Paging BATMON.. RIP kiss fm
Jonny_Paycheck
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Kiss and WBLS are merging, and will broadcast on the BLS frequency.
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Nice... I hadn't heard a few of those before.
I will probably always have the Red Alert Chant in my head for life.
It's funny, I'm trying to think back and I'm getting a lot of things confused as to who was on Hot 97 or 103.5 and who was on Kiss. Which one had the house music on late on Fridays and Saturdays? Or was that both?
In like Flynn. I'm from Long Island, we don't pronounce t's at the ends of words.
Sweent?
The first time I heard "Jam on It", "White Lines," "Ain't No Body" was on KISS FM???. and the Red Alert Shows!??? Legendary NYC right there.
RIP
The OG saying is "In like Flynn". (Presumably the noted ladies-man and got-a-match punchline hero Errol),
"In Like Flint" is a pun on this.
I just googled it : http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/198700.html
It's also kind of wild to me that they didn't pick up Michael Baisden, or Tom Joyner. These guys are syndicated nationally but both were successful on WKRS, and yet not transfer over
Bummer.
This station had a huge influence on me when I lived in the North-West of England in the early 80s. Peter Powell's evening show on Radio 1 used to do a regular monthly Monday night link-up with Kiss when it was still in its infancy, and they'd play whatever was hot in New York that weekend along with some of the specials Shep Pettibone used to do, and may even have featured a mix by Tony Humphries on a couple of occasions (can't be certain of that, though). That brief taste of what was happening on NY radio and in the clubs was one of the things that drew me towards DJing. I know that I went out and bought the Kiss-FM Mastermixes comp that Prelude put out in 1982, solely on the basis of what got played in that monthly half-hour feature.
You're probably right about the Tony Humphries part, I've seen Kiss mixes from him dating back to the earliest '80s sprinkled among the blogosphere. I know I have a couple on tape, from the 90's though and they might have even been off Hot 97, although they had Glenn Friscia and Hex Hector around that time.
In like Sweent.
Kiss was the challenger to the well locked w/ 'BLS LBE.
I dunno but both have lost some swagger for me and with the internets and shit im not as dependent as i was from the 70s to the 90s.
I dont care about pop shit but The Quiet Storm is so important to Black Music and i hope that stays in the game.
Keith Sweat had a very good show.
I knew the whole Clear Channel steez is the last call for the radio game.
you know, I was just telling my friend about this about this the other day because her last name is Sweeney, too:
The other week I was on the train within earshot of a dude who was on his cellphone, mad as hell about something that some third party had done, and spent the entire ride hollering at the person on the other end of the phone to remind the other person what was what:
"Does that little fuck know who the fuck he's fucking with? I'm fucking Sweeney! You tell him this is fucking Sweeney right here!...What?!...What?!...I don't give a fuck...You make sure and let him know that he's fucking with fucking Sweeney!...What?!...How should I...What?!...Listen...No, listen, you let that fuck know that you fucking talked to Sweeney directly, and let him know that fucking Sweeney himself said..."
And on and on and on, never once deviating from that central theme. It was like performance art or something. Dude was already on the train and kicking ballistics when I got on, and was still raging when I got off approximately sixteen minutes later (pause). I cannot imagine where Fucking Sweeney is right now. My guess would be dead, in jail, or still in that same train seat, red-faced and with the top of his head blown like one of those trick cigars, just from pure anger. Or perhaps he walked into a "Don't Mess Around With Jim"-type situation back at the shack and got merked by Little Fuck. The mind boggles.
Anyway, sorry for the thread-jack. All I got is that I used to have some umpteenth-generation Latin Rascals megamixes dubbed off of KISS that I bumped in the Walkman the one Summer when I was painting this rental house that was like a way station for strippers and their kids, but I realize that's not really pertinent. I'm out.
Bravo.
Essential heads know the transaction. Red Alert on 98.7 was basically my hip-hop bible, and Uncle Red was my original template for what a DJ should be.
"What's up with DJ Red Alert? GOIN' BERSERK!"
The city, the birthplace of hip hop, has lost the station that did it all. What the Helllll!???
Yes WBLS played rap and was/is an amazing station, but it was always at its core more of an R&B and classic soul station.
Utter shock and disappointment. I love radio, this is truly a lame abdication of a monument, that's how I see 98.7.
does anyone remember Mighty Mitchski and the MB's song "Red Alert is a Great Man"??
i will never forget hearing it on Red's mixtape, We Can Do This. there is no other tape that had more of an influence on me.
this is really f**ked up.
The people are upset.