Lone Star 92.5 fires legendary Dallas DJ Redbeard

Robert Kelly says:

I swear, every time I hear something decent on this station, ie, Drams, Wilco- it is inevitably followed up by George Thurogood or Bob Seger. Program for people like me or program for Burleson, but quit trying to be both, it ain't gonna fly.

Chad Jones says:

My God there is a small orangutan hanging from his ears.

Scott Miller says:

rkisok,

Word!

Only Redbeard could have confused Bob Seger, Charlie Daniels and Molly Hatchet with "alt country." Every time he came over my speakers I was reminded of the time I saw him introduce REM at McFarlin Auditorium and he was literally booed off the stage. No doubt by people tired of calling his station at the time to futilely request they play some REM.

I gave it a fair shot but after a month or so went back to my CDs and Ipod.

I'm much happier now.

Andrew Laska says:

When Island records released "The Sound of Deep Ellum" during Deep Ellum's second heyday (i.e. the 1980s), Redbeard played a track on his show and referred to Deep Ellum as that "little old place" or something to that effect with a cutesy description.

It came off as if he was describing the burgeoning music scene like it was a cute novelty that we can pat on the head and send it on its way.

Andrew

Brad LaRock says:

The whole concept of what Lonestar was to be before they went back to playing commercials was to be a guys (35+) Ipod. I think they they missed the boat and should have canned the boys from Balch Springs that they call a morning show. Also, the music was dramatically different when they signed on with Lonestar last spring. It should have worked. If Jack FM can go from The Scorpions to Belinda Carlisle and do what they do, it should have worked. Clear Channel lost millions in in advertising revenue because they thought they could sell the conceptof advertisers buying block programming. Hell, TV has been doing for it for years. Some people bought into it. It was alot of money. It was priced not to sell but priced to keep the corporate weenies convinced they did the right thing and if they could sell it that they could recoup all the money lost. Instead, they (Clear Channel) didn't hire the right reps to pull it off or the right jocks. John Dillon couldn't get through one of those live Southwest Airlines reads without falling all over himself. Bo and Jim are back to playing recorded parody commercials from some humor factory for non creative disc jockeys out of L.A. Mr. Freeman, hire me to program your station, hire and train your sales staff and I will show all of you where you went wrong. Tell the boys from Balch Springs their days are numbered and that we're going back to the Lonestar music we played the first 3 months of the launch.(Forget the job, I really dig mine). Either that or just go back to the way KZPS was and we'll just pretend this whole never happened. I applauded this change. It was gutsy, out of the box. That is what radio needs. Radio's biggest competitor is your IPOD but they think they know what you like better than you do. I could talk about this whole Lonestar thing for days. Bottom line...it should have worked. They changed it too soon. It should have worked.

Kevin Kunreuther says:

Let's just say I saw this coming. Nothing lasts on radio in this market. The powers that be have to tinker with every format. Anything adventurous is squelched or made bland. I liked the idea of the ad blocks and the live reads of the ads - half the fun was hearing the talent either pull it off or stumble over themselves like some of the summer intern announcers on KNTU-FM. The alt-country and classic rock mash-up was jarring to say the least, at least it introduced to my ears some artists and tunes I've never heard before. The only thing really retro-weird about it was hiring the old Q102 crew - I suppose they were trying lure in the 42-65 age market - hearing the familiar but older voices made me feel my own age - outside I still pass as someone in their late twenties but inside I feel every bit a forty-five year old. As revered, respected and well-rounded, shall we say, as is the on air talent at 92.5, I couldn't shake the feeling that I'm listening to old fogey radio. The nuance behind every announcement was, "remember the good old days when this record was out" or "this artist here sounds like Pure Prairie League or Marshal Tucker, back in the day". On the other hand, replacing the talent with high pitched annoying helium voiced announcers with zip for personality ain't cutting it either. Clear Channel truly has killed what made radio, radio. No wonder people turning to satellite, iPods and the internet for audio entertainment.

Aaron Johnson says:

This is why I just listen to 95.3FM the Range.

Peter Stawicki says:

Redbeard is beyond legend status. When it comes to Radio no one of this generation has done more, seen more, talked with more, and just been an all around amazing producer and on air personality. The fact that this station could even possibly think they could fill his shoes with the droning and stupidity of a 60+ year old man who truly has nothing to say and nothing to contribute to ANYONE is just amazing. What stupidity. Just beyond belief.

Robert Kelly says:

is that group poets? Just curious.