...I was going to add, as long as we're thinking about working at a radio station - how I mentioned the records had noted on them how long the instrumental intro was: seventeen seconds, or 22 seconds, or zero seconds or whatever - that did not come from the record company, our music director would have to sit down and start the record and watch the second-hand on the clock to time it, then write it on the record's label in magic marker....
The guy who trained me how to do on-air commentary told me a few stories: one was how a d.j. who I had listened to on that radio station when I was in high school - threw a chair at the station manager. (By the time I worked there, after college, neither that d.j. nor that station manager was there anymore...)
Another disc jockey told me once that my training guy had been calling his wife at home one day and kept getting a busy signal - finally he got fed up and went home and ripped the phone out of the wall.
The guy telling me this story laughed uncontrollably as he finished it.
I never witnessed any such violence first-hand.
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When I listened to WBCN in Boston, I never knew that I would one day work in radio. One evening when I was studying in my room on Beacon Street, a WBCN disc jockey named Tracy Roach came on with a live, in-studio interview of Fleetwood Mac's Stevie Nicks!
It was pretty informal; they had an interesting conversation, and Stevie sang a cappella.
They were physically only blocks away.
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