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Old 09-17-2014, 07:16 PM
 
Location: Phoenix Arizona
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Things keep getting lamer and lamer.

Its "KDKB ROCKS ARIZONA" not "kdkb plays total braindead safe rock for people who wear vintage sweaters in June".
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Old 09-17-2014, 08:09 PM
 
Location: Willo Historic District, Phoenix, AZ
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Wasn't KDJQ the AM version of KDKB before the FCC banned the simulcast in the late 70s? It was an excellent station, albeit in mono on AM. ("Off the wall radio", their theme music was the drum intro to XTC's "Plans for Nigel").
Exactly. It was an experiment that lasted only about 6 months. It was a dawn to dusk station. Here is a clip from Billboard in August of 1980. KUKQ had a similar relationship with KUPD.

Billboard - Google Books
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Old 09-17-2014, 08:17 PM
 
Location: Willo Historic District, Phoenix, AZ
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Was just driving around town, flipping the dial on my radio and noticed some really bad jazz covers of popular rock tunes playing on KDKB. Thought to myself, when a radio station is playing weird music non-stop it means that a future format change is in the air.
What they were playing in a 2 hour "bridge" between the old and new formats was music from Lounge Against the Machine. LATM is the product of Mark "Richard Cheese" Davis. Davis is an Apollo (Washington?) High School grad who moved to LA and writes jingles. You can find LATM recordings on Amazon. I knew the guy when he was an Explorer Scout. Clever guy, but I'll pass on his music.
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Old 09-17-2014, 08:22 PM
 
Location: SW OK (AZ Native)
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Exactly. It was an experiment that lasted only about 6 months. It was a dawn to dusk station. Here is a clip from Billboard in August of 1980. KUKQ had a similar relationship with KUPD.

Billboard - Google Books
Great link! "Modern Music for Modern Minds" was another slogan they used.

Their intro borrowed from XTC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHTrJGeKhYA
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Old 09-17-2014, 10:59 PM
 
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I for one am really pleased to see the change. In the 70s under Bill Compton, KDKB was the penultimate underground/progressive station. Eventually Compton was fired and the station was sold and it got much more commercial, following the AOR format that was increasingly popular. By the end of the 70s, in my opinion, it was largely irrelevant. The old KDKB spirit was better embodied in the brief but brilliant KDKQ (K15, all modern, all mono, with Johnny D), KEYX (spanning the Globe), KSTM (the Storm in the Valley), KUKQ and through DJs like Johnny D, Jonathan L and Mary "Bone Mama" McCann. Eventually "alternative" came along and sort of picked up the torch via KEDJ and KEXX. That went away too. Of late we have had a low power listener supported station in KWSS that plays a variety of new music, but the programming varies and the signal is weak. I'm told that KUKQ has resurfaced in the East Valley somewhere but I haven't heard it.

The new station "Alt AZ 93.3" sounds promising. The new management was previously associated with stations like 91X (Tijuana) and KROQ (LA) which I listen to when I can. I hadn't listed to KDKB in a long, long time.
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Thanks for the heads up. Will have to check that out.
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Old 09-18-2014, 08:34 AM
 
Location: downtown phoenix
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Ozzy, ac/dc and def lepperd all day everyday on infinite repeat. I'm forced to listen to radio all day and I welcome this change.
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Old 09-18-2014, 09:19 AM
 
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Mentioned the change to my girlfriend and the first thing she said was KDKB was the perfect mix of old stuff with a few new songs thrown in. Guess our demographic of 40-something ex-metalhead is not big enough to support a station in Phoenix.

Change is always right around the corner in the media world. Just seems weird that such a longtime icon like KDKB is gone.
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Old 09-18-2014, 10:20 AM
 
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Long time listener here, from way back to the Toad Hall days . For me KDKB was never the same after the long time run of "Tim and Mark In The Morning" was over.

For 16 yrs. you could always count on those 2 for a couple of laughs in the morning.
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Old 09-19-2014, 08:27 PM
 
Location: Phoenix Arizona
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Put on 93.3 tonight on the way to the store and switched off the Coldplay they were playing before I vomited on my steering wheel. Turned in a few minutes later to hear eurotrash neodisco. Portents of the apocalypse.
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Old 09-19-2014, 09:00 PM
 
Location: Amongst the AZ Cactus
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Mentioned the change to my girlfriend and the first thing she said was KDKB was the perfect mix of old stuff with a few new songs thrown in. Guess our demographic of 40-something ex-metalhead is not big enough to support a station in Phoenix.

Change is always right around the corner in the media world. Just seems weird that such a longtime icon like KDKB is gone.
Just curious....have you ever listened to something like Pandora? You can slice/dice groups, songs, thumbs up/down certain songs to your hearts content with very short commercials here and there on the "Free" version.

With services like Pandora, unless one is stuck with only a radio in a remote location or something, I don't know why anyone would want to listen to FM radio anymore. Last I tuned in an FM station, I couldn't take the parade of commercials that seemed to occur way too often.
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