More on Jamie, Less on Jamie, More on Gordon
A little more on Jamie, Frosty, Frank, Danny, and others.
From Kelson in January 2003:
Musically I’m down to Star 98.7, which suffers from the binge-and-purge method of playlist scheduling (play the hell out of a song until the audience is sick of it) and an increasing shift toward personalities over music. I can’t hear any music during my morning commute because they run the extremely annoying Jamie and Danny show, and during my evening commute Ryan Seacrest spends more time talking than playing music....
The only good thing about Ryan Seacrest’s show is that it only insults your intelligence, as compared to Jamie and Danny, whose insults are more open. (I swear, the best thing that happened to Frosty and Frank was getting fired from Star - the Frosty Heidi and Frank show is so much better than this drivel.)
From Richard Wagoner:
Station Manager Brad Samuel told industry newspaper Radio and Records, "Danny has been a valuable member of Star for years, but we've chosen to go in a different creative direction."
Whether that direction means actually having an entertaining morning show remains to be seen. "Jamie and Danny," like "Jamie, Frosty and Frank" before it, consistently set new lows in quality and in entertainment value. I actually had to remove Star from my car stereo presets so I wouldn't accidentally tune in during morning drive.
How Jamie White keeps her job is hard to say. In fact, now that Bonaduce's gone, if they'd just get rid of White ...
No such luck, unfortunately. The new morning show, which was launched Tuesday, is known as "Jamie, Jack and Stretch," with White, board operator Jack Heine and Producer Mike "Stretch" Roberts. Same show, different male partners, both of whom sound just like Bonaduce. Still the worst show in all of Southern California.
If history is an indication, Bonaduce will go on to become bigger and better: When Frosty Stillwell and Frank Kramer left KYSR to join Heidi Hamilton on KLSX (97.1 FM), lo and behold, "Heidi, Frosty and Frank," aka The Triplets, actually became a good show. Bonaduce, paired with someone talented, may make a good partner.
From the Duluth News Tribune (and an opportunity to stop talking about Jamie White and to talk about one of the greatest acoustic bands ever):
Sneaking out behind an L.A. sushi bar to smoke up with former Partridge Danny Bonaduce.
Singing about borrowing the car from dad to get busy with a chick.
Putting a bass neck up Dennis Rodman's butt.
This is life for the three middle-aged members of the Violent Femmes....
Somehow, the music and the band members -- Ritchie, vocalist Gordon Gano, 42, and drummer Victor DeLorenzo, 50 -- keep getting older while their fans stay the same age.
For 23 years, the acoustic punk band's following has grown with each fresh crop of disaffected youth who "discovers" the Femmes' debut album. The self-titled album was released in 1982 -- a long-gone year of Rubik's Cubes, Members Only jackets and Olivia Newton-John getting physical on MTV....
When the Femmes initially got together in "Laverne and Shirley"-land, they thought the problem with most rock was that good lyrics couldn't be heard over the loud music.
So, by putting punk attitude into acoustic instruments, the Femmes drew fans specifically because of their lyrics, which are often clever but adolescent and appeal to, well, adolescents.
The band was going nowhere fast until, while busking on the streets of their hometown, they were discovered by the Pretenders.
The Violent Femmes' first recording produced a slew of alt-radio classics: "Blister in the Sun," "Add It Up," "Kiss Off" and "Gone Daddy Gone."
It was the only album in Billboard magazine's history to go platinum without ever appearing in the top 200....
Ritchie surmises [being from Wisconsin] is so weird and backward, it may have been cursed by natives. He said the worst part of being a band from Wisconsin are the cows. And he's not talking about bovines.
"Well, if you're a male band from Wisconsin, all the female fans are bigger than we are. It's a problem," he said. "Sometimes, they come back stage don't know what they want because all we hear is mooo."...
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