DJs

Phil Andrus:  In 1972, while seeking the return of a drill I had loaned for the construction of the new KRAB FM studio (Seattle, 107.7, really “the end”), I spoke with the station manager about the station’s lack of folk music in its programming. One week and five minutes of board operation training later, I was the host of “The Folk Show”, from three to six on Fridays. Drive time. “TGIF” time. When my meager collection of LPs had hit the turntables one too many times, I borrowed from friends’ collections and from the KING FM library, which had presented a folk-oriented show during the hootenanny era. Once I had exhausted those resources, I began presenting live music, which the focus of my show for the next decade. That led to producing a live broadcast from the Northwest Folklife Festival and to the production of several series of documentaries, the last of which, titled “Another Kind of Courage”, presented an oral history of draft resistance and conscientious objection. I will be editing many of those documentaries over the winter, for eventual broadcast on KPTZ. On KPTZ, I am the host of “Tossed Salad”, a radio variety show comprised of live and recorded music and interviews. In the coming months, I will be adding to the mix readings of short stories, telephone interviews, and listener phone calls.

Contact: tossedsaladkptz@gmail.com or visit Tossed Salad on Facebook

DJ Jarrod Paul:  From the moment my Dad put the headphones on my ears and dropped the needle on that one Moody Blues record, I was hooked on music. Throughout the years, Ive gone through many fazes in my music taste and left a piece of my heart with each band, genre and record I’ve ever loved….

Susan’s “Plugged-in Planet” is where you’ll hear “the other world music”. Saturdays, 6-8 p.m.

Susan Bublitz brings us music from all of the four corners of the globe that can include anything from world folk, rock & hip-hop to electronica, lounge and reggae or “anything that amuses me. I attempt to showcase the music so it feels good going in. I’m all about the transitions.” World music also includes lessons in history, geography, politics and humanitarian issues so you may hear a story or two and an occasional tall tale.

Susan caught the world music bug at an early age having grown up hearing her mother’s eclectic collection. Her continued thirst for music and her love for community radio have merged into a happy union and a dream come true at KPTZ.

Her interests include searching the Internet for great music, watching her birdfeeders with her hubby in one hand and a warm cup of tea in the other and digging in the dirt. She is a self-confessed “sucker for a sparkly and a catchy beat.”

contact: susanb@kptz.org

Barney Burke:  You’ll hear all kinds of blues: Delta, Chicago, Hawaiian, Texas, Piedmont, et al. Barney’s always on the lookout for rare records and “live” blues recordings, and every week he looks up each track in search of interesting stories for listeners. A long-time blues fan, Barney has interviewed and photographed many blues musicians and visited, among other historic blues sites, all three graves of Robert Johnson. But he’s always wanted to be on the radio, inspired by his grandparents, who launched KGMB in Honolulu in the 1920s. Friday 8-10 p.m.

contact: barney@kptz.org

Skip Cadorette is a National Broadcasting school grad with a few years working for 105.3FM and Kidstar Radio in Seattle. As a music major at Seattle Pacific University, a professor labeled him “not a serious music student.” “Ain’t it the truth!” he says. “Music, for me, is all about what makes me happy or puts a lump in my throat.” In his slot you’ll hear anything from show tunes to Chopin. They’ll be something for the kids, a Christmas song for sure (no matter the time of year) and a bit from Bill Cosby. When he’s not doing show prep for KPTZ, he‘s doing sermon prep for Sunday as the Pastor of First Baptist Church of Port Townsend. Mondays 10-noon.

“Gettin’ Up and Gettin’ Down” on Saturdays from 8-10 a.m., where you’ll hear ”whatever was hidden in the 20th Century, with a few exceptions.”

The Other Billy Zoom - a record biz vet in the 70s, then foolish enough to get back into it in the 80s and 90s. Mantra,  credo, or whatever:

“You Can Hear Anything You Want To Hear … Once You Know It’s There To Hear”   …  the never heard, seldom heard, sub-herd sensation and oddities hiding on Saturday mornings.

That Billy Zoom and this one both got our name from girlfriends in 1972, his in Texas,  and mine in Washington. We determined it was not the same woman.    

We’re both still in the biz, but he’s got the hits,  while I’m entrenched on the Shimmering Shores of the Salish Sea   …  so that makes me the other one.  He’s still touring, on occasion, I’m still blurring, on occasion.

Hope we get at least one song tickling your consciousness all week, every week.

Thanks for listening.    We love e-mails.

contact: zoom@kptz.org

photo: “Billy Zoom Nice Guy Punk Legend”… no, not that one, the other one.

Jeffy Fresh - Grew up in So. Cal and wen to school at the U of O… “I am a Duck for life!” My professional Photography Life was in the LA area for 20 years, where I learned about and collected music from all over the Globe. My very first DJ experience was at Dance Camp. I am here in PT now and still enjoy dancing everyone through the Radio!!!

Open your Third-Ear, music is on the wave….

contact: jeffyfresh@kptz.org

Ruby:  Sappho wrote,”If you are squeamish, do not prod the beach rubble.” Late Thursday mornings on KPTZ, Ruby selects the tunes. Expect caterwauling, lady ballads, extended instrumentals, odd rock ‘n’ roll, and tear jerkers. Ruby is a PT native.  Ruby can be contacted at rubblebeach@gmail.com.

John Hulburd grew up in Detroit during the incredible Motown years, but also listened in secret to the unregulated Canadian radio stations at night. That inspired a lifelong love of community radio, which lead him to be on the Board of Directors as well as host a show on KMUD in Garberville, California. Once KPTZ went on the air, he jumped at the chance to be on radio again. He often focuses on Bluegrass and Folk music, but often combines Latin, African, Cuban and Caribbean music on his shows.

Sasha Landis (known to KPTZ listeners as DJ Alexander) spins new, obscure, and often downright bizarre tunes on his late-night party show, Your Future Favorites. When he’s not scouring the Internet for toe-tapping beats he can be found homesteading abandoned land, playing in the local band Solvents, or listening to other people talk.

Ron McElroy says: The dictionary defines free as loose, able to move in any direction and spin as a ride, as in an automobile. I named my program Free Spin because I’d like to take you all on a musical ride to some of my favorite places. Join me for two hours of funky, bluesy rock with a few spicy extras thrown in. Maybe some R & B, a little Zydeco or Tex-Mex, all of it guaranteed to keep you groovin’. Fridays 4-6 p.m.

contact: freespin@kptz.org

Kurt Munnich: There’s a lot of music out there; I try to share the music that moves me.

Listen for interesting rhythms and strong emotions.  You’ll hear a wide variety of music on my show:  New Orleans; world; blues; gospel; jazz; funk; folk; bluegrass; klezmer and more.

Thanks for supporting KPTZ, your community radio.

contact: kurt@kptz.org

Chuck and Tim have been best friends for over thirty years and brothers-in-law for nearly twenty. HodgePodge brings you an eclectic mix of rock and worldbeat music. Anything from Punk to Portuguese, Metal to Mariachi. Join us for wacky banter and a broad mix of musical tid-bits for your earholes.

Caleb Peacock

Gail Pruitt: It became clear at an early age I wasn’t a child prodigy or genius. And the prognosis hasn’t changed, though I’m still working 50 years later at becoming a child prodigy. My mother did say I showed interest in music at a very early age by humming with the blender, harmonizing with its high wheeze as the eggs and flour were mixed. That’s not music aptitude, that’s just plain weird in my book. What you might want to know about me is I love all music, but especially classical music for its ability to so perfectly express all human experience and emotions, joy, sorrow, angst, love, and all those we can’t identify or don’t know we’re feeling. In putting together a show each week, it’s my goal to find something - whether it be a fiery, complicated piece by Shostakovich or a simple Bach Adagio – that will touch you in ways you don’t expect or reminds you and me about the common, yet distinct journey we’re taking as humans.

Tim Quackenbush

Seth Raymond hosts a weekly show each Wednesday morning from 10 ‘till noon. Seth enjoys sailing, good books, dumb movies, strong coffee, mid-priced wine and wool shirts.

Dalana - Wednesdays, from 4 to 5 p.m. it’s “Music To My Ears” - which means I play music from multiple genres and generations.  Music that moves me to dance, cry, laugh, think, get goosebumps, reminisce, or to join in with harmony. You can expect to hear everything from the Mills Brothers to Led Zeppelin.  Born to a burlesque performer, I grew up around musicians, dancers, comediennes,  and have, since I can remember, been performing or writing for the stage, singing in clubs in the mid-and northwest.  This is my first time actually at the controls in a studio, but I’ve written and been the voice talent for hundreds of radio commercials.  This is quite the challenge and I’m having the time of my life!  The best day of my life?  When I met The Beatles. I wasn’t born in Port Townsend, but I got here as fast as I could.

“The unusual is my bag,” says Phil Rome of his show, Odds n Ends. His music is hard to contain in a single designation. It seems to cover nearly everything under the sun and you will rarely hear his selections played anywhere else. Forced to define his taste, he says it’s mostly music of the 20s to the 60s. Phil also invites local musicians in and lets the music go where it will. Fridays 10-noon.

contact: philr@kptz.org

Maximus:

Born September 24 in the neighborhood of Rahway State Prison.
Lived on both U.S. coasts growing up.
Studied and learned Radio Communication at University of Dayton, Ohio.
Now lives a stone’s throw away from the KPTZ station with his love Eva.
Max also lives with beagles, bees, chickens, and sometimes two overachieving daughters.
Favorite colors: clear and paisley
Favorite number: 68
Turn offs: rude people, litter

Ray Schroff:  Bob McKeehan’s “Arizona Hayride” program on KCNA in Tucson was my earliest influence. At night, stations all over the country came through the ether. There was Frank Page at KWKW in Shreveport, Wolfman Jack and Paul Kallinger on XERF, across the river from Del Rio, The Old Tumbleweed at KPMC in Bakersfield, Wes Bowen’s jazz program from KSL in Salt Lake City, “Music ‘Til Dawn,” with classical music from KRLD in Dallas, Tucson’s own David Graham, whose “Hootnanny Tonight” show on KTUC turned me on to early Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, Joan Baez, and The New Lost City Ramblers. Saturday afternoons sometimes included mowing the lawn while listening to the live Metropolitan Opera Broadcasts.

Later, living in Southern California as FM took over from AM, KBCA jazz djs Les Carter and Mike Powell were big influences, as were Don Hall on KPPC and Jazzbeaux Collins on KMET. In the Bay Area, it was Bob Prescott on KMPX, Roland Young on KSAN, Dan McCloskey on KJAZ, Phil Elwood, Chris Strachwitz, Tom Diamant, David Mayers, Charles Armikahnian, and too many others to mention on KPFA. And of course, magic evenings at dance halls like the Shrine in L.A., and the Avalon and Fillmore in San Francisco added a whole new dimension to music.

The public library has played an important role in my musical education, and adventurous record labels like the Nonesuch Explorer Series made available amazing sounds from places like Afghanistan and Bali. Shortwave radio opened my ears to haunting huayno music from the Andes, joropos from the llanos of eastern Columbia and western Venezuela, and the exciting guitar bands from the Congo. Most important of all have been the many wonderful friends who shared my enthusiasm for music and turned me on to the exciting sounds they discovered.

For “Dream City Jukebox,” my concept is one of an eclectic confluence of musical genres, where the main focus is jazz and world music, especially African guitar tunes, mixed with a bit of old-timey, classic country, folk, cajun, psychedelic rock, country blues, and occasionally, some shorter contemporary classical pieces. The idea is to present tasty music that listeners perhaps never knew existed, as well as some favorites that they may not have heard recently.

Tune in to Dream City Jukebox Wednesdays from 2–4 p.m.

contact: jukebox@kptz.org