KROQ EVENTS
![Jed The Fish in the Burbank KROQ control room](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/Jed-in-Burbank-studio-cir87.jpg)
The ancient Sony CD players on the right, the ponytail — up — and the visor. It was amazing that we had an extra oscilloscope at all, and that it was in the control room a miracle. It told us if the signal was in phase, important to avoid cancellation (bad sound). As in most control rooms, a music log and a program log to keep track of played commercials. Koss headphones. Turntables to the left.
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Uploaded | January 15, 2019 |
![Title coming soon](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/djjedthefish.com_0010_a.jpg)
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Uploaded | February 18, 2019 |
![Jed doing Out of Order](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/Jed_the_Fish_being_Jed_the_Fish.jpg)
Off-the-cuff fizzlebutt sound effects for Out of Order, my Westwood One syndicated radio show. Ron Harris thought to give you a behind-the-scenes video.
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Uploaded | January 15, 2019 |
![John Frost and Jed The Fish](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/John.jpg)
John Frost was a legendary promotional announcement producer and sound designer. There’s another photo of him floating around here somewhere. Here we are mugging in front of a giant cart rack. He called me Jed The Pudding Fish.
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Uploaded | January 15, 2019 |
![Vandalized KROQ billboard, Jed in foreground](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/Jed-in-front-of-vandalized-billboard-1989.jpg)
My very funny girlfriend in 1989 had Calvary Baptist parents, who once had a sermon villainizing KROQ. Coincidentally, we had the first and only billboard campaign. (KROQ has never advertised since) But my billboard, located near her parents’ house was vandalized. By Jesus Freaks. One of them risked life and limb to remove my name from it. It was a dumbass campaign anyway.
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Uploaded | January 15, 2019 |
![Djjedthefish.com 0039 A](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/djjedthefish.com_0039_a.jpg)
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Taken | March 9, 2019 |
Uploaded | March 10, 2019 |
![Peter Gabriel at KROQ Pasadena in 1982](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/Peter-Gabriel-interview-cir81.jpg)
He was always such a genteel person. Shortly after this interview in 1982, he led a crowd of people from the Golden Bear in Huntington Beach across PCH into the Pacific Ocean. His last encore song that night was I Go Swimming, to be release the next year. Here, he's like a scraggly-headed vampire.
Album | Everything Album |
Categories | 80s, All, Around the Station |
Uploaded | January 15, 2019 |
![Was (Not Was) with Jed The Fish](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/Was-Not-Was-cir81.jpg)
These guys were as weird as their music. Accomplished jazz musicians, they almost created the group as an insult to the music industry. Very fun to talk to, they relished their mystery. Mystery is something missing from today's art in general. Movies especially. So here I am destroying it. Their real names are Don Fagenson and David Jay Weiss. There was a certain elegance to physically exhibiting an artist's product. There I am with it in my hands. No more.
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Categories | 80s, All, Around the Station |
Uploaded | January 15, 2019 |
![Erasure in the Pasadena control room, 1986](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/Erasure-Pasadena-studiocir88.jpg)
At least I stood up for this one. Erasure with Jed The Fish.
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Categories | 80s, All, Around the Station |
Uploaded | January 15, 2019 |
![INXS Member Tim Ferriss and Jed The Fish](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/INXS-member-Tim-Farriss-and-JTF.jpg)
Muscle shirt, no muscles. INXS drummer Tim Ferriss is the clowner-arounder of the band, and I love that they didn't always send Michael Hutchence for interviews. Fun guy.
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Uploaded | January 15, 2019 |
![Jed in the KROQ Pasadena control room, cir83](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/Jed-KROQ-Pasdadena-studios-on-coke-cir83.jpg)
Silly grin. Jed The Fish, Pasadena KROQ control room. Turntables!
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![Jed The Fish, Pasadena KROQ control room.](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/Jed-in-Pasadena-studios-1980.jpg)
Baseball shirts were a thing. Jed The Fish, Pasadena KROQ control room. There were carts everywhere. Similar to the old 8-track cartridges, these had a continuous loop with a stop tone (to stop the machine the last time someone played it) just before the beginning of each recording. So when you plugged it in to play it, it was always ready. It was quite a reliable system, which is why the cart machines such as ITC existed for 50 years. Hassle recording the cart in the first place, but I did it for the Go-Gos, who gave me a demo lacquer of “Cool Jerk.”
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Uploaded | January 15, 2019 |
![Kevin Weatherly KROQ hourly clock](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/KROQ-clock-music-key-cir94.jpg)
KROQ clock. An hourly guide for when to play commercials (green areas), play jingles, and most importantly, talk. They don’t remain the same for long. Circa 1994. Kevin Weatherly, program director.
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Uploaded | January 15, 2019 |
![U2 Pop Mart Interview with Jed The Fish, 1997](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/U2-Pop-Mart-interview-cir97.jpg)
Edge and Bono did their first-ever streamed podcast from the KROQ control room in Burbank. They brought along Guinness, which was promptly consumed by non-air station personnel. I got Bono to imitate William Boroughs. Smoking like mad. September 19, 1997.
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Categories | 90s, All, Around the Station |
Uploaded | January 15, 2019 |
![Jed's flyer offering to work for free at KROQ](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/INXS_0135_b.jpg)
Me in tights and tard sitting in a wheelchair in my USC dorm room. My theater major roommate was Gary Wissman, who became an accomplished theatrical stage set builder. Because of affirmative action, I was turned down at every other station I applied to, who all said I was the most qualified for the job, but sorry. A friend Robyn suggested I try KROQ. Before I started the name Jed The Fish.
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Taken | December 4, 2018 |
Uploaded | February 14, 2019 |
![Jed The Fish KROQ control room 1982](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/Pasadena-studio-cir82.jpg)
Jed The Fish Pasadena KROQ control room. Various radio station stickers were everywhere.
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![Djjedthefish.com 0041 A](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/djjedthefish.com_0041_a.jpg)
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Taken | March 9, 2019 |
Uploaded | March 10, 2019 |
![Erasure with Jed The Fish 1986](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/Erasure-cir-86.jpg)
Just after the album, the band came to the Pasadena studio.
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Categories | 80s, All, Around the Station |
Uploaded | January 15, 2019 |
![Jed The Fish and Dusty Street](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/Dusty-and-Jed-Debbie-Leavitt-photo-cir80.jpg)
Jed The Fish and Dusty Street at a party in Santa Monica. Photo Debbie Leavitt.
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Categories | 80s, All, Around the Station |
Uploaded | January 15, 2019 |
![Jed The Fish producer Rick Rippey](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/Jed-the-fish-producer-Ricky-Rippey-95.jpg)
Rick Rippey was my producer for 12 years, in my opinion my best years. He encouraged diabolical ideas. Suggests things in just the right way to inspire me. Burbank KROQ control room. Now THIS guy could fix any piece of equipment put in front of him. Note the overbridge, which he and Scott Mason installed. It allowed the cart machines to be places directly over the control board for smoother workflow.
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![Sparks with Jed The Fish in Pasadena stairwell](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/Sparks-at-Pasadena-studio-cir83.jpg)
This is the band I was most chummy with. We would get together at Farmers Market, their old hang, and I remember they would talk to their stalkers. Girls would go to FM to see them. They told me it’s important to approach them to humanize the relationship. You want them to know the impact they can have on your normal life just being famous. Not just being a quest. At Ron’s house one night, they played me Interior Design. It was an album devoid of bass parts. Some upper bass synth, but that’s it. I tried in vain to help them justify it. It was a tough listen, because I liked them so much. Rock needs bass if not guitar.
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![KROQ Winners at a Depeche Mode show with Jed The Fish](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/Listener-contest-winners-cir86.jpg)
Girl harvesters Depeche Mode with three winners at varying stages of innocence. I'm sure at least one wound up at the Sunset Marquis that evening. A truly legendary KROQ group -- and a favorite of Richard Blade's -- they did perhaps the most concerts for us. If guys thought they were gay, it was just fine with them.
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Categories | 80s, All, Around the Station |
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![Andy Fletcher and Jed The Fish in the Burbank control room](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/Andy-Fletcher-of-DMode-cir87.jpg)
We had whiteboards in the Burbank control room. Notes for the jocks and Kevin and Bean. Evidently on this day, I was overdressed. Andy Fletcher in the Burbank control room.
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![Bonnie Raitt with Jed The Fish in the studio, cir. 1982](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/Bonnie-Raitt_-interview-cir82.jpg)
Whadday know. Amazing who you run into in the KROQ control room. I can't figure out why Bonnie Raitt was there, other than to sniff something with our program director. I'm sure he did her the courtesy of actually playing her album for a week. She was sweet.
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Categories | 80s, All, Around the Station |
Uploaded | January 15, 2019 |
![New KROQ studio in 1996](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/Initiation-of-Burbank-KROQ-studios-cir95.jpg)
This photo was taken as we were initiating the new studios in 1996. I believe that is Cynthia Takahashi with me in the control room, moving the equipment from the Pasadena studio. As you can see we had already begun to decorate. The filled cabinet was CDs, the empty ones for tape cartridges, or carts.
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![KROQ cart machines](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/KROQ-cart-machines-and-CD-player-cir85.jpg)
Here was the evolution of the Fishface Outline font adorning this site. The taped on numbers on the KROQ control room cart machines. ITC was our choice of cart machines. Certain songs came from private collectors such as Freddy Snakeskin. If it weren’t for these manually-recorded records, many songs would not have made it on KROQ. You would have done without Barbie and the Kens
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![Depeche Mode with KROQ staff and Jed The Fish](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/Depeche-Mode-for-Jed-interview...jpg)
From left: Poorman (what a name) Van Johnson, Dave Gahan, April who couldn’t keep her clothes on, below her Martin Gore, whose guitar skills are vastly overlooked, Alan Wilder, Freddy Snakeskin (never one to push forward for photos), Andy Fletcher, Jed The Fish below Andy, some schleb who ripped off KROQ, and long time WB promoter Chris Crist.
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![Jed The Fish in the KROQ Control Room, Pasadena](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/Jed-in-Pasadena-cir82.jpg)
Jed The Fish in the KROQ Control Room, Pasadena, 1983. The ubiquitous Sennheiser 421 microphones.
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Uploaded | January 15, 2019 |
![The Ramones with Jed The Fish and the KROQ staff in 1994](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/2019_January_legacy_0004_a.jpg)
L-R, Asst. PD Gene Sandbloom (creator of the names for KROQ events) and I can't even tell which Ramones showed up that day -- Markie? Ritchie? -- random promo guy, Program Director Kevin Weatherly in the light shirt. Back on the left, Image Master John Frost, preparing to vomit, Sherri Trahan, Richard Blade, Tami Heide, and Jed The Fish in my favorite U2 shirt.
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Categories | 90s, All, Around the Station |
Taken | January 1, 2019 |
Uploaded | February 14, 2019 |
![Djjedthefish.com 0049 A](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/djjedthefish.com_0049_a.jpg)
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Taken | March 9, 2019 |
Uploaded | March 10, 2019 |
![Jed The Fish Being Jed The Fish](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/Jed_the_Fish_being_Jed_the_Fish_1.jpg)
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Taken | February 15, 2019 |
Uploaded | February 16, 2019 |
![Jennifer Beals from Flashdance and Jed The Fish](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/Jed-and-Jennifer-Beals-from-Flashdance.jpg)
Jennifer Beals, eventually a Yale graduate, could carry herself well in an interview. Aside from Return of the Jedi and Terms of endearment, Flashdance was the highest grossing film of 1983. She impressed me so much, I asked her to take her bra off under her shirt like she did in the movie. It looks like she's dipping me!
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![Title coming soon](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/djjedthefish.com_0013_a.jpg)
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Taken | February 18, 2019 |
Uploaded | February 18, 2019 |
![Jed in medical scrubs, cir82](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/Jed-in-medical-scrubs-cir82.jpg)
Debbie Leavitt contact sheet from 1982, KROQ control room in Pasadena. Never a fashion trendsetter, somehow the DJs picked up on the medical scrubs look.
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![Title coming soon](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/djjedthefish.com_0003_a.jpg)
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Categories | All, Around the Station, Press |
Taken | February 13, 2019 |
Uploaded | February 18, 2019 |
![The Proclaimers, Kevin Weatherly and Jed The Fish in Burbank](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/2019_January_legacy_0002_a.jpg)
You never know if someone's a (relative) one-hit wonder, so you must take care of everyone. The Proclaimers, Scottish bothers Craig and Charlie Reid stopped by for an interview when we were playing I'm Gonna Be. Kevin Weatherly actually had more than one shirt, before he started looking buff in polos. Just outside the KROQ Control Room.
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Taken | January 1, 2019 |
Uploaded | February 14, 2019 |
![Lou Reed, Rick Carrol, Scott Mason and Jed The Fish at KROQ](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/Lou-Reed-Rick-Carrol-and-Jedcir79.jpg)
A rare photo of early 1980s KROQ Program Director Rick Carroll to the right of Lou Reed. Jeff Naumann, in the blue shirt, was a promo guy for Virgin in the 80s. Oh, my god. He got so yelled at by Lou that day when he asked him to sign his copy of Metal Machine Music. "Don't you EVAH, EVAH, show me a picture from my past AGAIN!!" Evidently Lou was a little sensitive in early sobriety. In a private moment, he looked at me and could tell I was having problems. He gently assured me if I went to a meeting it would make me smile. Awww!
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Categories | 80s, All, Around the Station |
Uploaded | January 15, 2019 |
![Mila Jovovich and Jed The Fish in KROQ Burbank hallway](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/2019_January_legacy_0012_a.jpg)
Rodney Bingenheimer’s first question would be why does Jed The Fish get to hang out with Mila Jovovich. Kind of trying to not be attracted here, but the Reid Fleming shirt probably sabotaged me from the word go. At the time, it was fashionable to be clean and sober, but I actually did it to save myself. NA keychain. Mila came by the Burbank studio so she could be the movie star who was in Blue Lagoon. The 2000’s had Paris Hilton, and the nineties had Mila. But Hilton wasn’t really in a movie. Here she’s pawing my flab. What a face.
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Taken | January 1, 2019 |
Uploaded | February 14, 2019 |
![Chris Franz and Tine Weymouth of the Tom Tom Club with Jed The Fish, cir.1981](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/Tom-Tom-Club-cir81.jpg)
Once established as Talking Heads members, Chris and Tina ventured out with a solo project. Tom Tom Club had an instant hit with Genius of Love, and I was still wearing free tee-shirts. This was their first son.
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Categories | 80s, All, Around the Station |
Uploaded | January 15, 2019 |
![91X DJ Mike Halloran, Prodigy concert](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/91X-personality-Mike-Halloran-cir97.jpg)
91X personality and smoker Mike Halloran at a 1997 Prodigy concert at the Spruce Goose in Long Beach, Ca.
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