Famous Firsts with Brian Phillips
Brian Phillips
PM Drive (3-7p weekdays); "History Of Alternative" host/curator (8-12noon Sunday)
WKQX (Q101)/Chicago
Z100/NYC (1995)
Depeche Mode / Giants Stadium (1990)
Violent Femmes (self-titled). It was a fixture in the cassette Walkman for at least a year.
Dave Navarro (phoner) 2003 - WHTG (New Jersey). We were chatting for about 10 minutes having a fun conversation (I believe he was calling from a tour bus in Cincinnati) when he stopped and asked, "Did the interview start?". I said, "yes, 10 minutes ago" so, he continued in a more serious, "prepared answers and copy points" tone and vibe. The first 10 minutes were much more interesting.
There may have been a few during those early Jersey days...none of them MY fault (of course). Better dead air story: WRXP in 2008. I left the studio for a minute (around 10:30p or so). The cleaning person entered the studio to vacuum the floor and inadvertently knocked the station off-the-air. There was roughly 4 minutes of dead air (it seemed like an hour).
