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Feorge Gorman

This has been circulating through the e-mails of on-air DJ's everywhere.

I've edited out a few items you might not understand...but a lotta these are funny, and NAIL IT when it comes to the glamour and prestige associated with being a radio 'on-air' guy! It really hits home with ME!


You know you're an Aging Radio DJ when:

You excitedly turn the radio up at the sound of "dead air" on the
competitor's station.

Sales guys wore Old Spice to cover the smell of liquor.

You remember when normal people listened to AM radio, and only "hippies"listened to FM.

You're at least 10 years older than the last two GM's who fired you.

You meant to return that record album to the DJ on the next shift, but he was fired before you got around to it.

You used to smoke in a radio station and nobody cared.

You know the difference between good reel-to-reel tape and cheap reel-to-reel tape.

Religious radio stations were locally owned, run by an old Protestant minister and his wife, never had more than 20 listeners at any given time, and still made money.

You have a white wax pencil, a razor blade, and a spool of 3M splicing tape in your desk drawer - - just in case.

You can post a record, run down the hall, go to the bathroom, take a crap, and be back in 2:50 for the segue.

Somebody would say, "You have a face for radio", and it was still funny.

Sixty percent of your wardrobe has a station logo on it.

You would spend hours splicing and editing a parody tape until it was "just right", but didn't give a damn how bad that commercial was you recorded. Hey, I can only work with what they give me, right?

You still refer to CDs as "records".

Dinner? Let's see what the last shift left for me in the refrigerator.

Your family thinks you're successful, but you know better.

You played practical jokes on the air without fear of lawsuits.

There were always at least a dozen porn magazines lying around the studio.

An extra hour of sleep was considered a day off.

You answer your home phone with the station call letters.

You used to fight with the news guy over air-time. After all, what was more important: your joke about your ex-wife, or that tornado warning?

You know at least 3 people in sales that take credit for you keeping your job.

You have several old air-check cassettes in a cardboard box in your closet that you wouldn't dream of letting anyone hear anymore, but, you'll never throw them out or tape over them. Never!

You can still see scars on your finger when you got cut using a razor blade and cleaned out the cut with head-cleaning alcohol and an extra long cotton swab on a wooden stick.

You still have dreams of a song running out and not being able to find the control room door.

You've never told a listener "Yeah. I'll get that right on for you."

You have a couple of old transistor radios around the house with corroded batteries inside them.

People who ride in your car exclaim, "Why is your radio so loud?"

Going to a club and not getting paid to work seems like a waste of time.

You have at least 3 unopened CDs, 2 T-shirts, 22 bumper stickers, and 5 old cups in your car.

You have at least 19 pictures of you with famous people whom you haven't seen since, and wouldn't know you today if you bit 'em on the ass.

You were a half an hour late for an appearance and blamed it on the directions you received from the sales person.

You've run a phone contest and nobody called, so you made up a name and gave the tickets to your cousin.

You remember when people actually thought radio was important.

It's SO true!

pOOn

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gatorgrower

roflmao....never did commerical radio but had a reggae show on my old college station for a couple of smemesters many moons ago....what type of "smoking" you talking about poon????
used to have my bong breaks on air.. pd thoguht it was a tape but it was always done live

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Peace & Cool Runnings

Feorge Gorman

I've never really smoked up 'in the building'...but at one station, we hadda nice little ledge on the 3rd story! That's where 'Stairway to Heaven' (7+ minutes) or (better yet) 'In A Gadda Da Vida' (18+ minutes!) comes in REAL handy!

On-air bong breaks! That's funny man!

I try not to get stoned before I have an air-shift...I can talk well, but I tend to get confused as to what buttons to push!

pOOn

Shaman

You shouldda' popped on "Alice's Restaraunt" (30+ minutes) and had a good sesh, munch, and power nap!

Worked as a "Guest Dj" a few times, enough to know that its not going to be my career choice (I.E. - I won't quit my dayjob! )

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Feorge Gorman

It's kind of an unwritten law in 'Rock & Roll' radio...'Alice's Restaurant' ONLY on Thanksgiving!

<< I won't quit my dayjob! >>

Good choice Shaman...I'd gladly give up my ulcer for a 'non-stressful' position!

Like Spacey says in 'American Beauty'..."I want a job with the LEAST amount of responsibility!"

pOOn