My suspicion that the process of assembling a show on a laptop will be more like time-consuming labor rather than an inspiration is rather daunting. Until last month when sidelined, I was never lazy about prepping my Retroactive program when it came to figuring out what to play, looking up info and then filling my CD binder with hard copy to bring to the KAOS air studio on Saturday mornings. Yes, this is a comfortable if antiquated method and yet it's a never-ending thrill for me to prepare and then execute a three hour display of ego and pure euphoria live and without a net.
I've recently found an example of a live radio highlight and a lowlight that I jotted down in 1999:
From KMTT/Seattle: The outgoing radio host says, "We'll have some Aimee Mann next hour; Aimee Mann, who used to be in the band 'Til Tuesday." I laughed out loud when the incoming radio jock shot down the first announcer's instinct to explain who Mann is, as 'Til Tuesday hadn't been together in ages: "Can't Aimee Mann stand on her own by now?"
Lame announcing on WMMO/Orlando: "That was Eric Clapton with 'After Midnight' from the Michelob commercial."
One of my biggest faves showed up in this blog ten years ago. It was on an LA Adult Contemporary station and the co-host began to "frontsell" a 1967 Supremes hit as it began airing. She was obviously unaware that the song is about heartbreak and the result was instant hilarity: "Here's the Supremes with 'Love Is Here and Now You're (pause)...Gone'? What?!?!"
Live radio--radio in the moment--remains unbeatable.