This Wonderful Unrequited Love Affair and Phish. The Poor 96Rock Program Director

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Transcript

Blade: 0:11

I was just watching ESPN women's college basketball James Madison and Marshall and it was a good basketball game, you know, just killing time until March Madness kicks in. And I was just noticing how the James Madison coaches they have their hair pulled back and like a you know a bun at the top so they fit in nicely, trying to fit in. They do a good job. And James Madison has this girl player and her name is Meredith Meyer and, like whew, a plus plus. You know, but it's just so hard watching women's college basketball. It just seems like they fall down a lot, you know, and there was a scrum at the end of regulation time. They had an overtime game. There was you know nine, 10 girls on the floor going for the ball and it just seemed James Madison had 35 turnovers and I swear half of them were, you know, falling down and the ball goes out of bounds. But I, you know, I don't know, but my hands off really to ESPN. I mean they're incredible. They've done this amazing push towards women's basketball for the equal rights thing and the equal coverage thing and the equal pay thing. They're really, really trying hard at it and doing really really well at it. I just think they're incredible, I do. I think ESPN is just incredible, the entertainment sports programming network which started what back in the 70s, I think. And now look what they do. They're incredibly entertaining and incredibly sporting. Obviously I mean socially and their 30, 30 inside stories, personal stories of people. And ESPN plus is incredible. I swear. They've got cameras at every single basketball game, every single women's lacrosse game, you know ping pong tournaments, swimming tournaments, track and field. They've got everything on ESPN plus. Wow, very impressed. Hats off to ESPN. Top notch job.

Blade: 2:09

Okay, the band Fish. Now two things about Fish. Number one Trey Anastasio is an incredible guitar player. He's on my list, no question about it. Anybody that opens for the Rolling Stones is going to be on my list. He was the opener for the Rolling Stones at Endurum 2005. Rolling Stones played there at Wallace Waged Stadium. I went to that with Brian the Rody, no less a cohort of mine at WRDU. I missed the whole Trey Anastasio set, which I'm sorry about, but you kind of want to see him with Fish. But Rolling Stones were just incredible.

Blade: 2:45

I've got this incredibly unrequited love affair with the Rolling Stones. I mean, when they're gone, I just don't know if I can live anymore. I mean that you know, and I'll just. I have no idea who I am, but I love them and always have. I've had a lifelong relationship with them, you know, and when they go, I think I'm going to go, at least in my head and my heart. Anyway, no question about it, you know, and I will just continue in the meantime to love them from afar, unbeknownst to them.

Blade: 3:17

And the other thing about Fish the name of the band Fish supposedly comes from the sound a jet takes, a jet makes when it takes off. Supposedly that's Fish, and I always thought of it as just something funny. And they just want Fish. You know F-I-S-H, but they just wanted to spell it funny PH. Who cares about the name of a band? Anyway, if they're good, they're good, it doesn't matter what they're called.

Blade: 3:41

It's my favorite story about Fish. At one point in my radio day I was doing a 420 smoke break and I was on the air with a guy named Foster right, 96 Rock, 2012 maybe and he was the program director Afternoon show. I'm on the air with a program director, the guy that makes all the rules, you know. And. And 420 smoke break was a liberty I was given, you know, and I could pick the 420 smoke break song. So I pulled out Fish one day and it was a 27 minute version of Tweezer, loaded it up in the little machine and got ready to play it. And he looked at it and me it's my favorite quote of the guy of all time and he was a good guy. He played along, he tried to play along, even though he wasn't of that ilk, you know what I mean. And he looked at me and he said you're not going to play the whole thing, are you? Mainstream Rock radio station that doesn't play songs more than four and a half minutes. And I'm getting ready to spend 27 minutes of Tweezer noodling and singing jammy. And I said yeah, yeah, and he was all right. You know, honestly, I think I didn't even I couldn't do that on a commercial rock radio station, so I think I switched it to Moe that day.

Blade: 5:02

But just to get that quote. Hats off, foster. Thanks for putting up with me and thanks for trying. The name was Run away, run away. Take all the miles and close the dams. Run away, run away, run away. Oh, run away, jim, run away. Jim Strobe is old, it's tricked again. Run away, run away, run away. Hold on to how we both stand, run away, run away, run away. Oh, run away, jim.