Famous Firsts with Clifford
Clifford
Host of Underexposed w/ Clifford & Director of Technical Operations
WRXL (ALT 102.1) & Audacy Richmond
I started off as a part-time phone screener for an afternoon talk show in Richmond, VA on 9/18/01. I went on to become a board op, a producer, an APD for our talk stations, and then a PD for the sports talk station - and then I bugged the heck out of Dustin Matthews (WRXL PD at the time) for me to host a new music show. I'm one of the anomalies of radio where (so far) I've stayed in one market and worked for the same cluster of stations for my entire industry career.
For my birthday, my sister got me a ticket to see LIVE live for their Throwing Copper tour with Catherine Wheel and Buffalo Tom opening up at the Richmond Classic Amphitheater.
If memory serves (and it might not), there was a Radio Shack in my hometown that sold tapes. I remember buying 2 tapes with my own money one time there: One was the Batman Soundtrack and the other ...the Ghostbusters II Soundtrack. I remember buying them before seeing the movies because if I had seen the movies first, I might have only made one purchase that day. But then I would have missed out on putting Bobby Brown's "On Our Own" on repeat and having that 3rd verse stuck in my head forever.
Underexposed w/ Clifford started in 2014 and the first interview I did for the show was a phoner with Matt Sharp (formerly of Weezer, currently of The Rentals). Rob Wilcox (formerly at The Syndicate, currently at Polyvinyl) set it up for me to have 5 ish minutes with Matt to talk about the first new The Rentals album in 15 years. Matt was so accommodating, we ended up talking for 45+ minutes.
1st Dead Air Experience: I was still a board op at the time and for some reason, we had to run a NASCAR race on tape delay on the sports station. It was recorded into the system fine and started playing fine...and then it wasn't fine. There was 3 hours of nothing on the file and there was nothing else in the log to go to. I had to call the APD who was at a Cher concert that night and he had to keep leaving the show to talk me through what to play next. When I heard the faint sounds of "If I Could Turn Back Time" and then "Believe", I knew I had ruined his night.
