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after
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| Heath Allen | New
York, NY |
1993-1997 |
DJ
(Thats all they'd let me do!) Responsible for shutting down the station
for a week for possession of illegal beverages and inflammatory letters
in the Mizzou paper. Never mind lots of other people regularly smoked
pot and other things in the studio- thanks again to you intolerant hypocritical
asses on the staff who "fired" me, you know who you are. |
Sick
N Tired, Atrocity Exhibition (noise), Scheduled Fallout. |
Still
listen to punk and noise, critical of authority and dislike corporate
culture industry. Worked in Kansas City doing film and video production,
then gave it up, went to NYC to seek self-employment in independent film
production as cinematographer. Now Im in film school working on a masters
degree. Hanging out at Mars Bar, Handsome Dick Manitoba's, Bellevue Bar.
Saw Tom Meagher last month right here in NYC. He's still a skinhead moonstomper.
CMJ sucks. |
Steve
Arnold |
Scottsdale,
AZ |
1980-1981 |
DJ,
GM |
no |
After
KCOU, I began a meager and short-lived DJ life at KCBW in Sedalia, MO.
After getting fired from that job (apparently a little too MUCH personality
for that town), I took a different radio tack, and have been an air traffic
controller since 1983. I spent most of those years in Kansas City, so
keeping up with the station was fairly easy. Since 1997, I moved to Phoenix
to continue my career. Glad to hear the station is still going stronger
than ever! |
New
York, NY |
1988-1991 |
DJ,
Music Director |
No |
I
have: A) Settled down, somewhat. Managed to stay out of jail. B) Married
former "5 Billion Voices" (KCOU international music show) hostess
Kristin Kiser. Been married for 5 years, and it's one of the great love
stories of our time. C) Stumbled through the music business for many years,
then smartly gave up on it about 18 months ago. D) Taken a position overseeing
internet marketing for The Daily Racing Form. Thank heavens for that.
E) Happily watched my wife progress to Executive Editor at Crown Books,
a division of Random House. She is the editor of Gene Simmons. This is
not a joke. F) Just sold our house in Astoria, Queens, as we prepare to
buy another in Sunnyside Gardens, Queens. We love Queens. G) Not had kids.
A dog and three cats. H) Recently participated in the wedding of former
KCOU execs Lisa Morgan and Bill Hagen. KCOU leads to love, yet again (though
Bill and Lisa met at the KY Derby) |
|
New
York, NY |
1988-1992 |
DJ,
GM |
I
jocked every single show on the schedule, except for the College Music
Report, which I never could pry out of the old-timers' hands. Maybe I
didn't do Country Brunch, either, but then who ever did? Once I did 16
hours or radio straight when successive DJs didn't show up for shifts.
I named the show Five Billion Voices, which I deejayed as a regular sub
for Kristin Kiser (Attenberg). |
Right
now, I'm a returning student at Columbia University in NYC, one semester
left toward finishing up the mess I made in Columbia, Missouri, where,
among other things, I dropped out of school twice, got screwed over by
a woman and spent three days in the Boone County Correctional facility.
I'm unmarried, with no kids, no pets, a published journalist, former art
director, working as a lexicographer, web site developer and freelancing
as technical support for advertising agencies. I no longer give two bent
nickels about keeping up with the latest music. |
|
Los
Angeles, CA |
1996-2000 |
DJ |
Country
Brunch |
I
promptly joined the Peace Corps after college and spent two years in the mountains of Western China. I met my hubby there and we just got married in Music City, USA (I was born near Nashville). It's been pretty weird going from one of the poorest places in the world to Beverly Hills, but I'll get used to it! |
|
Austin,
TX |
1993-1996 |
DJ,
Chief Announcer |
no |
Making
films, seeing a lot of live music, having a grand old time. |
|
St.
Louis, MO |
1986-1989 |
DJ,
Format Scofflaw |
Did
the second hour of Jazz Odyssey on Tuesdays in 86-87; filled in for many
others. I also hosted the infamous "New Wave Saturday Night"
that led to my eventual demise in March 1989 |
After
KCOU and a few years at little KYMC in St. Louis, I got a gig as the overnight
guy at "The Point" when BIG COMMERCIAL ALTERNATIVE RADIO came
to St. Louis in 1993. Much promise at the start, but then the consultants
were brought in and, well you know how that usually turns out. I now work
for a great company that helps public school districts pass tax and bond
issue referenda and engage their communities to improve their schools.
I also play keyboards in The
Ken Kase Group, a poppy combo that's been kicking around STL for the
past seven years, and I do some VO work once in awhile for 3WK,
a terrific Internet station based here in town. I'm married with no kids
and an old house that we still haven't started rehabbing, four years later |
|
Dallas,
TX |
1994-1996 |
DJ,
Chief Engineer |
When
they let us back in after the coup I did the retro show...I did the exact
same sorts of shows I did as a new music guy at other college stations
in the 80's. No tainted love MTV crud, just real college retro. |
I've
been a plaintiffs' trial lawyer in Dallas suing asbestos companies since
'96. The KCOU days were weird...as a former college GM and Chief Engineer,
I wanted to do radio again while in law school...the anarchists (and their
legal eagle Chip) realized they needed an older, responsible tech guy,
so I was part of the coup. I never dropped cinder blocks on anyone so
I was able to come back after the banishment. I hope anarchy is back in
full force! |
|
Laredo,
TX |
1991-1993 |
DJ,
Blues Director, GM |
Blues
101, Jazz |
Never
got over the pain of that Fall 1993 "The Edge" bullshit, even
though it appears we were finally vindicated ... Nonetheless, graduated
in 1994, became a newspaper reporter and began bouncing around Texas ...
Corpus Christi, Houston, Fort Worth, Dallas, Austin. Now I'm Laredo to
open up a Mexico/US border affairs bureau for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram
.... live just a couple miles from Mexico, so here's an open invitation
to any ex-pat wannabes ... Donkey shows and a place to stay ... what more
could you ask for??? |
|
Sherman
Oaks, CA |
1995-1996 |
DJ,
Chief Engineer |
No |
Worked
in Aerospace, quit, moved to LA. Played in a rock band. It went nowhere
so I had to get a real job. Started a record label (Road Noise Records).
Haven’t given up on music or humanity just yet. |
|
Columbia,
MO |
1986-1989 |
DJ,
Jazz Music Director |
Jazz
Odyssey, Friday Mini-Concert, Country Morning, College Music Report |
Wrote and produced radio commercials. Quit in a fit of pique and self-righteous
indignation. Moved on to public radio. Got paid to learn about music and
interview artists. Moved to KC to anchor morning drive (public radio).
On a whim, fell backwards into a news director job in Evansville, IN.
Did a little public t.v. Great job—I got to hang out with elephants and
hippos, go out in a boat with rescue workers in the middle of the Ohio
River floods and even got some spot news on NPR. But Evansville sucks.
Exhausted, returned home (Columbia) to housesit and get a social life
again. Tumbled backwards into an information technology job--could barely
navigate Windows when I started, now I’m a bit of a nerd. I write articles,
work on user communication issues, strategic planning. I also teach movement
classes. It’s about time for me to close my eyes and fall backwards into
the next career…. seriously considering somatic psychology, writing children’s
books or starting my own cult. Would love to go back to public radio but
can’t face Ramen noodles, crappy apartments and lousy hours anymore… Live
with my love, a music-obsessed, diggin’-in-the-dirt kinda man (also a
former KCOU’er), our four cats and too damn many houseplants. Considering
a move, depending on grad schools offers, whims, astrology, etc. |
|
Kansas
City, MO |
1996-1998 |
Pretended
to be a DJ! |
No |
Backpacked
Europe immediately following graduation for 3 months. Moved to Chicago,
whereupon I had 4 jobs in the span of one year. Moved to Kansas City and
waited tables while working at a record store (Recycled Sounds) for a
year. Now work as a "Professional Cupid" at a dating service
called It's Just Lunch! Erin Hutton, and whoever else knows me - email
me! |
|
St.
Louis, MO |
1980-1982 |
DJ,
GM |
"Hard
Rock Cafe" and "The Blues Show". Also,did a very fun special
with Tom Harper called "No Stone Unturned" that (illegally)
featured a lot of bootleg Stones stuff. Great fun. No calls from Rolling
Stone Records, either. Whew. |
I
went to work up in Madison, WI for the NPR affiliate there, when I was
into doing REAL news. Got out of that shit quick. Started selling ad space
for a magazine, started writing ads for my clients. Found out I was pretty
good at it. Worked at several ad agencies until I landed at Simmons Durham,
where I'm an Associate Creative Director/Writer. It's a good gig, but
that's not even the best part. Got a wife and two kids. It's cool. Kids
save yer ass from gettin' old. I also am co-owner of Undertow, a music
collective kinda like the Tomato Collective. It's a label/studio/creative
outlet. The band Nadine is on our label, as is Waterloo. And, well, me.
Nadine is leaving for their second Euro-tour tomorrow. Waterloo's new
record is out in about two weeks. Mine's slated for release in December.
Check out the site: undertowco.com. |
|
St.
Louis, MO |
1994-1997 |
GM
from Fall 1996-Spring 1997 (yes, the infamous RHA wants to sell KCOU to
KBIA year), Operations Director from Fall 1995-Spring 1996 (where's the
damn Quarterly Report?!), I was an impressionable young DJ from Fall 1994-Spring
1995 ('Who the hell are the Flying Burrito Brothers?') |
"Unfortunately,
no." |
After
turning the reins over to the capable hands of D. Larimer, I got the heck
outta Dodge and moved to Louisville, Kentucky with my now-husband, former
DJ and Business Director Tim Clauss. I got a job as a copywriter with
an advertising agency and shilled for such thrilling clients as: Cummins
Diesel Engine Company, Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. (the evil
empire!) and Brown-Forman Beverages (mmm...Finlandia vodka...). Tim and
I moved back to good old Missouri this summer in order to preempt a murderous
spree once Kentucky basketball season started again. If I have to hear
about Wildcat basketball one more time... We now live in South County
St. Louis and are anxiously awaiting a decent show to come through town.
Oh, and I'm now making money as a freelance writer for various Fortune
500 companies, all while working from the comfort of my home. Thank you,
KCOU, for giving me the balls to turn down actual 9 to 5 work! |
|
St.
Louis, MO |
1992-1995 |
DJ
(Summer '92 - Fall '93 / Summer '94 - Spring '95) Business Manager (Summer
'92 - Fall '93 / Summer '94 - Spring '95) Yep, I'm the "Financial
Mismanagement" guy. Cheerleader for my wife Beth during the RHA sale
fiasco. |
"No
I did not, apparently I was too busy cooking the books, trying to spread
around non-existent funds." |
Well,
I went back and married that GM, Beth Farrow, proposing to her at the
1997 Kentucky Derby (Resulting from a KCOU affiliated horse racing addiction.)
That was actually at the beginning of our stay in Louisville, where we
lived happily for three years. I did stints as Physician Headhunter and
a Financial Analyst before landing a plum gig as a Computer Programming
Consultant. In July of 2000 though, we decided we had been away long enough,
and moved back to St. Louis, buying the house I grew up in from my parents.
Since then, Beth and I and our four daschunds and the terrified cat have
been working on fixing up the house. |
|
Huntsville,
AL |
1975-1976 |
DJ |
No |
Since
leaving KCOU and MU I got a PhD in philosophy at Vanderbilt and am now
an Associate Professor at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. I am
married and have two children. I listen to KCOU all day in the office
(hey, I've got tenure!) especially when I need some really good ideas.
Perhaps someone still remembers me, but I was a lousy DJ. Vic Eisenstein
(an excellent former DJ whom I last heard under the air name "Vic
Stone" at a radio station in the suburbs of Kansas City) used to
think I was a speed freak, but I just drank lots of Coke. Still do. Keep
up the good work. |
|
Portland,
OR |
1990-1991 |
DJ |
No |
Moved
to Austin TX, then moved to New Hampshire, then moved to Portland OR.
Never found a use for my sociology degree from MU so I used my knowledge
of web/computers and now I work for hardroad.com,
a music website that showcases unsigned or indie bands across the country.
Check it out. |
|
New
York, NY |
1997-2001 |
DJ,
Operations Director, GM |
Annihilate
This Week |
After
graduation, I shipped off for New York City and an internship at radio
syndication giant Westwood One. After that ended in August '01, I took
a job with the VH1 Radio Network and since then I’ve helped provide
terrible radio stations coast-to-coast with daily news on artists like
Dave Matthews and Matchbox 20. When I'm not selling my soul, I try to
enjoy the finer things NYC has to offer... hell, who am I kidding... I'm
still into Asian massage parlors and PBR... just like the good ol' days
back in Columbia. |
|
Austin,
TX |
1987-1992 |
DJ,
Chief Announcer |
Kruzin'
Music, DJ'ed the first show of Retro 88 |
Unlike
many, I'm not in the music biz. For me, music was, and will always be,
a passionate hobby, not a career. I work at UT-Austin and have a house
out in the country with a big garden, chickens, and spiders the size of
your fist. My partner Eric and I also have cats, dogs and ferrets. When
I'm not busy feeding the chickens, I might be doing anything from watching
80s videos on VH1 to studying alchemy. |
|
Shawnee,
KS |
1978-1980 |
News
director, producer, anchor |
Horizons,
the infamous morning news show that the jocks just hated because it cut
into their music time. Nobody listened, but man it was fun. Met great
friends who remain close friends today (Shawn Marsh, Suzan Akyol-Becker,
Lisa Hickok). Handled the 1980 election (we thought we'd be there all
night, Reagan had won by 7:10 p.m....DJs wanted to go back to doing tunes!)
|
Worked
as a TV reporter in Green Bay, WI, a producer and assignment editor in
KC, then went into the public relations business. Handled events involving
former Presidents Ford and Carter and President Clinton while I was handling
PR for the Truman Presidential Library and Museum. Now work as the VP
of communications for one of the world's largest reinsurers, GE Employers
Reinsurance. Who woulda thought that I'd go from hangin out with the DJs
and their music (Yes, Cream, New Riders of the Purple Sage, etc, etc)
to being a suit. Actually...most of the DJs would have assumed that! |
|
St.
Louis, MO |
1995-1997 |
DJ |
Co-hosted
The Beat Goes On (ska) w/Tom Meagher |
I
graduated from Mizzou and shuffled around Columbia for a while before
going to graduate school at Washington University. Now, I'm a high school
English teacher in Kirkwood, MO. I'm always asking students if they know
of "such and such" band. So far, I'm pretty sure that they have
no idea who the Ramones or the Pixies are. Fortunately, I have indoctrinated
my Creative Writing students to the beauty of Prince Buster and Wesley
Willis. Thanks for the updates on the web. I hope KCOU is still a wonderful
place to work. And I hope you don't miss any of the records that I accidentally
might have found in my collection years later. |
|
Atlanta,
GA |
1993-1994 |
DJ |
Club
Underground |
After
1994 I moved to Grand Rapids, MI to attend Calvin College. Up in Grand
Rapids...I continued to spin records at many underground venues until
I graduated in 1997 (1993 was my freshman year at MU). After that I moved
to Atlanta where I currently reside. Right now...I work in Management
for a Auto. Manufacturer (nice transition right), but on the side I continue
to spin parties and (recently) produce music.I loved my times at KCOU
and thank all the folks who listened to Club Underground. |
|
St.
Louis, MO |
1992-1995 |
DJ,
Promotions |
Blues101, started the 'Hour of Ska", and that "Dazed and Confused"
classic rock show.(my apologies to my family, was not my idea-hope Cliff
Steele burns in hell! someone should have used a bigger brick), many holidays
doing hours of garage/rockabilly and surf. |
hell,
flunked out of mu years before i left KCOU. worked a while at a restoration
shop, painting old cars. moved to St Louis in 2000, and im now a barber
at the South Hampton Barber Shop. If any of you alum's are in town look
me up , the first ones on me. Been playing drums for about 5 years now
for the Cripplers, a nice little angry rock/garage band. We got signed
to Dionysus Records, and put out our first album(cd's too). Play St Louis
at least once a month, and hit the bigger midwest cities as much as we
can fit into our old men schedules. KCOU was a great time, just wish i
could remember most of it. |
|
Brooklyn,
NY |
1993-1994 |
DJ
(2-6am!) |
No |
I
am now an associate editor at W magazine in NYC. |
|
Monterey,
CA |
1986-1988 |
DJ,
News Director |
No |
I
am the News Director at KSBW-TV, the NBC affiliate covering Monterey/Salinas/Santa
Cruz. Since the heady days of the KCOU basement and many midnight mix-sessions,
I've been roaming from television job to job and taking the occasional
spin around some far corner of the planet. All the while, I remember that
KCOU may be the last place I heard "Haircut 100" on the radio.
Cheers, and remember, your taste in music should be as inflexible as a
glass rod!! Thank you Walter Johnson! |
|
Brooklyn,
NY |
1995-1998 |
DJ |
No |
I am rocking it in Brooklyn and working as a designer at a Gannett newspaper
in suburban New York. At times I also write feature stories. I have a
cool roommate and a cat named Bill. I'm gunning for grad school or a career
change in the near future. |
|
Columbia,
MO |
1980-1982 |
DJ,
Chief Announcer |
Feature
album, Jazz Odyssey |
Bachelor
of Journalism, 17 years at Columbia Police Department, now a captain and
commander of the SWAT team. (What a change from the radio days!) Married,
two children. |
|
Boston,
MA |
1989-1991
(not sure, it was all a blur towards the end. I bailed before the great
Big Star flameout, that much I remember.) |
DJ,
Music Director, plastered the doorway to the music director's office with
stickers |
Sick
& Tired, 1990-91 |
After
some ill-spent time in Maryland and Oklahoma, I moved to Boston, finished
school and currently work at the National Center for PTSD assisting in
stress and aging research while I eye Ph.D. programs in personality psychology.
I'm engaged to a lovely woman named Suzanna, (who has learned not to ask
exactly *why* I had to have that copy of "Metal Machine Music"
I found) and in my spare time, I do the odd bit of writing and graphic
design and spend way too much time and money on eBay looking for records
I used to play on the radio. Safe to say, the time I spent at KCOU was
far more enjoyable and useful than any I spent in class at Mizzou and
the memories much more vivid. I'm really glad to see it's still around.
|
|
St.
Louis, MO |
1996-1997 |
DJ |
Cooking
with Holly featuring Bob Costas |
After
a 3 year love affair at a different University radio station based out
of St. Louis I somehow ended up on air at KCOU mostly filling in while
jon, gary, jeff, greg or marlin ate the lunch that I brought them. Left
MO to attend the CIA in New York, 2 years later I married the very handsome
Jon Fann and am now referred to as "Mrs. Fanelli" more often
than I would like. We have a mortgage, 3 spotty dogs and a bunny. Currently
the Culinary Dir. for Dierbergs cooking schools. Currently very happy. |
|
St.
Louis, MO |
1993-1997 |
DJ,
Music Director, interim Program Director, and "Lisa Morgan's proofreader"
|
Mic
Check (hip-hop), Closet of Love (soul) |
Got
married. Watched some baseball. Got a beer gut. Took all the drugs. |
|
St
Louis, MO |
1981-1985
(with a slight return in 1986, whose presence was more than somewhat resented) |
Traffic
Director, Chief Announcer, Program Director |
After
Midnight (Blues). It never made sense to me to call a show starting at
Midnight "Closin' Time", so I changed it about 6 months in.
Hey everybody, "Let's Go Get Stoned"! (my signoff tune by Ray
Charles). I think I did the blues show from 1983 till graduation in '85.
Also did Friday Mini-Concert, Kruzin' Music. You name it, I filled in
for every other show and every shift at least once. |
Worked
in commercial radio for 2 years, KXOK (STL), then back to Columbia at
KFRU, went into TV as an audio guy at Channel 8 for "Pepper &
Friends", evolved into a TV Director, which took me to KDNL-TV, ABC
Channel 30 when they started doing news. Burnt by the experience of repeated
on-air trainwrecks, I taught myself Avid editing. ( The handwriting was
on the wall, but I got out long before KDNL sacked the entire newsroom
and shut it down.) I worked at a video post house fulltime for 2 years,
been freelancer since 1998, specializing in editing and graphics. No wife, no kids, no house. I don't know if I could ever go back to a regular job again. See, damned KCOU and it's rebellious influences! |
|
Washington,
DC |
1997-1999 |
DJ |
5
Billion Voices |
After
somehow graduating MU's J-School with honors in 2001, went back home to
Washington, DC to what I thought was a nice sports reporting gig at USA
TODAY. That was until the price of news ink went up and my job was expendable
the day before graduation. Four jobs, including covering the 9/11 attacks
for a news wire, and one year later, I now work for Agricultural Research
magazine - traveling across the U.S. and Mexico (Miami, San Diego, Houston,
College Station, Mississippi State, Tijuana, Mexico City and Chiapas)
covering scientific-type research. Who knew this is where I'd wind up
after covering the Missouri Senior Games for the Columbia Daily Tribune,
huh? I still try to keep up with my now-rusty DJ skills by serving as
the 'Latin DJ' at friend's house parties, and, at times, at DC clubs during
their Latin nights. But because of KCOU, I've become this concert-going
freak, staying on top of all the bands that come to town and spending
countless dollars seeing some of the best Latin bands that play here in
DC - Molotov, Fabulosos Cadillacs, Cafe Tacuba, Aterciopelados, Enanitos
Verdes, and Gypsy Kings to name a few. I've also become an entertainment
guru, always organizing nights out with my international circle of friends
to Washington's newest clubs. If any KCOU alum decide to drop by 'Dodge
City' (aka DC), be sure to hit mega-clubs Dream and Nation, and super-cool
tiki bar and lounge The Reef. |
|
San
Francisco, CA |
1996-1999 |
DJ |
No |
graduated
in 12/99, moved to NYC and worked for 7 months as a photo intern for Bloomberg
News... then moved to Chicago where I was doing wedding photography and
digital photo retouching and other photo type drudge work.... Then i got
laid off and worked as a part-time digital retoucher/part-time waitress
...just moved to San Francisco and i waitress and do freelance illustration
and work w/ disabled people and teach art to special ed kids...and i'm
going back to school..and no one in california knows where missouri is.... |
|
Terence
Friedman |
Raleigh,
NC |
1987-2000 |
DJ |
No |
After KCOU: I'm a labor/employment attorney in Raleigh who most definitely
does not represent the little guy. KCOU was always fun, up until I was
ultimately discharged by Grant Barrett (if I recall correctly) from all
DJ responsibility after inciting a rather "fueled" Friday evening shift
with Bill Guerriero and a fellow named Jason. I still wonder -- what happened
to the old LPs there? Good lord -- there must be so many otherwise unobtainable
records stockpiled somewhere. By the way, I never saw a better touring
band in Columbia than Scruffy the Cat. Now there's something that it's
criminal not to have re-released on CD. |
Chicago,
Il |
1995-1996 |
DJ,
former 11-1 gal |
No |
I
am Operations Manager for chicago.citysearch.com |
|
New
York, NY |
1989-1992 |
DJ,
Music Director |
"Gardening
at Night" and the Friday mini-concert |
Hi.
I'm now working in New York City as a freelance copy editor, writer, and
photographer for mags and websites like Spin, New Musical Express, Ms.,
CMJ, Salon, HX, and Amazon. I have a wonderful fiance, Douglas, who's
also a journalist (and the most dedicated music fan I know). KCOU was
my absolute favorite experience at MU; it shaped my love of all types
of under-the-radar music, and today much of my work still deals with pop
culture. I'm so glad KCOU has recovered from "The Troubles"
to resume its classic indie format. Keep molding those impressionable
brains! |
|
Austin,
TX |
1996-1998 |
DJ |
"Psychotic
Reaction", "Shake 'Em On Down" |
I
just bought a house. I have a great job and all girl band called The
Regrettes |
|
1982-1984 |
DJ |
"Midday"
- jazz |
DJ
for a brief moment in Boise, ID. Television Assistant for Channel 3 in
Boise, ID. Hastings School of Law ('86-'89). Civil Rights & Eminent
Domain Lawyer at minority owned law firm in Oakland, CA. Fortunately,
I am still considered the eccentric one, the "offbeat" one,
a little strange, and "totally hip". One daughter - Marcella
age 6. It was great fun and lots of laughsbenig one of the "KCOU
Queens". |
||
South
St Louis, MO |
1995
(June-Dec) |
DJ |
No
but I pushed local acts and touring bands |
I left BoCoMo back in May of 1997. I was working at Shakespeare's which
made it hard to leave but got offered a fairly good job in St. Louis.
I moved into the city (South Side) and have had three different jobs.
Now I am selling dental equipment (www.obtura.com) for a great local company.
Nothing like fighting the big dogs in this industry. Recently purchased
my first house, a two family flat, and have one unit for rent. $550 if
your interested. Other than that, STILL KICKIN' IT. |
|
New
York, NY |
1994-1998 |
DJ |
"Jazz
Odyssey" |
left Missouri in October '98 and moved to Silicon Valley. I've been working
ever since for a company called Nortel Networks. In June of '99 I moved
to Minneapolis, and have somehow managed to stay afloat as the technology
sector comes apart at the seams. Still love college radio, and I'll never
feel bad about getting hooked up with pizzas to say Wiseguys on the air.
I call that some quality underwriting. |
|
Chicago,
Il |
1996-1999 |
DJ,
Promotions Director, Jazz Director |
No |
After
a Florida court appearance as a key witness in an attempted assault with
a deadly weapon case, I am currently slacking off at an ad agency. |
|
Seattle,
WA |
1991-1993 |
DJ,
Promotions Assistant, Production Assistant, Local Artist |
No |
Currently,
I maintain my own website: www.sgnp.com.
For money, I work as a web designer at Amazon.com. In my spare time I
draw the online comics "Giraffes and Elephants are Friends"
and "Super Rocket Monkey," which can be found here.. |
|
Chicago,
Il |
1988-1991 |
DJ,
Music Director |
"Gardening
At Night" |
moved to Chicago from Columbia about 6 1/2 years ago and I met my wife
here. I work at a small ad agency as a writer/editor and write freelance
for entertainment newspapers here in Chi. A few KCOU alums from my era
live up here now, including Carrie Leach (now Carrie Weston, married to
the bass player from Shellac) who books shows and bartends at the wonderful
Empty Bottle up here in Chicago. You have to stop by there if you come
up to Chicago, they consistently bring the best bands into the city. |
|
Ruth
Gurwitch |
Los
Angeles, CA |
1987-1990 |
DJ |
"Jazz
Lunch", occasionally the Heavy Metal show |
Got
a Masters in Social Work from USC, Masters of Jewish Communal Service
(I don't know what that means, really) from Hebrew Union College. Work
at UCLA Medical Center in Kidney Transplant program. Hang in Silverlake
neighborhood of Los Angeles, drinking, dancing, holding court at Akbar.
Live not so large with my cat Lucy and my friends...but love the life
I live. Miss Columbia lots (even after 10 years (!!) away)...Still using
my Shattered and Shakespeare's cups for vodka tonics, craving Sub Shoppe
tuna on wheat with bacon, listening to my Spanking Rufus tape (okay, that
I don't do too often...) Mostly I am hanging on to my youth with every
ounce of strength I have!! |
New
York, NY |
1986-1989 |
DJ,
Music Director |
various |
Opened
and helped run the Empty Bottle in Chicago with other ex-KCOU folk (who
remain to this day). Left for New York in late '95, and worked briefly
for BMG. Currently a professional cook at Eleven Madison Park in Manhattan.
Newly married to another KCOU alum, the former Lisa Morgan. |
|
Queens,
Ny |
1992-1996 |
DJ,
Program Director |
Top
30 |
I
moved to NYC after graduation. I have since been working at a company
in New York that edits for A&E, MTV, MSG, and many others. I am not
an editor yet, but I hope to get there soon. I married Bill Hagen, who
preceded me at KCOU by a number of years. This is my favorite accomplishment
since I left Columbia. Bill and I continue to go to the KY Derby every
year, in memory of the year we met there (thanks everyone for making that
happen). And I look back at my time in Columbia very fondly. One day I
hope to stagger into KCOU in the middle of the day and reminiscence about
the good ole days. I don't think I will be ready for that for 5 or 6 more
years, so you better make sure that place sticks around. |
|
Naperville,
Il |
1972-1973 |
Assistant
Engineer (KCCS), 1st Chief Engineer (KCOU) |
No |
Married
with 4 boys, working as engineer/programmer/analyst at Lucent Technologies
doing wireless internet. |
|
Denver,
CO |
1978-1983 |
DJ,
Chief Announcer |
Rockit88,
Cruisin Music |
Currently
Production Director of Clear Channel's eight station group in Denver.
Its great to know the station is still going strong! |
|
St.
Louis, MO |
1995-1998 |
Chief
Announcer, Music Director, DJ |
The
Beat Goes On/ Radio JA |
I'm
working as a brochure copywriter at INTRAV, a travel company. |
|
San
Francisco, CA |
1993-1997 |
DJ |
Open
Apple C |
My
life in Columbia revolved around music, but my life in San Francisco seems
to revolve around sex. I volunteer as a sex educator on the San
Francisco Sex Information hotline and I work as a "Sexuality
Producer" for ThriveOnline.
It's a lot of fun! I live with Shelley Clarkson, the sweetie I met at
M.U., and we're getting married in April 2001. |
|
Portland,
OR |
1989-1992ish |
Trained
Monkey |
Sick
and Tired, Gardening at Night |
After
finishing up my BFA (whatever that was about) I wandered around Germany/Austria/Italy/Switzerland
and decided I was going to 'take a year off before grad school. Right.
I ended up in Portland, OR and became a beer snob. (Editor's note: Insert drap tale about three years of evil web-technology, cloven-hoofed venture capitalists and the dot.com purgatorio). I now have business cards that say "Sr. Infrastructure Engineer" and don the logo of a Hugh-Jass corpoation (doo-dee-doo-ding). That translates to "I never have to work with 'web-frickin-technology' or 'the money guy' ever again". I play my bass, cello and drums and make weird music with the new micro-Korg, Reason and ProTools (Digi-002 yee-haw). Really, I'm just marking time until Lisa gets around to starting her cult. Oh, so let me clear some things up: I never had sex in the prod room, I never smoked weed at the station and I never did my show on acid. Yeah, my shows were weird, but you can't do that stuff from the aether plane or while you're indulging the whims of the goddess. Forget it, pink boy! |
|
Dallas,
TX |
1982-1985 |
Chief
Announcer |
Cruisin'
Music |
Currently,
I am the Sales Manager for Fox Sports Net in Dallas. Handle all the national
advertising sales for all 23 Fox Sports Regional Sports Networks around
the country...IE: You see Southwest Airlines, Pepsi, Anheuser-Busch etc...in
a game....that's me. Wife is President/General Manager of WFAA-TV in Dallas,
TX...the ABC television station. We have 3 sons, Michael (16 1/2), Matt
(14) and Connor (8 1/2). Been involved in television sales in some capacity
since graduation in May 1985...didn't have the talent to make it in radio...ah,
what could have been. Caused a bit of a stir a few years ago when I sent
a letter to the Dean, who asked for money, that said I learned to prepare
more for life at KCOU than 4 years of regular school...KCOU to me, like
a lot of other folks, was a wonderful "playhouse" and learning
experience. Wonderful people in a weird period of time (Mid 80's)...ouch.
Special thanks to the tall hair Goddess...Trish Merelo for getting me
into the station in 1982.....I thank you very much for your kindness! |
|
Denver,
CO |
1981-1982 |
News
Reporter/Caster |
No |
I
am currently working as a freelance TV reporter for KUSA-TV, NBC, and
CNN. |
|
Minneapolis,
MN |
1997-2001 |
DJ,
Music Director, and God to many followers |
Purgatory,
Machine Musik |
Now
I am a restaurant Manager in Minneapolis for Chipotle (www.chipotle.com).
I don't own any fire arms at the time, but Patrick Heiger beware. Kcou
definitely was one of my most positive experiences in Columbia. |
|
San
Francisco, CA |
1996-2000 |
DJ,
Music Director, Chief Announcer |
Purgatory |
Movin' |
|
St.
Louis, MO |
1990-1993 |
DJ,
mercifully brief stint as Librarian |
Blues
101 |
Briefly
considered radio position in Denver, discovered salary, said "Fuck
that". Worked in CoMo, St. Louis, KC, Chicago, Mexico City, London,
Paris, Buenos Aires. Fell in and out of love, often. Lost more than won
at the Derby. Work for PR firm in St. Louis. Still don't 'get' ska. Perform
in, maintain Website, create posters for Pravda-STL.com. Record music
on home computer. Am in love with a cinnamon girl from Jersey who owns
Billy Joel's complete discography. Listen to more NPR than MBV, but not
much more. Miss Chicago. |
|
Kansas
City, MO |
1998-1999 |
DJ
Friday 2-6am w/Mike Hensel & Jessica Palumbo |
Not
technically a specialty show but we WERE extra special |
Since
KCOU, I have become a corporate sell-out, writing/producing local car
dealership commercials at a KC agency. (You'll be glad to know I earn
a meager wage.) I've kept in touch with the station and its best DJ stock.
Ex-DJs: If you're in KC, look me up. I'm bored |
|
Washington,
DC |
1980-1983 |
DJ |
Jazz
Odyssey, the Blues show, Cruisin Music |
Since
leaving KCOU I've gone on to work in television and newspapers. I covered
the Persian Gulf War for NBC, was a correspondent at America's Most Wanted,
worked for a variety of newspapers, have had articles published in PEOPLE
and PLAYBOY, and have written five books. I was the first television reporter
in this country jailed for refusing to divulge a confidential source in
a case styled Karem V. Priest which is now in several Mass Media and the
Law textbooks. Okay, it's true I've eaten raw hamburger meat. |
|
Bellingham,
WA |
1994-1998 |
DJ,
Music Director, Program Director |
College
Music Report, Open Apple C, Country Brunch |
Newspaper
Reporter |
|
Kansas
City, MO |
1980-1985 |
DJ,
Operations Director, Chief Announcer |
Hard
Rock Cafe |
I'm
the Civilian Personnel Officer for the Marine Corps activities in Kansas
City. Having a great time and glad to hear that the station is alive and
well. I hope to hear from long lost friends from our KCOU days. |
|
Buffalo,
NY |
1989-1991 |
News
Dork (but I had fun as a news dork) |
Not
unless you count that mean-steamer of a news magazine, "The Missouri
Beat" |
After
wandering aimlessly around Columbia, fell back into radio at KCLR. Then,
moved to KCMQ during it's country phase as music director. Left to program
KZNN in Rolla (lasted only four months). Left to launch KRKQ in Des Moines,
IA (a classic rocker). Got hosed there and became a jock at KFRG/Riverside,
CA. Went to Seattle and became a music director for Broadcast Programming's
syndicated Country, Mainstream AC, Classic Rock, and Alternative formats
(cyber-jocked middays for WXZZ in Lexington, KY). Defected a few blocks
away to The Research Group (a radio research and consulting firm) as Assistant
Director of Music Services and got laid off after four months. Was a jock
at KMPS/Seattle. Was I'm APD/MD/afternoon driver at WYRK/Buffalo, now
I'm PD/afternoons for WBEE Rochester, NY. Met an awesome girl (Jillene)
in Seattle who moved out to Buffalo with me. We plan to get married soon.
Radio pay still sux. So if you're considering radio as a career, I hope
you REALLY like ramen for dinner. Did i babble too much? KCOU was a great
place to learn "stuff." I wouldn't trade the late nights tinkering
in production for anything. Hope you've managed to keep it fun. |
|
Manhattan
Beach, CA |
1978-1980 |
DJ,
PD, jack of all trades, first resident punk |
Cruisin'
Music, Rockit88 |
Worked
at KCMQ Columbia and WXKE Ft Wayne, then left radio to concentrate on
playing music with Dear John and Page Three. Moved to Los Angeles in '85,
released solo CD in 1994. Stayed in the music industry (labels, retail,
distribution) until early 90's. Still write, sing, and record (check out
my site with
tunes, etc). Work for the global IT services firm EDS. I had a great time
at KCOU, and it's awesome to see it still rockin' after all these years!
|
|
Gainseville,
FL |
1970-1971 |
Sports
reporter, Co-Sports Director |
Tigers
This Week (sports) |
I
worked in radio in Missouri and New Jersey, now I am news
director and faculty member at the University of Florida in Gainesville.
I have been at UF since 1985. While I did sports in college, I wound up
doing news in the "real world." KCCS was only on in the dorms
at the time--it became KCOU and got on the air after I left. Good luck
to all at the station, it's a real treasure!! I am married with stepdaughter
in Missouri and a son in Florida. |
|
Valparaiso,
IN |
1973-1975 |
GM |
Not
around yet |
The
latest albums (how's that for a giveaway word from the vinyl age) that
I am passionate about are Automatic for the People (yes, I know how old
it is but I just discovered it) and Love and Theft; life happens. Still,
that's what college radio is supposed to be about: progressive and alternative.
In the early 70s I was bigtime into Tangerine Dream, the Strawbs, Barclay
James Harvest, Genesis (before Peter Gabriel left), Gentle Giant, and
Bob James, the pride of Marshall, MO (yes, we programmed a significant
amount of fusion and what today would be considered smooth jazz). I still
have about 3000 lps boxed in my basement and I bought a new turntable
last year, my first since my sophomore year at Mizzou, so I could relive
sonic adventures. Administrator of the Association of Lutheran Church
Musicians at Valpo University. |
|
Chapel
Hill, NC |
1996-2000 |
DJ,
Music Director, Co-Program Director |
The
Beat Goes On, Radio JA |
Attending
graduate school at the University of North Carolina. |
|
Chattanooga,
TN |
1988-1993 |
DJ,
Chief Announcer |
Subbed
for every specialty show on the schedule |
Newscast
producer at WTVC-TV (ABC affiliate) since I left Columbia. Married in
1997 to Elizabeth Clemons, a full-time artist, with two stepchildren,
Charlotte and Hanes (12 and 10 respectively). My time spent at KCOU was
by far the most rewarding during college. |
|
Melbourne,
Australia |
1999-2001 |
DJ,
Music Director |
No |
Now
live in Australia with my Australian fiance and am looking for a real
job to pay off my student loans. |
|
Columbia,
MO |
1992-1996 |
DJ,
Ops Director, GM |
No |
After
I graduated from MU in '96, I stuck around Columbia and still have not
left! I work for Premier Marketing Group - we own seven radio stations
and five print publications. I am the Program Director for their A/C -
101.5 KPLA. Never in a million years did I think I would be pushing Celine
Dion records! But a kid has to make a living somehow - thank God for automation
so I don't have to actually LISTEN to the soft rock I push! |
|
St.
Louis, MO |
1982-1983 |
News
and Sports Reporter |
No
but I was Rockit88's number one fan |
I've
been joyfully employed at KMOV-TV as a producer/writer/editor since graduation
from the J-school in 1985. In 1991, I married photographer Brian Howe.
We have two children (Brennan-1997 and JoHanna-2002) and are living the
suburban life in Kirkwood. |
|
St.
Charles, MO |
1986-1991 |
DJ |
The
Retro show |
Teaching
elementary school |
|
Seattle,
WA |
1991-1995 |
Everything
from DJ to MD to OO to a short stint as GM after the whole RHA fiasco
and cinder block |
Sick
N Tired |
Now
running a record label in Seattle (kurtisempire.com)
and playing in several bands, as well as acting in films and stuff. |
|
San
Francisco, CA |
1986-1991 |
DJ,
GM |
The
New Wave show |
Work:
I've worked at four radio stations (3 under one roof), two record stores,
a music booking agency, an Internet start-up company, and I'm currently
working at an art college. I also work at the Fillmore and Warfield Theater
occasionally. Claim to Fame: Son Volt used a photograph of mine on their
album "Straightaways." Wrote for No Depression Magazine. Life:
Bought a house, got married and still listen to lots of music. KCOU certainly
gave me a big boost in that direction. And it's because of a mutual love
of music (alt. country, power pop, and the Nuggets Box set among others)
that I met my husband, Jim. (We met at an Emmylou Harris show at the Fillmore,
I was working.) No kids and 2 cats later, things are going well. I still
have a soft spot for that radio station, and a lot of great memories,
photos and T-shirts to go along with it. Keep up the good work! I'll be
listening. |
|
Spring
Lake Heights, NJ |
1978-1982 |
News
Director and "unknown DJ who, fueled by Busch, would surface in the
night to play a New Jersey six-pack" |
No |
Working
for Associated Press |
|
Austin,
TX |
2001-2002 |
DJ |
No |
I
work at a record label in Austin, TX called New West Records. We have
Slobberbone, the Flatlanders (not the Flatliners), Delbert McClinton,
Tim Easton, Stephen Bruton, and other people. I started as an intern,
but they hired me full-time after two months. Pretty cool. Anyhoo, still
adjusting to life in Austin and not in Columbia. I miss KCOU. |
|
Oak
Park, IL |
1982-1985 |
DJ,
Promotions Director, Underwriting salesman |
Classic
Album, "Sunday night shift was not officially a show but by tradition
was the airshift where we put 'the bizarre guy who plays that weird music'
" |
Self-employed
computer geek since 1993. Software training, troubleshooting, systems
consulting, database development, etc. I have a wife and a house in the
suburbs. No picket fence and no kids. I'm the most boring person I know. |
|
Austin,
TX |
1993-1997 |
I
was a friggin DJ |
Retro
88, subbed every friggin shift (if I didn't sleep thru it) and did LOTS
of overnights where I played no format whatsoever |
Since
KCOU and MU, I moved to Austin and been working on films full-time, as
well as doing three of my own (One was filmed at Nowell's in Columbia!).
I also work as a lighting designer for several theatre groups and had
a couple of my shows tour. I do improv and sketch comedy with Ray Prewitt's
Fourth Grade Class, work for SXSW every year and like to blow up shit
with a tesla coil. I just saw Jay Farrar play here two nights ago here
and got sentimental. Lost part of my heart when Pavement called it quits
and still hope you have carts featuring a drunk Jon Fann and tripping
Sean Brown. Glad to hear about Morgan and Claus. If any KCOUers are ever
coming to Austin, get a hold me, we got a comfy couch. |
|
Santa
Cruz, CA |
1980-1984 |
DJ,
Chief Announcer, Program Director |
Filled
in for Motor City(motown), Not Just Jazz |
DJ,
Program Director at WPST/Trenton, NJ 1984-91. Lured to LA to accept record
promotion gig with MCA 1991-97, then segued to DreamWorks Records for
same. Quit in '99 to be home with my boy/girl twins born in '98. Married
to Rob since '91. He works for Yahoo and we now live in Santa Cruz, CA.
Adored my years at KCOU, I loved that little basement. |
|
New
York, NY |
1991-1996 |
DJ,
Promotions Director, Resident Criminal |
Gardening
at Night |
Since
my KCOU days, I've lived/worked in Chicago, London and New York. I've
been dating another KCOU-er, Kristen Swenson, for almost 5 years. We live
together in Park Slope (Brooklyn) and have no kids or pets (we're too
damn busy). I am currently writing television, films and plays with almost
a hundred credits at MTV, CBS, VH1, Noggin, Columbia Pictures, Silver
Pictures, Warner Brothers, Sonicnet, Concentric Entertainment, Martha
Stewart's Omnimedia and Bowen-Arrow Productions. I recently directed my
first music video, "I Love The Unknown," for the band Clem Snide
and co-executive produced a short film, "Recycle Day," that
will make the film festival circuit in 2002. Both projects were done through
my own production company, K-Fi Films. I am also in pre-production on
"Man, 35," a feature film I wrote a couple of years ago and
will direct starting January 2002. I'm listening to the new Spiritualized,
Smog and the Strokes (lots of "S" bands) and I too lamented
the end of the Pavement-era. I often wear my "Up Against The Wall
Motherfucker" KCOU t-shirt to the gym and get lots of blank stares
from the corporate-types who just don't get it. |
|
Asheville,
NC |
1994-1998 |
DJ,
news |
Jazz
Odyssey |
Since
KsceneOU I left Columbia and moved to Atlanta worked freelance in commercials
and music videos. Met my girlfriend and her daughter, had a baby of my
own, got a dog and moved to the hills. Now I’m the box office manager
at the community theatre and teaching a improv class for high schoolers.
word |
|
Dallas,
TX |
1997-2000 |
Sports
Director, Softball play-by-play, fill-in DJ |
Sports
Lounge |
News
Reporter at WOI-TV Channel 5 (ABC station for Central Iowa) Update: I
got fired by News 5 and did data entry for Manpower temp services. I accepted
a job as a sports reporter/anchor at ESPN Radio 103.3 FM in Dallas/Fort
Worth, Texas! |
|
Sanibel
Island, FL |
1975-1976 |
News,
DJ, Operations Director |
Cruisin'
Music |
I
took over for Mark Shevitz as Operations Director when he got promoted at KFMZ. I later took a job at KFMZ, and eventually was forced to quit KCOU when KFMZ owner Mike Rice discovered all the KCOU production work I, Yvonne Mangrum, Dan Carney and others were doing up there. At the time KCOU was more popular than KFMZ in many demos! I'm also the one responsible for painting the station's interior those hideous colors. My favorite memory is interviewing Charlie Daniels and learning he only had a southern accent while ON the air! I married my college girlfriend, Julie Burkhead, in 1980. We publish travel guides for a living. We have a 9-year-old daughter. Hi to Tom Shelton (a stand up comic?) and anyone else that was part of that giant airstaff. |
|
Wahiawa,
HI |
1995-1998 |
DJ |
No |
After
I left MU, I did my 2-year stint as a copy editor. My wanderings took
me to Moscow, and now I work as a Russian linguist/translator in Hawaii.
It's been awhile, but still I hold those 2 am shifts as some of my favorite
Columbia memories. |
|
Palatine,
IL |
1974-1978 |
Reporter,
announcer, evening news producer, Public Affairs Director, sports announcer
|
Mere
Images (a five minute pre-reocrded rock 'n roll news thing I put together)
|
After
College: KCOU was such a great place to learn everything about radio.
Best of all, it provided a wonderful opportunity to work alongside and
hang out with some truly fine people. With the exception of a brief stint
in the early '80s as a fill-in weekend news announcer in Gresham, OR,
that was the end of my less than promising career in radio. I earned the
big BJ in the Ad sequence and spent the next 16 years doing sales and
promotional work for a publishing company. After a few more years doing
direct mail with a division of GE, I now lead the advertising operations
at Quill office supplies. I've been married for the past 18 years and
have two boys who have never expressed even the slightest desire to hear
any of my old air checks. |
|
Tacoma,
WA |
1986-1991 |
DJ,
Music Director, GM (I believe I was the first woman GM...) |
No |
After
law school, I was in private practice as an employment law attorney and
Editor-in-Chief of Trial News. Currently, I am Corporate Counsel for Labor
Ready, Inc., a leading international provider of day labor (NYSE: LRW).
I'm married to Joel Trueblood, an MU alum who graced KCOU's airwaves as
the drummer for Neko Case and her Boyfriends, the Untamed Youth, Ditch
Witch, Alcohol Funnycar and At Proper Distance. Joel and I are the "Rob
Alongi" and "Madame Grace Ho" of the Tacoma rental property
world. |
|
New
York, NY |
1983-1985 |
News
Director |
No |
Worked
in South Bend, Albany NY, Louisville and for the past ten years at CBS
News. I am now Senior Producer at CBS Newspath, CBS' digital satellite
newsgathering operation. |
|
Farmington,
Mo |
1981-1982 |
DJ |
None |
Went
commercial (gasp!) at KFMZ until graduation in '83, did a short stint
at KMOX as a sports producer. Went small-market in '85 (for more money!)
to KTJJ in Farmington, MO. Married a local girl, decided that I like to
eat, so I now handle casualty claims for American Family Insurance. Been
with them since '88, year of my marriage, one son. Did play by play for
local sports teams until a couple of years ago. |
|
Arlington,
VA |
1993-1995 |
DJ |
None |
moved to D.C. for grad school, and am now a registered art therapist (if
you don't know check out www.potomacata.org).
Wish I could still get KCOU out here on the east coast! |
|
Augusta,
GA |
4
Years |
Reporter,
Anchor, News Director |
Voice
of The Campus |
I've
been a TV reporter/anchor at WAGT-TV in Augusta, GA since graduating in
May 2001 with a Bachelor of Journalism Degree. |
|
Chicago,
Il |
1990-1994 |
DJ,
Jazz Director |
Two
Hours of Torch (standards, lounge, american pop) |
I'm
in Chicago now, writing novels. I've had two published. I've also performed
my short work for such venues as National Public Radio and the Chicago
Museum of Contemporary Art. I hardly ever go to live shows anymore, and
the only new band in the last six years I know of is Sleater-Kinney. By
the way, Mudhoney rules and Sean Brown is a goofy motherfucker. |
|
Independence,
MO |
1977-1985
(on the decade plan at MU) |
Started
as a "news stain"- (named as such because the newbies always
sucked, "staining the airwaves", as it were...) DJ, Public Service
Director, Chief Announcer, took over as GM from Marc Chechik in 1980,
stayed GM till 1983 when Bill "The Tool" Macklin took over. |
Rockit-88
(New Wave), Friday Mini-Concert, filled-in on Country Morning, Not Just
Jazz, Kingston Connection (reggae), Cruisin' Music (oldies) and Sunday
Night Classic Album |
Senior
Sales Weasel for AVG, Inc. We duplicate and package CD's, CD-ROM's, video
tapes and audio cassettes, married to an elementary school art teacher,
only jail time was one hour in Boone County Jail in 1978 for a misdemeanor
littering charge (caught shooting bottle rockets into one of the Finger
Lakes North of Columbia while under influence of unidentified substance.
$50 fine and time served.), lived on the straight and narrow path ever
since. |
|
Springfield,
IL |
1990-1991 |
DJ |
No |
Moved
back to Maryland after miserably failing out of Mizzou. Got married, then
he got transferred to Missouri. I figured if it was the last thing I did,
I would get a degree from Mizzou. Graduated in 1999 FINALLY with an English
and Religious Studies double major. Moved to Springfield, Illinois, working
for an international wine company. Got divorced, found my true soulmate,
got married this last May to live happily ever after in the money pit
I call home. I meant it this time when I got married and actually changed
my name. I have three step children, ages 5, 17 and 19. I currently work
as a loan originator, where I help the credit challenged. Glad to see
the KCOU site up and running--Liquor Guns, Ammo and KCOU--only in Columbia! |
|
Norfolk,
VA |
1993-1997 |
DJ,
Chief Announcer, Program Director |
College
Music Report |
Working
as a newspaper copy editor (first at the Corpus Christi Caller-Times,
currently The Virginian-Pilot)... attending the Kentucky Derby religiously
with fellow KCOU alums/horse-racing nuts. |
|
Atlanta,
GA |
1976-1979 |
DJ,
news guy |
Can't
remember back that far |
Reporter
at WAGA-TV Atlanta since 1986. Why I'm still in this business, I'm not
sure. Married, have two kids, divorced. Still listen to college radio.
And still keep up with pals I first met at KCOU. I'll tell 'em about your
site. Went by the station last time I drove thru Columbia. On-air gal
was playing non-stop Cure on a Sunday morning (or was it Saturday?). Door
was locked. Banged on door. No answer. Can't blame her. Lost the station's
signal upon reaching the Boone County line. Still 400 watts? Some things
never change. Loved working there. Glad you're on the 'net. |
|
Devon
Ritter |
Chicago,
IL |
1997-2001 |
DJ,
Music Staff, Librarian |
Over
The Shoulder |
After
finishing grad school, I moved to Chicago with co-host John Rejba. I work
as an editor at the University of Chicago Press. Buttons are still cool.
|
Oakland,
CA |
1976-1978 |
DJ,
News Director |
No |
Tom
Krynski hired me at KFRU in 1979 and I became news director in 1980, staying
too long in Columbia until 1984. Later I was a reporter/anchor at all-news
KTRH in Houston. Shortly thereafter, I had a precociously early midlife
crisis and returned to MU in 1987 to get a graduate degree in computer
science. I am now a senior computer security specialist with Charles Schwab
& Co., the brokerage firm headquartered in San Francisco. I'll never
have to change a teletype ribbon again! |
|
Columbia,
MO |
1964-1965 |
One
of the first DJs at KCCS |
Classical
music |
That
letter, from MU's administration announcing that my grade point was too
low to return for another year, got me into trouble, of course, but it
also got me drafted (this was at the peak of the Vietnam era) so I joined
the Navy and spent four years, mostly in Illinois, where I finally actually
did get a degree. I returned to my home town of KC in the late '70s, got
married for the second time, and eventually moved back to Columbia to
raise my two girls here. I've never regretted it. I did a few stints at
KOPN (Ionizations), and did a few months of serious pirate radio. Now
I'm mainly a web jocky and a musician. |
|
St.
Louis, MO |
1991-1996 |
Techno
Music Director, Assistant Chief Announcer |
Alternative
Bandstand, Liquid Radio |
I
work as a Sales Acct Executive for a Music Publishing company, dj at clubs
and underground parties, and travel a lot. Basically, I try to keep it
real. "ROCK IS DEAD" |
|
Chicago,
IL |
1997-2001 |
Bad
DJ, Good Graphic Designer |
No |
Designing
ads for crappy newspapers no one reads, living with 2 Mexican House DJ
Brothers, working on a "feminist" magazine w/ Jenny Inzerillo,
slowly realizing that everyone my age HATES their job! |
|
El
Cerrito, CA |
1996-1997 |
DJ,
moral supporter and roommate of former GM Beth Clauss |
No
but I also served as moral supporter and roommate to Open Apple C hosts
Chris and Korry |
For
almost three years, I bounced around from newspaper to newspaper, working
as a copy editor and page designer first in South Florida and later in
the LA area. Now I'm working in San Francisco as a Web copy editor at
TechTV. I'm also the single-mother of one cat. |
|
Chicago,
IL |
1994-1998 |
DJ,
Music Director, Springfest team, Shitworker, etc |
No...though
Korry Keeker and I planned to do a mock-emo specialty show called the
"Broken Hearts' Bivouac" |
moved to Chicago a month after graduation, where I lived in the hood for
eight O.G. months before moving to greener, less-bullet-riddled pastures.
Currently, I work as managing editor for four regional magazines &
do freelance music work on the side. Chicago is a hotbed of KCOU/MU alums,
and I see a different one every time I go to the Empty Bottle (right by
my apartment), which has its own KCOU connections. I miss working at KCOU,
and I'm such a geek that I even have a picture of the studio on one of
my walls. No, I do have a life, though. Really. |
|
Springfield,
IL |
1994-1999 |
I keep my specialties private. But I did do some shifts with Sean Fuller
and Beth Sainz, and there was a failed two week attempt at a morning show
with D.Larimer and Toby Ciottone in summer of '98. |
No |
I
worked at KPLA after graduation doing a request and dedication show at
night. Moved to Rockford IL in '00 to do a morning show. Met my soulmate,
Steve in Rockford and we moved to Springfield in '02. Now I am part of
a three person morning show here on WDBR FM and lovin'it! I work as a
volunteer at the Animal Protective League in my spare time and visit my
friends and family in St.Louis as much as I can. |
|
Town
& Country |
1968-1969 |
KCCS
DJ |
No |
Graduated
'72 from Mizzou. Got Masters Degree '74 from Webster University. Been
a shoe importer for the last 28 years. Married with three kids. |
|
Ventura,
CA |
1978-1982 |
DJ |
Horizons |
Working
as System Engineer Manager at a company called Ixia (www.ixiacom.com).
Believe it or not, I still sometimes have dreams of working there. Usually
I'm panicking over a large gap of "Dead Air" as I try to find
the right segue. |
|
Columbia,
MO |
1998-2002 |
DJ,
Promotions Director, GM |
College
Music Report, Country Hangover |
I'm
still residing in Columbia working for an agency that works with people
with developmental disabilities. I'm working on a couple of music projects
including my own band and Columbia-based band collective called Emergency
Umbrella. |
|
Arlington,
VA |
early-mid
90s |
DJ |
Jazz.
Troy Lund and I would also make obnoxious noises some weekday afternoons |
I
have moved to the East Coast, been absorbed into the tech world. Contracted
at RJR Tob. last year and am currently contracted out as web designer/developer
for the Gov't. I could say what I work on specifically, but then I'd have
to kill ya. |
|
Madison,
WI |
1990-1994 |
DJ |
Gardening
At Night |
Finally
grew up, folks. Went to grad school, got two theatre degrees. Designed
costumes for various theatres throughout the US. Was manager for costume
rentals house in Chicago for 3 years; am now Wardrobe Supervisor for Reduced
Shakespeare Company (www.reducedshakespeare.com). On tour right now, but
home base is now Madison. Cheaper rents, less traffic. I do music event
promos for WORT/89.9 FM, the Madison community radio station, and design
costumes for local theatres when not touring. Getting married to my longsuffering
stay-at-home fiance, Dave, very soon. Yep, you can all check the sky for
those flying pigs now. Will always have KCOU to thank for teaching me
diverse musical tastes-especially my mentors/friends Cliff Evans, Paul
Imboden and Jenny Ouellette, all of whom let me sub their specialty shows.
Long live Couch Flambeau. Hope everyone's well! |
|
Tom
Shelton |
St.
Louis,MO |
1976-1977 |
DJ,
Music Director |
2-3
morning drives a week |
Worked
in Poplar Bluff KWOC and back at KFRU for about six years. Currently work
in computers but doing stand-up comedy at the Funny Bone in St. Louis
and Springfield, IL. |
Seattle,
WA |
1992-1993 |
DJ |
No |
I
loved the anarchistic feel of KCOU. It was such freedom. I knew almost
nothing about college radio when I started there. I have KCOU to thank
for introducing me to music I might never have otherwise heard. Thank
you! I live in Seattle and get to see a lot more shows than I ever did
in Columbia! I have listened to the UW station KCMU, which is now KEXP
thanks to Paul Allen, and it's no KCOU ;) I wish the best of luck to KCOU.
May its future be as bright as its past. I can now listen to KCOU on my
computer! WOo HOO! |
|
St.
Louis, MO |
1996-1999 |
DJ,
Cinderblock Society founding member |
Viva
la Format |
Working
for the Associated Press |
|
Columbia,
MO |
1993-1994 |
DJ |
No |
Working,
being a family guy, collecting Uncle Tupelo and Strakweather shows. Any
of you old staffers that have any live stuff of the local and alt-country
genera, especially the Starkweathers stuff, drop me a line. |
|
Kirkwood,
MO |
1981-1986 |
DJ,
Music Director |
At
one time or another I believe I worked every single shift (due to the
fact I am a Columbia native and was in town over holidays, etc), Friday
Mini-Concert |
Worked
in Tee-Vee production (director, etc) for 18 years. Laid off in 2001.
Now working as Public Affairs Coordinator for a consulting engineering
firm and loving it. Married since '87, daughter in '92. Living a fairly
typical suburban life - but every now and then (late at night, of course)
have to haul out the old vinyl and relive my youth when I had no responsibilities
and more hair. |
|
Kansas
City, MO |
1976-1979 |
DJ |
Cruisin'
Music |
Like
Robert mentioned in his post, it was a truly strange time, and one that
I wouldn't trade for the world. Oh, and they occasionally had me read
the news as "Dick Pretentious" in the mornings on Horizons (the morning
news show back then). I worked a little in radio after college and then
realized I had a basic need to eat, so I got into sales. I'm a quick learner,
so it only took me ten years to realize sales wasn't for me, so I became,
in quick succession; a disco DJ, a waiter, a salesman, again, and then,
realizing I wasn't cut out for the world of glamour, I went to work for
(and live in) the City of Kansas City, Missouri. I became a restaurant
inspector, then an office manager, then a lead inspector, then supervisor
of rat control, and, currently, a computer guy. Like I said, a quick learner.
I'm married, one stepson, and I get to retire in when I'm 57, which, amazingly
to me, is not that far off. Maybe I'll do another radio show when that
happens. |
|
Osage
Beach, MO |
1985-1990 |
DJ,
Librarian, pseudo-music director |
The
Blues Show |
Did
a brief stint at KOPN, then started a couple businesses, last of which
are Advertisnet Internet Services (www.dam.net)
and Ozark Digital Data (www.odd.net) |
|
NYC |
1984-1989 |
DJ,
News/Sports guy |
Along
with a group of guys that included Dan Pupke and Tom McCormack, and several
fellas I can't remember the names of, I called Mizzou baseball games for
a couple seasons...I have fond memories of the serious minds that helped
shape those years at the station: Bill Macklin, Ian Sights, the bare-chested
record-filer and highly-concerned Jay Teutenberg, the great Laurie Hoffher
(object of a serious crush)... |
I
live in NYC now and work at LaGuardia airport...I listen to WNYU-FM and
put that station's efforts on par with those of the great KCOU...I'm fifteen
years removed from the experience at KCOU, but consider it a significant
aspect of my formative years... |
|
San
Francisco, CA |
1983-1987 |
DJ,
Music Director, friendly neighborhood record store clerk at Whizz |
Under
The Influence |
Radio-wise,
I've worked at KPFA 94.7 (Pacifica affiliate) in Berkeley, California
as well as being a cog in the worldwide system of capitalist exploitation.
Remember, it's not such a big leap from promoting national liberation
in Nicaragua and Palestine to doing international sales. |
|
Chicago,
IL |
1992-1997 |
DJ,
Music Director, Program Director |
Thursday
Mini-Concert, Must Hear GT, Country Brunch |
I've
been exploring the concept of redemption through suffering, changing girlfriends
like most people change socks and thinking about going back to school.
All in all, a generic post college life. |
|
Rochester,
NY |
1990-1991 |
DJ |
Sundays
6-9am and 1-4pm |
Princeton
PhD (English) 1997. Currently an Assistant Professor at the University
of Rochester. I remember my time at KCOU fondly. It was a lot of fun,
and I learned a lot. I'm glad the station is continuing to keep alternative/independent/free-form
music & radio alive in mid-Missouri. |
|
Chicago,
IL |
1987-1991 |
DJ,
Music Director, Promotions Director |
No |
After college, I moved to the Windy City and its stellar music scene,
spending nearly 10 years working/managing the Empty Bottle. Five years
ago I met and married the love of my life, Bob, and we bought a house
to hold our massive combined record collection. This spring I decided
I had enough of the Empty Bottle and set out on a summer of dedicated
world travel and when I came back, decided to patch together a mix of
jobs that will allow me to travel as much as possible. Rick Steves has
the BEST JOB EVER. So I got my real estate license, began DJing at clubs
(I've DJed twice at the All Tomorrow's Parties festivals in England!),
and started working at a bar called Delilah's part-time. I also am fortunate
enough to do a radio show at WLUW (Loyola U.). KCOU was the highlight
of my Mizzou experience, and the immersion in great music truly changed
my life. I was really bummed out by the changes that occurred in '93,
and was relieved that the old KCOU rose like a phoenix from those horrid
ashes. Here's to music that doesn't suck... |
|
Chicago,
IL |
1995-2000 |
DJ,
Promotions Director |
Abstract
Science |
Moved
to Chicago and immediately began hosting Abstract Science on WLUW-88.7FM
(wluw.org) with KCOU alum Luke
Stokes (Seriously, didn't miss a friggin' week). Still going strong Thursday
nights 10pm-2am. Just finishing 2 year club residency at Smartbar/Metro.
Rocked Club Bogaloo, in Pfarrkirchen, Germany last May. Managing staff
of student graphic designers for Northwestern University newspaper is
my day job. |
|
Boulder,
CO |
1988-1996 |
DJ |
The
Saturday Morning Ambient Show |
I
moved to Boulder, CO in 1997 to run web operations for Boulder's newspaper,
the Daily Camera. I bounced around at a couple of dot-coms and now have
my own software development consulting company. Along the way my wife
Melissa (who I met at MU) and I bought a home in the mountains and had
a wonderful son, Jalen, and 2 chocolate labs. In my spare time I compose
techno and IDM in my home studio and continue to trainspot small-label
electronic music. I still occasionally DJ at renegade outdoor raves and
can't get enough of Tortoise, Boards of Canada or Atom Heart. |
|
San
Francisco, CA |
1992-1994 |
DJ,
Music Director, Program Director |
Top
30/New Music Thingy, and Banana Republic (during the awful Cliff Steele
weeks) |
I
fled Columbia and MU for San Francisco to get away from Missouri weather
in 1997 with my boyfriend Devin. We've been together for four years, maybe
we'll get married someday. I've been doing web development & programming
at egreetings.com
for two years, but they're going under so I've moved on to do programming
at shockwave.com.
I spend most of my free time still going to shows and collecting music,
and sometimes even playing it. |
|
St.
Peters, MO |
1994-1996 |
DJ |
No |
Currently
I'm an elementary school art teacher |
|
New
York, NY |
1991-1993 |
DJ |
Alternative
Bandstand (dance music), Liquid Radio with my fellow DJ Robi |
I
currently work for the Germans at BMG (for RCA Records, licensing) meaning
I am in some way partially responsible for Christina Aguilera (sorry),
screenwriter (my new screenplay is currently making its way around the
bloody circuit), freelance film and theater reviewer (for HX, Entertainment
Weekly, broadway.com, and Oxygen network), still deejay (under the name
Johnny Bubbles) in Brooklyn. Despite the years of abuse from all the grunge
deejays who called my underground dance music shifts "faggy"
and "stupid" -- ha ha ha, where is your Nirvana to save you
now, you fools?! -- I look back on my KCOU experiences with great fondness
(up until that nasty The Edge business). I am proud to be the man who
brought drum-and-bass to the Columbia airwaves (even if I had no idea
what I was unleashing). Robi where the hell are you? |
|
St.
Charles, MO |
1974-1977 |
DJ,
Production Director, Assistant Engineer |
No |
I
was part of the team that got the "new" Wilkinson FM-250 transmitter
on the air after weeks of sleepless nights. We should have known that
there would be a problem when we saw the serial number..."0013"!!
Wonder if you're still using the Gates FM-22 antenna on top of Hudson
Hall? I am married and have four children..ages ranging from 9 to 18.
I work as the Emergency Management Director for St. Charles County Missouri.
Oh yes, if this is of any distinction, I was the one who finally ripped
all of the old KCCS carrier current stuff out of the residence halls.
Oh what a legend KCCS was!!!! Would like to say "hey" to all
of the old staffers from the mid 70's, including Mark Shevitz, Jeff Freund,
Harold Geiger (KTVI Ch. 2), Brian Jenkins, ex CNN, and the hundreds of
past staffers who have gone on to fame...... If any of you all see this
posting, drop me a line. Long Live KCOU...Close to the Edge Radio!!! |
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