goodbye whfs
Jan. 12th, 2005 11:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
evergleamLadies and Gentlemen, I come before you tonight to pay my respects to a very dear old friend of mine. It's always hard when a loved one is taken from you suddenly, without reason or warning, and now is no exception.
I've known 99.1 WHFS personally for over ten years now. WHFS has been there for me when few others could be. I spent my formative years listening while grumbling over the chores I had to do outside, like washing my stepfather's car or raking leaves in the front yard. I spent nights in my room during high school listening to shows like the HFS 4 Most Wanted and Loveline when I was supposed to be doing homework or sleeping. When I no longer had to ride the awful bus to school, my morning drive was accompanied by Gina Crash and her various cohorts on the morning show.
WHFS was also responsible for my initiation into concert-going. The first concert I ever attended was the HFStival in 2000. I remember the excitement and anticipation leading up to the event, finally my friends and I had managed to procure tickets (the year before we'd tried and only succeeded in waking up at 5am and waiting outside of the mall for hours to find out they were sold out before we'd even moved up very far in line), and some of our favorite bands-of-the-moment were playing. The festival was awesome, even if it did rain and Janet and I spent most of the day looking for Matt and Megan, soaked to the bone and chattering. The 2001 Festival was even more fun, more of my favorite bands-of-the-moment, and an awesome last minute set with Green Day.
99.1 was the soundtrack to high school, nights with four people crammed into a smallish mini-van, or fast car rides up and down the streets of Suburbia. WHFS was my companion on countless hour and a half trips to and from Frederick for years. And yet, in recent years, we'd drifted. My own disdain for popular radio has grown, and so I've listened less and less. Sure, there were the occasional Sunday night drives from home back to school, listening to the last show of the night and then Adam and Dr. Drew on Loveline. But our old relationship was gone, and that makes it even sadder that it is never to be again.
So, here's to Gina and Tim Virgin and Mattie and all the other DJs who made the last ten years fun. Here's to Hittin' the F'in' Streets, to the Most Wanted, the Nineties Nooner and Rock of the Nineties Weekends, and the forever beloved HFStival.
I'll miss you.
P.S. I'll even try to restrain myself from mentioning that this might be what you get for helping to launch a certain crappy punk band from Waldorf's career.
I've known 99.1 WHFS personally for over ten years now. WHFS has been there for me when few others could be. I spent my formative years listening while grumbling over the chores I had to do outside, like washing my stepfather's car or raking leaves in the front yard. I spent nights in my room during high school listening to shows like the HFS 4 Most Wanted and Loveline when I was supposed to be doing homework or sleeping. When I no longer had to ride the awful bus to school, my morning drive was accompanied by Gina Crash and her various cohorts on the morning show.
WHFS was also responsible for my initiation into concert-going. The first concert I ever attended was the HFStival in 2000. I remember the excitement and anticipation leading up to the event, finally my friends and I had managed to procure tickets (the year before we'd tried and only succeeded in waking up at 5am and waiting outside of the mall for hours to find out they were sold out before we'd even moved up very far in line), and some of our favorite bands-of-the-moment were playing. The festival was awesome, even if it did rain and Janet and I spent most of the day looking for Matt and Megan, soaked to the bone and chattering. The 2001 Festival was even more fun, more of my favorite bands-of-the-moment, and an awesome last minute set with Green Day.
99.1 was the soundtrack to high school, nights with four people crammed into a smallish mini-van, or fast car rides up and down the streets of Suburbia. WHFS was my companion on countless hour and a half trips to and from Frederick for years. And yet, in recent years, we'd drifted. My own disdain for popular radio has grown, and so I've listened less and less. Sure, there were the occasional Sunday night drives from home back to school, listening to the last show of the night and then Adam and Dr. Drew on Loveline. But our old relationship was gone, and that makes it even sadder that it is never to be again.
So, here's to Gina and Tim Virgin and Mattie and all the other DJs who made the last ten years fun. Here's to Hittin' the F'in' Streets, to the Most Wanted, the Nineties Nooner and Rock of the Nineties Weekends, and the forever beloved HFStival.
I'll miss you.
P.S. I'll even try to restrain myself from mentioning that this might be what you get for helping to launch a certain crappy punk band from Waldorf's career.
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Date: 2005-01-12 11:13 pm (UTC)*Pours a 40 on the streets*
And which crappy band from Waldorf would that be? :O
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Date: 2005-01-12 11:50 pm (UTC)I talked to Bob Waugh once on the phone. He told me the name of some Smashing Pumpkins song I didn't know, and there after always played exactly what I wanted to hear. He and I had a telepathic link, I think. ;)
And the crappy Waldorf band I'm referring to is, of course, Good Charlotte. :)
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Date: 2005-01-14 12:01 am (UTC)I remember Bob Waugh! And Johnny...shit, what was his last name? The afternoon guy who left/got fired and the rumor was that it was over child porn.
O snap, they're from Waldorf? Ew. I probably heard that before but forgot. At any rate, ew.
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Date: 2005-01-14 01:41 pm (UTC)Bob Waugh was awesome, and I loved Johnny Riggs, except for the whole child porn allegations things. That was less cool. :P
Ew. Indeed. They even have a song named after us called Waldorf Worldwide. Good times. :P