After thinking about it for a few months, I have decided to stop doing
the Plastic Magic radio show. It wasn't an easy decision but every good
story should have a good ending. It has been a great 9 years that have
meant more to me than I can hardly put into words. I feel privileged to
get put out my weird taste in music over the airwaves and turn people on
to something they maybe haven't heard before. I also feel lucky to have
shared the antenna with people I greatly admire ( like Bo Counts Maureen McClung Peeples Ginny Garber Sam Houser Eric Olson Eric Jensen Tina Parker Phillip Stephens Robe Flax Stuart M Feild Christay Dizavies Harrison Grimwood Zeek Martin Stephanie Pierce D. Gold Nathan Rowe Tyler Eck Emily DeLong Brian Wolf Doug Shields Ted Swedenberg Willie Benson Jessica Love Eric Johnson Billy Callen Ambrosia Johnson Stacy Nicole Mackey Kimbrough The Almighty Easter Bunny Walt The Wiz and many others from KXUA and also Larry Will Jane Smith Will Paul McElligott Brad Read JimE Night Joe Stax
Chesty Doctor Doc Brown and Allan Weiner and everybody from WBCQ Area
51) and would like to thank them for help and support along the way.
What a dream to get to be broadcast over one of the hippest college
radio station in the region but also to be picked up by THE HIPPEST
shortwave station on Earth. I have had people contact me from listening
on shortwave as far away as Denmark, Sweden, Canada, Mexico and regular
listeners from Ohio, New York, Wisconsin, Maryland, North Carolina,
Missouri etc. Not to mention being relayed over Pirate Radio (both AM
and FM) many random times over the years. I would like to thank Kody Ford
and everybody at The Idle Class magazine for the nomination in the
"best radio" category of the upcoming Black Apple Awards. It's been a
fun ride and I'll miss it pretty bad from time to time but I feel like
it might be time to leave the stage while people are still clapping. The
last show will be MAY 28th, Memorial Day weekend which will be a 3 hour
show to be broadcast on both KXUA 88.3FM in Fayetteville and surrounding metro area and WBCQ 5130 KHz shortwave for the rest of the world. I know a lot of people who have caught the show in the last few
weeks have already heard the announcement over the air, so this is for
the ones who haven't listened in a while or maybe live out of town now.
Thanks also to everybody who has been a manager at KXUA who let me do
Plastic Magic with complete artistic control and put on the type of show
that I would have like to sit and listen to myself on a Sunday night.
If you haven't listened in a while I hope you may take the time to
listen one more time before the last one. I promise to dig really deep
for the remaining shows to play things that I haven't yet played and old
favorites. And thanks to all the buddies who have came in to be my
guest co-host especially Butch Taylor who was on with me for a few
years. Like I said, it's been a blessing that I don't take lightly.
THANK YOU!
