[Dr. Johnny Fever]

Originally Posted by KC Tattoo

Well thanks Johny Thunder . I get it now, but still don't like it but thanks for the explanation. It was such a treat a few years back and he still may do it but Alice Cooper would DJ late nights and play the music he liked just how I described. He played variety of different songs deep into albums most people havn't heard. I was like this ****ing rocks. He would talk about the bands too and tell stories it was bad ass to listen too.

I guess the way you describe the radio it works I've had to buy albums so I could get into the bands and hear more. I wouldn't have to buy albums if I could just listen to Alice Cooper DJ on the radio all day.

Yeah AC is a classic example of the AOR thing. It's great and it does work for that audience much of the time but it hasn't translated to other formats. Different types of listeners being targeted though.

FWIW I'm also on a classic rocker that dabbles in the AOR approach. We don't go WAY deep but do play some stuff that wasn't "popular" when a particular album was out. We play new rock from classic artists too and I think we're playing 5 songs... maybe 4... from the new Van Halen disc.