Alternative Famous Firsts
Ian Camfield
Presenter
KVIL (ALT 103.7)/Dallas, KQMT (99.5 The Mountain)/Denver, WDZH (ALT 98.7)/Detroit, KBZT (ALT 94.7)/San Diego, KNDD (107.7 The End)/Seattle
Virgin Megastores Radio in UK, but if we're talking actually on the radio, that would be Country 1035. I was 16 and playing Dolly Parton on a London Country station, at 3am, on AM!
Rolling Stones at Wembley Stadium. Many people have an embarrassing answer to this question. I'm grateful to Mum & Dad for taking my Sister and I when we were little kids, so my first gig was a great one. My parents had seen The Stones a few times in the 60s & 70s, and wanted to go to the Steel Wheels Tour, because they thought it was likely to be the final one. This was in 1989!
If You Want Blood You Got It by AC/DC. My Aunt's boyfriend at the time left some cassettes at our house one day. A couple were by AC/DC, and listening to those made me want to go to the record store and find more. I was seven. The cover has Angus with the guitar through his chest, covered in blood. That caught my attention.
On Xfm I started a Metal show, my first interview was Robb Flynn from Machine Head. Who had a difficult reputation. So much so, the label warned me beforehand, knowing I was young and inexperienced. But he was great, we became friends and I still go see Machine Head and text Robb to this day.
Back in the VMR / Country 1035 days I was doing three shifts across the two stations, between Saturday and Sunday morning. Plus going to college five days a week. There was one time I nodded off in the studio during Luka by Suzanne Vega in the early hours of Sunday morning. This was a time when you had to start the next song, so the silence woke me!
Jill
Night Jock and Specialty Show Host for Planet Jill
WNNX 99X Atlanta
88.5 WRAS at Georgia State (college radio); WNNX 99X (professional radio)
The Replacements (with Bob Stinson!) at 688 in Atlanta
REM Fables of the Reconstruction
The Bodeans (and they were mean to me)
At WRAS the bathroom was outside the station down a long hall...and I forgot to leave the door unlocked and had to run to the security office to get them to let me back in.
Woody Fife
Host, The Woody Show
KYSR (ALT 98-7)/Los Angeles +30 others through Premiere Networks
Intern at B94 in Pittsburgh
Rolling Stones (Steel Wheels Tour) at Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh
Don’t remember the 1st record overall, but the first CD I bought with Def Leppard’s “Hysteria” in 1988. I didn’t even own a CD player yet…..I think I must have been manifesting.
Sugar Ray at the Rose Garden in 1997 for KNRK.
I knocked the station off the air when I plugged my headphones into the old rotary board….the static electricity shorted something out……I had to open the board up…..flip a switch, wait 30 seconds, then fire it back up. Off the air the entire time.
