[atlantaprog] Re: Where was everybody???

I have to agree...

A great example of corporate radio is 99X..."New
Rock...FIRST"

Now, when I go to Tallahassee, FL to visit my mom (and
where I spent a number of my formative years) they
have a "new" station (wasn't there when I lived
there)...it just happens to be owned by the same
broadcasting company as 99X...and guess what...they
sound EXACTLY alike, right down to using the "X" in
it's name...only the numbers on the dial and the call
letters are different.  Otherwise, their programming
sounds the same...it is like listening to 99X out of
state!

Then again, if your music gets to the desk of Leslie
Fram (99X Program Director/Goddess), and she actually
LIKES it, she may just give said artist the break they
need...a lot of bvands (not just from Atlanta) got
their break on 99X that landed them major airplay
nationwide (out-of-towners include No Doubt, Live and
The Cranberries).

For the record, Leslie is a fan of The Lost Boys, the
splinter project of Atlanta's own Karma Lingo.  But I
doubt she has ever heard any of KL's music, either. 
Too bad...

Regards,

Bill


--- UncleEggsy@xxxxxxx wrote:
> In a message dated 5/13/2003 11:16:02 PM Eastern
> Daylight Time, 
> upkat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
> 
> > I'll throw my 2 cents in here I guess. All the
> things you mentioned
> > (alternative entertainment, etc.) are possible
> explanations that contribute
> > to the apathy towards seeing live rock bands, but
> I also think it's a
> > regional attitude fed by local radio programming. 
> In Atlanta there are 4
> > rock stations.  In the rustbelt of the North,
> there are 5 to 10 or more
> > rock radio stations in every major city area
> (Detroit, Cleveland, Chicago,
> > etc.) and even in Ontario Canada. 
> 
> I don't think the quantity of radio stations has
> much to do with it.  I think 
> rock radio in Atlanta was actually much better back
> when 96 Rock was the only 
> commercial rock station in town.  They played old
> stuff, new stuff and had a 
> specialty show for local music and a show called
> Psychedelic Saturday that 
> played lots of strange sixities singles, Syd Barrett
> era Floyd and also quite 
> a bit of prog.  As long as you have corporate owned
> radio stations where the 
> playlists are determined centrally, you're going to
> end with with, 
> essentially, the exact same radio stations in every
> market.  You could record 
> the best album since Revolver, hand deliver it to
> the radio station booth and 
> the DJ wouldn't be allowed to play a track from it
> because it isn't on the 
> playlist, which is generated in some office in
> Manhattan. 
> 
>  I rarely even hear obscure tracks by well known
> bands anymore.  I used to 
> hear Led Zep's "Hey Hey What Can I Do?", for
> example, quite regularly, but 
> not anymore.  Radio stations don't really play
> requests anymore either.  If 
> somebody calls in and requests a song that they were
> going to play anyway 
> then the DJ announces it as "by request" to generate
> the illusion that they 
> have made some sort of deviation from their standard
> playlist to accomodate 
> an individual listener.  I chalk it all up to the
> homogenization and strip 
> mallification of our culture as a whole.
> 
> I do kind of dig Little Steven's Underground Garage,
> which comes on Z-93 on 
> Sunday night.  He plays lots of "Nuggets" style
> psychedelic and garage rock 
> and also early punk.  That's really the only time I
> can listen to a 
> commercial music station for any significant length,
> though.
> 
> CH
> 
> 
> CH
> 
> 
> 


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