EPHEMERA
![Fat Boy Slim platinum award, detail.](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/Jed_25.jpg)
Fat Boy Slim platinum award, detail.
![2000 Alternative Radio Personality of the Year award to Jed The Fish](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/Jed_13.jpg)
The Album Network was a radio industry trade magazine which annually gave radio host awards. This went on until they were purchased by Clear Channel Radio (aka I Heart Radio), evidently because the CC personalities were so bad they weren't winning any awards. At least Clear Channel had the decency to not continue giving out awards -- to themselves -- and the tradition was discontinued.
Album | Everything Album |
Categories | All, Ephemera |
Taken | March 5, 2019 |
Uploaded | March 15, 2019 |
![Jed Gould for President poster](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/Jed_36.jpg)
I was Student Body President, 1972 at Casa Grande Union High School, Arizona. The year before, my step-brother Bill Koenig was. Many K-ROQers came from the Copper State, and that's when I became a broadcaster.
![1999 Alternative Radio Personality of the Year award to Jed The Fish](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/AlternativeRadioPersonalityoftheYearAlbumNetworkawardtoJedTheFish.jpg)
Between Kevin and Bean and Jed The Fish, we had a pretty good award run until Album Network, the trade publication, was bought by Clear Channel. I guess our competition couldn't bear to see us sweeping up awards, so they just bought the magazine. Now they are called I Heart. Do you think I Heart is a good name for a radio group?
![Jed The Fish's autographed Tom Morello Fender Telecaster Squire](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/Jed_17.jpg)
Although this is the bitty Fender model -- and I doubt Tom ever played it -- to have this in my studio still making sound is amazing. Sadly, the 'soul power,' written in silver Sharpie, rubs right off with very little effort, you get the idea. Rock's best guitar player of the 90s? Come on! That's why KROQ even bothered to call it 'Roq of the 90's.' I haven't been gentle with it.
![Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo headpiece, modeled by Jed The Fish](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/Jed_15.jpg)
I never saw the Mystic Knights, but Danny Elfman gave me this relic from the 1970s.
![Jed The Fish's Van's special edition KROQ shoes](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/Jed_10.jpg)
Right about the time the world was getting busted for counterfeit shoes, Van's did a promotion with KROQ, and all the Joqs got free shoes. Deese are dem. Cir.1989
![30-year KROQ reunion poster](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/Jed_35.jpg)
Darrell Wayne organized this Pasadena Hilton event in 2006, where all the gory stories were told. Darrell hired me in 1978.
![Jerry Casale of DEVO visiting Jed The Fish at KROQ](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/JerryCasaleofDEVOvisitingJedTheFishatKROQ.jpg)
My first week at KROQ -- before I was even called Jed The Fish -- my favorite band arrived in support of their first album. To meet them was an amazing experience, but to speak with them on the air was a dream come true. I blew the interview, but started a long relationship with the band, which I think made the biggest impact on 80s music. Constantly cited as inspirational by so many bands of the era, DEVO made a crazy instrument like the MiniMoog profoundly essential. And no one will ever play the MiniMoog like Mark Mothersbaugh.
![Jed's Oingo Boingo 'Farewell' plaque, signed by the band](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/Jed_19.jpg)
There was nothing left to say when your band leader, after 10 years of scoring movies, is calling it quits. No more gold records to be had, hearing going bad, and bandmates so sad, they all autographed this poster from the site of the departure, the once-heralded Universal Amphitheater. Music and movies have never been the same since.
![KROQ beach towel](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/Jed_39.jpg)
We did KROQ beach remotes weekly for several years, where Joqs would broadcast their radio shows. I probably did the most, and even coming to the same beach several times over the years to give out these towels, they were all unique. Many conversations with listeners and artists. As Jed The Fish, it wore me out, but it was always fun.
![Jed The Fish UB40 award for Labor of Love II](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/Jed_27.jpg)
I have discarded these awards if they had no meaning for me. This one did, because I feel I have a relationship with the band. UB40 was an example of success by acclaim, not as much by promotion. That's why Jed The Fish support means something.
![Jed The Fish's Depeche Mode 'Music For The Masses' gold record](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/Jed_23.jpg)
DMode I began playing on KROQ because the producer was Daniel Miller, of The Normal (TVOD, Warm Leatherette, 1978). Mike Zampelli from Zed Records/LBC brought the single New Life to Pasadena with a dozen or so other records he wanted me to play on the Jed The Fish import show. Not a huge response but the band showed promise. Once Speak and Spell arrived, everyone on KROQ was playing it.
![David Byrne and Jed the Fish good riddance note](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/djjedthefish.com_0058_b.jpg)
Warner Bros. obviously remembers the November 1989 interview as a harrowing experience for David Byrne. It was. I asked questions about creativity, which are the most difficult for an artist to answer. At One point, he replied with a distressed whine. "I - I - I don't know," uptoning on the last syllable.
![Jed The Fish Ephemera: Danny Elfman's Yamaha keyboard](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/Jed_01.jpg)
The Weird Science/Dead Man's Party synthesizer. Danny actually asked for this back, and I tried several times to return it. I think it was Leon of Oingo Boingo who sewed the cover for it. If this isn't cool memorabilia, I don't know what is.
Album | Everything Album |
Categories | 80s, All, Ephemera |
Taken | March 5, 2019 |
Uploaded | March 15, 2019 |
![Mid-80s KROQ poster](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/Jed_37.jpg)
Likely the most embraced version of the KROQ logo, it was co-designed by KROQ Promotions Director Quay Hays.
![Original artwork from Jed The Fish tee shirt](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/Jed_40.jpg)
Original artwork from Jed The Fish tee shirt, created on the floor during a KROQ music meeting in the 90s. Features the "Dooley" prototype (spermy guy).
![Massive Attack plaque to Jed The Fish](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/Jed_14.jpg)
Massive Attack is a band I have long supported out of passion. I'm sure, had they achieved gold record status, they would have acknowledged me, so they did what they could.
![Jed The Fish's Tone Loc platinum disk](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/Jed_22.jpg)
This is the most concrete example of Jed The Fish having an impact on an artist's success. My Catch of the Day feature allowed me to choose one song per day. One Tuesday in 1988 Anthony Smith and Matt Dyke talked their way past reception and brought me Wild Thing. I spent most of my shift talking with them and sent them off expecting to hear the single at 4:40 pm. The phones blew up, and I made the rare decision to play it again the next day. The day after that it was a mid-week add to KROQ (most radio stations do their music meetings on a Tuesday, where they decide what is 'added' to the playlist). By Thursday it was on KIIS-FM. A most memorable instance of watching a piece of vinyl setting the radio waves ablaze in a matter of hours.
![DEVO performance poster](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/Jed_31.jpg)
When Devo was doing clubs, these posters -- with venue particulars -- were for promoters in each city.
![Jed The Fish tee shirt, cir95](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/Jed_16.jpg)
My very first tee shirt. If we wanted our own tee-shirts, the Joqs needed to pay for them. So if you got one, I must like you.
![KROQ Fall Calendar, 1983](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/Jed_34.jpg)
Quay Hays was the 1983 KROQ Promotions Director, and organized this wacky photo shoot. He oversaw the logo transition from line drawing (a sticker just above the "Nov") to full color, which was the most beloved logo of all time.
![Jed The Fish 'happening' preparation in Casa Grande, Arizona](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/djjedthefish.com_0052_a.jpg)
Way before I was Jed The Fish, my mother remarried and I moved to Arizona. I was an object of ridicule in Laguna Beach, but once I lived in a town of 35,000, I was conferred star status, because I was from LA. I kept explaining I was NOT from LA, I was from Laguna Beach. "Yeah, sure, you're from LA," I heard back. I had some experience doing light shows, so I did one for a high school dance at the first opportunity. The art department liked the concept, and with the guidance of teacher Robbie Robertson and other students, we created one of the first multi-media events. Our only mistake was not making it interactive.
![Jed The Fish Fat Boy Slim platinum award for You've Come a Long Way Baby](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/Jed_24.jpg)
Fat Boy Slim I only met once, at Organic 96, an event that has evidently dropped off the internet, except for this article: https://www.laweekly.com/music/from-organic-96-to-the-hollywood-bowl-the-la-history-of-underworld-5671139
In the late nineties, I was the only one at KROQ supporting him, so yes, Jed The Fish graciously accepts this award.
![Jed The Fish U2 platinum award from Interscope Records](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/Jed_28.jpg)
I have discarded these awards if they had no meaning for me. This one did, because I feel I have a relationship with the band. U2 I will always remember because of their Jed The Fish interview for their Pop Mart tour. This award was for the following album.
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