April 28, 2005
EVERYONE KNOWS CORPORATE RADIO SUCKS!!!...
but maybe Alice Cooper will help bring back good FM stations and the all but lost format of "free form radio". Alice says that 90% of all his emails are people not wanting to hear the same Van Halen song and not wanting to hear the same AC/DC song. Later in the article he talks about being Alice gives him a certain amount of authority when choosing songs off albums.
"I have a story about everybody I play. And I don't treat them with much reverence," Cooper says with a laugh. "I treat them like my friends! So if Eddie Van Halen was here right now, he would beg me not to play 'Pretty Woman.' He would ask me to play another track that nobody ever hears ... There's a certain amount of Alice authority that I have, that people can't argue with -- or at least, they can have fun with it."
Sex Pistol Steve Jones has a show in LA on indie 103 that is very popular as well. Jones totes the actual music in to the station, culled from his own record and CD collection, as opposed to the longtime practice of corporate-owned stations to program everything digitally from a central location.
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