I would love to have my old radio recordings. A local college station had a metal show on Saturday nights. I won tickets from them to see Overkill, Motorhead and Slayer. Killer show.
I'm going to see Motley Crue's final tour in Toronto Aug 22. This is would be my second time seeing them, and I'm going with my teenage best friend (we're both now in our 40's) There is nobody better to go with then a bestie who loved the Crue as much as we did, even though we couldn't go to every tour, we had all their albums and dressed up as two of them for halloween, how's that for devoution, two girls dressed up in Shout at the Devil gear!! Wish we had pics!! Just wanted to tell you a little metal memory of my own! ROCK ON PAUL!
Val Hie I wanted to go see them last year but I didn't have enough money. Wow, I wish you had pics, also! Thanks for sharing! A few years ago my band and I performed the whole TOO FAST FOR LOVE album live, dressed as Motley Crue. Here's some footage and I admit I couldn't quite hit all those notes! ua-cam.com/video/CHLH7sbLFw4/v-deo.html
Val Hie I have not uploaded the rest, I don't feel like we did a good enough job on the tribute! If you want to pick another song from "Too Fast For Love", I will try to upload it for you to watch!
Not really. I was introduced to that radio station by a metal head at the local rollar skating rink tho. That introduction to real metal has always been a land mark for the door to metal being opened to me. ..At that young point in my taste in metal music was Metallica (song- One), Sabbath/Solo Ozzy, the Cure, GNR,... Then tape trading happened, and in the very early 90's I was being exposed to headbanger's ball on mtv, local college radio, and becoming fixated on any new band that sounded good, was catchy, and something new that I hadn't heard before.
Chris DeCarlo is an old friend of mine. She interviewed my band 313 back in '86 in that very studio. If you remember the Popeye ads for the station that was me.
If I would've know about Chris DeCarlo, I would've picked HER over Michelle Michaels any day of the week. Heck, I'll bet if she was the news woman at B-94 instead of Liz Randolph, Quinn & Banana would still be on the air.
I remember being obsessed with Guns n' Roses well known tune Sweet Child of Mine. I would sit by the stereo with my fingers on the record/play button to capture it just right (including other songs). My grandparents were watching me one day and I was playing outside by the electrical box ( which Grandma hated) and this dude zoomed down the street in a Camero with my song blaring! I sprinted inside to try and capture the song on tape, even if it was disjointed (prepared at all times). I had no idea if he was playing a CD or the known rock station. Unfortunately, I didn't capture, but did eventually ( I do realise Gun N' Roses isn't necessarily heavy metal, but this video sparked the memory)! Either way, I miss the 80's (born in '81). Love your videos. Your work means a lot! Keep it up
I never knew that Pittsburgh had an all-heavy metal radio station. That was a fantastic story. (Also ... Chris DeCarlo, in my opinion, is a fantastic disc jockey here in Pittsburgh!)
Oh man, I'm so glad I stumbled onto your channel Weird Paul and I love this video. I had totally forgotten about Vicious Rumors... just added 'Premonition/Ride Into the Sun to the METAL SHOP ROCKS playlist. Thanks!
This was a great video, Paul. You sure are good at documenting your life. I'm impressed that you could name 13 songs in a row, but even more impressed that you logged all 500 songs! Kudos to you, sir! Great video. We had a metal station in Milwaukee back in the mid-eighties to early 90's that I listened to almost every day. One day on a weekend I woke up to put the station on, and there was a Jazz station playing elevator music. I called the station (I often made requests) and a guy answered. I asked what happened to the music? He said there was a new owner and format, and he asked if I liked it. I sadly told him I want my metal :(
You're welcome! I am hoping someday to have hundreds and hundreds of things, just like this list of 500 songs, scanned and available to view online. All I need is another 24 hours in every day to get more done!
Chris DeCarlo used to work at WDVE. She left the station around the time WDVE stopped playing hard rock and heavy metal. It was a great in your face move but unfortunately it did not last. DVE used to pride itself in the Rolling Stone readers poll as the #2 rock station in the country. Some lame program director removed hard rock and metal to lure more advertisers which in turn hurt the station. I remember seeing Chris at the metal concerts at the Pitt arena during the DVE era. WOW, thanks for the memories. GOOD JOB. I remember the Popeye promo for the station.
DVE is A joke now. It's nothing more than A safe, corporate cog for the Clear Channel machine, and only caters to the ignorant 'yinzers' who worship the sports teams, and pride themselves of the Pittsburgh slang.
@@Launchpad05 True. WDVE was so good in the early 80s. In early/mid 1984 they changed and even fired Jimmy and Steve the next year which they kept under wraps. They claimed they got a job offer at another station. I saw an interview with Steve on youtube and he said they were fired because the station wanted to lure yuppies. I loved Linda, Hershel, Ron Nennie, and Chris DeCarlo in the prime WDVE days. I cant believe Michelle Michaels is still there. I remember her first night on the radio when she was introduced.
I fell in love with heavy metal when I came across Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force playing I Am a Viking on this radio station all those years ago and I've never looked back!
I've never heard of this K-Rock station before. I do remember B-94 adopting the K-Rock name after it died before temporarily coming back. After doing some research, I learned that the K-Rock station you're talking about was actually A station I discovered in the mid 90's called Classic Hits Z-107 FM. One of the DJs who worked there was Jim DeCeaser. Former DJ for WYDD, and the host of the long running show, 'Jazz Impressions'. This station also switched places with WAMO, and WXDX. The station is now WHJB. A classic hits radio station.
Hey Paul! Did they have Metal Shop on the radio when you were a kid? It was a radio show on Friday or Saturday nights. The show intro said: "are mom and dad tucked away for the night? Cuz it's time for metal shop the only show with teeth!" And then the sound of an electric saw. They used to have cheesy radio bumpers of famous musicians effort he commercials like "this bill Ward formerly of Black sabbath, we'll be back with more metal shop right after this."
awesomefanger lol @ Bill Ward! We did have the Metal Shop here in the earlier 80s, it was on the classic rock station - which I assume was the kind of stations it was usually syndicated on.
Cool video! Heavy Metal is my favourite music \../ I do love lots of other music of course. Sad it was so hard to come by back in your day. I had MTV and Aussie Heavy shift to give me my fix on tv Than i bought cds and shared with friends. never really listen to radio. Now we have Spotify and all those streaming radio stations that cater to type of music. UA-cam i use a lot for new music. I remember when i was getting into Heavy Metal? when i was around 20. Dimebag Darrell was on the Heavy Shift and he put hes favourites on. 1st song was Painkiller by Judas Priest! Blew my mind. Once i showed my friends,we all went and bought entire Priest collection. we where hooked! Priest is my 2nd favourite band of all time!
About 10 years ago, we got 93.7 KROCK in Pittsburgh, but it didn't last too long either. I remember they sponsored a Megadeth concert at Station Square, and when I got down there, most of the tickets were free? Still, it was nice to hear stuff like Lamb of God and Slayer on the radio for a bit before it went back to B94 and then to sports talk radio
I used to record metal music off the Mexican radio station, Radio Sonora. I grew up in the dung heap border town, Douglas AZ. Friday night there was a show called Rock Sin Fronteras (Rock Without Borders). But my favorite show was Thursday night's Alto Voltaje (High Voltage). Alto Voltaje was the truer metal show and played a lot of brutal underground death metal and black metal music that the more mainstream Rock Sin Fronteras didn't touch. Alto Voltaje was awesome!
It's kind of amazing that someone would front the money to set up a station without having the ad buys necessary to keep the station going for more than a few months. Makes it seem like someone did on a whim (or maybe just for the love of METAL \m/)
In northeastern PA we have ROCK 107. they play classic rock and some metal. its a really weird station though, because one time i heard Information Society- Running
Bob and I were in the same study hall for a year so that's when he made me the mixtapes. After that, we weren't in any of the same classes, so we didn't talk too much. I think I called him twice after we graduated high school and I haven't talked to him in almost 30 years. But I did talk to his brother on Facebook recently and he told me that Bob still lives in the same town where we grew up.
Cool vid, and it was longer than usual! It's a shame about KROCK only lasting for such a short period. Kudos to you for being the only one to keep track of the top 500 count down and getting acknowledgment for such an arduous engagement on the air!
Joshua Christian Thanks! I couldn't make it any shorter, there was nothing I could leave out! That was actually the first time I was ever called "Weird Paul" on the radio...the first of thousands of times, most likely!
I hope you read this, krock still exists, at least in Illinois I think, it may be in other states, but it still exists as wkqx 101.1 they only changed the name.
UNKNOWNGAM3r I remember watching Mtv in around 1988 and on their news they said there was a new K-ROCK heavy metal station in New York. I got excited because I thought maybe it would come back to Pittsburgh. But, it never did. :(
ORIGINAL VLOGGER 80'S WEIRD PAUL oh, you aren't missing much though, they only pay alternative now, because sadly, heavy metal isn't that popular here, but I always enjoy it! At least they used to play heavy metal.
My husband is a native New Yorker, and he used to listen to metal on WCWP, which is Long Island University's radio station. He told me how he used to call them up all the time to ask for information about songs he heard that weren't identified by the DJ. Then, he would take the train into the city to go buy the album. I grew up in a small community in Wisconsin. The only metal to be heard on the radio was at an ungodly hour on the college radio station. When I listened to that show, the content leaned more toward the extreme forms of metal, so I got my first exposures to bands like Cannibal Corpse and Deicide. In retrospect, I am amazed that we got any metal at all, because the most popular genre in this area is Country.
Yaoi Pervette People had to work hard to find metal on their radios. Country music is certainly a more popular genre. I'd rather bang my head than drive a pick-up.
here in chicago we had something called ZROC for a while. it was pretty rad like king diamond , slayer , and raven even . . . i taped " mind over metal? on zroc and cherished that tape till i found the album which wasnt easy at the time ... Zrock was straight up , it wasnt so much ratt or poison. rock on wierd paul !! love your channel its legit and sentimental at the same time , not wierd at all . the fact is you lived a charmed life - you were born at the exact moment which was perfect for your weird ass .
I think our heads would have exploded Scanners style if we had gotten an all heavy metal radio station in the mid-80's in Nashville, TN. 105.9 was virtually one in the late 70's, but changed format right when I really got into radio. 103.3 KDF was almost metal, but were perhaps even better in that you could hear Ozzy one minute and then Men At Work right after. Their AM sister station WKDA went all new wave briefly so there was some cross pollination happening. Sunday nights on KDF brought us m-m-m-m \m/etal shop which was always great. I've still got some of the bumper bits on cassette tape. I lived way out of town so I could only pick up the bigger radio stations, but a friend lived closer in and he could pick up a junior college's radio station which had a metal show. This friend would tape the show and let me borrow it. It's where I first heard Dokken's "Paris Is Burning" which really blew my mind at the time. KDF later changed to all country also. Love your videos Weird Paul.
Good stuff. I was a total metal kid & started going to gigs at about 11. No shit. Good times. I seen Motorhead about that time & Nuclear Assault was another of my first ones. Cheers big ears. ;) Stayweird man.
Loved that station, problem is, it was in Greensburg, the signal was week, the ownership wasn't promoting it and very little in add revenues. Nice to hear Chris' aircheck from there.
Hello, Weird Paul. Have you seen that movie from the 80's called "Trick Or Treat"? It's the Halloween one about the heavy metal "headbanger" kid who get's bullied in high school. It's got Gene Simmons and Ozzy in it. There's also a radio station and some fake heavy metal rock star guy in it. He does a 720 off part of the stage at one part. What was your favorite heavy metal song from back then?
Rusty Nickels My favorite metal song then was probably "Crazy Train" by Ozzy Osbourne or "Rainbow in the Dark" by Dio. I haven't seen that movie, I have never come across a copy of it in "the wild". But I see it's on UA-cam, so maybe I will watch it this Halloween season!
ORIGINAL VLOGGER 80'S WEIRD PAUL Ah, yes. I know those songs. I was a fetus back then. If only I could've lived through the glorious 80's and remembered it. You've lived the dream! Also, that movie is a great 80's throwback now. Have a great day, Paul!
Hi Paul, could you please post The 500 Songs List? Even if it is put in pieces in the comments section, or, post another vlog with-- "The 500 List:" you could just film it, and we could review it on pauses from our smartphones. I'm sure it would be awesome for us who didn't get to write them all down (at all). Thank You Paul
Q105 was it here, but not really hard rock, but in California near SF I listened hard rock back in 83. YES Owner of a lonely heart. Hard rock? I guess Krock was a crock. Paul -80's mentor
Henry S I'm not sure what was up with the Bob Seger, Tom Petty, etc that they played. There must be some reason they played it, but I'm not sure it was a good one.
Not into heavy metal or rock but was still an interesting vid :) I'd also heard of that DJ recently relating to another story but can't remember what that was about.
Steven Whiting I try to always be interesting, there's no need to tell a story otherwise. Even though all my stories are about different things, they all have one thing in common - they're my memories.
Around 1989 or maybe 1990, there was a power surge on our street. It ruined a lot of electronic stuff (VCRs, TVs) that were plugged in all over the houses nearby. Unfortunately, that boom box was one of the things that got fried. The electric company had to pay us (and everyone else) for all the stuff that got ruined.
I saw Pantera on the list...were they actually playing their 80s glam era songs before they got big in 1990? I didn't think they were even known outside of Texas at that time
It always sucks to hear that a good rock station gets switched to country.. I have heard of this with my own ears in my life.. Rock stations going country..
This just recently happened to me. I found an awesome radio station. Woke up, got in my car and it was country. They said country had more of an audience than alternative. Sell outs!
That was a super-awesome story. I guess here in L.A. we were spoilt with radio stations. But I wonder why no advertisers? I have heard western Pennsylvania is more conservative to this day, so maybe that was it.
In sacramento california we had a similar short lived radio station. 97 KROY for all of about the summer of 1984 it was a Heavy Metal station. They played Motley Crüe, KISS, def leppard, Ozzy Osbourne, Quiet Riot, Ratt, etc. I actually requested "round and round" by RATT on their request line when I was six years old. Since it was the summer time my brother and I were allowed to stay up later and listen to the radio until 10pm. After that We would turn it way down and put a black t shirt over my brothers stereo cabinet so if my parents peeked into the room it would look like the stereo was off. One night they played " I love rock and roll" by Joan Jett and then a clock striking midnight. Then the station went off the air.
You’re video are more than just memories, man. You have an archive. A glimpse into an American life that no longer exist. This stuff is priceless.
Thank you. You truly understand what I am trying to achieve.
I would love to have my old radio recordings. A local college station had a metal show on Saturday nights. I won tickets from them to see Overkill, Motorhead and Slayer. Killer show.
I'm going to see Motley Crue's final tour in Toronto Aug 22. This is would be my second time seeing them, and I'm going with my teenage best friend (we're both now in our 40's) There is nobody better to go with then a bestie who loved the Crue as much as we did, even though we couldn't go to every tour, we had all their albums and dressed up as two of them for halloween, how's that for devoution, two girls dressed up in Shout at the Devil gear!! Wish we had pics!! Just wanted to tell you a little metal memory of my own! ROCK ON PAUL!
Val Hie I wanted to go see them last year but I didn't have enough money. Wow, I wish you had pics, also! Thanks for sharing! A few years ago my band and I performed the whole TOO FAST FOR LOVE album live, dressed as Motley Crue. Here's some footage and I admit I couldn't quite hit all those notes! ua-cam.com/video/CHLH7sbLFw4/v-deo.html
omg that was a blast! I wish it would have kept rolling for the next song where's the rest of the video?
Val Hie I have not uploaded the rest, I don't feel like we did a good enough job on the tribute! If you want to pick another song from "Too Fast For Love", I will try to upload it for you to watch!
Your mom's expression while you sang to her was priceless.
SouthRd83 haha, yes all she wanted to do was get those Pudding Pockets made!
Back in 1988-90, I was listening to ZROCK on AM in the southern most part of the state of Maine. Was 8-10 years old at the time.
andrew vincent That's awesome. Do you remember any songs in particular you used to hear then?
Not really. I was introduced to that radio station by a metal head at the local rollar skating rink tho. That introduction to real metal has always been a land mark for the door to metal being opened to me.
..At that young point in my taste in metal music was Metallica (song- One), Sabbath/Solo Ozzy, the Cure, GNR,...
Then tape trading happened, and in the very early 90's I was being exposed to headbanger's ball on mtv, local college radio, and becoming fixated on any new band that sounded good, was catchy, and something new that I hadn't heard before.
andrew vincent oh yes, headbanger's ball - watched that every week!
I did not mean the cure. Don't know how that typing error ended up there, other than auto-fill..
Chris DeCarlo is an old friend of mine. She interviewed my band 313 back in '86 in that very studio. If you remember the Popeye ads for the station that was me.
So great talking to you here. I still love 313. I'M ROBBING THE CRADLE!
@@weirdpaulp Divebomb records released our two albums combined into one in 2019.
@@workablob Oh that's awesome news!
@@weirdpaulp I really should have used a pick on that song. Almost too fast for me to play with fingers.
If I would've know about Chris DeCarlo, I would've picked HER over Michelle Michaels any day of the week. Heck, I'll bet if she was the news woman at B-94 instead of Liz Randolph, Quinn & Banana would still be on the air.
I remember being obsessed with Guns n' Roses well known tune Sweet Child of Mine. I would sit by the stereo with my fingers on the record/play button to capture it just right (including other songs). My grandparents were watching me one day and I was playing outside by the electrical box ( which Grandma hated) and this dude zoomed down the street in a Camero with my song blaring! I sprinted inside to try and capture the song on tape, even if it was disjointed (prepared at all times). I had no idea if he was playing a CD or the known rock station. Unfortunately, I didn't capture, but did eventually ( I do realise Gun N' Roses isn't necessarily heavy metal, but this video sparked the memory)! Either way, I miss the 80's (born in '81). Love your videos. Your work means a lot! Keep it up
I never knew that Pittsburgh had an all-heavy metal radio station. That was a fantastic story.
(Also ... Chris DeCarlo, in my opinion, is a fantastic disc jockey here in Pittsburgh!)
Joseph Pratt I believe that Chris now runs her own business that produces advertisements for radio.
You're correct. She was also a disc jockey at Y108, the country music station, for years.
Oh man, I'm so glad I stumbled onto your channel Weird Paul and I love this video. I had totally forgotten about Vicious Rumors... just added 'Premonition/Ride Into the Sun to the METAL SHOP ROCKS playlist. Thanks!
+metalshoprocks Nice! Sometimes the more obscure stuff is the best!!
This was a great video, Paul. You sure are good at documenting your life. I'm impressed that you could name 13 songs in a row, but even more impressed that you logged all 500 songs! Kudos to you, sir! Great video.
We had a metal station in Milwaukee back in the mid-eighties to early 90's that I listened to almost every day. One day on a weekend I woke up to put the station on, and there was a Jazz station playing elevator music. I called the station (I often made requests) and a guy answered. I asked what happened to the music? He said there was a new owner and format, and he asked if I liked it. I sadly told him I want my metal :(
Todd E Walnuts Glad you enjoyed it! Another sad story about a metal station...seems like I'm hearing a similar story about different stations.
That suuuuuuucks
@@weirdpaulp I remember when WRRK was A metal station called '97 Rock'. (Let The Big Dogs Eat!)
I would love to see the list of the 500 songs ?? :} Such great stuff. You give me my 80's fix back ! Can't thank you enough.
You're welcome! I am hoping someday to have hundreds and hundreds of things, just like this list of 500 songs, scanned and available to view online. All I need is another 24 hours in every day to get more done!
This may be the fuckin' coolest UA-cam channel ever!! I grew up in the 80's and love your stuff.
+snakehips3131 Thank you! I appreciate you watching!
Chris DeCarlo used to work at WDVE. She left the station around the time WDVE stopped playing hard rock and heavy metal. It was a great in your face move but unfortunately it did not last. DVE used to pride itself in the Rolling Stone readers poll as the #2 rock station in the country. Some lame program director removed hard rock and metal to lure more advertisers which in turn hurt the station. I remember seeing Chris at the metal concerts at the Pitt arena during the DVE era. WOW, thanks for the memories. GOOD JOB. I remember the Popeye promo for the station.
I'm so glad she did it - it had a HUGE impact on me
DVE is A joke now. It's nothing more than A safe, corporate cog for the Clear Channel machine, and only caters to the ignorant 'yinzers' who worship the sports teams, and pride themselves of the Pittsburgh slang.
@@Launchpad05 True. WDVE was so good in the early 80s. In early/mid 1984 they changed and even fired Jimmy and Steve the next year which they kept under wraps. They claimed they got a job offer at another station. I saw an interview with Steve on youtube and he said they were fired because the station wanted to lure yuppies. I loved Linda, Hershel, Ron Nennie, and Chris DeCarlo in the prime WDVE days. I cant believe Michelle Michaels is still there. I remember her first night on the radio when she was introduced.
@@Wild1995 Yuppies ruin everything.
I fell in love with heavy metal when I came across Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force playing I Am a Viking on this radio station all those years ago and I've never looked back!
Thank rocks, Rick! \m/
I've never heard of this K-Rock station before. I do remember B-94 adopting the K-Rock name after it died before temporarily coming back. After doing some research, I learned that the K-Rock station you're talking about was actually A station I discovered in the mid 90's called Classic Hits Z-107 FM. One of the DJs who worked there was Jim DeCeaser. Former DJ for WYDD, and the host of the long running show, 'Jazz Impressions'. This station also switched places with WAMO, and WXDX. The station is now WHJB. A classic hits radio station.
Great video Paul! Reminded me of myself as a metal kid in the 80’s.
I absolutely love this channel
Very nice video! A piece of 80s Pittsburgh Radio history. And you still got the audio tapes! Very hot 80s radio girl.
Helderhugo I am thrilled that I have those 7 minutes of tape!
Hey Paul! Did they have Metal Shop on the radio when you were a kid?
It was a radio show on Friday or Saturday nights.
The show intro said: "are mom and dad tucked away for the night? Cuz it's time for metal shop the only show with teeth!"
And then the sound of an electric saw.
They used to have cheesy radio bumpers of famous musicians effort he commercials like "this bill Ward formerly of Black sabbath, we'll be back with more metal shop right after this."
awesomefanger lol @ Bill Ward! We did have the Metal Shop here in the earlier 80s, it was on the classic rock station - which I assume was the kind of stations it was usually syndicated on.
Cool video! Heavy Metal is my favourite music \../
I do love lots of other music of course.
Sad it was so hard to come by back in your day.
I had MTV and Aussie Heavy shift to give me my fix on tv
Than i bought cds and shared with friends. never really listen to radio.
Now we have Spotify and all those streaming radio stations that cater to type of music. UA-cam i use a lot for new music.
I remember when i was getting into Heavy Metal? when i was around 20. Dimebag Darrell was on the Heavy Shift and he put hes favourites on. 1st song was Painkiller by Judas Priest! Blew my mind. Once i showed my friends,we all went and bought entire Priest collection. we where hooked! Priest is my 2nd favourite band of all time!
I also use UA-cam to find new music. I am so happy that I got to see Priest live. They were so awesome!
About 10 years ago, we got 93.7 KROCK in Pittsburgh, but it didn't last too long either. I remember they sponsored a Megadeth concert at Station Square, and when I got down there, most of the tickets were free? Still, it was nice to hear stuff like Lamb of God and Slayer on the radio for a bit before it went back to B94 and then to sports talk radio
EEGAH316 Wow, I didn't even know that B94 had changed into that. I guess it REALLY must not have lasted long!
Dude you could have a career in radio... quite the musical knowledge
I know what I know, if you know what I mean
lol
I used to record metal music off the Mexican radio station, Radio Sonora. I grew up in the dung heap border town, Douglas AZ. Friday night there was a show called Rock Sin Fronteras (Rock Without Borders). But my favorite show was Thursday night's Alto Voltaje (High Voltage). Alto Voltaje was the truer metal show and played a lot of brutal underground death metal and black metal music that the more mainstream Rock Sin Fronteras didn't touch. Alto Voltaje was awesome!
It's kind of amazing that someone would front the money to set up a station without having the ad buys necessary to keep the station going for more than a few months. Makes it seem like someone did on a whim (or maybe just for the love of METAL \m/)
LegionsOfAnon Chris really was a true metal fan. I am really glad she did it, even just for those few months.
Or maybe they did it to gain the favors of a hot radio DJ who was also in Playboy...
awesomefanger *ding ding* I think we've found our answer.
Well that was quite entertaining! Thanks, weird Paul!!
Ms DeCarlo looks every bit the requisite Metal Minx circa '86. Oh man...Rough Cutt! Hahahah! Awesome.
MARSHOMEWORLD Good call, I should have known that you would be the one who knew what that song was!
In northeastern PA we have ROCK 107. they play classic rock and some metal. its a really weird station though, because one time i heard Information Society- Running
TheSpyt67 Wow, Information Society mixed in with the rock!
Yeah, i was extremely confused, but it is a groovy song!
Oh man I was 10 in 86 and we had 99.5 kiss fm and kcdc am. By 1989 got my awesome Washburn with a Floyd rose and still am a metal head to this day
+Bo88y Beretta Awesome! I still play this B.C. Warlock that I got in 1987: ua-cam.com/video/BR4q_MpHgNk/v-deo.html
Love the memories Paul!
Quick question paul,what ever happened to Bob and the mixtapes?just wondering,this is still one of my favorite videos of yours.can't wait for more!!!!
Bob and I were in the same study hall for a year so that's when he made me the mixtapes. After that, we weren't in any of the same classes, so we didn't talk too much. I think I called him twice after we graduated high school and I haven't talked to him in almost 30 years. But I did talk to his brother on Facebook recently and he told me that Bob still lives in the same town where we grew up.
Cool vid, and it was longer than usual! It's a shame about KROCK only lasting for such a short period. Kudos to you for being the only one to keep track of the top 500 count down and getting acknowledgment for such an arduous engagement on the air!
Joshua Christian Thanks! I couldn't make it any shorter, there was nothing I could leave out! That was actually the first time I was ever called "Weird Paul" on the radio...the first of thousands of times, most likely!
Yo weird Paul! Good video this week I hope for more😀
jake ahearn Thanks! I just filmed the next one today!
Loved krock 107
Best rock station ever! 🤘🏻🤘🏻
Excellent memories, enjoyed that one. The DJ was pretty hot.
Jag Betty Glad you enjoyed it! Some of the videos I make are more special to me, this is definitely one of them.
I hope you read this, krock still exists, at least in Illinois I think, it may be in other states, but it still exists as wkqx 101.1 they only changed the name.
UNKNOWNGAM3r I remember watching Mtv in around 1988 and on their news they said there was a new K-ROCK heavy metal station in New York. I got excited because I thought maybe it would come back to Pittsburgh. But, it never did. :(
ORIGINAL VLOGGER 80'S WEIRD PAUL oh, you aren't missing much though, they only pay alternative now, because sadly, heavy metal isn't that popular here, but I always enjoy it! At least they used to play heavy metal.
My husband is a native New Yorker, and he used to listen to metal on WCWP, which is Long Island University's radio station. He told me how he used to call them up all the time to ask for information about songs he heard that weren't identified by the DJ. Then, he would take the train into the city to go buy the album.
I grew up in a small community in Wisconsin. The only metal to be heard on the radio was at an ungodly hour on the college radio station. When I listened to that show, the content leaned more toward the extreme forms of metal, so I got my first exposures to bands like Cannibal Corpse and Deicide. In retrospect, I am amazed that we got any metal at all, because the most popular genre in this area is Country.
Yaoi Pervette People had to work hard to find metal on their radios. Country music is certainly a more popular genre. I'd rather bang my head than drive a pick-up.
People seem to love country music around here. That explains why Froggy, Y108, and Big 104 are still around.
You had the boom box with the TV in it? Fancy!
Yeah we were living it up back then!
here in chicago we had something called ZROC for a while. it was pretty rad like king diamond , slayer , and raven even . . . i taped " mind over metal? on zroc and cherished that tape till i found the album which wasnt easy at the time ... Zrock was straight up , it wasnt so much ratt or poison. rock on wierd paul !! love your channel its legit and sentimental at the same time , not wierd at all . the fact is you lived a charmed life - you were born at the exact moment which was perfect for your weird ass .
Awesome Paul \m/
+elevatorsfan Thank you!
I think our heads would have exploded Scanners style if we had gotten an all heavy metal radio station in the mid-80's in Nashville, TN. 105.9 was virtually one in the late 70's, but changed format right when I really got into radio. 103.3 KDF was almost metal, but were perhaps even better in that you could hear Ozzy one minute and then Men At Work right after. Their AM sister station WKDA went all new wave briefly so there was some cross pollination happening. Sunday nights on KDF brought us m-m-m-m \m/etal shop which was always great. I've still got some of the bumper bits on cassette tape. I lived way out of town so I could only pick up the bigger radio stations, but a friend lived closer in and he could pick up a junior college's radio station which had a metal show. This friend would tape the show and let me borrow it. It's where I first heard Dokken's "Paris Is Burning" which really blew my mind at the time. KDF later changed to all country also. Love your videos Weird Paul.
An all NEW WAVE station? Wow, that sounds amazing! Thanks for watching!
Good stuff. I was a total metal kid & started going to gigs at about 11. No shit. Good times. I seen Motorhead about that time & Nuclear Assault was another of my first ones. Cheers big ears. ;) Stayweird man.
At age 11 - wow! That's incredible! I am glad I finally got to see Motorhead a few years back, before Lemmy left us.
Loved that station, problem is, it was in Greensburg, the signal was week, the ownership wasn't promoting it and very little in add revenues. Nice to hear Chris' aircheck from there.
I really got used to listening to it, I was crushed when it was gone.
Hello, Weird Paul. Have you seen that movie from the 80's called "Trick Or Treat"? It's the Halloween one about the heavy metal "headbanger" kid who get's bullied in high school. It's got Gene Simmons and Ozzy in it. There's also a radio station and some fake heavy metal rock star guy in it. He does a 720 off part of the stage at one part. What was your favorite heavy metal song from back then?
Rusty Nickels My favorite metal song then was probably "Crazy Train" by Ozzy Osbourne or "Rainbow in the Dark" by Dio. I haven't seen that movie, I have never come across a copy of it in "the wild". But I see it's on UA-cam, so maybe I will watch it this Halloween season!
ORIGINAL VLOGGER 80'S WEIRD PAUL Ah, yes. I know those songs. I was a fetus back then. If only I could've lived through the glorious 80's and remembered it. You've lived the dream! Also, that movie is a great 80's throwback now. Have a great day, Paul!
Thanks! You, too!
Hi Paul, could you please post The 500 Songs List? Even if it is put in pieces in the comments section, or, post another vlog with-- "The 500 List:" you could just film it, and we could review it on pauses from our smartphones. I'm sure it would be awesome for us who didn't get to write them all down (at all). Thank You Paul
Q105 was it here, but not really hard rock, but in California near SF I listened hard rock back in 83. YES Owner of a lonely heart. Hard rock? I guess Krock was a crock. Paul -80's mentor
Henry S I'm not sure what was up with the Bob Seger, Tom Petty, etc that they played. There must be some reason they played it, but I'm not sure it was a good one.
i noticed on your list was iron maiden flight of icarus....great taste in music
Thanks Jeff! Sure do love me some Maiden!
ua-cam.com/video/plzLzPUHHfQ/v-deo.html
hey paul i actually found some images of the same boombox on google, it's an Emerson XLR-450
Hey Paul, would you happen to remember an 80's heavy metal band called Dokken? They made awesome songs like "Into the Fire".
+Setsuko Momoka I do remember Dokken. In fact, I made my own homemade video for "Into the Fire"! I'll try to upload it sometime!
Oh you did? That's awesome! I'll be looking forward to seeing it if you can get it uploaded!
+ORIGINAL VLOGGER 80'S WEIRD PAUL I wanna see the 'Flyswatter' video.
My favourite Dokken song has gotta be Lightning Strikes Again!
We still have a K-ROCK in Syracuse 100.9 and 106.5 FM
In St. Louis we have KSHE 95 Classic Rock Radio
+Gary Chapman That rocks!
Hi ho, Sweetmeat!
In Metropolis, Illinois, we have 106.7 WZZL, and 98.3 WJLI.
Not into heavy metal or rock but was still an interesting vid
:) I'd also heard of that DJ recently relating to another story but can't remember what that was about.
Steven Whiting I try to always be interesting, there's no need to tell a story otherwise. Even though all my stories are about different things, they all have one thing in common - they're my memories.
PS...Weird Paul is definitely my metal mentor
Hi Paul is your portable boom box am fm radio and black and white tv still around in our house? I saw a lot of them on google
Around 1989 or maybe 1990, there was a power surge on our street. It ruined a lot of electronic stuff (VCRs, TVs) that were plugged in all over the houses nearby. Unfortunately, that boom box was one of the things that got fried. The electric company had to pay us (and everyone else) for all the stuff that got ruined.
cool video! all 500 songs?
+michael castro Yep! All 500!
Rawr!
I saw Pantera on the list...were they actually playing their 80s glam era songs before they got big in 1990? I didn't think they were even known outside of Texas at that time
It always sucks to hear that a good rock station gets switched to country.. I have heard of this with my own ears in my life.. Rock stations going country..
Christopher Sanchez It happens. Country stations are very popular.
rock and roll
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cool i live quite close to pittsburgh
This just recently happened to me. I found an awesome radio station. Woke up, got in my car and it was country. They said country had more of an audience than alternative. Sell outs!
yost112ty This sort of thing is still happening? Ugh.
Did you listen to Pantera in the 90s? Albums like Vulgar Display of Power, CFH etc?
That was a super-awesome story. I guess here in L.A. we were spoilt with radio stations.
But I wonder why no advertisers? I have heard western Pennsylvania is more conservative to this day, so maybe that was it.
Vebinz Well we still don't have a heavy metal radio station...so I guess that says more than I can.
Do you remember the Satanic Panic during the 80’s?, cause the parents accused heavy metal music as being satanic
Did you ever get into The Germs back in the day?
Nope, I never did. They were not played on any radio stations that I knew of.
Seems like KNAC out here in LA was the only longest running successful Metal station of all time/
TimBurFilms I think LA is probably a good market for something like that.
KROCK didn't die , it just moved to Dayton, oh.
In sacramento california we had a similar short lived radio station.
97 KROY for all of about the summer of 1984 it was a Heavy Metal station. They played Motley Crüe, KISS, def leppard, Ozzy Osbourne, Quiet Riot, Ratt, etc.
I actually requested "round and round" by RATT on their request line when I was six years old.
Since it was the summer time my brother and I were allowed to stay up later and listen to the radio until 10pm. After that We would turn it way down and put a black t shirt over my brothers stereo cabinet so if my parents peeked into the room it would look like the stereo was off.
One night they played " I love rock and roll" by Joan Jett and then a clock striking midnight. Then the station went off the air.
awesomefanger Wow, that was how they ended it. Amazing. Thanks for sharing.
Did you hear Rush?
Yes.
Fire! haha
Bang!
05:32 yeeeeeaaaaaaaahhhhhh, what's the song name?
Mark Chavez "Low End of the Cake" by Weird Paul - weirdpaul.bandcamp.com/track/low-end-of-the-cake-2
ALERT!!! Pudding Pockets @ 01:44 !
+urusoimi Yes! And here is more of that footage: ua-cam.com/video/T4TqJuTJYFg/v-deo.html
+ORIGINAL VLOGGER 80'S WEIRD PAUL Thanks. Awesome memories.....I also loved moms Jello cake. People don't use pudding and Jello like that anymore.
No, it is rare you see that these days.
.....WOW!!!!----------the Heaver the Better...........!!!
larry ehret \m/
Hope someday you can take this too Archive.org
Jethro Tull though is pretty metal. A flute in rock music? That's totally metal.
Seriously...right?
That DJ women,Ooooooh how Kinky
Yes
Weird Paul this metal episode rules ,Thanks Homie
I listened to the revolution and wdve.