by John Incampo | Feb 14, 2019
The "Virgin" Kennedy, who drove me around for months whilst my license was suspended, is great in photos. Given to plaid design, her personality was huge. Scott Weiland of STP felt hopeless about being on heroin. He believed that unless someone was threatening your...
by Simon Cousins | Feb 14, 2019
Chuck Randall arrived at KROQ shortly after I did in 1978. A short-term Joq but a long time friend, he went to Acoustic Christmas with me in 1992. Chuck helped me stay sober as well. I got smart that year and asked for a photo pass. Album: Everything Album Categories:...
by Simon Cousins | Feb 14, 2019
Album: Everything Album Categories: All Events Tags: #Kennedy #event...
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
This amazing guitarist also played with Zappa and Missing Persons, so I've actually known him for a long time. While most guitarists strum at each other, Warren Cuccurullo was strumming at the string section. Duran Duran at Acoustic Christmas, 1992. Album: Everything...
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
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
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
KROQ Music director Lewis Largent. He was a very funny guy and a treasure to work next door to. I need people like him around me to perform. This is Lewis goofing off at an radio station event. My photo. Album: Everything Album Categories: All Events Tags: #Jed 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 John Incampo | Jan 15, 2019
KROQ DJ Tami Heide, signing a tee shirt at an event. Album: Everything Album Categories: All Events Tags: #Jed the Fish #KROQ #rock of the 80s #Tami Heide #event...
by Simon Cousins | Jan 15, 2019
DJ appearance at Sandpiper Square, Solana Beach. The chic facing me is so very 80s. Me? I look like I just went to see a dealer. Album: Everything Album Categories: All Events Tags: #Jed the Fish #KROQ #rock of the 80s #1980s #new wave hair...
by John Incampo | Jan 15, 2019
Outdoor event in Pasadena. Our crowd was so loyal back then. Album: Everything Album Categories: All Events Tags: #Jed the Fish #KROQ #rock of the 80s #event #Pasadena #outdoor #wide angle #black and white...
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
Elvira and I did a string of appearances together. This one was in Hollywood at a gay club called The Circus. She was on-air for KROQ in 82-83. Always a riot to work with. And of course look at. Album: Everything Album Categories: All Events Tags: #Jed the Fish #KROQ...
by Simon Cousins | Jan 15, 2019
Backstage at the Bowie Glass Spider tour, the most amazing guitar player Adrien Belew, entertains KROQ DJs Lewis Largent and Jed The Fish, Dodger Stadium, 1987. This was the tour Peter Frampton played guitar as well. Album: Everything Album Categories: 80s All Tags:...
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
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 John Incampo | Jan 15, 2019
Oh, I did my best guys, but when I was set to pick her up for a B-52s concert at the Forum, her mother introduced me to her boyfriend and the date was over. Intercepted! Album: Everything Album Categories: All Tags: #Jed the Fish #KROQ #rock of the 80s #Drew Barrymore...
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 John Incampo | Jan 15, 2019
My second semester at USC, my video project was a discussion on the riveting subject of Los Angeles TV advertising. Not what about the advertising, does it suck or what, merely the ads. Harry Shearer, left, took me aside and gave me some much-needed advice. He said...
by Simon Cousins | Jan 15, 2019
It's rough for the American radio listener to hear a heavy Liverpudlian accent. Paul McCartney learned to clean his up a bit, Ian McCulloch not so much. His subdued voice does not help. At least he left a sizable souvenir booger on the wall of the Burbank men's room,...
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
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
Undoubtedly the only straight people with our hands on each other that night, I did not think of her as a comedienne. I thought she was just funny as hell. Ahh, the gays always loved her. Album: Everything Album Categories: All Tags: #Jed the Fish #KROQ #rock of the...
by Simon Cousins | Jan 15, 2019
Now this was audacity that could never happen today. KROQ took 200 listeners to Hawaii. Twice. The first time the GoGos played and Richard got hired. The next time Oingo Boingo played at Aloha Stadium. April Whitney, R, next to Freddy Snakeskin. Then Danny Elfman,...
by Simon Cousins | Jan 15, 2019
This guy is as genteel as Peter Gabriel. Steven Patrick Morrissey, in his solo years. When Johnny Marr was playing with the Smiths, he grabbed a drumstick and bashed his guitar with it during The Queen is Dead. He then threw it right to me. A security guy was --I...
by Simon Cousins | Jan 15, 2019
This reminds me of when I got in trouble with a girl I'd just broken up with. She got so mad at me she emptied a vacuum cleaner bag into my car, two weeks in a row. You see, the girl I'm with is her sister. I always liked hanging out with Joan Jett. I was in the...
by Simon Cousins | Jan 15, 2019
Rodney and I both took credit for supporting Adam Ant. This was probably the day of a show at Perkin's Palace. Since I arrived in 1978, this mural was the only permanent evidence of the radio station's existence. I would describe his mood during my interview that day...
by Jed Gould | Jan 15, 2019
How many women do you know who put on boob makeup? It works for her. Here I am trying to climb on top of her in the KROQ lobby in Pasadena. Isn't she beautiful? Album: Everything Album Categories: All Tags: #Jed the Fish #KROQ #rock of the 80s #Elvira #1980s...
by Jed Gould | Jan 15, 2019
I wish you had a color photograph so that you could see how hideous these curtains were. Always drawn, they hid all kinds of secrets. Here, Dee Dee and Johnny Ramone, at this point were seven albums into their career. Subterranean Jungle interview. Album: Everything...
by Simon Cousins | Jan 15, 2019
On the couch with RUN DMC... Album: Everything Album Categories: 80s All Tags: #KROQ #Jed the Fish #rock of the 80s #Run DMC...
by Jed Gould | Jan 15, 2019
My beast friend led by her nose through the Pasadena Arroyo. We pretty much go everywhere together. Not always here, but we walk from 1/2-mile to 1 1/2 miles a day. Lots of phots of Alice coming. In 2019, she was diagnosed with grade 1 fibrosarcoma. Album: Everything...
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 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
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
During the Whammy tour, if you took a photo backstage with the B-52s, you had to wear a hat, a wig, or otherwise be goofy. Their last time out with Ricky Wilson, left. Album: Everything Album Categories: 80s All Tags: #Jed the Fish #KROQ #rock of the 80s #B52's #1980s...
by Jed Gould | Jan 15, 2019
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. Album: Everything Album Categories: 80s All Tags: #Jed the Fish #KROQ #rock of the...
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:...
by Jed Gould | Jan 15, 2019
Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs. Ask anyone over 40 from down under and they know exactly who he is. A promo person, friend to all at KROQ Jon Scott, brought him around and got us playing his solo record, Children of the Sun. We actually spent a fair amount of time...
