by Jed Gould | Mar 10, 2019
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...
by Simon Cousins | Mar 10, 2019
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by Simon Cousins | Mar 10, 2019
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by Simon Cousins | Mar 10, 2019
Categories: All Around the...
by Simon Cousins | Mar 10, 2019
Categories: All Around the...
by Simon Cousins | Mar 10, 2019
Categories: All Around the...
by Simon Cousins | Feb 18, 2019
Album: Everything Album Categories: All Around the...
by Simon Cousins | Feb 18, 2019
Album: Everything Album Categories: All Around the...
by Simon Cousins | Feb 18, 2019
Album: Everything Album Categories: All Around the...
by Simon Cousins | Feb 18, 2019
Album: Everything Album Categories: All Around the Station...
by Simon Cousins | Feb 16, 2019
Album: Everything Album Categories: All Around the Station Tags:...
by Simon Cousins | Feb 14, 2019
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...
by Simon Cousins | Feb 14, 2019
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...
by Simon Cousins | Feb 14, 2019
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,...
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 | Feb 14, 2019
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...
by John Incampo | Jan 15, 2019
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 Tags: #Jed the Fish #KROQ #KROQ Studio #rock of the 80s...
by Simon Cousins | Jan 15, 2019
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 Tags: #Jed the Fish #KROQ #rock of the 80s #Mike Halloran #Spruce Goose #Long Beach #concert #The...
by John Incampo | Jan 15, 2019
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 Tags: #Jed the Fish #KROQ #rock of the 80s #KROQ Studio #professional #Sony #CD...
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
Jed The Fish and Dusty Street at a party in Santa Monica. Photo Debbie Leavitt. Album: Everything Album Categories: 80s All Around the Station Tags: #KROQ #Jed the Fish #rock of the 80s #Dusty Street #Santa Monica #Debbie Leavitt #Nightclub #b&w #backstage...
by John Incampo | Jan 15, 2019
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...
by John Incampo | Jan 15, 2019
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...
by John Incampo | Jan 15, 2019
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...
by John Incampo | Jan 15, 2019
Working at KROQ was fun, and I’m sure it sounded like it on the air. In back of me, albums, below my right elbow 7” 45rpm singles, the rest hundreds of carts, to my right and in front of me, shelved and stacked. The Grace Jones poster, seen in many photos, was...
by John Incampo | Jan 15, 2019
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...
by John Incampo | Jan 15, 2019
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...
by John Incampo | Jan 15, 2019
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 Tags: #Jed the Fish #KROQ #rock of the 80s #KROQ Studio...
by John Incampo | Jan 15, 2019
Jed The Fish in the KROQ Control Room, Pasadena, 1983. The ubiquitous Sennheiser 421 microphones. Album: Everything Album Categories: All Around the Station Tags: #Jed the Fish #KROQ #rock of the 80s #KROQ Studio #Pasadena #Control Room #1980s...
by John Incampo | Jan 15, 2019
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...
by John Incampo | Jan 15, 2019
Silly grin. Jed The Fish, Pasadena KROQ control room. Turntables! Album: Everything Album Categories: All Around the Station Tags: #Jed the Fish #KROQ #rock of the 80s #KROQ Studio #Pasadena #Control Room #Turntables #1980s...
by John Incampo | Jan 15, 2019
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...
by John Incampo | Jan 15, 2019
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...
by John Incampo | Jan 15, 2019
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...
by John Incampo | Jan 15, 2019
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 Tags: #Jed...
by John Incampo | Jan 15, 2019
Jed The Fish Pasadena KROQ control room. Various radio station stickers were everywhere. Album: Everything Album Categories: All Around the Station Tags: #Jed the Fish #KROQ #rock of the 80s #KROQ Studio #Control Room #Stickers #1980s...
by Simon Cousins | Jan 15, 2019
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...
by Simon Cousins | Jan 15, 2019
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...
by Simon Cousins | Jan 15, 2019
Just after the album, the band came to the Pasadena studio. Album: Everything Album Categories: 80s All Around the Station Tags: #Jed the Fish #KROQ #rock of the 80s #KROQ Studio #Control Room #Erasure #1980s...
by Simon Cousins | Jan 15, 2019
At least I stood up for this one. Erasure with Jed The Fish. Album: Everything Album Categories: 80s All Around the Station Tags: #Jed the Fish #KROQ #rock of the 80s #KROQ Studio #Erasure #1980s #b&w #Control...
by Simon Cousins | Jan 15, 2019
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. Album: Everything Album Categories: All Around the Station Tags: #Jed the Fish #KROQ #rock of the...
by Simon Cousins | Jan 15, 2019
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...
by Simon Cousins | Jan 15, 2019
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...
by Simon Cousins | Jan 15, 2019
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...
by Simon Cousins | Jan 15, 2019
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...
by Jed Gould | Jan 15, 2019
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. Album: Everything Album Categories: 80s All Around the Station Tags: #Jed the Fish #KROQ...
by Jed Gould | Jan 15, 2019
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....
by Jed Gould | Jan 15, 2019
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...
by Simon Cousins | Jan 15, 2019
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. Album: Everything Album Categories: All Around the Station Tags: #KROQ #Jed the Fish #rock of...
by Jed Gould | Jan 15, 2019
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...
by Jed Gould | Jan 15, 2019
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...
by Jed Gould | Jan 15, 2019
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...
by Jed Gould | Jan 15, 2019
The day I asked him about the lyrics for Hungry For You. The part in question says “Mais non pouvons faire ce que nous voulons.” I asked him why the line said must I pooo poo fester on the poo poo lawn. The way he corrected me indicated it was a serious question. Very...
by Simon Cousins | Jan 15, 2019
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...
by Jed Gould | Jan 15, 2019
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...
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:...
by Jed Gould | Jan 15, 2019
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 Tags: #Jed the Fish #KROQ #rock of the 80s #KROQ...
by Jed Gould | Jan 15, 2019
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:...
