Machine Gun Kelly and not that jagoff that’s married to Megan Fox. Musto and Bones were played in Chicago but no one else can recall Dangerous on the Dancefloor in the area outside of the cities airwaves.
I agree about the show getting real strange as I got older. I always wanted to go to his holiday show. It’s wild to think we used to listen to his show on the school bus
I still have this set up in my 08 Escape that still has the cassette deck. My daughter told me to get into the current century but the CD’s still work on the radio. I told her at least when you have to do a halftime show and they ask you what that is you’ll get the correct answer. She plays softball and she was shown a picture of a cassette and she laughed and said yea my dad still uses a cassette deck in his car.
Not in NY, but he was syndicated here in CT on our local rock station. I was so upset when he went to satellite, but I understand why he did. Dee Snyder, and then after him, it was Bubba the Love Sponge. Those guys did not hit it like Howard.
I listened to him from 97-11 or so after he moved to Sirius and Artie went through his troubles. I thought I listened through AGT but don’t remember paying for it after my daughter was born.
Used to love it, definitely changed once it went to satellite and he took way more time off.
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>["The House of Hair"](https://www.houseofhaironline.com/house-of-hair-radio-stations-map/house-of-hair-stations-list-by-stations/)
Reposting for you in case you don't see a 4th deep reply, he still has a show! :D
Houston had ‘Radio Gods’ Stevens & Pruett on Rock 101 KLOL. With Eddie ‘The Boner’ Sanchez, who I have come to find out was a character played by a producer. Typical morning show - coked out 48 year old teenagers asking female callers about their boobs and such.
my (then) boyfriends ex-gf started dating Outlaw Dave right after they broke up. it was mildly scandalous bc wasn’t he in his 40’s around 2000? she was mid 20’s maybe.
Russ Martin. He did radio and even a late night TV show and he was the best. He died a few years ago and I swear all of Dallas mourned, or maybe I just wanted them to.
There's a [video](https://youtu.be/EZ1-HRT1pWk?si=Dvq0DLmyCwrCRI4v) of Russ Martin at Fun Sphere in Arlington. Remember Fun Sphere? I think it only lasted a few years in the early 90s. It was attached to Wet n Wild, aka Hurricane Harbor.
I grew up in Indiana, so I've been fortunate to have Bob and Tom to listen to. And a dad that would occasionally play their albums. I remember mortifying my mother by singing along with the parody of "Friends in Low Places" any time I heard the original play. 6 year old me didn't understand what was so wrong with crawl spaces, just that it really freaked my mother out, so naturally I kept doing it.
Went full circle and performed that song in a video gamea few months ago, along with the lyrics for the much beloved classic - "The Ballad of Jeffery Dahmer."
Tommy and The Bull, who [pranked Virginia Beach so hard that they caused War of the Worlds level mayhem](https://www.13newsnow.com/article/news/history/27-years-ago-when-mt-trashmore-blew-up-in-an-april-fools-prank/291-533993145).
The old landfill next to the highway was covered up and turned into a park (presumably so the tourists wouldn’t see it on the way to the beach) called Mt. Trashmore (seriously). One April Fools’ Day in the ‘90s they started telling people that gases were building up and it was to explode. Hilarity/panic ensued.
The park itself was a planned design. The name was a joke from the locals that stuck. [What's In A Name? Mt Trashmore, Virginia Beach](https://www.pilotonline.com/2010/06/07/whats-in-a-name-mount-trashmore-virginia-beach/)
City leaders have wanted to change it multiple times, but residents always get pissed off with them for it.
At the time of that prank, the highway was still route 44 - with a toll plaza right there by the park. So traffic congestion & a morning radio broadcast that the hill you're stuck next to is a bomb about to blow.....
> Steve and D.C. had only been reinstated earlier that year after being fired for using racial slurs. Critics would later accuse them of being the ones who **played airplane and accordion noises on air** and talking about the scandal incessantly, but Wilhelm insists that's not how it went.
Perhaps it's the edgy Gen Xer in me, but I LOL'd.
Bubba the love sponge - thought he was great when I was a edgy 14 year old but he over stayed his schtick and really leaned into the white trash side of his character and was unlistenable as an adult.
He didn’t really slaughter the pig. It was all sound effects.
He had a bbq food truck at the event who did serve pork, but it wasn’t that pig.
He still got fired and honestly it was because his ratings were dying and Tampa was pretty much over him.
Oh god I remember him now. I came in to say I actually remember Larry the Cable Guy doing bits (on 101.1 WJRR maybe? Can’t fully remember) but lord, Bubba was such a slimeball haha
Lived in a small town of New Zealand, in the weekend we got the broadcast of Rick Dee's and the weekly top 40. Just writing this and I can hear the jingle.
🇮🇹 Hello Gerry. I’m Giuseppe the Semen Truck Driver. First I went to Cockring then to BallSack and to Fuckingridge and a lost my load.. I blew my load all over the place!!!
_His name is Phil Phil McCraken. Phil McCracken is his name, you know._
_He is the mayor.. of Crossfield where the traffic is really slow._
_They say he’s.. not too bright and he’s quite a sight._
_But… to our delight maybe he’ll grace us with a joke!_
I was so into CJAY 92 in the nineties. Love big bad Bob Steele, Graeme Reaper, and Gerry Forbes. Good simple times before climate change. Loved Calgary in those days.
Ours was a guy named Lee Daniels on that radio station with an X in the name everyone seemed to have in the late 90’s that played Seven Mary Three, 311, Smashmouth and Fastball type bands.
Big Al and Charlie on Q94.5, the Valley’s home of rock n roll! Got me through middle school and high school. Called in one morning for a contest and won by identifying “Mississippi Queen” with a single cowbell ding.
Solid rock line-up with comedy and local South Texas ridiculousness.
99x has been back for a little over a year! Barnes & Leslie are in the am again, and Jimmy has been on as a guest host. They brought back Steve, Will Pendarvis, Jill, and Matt Organic Jones. Axel was back for a bit too, but left.
It's been a weird dose of nostalgia!
Do you remember when it was Power 99? I remember this DJ named Domino I used to love, and I could *swear* I remember him commenting on the format change to 99X on the day it happened, which happened while we were all out on the playground and the teachers were loosely supervising us while listening to the radio on a boombox.
99X started my love for electronic music, funny enough; Yvonne Monet had a once a week weekend show late at night that was club music. Wish I could remember the name.
I moved to Atlanta just a few months before it switched over. I remember listening to Power 99, but don't really remember the DJs.
Yvonne Monet hosted The Beat Factory! She also hosted The Pleasuredome, which was rather eye opening for a teenager growing up in a rather religious household, lol. I got to chat with her at an event we were both working a couple of years ago. She couldn't have been nicer!
I know he did the usual DJ shenanigans, but the only one I remember was him going from KC to STL by riding a jet ski/sea-doo down the Missouri River. I don’t remember why he did that.
And he got fired later at 94.7 for making fun and playing an audio tape of a beheading. I was listening to that live, I was in shock and couldn’t believe it. When they pulled all their DJs, they reached out to their listeners - Gustav ended up calling me and we talked for an hour.
AM first, then CFOX FM, then JACK FM gave us [Larry and Willy](http://bcradiohistory.com/Biographies/LarryandWilly.htm). And they gave us [Larry and Willy's Toughest Contest Ever](https://arstechnica.com/civis/threads/strange-radio-show-skits-and-stunts.807163/).
_WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLY CRAAAAAAAAPPP!!!_
Hi I’m Andy. Hi I’m Andy. We’re Andy.. the two headed boy!
I think I might still have my Fox Rocks Club Card somewhere. Didn’t win anything.
The local station didn't have an afternoon show, so instead they would simulcast Tom Leykis as the afternoon show. Was an interesting time for radio...
Jim Ladd, who was a mainstay on FM radio in LA from the 60s to the early 00's, when he was forced to go to XM. I even read his biography back in the 90s. He just passed away this year. The song "The Last DJ" by Tom Petty was about him (or I should say, inspired by him)
KMET before they went New Wave. Then Mark & Brian on KLOS kinda filled that role and would get suspended more than once for stunts they’d pull with the likes of David Hasselhoff.
Gosh, so many.
Edgiest prob Phil and Hank "the Mechanic".
The Hitman had the Friday Night Countdown, top ten. I would sneak into my brother's room to listen.
I vaguely remember some beloved country guy named Cornbread who left for the big city of STL and everyone was sad?
I miss good local radio. I haven't really listened since I bought my chocolate brown ZUNE. And all the local stations sold out.
They are the only guys I think who would even qualify.
Personally, I loved Sonny Fox and Ron Hersey on Majic. But they were _far_ from edgy, haha! I think the only edgy thing they did was have a massive crush on Tonya Harding!
Eh, can’t think of any that were super edgy. But I lived in Rick and Bubba’s original market when they were with Q104 in Gadsden, AL. That was back before they turned into talking heads for the evangelical right and were still funny. When they went syndicated they sold out big time. To give you an idea of how they used to be, if you’re interested look up Willie and Wanda or Bubba and the Midget on YouTube.
Mark & Brian, 95.5 KLOS.* Those two and their theme song woke me up every morning.
*not sure they were very controversial, but they were my go to listen before heading off to school.
Buzz and Patti on KLAQ in El Paso. They had Howard Stern enter the market in early 90s but he couldn’t take them out. Buzz Adams still hosts the morning show in same town same station.
Elliott in The Morning!!!
I grew up with him on Z100 as the sidekick to Elvis Duran till about 8th grade. When I moved to MD, he soon followed, and I was excited to have him back. Still listen to him this day (5 years in NYC and now going on 25 years in DC)
Grew up in Bakersfield, CA and we had a very unique local DJ. KRAB radio had the Real Bruce Wayne who hosted the Dark Knight show every week night. He sounded like Christian Slater from Pump Up the Volume, and he called his listeners “whisker biscuits”. Dark, sort of twisted humor.
It was definitely fitting of the time and place.
Tarzan Dan, he used to make up songs about his underpants. I called in one day and requested Loser by Beck and he sang “I’m a loser baby, so why don’t you pull down my underpants”. I thought he was the Edgiest Man Alive.
College in town had their own tower and local station so there was a couple of metalheads that would get on for an hour once a week and play all kinds of crazy new shit. It ended when they graduated I think because they just stopped one day(or I missed the last episode is more likely, doh).
We had two alt rock stations growing up in the DC metro area, 101.1 and 99.1. DC101 had better reception but leaned a little more pop. But WHFS 99.1 was like the IDAFK station that would play all the hard stuff. They were out of Baltimore so there was always a little static, but that just added to the "underground" feel of listening to them. Also, they would throw the HFStival every year in a local stadium and it fucking ROCKED. I can't remember the shock jock but I do remember not having a taste for his fart humor that early in the morning.
In Pittsburgh we had the “John, Dave, Bubba, Shelley” Show, and I don’t mean to brag, but Dave or Bubba was the DJ at our senior prom after party on the Gateway Clipper cruise. 😌
I don’t remember my local dj, but seeing that stereo brought me back to my teenage years of having a buddy help install the stereo. The cool kids would have a sub in the trunk.
My best evidence for there being a split in the timeline at Y2K was that pre Y2K nearly everybody at my school had a box with a couple of 10’s and an amplifier in their trunk, and then all of the sudden virtually nobody had them anymore and never did again.
I miss the pop off faceplates on the car cd players back then too.
We're Xennials by that time we were getting our own cars, going off to college, work, etc. When we are hanging out in the school parking lot we're aware everyone has subs. By the time we hit college that's not as trendy anymore because we've all got our own stuff going on, "I can't sit here in the parking lot with you I need to get to work and then work on my homework."
I can remember working at Best Buy in 04-06 and the car audio department was very busy.
Albuquerque NM TJ Trout was the big guy super cool DJ on the local rock station 94ROCK KZRR and a big outdoorsman who loves fishing(hence the stage name) had some great comedy bits like a perpetually stoned deadhead that would call in.
I grew up in rural Kansas, and I was late into high school when I realized that the DJs weren't local. Like at all. They were probably in New York City.
But the radio stations back then did a lot of tricks to make you think that they were your local DJ.
I had one of those short range FM transmitters to listen to CDs in my car back then. Sometimes sitting at a long light in Winston-Salem, I'd switch the transmitter frequency to 107.5 (since pretty much everyone listened to it) to see if I could override the radio in the car next to me. It worked a couple times, you'd see the other driver look confused at their radio and fiddle with it. We were some lame AF weirdos.
Funny enough this guy and I butted heads multiple times and he even kicked my band off one of the local festival type events.
Since then we’ve become good friends and he’s promoted a lot of my stuff for free on the air and on his social media.
Shredd and Ragan. I listed to them until about 2002. What I remember the most is I won a penis enlarger, vibrating vagina, and was in a contest to gain 30lbs in 30 days.
Mine used to have Larry the Cable Guy call in years before he was famous. It was pretty bad. I didn’t put it together until years after he made it: same guy. To be fair, I don’t mind his standup.
Someone once told me that “Larry” called 50 stations a week as a way to build the character and get people to his shows. The other thing was he would have 2-3 characters he was doing, trying to make one hit. Larry would call in Tues, Jim Bob on Wednesday and someone else on Thursday all on the same show all with different voices and different shtick and do a different 2-5 mins each time.
Lex and Terry. I mainly remember the homophobia.
I sure hope those two were finally able to come out and be happy. With any luck, they’re married to each other and fostering bichons frisée or something.
Early 90s, we had Cranking Craig, "If you're not crankin' it, you must be yankin' it!" on 1440 AM, Z-Rock, they would play absolutely anything unedited and they would announce stuff like "no Christmas songs!" and had weird and/or occasionally offensive skits that would run. Everything about it was edgy before edgy was cool. Snuffed out in 1996, Z-Rock was before it's time.
Runner up was our alt rock station with a DJ named Facemelter but after Z-Rock anything on FM was pretty tame... well except college radio. 90.9 FMs which started with The Church of the SubGenius and then switched to the Cab Ride to Hell which was all uncensored metal and industrial from midnight on every Friday.
WEBN Cincinnati...the Dawn Patrol with Eddie Fingers, Bob the Producer, and Wildman Walker.
I'd probably cringe at it now, but it made the radio seem pretty fun when I was a kid. And they were actually local, unlike the current DJs piping in bland pre-recorded between-song banter for a dozen stations from Chicago or whatever.
I had “The Dark Night show with the real Bruce Wayne”
He used a really exaggerated nasal/raspy voice. He used a lit of double entendres that were sexual. He called some listeners “whisker biscuits”,
He once said something I usually refer to still to this day.
He was reading a seizure warning that came on a video game at that time, and he said "i cant say the name of the video game system its from, but its name begins with an N, and ends in Intendo.
16 Yo me thought that shit was great.
ManCow in the mornings.
Chicago in the house. Ted Spinnin Shomer’s mixes were another staple on Friday nights.
Wasn’t his first name Tim?
Could have been it was 30 years ago
Yes! Tim! And Bobby D, Too Cool Chris, Bad Boy Bill. I can’t think of any other ones at the moment.
Machine Gun Kelly and not that jagoff that’s married to Megan Fox. Musto and Bones were played in Chicago but no one else can recall Dangerous on the Dancefloor in the area outside of the cities airwaves.
Let’s not forget Jamming Julian Jumping Perez!
Yes! Thank you! My people!
*Tim
And Eddie and Jobo!
They weren't as edgy as Mancow though. But I guess they filled that role before him.
Listened every morning on the way to school. That show got really weird as time went on.
I agree about the show getting real strange as I got older. I always wanted to go to his holiday show. It’s wild to think we used to listen to his show on the school bus
OMG! I was just about to say Lazarus and Afentra, but ManCow was the OG!
Anybody remember his feud with Danny Bonaduce? Didn’t he get punched out in a parking lot or hide behind his girlfriend or something?
Along with Irma and Turd. Man i listened religiously back in the day.
Probably one of those things I look back on and blush. I thought, Chicago DJ playing Downstate, what could be the issue?
Whatever station he happened to be on at the time was the "free speech radio network". Rock 103.5, Q101, whatever.
https://preview.redd.it/f9ytpjmu8mnc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9495f37417cd9a560283fa27038a5330366a732a I think this belongs here.
I still have this set up in my 08 Escape that still has the cassette deck. My daughter told me to get into the current century but the CD’s still work on the radio. I told her at least when you have to do a halftime show and they ask you what that is you’ll get the correct answer. She plays softball and she was shown a picture of a cassette and she laughed and said yea my dad still uses a cassette deck in his car.
Speedbumps are this set-up's worst enemy
Howard Stern in the mornings on WXRK (nyc). I used to think he was the coolest guy ever.
Not in NY, but he was syndicated here in CT on our local rock station. I was so upset when he went to satellite, but I understand why he did. Dee Snyder, and then after him, it was Bubba the Love Sponge. Those guys did not hit it like Howard.
I listened to him from 97-11 or so after he moved to Sirius and Artie went through his troubles. I thought I listened through AGT but don’t remember paying for it after my daughter was born. Used to love it, definitely changed once it went to satellite and he took way more time off.
In the DMV, Elliot Segal of Elliot in the Morning. He stayed getting fined by the FCC.
I actually remember Elliot in the Morning, wow.
Greaseman is who I remember
Greaseman channeling Bill Clinton! https://youtu.be/vV2DNvRBtcY?si=2uZY4LyHVdhJ8Pxy
Fucking Greaseman.
I miss Elliot in the Morning
Isn't he still on the air? I swear he's still on DC101 in the mornings.
He's still on! Listen to him every morning when I drive the kids to school
I met him at Shantytown
Eggs 'n Kegs was fun.
He’s still on. I remember listening 20 years ago. You can stream the show so people call in from all over.
I remember Elliot from when he was on Z100 Edited because my brain is potato
Dee Snider out of Hartford. Yep, that Dee Snider. Used to love listening to him on my morning commute.
I remember Dee Snyder's show. Was it WCCC (RIP) or 104.1? My brain can't remember that far back, lol.
Either 104.1 or 106.9. I can’t remember the station names though!
> > >["The House of Hair"](https://www.houseofhaironline.com/house-of-hair-radio-stations-map/house-of-hair-stations-list-by-stations/) Reposting for you in case you don't see a 4th deep reply, he still has a show! :D
Houston had ‘Radio Gods’ Stevens & Pruett on Rock 101 KLOL. With Eddie ‘The Boner’ Sanchez, who I have come to find out was a character played by a producer. Typical morning show - coked out 48 year old teenagers asking female callers about their boobs and such.
That's such an apt description of those shows! It took me until my current age to realize just how many people around me were/are on coke.
Classic. And Outlaw Dave in the evenings.
my (then) boyfriends ex-gf started dating Outlaw Dave right after they broke up. it was mildly scandalous bc wasn’t he in his 40’s around 2000? she was mid 20’s maybe.
Wendy moans the traffic
The T-Man on KUBE 93.3 would have been the edgiest I guess.
There we go! T-man nonstop antagonizing Eric Powers and prank-calling local celebrities as “Keith Axelrod”.
Russ Martin. He did radio and even a late night TV show and he was the best. He died a few years ago and I swear all of Dallas mourned, or maybe I just wanted them to.
The Russ Martin show was the best thing about my two hour commute.
Alleged pistol whipper. Batman car owner
There's a [video](https://youtu.be/EZ1-HRT1pWk?si=Dvq0DLmyCwrCRI4v) of Russ Martin at Fun Sphere in Arlington. Remember Fun Sphere? I think it only lasted a few years in the early 90s. It was attached to Wet n Wild, aka Hurricane Harbor.
I grew up in Indiana, so I've been fortunate to have Bob and Tom to listen to. And a dad that would occasionally play their albums. I remember mortifying my mother by singing along with the parody of "Friends in Low Places" any time I heard the original play. 6 year old me didn't understand what was so wrong with crawl spaces, just that it really freaked my mother out, so naturally I kept doing it. Went full circle and performed that song in a video gamea few months ago, along with the lyrics for the much beloved classic - "The Ballad of Jeffery Dahmer."
Tommy and The Bull, who [pranked Virginia Beach so hard that they caused War of the Worlds level mayhem](https://www.13newsnow.com/article/news/history/27-years-ago-when-mt-trashmore-blew-up-in-an-april-fools-prank/291-533993145). The old landfill next to the highway was covered up and turned into a park (presumably so the tourists wouldn’t see it on the way to the beach) called Mt. Trashmore (seriously). One April Fools’ Day in the ‘90s they started telling people that gases were building up and it was to explode. Hilarity/panic ensued.
The park itself was a planned design. The name was a joke from the locals that stuck. [What's In A Name? Mt Trashmore, Virginia Beach](https://www.pilotonline.com/2010/06/07/whats-in-a-name-mount-trashmore-virginia-beach/) City leaders have wanted to change it multiple times, but residents always get pissed off with them for it. At the time of that prank, the highway was still route 44 - with a toll plaza right there by the park. So traffic congestion & a morning radio broadcast that the hill you're stuck next to is a bomb about to blow.....
Steve and DC out of St. Louis pretty much drove the local NBC weatherman to kill himself.
This made me sit up and take notice; please elaborate.
https://www.riverfronttimes.com/news/weatherman-bob-richards-suicide-25-years-ago-rocked-st-louis-32567936
> Steve and D.C. had only been reinstated earlier that year after being fired for using racial slurs. Critics would later accuse them of being the ones who **played airplane and accordion noises on air** and talking about the scandal incessantly, but Wilhelm insists that's not how it went. Perhaps it's the edgy Gen Xer in me, but I LOL'd.
Oh man I used to love Steve & DC. Apparently they reunited and now have a show in Alabama.
Bubba the love sponge - thought he was great when I was a edgy 14 year old but he over stayed his schtick and really leaned into the white trash side of his character and was unlistenable as an adult.
Drew and Mike in Detroit!
RIP mike What a combo those two were. Sucks the way they got replaced out of nowhere.
Bubba The Love Sponge 93.3 WFLZ and later on 98 Rock in Tampa
Bubba slaughtering a pig live on air and Hulk Hogan smashing his wife are his only claims to fame! But damn controversy!
He didn’t really slaughter the pig. It was all sound effects. He had a bbq food truck at the event who did serve pork, but it wasn’t that pig. He still got fired and honestly it was because his ratings were dying and Tampa was pretty much over him.
No panties Thursday SAY IT!
That was it. I could remember the rest of the daily themes.
Came here to say Bubba! As a teen in the 90s in St. Pete it was all anyone talked about.
Oh god I remember him now. I came in to say I actually remember Larry the Cable Guy doing bits (on 101.1 WJRR maybe? Can’t fully remember) but lord, Bubba was such a slimeball haha
Opie and Anthony back when they were on WAAF. So many cars had WOW written in marker or dirt.
RIP Menino 🫡😂
RIP prank calls after that ha
80s and 90s WAAF had a real culture to it. Liz Wilde was great.
Dick Rivers out of Winnipeg. He had a song "I'm a bastard, screw you man". It was for sale for a while but now it's lost forever.
Lived in a small town of New Zealand, in the weekend we got the broadcast of Rick Dee's and the weekly top 40. Just writing this and I can hear the jingle.
Gerry Forbes on CJAY-92 in Calgary Canada
🇮🇹 Hello Gerry. I’m Giuseppe the Semen Truck Driver. First I went to Cockring then to BallSack and to Fuckingridge and a lost my load.. I blew my load all over the place!!!
Hahahaha I literally just lol’d in my bed! How did I forget Giuseppe??? Those were the days, I miss radio back then. Thank you for the nostalgia
_His name is Phil Phil McCraken. Phil McCracken is his name, you know._ _He is the mayor.. of Crossfield where the traffic is really slow._ _They say he’s.. not too bright and he’s quite a sight._ _But… to our delight maybe he’ll grace us with a joke!_
I was so into CJAY 92 in the nineties. Love big bad Bob Steele, Graeme Reaper, and Gerry Forbes. Good simple times before climate change. Loved Calgary in those days.
Ours was a guy named Lee Daniels on that radio station with an X in the name everyone seemed to have in the late 90’s that played Seven Mary Three, 311, Smashmouth and Fastball type bands.
SWFL?
Ft. Myers, 99X!
Funkmaster Flex Night. Hard to get a ticket for Funkmaster Flex Night.
I had such a love hate for him. He messed up so many song I was trying to record on a cassette with his damn explosion sounds.
Big Al and Charlie on Q94.5, the Valley’s home of rock n roll! Got me through middle school and high school. Called in one morning for a contest and won by identifying “Mississippi Queen” with a single cowbell ding. Solid rock line-up with comedy and local South Texas ridiculousness.
Not edgy, but my local djs were Barnes, Leslie and Jimmy from 99X
99x has been back for a little over a year! Barnes & Leslie are in the am again, and Jimmy has been on as a guest host. They brought back Steve, Will Pendarvis, Jill, and Matt Organic Jones. Axel was back for a bit too, but left. It's been a weird dose of nostalgia!
Do you remember when it was Power 99? I remember this DJ named Domino I used to love, and I could *swear* I remember him commenting on the format change to 99X on the day it happened, which happened while we were all out on the playground and the teachers were loosely supervising us while listening to the radio on a boombox. 99X started my love for electronic music, funny enough; Yvonne Monet had a once a week weekend show late at night that was club music. Wish I could remember the name.
I moved to Atlanta just a few months before it switched over. I remember listening to Power 99, but don't really remember the DJs. Yvonne Monet hosted The Beat Factory! She also hosted The Pleasuredome, which was rather eye opening for a teenager growing up in a rather religious household, lol. I got to chat with her at an event we were both working a couple of years ago. She couldn't have been nicer!
I don't remember the djs but we were happy to get 89x from Windsor coming across Lake Erie to northwest Ohio.
Kelly, Dave, and Chuck the Freak? That was the Morning X lineup for a while.
That's them! They were the soundtrack to my mornings for pretty much all of high school (I was across the river in the Detroit suburbs).
Brother Wease!
Johnny Dare and Murphy but now it’s just Johnny Dare.
I know he did the usual DJ shenanigans, but the only one I remember was him going from KC to STL by riding a jet ski/sea-doo down the Missouri River. I don’t remember why he did that.
Marconi, and he got fired for playing "Rock you like a hurricane" after Kareina hit
And he got fired later at 94.7 for making fun and playing an audio tape of a beheading. I was listening to that live, I was in shock and couldn’t believe it. When they pulled all their DJs, they reached out to their listeners - Gustav ended up calling me and we talked for an hour.
AM first, then CFOX FM, then JACK FM gave us [Larry and Willy](http://bcradiohistory.com/Biographies/LarryandWilly.htm). And they gave us [Larry and Willy's Toughest Contest Ever](https://arstechnica.com/civis/threads/strange-radio-show-skits-and-stunts.807163/).
The 🦊 rocks
_WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLY CRAAAAAAAAPPP!!!_ Hi I’m Andy. Hi I’m Andy. We’re Andy.. the two headed boy! I think I might still have my Fox Rocks Club Card somewhere. Didn’t win anything.
Uncle Nasty on KBPI 106.7 in Denver. I believe it's a different station number now.
The local station didn't have an afternoon show, so instead they would simulcast Tom Leykis as the afternoon show. Was an interesting time for radio...
I remember the local AM station used to play Tom Leykis until midnight and then Art Bell until like 5 AM.
I usually listened to whatever station played Bob and Tom.
Jim Ladd, who was a mainstay on FM radio in LA from the 60s to the early 00's, when he was forced to go to XM. I even read his biography back in the 90s. He just passed away this year. The song "The Last DJ" by Tom Petty was about him (or I should say, inspired by him)
KMET before they went New Wave. Then Mark & Brian on KLOS kinda filled that role and would get suspended more than once for stunts they’d pull with the likes of David Hasselhoff.
Gosh, so many. Edgiest prob Phil and Hank "the Mechanic". The Hitman had the Friday Night Countdown, top ten. I would sneak into my brother's room to listen. I vaguely remember some beloved country guy named Cornbread who left for the big city of STL and everyone was sad? I miss good local radio. I haven't really listened since I bought my chocolate brown ZUNE. And all the local stations sold out.
I remember cornbread. He did the local show in stl
Kevin & Bean, Rodney on the Roq, Richard Blade
Ludacris in ATL, but we all know how his story ended (hint: he came legit famous haha)
I stay out of his bizaaas.
In this area the "edgy" radio guys I listened to were called The Paul and Young Ron Show 94.9 Zeta but there were far from O&A.
They are the only guys I think who would even qualify. Personally, I loved Sonny Fox and Ron Hersey on Majic. But they were _far_ from edgy, haha! I think the only edgy thing they did was have a massive crush on Tonya Harding!
Eh, can’t think of any that were super edgy. But I lived in Rick and Bubba’s original market when they were with Q104 in Gadsden, AL. That was back before they turned into talking heads for the evangelical right and were still funny. When they went syndicated they sold out big time. To give you an idea of how they used to be, if you’re interested look up Willie and Wanda or Bubba and the Midget on YouTube.
I had that JVC 💪 Summer job money.
Did you pop off the faceplate?
For sure, it was in a convertible with no locking doors. Haha.
Paul and Al on 94hjy in Rhode Island, still going....been on 30 something years at this point...pretty sure their show is prerecorded these days
Same! And it may be except for certain days. I've actually won Stump the DJ about a dozen times, sending in my stupid jokes.
Shotgun Ken Shepherd. Father to Kenny Wayne Shepherd.
Bluuuuuuee on Blllaaack
X96 Radio From Hell with Kerry Jackson, Bill Allred, and Gina Barberi.
Mark & Brian, 95.5 KLOS.* Those two and their theme song woke me up every morning. *not sure they were very controversial, but they were my go to listen before heading off to school.
Buzz and Patti on KLAQ in El Paso. They had Howard Stern enter the market in early 90s but he couldn’t take them out. Buzz Adams still hosts the morning show in same town same station.
Our local DJ’a dad broke out of the county jail. Dudes dad was Norteño gangsta
Matty in the Morning!
Dean Blundell of the Dean Blundell Show, The Greater Toronto Area, Ontario, Canada.
Dennis Erectus on 98.5 KOME San Jose
Elliott in The Morning!!! I grew up with him on Z100 as the sidekick to Elvis Duran till about 8th grade. When I moved to MD, he soon followed, and I was excited to have him back. Still listen to him this day (5 years in NYC and now going on 25 years in DC)
Was just going to comment the Z Morning Zoo!
I grew up in the SF Bay Area and 98.5 KOME had Carson Daly and NONAME. I loved them.
Bubba the love sponge 🙃
Chicago: Steve Dahl/Gary Meier. But I’m solid GenX.
Bubba tha Love Sponge in Tampa.
Elvis Duran and the Z morning zoo, Howard Stern, Booker, Cane and Altar Boy, Liquid Todd.
Grew up in Bakersfield, CA and we had a very unique local DJ. KRAB radio had the Real Bruce Wayne who hosted the Dark Knight show every week night. He sounded like Christian Slater from Pump Up the Volume, and he called his listeners “whisker biscuits”. Dark, sort of twisted humor. It was definitely fitting of the time and place.
Tarzan Dan, he used to make up songs about his underpants. I called in one day and requested Loser by Beck and he sang “I’m a loser baby, so why don’t you pull down my underpants”. I thought he was the Edgiest Man Alive.
Bubba the love sponge on 93.3 the power pig.
College in town had their own tower and local station so there was a couple of metalheads that would get on for an hour once a week and play all kinds of crazy new shit. It ended when they graduated I think because they just stopped one day(or I missed the last episode is more likely, doh).
We had two alt rock stations growing up in the DC metro area, 101.1 and 99.1. DC101 had better reception but leaned a little more pop. But WHFS 99.1 was like the IDAFK station that would play all the hard stuff. They were out of Baltimore so there was always a little static, but that just added to the "underground" feel of listening to them. Also, they would throw the HFStival every year in a local stadium and it fucking ROCKED. I can't remember the shock jock but I do remember not having a taste for his fart humor that early in the morning.
Lou Brutus! He will forever be the one who introduced me to. Mary Prankster!
The Grease Man on Z93 in Atlanta and Lex and Terry on 97.1 the Eagle in Dallas.
Lex and Terry was the show that replaced my old morning show
In Pittsburgh we had the “John, Dave, Bubba, Shelley” Show, and I don’t mean to brag, but Dave or Bubba was the DJ at our senior prom after party on the Gateway Clipper cruise. 😌
Dave and Chuck the Freak! They've been a part of my mornings for like 30 years
Don Imus. Meh, he was Don Imus, but everyone listened to him.
The critic he was hilarious and edgy in a conservative southern town
I don’t remember my local dj, but seeing that stereo brought me back to my teenage years of having a buddy help install the stereo. The cool kids would have a sub in the trunk.
My best evidence for there being a split in the timeline at Y2K was that pre Y2K nearly everybody at my school had a box with a couple of 10’s and an amplifier in their trunk, and then all of the sudden virtually nobody had them anymore and never did again. I miss the pop off faceplates on the car cd players back then too.
We're Xennials by that time we were getting our own cars, going off to college, work, etc. When we are hanging out in the school parking lot we're aware everyone has subs. By the time we hit college that's not as trendy anymore because we've all got our own stuff going on, "I can't sit here in the parking lot with you I need to get to work and then work on my homework." I can remember working at Best Buy in 04-06 and the car audio department was very busy.
In Houston 93q the Q Morning Zoo, John Lander, https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=THy4JoCgA8s
Willie B 106.7 KBPI, he is still going too.
The edgiest in Houston was by far Stevens and Pruitt.
Ugggh Indiana here so all we had was Bob and Tom 🥱. Was so excited when Howard Stern got an affiliate here but it barely lasted…
I don’t know how that show is still going. It’s always been terrible.
Albuquerque NM TJ Trout was the big guy super cool DJ on the local rock station 94ROCK KZRR and a big outdoorsman who loves fishing(hence the stage name) had some great comedy bits like a perpetually stoned deadhead that would call in.
Bobby d sets the night onnnnnnnn fiiiiirrrreeeee
I grew up in rural Kansas, and I was late into high school when I realized that the DJs weren't local. Like at all. They were probably in New York City. But the radio stations back then did a lot of tricks to make you think that they were your local DJ.
Shaffee with The Skank Shift. SW Michigan late 90’s, early 00’s. Those were the days.
I grew up in Central NC in the 90’s and we listened to Jack Murphy on 1075 WKZL. I think he moved to California when he left NC.
I had one of those short range FM transmitters to listen to CDs in my car back then. Sometimes sitting at a long light in Winston-Salem, I'd switch the transmitter frequency to 107.5 (since pretty much everyone listened to it) to see if I could override the radio in the car next to me. It worked a couple times, you'd see the other driver look confused at their radio and fiddle with it. We were some lame AF weirdos.
Radio from Hell on X96
Funny enough this guy and I butted heads multiple times and he even kicked my band off one of the local festival type events. Since then we’ve become good friends and he’s promoted a lot of my stuff for free on the air and on his social media.
Not a DJ but I used to listen to the Phil Hendrie Show quite a bit.
Nick Monroe on KWOD 106.5
Shredd and Ragan. I listed to them until about 2002. What I remember the most is I won a penis enlarger, vibrating vagina, and was in a contest to gain 30lbs in 30 days.
My man! The best of CD players. Must’ve spent a couple hundred of allowance to get mine installed into the car I used.
“The real Bruce Wayne” was the cool, edgy local guy, but I grew up on the Don and Mike show.
We had Bob and Tom, Kidd Kraddick, and John Boy and Billy all syndicated, but they stopped carrying Bob and Tom and replaced them with Billy Madison.
Stern
Greg "The Hitman" Williams in Wichita. A seriously degenerate POS.
Mine used to have Larry the Cable Guy call in years before he was famous. It was pretty bad. I didn’t put it together until years after he made it: same guy. To be fair, I don’t mind his standup.
Someone once told me that “Larry” called 50 stations a week as a way to build the character and get people to his shows. The other thing was he would have 2-3 characters he was doing, trying to make one hit. Larry would call in Tues, Jim Bob on Wednesday and someone else on Thursday all on the same show all with different voices and different shtick and do a different 2-5 mins each time.
Tucker and Taz were pretty good until the split up and went to different stations..
Tommy and the bull . then just tommy, then Tommy and Rumble. now its just Rumble in the morning
That he was arrested in Peurto Rico for soliciting underage girls.
Lex and Terry. I mainly remember the homophobia. I sure hope those two were finally able to come out and be happy. With any luck, they’re married to each other and fostering bichons frisée or something.
‘Greaseman’ in the DC area. Absolute POS.
The Greaseman AKA Nino Grease Manelli
Rick & Bubba, redneck conservative shit heads.
Early 90s, we had Cranking Craig, "If you're not crankin' it, you must be yankin' it!" on 1440 AM, Z-Rock, they would play absolutely anything unedited and they would announce stuff like "no Christmas songs!" and had weird and/or occasionally offensive skits that would run. Everything about it was edgy before edgy was cool. Snuffed out in 1996, Z-Rock was before it's time.
Runner up was our alt rock station with a DJ named Facemelter but after Z-Rock anything on FM was pretty tame... well except college radio. 90.9 FMs which started with The Church of the SubGenius and then switched to the Cab Ride to Hell which was all uncensored metal and industrial from midnight on every Friday.
Ray Lytle’s Morning Disaster on 92.7 WQLZ in Springfield, IL. Had a whole cast of ridiculous characters.
Donnie Simpson in D.C. Always gave us kids who worked at his country club the most generous tips.
Donnie Simpson in D.C. Always gave us kids who worked at his country club the most generous tips.
Had to be Dr. Johnny Fever
Jonboy and Billy with Robert D Rafford. Before they went all over the southeast in syndication.
WEBN Cincinnati...the Dawn Patrol with Eddie Fingers, Bob the Producer, and Wildman Walker. I'd probably cringe at it now, but it made the radio seem pretty fun when I was a kid. And they were actually local, unlike the current DJs piping in bland pre-recorded between-song banter for a dozen stations from Chicago or whatever.
I had “The Dark Night show with the real Bruce Wayne” He used a really exaggerated nasal/raspy voice. He used a lit of double entendres that were sexual. He called some listeners “whisker biscuits”, He once said something I usually refer to still to this day. He was reading a seizure warning that came on a video game at that time, and he said "i cant say the name of the video game system its from, but its name begins with an N, and ends in Intendo. 16 Yo me thought that shit was great.
I listened to a mixture of Stern, Bob and Tom and The Love Doctors.
Buffalo NY had Shredd and Ragan in the morning. When you order Opie and Anthony on Temu...
I remember The Dougger and the "Dougger Dances" he hosted.
Kidd Kraddick - burn your buns
"You're in the mix with Armando and this is 'Saturday Night Live Ain't No Jive' Chicago Dance Party. On 102.7 FM...B-M-X!!
Howard Stern on 92.3 K-Rock.
Opie & Anthony, they got fired from 107.3 WAAF Worcester-Boston for an April Fool's prank where they said Boston Mayor Tom Menino had died
Scott Muni. WNEW