Mark Turner (mturner@netcom.com)
Tue, 23 Feb 1999 11:27:38 -0800 (PST)
Dear Leslie,
Thank you for the lovely letter. I guess it was unclear from
Lee's original post but he tuned in on MONDAY night and my show
is on SUNDAY only. Therefore it was not my show that he was
complaining about, and I did not take any offense from his post.
However, your comments are still valid because KFJC is about ALL
types of music and even though you may not hear what you EXPECT
to hear, someone (the DJ) probably cares passionately about it
nonetheless.
Mark
> Dear Mark,
>
> Part of the drama of radio is that there are people out there who want to
> direct what you are playing for them! They are unable to just open their
> hearts and let the music take them into the universe, so they therefore want
> to hear you play what THEY want you to play, it's a bit sad really but a
> fact nonetheless. I have some listeners who want me to play only drum and
> bass and others who do not want to hear ANY of that kind of music. For Lee
> Gordon to come down on you for what you played the other night was lacking
> in grace totally, you volunteer your time to give what you can to the
> cultural fabric of the listening area you reach. Please do NOT let these
> sorts of stupid comments upset you, it is impossible to please all of the
> folks all the time, much as we might want to always please all of our
> listeners. Over the years ( I have been doing my show for 17 years!) I have
> reached out to people and taken them to new places musically speaking
> because they opened their hearts to the music and let it's magic work for
> them, they deleted the ego-negativity that invades them and ceased to demand
> and learned to accept and guess what ? They found that they loved music they
> thought they hated. This is a letter of support from me to you and to any
> other folks out there doing original programming and bringing music that
> would remain anonymous to the world at large!
>
> Best regards,
>
> Leslie Shill/The Power Of Sound/KAZU 90.3 FM/Pacific Grove.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Turner <mturner@netcom.com>
> To: acid-jazz@ucsd.edu <acid-jazz@ucsd.edu>
> Date: Tuesday, February 23, 1999 10:34 AM
> Subject: Re: "Jazzadelica" Playlist for 2/21/99
>
>
> >Lee Gordon sez:
> >
> >> Give us your play-list the day BEFORE your show! It sounds as if it was
> >> great! I tuned in tonight and was disappointed to hear some really awful
> >> stuff! :-)
> >>
> >> LG
> >
> >No can do, Lee. The show is live and apart from some vague
> >or not-so-vague notions about what I'm going to play, the
> >playlist ain't done until it's done. I did give you fair
> >warning last week about the Kruder & Dorfmeister set, though.
> >
> >--
> >Mark Turner | "Jazzadelica" with Rocky Rococo on KFJC
> >mturner@netcom.com | Sundays 10pm-2am, 89.7 FM, Los Altos Hills, CA
> >
>
>
-- Mark Turner | "Jazzadelica" with Rocky Rococo on KFJC mturner@netcom.com | Sundays 10pm-2am, 89.7 FM, Los Altos Hills, CA
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