This Broad Is NUTS!! Artist seeks fame and fortune by drawing funny. Greg helped us out with ad art for The Wild Hare (Memphis Flyer ads, promo flyers, our rabbit mascot, and round logo) and started doing the Ronald McDonald House Radiothon tee designs (which we printed), as well as the art for the Best of the Wake-Up Crew tapes/CDs. I believe they dropped the Eagle from the name after a couple years, and just before that is when I come into this story. Could you give them some tips? They've been fucking it up ever since. Memphis Classic Rock. Our chatservice is available on Monday 09.00-12.30, Thuesday and Thursday 09.00-16.00, Wednesday and Friday 09.00-12.30 and 19.00-22.00. Nobody listened to that shit, but through ownership changes and pulling in awesome talent, they managed to build an awesome station which exists to this day. Once done, I sent it off for approval and the above walrus became the new official mascot logo for Rock103. I loved the fact that the neon walrus sign ended up in the background of many of the pics- always dug that sign. All books, photocopies, microfiches and microfilms in the cabinets in the reading room are self-service and can be accessed at any time. Noord-Hollands Archief Postbus 3006 2001 DA Haarlem info@noord-hollandsarchief.nl, IBAN: NL46 RABO 0192 3261 71KvK: 57581665BTW: NL00815115714B01, Jansstraat 40 2011 RX Haarlem tel. I have no idea what their politics are at heart, but I've never really gotten a liberal vibe off them. iHEARTMEDIA Classic Rock WEGR (ROCK 103)/MEMPHIS, TN is adding the "JOSH INNES SHOW" to Mornings beginning MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19th. At $1.15/hr, I made a little less than my all-night janitor job out by the interstate, but pretending to DJ in the deserted AM daytimer studios with my personal album collection was more fun. Performed live and broadcast nationwide New Year's Eve 1982 from Memphis' MidSouth Coliseum , which I was thrilled to host from radio station ROCK 103 ,here's a smokin' version of 38 Special's "Back Door Stranger" .-Redbeard. I HOPE ONE OF YOU GETS DOWN AND OUT LIKE THAT POOR CHICKEN YOU POSTED THE OTHER DAY AND LET ME LAUGH AT YOU. I quit listening at about that time. Drake & Zeke left to pursue greener pastures just at the time that Dennis and Ric took their slot. Through a third-party opportunity with the BBC, I was able to take Van Morrison of my to-do list. 1070 WDIA is the heart & soul of Memphis! Tim, who had been program director for years, went on to midday drive time and finally "left" the station last year, presumably not by choice. About a year or so later we started printing them ourselves when we expanded our shop and got two manual presses. In the Studio with Redbeard is as close to the flame of the creative process as you can get, unfiltered by critics or DJs or self-appointed "experts." Go figure..! When In the Studio debuted on compact disc for affiliates, it was a real tech marvel, but the Internet, digital downloads, social media, and palm-sized computer smartphones were still a decade into the future. That way it could work big or small, screenprinted, embroidered, or paper printed, look good on the internet, and be printed multi-color or 1-color. Listen to In the Studio with Redbeard anywhere in the world on British Airways in-flight entertainment channel (with a million passengers a month and a captive audience for 4-22 hours, that's serious cume plus TSL). I also miss dropping by the station, cutting commercials, and hearing Bad Dogs laugh coming from down the hallway. An error happened posting the review, sorry! Don't get me wrong I love the bands they play, but there other songs by The Beatles. I love hanging out in the Batcave, but I do get a bit stir crazy some days- especially before I was allowed to drive myself. I got in touch with Greg and Bob and some of my fellow Mid-South Cartoonists Association members (Jim Palmer, Kevin Williams, Sam Ray, and others), and we started supplying content for the site. Most of the talent left over the years. Nice try, but "close" only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades, so after nine months they bought out my contract and put a stake through the format's heart a few weeks later. Exclusive Shows From Today's Best Artists, Gisele Shares Post About 'Bad' Experiences Months After Divorce, WATCH: E-40 Gets Kicked Out Of NBA Playoff Game; Claims 'Racial Bias', 15 Facts About Temple Of The Dog's Self-Titled Album, Tennessee City Named One Of America's Best Cheap Travel Destinations, WATCH: Gene Simmons Gets Ill During Kiss Concert, Performs Seated, Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. from 7 pm to 8 pm Monday through Friday. Rock 103 is a Classic rock FM radio station in Memphis, Tennessee. It was a quick and easy cartoon to draw and color- and I made the deadline. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Part of our image collection is available through the beeldbank on our website. In 1988, John joined "The Wake Up Crew" with Tim Spencer and Bev Hart on Rock 103. Tagged in this Audio: More Updated Date:Apr 08, 2022 Category:Leisure Publish Date:Apr 29, 2021 Jump to Full Description Snippets are a new way to share audio! The Crew and lizard tees had done well for us- updating and printing the walrus could be big for us, and it was. Since the 20th anniversary was coming up, and we had had some interest in the older retro logos on shirts, I suggested that each month we release a shirt with a different classic walrus logo on the front of older style tees like they originally came on (ringers, 3/4 length sleeves, sleeveless, etc. I had a lot of fun working on the lizard designs and regular logo shirts. This is THE BEST radio station EVER!!!!! Sometimes for print they would use too dark of a blue which didnt give the logo much contrast. Most of the talent left over the years. WEGR is a classic rock FM radio station in Memphis, Tennessee.It is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. and serves the Memphis metropolitan area, including sections of Tennessee, Arkansas, Missouri and Mississippi.WEGR broadcasts at 102.7 MHz and on the air it calls itself Rock 103.The station's studios are located in Southeast Memphis, and the transmitter site is in Bartlett, Tennessee. Tim and Bad Dog stayed around as a team until Bad Dog's passing a few years back. The online finding aids describe how the original documents can be requested from the storage area. I am thankful for my vinyl and digital collection and listen mostly to both of them. I left The Wild Hare (now Animated Jacks) around 99/00 after a falling out with Mitch over the way things were being run, and the going back on a long promise of my partnership. The new had worn off for some- others just got busy with other projects. See more Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. I am so proud to be among the initial "Unfrozen Chosen," the original "Dirty Dozen" programmers that Lee Abrams and Dave Logan hired to pioneer this effort in an impressive talent pool that eventually grew to almost 300. This Tennessee radio stationrelated article is a stub. - English, 2650 Thousand Oaks Blvd, Memphis, TN 38118, The Deep End Kijk voor veelgestelde vragen ook in onze FAQ. I had a lot of radio swag-Rock Card, several bumper stickers, mini-radio, and eventually a shirt. Enter to win Tickets to 3 Doors Down! Jobs With KXLY; KHTQ-FM Public File and EEO Report Our chatservice is available on Monday 09.00-12.30, Thuesday and Thursday 09.00-16.00, Wednesday and Friday 09.00-12.30 and 19.00-22.00. Would Love to find a Rock 103 t-shirt for my son. YOU POST ON FACEBOOK PICTURES OF POOR ABUSED ANIMALS AND THEN MAKE, WHAT YOU THINK, IS A FUNNY REMARK ABOUT IT YOU ARE SICK MOTHER FERS WHO WALK HAND IN HAND WITH THE DEVIL! Album Network Pres. Tim Spencer with the Wake-Up Crew had been the stations webmaster, and ended up contacting me about doing a Funny Pages section. SICK STUFF. One time I emailed Tim and asked him, You spend so much time working on your website and promoting it on the air, but why do you guys never put the web-address/URL on any of the promo materials the station hands out..? He replied back, Forest for the trees After that I started seeing/hearing ROCK103.COM on more and more promos and ads. MY NAME IS J. GORNICZ AND EMAIL IS JGORNICZ5025@comcast.net IF YOU WANT TO TAKE THIS UP WITH ME. WEGR ROCK 103. It let many of us flex our cartoon muscles. They don't have any decent personalities any more and are a husk of their former shell of the awesome that was Rock 103 a few years ago. Can you leave some hints to them that there are many more songs than what they play. ), Redbeard was one of Rock103s more famous DJs on the air, and I bought my Rockin Walrus license plate (which I still have) from him when he was selling the stations wares out of their van on the side of the road off Millbranch near Shelby Drive. More classic Wake Up Crew from Rock 103 Memphis with Tim Spencer, Bev Hart, John "Bad Dog" McCormack & David Saks http://DavidSaks.com GRANTS PASS, OR 2 DAYS AGO. The World Premiere radio interview special in July 1980 for the Lynyrd Skynyrd survivors' highly-anticipated ( and highly emotional ) return as the Rossington Collins Band on "Anytime, Any Place, Anywhere". Manhunt Underway For Convict Who Kidnapped, Tortured Women. Access to WiFi is availabe in the reading room for free. Fresh Air With Terry Gross. 1 YOU SON OF A BITHCES!!!!!! FOX 13 Memphis; Contests & Promotions. *UPDATE: Theyre back to calling it Rock103 againfor now. Word donateur van de Stichting Vrienden van het NHA. Don't get me wrong I love the bands they play, but there other songs by The Beatles. Recently Played. He lightened the mood and made bad situations funny. We launched in June 1988 with 60 of the biggest markets in America; within six months that number had grown to 95 of the Top 100; and peaked at 180 market affiliates. Pandora and MP3s for me, can't seem to find Derek Trucks on any commercial radio station! My main problem with D&Z is they are too depressing. I'm pleased to report good healthy ratings at KZPS now. Latest Photos View All Photos . Copyright 2023 by In the Studio with Redbeard. LOVE THIS STATION!!!! I don't listen to Rock 103, but they've gone through some personal changes and adjusted their format some. Re: What's the deal with HD radio. 023-5172700. They don't do that zoo crew crap anymore (except for dumbasses of the day), They need to bring back The Free Beer and Hotwings morning show. [2] In December 1975, the station went to an automated Country music format with the call letters WZXR. I dont know who originally came up with the mascot, or drew the different variations before mine, but would love to know. Login here. YOU SON OF A BITHCES!!!!!! nd I wish they knew that The Eagles and Lynard Skinard have more than one song. I would occasionally get more walrus promo merch from Diane whenever I would stop by the station (hats, pens, post-it notes, coffee mugs, buttons, etc), but after she left to go work for Memphis In May, the fun freebies seemed to dry up. ZZ Top "El Loco" fortieth anniversary interview with Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill, & Frank Beard "In the Studio". (Later Redbeard went on to do his syndicated radio show In The Studio.). I was asked to do only afternoon personality, with zero input on concept or execution. No training, no schooling (which must have been painfully obvious to my listeners). We did a lot of work with Rock103 (later with 96X and K97), and did many movie premiers with them. Posts. They loved them, and luckily the stations promotions/marketing director, Diane Hampton, was there that morning, too. The dismantling of the Wake-Up crew is probably the most historically significant change. Already a user? Exclusive Shows From Today's Best Artists Music News Instead we went with the Evolution of the Walrus design I came up with (top left). Im out of the hospital and have done a few cardiac rehab physical therapy sessions. Not sure if Greg was busy, but it was last minute and she was desperate for an idea. That's easy: Bruce Springsteen and Elvis Costello. Once I won some free tickets to go see him live. In February 1984, Tom "Q" Owens at Q102 Dallas/Ft.Worth hired me again to replicate our Memphis success. I jokingly told her, Give them a lizard. She paused for a moment, and then replied, What about a walrus..? I said, You want to bring back the Rockin Walrus..? Save peace in the world. This one of the only things I miss about Memphis. An overview of our collections can be found under'archievenoverzicht'(overview of archive collections) on our website and on the computers in our reading rooms. The 'archievenoverzicht' will tell you if an archive is publically available to consult or not. For a brief period, the station was promoted as "The Eagle," in an attempt to create a brand from the call sign. Im going to try and get the dates and events as right as I can, but most of my part happened over 20 years ago. After all the good and the bad over the years, I do think its kinda cool to know that back in high school I used to make over-sized faux Wink105 bumper stickers for my American History teacher, Mr. Ed Winkelmann, and that a few years later I ended up doing actual Rock103 bumper stickers- and more. I didnt get to create a completely new logo- just the head. is an NPR-affiliate radio station serving the Mid-South region with "gentle, but straightforward, news and information, with local weather and traffic reports.". The show was added at 106.7 WLLZ Detroit in April of this year. The last design I did was for the memorialBad Dog Poker Runtees (above). Not too long after it was re-branded and became The Eagle- Rock 103. Greg came up with the idea of doing a Wake-Up Crew shirt with each of them- Tim Spencer, Bev Hart, and John Bad Dog McCormack, in their studio (and Bevs separate room)and dropping it off to them. Believe me, you haven't really lived until you watch a live television launch of your transmitter 22,500 miles into space by a rocket floating in the Pacific! Around 1990-91 I was working as a printer for a silkscreen shop (Team Victory) with another buddy, Allen Tuggle, and Greg did freelance art for the owner. They didnt run them, but Tim did post them on the Rock103 site and they were a big hit. WEGR has been broadcasting here in one form[at] or another since the late 70s. Ric Chetter wasn't sad about Tim being let go. Depending on the selected settings, some functions may become unavailable! He passed away before I got to know him, but Ive been a big fan of his ever since I found out about him.). ------ Shows: The Deep End, Flashback, Wake Up Crew, Get The Led Out, The Great Unsigned, Tim Spencer ----- Hosts: Nick Michaels, Maria Milito, Tim Enter to win Tickets to 3 Doors Down! The website cannot function properly without these files, they can only be disabled by changing your browser settings or by using our website in "Incognito" mode. Our radio at work is on 102.7 and I can pretty much guess the next song. Hundreds of concertgoers every night buy my interviews with Peter Frampton, Simple Minds, and Bad Company right there at the tour T-shirt booth on their way out the door. I remember listening to it, FM100, and WHBQ (The Top Banana- where Rick Dees worked at the time, and Dewey Phillips, George Klein, and Wink Martindale before him. On September 25, 1977, the station switched to AOR (Album Oriented Rock). Rock us up! I listened to their new morning show, The Wake-Up Crew, and had a cartoonist friend, Greg Cravens who did as well (Greg did the caricatures above). Its mascot is a walrus [1], which has seen numerous incarnations. r/memphis Missing dog in East Memphis near Galloway golf course--goes by Red and is very friendly. Vicksburg, MS. So there you have it- the rise, return, and demise of the Rockin Walrus and my part in its history- well, the parts I still remember. Steve really took a chance on me as producer/host of In the Studio because, as he pointed out, "all of the nationally syndicated shows are hosted by DJs in New York City or Los Angeles." My former boss at Team Victory continued to do the printing on the Crew shirts. Resources for family research, such as registers of inhabitants and registers of births, marriages and deaths can mostly be found online. Will be nice to get out of the house. 96X went away not too long after. I don't listen to the radio at all so I was apparently unaware that they ever went anywhere? Press J to jump to the feed. I meant to do this blog post back in October, but had health issues sidetrack me for a bit. One day Diane called me up to see how the shirt sales were going. Wake Up Crew What's the story? I had met the Crew several times, and had seen Gregs caricatures of them, but didnt have any pics on hand to go by. Diane liked the idea, but unfortunately the powers that be at 103 wanted us to use the new block style logo on the front with the old walrus characters. I collect Corvettes and a couple of muscle cars, and I'm a ranch hand for my wife's herd of eight horses on our ranch outside of Dallas. The Great Unsigned See more Classic Rock FM 102.7 - 1Kbps Memphis - Tennessee , United States - English Suggest an update I told her we were constantly having to go back to print on the 96X designs, but not so much on the Rock103 ones. I must credit music promotion veteran Mark Fischer (IDJ VP/Promotion, McGathy Entertainment, Atlantic Records) with seeing the intrinsic value in the vast ITS content, and gently but firmly taking me kicking and screaming into the 21st century with new media and new markets. Diane asked us to come up with some new t-shirt designs, and one of the ones I came up with not only ended up on tees, but bus bench posters (above left) and bumper stickers(above right). ROCK 103 Music Recently Played Top Songs BarracudaHeartLittle Queen1:28 PM One (Remastered)Metallica.And Justice for All (Remastered Deluxe Box Set)1:21 PM I Hate Myself for Loving YouJoan Jett & the BlackheartsUp Your Alley1:09 PM Bohemian RhapsodyQueenA Night At The Opera12:51 PM JumpVan HalenBest of Volume 112:47 PM INNES is also currently doing mornings on iHEARTMEDIA Classic Rockers WNRQ/NASHVILLE and WLLZ/DETROIT. Mitch, Dave Beaty (our new artist and my future Bushi Tales partner), and myself immediately started working on new ideas for updating the walrus. ROCK 103. The "work smarter and never give up" lessons I learned there from Lee Abrams, the late Lee Michaels, and PD Tom Owens (not the Clear Channel veep) are time-tested truisms that I still use to this day. 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