[Description by Uncle Ricky, contributed by Mike Miles]
Less talk, more music? No foolin’! Out of the 46 minutes recorded, less than two minutes was something other than music. There are lots of Scott Shannon’s recorded production elements to accompany this pre-iPod hard rock format, but Whitney Allen only appears twice for a total of 22 seconds! Could this format have been automated? Today, sure. Then, the technology wasn’t ready.
And it’s a shame we don’t get to hear more of Allen. What we do hear sounds great! Whitney worked in San Diego for 5 years before getting the call to help Shannon put his new Pirate Radio format on the air in L.A. A couple of years at the Pirate, and she was off to KIIS until 1995 when she moved to KZLA and then into the syndicated After Midnite. By 2000, she was working at a suburban L.A. station.
Don’t know the songs? Don’t expect anyone to tell you what they are. Not ONE song is identified on this aircheck, forcing the question: What the heck is a DJ supposed to do? Listeners were supposed to be 12 to 20-something, most likely male, and it’s unlikely they were anything other than caucasian. Pirate Radio played the music of their 1990 pimply-faced, testosterone-saturated MTV-driven lives. At least screeching guitars didn’t rattle walls, windows and floors…