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Jane Says...(continued from page 5)
records that were really good, that will fit around a Bruce Springsteen, around a Lucinda Williams. I mean, it's...good music.
J.T.: Yeah, they [BJB] have a nice selection, like, you might have heard some quirky song on HTG but you would hear it twenty times...in the space of two days...
S.S.: But, hearing it now, I mean, great songs will survive that if they were not played 20 million times...
J.T.: To me they throw in more variety, so that even though you
hear that quirky little song that's maybe not the hit from the cd, you'll hear it three times a week instead of twenty.
S.S.: Yeah, umhm. Radio, for me...I need a great radio station to help my
business, that's what it all comes down to.
J.T.: Yeah?
S.S.: I need that awareness of new bands.
J.T.: And they play a lot of local bands, which is good for
you, right?
S.S.: Well, there's not enough. The local bands gotta work harder at the radio station to do it, then...then it's two-fold, the record's gotta sound good, there's gotta be that one
great song, but, you know, you can't fault radio for the local scene. It has to be someone motivating the programer to play their music but there's so much out there.
J.T.: It's confusing?
S.S.: Yeah, it's confusing, the local bands get frustrated and just give up, which is not...you gotta be consistent with everything.
J.T.: To me, it has a lot to do with them
lowering the amount of alcohol content in the blood that makes you legally drunk...
S.S.: Oh, you're moving on to liquor now. I, um...
J.T.: [semi-hysterically] Well, I think that it makes such a big difference!..
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S.S.: Oh, I thought we were talking about bands getting played on the radio...
J.T.: Well, we're on the general theme of why people aren't more enthusiastic about coming out
to hear music as they used to be...kinda, maybe I have that on my brain...
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