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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 | 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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| 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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TearAbite
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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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HappyBunny
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I feel bad for kids now, radio was freaking awesome in the 70s (and in the 60s too, but I was a baby and didnt listen then  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. |
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HappyBunny
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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 | reply to CurtesyFlush
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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CurtesyFlush
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Fontana, CA | reply to HappyBunny
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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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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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 | That's the one. He got the HH gig because of his L.A. radio chops, IIRC.
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Waldothe3rd
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Sun N Sand | reply to RR Conductor
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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spg
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NOT Texas! | reply to CurtesyFlush
Bob Crane was also the neighbor on the Donna Reed Show before HH.
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CurtesyFlush
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1 edit | Who's HH? I didn't watch that show much.
EDIT: Forget it, I see what you're saying. |
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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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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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1 edit | 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 | Katie Perry and Paramour?
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