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Post by seattlefollower on Jun 25, 2009 22:56:41 GMT -6
With a hat tip to Idaho Radio News, the stations there except the voice tracked one all did a good tribute in afternoon drive. idahoradionews.com/index.php/2009/06/25/stations-react-to-jackson-death/With no stations that really even play Jackson's music in SLC - okay, B98.7 plays "Don't stop til you get enough" on disco weekends, but that's it.... what did anyone do?
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Post by dxstuboy on Jun 25, 2009 23:15:45 GMT -6
KBER's Mick and Allen were relaying information about he and Farrah's deaths. They were pretty much reading what TMZ had reported, but the show continued as is. Neither could believe it.
Didn't listen to any other FM stations, but KSTU broke into Judge Judy to report it. KNRS (and I'm assuming KSL) both had it as their top stories.
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Post by Timmy on Jun 26, 2009 6:33:04 GMT -6
Last night ZHT Played Michael's Top 10 hits for their Caliente 10. It was a cool tribute.
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Post by thebaldone on Jun 26, 2009 12:56:10 GMT -6
I played a little mix of some of his hits and more memorable sound bites that lasted about 3 minutes just after 6PM, then played the "beat it" remake from John Mayer and Fall Out Boy. Thats about all except hourly updates.
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Post by seattlefollower on Jun 26, 2009 21:36:46 GMT -6
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Jun 26, 2009 21:51:50 GMT -6
Has anyone seen any reports or commentary about MJ that wasn't saying he was a musical genius? This is strictly a personal opinion, but I've always felt that he was overblown as an artist. Talented, sure. Ranking up there with the like of The Beatles, no. From the coverage it seems like I'm alone in that opinion. Am I?
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Post by seattlefollower on Jun 27, 2009 10:37:17 GMT -6
Has anyone seen any reports or commentary about MJ that wasn't saying he was a musical genius? This is strictly a personal opinion, but I've always felt that he was overblown as an artist. Talented, sure. Ranking up there with the like of The Beatles, no. From the coverage it seems like I'm alone in that opinion. Am I? Well, a lot of people feel that his disco album was one of the standouts of the era. Then came "Thriller" which CBS' record division threatened an all-out boycott of MTV when they said 'we're a rock channel' and were refusing to air any videos from it. He essentially broke the color barrier for music videos/national audience reach. He also made "mini-movies" as music videos, which in 1982 was not yet commonplace. "Thriller" was just the last of those major cultural phenomena - no one will manage to grab all the population with their fame again, I think this quote from the D. News is right: Michael Jackson was the first big thing in Bernadette Gillies' young life.
She, her sister and her two brothers were too poor to own a television, so music was everything. And when they discovered Michael Jackson, so was he. She and her siblings would spend their days on hunts for whatever coins they could find around Salt Lake City so they could take them to the nearest music store. She remembers huddling around a casette player in a Salt Lake City that hardly knew what an African-American population was, she said. They'd listen to Jackson's smooth, high tenor lyrics, studying them like scripture. "With the Internet, music has become so diversified. People are finding smaller bands that they like," and their music purchases have shifted towards niche markets, Randy Stinson said. There isn't that single international star the young flock to the moment his or her new single or album hits stores, at least nowhere near the level Jackson had risen to, he said. The way the store owner sees it, Jackson's passing is more or less the official end of an era in music. From: www.deseretnews.com/article/705312987/Jackson-mourned-for-his-impact.html
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