It was Saturday, January 5, 1991.<\/p>\n
I was working at the Mermaid, the supper club, sports bar, bowling alley and nighclub in Moundview where I’d been spinning records, three nights a week, for a little over two years now.<\/p>\n
One of our regular features was the Saturday night live appearances from “Mister Ed”, a disk jockey at KDWB.\u00a0 He’d come out to the bar, talk on the mobile mike, hand out prizes, and generally work the room (for a nice little fee).<\/p>\n
We had a pretty good working relationship; I ran a great floor when I was working, and I set up his appearances pretty well.\u00a0 We got along – which was better than most of the club jocks managed.<\/p>\n
It’d been over three years since I’d been out of radio.<\/p>\n
And then, it occurred to me; for the first time in three, almost four years, there was a radio guy with some clout who actually had a good opinion of me.<\/p>\n
So…<\/p>\n
As the evening ground to a close, and Ed was sipping on his drink, I made my move.<\/p>\n
“So – if I was trying to get back into radio, would there be anything I could do at KDWB?”<\/p>\n
“Sure”, Ed said without skipping a beat.\u00a0 “Absolutely!\u00a0 We could use a weekend screener!”<\/p>\n
And as fast as I could memorize the details, he said I could start next Saturday, working with Kris Adams and Spyder Harrison.<\/p>\n
And that was that.\u00a0 I was back in radio.<\/p>\n
A little, anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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