Remember when DJs were DJs?

[nitnitr]

When you can play a 1:27 second song then take the 9th caller and get a winner, then edit it on a Reel to Reel and have it done in time for the 50 break, that is next. Then come back and talk your Digi crap. You jox today have NO CLUE about being a live jock and doing a 4 hr balls to the wall shift. Thats right; NO 15 minute bathroom songs and YOU are actually mixing the music and loading it all by yourself. Oh and lets not forget reading a log (whats that right) or does the robot do everything. LMFAO that is until it crashes and then the PD comes in and wonders if those cart machines are still wired up or the reel to reel is still in the control room for backup.

Did a quick edit to the post above, but the content is still there.

Wow! That brings me back, and I know what you mean. Though there has been some downtime with a digital rendition of radio, it is nowhere near what we went through from the 60's through the 90's. I was talking about splicing reel to reel tape the other day to a colleague, and I know my skills are still there in doing so if needed. Lol!

[jhimbo]

Today on his show ,Don Geronimo played a reel to reel tape of himself from 1976 as a 17 year old high energy top 40 dj at Wnam 1280 in Oshkosh Wisconsin. He also told a story about putting on " Stairway to Heaven" to run across the street from the studio to get a burger at a stand and locking himself out. Interesting insights.

[jfrancispastirchak]

Note to Bossjocksforever-- First, welcome to the boards!  Second, CHILL!!! Don't be so angry  . 

This thread rings with the same value offered by so many others, if you would just give it a chance. As I myself have learned, you can gain new insights from posters with whom you otherwise disagree.  My views have occasionally clashed on other threads with one in particular, BigA.  But, agree or DISagree, BigA brings a breadth of trade knowledge to the boards equalled by few others.  I sometimes disagree with him, as well as others, like LandTuna and GoatRoperRodeo.  But all of them are seasoned veterans of these boards from whom I have also learned much.

I too am a boomer who spun vinyl.  The pressure cooker of chasing the clock against network cues often caused me to stumble; I played more than one 45 RPM at 33-speed, then "opened" the mic to apologize for the station's technical "malfunctions", long before the misbehavior of today's Justin Timberlakes and Janet Jacksons coined that now popular catchprase.  I sweated juggling my shows with the recording of 5-minute network sports feeds in time for broadcast in 15-minutes.  In Roswell NM, I once cleared my voice so hard and loud preparing for the next record-to-record "segway" voice-over, that I knocked us off the air.  I had forgotten I had already "potted up" on the mic.  After getting us back "up", the on-call engineer chastised me over something having to do with the limitations of the transmitter's "limiters".  In short, I've been there too, and agree with you that most of today's jocks have never been challenged, and don't measure up to us vets of radio's salt mine days.  But that's no reason to marginalize them. 

Join the fun, and let the views of others challenge you to greater heights, even if you disagree.