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Here's the skinny,
                    Born in
Ohio, just north of Cincinnati, in Hamilton. I am a HUGE Buckeye and Reds fan (obviously). We moved around ALOT when I was young....( Arizona,Oregon,Ohio) and back and forth between the three until I graduated.....in Ohio. My kids were born in Oregon, then I decided to move everyone to Arizona. One day while watching Infomercials and "Hey come to our Tech school and get a career" on TV, I decided one day to go to a broadcasting school in Phoenix, to be a sports announcer. It was always a fantasy of mine. 6 months later I graduated and how I ended up at 8 and counting different radio stations....who knows. Started my journey in 1991 at an Oldies station in Eugene Oregon, then News Talk across the hall from the Oldies. Moved to Phoenix Az..2 stations there. I was the only white dude at the Jazz/R&B station. That was interesting. Been at 2 stations in Tucson as well. Moved here..(from Virginia..worked at the Pentagon) to Sioux Falls a couple of years ago because I wanted to be closer to my kids and Granddaughter and after 3 years out of radio (taking longer to get the bugs out than I thought) decided to send Crash a demo and here I am. I have met some wild and crazy rockers, too. Sammy Hager, Ann and Nancy Wilson, Joe Satriani, all the Rush members...(don't tell Angie) George Thorogood.......list is pretty long. Have enjoyed my time here so far and hope to be around awhile.... Really enjoy the classic rock at the "B"... See you at Jazzfest. It ROCKS!!!!!!!
 

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Get The Led Out

Every weeknight at 9, I pay tribute to one of the greatest hard rock bands ever...Led Zeppelin, as B102.7 Gets The Led Out! Zep was a band master-minded by Jimmy Page, a long-time session musician who left the Yardbirds to form the imaginatively named New Yardbirds. Legend has it that Who drummer Keith Moon heard the name and told Page that it would go over like a "lead zeppelin", and the new name was born. Page recruited classically trained session musician John Paul Jones, who knew of a young lead singer in another part of England named Robert Plant. Plant in turn told them about a young drummer friend from another band named John "Bonzo" Bonham, and Zep was formed.

 

Their run lasted just over a decade and set standards unmatched even today. They were able to dictate how much of concert receipts they would get (rumored to be in excess of 85%!), they formed their own record label (Swan Song) and even started signing groups to their label (Bad Company). They even believed they were so popular, that they could release an album with no title and not even the band's name on it. Of course that album is commonly known as IV, Runes, or ZOSO.  And they were right. The album is one of the top-selling albums of all time. Led Zeppelin ceased to exist September 25, 1980 when Bonham passed away after a night of hard drinking. The band broke up and although there have been a few runs of Plant & Page, the once-strong rumors of finding another drummer to fill Bonzo's shoes appears to be gone.

 

They go down as one of the most successful and influential bands in rock history. Any biographies you read on other bands from the 70's through today, inevitably you see Zep's name pop up somewhere. So every weeknight at 9, we play three Zep classics...some you may know by heart, some you may not have heard in years and others that you may never have heard! Join me every weeknight as we Get The Led Out!

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