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
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
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
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
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...
by Simon Cousins | Jan 15, 2019
By 1986, Depeche Mode were about to be huge. Here we display a listener license plate in the KROQ control room in Pasadena. Despite claims to the contrary, I played Just Can’t Get Enough the week after it was released in London. I played it because I had heard of the...
by Simon Cousins | Jan 15, 2019
I think this was for the True Stories album, as David moved closer to a solo career. Always an impeccable dresser. Pasadena control room. Album: Everything Album Categories: 80s All Tags: #Jed the Fish #KROQ #rock of the 80s #David Byrne #1980s #b&w #Control...
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 John Incampo | Jan 15, 2019
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. Album: Everything Album Categories: All Tags: #Jed the Fish #KROQ #rock of the 80s #KROQ Studio...
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
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...
by Simon Cousins | Jan 15, 2019
The Ramones were seven albums into their career when Dee Dee and Johnny Ramone visited the Pasadena studio in 1983. Never afraid of the hard work it takes even an established band to live on, I did tons of appearances with them, sometimes nights for in a row. Maybe...
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 Simon Cousins | Jan 15, 2019
I can only describe my ridiculous hair as a follicle fountain. Depeche Mode has been in the station more times than I can count. Andy Fletcher is probably the member least like a tempermental artist. Album: Everything Album Categories: 80s All Tags: #KROQ #Jed the...
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...
