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RailRoadDude
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1 edit | A very short but VERY awesome flashback of KROQ in the 80's KROQ was MY station back in the day, good times and good memories! Jed the Fish, Poorman, Richard Blade, they were the best! KROQ DJ'd some of our LDS Church Dances, and Richard Blade DJ'd our Covina High Senior Prom at the Biltmore in 1990. Now they have become just another MTV, crappy.
»www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLN3PLZ2···=related
Here's to the KROQ that used to be!
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HappyBunny
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Long Beach, CA | Re: A very short but VERY awesome flashback of KROQ in the 80's We even heard of KROQ in Cleveland (where we had our own awesome rocker, WMMS). By the time I moved here though, I was like "THIS is what all the fuss is about?" Like all once-cool stations, it was nothing but a corporate schlockfest. | |
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CurtesyFlush
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| Re: A very short but VERY awesome flashback of KROQ in the 80's Both of you should have heard 93 KHJ back in the mid to late sixties. What a great station that was. Robert W. Morgan, The Real Don Steele, Humble Harv.
Now it's all Ranchera, all the time.
»www.youtube.com/watch?v=Adh34Ny4UVA
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HappyBunny
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| Re: A very short but VERY awesome flashback of KROQ in the 80's said by CurtesyFlush  :Both of you should have heard 93 KHJ back in the mid to late sixties. What a great station that was. Robert W. Morgan, The Real Don Steele, Humble Harv. Now it's all Ranchera, all the time. I defintely would have liked that station. | |
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CurtesyFlush
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Fontana, CA | Re: A very short but VERY awesome flashback of KROQ in the 80's Bun, you know who Bob Crane is, right? I used to listen to his radio show on KFI. I was only a little kid, but I somehow liked the adult oriented humor of his show. He was funny.
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| Re: A very short but VERY awesome flashback of KROQ in the 80's said by CurtesyFlush :Bun, you know who Bob Crane is, right? I used to listen to his radio show on KFI. I was only a little kid, but I somehow liked the adult oriented humor of his show. He was funny. Good ole Colonel Hogan!
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HappyBunny
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| said by CurtesyFlush :Bun, you know who Bob Crane is, right? I used to listen to his radio show on KFI. I was only a little kid, but I somehow liked the adult oriented humor of his show. He was funny. From Hogan's Heros? I didnt know he did radio. | |
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CurtesyFlush
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Fontana, CA | Re: A very short but VERY awesome flashback of KROQ in the 80's That's the one. He got the HH gig because of his L.A. radio chops, IIRC.
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NOT Texas! | Re: A very short but VERY awesome flashback of KROQ in the 80's Bob Crane was also the neighbor on the Donna Reed Show before HH.
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CurtesyFlush
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1 edit | Re: A very short but VERY awesome flashback of KROQ in the 80's Who's HH? I didn't watch that show much.
EDIT: Forget it, I see what you're saying. | |
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CurtesyFlush
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Fontana, CA | For those of you who listend to KHJ back in the day, the final cut on that video is a classic. I think it's at 9:50 something.You'll recognize it.
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1 edit | KROQ was 'da Sh!t back in the day.. But it went downhill after they fired The Poorman, and last I checked a year or two ago it wasnt much different from kissFM.. | |
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RailRoadDude
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2 edits | I would have definitely liked that one too. I found a cool station online, KROQ Roq of the 80's, I'm not sure if it's them running it or not but it plays the stuff KROQ was made famous by. I'm the same way in my listening too Bun, satellite and net radio all the way for me, crappy ota radio these days, and there isn't too much choice up here as it is, though we do have some original, independent stations like KOZT »www.kozt.com/ They have won quite a few awards.
Edit-Oops, missed the link- »player.play.it/player/player.htm···1&id=308
»www.roqofthe80s.com/
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Sun N Sand | There's a great website »www.laradio.com that has lots of current info (subscription). Also a section on "Where are they now" that follows yesterday's and today's DJs. | |
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TheHarvester
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Like this but with KROQ |
Now that I got new speakers for my Blazer, an IPod touch and the adapter to play it on the stereo. I haven't had a radio station on in about 5 months. the radio has been going to shit for a while and I don't drive enough to pay for XM or Sirius.
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1 edit | I remember picking up a few of these at the Fashion Plaza in West Covina in High School, around 1986 or 87.
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TK Junk Mail
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| KROQ was great. They used to introduce alot of good alternative music to peeps. They are super corporatized now. When they started playing Paramour and Katie Perry, they went on my banned list. The morning show started sucking too, and I stopped listening to that when they just became a non stop on-air commercial for shitty TV shows and movies.
You can catch all of the good 80's songs KROQ used to play though on their stream: »www.roqofthe80s.com/
It is a shame too that Indie 103.1 FM went under. But they would not buckle to the labels, and become another KROQ. They have a internet stream, but it's not the same. All of the good shows are gone (Jonsey's Jukebox/Jury especially). I think you can still catch Barely Legal though which is worth a listen. | |
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jig
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1 edit | Re: A very short but VERY awesome flashback of KROQ in the 80's said by TK Junk Mail : When they started playing Paramour and Katie Perry, they went on my banned list. so, was that last week or so?
kroq has been crap for about as long as katie perry has been alive, let alone with boobs big enough to sucker an a&r guy into signing her to a label.
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CurtesyFlush
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Fontana, CA | Re: A very short but VERY awesome flashback of KROQ in the 80's Katie Perry and Paramour?
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TK Junk Mail
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4 edits | Katie Perry was first played on KROQ at least a year ago, Paramour even longer than that.
Also, Katie Perry signed a contract with the "a&r" guy along with two other women artists at the same time in the same room. He told all three women then something basically like: "one of you might make it in the business, but most likely you will end up a nobody, pumping out babies in middle america"
On top of that I think her boobs are juicy. Mmmmm.
Edit: Check my blog and news for more interesting music news, facts, figures, and other random really cool stuff. Check it bro. Thanks for listening. | |
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| Re: A very short but VERY awesome flashback of KROQ in the 80's said by TK Junk Mail :On top of that I think her boobs are juicy. Mmmmm. fat lot of good that does you on the radio.
my point stands.
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CurtesyFlush
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No_Strings
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The OC | Re: A very short but VERY awesome flashback of KROQ in the 80's Since when did you start speaking Burghese? | |
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CurtesyFlush
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Fontana, CA | Re: A very short but VERY awesome flashback of KROQ in the 80's I'm an equal opportunity offender.
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The OC | Re: A very short but VERY awesome flashback of KROQ in the 80's Understood, but if you start sounding like you hail from Allegheny County people may lose respect for you.
On further consideration, that may not be possible. | |
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CurtesyFlush
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| Re: A very short but VERY awesome flashback of KROQ in the 80's said by No_Strings :On further consideration, that may not be possible. That's more like it.
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The jocks broke new acts and introduced us to them and generated excitement for them ('MMS broke out Bruce Springsteen and introduced David Bowie to the US). They sponsored huge concerts that everyone went to, and we all bonded over the music. I dont think that happens much anymore. Now the jocks are personality-less bores who play what the suits tell them to. Which is why I only listen to internet and satellite radio.