Author: SacZAP2
The K-ZAP Short Tail – 93.3 says Good Morning…and Good-bye to Two Rock Greats Yes, our terrestrial signal IS back as of this morning. Ten days ago, the secret room where the transmitter lives was ravaged by our history-making California storms. With heroic efforts from Bob, Mark and Mike, we have a broadcast signal […]
The K-ZAP Short Tail – Still Here on The Wet Coast Yes, we ARE still here, battling along with everyone else on the Wet Coast. Last night, the “room where it happens” –the secret room where our transmitter lives, was ravaged by the storm. We lost that battle, but only temporarily. So if you […]
The K-ZAP Short Tail – Mark in the Dark, our new “Foreign Correspondent” speaks: Let’s start with that K-ZAP cat. I got into internet radio over ten years ago, looking for more interesting radio. I have several of them around the house, portable. Scrolling through thousands of stations; online radio in English is mostly Country […]
The K-ZAP Short Tail – “La Belle Vie” on Record Store Day Year end assessing already?? Since it is the Black Friday weekend, that means it is Record Story Day, the day we support independent record stores in our town, avoid the malicious malls and mingle with true believers. Here are the ones officially […]
The K-ZAP VERY Short Tail – Ray Charles, the Youngbloods, Simon & Garfunkel & Leonard Cohen Will Get Us Through * (Go vote if you haven’t, then read this…) Let’s start with four button-busting songs on this auspicious day: Ray Charles: “America the Beautiful” https://youtu.be/TRUjr8EVgBg The Youngbloods: Get Together” https://youtu.be/7xGxQXmu7Os Simon & Garfunkel: “America” […]
The K-ZAP Short Tail (A Blog) – Dead Meet-up @ The Tower! As Carol Anne, the little girl in one of my favorite spooky movies, “Poltergeist” announced, “They’re baaack.” And, so is K-ZAP’s Short Tail. One night way back in the springy nighttime clime of 1987, I was walking down the Magnificent Mile, aka Michigan […]
The K-ZAP Short Tail (A Blog) – What ?? The Other Who Story! It is dueling WHO blogs, “K-Zap Short Tail” readers. The very first blog on this K-ZAP website was posted in April of this year by Chris Miller, one of the co-founders who re-birthed this station seven years ago. His story, here, is […]
The K-ZAP Short Tail (A Blog) -I HAD to Pull Over, Officer” Every music fan has their party story about a song on the radio that starts like this: “I ACTUALLY had to pull off to the side of the road to listen!” OR “I was home, but could NOT get out of the car […]
The K-ZAP Short Tail (A Blog) -Bellygunner Returns! Big thanks to all of you who stopped by our sizzling K-ZAP Booth at the 32nd Annual Chalk It Up Festival over the three-day holiday. Grateful we had a corner location under shade trees (I hugged one), but also because we were right next to the live […]
The K-ZAP Short Tail (A Blog) – When I Forgave “The Boss” Today is the 27th Anniversary of the grand opening of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland. Sept 2, 1995. The Awards have always been a point of controversy…favorite complaints for wags are: 1) the R&R secret cabal that nominates and […]