![Title coming soon](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/djjedthefish.com_0003_a.jpg)
Album | Everything Album |
Categories | All, Around the Station, Press |
Taken | February 13, 2019 |
Uploaded | February 18, 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!
Album | Everything Album |
Categories | All, Around the Station |
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!
Album | Everything Album |
Categories | All, Around the Station |
Uploaded | January 15, 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 |
![B52s Bouncing of the Satellites interview at KROQ](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/Wild-Planet-release-interview-cir80.jpg)
Kate and Fred stopped by for an interview after I had carved a jack-o-lantern in the KROQ control room. It was a sad time for the band with Ricky having passed just months before. They did not tour for the album. Warner Bros. Promotion person Paul V. was outraged at my criticism of the album.
Album | Everything Album |
Categories | 80s, All, Around the Station |
Uploaded | January 15, 2019 |
![Title coming soon](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/djjedthefish.com_0012_a.jpg)
Album | Everything Album |
Categories | All, Around the Station |
Uploaded | February 18, 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.
Album | Everything Album |
Categories | 80s, All, Around the Station |
Uploaded | January 15, 2019 |
![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.
Album | Everything Album |
Categories | 80s, All, Around the Station |
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.
Album | Everything Album |
Categories | 90s, All, Around the Station |
Taken | January 1, 2019 |
Uploaded | February 14, 2019 |
![Djjedthefish.com 0046 A](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/djjedthefish.com_0046_a.jpg)
Categories | All, Around the Station |
Taken | March 9, 2019 |
Uploaded | March 10, 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.
Album | Everything Album |
Categories | 90s, All, Around the Station |
Uploaded | January 15, 2019 |
![Djjedthefish.com 0041 A](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/djjedthefish.com_0041_a.jpg)
Categories | All, Around the Station |
Taken | March 9, 2019 |
Uploaded | March 10, 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.
Album | Everything Album |
Categories | All, Around the Station |
Taken | January 1, 2019 |
Uploaded | February 14, 2019 |
![Martin Chambers of The Pretenders at KROQ Pasadena](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/Pretenders-member-Martin-Chambers-JTF-w2Fcoke-smile.jpg)
Martin looks fairly normal with a leather vest and checkered shirt. It seems I was intent on being anything but normal.
He was always very kind. Chrissie, on the other hand, was harsh. Somewhere along the line, she developed a habit of refusing to shake hands, which she told me one time getting reacquainted at the Weenie Roast. When, at the end of the interview, I reached out to shake and she was offended. Don't you think of Ray Davies of the Kinks as mild mannered? What on earth was a household like with the two of them.
Album | Everything Album |
Categories | All, Around the Station |
Uploaded | January 15, 2019 |
![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.
Album | Everything Album |
Categories | All, Around the Station |
Uploaded | January 15, 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.
Album | Everything Album |
Categories | 80s, All, Around the Station |
Uploaded | January 15, 2019 |
![Jed The Fish and Bud Thomas in KPIN, Casa Grande, Arizona](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/djjedthefish.com_0056_a.jpg)
My first radio boss ponders the decision of putting a sixteen-year-old on the air. I had a Saturday show where I played what I want, at that time a lot of Chicago, Jethro Tull, and Frank Zappa. He was a most kind and thoughtful individual. KPIN was sold my senior year, and the person who took over was Kevin Weatherly's father, who hurled records at me when I played George Carlin's album track Shit, on the air.
Album | Everything Album |
Categories | All, Around the Station, Press |
Taken | March 9, 2019 |
Uploaded | March 10, 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.
Album | Everything Album |
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.
Album | Everything Album |
Categories | 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.
Album | Everything Album |
Categories | All, Around the Station |
Uploaded | January 15, 2019 |
![Djjedthefish.com 0044 A](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/djjedthefish.com_0044_a.jpg)
Categories | All, Around the Station |
Taken | March 9, 2019 |
Uploaded | March 10, 2019 |
![CD players with blue black door intercom, Pasadena cir. 1985](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/CD-players-cir85-with-blue-back-door-intercom-Pasadena.jpg)
The dawn of professional CD players. You cued them up by hand, almost like vinyl. Sony “Digital.”
Album | Everything Album |
Categories | All, Around the Station |
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.
Album | Everything Album |
Categories | 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.
Album | Everything Album |
Categories | All, Around the Station |
Uploaded | January 15, 2019 |
![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.
Album | Everything Album |
Categories | 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.
Album | Everything Album |
Categories | All, Around the Station, Press |
Taken | December 4, 2018 |
Uploaded | February 14, 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)
Album | Everything Album |
Categories | All, Around the Station |
Taken | February 15, 2019 |
Uploaded | February 16, 2019 |
![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.
Album | Everything Album |
Categories | All, Around the Station |
Uploaded | January 15, 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.
Album | Everything Album |
Categories | All, Around the Station |
Uploaded | January 15, 2019 |
![Jed’s First Class License](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/FCC-1st-Class-Radiotelephone-endorsement-noted-for-cocaine-use-cir72.jpg)
As you see, Fish is my real middle name. I was 17 when I took and passed the exam for the First Class Radiotelephone Certificate. Issued in Long Beach. This enables one to do technical work on TV and radio transmitters. I just got it to exceed the requirement for a Third Class license. As I had no interest in this, I allowed it to expire. I framed the license, and it became a chopping surface for nasty drugs in the KROQ control room in Pasadena on Los Robles Blvd.
Album | Everything Album |
Categories | All, Around the Station |
Uploaded | January 15, 2019 |
![Jed The Fish with John Hiatt, cir.1979](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/W2FJohn-Hiatt-release-interview-for-_Slugline_-cir79.jpg)
This guy wound up doing 22 studio albums and he is a famous songwriter. John Hiatt is still one of the most popular singers and writers for other artists.
Album | Everything Album |
Categories | 70s, All, Around the Station |
Uploaded | January 15, 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.
Album | Everything Album |
Categories | All, Around the Station |
Taken | January 1, 2019 |
Uploaded | February 14, 2019 |
![Title coming soon](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/djjedthefish.com_0013_a.jpg)
Album | Everything Album |
Categories | All, Around the Station |
Taken | February 18, 2019 |
Uploaded | February 18, 2019 |
![Djjedthefish.com 0039 A](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/djjedthefish.com_0039_a.jpg)
Categories | All, Around the Station |
Taken | March 9, 2019 |
Uploaded | March 10, 2019 |
![Jed The Fish and Frank Zappa](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/Jed-and-Frank-Zappa.jpg)
One of my true heroes, Zappa wasn't especially kind when I interviewed him. I honestly was not great at it. He insisted I got into radio to get laid, and actually it was because even as often the best qualified journalism graduate, the news stations were obligated to not hire white men. I simply did not know what else to do. When you meet your heroes, you're often let down. This did little to diminish my admiration and enthusuasm.
Album | Everything Album |
Categories | 80s, All, Around the Station |
Uploaded | January 15, 2019 |
![Title coming soon](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/djjedthefish.com_0010_a.jpg)
Album | Everything Album |
Categories | All, Around the Station |
Uploaded | February 18, 2019 |
![Emily Guzman, long-time KROQ receptionist and programming assistant](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/INXS_0101_a.jpg)
What was cool about Emily is she had good judgement about who to let in to visit. Fan after fan would ask to see the DJ, and it was actually possible until 2001. There was no way we could see everyone, or we would never be able to work, but Mle would know which exceptions I would appreciate. Bless her heart! I think this was in my kitchen.
Album | Everything Album |
Categories | All, Around the Station |
Uploaded | February 14, 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.
Album | Everything Album |
Categories | All, Around the Station |
Uploaded | January 15, 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.
Album | Everything Album |
Categories | All, Around the Station |
Uploaded | January 15, 2019 |
![Jed as KROQ Music Director](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/Jed-as-KROQ-Music-Director-cir79.jpg)
For a short time in 1978-79, I was actually the KROQ Music Director. I had only heard about the station less than a year before. It was my responsibility to gain the trust of the record company promotion people, wary of giving us product because so much of it had been stolen by former KROQ DJs. Four scoundrels stealing albums meant I needed twenty meetings with promotion people. One of my first “adds” as MD was to begin playing Dire Straits, which I hated but knew would be successful. Devo’s first album was a no brainer.
Album | Everything Album |
Categories | All, Around the Station |
Uploaded | January 15, 2019 |