Skynyrd!
Posted by TFG on January 26th, 2007
I was in Orlando this week (for less than 24 hours) and I couldn’t find a single station playing Southern Rock. I would have made do with even Molly Hatchett, but alas, it was all Hispano and rap and talk. That’s OK…I’m so old, I ate dinner in my room. I really should have emailed this one and dragged her out for a coffee, but it was one of those super-engaged sales dealios that are exhausting. So much so that I ate. dinner. in. my. room. Do you have any idea how lame that is?
My new little buddy the Genius Programmer was disgusted with me not having my tie wrapped around my head like a ninja in a disco until dawn. As I explained to him, I need someone to mentor, or all this learning I’ve done over 15 years is going to go to waste. I’m trying to convince him to be my associate and learn how to sell, but he resists me. To the point of getting his entire upper body tattooed. That’s how much he doesn’t want to sell, even though he’s a stinking natural — he’s got ink coming up his neck and stuff. All I can think of, when he tells me about it, is Ray Bradbury’s Illustrated Man. Mr. Original, they call me…
I must find a place in the country soon. City life is killing me. I want to listen to the birdies, and outwit the big bucks, and shoot a lot at paper. Some fly-fishing would be nice, too. I don’t care if I catch anything…just being able to lay it out there would be a Good Start.
January 26th, 2007 at 1:40 am
….ship junior to me….UPS Priority….rusty steel shed in Canton….I’ll have him quipping the Company sales song in operetta vibrato in no time (Waiver of Liability forms signed & notorized). These young morons just need a distasteful dose of possible future to get their gonads pointed in a successful direction… God, if I’d only known opportunity knocking me on the head back when…..
KD
January 26th, 2007 at 12:07 pm
I just spent 18 days in the Zona Rosa in Mexico City and got out of the hotel exactly four times. I know exactly what you mean.
January 26th, 2007 at 4:33 pm
Thanks for playing in The Mookie Wed. night.
January 26th, 2007 at 5:42 pm
Well, you might have tried Disney World. Otherwise, Orlando doesn’t sound like much of a hot spot.
January 26th, 2007 at 10:00 pm
Scott!!! Why didn’t you tell me? I live here! And I could have told you — 96.5 on the FM dial is the Classic Rock station around here. Skynyrd etc. out the yin-yang.
Well now you know.
January 26th, 2007 at 10:01 pm
Well it was hell week at work anyway so I probably would have fallen asleep in my coffee. BTW, the UCF jass station here is pretty good (I’m no jazz expert, maybe it sucks), and we have other rock stations, but they’re dedicated to the grunge and post-grunge stuff.