Saturday, June 20, 2015

It was a run but not for fun

It was a run alright but not for fun. Over the last 3 days the Knytes along with our brother club the AyreWolvez treked over to the Hazzard part of Idaho to give memory and attend a funeral of one of our own of the AyreWolvez. With a fly over and all that took place I say Dennie has a better place to rest. Reganald K Denniel of Hazzard Idaho past away while serving in the peace missions of the Persian Gulf. He and his team were assaulted by Surface to Air weapons . At Least Dennie past away doing what he loved to do, fly. I can remember it was a mild sweet summers day in 1976 when Dennie and I cruising by CSI in Twin Falls spotted a light robin egg blue 65 Mustang with some real hotties in it. We gave pursuit, and ended up in that pursuit signing up for USMC . Of course I myself didn't immediately qualify, and so was taken in by the U.S. Navy as a ICS when it was learned my skill was not going to be used for 2 years, I opted to Aviation Mechanics. At least I got on a ship, fixing aircraft. Of course when I got to AFFEES and all in Boise, with some trepidation the Navy discarded me, but with some area scrambling by two recruiters, at the time the office of Senator Frank Church and the Senator himself, while the USN didn't want me, the USMC did. So there I was. So Dennie and I met in the Shilo Inn in Boise, had our grand dinner of $10.00 and partyed like there was no more time on earth. We both arrived at Pariss Island NC, stood on those yellow boot prints, had our hair shaved off and within a year, both of us were in San Diego CA. Only for 8 months Dennie was in CA, I was in Florida. Apparently the US-DOD had left off the mechanics side of the aviation side of my specialty training and just put on Aviation. Within 3 years I was in all parts of the South Pacific, Dennie on a carrier, me on ground duty except for the few times we had to do quals on a carrier. in March 1982 I got assigned duty with the 214, and by mid March duty stateside with the 214 in reserve active duty at Yuma Arizona. I put my nose to the study zone and by 1991 had climbed up the ladder to Major as did Dennie. 
In closing I lost a very dear friend and am still healing and so we have decided to run another edition of HazzardAyre Retro. Of course the Fathers Day Bike/truck run to all parts Wyoming Utah and Idaho has been scrubbed until the weekend following the 4th of July. 
That's all I have to say about that.
TTYLY

Friday, June 19, 2015

tODAY i DID WHAT i AIN'T done in awhile

This morning I did two things I ain't done too often these last few weeks. First I got off the air on time, and on budget. We made some money on air last night. With that in mind I then sat , had coffee and watched FoX 13 news and while it was what news is, I'm very impressed by the hot blonde , FoX 13 has doing weather. Okay then, my insides though are all twisted up. Guess that chilli I had at 21:00 hours preve eve didn't help much.  Its also residual of the uphevil that was that seatcover from Texas. She's okay and all, and she can believe what she wants to, but there was a job for her here at HazzardAyre. Thing is that both Kim and Kent ain't been to swell on me nor the Knytes since Kim killed the buy of KBAR. Considering that he saw us as a threat if we had've bought that dinky station. But what the hell even Bambi has enemies. However too, the ordeal, made me realize , just as I said last night on air, I like women just fine, they smell purtty and all, but I'll keep from getting too emotional and caring both from a personal and especially professional basis. It also reminded me, why I live and like to live by myself. While my four pawed cousins are social creatures, this Wolf ain't one of them. I like my privacy.
Okay then on the ride that was planned for this weekend that has been put off until the 11th or right after the 4th of July, the reason is one of our Wolf-Pack of our brother organizations the AyreWolvez was killed in a SAM fight in Afgone as we call it. So we will be doing both 4 and 2 wheel road trip to Tooele Utah to honor him at his funeral. Deets on Highway Hooker Toewing.com 
We're looking at doing a flyover as well in his honor. News deets will be on Fox 13.
Can't wait to move home to or near Hazzard.
TTYLY

At best Hazzard County is a dream of heart

At least I alone and maybe I am alone in this, but I know what it means to not only live in , but live everyday as though I was in Hazzard County. Sadly there are too many and much of our nation that has no damn idea. The simplicty of living Hazzard County of the early years is gone. Sadly our United States is all but United, freedom and liberty , no matter how many elections , no matter how many high paying politicians we throw at it our nation is gone, or just about there. Sure there is Heavenly Father that I hope he will send his son to intervene soon, but our planet is killing itself. Which is why I withdraw into a sort of shell, every day and all night that takes me back to when I just flat floored a hot rod through Hazzard(Hagerman) Idaho, outwitting most of the time the local law that was bound and determined to lock me or one of the Knytes up for high speed demonstrations. But I really remember the quiet times too. There is simply not the words to convey the unwinding feelings of sitting at Hazzard lake with a Russian Olive tree branch with a string and a diaper pin bent just right fishing for trout and that sometimes small mouth bass or catfish. I remember just watching the squirrels and rock chucks and other critters, some that became some what pets. They'd come to me for a treat and chatter away. Sitting on a tree log in the shade , just thinking of a mad world that then was at least for me at the time galaxies away. Our only contact with that mad world was Miss Tizzdale and the mail, and Mountain Bell the phone company. Past that unless we hot footed to Twin Falls, there was peace.
In Hazzard itself anything and everything was possible, and few dared say anything against the Knytes, more over nobody felt a need to. We did our thing, and as for things like getting a gal or two to co-host a radio show or be a pinup, was as easy as a CB call away, or if need be a notice at GearHeads Cafe. Past that it was big inch Mopar, Chevy, or Ford engines that filled our lives. 
Of course then there was the loyalty factor, which there was plenty of, yet today and believe me when I say Kim And Kent Lee are going to find out what it means to insult the Knytes, yes the bastards at Lee Family Broadcasting did it again. Told our potential new hire that we were full of it, and run. Thing is I can also remember the money of the Knytes building their cash stash as well. An old mentor of mine, by the name of Mike Parkhurst that created Overdrive Magazine said it best. Don't lie about me and I wont have to tell the truth about you. Hell I've known that little snot nosed fart knocker Kim and his idiotic nerdy brother Kent since we were dang near toddlers. I and I alone, helped initiate what became their Z103 when I took on an idea, album rock on KFMA 92.7 in Jerome Idaho, that his entire empire was built on. Maybe a few loyalty pills out to be taken inwerds. The real reason, that HazzardAyre Radio and all was created in the first place was simply that all too many LDS bound bigots, racists and carpetbaggers in local media in that are then said no to all things Hazzard County. So Hazzard County fired back and we won. 
Any mile the gal from Texas blew off the concept, and if I sound like I'm upset, maybe a bit, but not at her, but at a few of who I once called friend has became a enemy. And Knytes fix enemies. 
HazzardAyre returns at 23:00 Friday.
TTYLY

Thursday, June 18, 2015

Maybe its time to look for another stream provider

Had a great show last night, hope most of ya'll heard it, but when I looked in the archive saved part of www.livestream.com/hazzardayre  and looked for the show we called HazzardAyre Twisted Sister, could not find. No it wasn't about the rock group of that name it was about a wyld ryde and the music that went along with it, but hey it is what it is. The old adage of you get what you pay for may apply, here. However like most things, I ain't buying until I know that if I invest $500.00 for a year the bastard is going to work as it has been. What it means is doing last nights show all over again. However the frustration grows and I'd be lying if I said the Knytes and I are looking for another service and finding out how to migrate our programming from Livestream elsewhere. Bet your ass I'm on the phone in the AM with somebody there at Livestream, that should have been saved yet wasn't. 
Okay then, looks as though the gal from Texas flew the Wolf-Pack, guess she was intimidated by the MC or that the radio gig is owned and operated by an MC. Whatever it is that shook her guess she wasn't as much of a biker type as we would have liked. Too bad too, since I had full intentions of plugging her into the Burley station. Guess she thought we were part of another station there(KBAR) we ain't. Although had good old Kim went along with the plan it would have been, that's why we sold KTOW to that outfit in Colorado. But as I said on air last night, I myself do not get one damn cent for this radio gig, all outside talent does and gets paid damn good for it. Me I do it because of my love for you who are members of the Knytes-of-Anarchy, as well as the AyreWolvez. Any way I ran a full 5 hours, hope it got out, I think it did as we had a few callers, but damn Livestream, when I push the button to save a show, I damn well better have it saved. 
TTYLY

Wednesday, June 17, 2015

So where did Airwolf(AyreWolf) join Hazzard County?

I remember it vividly, I had just moved from Glenn's Ferry Idaho the first time, to Jerome Idaho, on the promise of a part time job ushering cattle through the chutes at Producers Livestock Company there, and when that went south, I said there's got to be something different to do here. Still part timing radio I was watching the TV series based on my squadron the VMA214 when I heard overhead two F4U Corsairs fly by. Thinking I was dreaming I went out and checked. As they made their circle for a final on landing, I switched on the scanner and heard where they were to land. So I scrubbed the breakfast I had planned and went out to the Jerome County Airport. I followed the trail of the Corsairs, and found in a medium sized hangar , a place called AirPower LTD, a vintage warbird restoration company . When I got a job there sweeping floors and doing mild duty, I asked John there one day just how much does people pay to buy these birds, he told me and it did not take much to convince me that rebuilding these old aircraft was better than just building bikes or hot rods. So as the Hazzard County Knytes was a way to bring gearheads together, thought was lets bring wingnuts together, to support, what we called BlackSheep Aviation Restoration. It wasn't until mid 2001 when because of the thoughts of a NASCAR truck racing team, I relocated to Utah. My cousin Gordon my other Cousin, Bud took the held financials of the Montgomery Foundation and took the page out of TV and reworded RodeWolf into Airwolf, to because of copyright concerns AyreWolf. The sibling group of the then Knytes-of-Anarchy, became the AyreWolvez Military Aviation Association, and focused on all forms of Navy and Marine aircraft as well as helicopters. Because of that history the idea of doing old fashioned pin up girl calendars as they were in combat history as was done with aircraft nose art etc came about. Yes we revived that, and as they say its history. So that's how Military flight got together with Hazzard County that created in part, HazzardAyre Radio.
TTYLY

In The Beginning back in the day

Back in the day in the beginning, we never intended that HazzardAyre or its immediate cousin Southern Steele Radio was never meant to become what they became and are. The reason the entire radio station idea came about was few if anyone in mainstream radio wanted to publicize what was going on in our youth based 4-H trucker vocational club. The Movements of the TeenAge Truckers Association were as wyld as advertising the corner drug dealer, or that was what many in the business saw it as. Our organization was saying teens and tweens yes you too can drive 18 wheels. Yes there is life hauling freight and going toewing. So since nobody else did it, or would do it, I took a brief amount of knowledge, some of Dads dollars and did an experiment, could a truckers based radio gig done in the Mountain West, become as wyld and roudy as that on networks coming from Texas, Nashville etc. So in 1973 at the front of the Arab oil embargo and the restriction of the 55 or double nickle speed limit, from a purposely built part of where I resided along with mom & dad, KDSL or KAY-DIESEL at FM 89.1 went on the air. Along with our feature radio show, Long Haul Radio. By the late 1970's we were no longer teens and was wondering where to take things as an organization, when all things Hazzard County and the Dukes-of-Hazzard came into the picture. So a none official fan club of the Dukes and a rural gearheads club was formed. Still no radio people or TV stations wanted to touch us. So We said lets take what we did with Long Haul Radio, and KDSL and do it Hazzard style, total fight the system radio. So radio station KTOW , was launched. With the core of being the only radio for those who tow. Course few could not pronounce tow, as it is supposed to be, so we put a big Toe in the mix and TOEW came to light. KTOW ran until 2011 when we sold the call letters to a station in Colorado to fund a new creation. KTOW was and is still our baby , no matter who says otherwise. 
In 1997 we launched an episodic(Episode) program called Southern Steele to compete with then American Chopper. That was done so our shop that we thought should have been said was us to begin with. With Hazzard County Choppers, we said lets do both a TV show/ with a radio show called SouthernSteele and that got stolen by the Discovery channel. Not to be defeated, the minds of us southern kountry guys got together and launched HCC. By 2009 the Hazzard County Knytes had now became the Knytes-of-Anarchy by title and verse. Since the TV series came from our book we took liberties, not to be disputed. Over time SOA's people decided to partner rather than fight, so we were there. Mid 2009 the crew of both AyreWolfFM and Dixie-Diesel(HCC) radio were tired. But I wasn't. In the middle of the night I got a bolt from the sky of what to create. A meeting the next day came the idea, munch HCC together with AyreWolfFM and we got HazzardAyre. HazzardAyre has taken off like a Jack rabbit on steroids. We as a gearhead club never thought that what we were doing would hit, like it has. And continues to evolve. HazzardAyre is the champion, often criticized due to our flamboyant attitudes and antics, but we also know we have a greater power to serve our master Jesus Christ, since it was after all his bolt out of Heaven that gave me the idea. So in a dark motel room in 2012 HazzardAyre began broadcasting, over the air. In mid 2013 I was introduced to webcasting although I had played with it before through other venues I had never taken it seriously. Then there were people saying if we could only hear you back east, or down south etc. So a MC friend of mine in Lake Tahoe said sign up with this outfit called LiveStream. So I did, but then we didn't have the bandwidth to do that justice. By early 2014 HazzardAyre on www.livestream.com/hazzardayre took off like the gun shot of superman. All of a sudden the supporters of our old syndication station airings and all said, lets get behind you. So we re-launched in Ogden Utah in June 2014. Just over a year ago, we moved into a office space that we turned into a studio. We thought we had a hog by the butt there in Woods Cross Utah, when two idiotic roommates never paid the bill of co-rent to me. and the club was dissappointed that we couldn't get sweet female bodies even in an office to do shows. So I killed my apartment in Ogden and tried to habitate in the studio office. This lasted until the last part of November. When I was even then looking for a domicile, a message from a MC member here in Evanston said, you do know KEVA went tits up don't you? No I didn't so I made the trek to Evanston, got caught up in a snow storm, no internet, no phone, couldn't contact the people that rented us the office space there in Woods Cross Utah, they were about to throw out the gear, so with the help of the Church (thank God) HazzardAyre was rescued. App was made on the old license here. But here now we are looking at just using the Evanston location as a sub station, and putting the new flagship station right where HazzardAyre started. Where there are albeit limited but at least the human resources we need as well as the telecom backbone that HazzardAyre Radio and soon HazzardAyre TV Network can live. The history though and finalizing here, HazzardAyre has become nearly an entity of its own. We never thought that just a near pirate station to get the word out of the clubs activities and events would have become and is what it is now. All I can say is Stay Tuned the giant is about to get bigger .
TTYLY

Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Moving forward but looking west to do that












Too hot to live in with cold shoulders is an underwear statement. It's been nearly a year that I left my beloved LexiBelle
  While I have been attempting to erect a monument to Interstate Over the road radio she just sits. The rewards of what I do are so scarce and infrequent that I at times wonder why I do this? Then I see or hear from a listener, that says he was saved some serious accident by avoiding a patch of highway during a bad storm, that I remember that its you who groove on the big road. However the grease on the fifth wheel is not as easy as it should be. So with that the Knytes have said, lets put the gig in Wyoming to bed. Move the gig and the rigs where bucks can be easier to make with my trucks, and be more effortlessly streaming. So it is with heavy heart and the kick in the ass that we will moving operations from Evanston in September to Idaho, mainly Burley. This means even our new gal from Texas should be looking more at Idaho, not Wyoming. Deets tonight on the show. Be tuned in at www.livestream.com/hazzardayre starting at 11:00PM .
Saw a bit of a happening here today, and it might have been something else, but got kicked in the jaw , by one I tried to help, named Niki, and the jealous or maybe over protective attitude , but Janet's guy, was not letting her into my domicile here to fix the screen on the back porch, and they forgot the switch to the light in the head. Even Janet was a bit put offish today. Seems although they haven't said so, but I think she and Lester think its best I depart. That Delbert guy said he was in, but has been gun shy, so I am not going to kicked in the head twice. So starting to look at housing in and around Burley. Stay tuned.