Radio is great. It's personal. It's a companion.
It can get you up and put you to sleep.
I remember road trips with my Dad listening to a game on the radio. After the games we attended, it would be late enough to listen to the CBS Radio Mystery Theater that came on air at 10:30pm.
I became a sports fan listening to the radio - Eddie Doucette and the "Professor" put me courtside for the Milwaukee Bucks when Kareem and Oscar and Bobby D had the team at the top. I was 7 when they won the Championship and I have an enduring memory of sitting up in bed late at night listening closely to every point.
In the summer, it was the Brewers delivered to me by Merle Harmon and Bob Uecker. Packer games broadcast by Jim Irwin and Max McGee were fun to listen to on those days I couldn't be in front of the TV, and I liked to hear them and turn down the TV.
To inform of my radio geekiness - I pursued and got autographs from Eddie Doucette and Jim Irwin - since I would never be on the court or field I aspired to get behind the mike.
That's where I wanted to be - on the air. In high school, I was fortunate and blessed to get a part-time gig with WCLO-WJVL FM. Mostly I played commercials during games and could do an occasional station identification (WCLO, Janesville, Wisconsin). But sometimes, on weekends I was able to be a disc-jockey after the game until our 1am sign-off.
I don't know that I was very good, but I had a blast. Back-timing music so it would hit the break at the top of the hour and smoothly segueing from one song to another felt to me like I was an artist.
If I had ever made it into big time radio, I thought about going with Dave Williams as an air name but, found the slightly stupid "Pete Moss" as the air name for me.
So, when Pandora internet radio came on the scene and we could "build" our own station, that's what I labeled "mine, Pete Moss Radio."
It's a mix of music I like: Classic Rock, Contemporary Christian, Big Band, Swing, Punk, and Ska. The Beatles, Huey Lewis, Michael W Smith, Petra, Zoot Suit Riot, Cherry Poppin' Daddies, Adam Ant, and Ska groups whose names I don't yet have committed to memory.
Check it out, if you don't like a song, wait for the next one... it's likely to be very different.
And thanks for listening!
It can get you up and put you to sleep.
I remember road trips with my Dad listening to a game on the radio. After the games we attended, it would be late enough to listen to the CBS Radio Mystery Theater that came on air at 10:30pm.
He bought an old radio at auction for a quarter that could pick up medium and short wave signals of stations from around the world.I became a sports fan listening to the radio - Eddie Doucette and the "Professor" put me courtside for the Milwaukee Bucks when Kareem and Oscar and Bobby D had the team at the top. I was 7 when they won the Championship and I have an enduring memory of sitting up in bed late at night listening closely to every point.
In the summer, it was the Brewers delivered to me by Merle Harmon and Bob Uecker. Packer games broadcast by Jim Irwin and Max McGee were fun to listen to on those days I couldn't be in front of the TV, and I liked to hear them and turn down the TV.
To inform of my radio geekiness - I pursued and got autographs from Eddie Doucette and Jim Irwin - since I would never be on the court or field I aspired to get behind the mike.
That's where I wanted to be - on the air. In high school, I was fortunate and blessed to get a part-time gig with WCLO-WJVL FM. Mostly I played commercials during games and could do an occasional station identification (WCLO, Janesville, Wisconsin). But sometimes, on weekends I was able to be a disc-jockey after the game until our 1am sign-off.
I don't know that I was very good, but I had a blast. Back-timing music so it would hit the break at the top of the hour and smoothly segueing from one song to another felt to me like I was an artist.
If I had ever made it into big time radio, I thought about going with Dave Williams as an air name but, found the slightly stupid "Pete Moss" as the air name for me.
So, when Pandora internet radio came on the scene and we could "build" our own station, that's what I labeled "mine, Pete Moss Radio."
It's a mix of music I like: Classic Rock, Contemporary Christian, Big Band, Swing, Punk, and Ska. The Beatles, Huey Lewis, Michael W Smith, Petra, Zoot Suit Riot, Cherry Poppin' Daddies, Adam Ant, and Ska groups whose names I don't yet have committed to memory.
Check it out, if you don't like a song, wait for the next one... it's likely to be very different.
And thanks for listening!
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