"I am a DJ, I am what I play..."

This is Brian, a DJ-in-training at the station. Trainees had to take a course called (I think) COM130 before they could begin working at the station. COM130/Introduction to Radio was a communicaton class that was needed to earn a radio license. The latter part of the quarter included hands-on experience in the air studio. Trainees had to sit in with the "regular" jocks to learn how to work the boards. Brian, the poor bugger, had to sit in on my shifts - it's a wonder he learned anything at all with me as a mentor.

Three WWSU DJ's - Don, Kevin (seated) and Gary - in the "lounge." Lounge is a bit of a grand word really for what was actually just the front corner of the record library - consisting of a couple of desks, chairs, a typewriter, a couple of file cabinets and one smelly old moth-eaten sofa.
Don is Don Thrasher, the guy who turned me onto GBV. Not only did he introduce me to the band, but ended up a member in one of GBV's later incarnations. He's a contributing writer for the Dayton Daily News these days.

(As an aside and to add perspective, the earlier photo of some DJs in the record library with a case of beer was taken standing on the top of the desk Kevin is sitting at to type up the station newsletter.)

"I'm standing in the middle of life with my plans behind me..."

7 May, 1986

K U2 – “Gloria”
PWR Art of Noise – Camilla
#1 (blank)
H Soul Asylum – “Never Really Been”
DC Joan Armatrading – “I Love it When You Call me Names”
M Translator – “Stony Gates of Time”
PWR Siouxsie & the Banshees – “Cannons”
REC Robyn Hitchcock – “I Wish I Was a Pretty Girl”
H The Pogues – “Body of an American”
L Lords of the New Church – “Like a Virgin”
K Dead Milkmen – “Bitchin’ Camaro”
PWR Elvis Costello – “Eisenhower Blues”
DC INXS – “Dancing on the Jetty”
H The Bolshoi – Fly
M Lou Reed – “No Money Down”
#2 (blank)
PWR Depeche Mode – “Sometimes”
REC Simple Minds – “Kick Inside of Me”
H Violent Femmes – “Breakin’ Hearts”
DC Lloyd Cole & the Commotions – “Cut Me Down”
K Talking Heads – “Stay Up Late”
PWR Camper Van Beethoven – “Don’t You Go to Goleta”
L Zeit Geist – “Atlantic City”
H The Highwaymen – “The Highwaymen”
M EIEIO – “Go West Young Man”
DC Nomen Klature - ?
PWR The Smiths – “Please Please Please”
REC The Jesus & Mary Chain – “The Hardest Walk”
H Tommy Keene – “In Our Lives”
DC The Shoes – “Summer Rain”
PWR The Pandoras – “Stop Pretending”
K The Raisins – “Fear is Never Boring”
H Latin Quarter – “America for Beginners”
M Book of Love – “Boy”
L The Libertines – “Voices From the Past”
PWR Let’s Active – “Writing the Book of Last Pages”
DC The Ramones – “I Wanna Be Sedated”
H Stan Ridgway – “Can’t Stop the Show”
REC Dead Kennedys – “MTV Get Off the Air”
PWR The BoDeans – “Angels”
M Swimming Pool Q's – “She’s Looking”
K The Pretenders – “Middle of the Road”
PWR Pet Shop Boys – “Why Don’t We Live Together?”
#1 (blank)
H Richard Lloyd – “Back Track”
DC Strawberry Switchblade – “Let Her Go”
M Green on Red – “No Free Lunch”
PWR The Neighborhoods – “Real Stories”
REC Cocteau Twins – “Aikea-Guinea”

I managed to fit in quite a few songs during this three-hour shift. It seems we didn't have any big singles to push this week, so they were skipped over on the playsheet.

"I don't wanna work, I want to bang on the drum all day..."

4/30/1986

K Todd Rundgren – “Bang the Drum All Day”
PWR Camper Van Beethoven – “Down & Out”
#1 The Alarm – “Reason 36”
H Tommy Keene – “Places That Are Gone”
DC Marshall Crenshaw – “Right Now
M Brian Setzer – Blvd of Broken Dreams
PWR The Cramps – “What’s Inside a Girl?”
REC Armoury Show – Castles in Spain
H Latin Quarter – “Modern Times”
L Zeitgeist – “Atlantic City”
K Modern English – “Melt With You”
PWR The BoDeans – “Fadeaway”
DC INXS – “Burn For You”
H Get Smart – “Room with a View”
M Lou Reed – “No Money Down”
#2 Jane Siberry – “One More Colour”
PWR Let’s Active – “Fell”
REC Lloyd Cole & the Commotions – “Lost Weekend”
H The Pogues – “London Girl”
DC Dead Milkmen – “Bitchin’ Camaro”
K Sting – “Fortress Around Your Heart”
PWR Suzanne Vega – “Left of Center”
L The Cure – “Man Inside My Mouth”
H Death of Samantha – “Grapeland”
M Laurie Anderson – “Late Show”
DC Pleasure’s Pale – “Lovely, Lovely”
PWR Pet Shop Boys – “Two Divided by Zero”
REC Fine Young Cannibals – “Suspicious Minds”
H The Highwaymen – “Burn Down”
#3 Cactus World News – “Years Later”
DC Shriekback – “Nemesis”
PWR Joe Jackson – “Survival”
K The Raisins – “Fear Is Never Boring”
H Stan Ridgway – “The Big Heat”
M The Bolshoi – “Happy Boy”
L Falco – “Vienna Calling”
PWR Depeche Mode – “It Doesn’t Matter Two”
DC Alison Moyet – “Invisible”
H Eubie Hayue – “Bad Imitation”
REC Underachievers – “You’re Not for Me”
PWR Elvis Costello – “Lovable”
M Swimming Pool Q's – “Now I’m Talking ‘Bout Now”
K REM – “Pretty Persuasion”
PWR Dumptruck – “Ethics”