Archive for the 'Radio' Category


Joe Walsh On Howard Stern

Howard Stern interviews Joe Walsh (06/04/12) I play "So What" all the time. I know, I know, you’re supposed to play "The Smoker You Drink" or "But Seriously Folks", not the disappointing follow-up to the hit. But I drop the proverbial needle and it makes me feel so good! Now I was there at the […]

Robert Johnson

I went down to the crossroads… Or did he? I didn’t think I liked Christopher Titus. But after hearing him tell his story on Marc Maron’s WTF I loved him. Because he was honest and forthright in a world of complete b.s. He stood up to power, Gail Berman, the Fox exec who wanted him […]

How Do You Become Indispensable?

In a couple of years Howard Stern is gonna retire from the radio and I don’t know what I’m gonna do with myself. Hi. I was just driving down Sunset Boulevard in the Palisades and the road was closed. An SUV had jumped the guardrail and ended up on its side. Kind of like NASCAR, […]

Playlists

They’re the new radio. As a result, you’ve got to exercise tender loving care, you’ve got to be a deejay, you’ve got to earn your listeners’ trust and keep it. We’ll only tolerate a fifteen or twenty percent tune-out rate. I was forwarded Esquire’s "Songs Every Man Should Listen to 2012" and you shouldn’t. But […]