Alternative Famous Firsts
Jayn
Music Director
KITS (Live 105)/San Francisco
Running the board at a sports station. By far the most stressed I've ever been listening to Giants games.
Rick Springfield, Blaisdell Arena, Honolulu, 1981. Little baby me could barely intellectually process that he was actually in the room.
1st Record Purchased: Walked into the store and spent my entire $10 monthly allowance on ABBA "Super Trouper" and Queen "The Game" on the same day.
A phoner with John Oates. I was so nervous I was whispering - and he kept delicately asking, "I'm so sorry, can you repeat that?"
I can't remember a real one, but I definitely have those nightmares - and "the studio door is locked and I can't get in" - weekly. Expecting one tonight!
Greg Glover
Host, Alternative Mornings & The Bottom Forty
KNRK (94/7)/Portland, OR
Promotion/A&R/Publicity Assistant, London Records in 1996
Alice Cooper w/ special guests AC/DC (Bon Scott!!!) Birmingham, AL in 1978
(tie) KISS “Destroyer” and Steely Dan “Aja”
As a journalist Adrian Belew (The Bears)…in radio Anthony Gonzalez (M83) in 2005.
1st Dead Air Experience: In a stress dream last night!
Nicole Alvarez
Middays
KROQ/Los Angeles
WPLA/Jacksonville. I got it because some dumb guy broke my heart so I went to a rock night at a club in Jacksonville after my roommates dragged me out of my dorm room and Planet was there. I found my way on stage where the DJ was and I asked for a contact and then I called relentlessly until they agreed to see me. The rest is history.
Motley Crue’s Theater of Pain…with my MOTHER!
Motley Crue - Shout At The Devil
My first artist interview was on the phone and it was Gavin Rossdale of Bush and I was terrified but the man could not have been lovelier. My voice was shaking, I had cold sweats, I didn't know what I was doing, but it by the time it was over we were best buds and I found out that hs guilty song pleasure was Bon Jovi's "Bad Medicine." I consider that a win.
I honestly don't remember my first dead air experience. If I am being honest, they are all so traumatizing to the core that I am pretty sure I black out each and every time and bury the memory deep at the bottom of my soul. I can only say that each one has been but a mere few seconds that feel like an eternity in hell.
