by Jed Gould | Apr 21, 2019
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...
by Simon Cousins | Feb 18, 2019
Album: Everything Album Categories: 90s All Tags:...
by Simon Cousins | Feb 16, 2019
Album: Everything Album Categories: 90s All Tags:...
by Simon Cousins | Feb 14, 2019
His son Willam and I went to Beat Lab Academy in Eagle Rock together. Billy Idol was always great with me on the air, and I truly loved his music from the beginning. Willem tells me he was there that night with his dad, young enough at this point that he would have...
by Simon Cousins | Feb 14, 2019
Duran Duran keyboardist Nick Rhodes with -- I believe -- daughter Tatjana Rose at KROQ Acoustic Christmas. "This here is my Hammond Organ, Tatjana, I'm going to make you play this one day!" Not sure, maybe his wife at the time Julie Anne Friedman looking on. DD fans,...
by Simon Cousins | Feb 14, 2019
Nick Rhodes backstage at Acoustic Christmas with -- I have no idea, but he seems a bit more interested in the keyboards than Nick's other observer. 1992 Album: Everything Album Categories: 90s All Events Tags: #Nick Rhodes #acoustic Christmas #keyboard #backstage...
by Simon Cousins | Feb 14, 2019
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,...
by Simon Cousins | Jan 15, 2019
I got to meet the captain of the QE2. People said, "Oh, Jed, you're going on a cruise!" An Atlantic crossing is no cruise. Waves the size of hills made it feel as though we were sleeping on Viper. Robert Smith of The Cure at that time refused to fly to America. Album:...
by Simon Cousins | Jan 15, 2019
The great Depeche Mode “riot,” 1990, when so many fans showed up at Wherehouse Records the band could not accommodate them all. God forbid they cut off the line and stay an extra hour. It did get dicey with enraged Dmode fans who pounded on the window in view of the...
by Simon Cousins | Jan 15, 2019
He was rumored to have a chandelier goldfish bowl, and sure enough, during a party, I found it. It was actually a terrible interview that day — I was sent all the way to New Orleans for a Nine Inch Nails interview with faulty equipment. I shall restrain myself from...
by Simon Cousins | Jan 15, 2019
And Scott Mason was there too. Nice to have an engineer along on a beach remote. Even better if he’s the Chief Engineer. That was our bitty microwave truck to get the signal back to Burbank in 1991. I don think we played John Wesley Harding since, but he was a quick...
by Simon Cousins | Jan 15, 2019
We were lucky enough to be invited to a party at record mogul Jimmy Iovine’s house, and a certain KROQ DJ behaved poorly when speaking to Fred Durst. Our boss reprimanded her, saying “Save it for on the air,” not to his face at an exclusive party. Billy Corgan also...
by Simon Cousins | Jan 15, 2019
Darkwave industrial rock artist Meg Lee Chin allowed me to both produce one of her tracks and play drums for her on occasion. I never got to know her in part because we were each handled by managers. Album: Everything Album Categories: 90s All Tags: #Jed the Fish...
by Simon Cousins | Jan 15, 2019
PJ Harvey in the Assistant Program Director's office in 1995. I think that giant black shape overhead was a robot. With ears. Album: Everything Album Categories: 90s All Tags: #Jed the Fish #KROQ #rock of the 80s #KROQ Studio #PJ...
by Simon Cousins | Jan 15, 2019
When there was a Tower Records in Sheman Oaks, the corpselike countenance of Andrew Eldritch appeared along with two other guys in shades, Jed The Fish and Program Director Andy Schuon, already planning his escape to MTV. While a young lad living in Denver, Andy won a...
by Jed Gould | Jan 15, 2019
This was the Weenie Roast which was also called a luau. Tami Heide look on as we discuss various form of torture. This was the year Michael F. Glass and I did the event artwork. Album: Everything Album Categories: 90s All Tags: #Jed the Fish #KROQ #rock of the 80s...
by Jed Gould | Jan 15, 2019
It looks like I am failing to engage Suzanne Vega in conversation. At least I tried, backstage at the 1992 KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas. Album: Everything Album Categories: 90s All Tags: #Jed the Fish #KROQ #rock of the 80s #Suzanne Vega #acoustic Christmas...
by Jed Gould | Jan 15, 2019
Did I mention that people said I was going on a cruise with the Cure. It was definitely not a cruise. When you can’t sleep because due to bad weather you feel like you’re on Viper, it’s a CROSSING, not a cruise. At the time, Robert Smith refused to fly. Lewis Largent,...
by Jed Gould | Jan 15, 2019
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:...
