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KMET returns - for a day
By Richard Wagoner
Created: 06/18/2009 03:39:41 PM PDT
It was Valentine's Day 1987 when the legendary Southern California album rocker KMET (now KTWV, 94.7 FM) left the airwaves to make room for The Wave.
Now, more than two decades later, KMET is coming back.
On July 10, 100.3 The Sound will re-create KMET for one day, using as many original Mighty Met personalities as possible.
On the A-list of potential participants right now are Jeff Gonzer (recently added to the Sound's staff for weekends and fill-ins), Ace Young, Pat "Paraquat" Kelley, David Perry and the master programmer herself, the woman who led KMET into and through its glory days, Sam Bellamy.
Actual recordings are being used to help set the tone for the day. Some of these airchecks will be played on the air, while others will help re-create the musical sets as they were played during the approximate years of 1976 to 1984, considered by most to be the best years of the station.
Unfortunately, not everyone associated with the station during that period will be able to attend. Jim Ladd, Denise Westwood, Cynthia Fox and Terry Gladstone, for example, all work for rival KLOS, and I sincerely doubt KLOS will let them off to promote another station ... even if it is a salute.
That being said, July 10 should be a fun day of radio for fans of the once mighty station. Might be a good day to take off work.
Maybe, just maybe, we can get Dr. Demento to do a shift. | |
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CurtesyFlush
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Fontana, CA | Re: KMET returns 151; for a day "KTWV won't last more than a year. L.A. isn't ready for yuppified pussy music."
That was the only time I was ever wrong about anything.
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jig
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Hacienda Heights, CA | Re: KMET returns 151; for a day 103.5 was playing all MJ today. aren't they mex now? | |
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Steve
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| said by CurtesyFlush  :That was the only time I was ever wrong about anything. Well that's another one. | |
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Rancho Cucamonga, CA | Re: KMET returns - for a day WooHoo! Are they going to play Dr. Demento like they used to every sunday night at 10P ? | |
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shortckt
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| Wow... a lot of good memories *sniff*
A friend went to KMET that last day to picket the closing. He turned out to be the only one there. I think it was covered briefly on the news.
[trivia]
The Roger Waters album Radio K.A.O.S. features some recorded bits from 94.7 KMET-FM (surf report, fish report with a beat, etc.) in the background, and the voices of Jim Ladd and others from KMET.
Jim Ladd wrote a book, titled Radio Waves, about a fictional radio station called Radio KAOS (really about the history of L.A.'s Mighty Met in it's heyday.) The first track on that Roger Waters album is also titled Radio Waves.
The callsign KMET is now owned by Sunset Broadcasting with an AM station in Banning, CA on 1490kHz. While that station is licensed for 5kw I think they cut back to 1 or 2 kw at night since I couldn't pick them up very far. | |
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dogma
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| Q. What is the year/make/model of the car pictured right next to Dude?
Q. What street is Dude standing on? | |
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spg
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1 edit | Pretty sure it's a Chevy Nonza. They all look alike to me so I'm guessing a '76?
The street? A wild stab at Fairfax?
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Hacienda Heights, CA | Re: KMET returns - for a day it might be beverly... | |
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dogma
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From the Lee G collection |
75 Chevy Monza 2+2
It is Fairfax. ..or at least I am 98% certain
said by Bloominite :said by CurtesyFlush :Who's "Dude"? looks like a late 70s Everyman to me I was looking for a KMET logo which as I recalled had some rat in sunglasses, beard or/and cane or something. Perhaps it was another stations logo. I came upon this picture and yes, I too said this is everyman's mid/late '70 kinda' SoCal Dude.
Edit: I'm gonna give credit and Props to the source. A guy named Lee G, looks like a Lakewood or Artisia High '73/'74 or so grad. Plus he has quite a photo collection here, including the one above. | |
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CurtesyFlush
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| Re: KMET returns - for a day Not this So Cal dude. My hair was never long (especially in the mid to late seventies, when I was property of the Misguided Children), you'll NEVER catch me in horizontal stripes, and I've never been one to wear mirrored sunglasses.
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NOT Texas! | So where do I pick up my prize?  | |
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Fontana, CA | Re: KMET returns - for a day In Boulder City. Wait at the gate for him to buzz you in .
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NOT Texas! | Re: KMET returns - for a day I'm not old enough to get into B.C. Nobody's that old! | |
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CurtesyFlush
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Fontana, CA | Who's "Dude"? | |
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| Re: KMET returns - for a day said by CurtesyFlush :Who's "Dude"? looks like a late 70s Everyman to me | |
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Los Angeles, CA | Anyone listen, 2day? Told my father about it 'cause he was a fan from back in the day. He was kinda disappointed.
Anyone know why Paraquat Kelly wasn't around? The guy was mentioned. | |
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CurtesyFlush
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Fontana, CA | Re: KMET returns - for a day Too much paraquat back in the day.
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