. The NAP jocks back then were very good actors doing what they were hired in to do, which was sound loaded and play "kick-ass" rock n' roll music that no other station dared to play, and to take the audience on a different journey than the average radio station offered, and do it with heavy personality.

- Keith Kidd
 
Barney Pip on WCFL was great too. He was killed in an auto crash in Indianapolis 13
years ago. Too bad!

WNAP was really off the wall in it's day. Not like the popular progressive rock stations in
Detroit, Cleveland, or anywhere else I knew of.
 
Anybody know what Chris Conner is doing now? Prior to his arrival at 'NAP, he worked at WJVA / South Bend which is where I remember him from. Mike Griffin also worked at WJVA at the same time as Chris.
 
People want to remember WNAP as an Album rock formatted radio station, but in all reality is was more of a Top40/Rock "spinoff" playing some great image hits to boot. It is true the jocks had a lot of leeway, but in reality the playlist at the Buzzard was pretty tight. Also jocks were very monitored. You wouldn't have thought so by listening but then again that all goes back to what I said about the power of good radio.

- Keith Kidd
 
When I started WKLU, several years ago, I offered Chris Conner a job. At that time, he wanted nothing
more to do with radio. Something to do with games, backstabbing, and ego clashes in the biz.
He is around but he may not want to be found.
We'll see!
 
RememberWHEN said:
Anybody know what Chris Conner is doing now? Prior to his arrival at 'NAP, he worked at WJVA / South Bend which is where I remember him from. Mike Griffin also worked at WJVA at the same time as Chris.
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Don't know if it's true or not, but I heard sometime back that Chris was working for Meijer corporate. Grif is part-owner of Panther Racing.
 
Chris did mornings on WHHH 96.3 from 1991 until about 1994 when he moved over to their sister station (106.7) and did oldies for a while before leaving the Bill Shirk empire. Rumour has it he's doing photography now.
 
He probably doesn't want to have anything to do with radio because people in the biz these days are so talented and darn wonderfull to be around. I guess he doesn't feel like he's worthy of working for a PD's that are in their 20's and still living with their parents.

- Keith Kidd
 
Keith Kidd said:
He probably doesn't want to have anything to do with radio because people in the biz these days are so talented and darn wonderfull to be around.
- Keith Kidd
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Not including yourself of course.
 
Of course, of course.

Chris Conner was what, 18 or 19 when he started out at NAP I think? He was pretty young himself, but I think yesterdays 19 is todays 30.

Oh, and let's not forget how great corporate america is. That may be another reason why he won't work in the Biz anymore. Big business is so fun to be a part of. He may not feel he can handle the joys of it.

- Keith
 
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