Any Comments on the Jack Radio Format?

[BLAblablah]

Anyone old enough to have been aware in the early to mid 70's may remember the "Progressive Rock" FM stations. They really did play whatever they wanted...you would hear Pink Floyd, then a quirky John Hartford number, then Tomita's "Snowflakes are Dancing", then maybe Neil Young followed by some Jean-Michele Jarre. You could really get a good cross-exposure to music just listening to one or two competing stations. I was unaware of the "Jack" format, and have no idea if we even have one in the Jacksonville area...though given the name, seems like we should .

I have basically only listened to Satellite since getting XM a year and a half ago...with the exception of some occasional NPR and a local talk station to hear Clark Howard's show.

Barry

[Lee Knight]

Originally posted by BLAblablah Anyone old enough to have been aware in the early to mid 70's may remember the "Progressive Rock" FM stations. They really did play whatever they wanted...you would hear Pink Floyd, then a quirky John Hartford number, then Tomita's "Snowflakes are Dancing", then maybe Neil Young followed by some Jean-Michele Jarre. You could really get a good cross-exposure to music just listening to one or two competing stations. I was unaware of the "Jack" format, and have no idea if we even have one in the Jacksonville area...though given the name, seems like we should . I have basically only listened to Satellite since getting XM a year and a half ago...with the exception of some occasional NPR and a local talk station to hear Clark Howard's show. Barry

 

I grew up falling asleep with headphones on to KMET in Los Angeles. It was good back then... stoned DJ's, "That was Mahavishnu followed by some Mountian. Stick around, we've got a new band you're gonna dig, Steely Dan, then get get to some Hot Tuna..."

[Phil O'Keefe]

Aaah, the "mighty MET". I used to listen to KMET (tweedle-dee ) a lot back in the day myself. Too bad it's gone now.

[thankyou]

I mentioned in another thread that when I was growing up, the local top forty station played everything from Elvis to Hank to Duke to Sheb Wooley's Purple People Eater. And I was trying to learn Fur Elise . It was a good thing to hear so many different genres.

 

I rented a car last spring that had XM radio and really loved it. It was kind of like my first taste of Sat TV. Now, nine years later, many of the DirecTV programs I liked are gone. The Wings Channel became the Military Channel. ZDTV became Tech TV (not a big change) then became G4 - the gamer channel. Things keep moving toward the lowest common denominator though, or at least the most profit per hour format, so I don't anticipate the shine staying on the apple too long.

 

"I heard him say in a voice so gruff,

I wouldn't eat you, 'cause you're too tough.

He was a one-eyed, one-horned

Flying purple people eater..."

 

tHANKyou

[335clone]

Originally posted by BLAblablah Anyone old enough to have been aware in the early to mid 70's may remember the "Progressive Rock" FM stations. They really did play whatever they wanted...you would hear Pink Floyd, then a quirky John Hartford number, then Tomita's "Snowflakes are Dancing", then maybe Neil Young followed by some Jean-Michele Jarre. You could really get a good cross-exposure to music just listening to one or two competing stations. I was unaware of the "Jack" format, and have no idea if we even have one in the Jacksonville area...though given the name, seems like we should . I have basically only listened to Satellite since getting XM a year and a half ago...with the exception of some occasional NPR and a local talk station to hear Clark Howard's show. Barry

 

Some of us still have that experience on a daily basis.

 

My local station pioneered webcasting, and still have live DJ's 24/7 that get to pick what they play.

 

You want eclectic, check out this playlist

 

http://www.kpig.com/playlist.php?hours=0

 

I'm spoiled.......

[Lee Knight]

Originally posted by Phil O'Keefe Aaah, the "mighty MET". I used to listen to KMET (tweedle-dee ) a lot back in the day myself. Too bad it's gone now.

 

Oh yeah. Do you remember the TV promos with Mississipi Queen? That cowbell then the snare crack, then Leslie West's lick with the pulsing rainbow rings logo.

 

I'd be watching prime time TV as a kid and that would come on... yowsa! I'd spill my milk all over my pajamas. Mom... I wanna rock!

[Anderton]

 

there was NO 60's channel.

 

 

Time for XM, Phil!

[acousticvoodoo]

During the news-blip of controversy over the no-warning advent of Jack radio in NY, I heard a pr guy say about Jack... "It's amazing... we have 1200 songs... and we can play any of them at any time!.

 

WTF?

 

1200 songs? That's BIG?

 

I guess there aren't all that many "hits"!

 

My experience with "progressive radio" was with a station where the dj's picked their own songs... and if a cut was played within 30 days... it couldn't be repeated.

 

Constant B sides... really album cuts. Wide diversity of music.

 

Picked with taste not market analysis.

 

It actually sucks to know how cool radio CAN be.

 

michael

[Phil O'Keefe]

...or Sirius. Yeah, I need to get off the dime, bite the bullet (insert your favorite metaphor here ) and just buy a system.

 

And I also need to get a new computer keyboard it seems... I've been making a LOT of typos lately. Sorry about that folks.

[ZED]

Not a listener.

[blue2blue]

Originally posted by Lee Knight I grew up falling asleep with headphones on to KMET in Los Angeles. It was good back then... stoned DJ's, "That was Mahavishnu followed by some Mountian. Stick around, we've got a new band you're gonna dig, Steely Dan, then get get to some Hot Tuna..."

 

Ah yeah... when they first started, they were really, really cool. And it wasn't just 'underground' rock, either. They were pretty much my introduction to Billie Holiday, the pre-rock jump blues era, outsider humorists like Lord Buckley and the acid-drenched Firesign Theatre. Hell, when the infamously hard-drinkin' country DJ Jimmy Rabbit got fired from yet another country station, they gave him a job. He used to have Willie and Waylon come in and hang out spinning disks (they weren't playing a lot of Pink Floyd those nights ).

 

 

On the 'cookie cutter/dough' front. I'm not aware of having heard someone use that phrase before -- and I didn't find it doing a quick google -- but I'm sure not ruling it out that I may not be the first to fall upon that (perhaps obvious) turn of phrase.

 

OTOH, I never saw lack of originality hold back a country song before -- and I've certainly never let that keep me from enshrining "established wisdom" in a sh-tkicker.