The RIP Thread

[rod]

Couple weeks shy of 50 years broadcasting rock in Boston, WAAF was sold this week. The new format on the frequency is Contemporary Christian music.

RIP WAAF

at least it isn't rap

 

[moreluck]

Daredevil 'Mad' Mike Hughes Dead at 64 After Rocket Crash Landing

 

[BSWALKS]

Couple weeks shy of 50 years broadcasting rock in Boston, WAAF was sold this week. The new format on the frequency is Contemporary Christian music.

RIP WAAF

Lost interest in that station years ago, but what a shock when I heard about the sale.

The news had a segment about their last day.

I think it was Mistress Carrie, interviewing Tom Hamilton. By the look of him, it won't be long before he will be a post in this thread as well.

 

[moreluck]

Dixie Crush singer Lindsey Lagestee dead after being struck by car

 

[wrecker]

Lost interest in that station years ago, but what a shock when I heard about the sale.

The news had a segment about their last day.




I think it was Mistress Carrie, interviewing Tom Hamilton. By the look of him, it won't be long before he will be a post in this thread as well.

Seriously. He looks like a frail elderly woman.

 

[BSWALKS]

Seriously. He looks like a frail elderly woman.

Sounded like it too.

 

[Method Mensch]

Couple weeks shy of 50 years broadcasting rock in Boston, WAAF was sold this week. The new format on the frequency is Contemporary Christian music.

RIP WAAF

Just what Boston needs to round out the two country stations in the area. We can all start wearing cowboy boots and hats and going to all the hipster hoedowns in the financial district. We could follow it up with a Sunday pig roast on The Boston Common right after attending our favorite megachurch. And we thought that it was illegal immigrants pouring across the southern border and coopting our culture that we had to worry about .

 

[Operational needs]

Just what Boston needs to round out the two country stations in the area. We can all start wearing cowboy boots and hats and going to all the hipster hoedowns in the financial district. We could follow it up with a Sunday pig roast on The Boston Common right after attending our favorite megachurch. And we thought that it was illegal immigrants pouring across the southern border and coopting our culture that we had to worry about .

It could be worse. The best alternative radio station in Washington, DC was replaced by a Spanish language station years ago. It was a sad, sad day in the Nation’s Capital.

 

[rod]

One of the stations around here switched from classic country to modern country. Barf

 

[BSWALKS]

One of the stations around here switched from classic country to modern country. Barf

There's a difference?

 

[Operational needs]

It could be worse. The best alternative radio station in Washington, DC was replaced by a Spanish language station years ago. It was a sad, sad day in the Nation’s Capital.

@Jones remember when WHFS was replaced?

 

[Jones]

@Jones remember when WHFS was replaced?

Yup, sad day. DC101 claims to be DC's "alternative rock" station now but it just seems like pop to me, nothing like WHFS was.

 

[rod]

There's a difference?

Day and night. Just like all the other kinds of music out there now it’s all computer (auto- tune) inhanced. The old stuff was pure music. It all sounds like the same crap to me now.

 

[Operational needs]

Yup, sad day. DC101 claims to be DC's "alternative rock" station now but it just seems like pop to me, nothing like WHFS was.

I used to love WHFS because you could always count on them playing the music no other station would play. Plus, the HFStivals seemed to be pretty awesome. I never made it to one though.

 

[rod]

Most of the groups sound like crap when you hear them live now days. Who can forget the Black Eyed Peas at the Super Bowl. Pure junk.

 

[Wally]

Daredevil 'Mad' Mike Hughes Dead at 64 After Rocket Crash Landing

 

[Wally]

There's a difference?

Huge.

 

[Wally]

 

[rod]

Daredevil 'Mad' Mike Hughes Dead at 64 After Rocket Crash Landing

I guess we will have to wait a little longer for someone to prove the Earth is flat.

 

[rod]

Liveleak.com - Mike 'Mad' Hughes dies after self made rocket crashes into ground Feb 22, 2020

Looks like he did the old "release the chute to early" trick just like Evil did at his Grand Canyon jump.