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Friday, April 12, 2013

Being the best of the best despite the odds

Population, 1800, on the edge of a Native American reservation. It was there that Dave Anderson created famous Dave's, Bar-B-Que.

How does that relate to the Knytes and or me?

The Knytes way back in our dark ages said lets create the very best of the best radio station that there is, no matter the service market,

size of town or those that would hinder or ridicule it.

Like Dave , who loved his choice of enterprise, I have a passion for this medium called radio. To me radio is magic. Radio reaches into every place anyone is. Radio is very intimate, since through that tiny transistor, or large, super stereo , I enter your ears. Just like all the pioneers and risk takers in radio, from Charley Douglas who created the original Road Gang, to Howard Stern, mixing in WolfMan Jack, and Dr. Demento . Such celebrities as George Carlin, and many comics, even legendary Johnny Carson, Waylon Jennings, and more got started in radio. Waylon worked at many radio stations including one here in Idaho, over in Blackfoot as well as in Salt Lake City, the list goes on. The fact is I love music, of all forms, I love slap stick comedy and I love drama. As such all these things, came and continue to come into your life through radio.

I love the way a certain song can make a persons day, I am honored to deliver that most important news story, or send you out to the High School basketball game through a live play by play broadcast. This is radio.

Radio over the years has nearly caved, to IPODS, Cell phone tuners, IPADS , and satellite, but remember there is still someone in a 5X5 studio, behind a mic. Too bad the music is no longer listener generated or segwayed by a personality that bridge one song to another or build a play list, by both Known artists, as well as many not so known artists.

I’m lucky, I learned from the very best, in our area. From Kelly at KEEP(now KEZJ) to Country Joe at KSOP, in Salt Lake City, and many others, yes even WolfMan Jack himself.

I remember legends in this business, Like Robert W Morgan, Cassy Kassm, and others. Bill Mack(Wrote Blue for Leann Rhymes) and all too many others. These are the people I drew from in creating my on air personality from.

But to deliver quality ultra groovy radio, needs a belief. More over, a radio station program director, with an open mind, not one scared of putting on something that might piss of the religious persuasion, but rather someone who says do what you feel.

This is what created at first Highway Hooker Radio , the only show on radio for those who toew, to Dixie Diesel>> all the way to where we are at now HazzardAyre/WyldAyre Radio. Daring to do radio that others wont. This is the goal, be the best and continue outscoring and achieving being the best of the best even excelling beyond the best radio station and build a coast to coast satellite radio network, defending the rights of and educating the ones who don’t know, of our Southern heritage, in a package that they can consume that most can digest, that of the Dukes of Hazzard, that is what I do every day.

How that translates to toewing, next entry.

Taking the weekend off, from duty, recuperating and re-energizing.

L8R Ya’ll

Quote of the Day:
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
--Epicurus, ancient Greek philosopher

Romans 3:23-24“for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.”

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Idyllic Minds

Perhaps most example of an idyllic mind, is on the Disney Channels ANT Farm show. Olive Doyle, is although

a written characterization still has an idyllic mind. Does this exist in real life?

I can say yes and no. I when younger was tested by the Davis County School District in Farmington Utah and was thought to have an idyllic mind. As I could remember everything I was ever exposed to, read, watched, or people I met. Likewise sounds I heard I could imitate. But I can also say as I get older, that ability is fading.

Some say that you are as old as you feel. The fact is I’m older by 5 years than I am chronologically . While turning 54 in two weeks, my body, mind and memory is hitting near 60 years old. While long term memory is right on, my short term has moments of lapses.

I have to write things down more, I have to have people repeat directions. The things I could do just a few years ago, I can’t do physically today.

Working down at A1 Towing here, doing tasks as simple as cleaning the crapper, and shop, I have to sit down at least 6 times, as my legs hurt, and I get dry mouth there something fierce. Not that I’m ungrateful for the job, but I should be out towing , but hey that’s a subject for another time.

So I had to relegate myself to the idea, that doing my own thing at home or eventually my own shop, again is required. I just can’t jump out of the bed at 07:00 any more. Course being up all night doing radio for you, is part of it. That too is another subject for a different time. As long as it’s a task, where I can plant my butt , fine. Lots of physical grunt work, naw ain’t going to happen.

While someone might say towing is physical, sure it is, but its short term. Your out, you hook, or unhook, then back in the truck. But on my feet all day, just can’t do it.

Doctor had me in the office as I had a bruised bone, and a swelling with goop that looked like puss surrounded it, plus broke the rubber band that holds the elbow together. Its still sore. So I have to be in the studio not down at A1 all the time.

Dixie Toewing is rapidly coming to a point of resurrection.

But I’m off course here.

I’m looking into this idyllic mind thing, as is there ANT , standing for Advanced Natural Talent, programs in our schools? If so where?

More investigation needs to be done.

More L8R

Quote of the Day:
If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.
--Mark Twain

Luke 9:23-24“Then he said to them all: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me. For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will save it.”

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Tuesday, April 9, 2013

What started it all

There’s an old axiom that goes, to know where your going , you have to at least look where you have been. Better yet give credit to that what lit the light in the first place.

Too bad many actors don’t ever give credit to some movies that gave was the wind beneath their wings and rise to stardom.

In our case it all started in 1974, a bunch of ratchet jawing teens wanting to go trailer trucking, decided to form a group. With some help from the 4-H clubs of America, a small band of light duty local haulers in the Magic Valley of Idaho along with some from Layton Utah, became the TeenAge Truckers Association. Modeled after the infamous Independent Truckers Association founded by Mike Parkhurst, also founder of the OTR long haulers magazine Overdrive, the TeenAge Truckers Association became the creators of much of the dialog, that restored and inspired much of the economic growth of the areas in which there was a TTA chapter.

Because the ITA had a magazine we reasoned why not a radio station, so a search for equipment began, and in the spring of 1975, budding little 200 watt KDSL(Kay-Diesel) FM 89.1 went on the air. Kicking butt on all radio stations in the area and creating programming for one demographic the rest forgot, that man or woman making their living driving a truck.

KDSL ran until 1983. When a demo inclusion of us going toewing, became the focus. Along with our Hazzard County radio efforts there was still the need to keep what hauled us here. in 1984 KTOW FM signed on and replaced KDSL, which became our AM station at AM 1090, which ran until July 2012, when KDOH AM became our AM call letters.

Even today, the undercurrent has not been HazzardAyre, but rather a radical truly rebel, truckers show called; Dixie Diesel Trucker Radio, which was syndicated to over 50 major and medium market radio stations across America and Canada. >>>The little kick butt truckers show, showed that what all too many thought taboo on radio, could be done without creating a stampede by the predominant LDS, church officials. More over, many of the drivers of Deseret Transportation the church’s trucking company were tuned in nightly. Who says ya’ll have to drink and smoke weed to have fun?

In 1995, Dixie Diesel got a shot in the arm, tiny radio station KOAL in Price Utah, gave two nights a week, overnight, to air LIVE Dixie Diesel Radio. Of course our custom big rig shop, that was the first in the nation tricking out big rig over the road long haul trucks, long b4 there was a Chrome Shop Mafia, was the main sponsor.

In 1997, the offer came to buy what was the Interstate Trucker Radio Network. Dixie Diesel and the by then the United American Independent Truckers Association which is the grown up version of the TTA, bought the ITRN. ITRN, is what is now the HazzardAyre/Confederate Star Radio Network, and as such. The home of HazzardAyre Radio, but overnight through the deep myst, when there’s supposed to be quiet and most are asleep. OTR truckers passing through Idaho and Utah as well as southwestern Wyoming are kept company, by Dixie Diesel Radio, from a tiny house on a lonely corner in Twin Falls, as rigs pass by picking up loads from Idaho Frozen Foods, someone is watching your back and riding second seat, that is>>>>.

And now you know.

L8R Ya’ll

Quote of the Day:
It is better to aim at perfection and miss, than to aim at imperfection and hit it
--Thomas J. Watson

Hebrews 1:3“The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven.”

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Out of a crappy music scene a ray of sunshine

One of things that sets HazzardAyre does is being open to new upcoming artists, and giving respectable airplay to new music.

We don’t just pull from one label, or music label, but anything that sounds good.

Problem is today the artists coming out of the major music factories isn’t hardly worth calling music.

If one cruises over YouTube, you see the comments about new music stinking against true artists.

The artist that I’m introducing you to, this morning is one, I caught a glimpse of one night watching RFDTV. One of the few shows on FamilyNet that’s worth watching is Virginia Dreams Center Stage.

There are many good artists there, but up stepped this little teen, that belted out notes like she was like hearing angels singing. She was not out of step once.

While I’d like to hear do some rather up tempo pop tunes, her renditions especially of a Olivia Newton John hit, Let Me Be There, just bowled me over.

Not only can she sing, she ain’t bad looking either.

Her manager emailed me two songs that we started playing Monday evening. Up to the time I had to shut down, to do repairs on gear here, the phone lights were lit, many of you asking who she is.

I’ll shoot off an email to her manager to see if I can get a bio, to put here on the blog.

But dang can this gal sing. Carrie Underwood and Taylor Swift move over, the next queen of Country music , is Emma Leigh.

>>>>>>>>At only 16 years old this gal is kicking booty over many cover tunes and her own music, can you say CMA, can you say Grammy?

Hope to have Emma out for DukesFest West, next year.

Until Tuesday afternoon,

Quote of the Day:
He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
--Bertolt Brecht

Monday, April 8, 2013

Why on Earth?

Okay then, got a confirmation from our Nurse GoodBody saying she’s got some big things to tell me at our coffee date, Tuesday .

Hope it ain’t that she’s moving or married some other guy. Both would devastate me right now.

Over the years, I have met scads of women, both professionally and personally. I have worked on tons of media related projects with ultimate models and not so ultimate models. I have fell in and out of personal relationships with some, and never wanted to pursue others.

Of all of them our Miss Nurse GoodBody, is one I’m proud to call a friend and you might say wife without privileges.

Not only is she super hot looking in all ways, frail in some ways, but she’s the most loving, gifted , and intelligent women I have ever met.

If there was an example of thee angel from Heaven she’s it.

When she first called about auditioning at our station in Gooding, I requested she wear nylons. The test I give to all new applicant. Not only was there not 200 questions of why, how come, that’s sick nothing like that, only inquiry, stockings or pantyhose? When she got to the studio, I told her what we had in mind and all, no hesitation, what so ever. Off came the boots and it was toew frenzi. How often has that happened? only 2 times before, but nobody ever filled my heart like Ellie May.

When Jims Repair ripped me off for $700.00 for work done on LexiBelle, and me dumping every cent I had into the radio station there in Gooding, plus waiting on a check from both SAMCRO MC and my cuzzin Bud, that the Gooding Post-Office lost somewhere never to be recovered, Ellie May, took money out of her own checking account to assist me in paying that bill. Who else would do that.

When we started recruiting more help, it was Ellie May who got people to the studio. Wish one hadn’t since by now KDXC FM would be firing on all cylinders by now. One big gal from Kimberly had to put the skids to things and convinced Ellie May to back out. Thing is even so, Ellie May and I have held together a more than usual friendship.

What’d blow my sox off , is if she said she wanted to make the gig a bit more tight. Waking up every day to her, would be like standing at the feet of Jesus.

Okay then enuff of that.

I wonder how on Earth, there are so many idiots on the road. Many people I see every day , say yes I know what you mean. Thing is they too are doing some of the same idiotic driving that I’m talking about. Driving slower than traffic speed. Talking on a cell, or texting, although against the law in Twin Falls, they still do it. There are so many violations I can’t list them all in a blog posting. But dang it, don’t turn off brain when you turn on the key. Use your head. I know its not brain surgery, or rocket science either one most of these uneducated imbasles couldn’t do, but driving? Hey your not in a hay field, or on a farm. This is public traffic.

I’d like to see Idaho implement the same idea that Utah is working on, have a skills test with every other license renewal, and remove the 4 and 5 year renewal periods. Utah is going to go back to 3 years none CDL, and 4 cdl . But both will require a skills test. A competency test will be required of all drivers over 60 years old. That’d get some jerx off the road.

Then there are those people, working in retail. Most are there for a pay check unlike the many that we have at A1 that love their jobs and profession. I went into Radio Shack at the Magic Valley Mall. The guys there had no idea of what I was looking for. Glad I did, and where its put, as I have that entire store mapped out in my head. The replies from the guys there, oh we don’t care, I work on a farm and do this for extra bucks.

I can remember years ago here in Twin Falls, a guy named Dave was the manager at RS out on Blue Lakes, not only did Dave know his products , he knew his customers. He knew what area of the store you were going to in the store b4 you ever got there. If it was something you needed wasn’t in stock, he searched for it. Not just vin a catalog or that, he called every area store first then the factory.

He understood, your needs, and if you were doing a show or charity gig, he’d donate product . The year we had our CB/Trucker Jamboree the First Hazzard Nationals in 1975, Dave donated 30 cb’s, antennas and such for us to resell to raise money for a kidney transplant, for a club member. Try getting that at the MVM’s RS today.

Any way break over, I need some grub then back to work, but again at times I just have to scratch my head and ask, Why on Earth?

On Ellie May , hope I get a hug Tuesday.

L8R Ya’ll

Quote of the Day:
He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
--Bertolt Brecht

What LIVE at 5?

What LIVE @ 5, on KCTF 45? Seems as though maybe Mike over there, is ill, so they just ran a half hour of the clips, and ads, but no local news.

If it’s a case of no one willing to replace or sub for Mike, I wouldn’t buy that, as my name and phone number is all over that place so, hey it is what it is, and like I always say, aren’t you glad and aren’t you blessed to have HazzardAyre.

Okay then, its been a wet and windy one. Snagged an over turned horse trailer, thank God nothing inside, except furniture. So after picking things up came back over here to do battle with A1 and my duties there. Thing is by the time I got home, I was too pooped to pop, laid down, and was out until 16:30 so got up trucked over to Smiths, got grub and am doing editing and producing for the show tonight. Oh how grand it would be to have in house on staff Production assistants. Maybe in a year, some of the self righteous head in the sand arrogant feminitiles will decide that a pay check is better or outweighs their fear of having their virtue or lack of it, violated.

Which gets me to a quick point. I get tons of emails every day from both fans and just supporters of what we do here at HazzardAyre, as well as on WyldAyre. Not just the music, but in the effort to preserve old time radio with southern confederate family values and thinking. Where radio IS the entertainment choice, and so on.

Many of those emails, are from back east , down south of course, even from other nations of people willing to move here, and do our 60 prospect projects and then be hired. Both genders, mostly women. Yet for the damned of me I am not able to fully understand or comprehend why, the gals, especially one from Filer that we have been courting for 4 months now, wont even make a point to even step in. Really? Is our area that stuck up?

I once asked our Nurse GoodBody why they don’t have something like the Sundance Film Festival here, say in Sun Valley or Twin here. Now I know. Somebody any body could try to cast roles in an indy film, but if the reading or audition was in a room or private home, the response would be , “Oh no, don’t go in there, the wicked are in there” I say phooey, follow the yellow brick road, find the gingerbread house before you discover the mushrooms, and pull your heads out.

The line from Forest Gump really applies here and its anywhere southern Idaho. Stupid is as Stupid does. Which applies to the way people drive here, turn on key turn off brain, to stretching beyond that comfort zone, come to the Wolf’s Den, sit in on a show, and see if you might could be some of what propels HazzardAyre to grow. Not that we are not growing already. The new ratings came out today. HazzardAyre, is number 2 among confederate conservatives ages 35 to 60 , both genders.

We have been nominated for a Grammy, and an Oscar.

And this is what 4 gals were scared to be part of? Maybe gals ya’ll ought to re-examine your thinking. Our Angel from Filer should look to stepping in rather than stepping out.

Any mile, headed to the Mall for some connectors for some new gear to get installed and will be on air Tuesday into Wednesday, we’ll be off since we’ll be installing new gear.

L8R Ya’ll

Quote of the Day:
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it.
--William James

Romans 5:10“For if, while we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life!”

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Our Rose of Cimarron

First this morning, as my brain drains to hit the rack I’m convinced there’s a gremlin, that steals my graphics from my computer. Seems every time I look for a pic, it moved. So got to go redo it, then come back and try to remember what I was going to blog about.

Okay then, met someone over the weekend, no not that kind of meet, so get that outta yer heads, but a devoted fan of things Hazzard. Mainly Enos. Without giving anything away, will tell ya’ll things I usually don’t need to repeat but for the benefit of my new friend I will.

The club, The Knytes-of-Anarchy was created in 1982, as then, the Hazzard County Knytes(Knights). The clubs name came from melding Hazzard County with the name of a popular movie at the time, called the Hollywood Knights. Both the Dukes and Hollywood Knights were of the anti-establishment, fight the system attitudes as well as a movie and TV show for us gear heads. Substitute Hoggs Hamburgers for Tubby’s Drive In and ya’ll get the idea.

The club was originally created by 15 loyal and dedicated gearheads that loved the Dukes, and loved building cars,trucks,bikes and showing them off without the super polish and inspection that show rides who went to the ISCA World-of-Wheels series car shows. The club was also started I hate to say as a slight tax shelter for the then just opened real life Hazzard County Garage(now Hazzard County Choppers). I assumed the nick name of Cooter, since my life was mirrored by actor Ben Jones, on TV. Ben also did a brief shot as a revenuer in the Dukes pilot movie MoonRunners, of which I have a copy of.

Over the next few years , getting anything in or on our local media about the club was and is like pulling teeth out of a skunk, can be done but it sure stinks and you get bit a lot. So the club said to hell with that, and fired up its own radio station originally as KTOW but retired the call letters this past summer and took on the call letter KDOH, AM 10/90. KDXB FM 105.7. Bringing in many radio things the rest were scared of. From Dr. Ruth, to WolfMan Jacks Saturday Night Special. We did it. Not to be mean, but we believed in progressive radio.

Over the years the Hazzard County Knytes prospered, and grew from at first the original 15 members, to 100, then 1,000 to well over 150,000 members world wide. Mostly as associated members of most of the Dukes fan clubs which we were the original thereof combined with a group of kountry gearheads. In 1999, the love of old classic tractors got in the mix, mainly of those in green. So the club added a sibling called; the Deere Dazzlerz Association that had as President , famed head coach of the famed Utah Jazz Jerry Sloan, until we retired the sibling in 2007.

In 2000 after discovering some restored Corsairs in Jerome, the Hazzard County Knytes, created another offspring, called; The Hazzard County AyreWolvez, that remains today. Then in 2003 with the rise in popularity of custom big bikes, and with the birth of our shop, the Hazzard County Choppers Klub, was given birth. Remains as the owners of Hazzard County Choppers, Custom Shop, here in Twin Falls. Then in mid 2008, our President , Fred Roster of McCall Idaho, passed away. A examination of the strength of the club was conducted, and the decision was made to rework the club, but retaining our Hazzard County roots. At the time, the officers had a fast meeting in Glenn’s Ferry Idaho, we saw a TV show called the Son’s Of Anarchy, reworked it and the Knytes-of-Anarchy was born. Mostly because we who are devotees of classic old big rig over the road trucks and tow trucks, concluded that we are like bikers, only we have more wheels. But make no mistake, The Knytes are still today the most devoted Dukes-of-Hazzard fans and enthusiasts that you’ll ever find.

As I head for bed once again, our new friend, is a publicist by trade, and I asked her to be mine as well as that of HazzardAyre.

Well I’m off, going to go read my bible then snooze, reading 2nd Corinthians, 6 verses 10-16.

Until L8R