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4/6/2008
My earliest memories of Rock go back to The Beatles. I was very young but I remember my mother playing their recordsbetween Barbara Streisand and Herb Alpert. I must say that I still love the cover of “Whipped Cream and other Delights”… But, it was The Beatles MUSIC I was drawn to.
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Bryan Schock Bryan@1019rxp.com
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Top 40 Radio on AM was my next major musical exposure. That was back in the day when you could still hear “Rock” on Top 40 radio (even if “Won’t Get Fooled Again” was cut down to 3:38). I soon discovered FM rock radio (and that “Won’t Get Fooled Again” was actually 8:32) and that was it for me…Feed me more Rock!
The first album I ever bought was Elton John “Don’t Shoot Me I’m Only the Piano Player” for $3.33. Other (older) Elton John albums followed. The first album I ever stole was “The Captain and Me” by The Doobie Brothers. The LAST album I ever stole was “The Captain and Me” by The Doobie Brothers (Man, did my mother kick my ass).
But, the night that truly changed my life was the night I saw KISS on Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert. At that point, I knew that I wanted to be a ROCK STAR! The night that completely warped my life was the night I finally saw KISS live in 1977! Not only were they amazing but the opening act was amazing as well. A little band from Rockford, Illinois named Cheap Trick.
A month later I had yet another life changing night. I went to see a band called UFO who was opening for a band I’d only heard of …a band from Toronto called RUSH!
Now fully ruined, I started playing bass and singing in a band in hopes I’d become famous and rich and get a girlfriend. Not a bad plan except…I sucked as a bass player. Fortunately, I actually could sing and continued to pursue my music career as a vocalist. During this time I was also becoming intrigued by the idea of becoming a Radio DJ so that I could turn on other people to all of this great music I’d fallen in love with. I started preparing myself for a career in Radio while I was still in High School. Once in college, I landed my first job in Radio. What a great break!
But, now that I was in Radio, I could see just how much work and luck it took to get signed to a record label as a singer and in turn to get one’s music on the radio.
I discovered was that getting signed by a record label didn’t mean that you were guaranteed to be a Star. In fact, I became acutely aware of just what a crapshoot the artist end of the Music Business was/is.
I was already making a decent living working in Radio and I had already had a girlfriend so what the hell…Forget the singing thing!
25 years later, here I sit in the best situation a guy in radio could ask for.
I love being on THE new Rock station in The Biggest City On The Planet!
I love turning people on to music that they’ve never been exposed to whether it is something brand new or unfairly forgotten.
Welcome to Afternoons at 101.9 ‘RXP!!
Bryan
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