![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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![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.”
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![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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![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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![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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![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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![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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![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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![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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![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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![Jed and Gleaming Spires during Josie Cotton protest](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/Day-of-Josie-Cotton-_protest_cir82.jpg)
Where’s Josie? This is the day I asked her what her real name was, and she said, “Well, basically Josie Cotton is my name.” A dedicated bimbo. Pasadena control room. A fake protest was staged outside the Pasadena studios. None of the protesters were angry. Gleaming Spires, the Sparks offshoot, was in the studio. Leslie Bohem and David Kendrick.
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![Devo at KROQ in Pasadena](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/Devo-in-KROQ-Pasadena-cir78.jpg)
In probably the best shot of the Pasadena control room, a 28 mm lens reveals Devo judging the Rhino Devotees album, for which KROQ listeners submitted their own versions of Devo songs. With phenomenal luck, two of my own made the album. Rhino at the time was known for their wacky, Dr. Demento tastes. Richard Bronson and Harold Foos went for the Warner Bros. payday. I would. The reason in 1978 I was so excited about working at KROQ, is that it was the home of Devo.
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![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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![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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![More shots from the Gleaming Spires interview.](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/Gleaming-Spires-Pasadena-studio-cir82.jpg)
Very seldom do I get a pro to photograph me at work, but Debbie Leavitt was there on Josie Cotton Day, without Josie Cotton. These are her proof sheets, not actual prints.
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![U2 at KROQ, Burbank 1997](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/Pop-Mart-U2-interview-cir97.jpg)
The thing I remember most about this interview is I got Bono to imitate Naked Lunch author William Boroughs. Evidently, the greatest lead singers are adept at imitation. I also remember they smoked like chimneys and brought a case of Guinness, promptly consumed by off-air KROQ staff.
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![Psychedelic Furs singer Richard Butler and Jed The Fish](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/Psychedelic-Furs-Richard-Butler-avoiding-camera-cir91.jpg)
I must have met with Richard Butler a half-dozen times, and we always had laughs. One night before a show at the Forum he asked if I had decent seats, and I said, yeah, not bad. When he came onstage and saw me dead center in the front row, his eyes jumped out of his head. Later he said, he remembered me saying I had decent seat, but he never expected me to be right under his nose whilst singing. I explained that, yes, I can always get free seats, but if I really want to see, I always purchase tickets. On this occasion, I actually asked Goldenvoice if I could buy front row center and they let me, knowing I never ask such things. Note long-time Music Director Lisa Worden on right, left below me is Assistant PD Gene Sandbloom, who today runs Roq of the 80s.
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![PJ Harvey in Gene Sandbooom's office with Jed The Fish, cir95](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/PJ-Harvey-in-Gene-Sandblooms-office-cir95.jpg)
PJ Harvey in the Assistant Program Director's office in 1995. I think that giant black shape overhead was a robot. With ears.
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![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.
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![Michael Hutchence and Tim Farriss of INXS, with Jed The Fish](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/Michael-Hutchence-and-Tim-Farriss-of-INXS-cir82.jpg)
I know, how many photos of me in the Pasadena control room can you stand. But there I was with INXS shortly before the first US Festival in 1982. Great smile on Michael Hutchence.
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![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.
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![Animation with Jed The Fish in the Control Room, cir. 1984](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/Band-Animotion-at-KROQ-cir84.jpg)
This was a group actually grateful for their success. This was when they were touring extensively with groups like Depeche Mode, Eurythmics, and INXS. Animotion was from Los Angeles.
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