Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site well.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!petrus!bellcore!decvax!decwrl!amdcad!lll-crg!well!rab From: rab@well.UUCP (Bob Bickford) Newsgroups: net.jokes.d Subject: Re: People who sould be take out and shot. Message-ID: <651@well.UUCP> Date: Thu, 13-Feb-86 19:25:38 EST Article-I.D.: well.651 Posted: Thu Feb 13 19:25:38 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 15-Feb-86 04:43:23 EST References: <385@cuuxb.UUCP> <259@imagen.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Whole Earth Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA Lines: 40 In article <259@imagen.UUCP>, jay@imagen.UUCP (Jay Jaeckel) writes: > > How about asshole DJ's who yammer into the beginning of a > > song and start talking again before the song is over. > > > > Tom Frye Even more offensive to me are the DJ's who talk up a song but have never heard it before (and don't have enough sense to check out new music in advance of their shows) and so don't know how long to talk and find themselves in the middle of a sentence when the artist starts singing. > > I always thought they did this on purpose so you can't record the record > off the air so you have to go out and buy it yourself if you want a clean > copy. I assume that record companies give (rather than sell) a copy of > their records to the radio stations to play, so listeners will hear them > and go out and buy them. In other words, every record you hear on the radio > (especially on rock stations) is just an advertisement to go out and buy it. > > -- Jay Jaeckel > ...{ucbvax,decwrl}!imagen!jay Actually, no, they do this to maintain the "rock" sound, or the "am" sound, or whatever it's being called nowadays, in other words the sound of hype and action and no dead air. Sickening, if you ask me (and I've been a DJ). Stations USED to get free copies of records and play them for free, but nowadays they have to pay a fee for playing each record (I think they still get free copies, but I've been out of the business a while...) This also makes me sick, as I've always felt that the artists were the primary beneficiaries of the extensive airplay, and it doesn't make sense that the stations should have to PAY for that..... Robert Bickford (rab@well.uucp) ================================================ | I doubt if these are even my own opinions. | ================================================