Re: Jack Lawrence

[Jeremy Mixer <mixer@zoso.net>]

On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Cooper Fox wrote:

> But where do you draw the line?  All 90s pop?  All 90s
> rock?  I think that in a few yers it may surface as a
> new show-type.  Almost the way a lot of networks and
> stations are running 80s shows.  My thoughts of the
> subject...

Just like the 80's shows have a certain amount of variety to them. As
someone who tunes in occaisionally to your 80's show on Kiss it is
interesting to see the different and similar approaches that it has to the
other 80's shows that have been in the Bangor market since I've been up
here. While it tends to be a more poppy top 40 mix, I have heard on your
show everything from the Stray Cats to Robert Plant & the Honeydrippers to
the B-52's to RObert Palmer. Huey Lewis & the News. While some of these
may be considered "80's standards" I am sure there is some other station
doing an 80's show that might not touch Robert Palmer or Huey Lewis. There
are going to be others that while they may not get too far into the Hair
bands, they'll play the stuff that charted really well by bands such as
Def Leppard, Guns and Roses, and Dire Straits.

I think for the 90's music, like the 80's, you'll only see a small
percentage of 90's "top 40" songs last, as over time much of that format
just dissappears into thin air and when some of it returns years down the
road, it is only the music that stood the quality of time. I also think
some of the groundbreaking alternative songs such as "Smells Like Teen
Spirit" and Pearl Jam's "Jeremy" will end up on shows like that often, as
well as others like the Violent Femmes. I doubt anything from Kid Rock
will last into the distant future with the exception of "Only God Knows
Whyt"

I could go a\on and on about what I think, but really there is only one
way of telling and that's to see what stations are doing seven or eight
years from now for the 90's......

I'm going to take a nap now, wake me up in 2008 :)

Jeremy