Posted March 23, 2015 by Floydian Slip
Posted March 22, 2015 by Floydian Slip
As we lead up to “Floydian Slip” Show #1,000 the week of June 8, we’re digging into the archives to share relics from the show’s past.
WEXP 105.1 FM, an Adult Album Alternative (Triple-A) station in Burlington, Vt., was the first commercial radio station to carry “Floydian Slip.”
I started the show there Friday, Dec. 2, 1994. It aired at 11 p.m. once a month, during the new moon, while I served full-time as the station’s evening jock.
The “Experience 105.1” studios were located on College Street in Burlington, on the second floor across from what was The Burlington Free Press space. At the time, I was living about a two-minute walk from the station, across from City Hall Park.
Aside from the occasional rumble of traffic that sometimes permeated the studio walls, it was a great space — warm, friendly, high-tech and very downtown chic. At least by Vermont standards.
Unfortunately, the station was a brand new, stand-alone start-up, and within just a year ownership had exhausted its capital and sold to another local broadcasting company. Hall Communications took over WEXP in spring ’95, moved it to its existing facility on Joy Drive in South Burlington, and WEXP became WKOL.
“Kool 105” remains on the air today, playing classic hits, though none of the full-time WEXP staffers continued after the sale.
Hall Communications is also the owner of WIZN 106.7 FM in Burlington. “The Wizard” is a rock institution in Burlington, and the station I aspired to be a part of when I was studying broadcasting in the ’80s. WIZN has been a “Floydian Slip” affiliate since autumn 2009.
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WEXP air studio: XTC, the Allman Bros. and Robert Plant all on-deck in the lower-left of this photo. Jocks had complete creative control. Play whatever you wish, talk whenever you want to, and say whatever you feel like saying. Rare for the mid-’90s. Even more rare today.WEXP air studio. The station’s music library was composed mostly of CDs donated by the station’s seven owners. That might be Pink Floyd’s Shine On boxset on the bottom shelf.
Visitors to the front office were greeted by a large mural of the WEXP logo.
The WEXP front office, viewed from the entrance
WEXP production studio — all-digital and state-of-the-art for its time WEXP production studio
Posted March 18, 2015 by Floydian Slip
As we lead up to “Floydian Slip” Show #1,000 the week of June 8, we’re digging into the archives to share relics from the show’s past.
By 1994, I was on my second job out of college at a start-up stand-alone FM station in Burlington, Vt., called WEXP “Experience 105.1.”
The station launched in summer ’94, and by December I’d convinced station management to let me revive “Floydian Slip” as a late-night offering.
Station program director Joel Bolton suggested we air the show on the new moon — when the moon was dark. It was a clever tie-in to “The Dark Side of the Moon,” but it probably made it difficult for the show to build any sort of fan base, since new moons don’t appear on the same day of the month every month.
That and the station went dark by summer 1995.
Here’s a promo for that first WEXP show, which aired Friday, Dec. 2, 1994, at 11 p.m. EST.
While WEXP’s studios were state-of-the-art all-digital facilities — rare for that time — this promo was archived on a 120-minute cassette, which, like many 2-hour cassettes, didn’t employ the highest quality tape.
Interestingly, though I started the show at Ithaca College’s 106-VIC in 1989, this WEXP show is actually Show #1, since this is when I began numbering shows.
Posted March 17, 2015 by Floydian Slip
Join us this week for Floydian Slip #988. It’ll be our annual “In the Flesh” show of all-live material:
“Floydian Slip” is heard across the 60 stations of our Random Precision Radio Network. Learn where and when to listen.
Posted March 16, 2015 by Floydian Slip
David Gilmour‘s new album will be released in September, but, so far, the album’s title hasn’t been announced.
A couple weeks ago we invited you to offer suggestions. We’ve picked our favorite from all entries:
“The Spacial Plane,” submitted by Jeff Pinkstaff of Midland, Texas.
Shine on, Jeff. We’ll be digging into the saucerful of prizes to see what it has for you.
Posted March 16, 2015 by Floydian Slip
Posted March 14, 2015 by Floydian Slip
Three netcasters have recently joined our Random Precision Radio Network:
Get Smashed Radio One
Starts streaming “Floydian Slip” March 21. The show airs Saturdays at 6 p.m. PT.
Music With Some Talk
Started this past week. The show streams there Thursdays at 5 p.m. PT.
Pirate Nation
Starts up March 19. The U.K.-based streamer will carry the show Thursdays at 10 p.m. GMT. (Pirate Nation claims to stream from a vessel dubbed the MV Emily [as in “See Emily Play”] in international waters.)
Posted March 14, 2015 by Floydian Slip
“Floydian Slip” will begin airing on KLMX 97.5 FM in Clayton, N.M., starting March 21. The station will carry the show Saturdays at 7 p.m. MT.
“The Killer Mix” is a 52,000-watt rock station serving the greater Clayton area.
More than 60 affiliate stations have joined the show’s Random Precision Radio Network, created in Summer 2009 when we began syndicating our show from our Vermont studio.
Shine on, Clayton!
Posted March 14, 2015 by Floydian Slip
As we lead up to “Floydian Slip” Show #1,000 the week of June 8, we’re digging into the archives to share relics from the show’s past.
The “Floydian Slip” website launched in 1995, first as a sub-page of my “personal home page,” before it moved to its own domain in ’96.
This screengrab shows the site’s second incarnation from ’98.
It was early in the life of the Internet. Between the website; my posts on Echoes, the Pink Floyd listserv; and on a handful of Floyd newsgroups on Usenet, there were many (many) more people in the world who knew about “Floydian Slip” than could actually listen.
You can see from this screengrab, the show was still on a single stand-alone station: WCPV 101.3 FM in Burlington, Vt.
Posted March 11, 2015 by Floydian Slip
“Floydian Slip” will begin airing on KZKR 105.1 FM in Natchez, MS, starting March 22. The station will carry the show Sundays at 7 p.m. ET.
“Rock 105” is a 900-watt classic rock station serving the areas of Natchez, MS, and Ferriday, LA.
More than 60 affiliate stations have joined the show’s Random Precision Radio Network, created in Summer 2009 when we began syndicating our show from our Vermont studio.
Shine on, Natchez!
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