Music has always been a big part of my life and sometimes the right song can evoke such powerful memories.
These are those stories! :)
The lyrics may be catchy and fun to sing but if a track is going to really grab my attention, the instrumentals have to be top notch! And one of the best instrumental groups out there is The Alan Parsons Project... :)
I had a lovely set for Martin Luther King Jr day ready to go...and no signal making it to the rink speakers! Welcome to the wonderful world of improvisation... :)
The WFOX hits line is not powered by telepathy! Just sayin'... ;)
The request lines are open...Nicholas is wanting an Evanescence vibe and I was already fiddling with some track ideas that scream "girl power". Well, one good idea deserves another... :)
I genuinely couldn't believe that there wasn't a single Grateful Dead track in the library when it came time to pay tribute to the passing of Bobby Weir. This was rectified immediately... :)
Whether it's radio or playing a set as a live DJ...special requests are often what really makes the night for us! We may not be able to fulfill it immediately but rest assured that unless the song is truly hopeless, you'll be hearing it over the speakers soon enough! :)
The MLK Jr playlist looked a bit light and I was wanting some more options to play with...what I didn't plan on was just how much bigger that playlist got! :)
Playing with some ideas for the upcoming Martin Luther King Jr holiday...
This post is the starting point for the playlists for Season XII of the MCHL Ironclad League so if there was a track that was played during the Zamboni /warm-ups that inspired feelings of “I’ve got to have that song!”, here is all the details that’s fit to print! :) The title comes from one of the earliest slogans of WMMO (the station that inspired compiling these lists in the first place!) which at the…
Tonight we have a marathon session of four back-to-back Ironclad games to finish the season. Trust me, you didn’t want to be playing in the last game of the evening…
Well, if it's an angst-laden playlist the players get, there's no way I'm not going to drop a Taylor Swift track in amongst the songs and see if it gets noticed! :)
Tonight's pre-game tracks were partially inspired by a playlist being constructed for Martin Luther King Jr Day in the upcoming season of Ironclad...
Meditations on the life of a DJ with Donald Fagen's "The Nightfly" being the inspiration for the first game's playlist! :)
The one thing these tracks have in common? A fast-paced driving rhythm... :)
Winging it with a playlist can be kind of scary...but that's what makes it so much *FUN* especially when your audience is really enjoying the seemingly random tracks! :)
Sometimes the theme of the playlists is blindingly obvious. The inspiration for tonight's playlist proves that this is not one of those nights... ;)
MI5 has their hands full again with Communist spies but this time they're hailing from the People's Republic of China!
Tonight we honour the 29 brave men who perished on the SS Edmund Fitzgerald on 10 Nov 1975...
Way back in 1990 when WMMO 98.9 FM hit the airwaves, they had a policy that all tracks that were played would be identified by title and artist and to never talk over the music without exception. They also tended to stack adverts at well-known times when they weren't doing hour long advert-free music blocks. WFOX wholeheartedly agrees this is a fantastic idea... :)
Just because I have my hands on the virtual turntables doesn't mean that we are above giving the citizenry what they want. We're democratic. In some ways. :)
Some of the most fun I have whilst spinning the tunes for MCHL Ironclad is shamelessly abusing my authority over what gets played outside of the games. Take for instance the fun I had with the set for my brother Benjamin’s birthday… :)
The portable Bluetooth speaker is much louder than the rink speakers but a tiny little USB to 3.5mm adapter and a far better balanced sound is about a tonne less heavy and a much improved performance quality! :)
Law enforcement was wolf-packing I-40 west something fierce as I was schlepping Alex to work at the Garner Chick Fil-A. When he suggested a song from the Phil Collins playlist that was spinning at the time, I found an even better choice... ;)
May Supertramp's Rick Davies rest in peace knowing that he gave so much beautiful music to the world and many hours of me trying to hit those high notes in "Goodbye Stranger"! :)
A Camel in the scorer's booth...who would have imagined it? :)
