From: owner-angry-psychos-digest@smoe.org (angry-psychos-digest) To: angry-psychos-digest@smoe.org Subject: angry-psychos-digest V5 #161 Reply-To: angry-psychos@smoe.org Sender: owner-angry-psychos-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-angry-psychos-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "angry-psychos-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. angry-psychos-digest Sunday, July 2 2000 Volume 05 : Number 161 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Part 1 Transcript / about POE on WBER ["sp00k@poe.org" Subject: Part 1 Transcript / about POE on WBER Background: http://wber.monroe.edu is a non profit radio station that broadcasts to an estimated 50,000 hard core local listeners here in Rochester NY, and has a feed for 1,000 internet listeners. WBER without a doubt is very much what you would imagine of a place staffed by 99% volunteers most still in high school or collage and in a case of David Vs. Goliath, they whipped on the local (wnve) commercial "alternative" radio station so hard, that the commercial station was forced to switch to an "All Rock" format as they could not compete with the local school, and you got to love that. Apparently at one point the commercial station tried to sue the school station into submission, and when it failed that triggered the format change, or so the story goes. POE and the Hello CD were so popular with WBER listeners that two cuts were voted into the stations top 100 of the year in 1996 http://wber.monroe.edu/top10096.html 8 POE TRIGGER HAPPY JACK 11 POE ANGRY JOHNNY Then there was a behind the scenes (for me) falling out between the station and POE, that I became aware of through my fav girl Catzeye (a sometimes AP list member) with the implication that the playing of POE had been banned at WBER. She pointed this out to me when she heard me mumbling about the station not playing my requests for POE, for awhile I didn't believe, but then I started asking the DJ's and finally one said that the CD was no longer in the studio. Next day I bought them a new copy of "Hello" and personally handed it to a baffled looking station manager Joey G, our first meeting. Weeks later I was still being told that it had not been entered into the stations computer library, so it had not been released to the studio for play yet. Finally I got Joey G. on the phone and asked him if the playing of POE was banned, a subject of a previous post of mine "Poe Kinda Banned @ WBER" from then on the curve for POE being played on WBER took an upward turn and I'd say you currently have a good chance of hearing her played 3 or 4 times a week, (Thanks Annie, Drew, Kat, Sgt. Pepper and a few others..) mostly Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nites. The following is a transcript I made from a tape recording of the June 30th FMS or the "Friday Morning Show" ( 630 a.m - 11 a.m ) on WBER If I have the words associated with the wrong players, well I guess I will hear about it, but I think I have the contents of the discussion down. Joey G: http://wber.monroe.edu/staff/joey.html Station Manager Bill G: http://wber.monroe.edu/staff/billgriffin.html DJ TIM B: http://wber.monroe.edu/staff/timbeidek.html Local (teen) Movie Producer ( Drivers Wanted [about pizza delivery] ) POPICE: http://wber.monroe.edu/staff/drpopice.html DJ JOEY G: All right I promised some information on Poe now Beideck do you know who POE is? BILL G: Who? JOEY G: You've head of POE ? TIM B: She's one of the 7 dwarves? JOEY G: No she's one of the Power Puff Girls TIM B: No I know BILL G: who? who? TIM B: I know who POE IS! JOEY G: Trigger Happy Jack TIM B: She was huemungous on BER when you first started BILL G: Then she dissed us JOEY G: Then we had a little Benedict, Benedict Arnold BILL G: We caught her in bed with our friends up the dial TIM B: See I never knew what the whole controversy was POPICE: POE? POPICE: Don't,... don't recall a POE... JOEY G: I'm not going to get into the controversy or anything but I did want to say we just found out that she has a new CD coming out on Aug 29th POPICE: So? JOEY G: Called "Beat Of My Drum" and were going to get music in early August POPICE: Oh great TIM B: So you are really trying to diss the band because she took a shower with "weeze" ( a wcmf DJ) I mean whoa? lots of mixed laughing and noise - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ----------------------------------------- Hear What I Hear ? http://wber.monroe.edu/live.ram 80K Feed ? http://wber.monroe.edu/live2.ram See What I See ? http://Go.To/Fairport Want To Chat About It ? http://www.dal.net/chat/chat.html Another POE Place... http://Back.To/Poe ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 20:41:18 -0400 From: "sp00k@poe.org" Subject: Part 2 Transcript / about POE on WBER TIM B: No I don't know, what? why don't you tell people what the deal is? you don't even want to get into it? BILL G: We played the heck out of her for what a year? TIM B: Yeah I know that JOEY G: Yeah and she came to town and did 2 shows for us and like the 3rd she came to town she like completely ignored us we tried you know to get her to come here (to the studio [sp00k]) TIM B: Was it one of those record deal deals? where you try to get ahold of the record and they couldn't get it cuz even like you said something about Guster how you call them and "awww the're way too busy" POPICE: But they still give props, I mean she just completely TIM B: Oh really POPICE: Yeah Just completely disassociated herself from us JOEY G: But the funny thing is I wonder if she expects to get air play on THAT station (wnve) when she comes back and like "awww that's a given I got airplay from them coming" BILL G: Yeah? TIM B: I wonder what goes thru all the stars minds how much do you think about... I don't know... jumbled conversation.... BILL G: Sorry she played Rush country BILL G: Sorry they play Rush and Van Halen now, they don't play POE any more (they wont, I've asked [sp00k]) JOEY G: So uh that's the deal on POE I'm sure there is gonna be a big you know big discussion but the first thing is we would like to hear the song BILL G: Do you want me to handle that discussion? JOEY G: Yeah? BILL G: With POES management? JOEY G: Yeah bill how would it go BILL G: Fffffffffffffffffffffff you Then after reading on air, an e-mail from that urged them to get on with the POE info, they apparently misread it to believe that I was questioning if they were going to play POE at all. JOEY G: When we get the new POE its going to come down to first of all the song and second of all what the record label is going to do to make it up to us for screwing us over many years ago. BILL G: I say Biedeck gets 5 minutes in the closet with POE With all of that said, on the other side of the coin, there is word that the POE camp is unhappy because of a missing tape, a tape of a live show that was intended to be aired by the locally produced Universal Buzz Concert Series and hard feelings that POE (as was her right) nixed the airing of that show due to the tapes poor quality. http://www.universalbuzz.com Every Sunday night at 11pm WBER presents Universal Buzz Radio. A weekly radio show of live concerts recorded exclusively for this program. The show starts at 11pm sharp and last 1 hour. July 2 - Type O Negative July 9 - Lambchop July 16 - Boy Sets Fire July 23 -The Forty Fives July 30 - Coal Chamber 2000 Aug 6 - Storm and Stress Aug 13 - Deadlights So... I have been going round and round with these people, in a love hate kind of thing, I am expecting that "Beat Of My Drum" will stifle the critics. You can CALL WBER via http://dialpad.com for free @ 716-381-3286 to join in on future discussions (only time that number works) of POE, or if you want the studio REQUEST LINE use your dial pad to call 716-381-4353 . They also read most of the e-mail they get during the show and you can also request POE via wber@monroe.edu or by FAX (716)-381-9074 it would certainly be the PsYcHo thing to do.... sp00k etc ... - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ----------------------------------------- Hear What I Hear ? http://wber.monroe.edu/live.ram 80K Feed ? http://wber.monroe.edu/live2.ram See What I See ? http://Go.To/Fairport Want To Chat About It ? http://www.dal.net/chat/chat.html Another POE Place... http://Back.To/Poe ------------------------------ End of angry-psychos-digest V5 #161 ***********************************