RE: Re: Never any BOC news!

[nick at THECOMPLETESHEET.COM]

With consolidation the way it is, many of us in different parts of the country are actually listening to the same classic rock station, music-wise.  That's because they really ARE being programmed by the same few people.

My guess is that it would be futile to request anything that's not a hit song and/or recognizable to at least a slight perceived majority of the listening audience.  Corporate radio simply will not stray from that path.

As for a station actually having a copy of "Agents of Fortune", I doubt it.  If "Reaper" isn't saved on a station hard drive as a solo track, I just about guarantee it exists on either one of BOC's many unnecessary comps, or on some kind of "Super HIts of the '70s" crap disc.

Sorry to be so negative, but I've worked in radio for a while now, and classic rock the way people on a list like this would define it has long been in hibernation.

My local "classic rock" station plays "Boys of Summer" and "Invisible Touch" without irony or apology.  Shameful.


--Nick




>----- ------- Original Message ------- -----
>From: JLoehr4299 at AOL.COM
>To: BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET
>Sent: Sat, 21 May 2005  17:47:53
>
>In a message dated 5/21/2005 1:23:24 PM US Eastern
>Standard Time,
>blackblade at BHALLIGAN.COM writes:
>
>Yeah,  I'd like to request a song that I love which
>hasn't been played in the
>past,  yet there's a decent chance they would play
>it now. If they
>can't/won't play  Summer of Love I know there's no
>use even requesting something like
>The Red  & The Black, let alone Devil's Hang Nail.
>
>By extending their music  library, I have a
>suspicion they might just be
>playing 5 Led Zep songs over  and over in their
>rotation instead of 2. We'll see.
>I did hear "30 Days in the  Hole" while in my car
>the other day. That's
>different for this station--and  promising.
>
>
>
>That's why I got a CD player for my car! Got tired
>of the ". . . somebody
>else's favorite song. . ." crap on my local classic
>rock station.
>
>Joe