Secondhand Core Response Dance
Rob, believe me, I feel your pain, brah.
Even though I've lived all over the south central portion of the Lone Star State for the last, oh, 15 years before coming into the World's Finest Navy, I still consider San Antonio as my hometown. And I've lived through 99.5 KISS's short-lived foray into oldies to pursue the almighty advertising dollar. Granted, without the gayer-than-a-French-horn name change, although the rainbow tropical color scheme for Oldies KISS was just as faggoty... but I digress.
If the fanbase for restaurant quality rock up there is anything like the Alamo City's, then rest assured you have nothing to worry about in the long run. In our case, a consortium of investors bought the station from the parent company just to return Teh Rock to our airwaves and end the heresy of Oldies KISS.
To butcher a quote from Austin humorist John Kelso, has any oldies format that took the place of a hard rock station been as successful, valuable, spiritually uplifting, or interesting as the music it replaced?
Moving on... I believe what killed the St. Anger album was the drum mixing. Here you have Lars muthafuggin' Ulrich -- whether one praises or damns him for his views on P2P music sharing, one cannot deny that he is one of the greatest heavy metal drummers of all time -- and if I remember correctly, no less a personage than Adam "Edge" Copeland said that those songs sound great live. So what kind of crack was the producer up in the booth smoking that made him think the drum tracks over the entire album should sound like Lars was only playing tom-toms?
Dirtbag Roomie Update: As of Wednesday morning, he is outta here, bound for Dixieland. I'm just hoping the 2/c PO and booter brought in to replace him are more conscentious about the state of the room.
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