The KGB Wheel (KGB San Diego, 101.5FM)

From: KGB Program Director
To: All Jocks
Subj: Music Rotation

You are to play songs by the following groups, with the quantities listed each hour. I don’t care when, I don’t care how, I don’t care if the songs clash.

Rolling Stones (ONLY from their top-10 hit list, Sympathy for the Devil MUST be played once per shift) (2)
Aerosmith (’dream on’ MUST be played once per shift) (2)
Supertramp (ONLY from ‘Breakfast in America’, ‘long way home’ MUST BE PLAYED on each shift) (1)
Beatles (1 or 2)
Anything from the 1969 ‘metal library’ (2)
Anything from the ‘pop-rock’ library (KISS, BOC (top 5 ONLY), Ozzy (top 5 only), etc..) (2)
Anything from the ‘hair pop band’ library (Scorpions, Def Leppard, etc..) (2)
Any ONE throwback song that is not on the top 150 rotation (1)

Promos:
Dave, Shelley, Chainsaw:
2 Minute Clip: 1
1 minute Clip: 2
Coe’s cafe: 1

Don’t forget to ‘cackle’ as much as possible during the morning show, we need some annoying filler for the post-drive time block.

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And this, folks, is why KGB sucks.

KPRI, You had me, but you lost me…. :(

KPRI, SAN DIEGO 102.1 FM
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KPRI, I REALLY wanted to like you. I moved you to our office’s radio system. You are locally owned, promote local concerts, and generally played stuff I didn’t hear anywhere else. I was REALLY hopsing that you would be the KFOG of San Diego (KFOG listeners in the 1980s-90s know what I mean). I hoped you would be better than JACK-Fm (KFMB-FM)….

But then….

You began the “we’re local” spots and rubbed them in my face.

You have a top-40 rotation mentality. There is more to classic rock than the Rolling Stones, The Beatles, and Bruce Springsteen. Some of your songs (recent hits) seem to run at least once every 90 minutes.

The only Devo song you play is “Satisfaction,” which seems to be in your 200-song rotation. I’m not looking for Whip it, but how about their new single “Don’t shoot me?” It looks like your program director is simply reading the top-40 AOR column from Billboard and playing it, in sequence.

No, I’m not a head-banger, an acid-rock freak, a punk, or any other easily pigeonholed listener. I’m looking for real diversity in ROCK. Power love song ballads are fine, IN MODERATION.

Diversity, Diversity, Diversity. How about some UFO, Deep Purple, GRATEFUL DEAD, BTO, James Brown, Yes…. and not just their hits, some REAL album cuts.

Your jocks have no SHOW! No, I’m not looking for the immature crap from 105.3, but please, something INTERESTING every now and then. Some style. You guys sound like you’re reading liner cards.

Even though I hate the scam advertisers on KFMB-FM, I’m changing stations today. Sigh.

2009 U.S. Grand Circuit 7/03/2009 - 7/15/2009

UPDATED APRIL 6, 2009
NEW ROUTE MAP AVAILABLE! —-> HERE <------

Call me crazy, but I am finally going to do it! You may have heard about doing '1 lap' around the country. A nice idea, but these laps generally take a route that runs through the middle of the country.

Not this time.

Starting July 3rd, 2009, I will be executing a Coast to Border to Coast to Border to Coast to Border loop. The route will start in San Diego at the I-5/Mexico border, head East to southern Texas, hug the southern coast until hitting Miami, then hug the East Coast until hitting Pawtucket Maine. Then.... head west through Albany, Chicago, Wisconsin, northern Montana, Tacoma, north to the Canadian Border at I-5, then south through Seattle, Portland, Eureka California, Sacramento, Fresno, and back to the border at San Diego. The route map will be posted at Disastours.com as soon as I can make it fit into a single page.

The Car:
The currently scheduled vehicle will be a 1998 BMW Z3 2.8 Roadster. This has been my ‘weekend car’ for a number of years, and now is the time to stretch it’s legs. It is going into the shop for an overhaul on April 7th. Currently at 114k miles, this will be a good test (or it’s last time on the road…)

The Tech:
The entire event will be broadcast LIVE via Sprint wireless broadband (either via Ustream or justin.tv), along with live blogs and Twitter (@sdmedia) coverage. Tracking will be via GPS and LORAN (yes, LORAN). The AR-NAV LORAN unit has been installed as a test in the non-Circuit car (1995 Saturn SC2) , just to see if it works (so far so good).

The Reason:
Why not?

For more info, and sponsorship opportunities, just an email to GrandCircuit@sdmedia.net.

Long Time Between Posts (and Why is this Even Here?)

Yes, it HAS been a long time between posts. I am not a writer by trade, so I do not have the ‘must….. write…… now’ urge that many bloggers do have. But every now and then I’ll bash something out.

Since the posts are so few and far between, I figure that now is the time to explain some of the categories and topics that you will find here.

From top to bottom….

Crawfish
Every Arbor Day (or nearly Arbor Day) for the past four years I have thrown a crawfish boil/get together, either at my house or nearby Mission Bay Park. Entries in this section might even include some ‘twitter’ updates from the crawfish as they are tossed into sacks, tossed into boxes, boxes into airplanes, to my car, and finally into some nice boiling water. If you are lucky, you might even find a code that will let a few readers gain access to the party (though it is not a ‘blog’ party). If you are reading this and you were a San Diego Gulls hockey fan in lower level 22, contact me for your code. Minor league hockey fans always get in. Well, some of them.

Foreign Correspondents
Originally this was setup for guests to post on this blog. No guests ever took me up on the offer, so it is going away. Sorry about wasting 30 seconds of your time reading this sentence.

Gallery Updates
I maintain a 20k picture archive over at http://photos.sdmedia.net. Every now and then, a new sub-gallery is created and announced here. This section is very out of date (sure… tell your readers the good news), but will be updated later today (and going forward). The pictures are not for everyone, and some of them are NOT work safe. You have been warned. But you probably already clicked on the link before reading this…

GBS.TV
There was once a thriving Internet television station called GBS.TV. Go ahead, look it up if you like. It was down for so long that people simply forgot about it, and it was taken over by a bunch of 13 year-olds who posted Japanese animation. I have nothing to do with this group now.

Personal
It probably won’t take too much imagination to figure out what goes here. For new readers, the column named “The Voices” is not to be taken seriously. Please.

Rants
Think “Personal” with more feeling. If you are sending a resume to a hiring manager online, however, please read the entry
A Few Common Sense Resume Rules

Uncategorized
If the post don’t fit, it must acquit (or go into this area). I have tried to NOT use this area, but that doesn’t mean that I won’t (try and figure out the meaning of THAT sentence).

Video Projects
If my off-work time, I assist people with conversion of old videotapes, audio tapes, records, etc… onto a more recent storage devices (DVD, MPEG, DIVX, etc…). Every now and then I’ll just bust out the camcorder, shoot some footage, edit it, and post it on youtube. You can find this material here, or HERE, or HERE, or even HERE. And to answer the question that you MAY have asked, “yes, I did do all of the graphics and animation (except for “Day of the Subgenius”)

Working for the Man
Items that have to do with working, culled from the other categories in the whole blog.

That’s about it for the ‘table of contents’ posting. I’ll have some REAL meat tomorrow. Really.

Another week, another system (kind of)

Aother fun series of weeks for your truly. Just finished the installation (solo) of a five-school
Cisco Call Manager Express telephone system. The new phones replaced a combination of
Intertel, Avaya, and just straight phone lines at a school in California’s Imperial Valley. If you
have any questions about Cisco’s IP Telephpony suite, go on and ask, I’ve been neck-deep in
it for the last three weeks. Fun features:

1) Four-digit dialing between all classrooms and offices w/o using traditional
phone lines Until now, every call cost the district at least $0.10, when the lines weren’t tied up.

2) Cross-Site paging; The district office can voice-page any site, grade
level, or classroom wing/building. This was never possible until now.

3) Cross-site call parking. Transfer a call from one site to a dedicated hold ‘park slot’
at another. Useful for meetings. The call park slot also acts as a remote-site audio quality test,
as the background music is played while the call is active.

4) POTS pooling. Your site only has two POTS lines? No problem, your call will
‘hunt’ to outbound lines at one of the other sites so your call will go through. No, I did not
implement 9-1-1 hunting.

5) Call Restrictions. Allow certain teachers to have long distance, allow the
district office to have outbound line priority in emergencies, and let everyone call locally. All
in a days work for Class of Restriction.

And of course custom time-based auto-attendents, LCD phones, voicemail, etc….

Hardware Used:
Cisco 2851 routers with Call Manager Express, Call Unity Express voicemail
7902, 7940, 7914, amd 7970 phones.
Cisco C500 POE switches
lots of fiber….

Now I get a single day off before going back to Imperial “115f” County to install a
Cisco long-range fixed-wireless system, and then a 50 camera video surveilance network.

Big fun, big toys. And I’m hiring. Seriously. Drop a note to general-delivery@sdmedia.net for more info.

Ps: Got approved as a Director on youtube.com today.

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