KROQ FM 106.7 Jed The Fish Aircheck 8/12/1981

Freshly digitized from the Memory Pain! analog archives we present a 40 year old KROQ skimmer tape of Jed the Fish doing his evening shift 7PM-10PM August 12, 1981.

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[senorxrey]

This is amazing! Back when KROQ didn't suck, and actually had real live personalities who knew their music, discovered & played non-LP B-sides and other singles/ and could program a vast without a computer.
Here's what Jedum Fishum mentions in his 20 minute slice of greatness:

PLAYLIST:
Black Flag - "Six Pack"
The Go-Go's - "Our Lips Are Sealed"
Tom Petty - "Kings Road"
The Kinks - "Better Things" (new music)
Dave Davies - "Nothing More To Lose"
Surf Punks - "Locals Only"
AC/DC - "Problem Child"
The Rolling Stones - "Start Me Up" (new music)
The Specials - "Ghost Town"
The Troggs - "Wild Thing"
Oingo Boingo - "You Really Got Me" (Kinks cover)
The B-52s - "Dance This Mess Around"
Eno (Brian Eno) - "Baby's On Fire"
Devo - "Working In A Coal Mine" (Lee Dorsey cover)
Oingo Boingo - "Little Girls" (music video in production)
Tonio K - "I Handle Snakes"
Joe Vitale - "Plantation Harbor"
Was (Not Was) - "It's An Attack"
The Boomtown Rats - "Up All Night"
Adam & The Ants - "Stand & Deliver"
Visage - "We Move"
The Pretenders - "The Adultress"
The Rolling Stones - "No Use In Crying" (B-side of "Start Me Up)
Ultravox - "Quiet Man"
Led Zeppelin - "Your Time Is Gonna Come"
Spanbau Ballet - "To Cut A Long Story Short"
The Ramones - "I Wanna Be Sedated"
The Go-Go's - "This Town"
Alice Cooper - "You Want It, You Got It"
U2 - "Stories For Boys"
Magazine - "About The Weather"
The Human League - "Blind Youth"
Missing Persons - "Mental Hopscotch"
Tom Petty - "Gator On The Lawn" (non-LP B-side from "A Woman In Love (It's Not Me)")
The Plasmatics - "Sex Junky"
The Clash - "Police On My Back" (The Equals feat. Eddy Grant cover)
The Pretenders - "Bad Boys Get Spanked"
Stevie Nicks & Tom Petty - "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around"
The Romantics - "What I Like About You"
Rick James - "Super Freak"
Gen X feat. Billy Idol - "Dancing With Myself"
Icehouse - "We Can Get Together"
The Beatles - "Fool On The Hill"
Squeeze - "Is That Love"
Cheap Trick - "ELO Kiddies"
Frank Zappa - "Little House I Used To Live In"

R.I.P.:
Perkins Palace
Tower Records
Aaron's Records
Fresca
578-1067
Madame Wong's West
The Turning Point (in Riverside)
Mann's Westwood
Miller's Outpost
Pacific Hollywood
Yamaha of Covina
Super Shops Performance Centers
One Stop Records/Hollywood
Liquorice Pizza
Camel Sights & Sounds/Huntington Beach
Postman (?) in Westwood
The Country Club
Wolf & Rissmiller Concerts

LIVE CONCERT MENTIONS:
Code Blue
The Rave Beats
Rubber City Rebels
Gamma w/Ronnie Montrose
Rick Danko
New Riders of the Purple Sage (NRPS)
David Lindley
Nowhere Fast
Twister
Ministry
Romeo Void
The Ray Beats
China White
Redd Cross
The Whirleybirds
Keith Joe Dick
45 Grave
Social Distortion
Christian Death
Smile
Blind
Ala Carte
Swingin' Madisons
Young Martine & Stanley
The Tubes
Icehouse

[springsource]

This is totally epic. KAYROWQUE IN THE EARLY 80S!

[strawberrylemonadekristina]

This is so awesome! I didn't start listening to KROQ till the mid 80s when they had migrated to an all "alternative" format. This incarnation of KROQ is so refreshing mixing up contemporary non alternative tracks with some oldies but goodies. This should be the template for all top 40 radio stations but sadly they have all been consumed by soulless corporations and they majorly suck now. Thank God we still have college radio and internet radio.

[katmeow]

Thanks for sharing!! The good old days of KROQ!! It suck’s something awful now!! You can catch some of the old DJ’s on KROQ HD radio. Miss the old KROQ! 🖤🐈‍⬛🖤🦇🖤🎶🖤

[tomkoetting]

What a line-up — Jed, Dusty, Sam — killer

[hyperlinkphilosophy]

CLASS of ‘83 here!

THANKS for putting this up!

This was during the golden age of KROQ.


Man, totally rememberJed the Fish, as well as Freddy Snakeskin, April, Rodney, etc

Those were great days!

I remember Jed the Fish saying he’s ‘Jedum Fishum’ and referring to Pasadena as ‘Pahsahdenah’ with his unique articulation.

He was great! All the Djs had such wonderfully unique strong personalities.

Those days rocked. I should’ve saved those KROQ magazines that they had for a short while. I think that was like in 82 or 83. It’s been a while. ;-)

Thanks again for putting this up!

[Rogue_Nine]

wasn't born until '03 and my dad grew up on the complete other end of the country in miami but it's absolutely amazing being able to listen to radio that was around when he was my age, thanks for uploading!

you don't happen to have any of the old kyot or phoenix transmissions, do you? everyone forgets about our little corner of the west and how influential phoenix fm used to be

[pookiemartinez]

when ROQ didn't play BS top 40 playlist every half hour. 91X killed it.

[imnowhacko]

I am known as the penguin boy. Totally forgot about that drop. As I recall that was heavily used by Freddy.

[lsmftymf]

Not to be confused with current University of Arizona football head coach Jedd Fisch.

[jessemacias]

Jed sounds like a different person there.