Alternative Famous Firsts
Jonah Griss-Bush
Afternoon Host, Brand Manager, and Director of Content at Townsquare Media Poughkeepsie
WRRV/WRRB in Hudson Valley, NY
Street team at 92.3 NOW in New York City in 2009
Korn and Limp Bizkit in 1997. I was ten and wore an Elmo t-shirt... I never zipped a jacket up so fast when I saw the crowd inside
Prodigy's Fat Of The Land
Dustin Kensrue of Thrice. I had a weekend show on K-Rock's HD2 channel and decided to randomly reach out after they released Beggars and they were cool enough to respond.
Entire automation system crashed during one of my first years on a morning show. With no music to play we turned it into a talk show, took live calls, and luckily escaped with no FCC violations.
Kevin Mays
Program Director
WBTZ (99.9 The Buzz) & Classic Rock 106.7 WIZN/Burlington, VT
I was a senior in high school working at a Country station in Richmond, VA, WTVR-FM doing automated weekend overnights, Midnight-8am.
I think it was Duran Duran at Hampton Coliseum in maybe 83, I'm sure my parents dragged me to others but I remember asking to go to this one.
Was an 8-Track – Cars "Panorama"
Phone interview with Mike D from Beastie Boys while in college at Virginia Commonwealth University, that was real a mess.
Working overnights at that first gig in Richmond, it was reel to reel automated with live assist, so I had plenty of time to run to 7-11 on the corner during sweeps until one of the reels stopped while I was out. Had dead air for about 15 minutes, it was 3am so no one ever noticed, but I swore I would get fired for that one.
Dallas Osborn
On-Air & Audacy Alternative Social Captain
KKDO/Sacramento, WDZH/Detroit, WSFS/Miami, KITS (LIVE 105)/San Francisco
September 2007: Street Team ("Action Team") at LIVE 105
Metallica in Austin, TX at 3 years old. Remember being on my mom's shoulders and beer being spilled on me from a deck above.
Bought Fountains of Wayne “Welcome Interstate Managers” & Maroon 5's “Harder To Breathe” together in June 2003.
Janelle Monae came into my college radio station at San Francisco State in March 2010 ahead of a show at 320-cap SF venue Cafe Du Nord. We talked about Star Wars.
Audio Vault freezing on a weekend shift at LIVE 105 in the early 2010s led to frantically running around the station for CDs to play until an engineer called back. The Killers' “Hot Fuss” got some extra love that day.
