I was raised on the radioRaised on the radioJust an all-American boyI found my favorite toy I love my iPod on shuffle, but it’s no match for a deejay’s selections. That’s what we’ve lost on terrestrial, the concept that there’s a single individual, making choices, spinning what HE wants to hear, not what some consultant […]

"Blow My Fuse"Kix There’s a sound to this guitar.  Funny how everybody used to want to play an axe and now they want to rap.  Oh, don’t e-mail me about your kid/nephew with his Stratocaster and mini-Marshall, you know what I’m talking about.  Anybody can rap.  Maybe not well, but not everybody can play heavy […]

Yesterday was Mike Marrone’s fiftieth birthday.  And he had the idea that I should substitute for him on the Loft.  So, when I was at XM two weeks ago, we created six hours of programming.  I couldn’t turn on the radio yesterday until about four, an hour after I started, but when I pushed the […]

I went through sixteen stations on Sirius before I found a track I didn’t know.  I heard everything from .38 Special’s "Hold On Loosely" to the Police’s "Roxanne" to Grateful Dead’s "Terrapin Station" on Jam On.  Actually, what stumped me was a Motley Crue track on a hard rock outlet.  I knew the Crue track […]