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STAFF MEMORIES
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Here
are the ramblings of some of the staff members at KQ4. We will
post these as we get them. We are not responsible for the accuracy,
lucidity or comprehensibility
of anybody's memories. Any submissions obviously written under the
influence of drugs, alcohol or the Bhagwan Sri Rashneesh will most
likely be edited. These will be listed in alphabetical order
with a note on the date posted.
Bookmarks
1-Bob
"The Big B.A." Ancheta 2-Joe
Collins 3-Faith
4-Gloria 5-
Dick Jenkins
6-Jack Malone
7-Joel
"J.R." Miller 8-Jim
Robinson 9-Larry
Scott 10-John Wallace
Bob "The Big B.A." Ancheta
Jock / Production
1973-1974
(posted 04
DEC 04)
It was coming into the studio and
seeing Jeff Clarke with his scales out weighing something.
It was Roy Jay
showing up one day to announce the station was going to a soul
format and him taking out his gun and shooting it into the floor.
(read the whole thing)
Where's Bob now?
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Joe Collins
Jock / Production / sometime
Program Director
1973
(posted 22
FEB 05)
To make matters worse, being it was
1973 and the fuel that made KQIV "run" was lots of marijuana...I'm
upstairs doing my show in an "altered" state.......
(read the whole thing)
Where's Joe now?
Joe's Airchex
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Faith
Jock / Production
1973-1974
(posted 03
DEC 04)
I had no idea at the time how working
at KQIV would impact my life. In 1972 it was nearly scandalous that
a woman with a child would work all night playing music! Most people
at the station tolerated me because I was covering shifts they
didn’t want.
I was welcomed with great
skepticism and rightfully so – I was a complete unknown. I would
listen as many hours a day as possible to learn from “The Masters”
about the music and to create my own sets and segues. Creating
segues brought new meaning to the “art of needlepoint”! There was
nothing worse than miscuing and missing the sweet spot.
(read the whole thing)
Where's Faith now?
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Gloria
(Johnson)
Jock / Production
1973-1974
(posted 19
FEB 05)
"Spending a whole night by myself in the
middle of an ice storm trying to do a show from a transmitter shack
out in the boonies. One turntable, a stack of albums and a
hand-held mic. No clock. Had to trust someone would come
and rescue me in the morning when my shift was over."
(read the whole thing)
Where's Gloria now?
Gloria Airchex
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Dick Jenkins
Jock / sometime Music Director
1972-1973
(posted 29 JUL
06)
My good friend Steve Shannon (Spellerberg) and I left "real jobs" at
KPAM AM/FM in Portland to help start KQIV as its first jocks. We
also recruited Ed Hepp to join us. Steve was the first Program
Director of KQ4 and I did the music. As time went by, others came to
the station who were better qualified to select the music, so I
faded out of the role but I did put the first music library
together.
(read the whole thing)
Where's Dick now?
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Jack Malone
General Manager
1972-1974
(posted 30 SEP
04)
As general manager, I spent a lot of time either trying to inflate
deflated egos of our long-haired, "no neck" disc jockeys who Walter
Kraus nearly daily insulted by calling them "mental midgets," or
trying to deflate inflated prejudices of the short-haired, "red
neck" "Elks" (remember, KQIV was located in the Lake Oswego Elks
Lodge) who considered anyone with long hair a "dirty hippie" to say
the best or a "communist" to say the worst.
(read the whole thing)
Where's Jack now?
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Jim Robinson
Jock / Production
1973?-1974
(posted 04 JUL
06)
I have a raft of fond memories about my time at KQIV.
I remember the
summer day LaFawn fired the two of us [Larry Scott] in 1974.
We went to your home (in West Linn) and you introduced me to a
liqueur from Scandinavia called Aquavit. [Akvavit]
It was most
effective, as I recall, and now I think of that day every time I
taste caraway seed in rye bread.
I'll look for some pictures and compose some memories for the site.
Great job
bringing the station back to life!
Jim Robinson
(NOTE:
We'll post more from Jim as soon as it arrives.)
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Larry Scott
Jock / Production / sometime Music Director
1972-1974
(posted 20 SEP
04)
In the Summer of 1972 I had been at
KPFA in Berkeley for two years. Working (for no pay) for Pacifica
was a trip…covering the strike at U.C. Berkeley…broadcasting the
People’s Park demonstrations live in stereo…recording Alan
Ginsberg’s memoirs…getting Mose Allison and Peter Serkin to do
Saturday Night jams in the music room. But, it was time for a
change. No money and too much politics (sound like a community
radio station you know?). Good times though with Dr. Bob Sitton (of
Northwest Film Study Center fame), Charles Amarkanian, Claude Marks
and others.
My
wife (first of many) had just completed her degree in Victorian
Literature at Berkeley and been accepted into the Masters program at
PSU. So in August of 1972 we came to Portland to find a place to
live and to see if there was any work. A friend told me about this
new FM station starting in Lake Oswego. I called and got an
interview.
If
you could call it that.
(read the whole thing)
Where's Larry now?
Larry's airchex.
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John Wallace
Sales
1972
(posted 02 APR
07)
We were pre-selling time. I learned
the "shuck" from Fred and did a number on the direct sales prior to
KQIV going live. We generated a lot of excitement; Walter was a true
promoter. Looking back, I believe those times before we
went on-the-air were my best income days! It was so cool to see guys
like Steve Shannon and Jeff Clarke joining us. Seasoned jocks from
top stations; man we were looking good!
(read the whole thing)
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More
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Spiritual
Advisor, Historian & KQ4
