In the last thread, a Confessor mentioned that Gordon had, perhaps inadvertently, dropped a hint that George DiGianni's venerable early-Saturday show might soon be ending. Then, another Confessor (love those Confessors) mentioned that in his very next show, George mentioned that he has booked guests through May -- sounded odd.
Thus advised, I alerted my Ticket Questionable Information Network to BOLO for information on this sizzling Ticket topic. I engaged a usually trustworthy operative to go undercover at The Ticket to see what s/he could discover about DiGianni's plans -- or . . . the Ticket's plans for him.
I can now confidently report that I have no additional information suggesting that TTSFS will be going off the air.
REALLY BREAKING: Barb Smith, former Traffic Twist who put My Ticket Confession on the map, is in studio today (Tuesday, April 17). She's not on the air, apparently only escorting a group of eighth graders there for a field trip in her position as a teacher of media journalism at Willow Springs Middle School. Got that naughty librarian thing going on . . . . Hey, Barb, great to hear your name on the air, and thanks again for the boost to this site when you showed up in the comments unexpectedly after your departure from the Ticket to let everyone know you were OK.
Is Barb Smith having are Arby's?
ReplyDeleteNo, she wants the dang ribs
ReplyDeleteI've learned that I have to take everything the Great Gordo says with a grain of salt.
ReplyDeleteFWIW, The Ticket has been running ads for George's "new" business.
ReplyDeleteHow in the HELL did THL get Marty Martinez (the guy that facebooked live the Southwest flight) on the air??!! That was incredible!
ReplyDeleteThat was pretty powerful stuff. When I got home my SO had been crying watching the news reports on the telly. Hope the Unticket got it because I would like to listen to it again.
ReplyDeleteIf not a P1 he probably had a P1 friend who offered him up.
ReplyDeleteIt was through Sirois. They credited him on air.
ReplyDeleteThe real breaking news is Pops wife just died. But what I want to talk about [hopefully Plains won't take me to the woodshed] is Corby's quick-whips segment today. I switched from ESPN Cavs game and caught the part where someone complained about all the documentary talk on THL. Sounds like I missed the Elvis bit, but what the listener needs to realize is that when it's a weak sports week, you're going to get a lot of Corby's TMZ style nonsense. They have to kill segments and the bottom line is, he runs the show! Did you like the way Corby had to call the p1 listener names and berate him? That's how a person that knows he doesn't really have anything in the way of real talent responds...he gets defensive! And did I hear Corby say that this was the "music show" of the station? I almost cracked up laughing! Since when does Corby know anything about music?!
ReplyDeleteIt is laughable that Corby thinks he knows rock music. He is dismissive of the Moody Blues music, but it was pretty obvious during Mike's Mind that he knows little about them. He should not try to hijack 60's rock discussions from Mike. And Mike should not let him. But that's the the way THL rolls these days.
ReplyDeleteI don't take rock and roll advice from a fan of drug-infused jam bands.
Now get off my lawn.
11:25 how drug infused were the moody blues?
ReplyDeleteHad a late meeting this evening and caught the tail end of JubJam on the way home. I'm not a student of the various strains of C&W so I don't even know what "red dirt" C&W is, or how it differs from regular brown dirt C&W or even asphalt C&W. But I thought The Bird Dogs were pretty OK, a real dense sound, lots going on instrumentally, although not extremely creative melody-wise or lyrically. My thinking is that "The Bird Dogs" is an absolutely terrible, awful, not-good name for a band, and they might do something if they didn't have such a stiff moniker.
ReplyDeleteBut what I wanted to say is that I thought it was real nice that The Ticket was broadcasting the thing. I enjoyed what I heard.
At a quarter past midnight I find this here again
ReplyDeleteHow long has this place been going Pman? Dear God I found the shaggy bevo here. I owe you people several beers or beverages of your choice should I ever meet you in the great bar of the unknown
look some people bought an album that had Crawfish on it. somewhere somebody thinks this song is cool. Even if it is red dirt country.
and they thought it was good
somebody listened to and paid good money for bad music
it happens, every dang day
hell, they raise money for orphans or orchids with fat women singing opera
and I can't stand that caterwauling either
let the big man have his fun
how bout that draft?! Y'all ready for another year of dramatic moments and bits!
you know you are
Cowboys!
Right here in our hometown!
Dear god do not eff this up. I swear I don't think they would have fired Dez five years ago
Do you know we still have it better than Houston on sports radio?
oh so so much better
Plains, are you serious? I kind of think "The Bird Dogs" is a pretty cool name. Anyway, I caught some of THL today; the part where they're talking about the "worst" song ever. First off, yeah, maybe "We Built this City" isn't great...but the worst?! Secondly, they bring up the Elvis Presley song "Crawfish" as the absolute worst. They may have discussed this yesterday on the Elvis segment. [I'm sorry I missed that. I would have liked to heard Mike's take on Elvis] I'll admit that most of the Elvis movies were corny, but "King Creole" was not bad, and had some great songs. Naturally, the little "know nothing" Corby is smirking and making fun of "Crawfish", which is featured in the opening of the movie. The song is meant to be just a simple tune that lightly reflects the culture of New Orleans...and NAILS IT! GREAT SONG! What does the idiot Corby expect..."Stairway to Heaven"?! And that opening scene, Elvis singing off the balcony, the horse-drawn carriage, the early morning dampness....absolutely oozes French Quarter coolness! It saddens me Corby has all the artistic flair of a dried up mud puddle!
ReplyDelete...btw, I hope Corby likes crawfish. I hear the Mexican restaurant, [the one he used to wait tables, and will again when Rhynes retires THL,] makes great crawfish taco's!
ReplyDeleteMusic expert Corby doesn't understand that in the 60's movies were the ideal way to deliver Elvis to teenagers who wanted to see him and hear him. The movies didn't have to be great - they were competing with the Frankie and Annette beach party movies so the bar was set pretty low. There had to be enough songs to fill out a soundtrack album. Maybe one song would be released as a single and hit the charts. The rest were just filler for the movie. And of course if you listen to the songs without the context of the movie they can sound pretty silly. King Creole was actually a good movie as Elvis movies went, and Crawfish fit in the way it was used.
ReplyDeleteWorst song ever is so subjective. What would Corby's reaction be if you picked a random Jack White song and told him it was the worst song ever?
The Musers in the past have referred to a traffic chic who is/was unfortunately mentally ill. She would have Gordon come down to the street and watch her drive around the block to show him how she was being followed. Was that Barb? Or one of the earlier traffic chics like Genie Moscoro or Julia Price?
ReplyDeleteNever heard that story about Barb. She may have had her goofy moments on-air, but she was a mom who had to go back and forth quite a bit to care for her kid(s) while making it to AM and PM drive. Now she's a middle-school teacher. Doesn't seem to have the paranoid profile.
ReplyDeleteI liked her as a Traffic Twist.
Might be talking about the one who had the whippet or greyhound that was in The Ticket dog day race. Forget her name, but if memory serves, she was very very much out there. Thought she was a member of the Varsity talent pool, would have issues with Musketeers and want to use traffic spots as her own show on which to air said grievances, and generally be a living, breathing case of perpetual drama.
ReplyDeleteOh yeah. All that and I can't stand the Musers' love for the word " magical. "
Nicky Granville was her name. Don't know about the cars following her stuff, but it does seem like she left under some sort of needed a change of scenery (by all parties concerned) auspices.
ReplyDeleteAnon 5:18 - you could pick a couple of songs from the new Jack White album that could qualify as worst song ever without any arguments. And this comes from someone who is going to his show.
ReplyDeleteJW ran out of super cool yet obscure late 60s\early 70s garage band tunes to "appropriate" many years back. Hence his long lack of putting out solid records.
ReplyDeleteHis records are solid enough, especially Blunderbuss. This last one is a mess, though. And all music is appropriated, at least in the rock genre.
ReplyDelete1223 am Cactus: I don't know if you're the MTC poet or the MTC drink-n-post guy, but I loved that comment.
ReplyDeleteLittle bit of both but mostly the latter. Good old drinkin' Cactus, he's scattin', be-boppin' and riffin' all the while jukin' n jivin'. Just like those musicians and their fancy shoes.
ReplyDeleteJub's the tits, but man I'm glad The Jam spots are over until sometime next year. I actually don't mind The Bird Dogs (sorry, Pshart, it's a good band name). Jub sings from the heart and the tunes ain't all that bad. Hell, I can relate a little to some of 'em. The rest of that Red Dirt stuff, f it and f it hard. The fake kuntry accent singing is, to quote Joonz, ridiculous.
Hey yo, Pdil! How about a piece on the state of Ticket Tweeners? Those who are no longer JV but aren't Varsity? I'm thinking Sirloin, D Ballz, Jake Z, and even Diamond Balk's very own Sean Flask. Donnie used to be a Tweener, now he's Varsity. These guys are on the cusp but not there yet and might not ever get there. It didn't take a firing, death or retirement for Donnie Loves to make it to the show. What about the aforementioned buttchugs?
Buddy, the Dire Strats quote is welcome.
ReplyDeleteNice shot.
I still say "The Bird Dogs" is a name destined for the cut-out bin, if there were such things as cut-out bins anymore.
Oh man, cut'em some slack Plains! @anon 5:18 am....I never even thought about it in that perspective, but that is very true. You would have thought the "music show" of the station would be smart enough to realize that!
ReplyDeleteOne question about Jub Jam.
ReplyDeleteOn the day of said Jub Jam, George was talking about all the activities and inviting people down for the silent auctions and other ways to help. However, the promo's have been saying for a week or two (at least) that the event was sold out. I don't know how the Kessler is laid out; is there a front hall or something? Was George wanting people without tickets to come out and peruse the silent auction items and then leave? Very confusing.
Pman - I think the band name is solid. And sometimes when I get liquored up I will pull up "Thought It Was You" and remember my dad. I remember when the Bird Dogs put up their first album, discussing and playing snippets on the air and taking callers. That was a very powerful segment.
Corby trying to review Elvis is like me trying to give hitting tips to Derek Jeter. Corby has no idea of the breadth of his work, especially gospel.
Final rant - Why doesn't Cumulus keep up the webpage with their remotes? I am sure some sweet clean P1 would volunteer to do this if the station doesn't have the resources. I went into the office on Good Friday when everyone else was off. Felt like a Saturday so I was not listening. Tuned in about 4:00 and THL was just coming off a break when Mike said "Coming to you from Barbecue's Galore in Rockwall Texas". This is like 10 minutes from my work so I shut down the x386 and went. Would be nice to be able to plan ahead, however.
I just wanted to point out that I’m THRILLED the NRA bought time on the little one to announce their upcoming convention. Why?? Because it put a muzzle on Gordon, Cobby and Danny to not burn segments talking about how much they hate the NRA and all it stands for. Actually, I’ve heard Gordon talk about having guns, but you’ll notice he doesn’t believe the rest of us have enough sense to own one.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoy their shows until they speak of ANY political/social issue.
Thank ye kindly PMan.
ReplyDeleteGeorge Di appears to be humorless, which is a problem on the Ticket.
ReplyDeleteNorm dropping "Oh eff them" might be my favorite part of the draft so far.
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