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gbfmif wrote:

> Well Steve, actually, I like some (not all) of "French rock", then again, I
> like only some, not all, of current "American rock" (to be honest, not real
> sure what that is anymore however) - though recently, most of what I hear
> identified as rock has odd, to me, similarities in beat, scansion and
> harmonics to songs from the mid to late 60's or very early 70's. (OK - yes I
> am an OLD fart)

AS am I LOL. back when I was listening to CHOM Montreal, the DJ's, both English
and French Canadian had some very humorous things to say about "French rock", and
they did a lot of apologizing.





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>
> Your 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration comment, I would fully agree with,
> within a somewhat level playing field, which I am not convinced is presently
> the situation (of course, stacking the deck without detection, always wins).
> Never thought a boycott, per se, was viable within today's reality, however,
> have some difficulty with the concept of those with the power own the game
> (Atlas Shrugged comes to mind - though am not sure we have a culture today
> consistent with the ability to enable a John Gault or Hank Reardon view of the
> world and implement those required actions)  Let's be real, you do your trip
> and I am doing mine - I have no interest in saving the world or ending world
> hunger or necessarily boycotting Dallas radio - (though your one liner, "Learn
> to play that game" is cute) "Learn to play that game"  is incredibly
> condescending without basis or substance or substantiation. I just asked a
> simple question, to which you did not answer, so let me ask again, and I
> quote,
>
> would you support a requirement that any
> > > commercial station must play a local artist or a presently "unknown"
> > > artist, whose music falls within their format, at least every 20th
> > > song?

Not really. I know the airwaves belong "to the people", but market forces
effectively are "the people".

Perhaps if someone could show an example of a commercial station that follows
something akin to this format that experiences success because of it, I could be
sold.

Who would "administrate" this policy/program. Would they not be come programming
nazis in their own right?

As I recall from my promo days, there were several attempts (okay maybe just one
or two) to have Texas-only music shows on some of the area stations. As I recall,
I think they were discontinued. Why is that?

I'm not against the concept of local music, and I do believe that given enough
public demand, the stations might play more of it. I suppose a boycott may be one
way to achieve this, but I doubt it. I believe that if enough listeners
"demanded" more local music, they stations would respond, but I think the
majority really doesn't care - they have CD players in their car LOL.



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>
> Per Tom's follow on comments, I must admit I am  ignorant of the "business
> aspects" of today's commercial stations. I was just an old, late 60's and
> early 70's late night underground DJ who totally ignored required station play
> lists and required commercial interruptions and played (I hope) a show which
> mixed then current "popular" artists songs with totally unknown artists songs,
> (and to be honest, unknown, obscure, artist songs that just sounded good to
> me) into a radio "show" and for whatever reason, got away with it.
>
> Payola, legal or otherwise, is a business reality which I think anyone today
> has awareness of, however, I believe, (notice, I believe) that the airwaves,
> which are licensed by the FCC to their "owners", for public broadcast
> utilization, (commercial or otherwise) should have some public responsibility
> inherently associated for the holders of those public licenses.
>
> In relation to this, I do not think it unreasonable that these licensed FCC
> public airwaves owners (commercial  or private entities) should be sanctioned
> or allowed by the FCC issuing body to only consider their stockholders and
> corporate bottom line, after all, they hold an FCC license which is
> essentially issued for "public" utilization of the airwaves. The airwaves are
> licensed by the FCC for public utilization (yes, we can get into a long debate
> on this subject as I also have difficulty with the basic concept that the FCC
> should have this ability in the first place, but this is the way it is)
> however, it seems to me, there should be a balance struck between corporate
> and public responsibility as it pertains to utilization and execution of these
> licenses.
>
> Steve, your simplistic, and from my view, cute response, irritated me.

Sorry it did, but consider it perhaps a pearl embryo.

Simple as my view is, it comes from experience, not theory. I may disagree with
the way things are, it made it difficult to promote. But, my job was to promote
my artist, not change the structure of radio. And, BTW, my guy's title song from
his new CD was getting a lot of airplay on Bill Mack's WBAP show, and will get
the same when BM goes satellite. His previous CD got very little airplay - partly
because of the difficulties that are inherent in the system, but mostly because
the CD wasn't all that good - the production qualities were "not ready for prime
time"

But-I will say this. Nashville had better watch out. They drive the boat now, but
in my opinion, the best music comes out of Texas, and I believe you'll see the
growth of the Texas mafia over the coming years. Texas music is not just rehashed
60's-70's country-ized rock, which is what we get out of N'ville these days. They
are figuring it out tho, with the decline in popularity following country music's
popularity spike. There is a movement on to return more to "real" country.


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>
> Tom, (even though I think you basically supported my view) I think you also
> hold an unrealistic position.
>
> Pardon my naivet�, these are just my views
>
> End of rant
>

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