chris olivarez

Ray Davies style always struck me as irreverent and that works for me!!!!

That's cool. Thanks for the link.

I have no problem with anybody who calls to voice a complaint in a civil and respectful manner and oftimes have no problem with someone who is upset and quite possibly hot under the caller. Some people however do seriously cross the line and continuing a dialogue with them could be counterproductive. From what I could see JSngry did nothing that warranted his being hung up on.After reading a considerable amount of his posts there can be no doubt about how articulate and intelligent he is and well he handles himself even in situations where he is not very happy and I'd be willing to bet the house that none of that changed on the day he made that call.

Randy Happy Birthday!!!! I'm looking forward to those greezy drum contributions on the new cd. Party on brother man!!!!!

Hanging up on listeners should be an option but an option of last resort. Some listeners do cross the line beyond all reason and decency. When I was first starting out in radio I was counseled to hang up on this type of listener rather than retaliate and making matters worse. When your in this situation and you're dealing with an unhappy listener it is better to exercise patience,civility and understanding but when that listener makes it clear that there will be no civil dialogue(ie continued profanity,threats etc)it is sometimes better to end the conversation. Do your best to address the listeners concerns and do attempt a civil dialogue but if it doesn't work it's better to terminate the conversation as opposed to getting your buttons pushed and doing something really stupid.

As long as "Honey" or "American Pie" is on a playlist somewhere that will never be true.

Oh man why did you have to bring that up!!!!

Happy Belated Birthday Barak and as we say in the US-many happy reruns!!!!

Happy Belated Birthday!!!!

Not me and not me.

Second that. I'm enjoying the 4th so far. I'm looking forward to some green chili and watching the fireworks which will be launched at a site just below the station. I'll have a perfect view.

Drive safely Chris.

Pleased to see the Cannon's being reissued.

Do you mean singing a dozen notes where one would be fine for a single syllable? That's called melisma. And yes, they're over doing it. ← Thank You.

Man that's a shame. He was too damn young!!!!

Also I think Mariah,Whitney etc get far too tied up with their vocal technique. Would the correct word be "oversinging?".

I like "Paradise".

I never pictured that happening all those years ago while watching Blue Lagoon. Me thinks she paid attention in them there classes at Princeton. And in all seriousness it is a serious problem. More power to her for trying to help and for standing up to that little dork Cruise. ← Right on!!!! Good for Brooke and fuck Tom Cruise-fuck that pompous Jackass!!!!!

Also Manfred Mann.

Happy Birthday Late!!!!

JSngry that Mark dude reminds me of some people that I've had the misfortune to work with over the years. I love your description.

Welcome to the weird world of pompous, anal retentive grown-ups at college radio stations... Part of me feels that there's actually something a little unhealthy about this particular species - sorta like the high school teacher whose major reason for teaching is that he never really grew out of the high school mentality. It's more than a little creepy, IMO. ← Trust me. Pompous,anal retentive "grownups?" in radio are not limited to college stations but it is unfortunate that they are there as well.

I'll consider it.

Jim and I briefly met Chick and his wife in Florida; they were perfectly kind and friendly. ← I'm sure it would have been nice meeting Chick but the Scientology brownshirts never gave us the chance. ← Chick was very very nice and he and I had a nice discussion about the Hammond organ. Cool cat. I am glad he didn't start lecturing about Scientology, however. ← Consider yourself lucky.

Currently 75 degrees in Pagosa. It's been an ideal day.