Dave Morey IS the 10@10.
I was very disappointed to tune in today for the Saturday morning replay. Arriving mid-set, I immediately knew something was wrong when I heard some computerized voice in between songs. I looked more closely at the website and saw the "new host Anna Lisa" announcement.
At the end, AnnaLisa talked over some kind of techno music bed. Yuck.
No offense to AnnaLisa, who is a competent jock, but Morey's spirit and love was what made the show.
I thought Dave was going to keep doing the show from Michigan. What happened? Guess it's cheaper just to have somebody already on the payroll do the show. Sad.
For those who are just joining us...
Dave was supposed to continue doing new 10@10s from Michigan; Cumulus decided they didn't want to pay him. And they can't just play old "classics" forever, so they tapped Annalisa to helm "10@10: the Next Generation". And in fairness she's been doing a fine job -- obviously a new opening, announcer, etc were required, so some changes were necessary. My music-geek friends and I, who keep track of such things at out own 10@10 message board (
http://10at10club.com/forum/index.php ) have noted that
in the past 2 weeks Annalisa has been averaging 2 or 3 new-to-10@10 tracks per set (i.e., songs Dave never played). That's pretty amazing and not what we were expecting.
BTW that "techno music bed" is just the instrumental version of the "Time Warp" song from
Rocky Horror that Dave used for 27 years.
