Posted on 10/29/2021 11:22:30 AM PDT by Paul46360
Who do you think should have replaced RUSH???
I agree. I noticed the gradual erosion or absence of things that had once made his program compelling. I’ve been curious what the reasons were, especially with Shanklin who was a major talent. Hard to imagine that Rush couldn’t afford him but who knows what the backstory may have been.
Walter Williams was great, and very amusing. He died not quite a year ago.
Into the Markey, Van Camp , and Robbins thing myself. So much that I listen to there podcast about once a week. Funny thing they are better when all three are there and not just two.
I also noticed that there were fewer and fewer "updates," each of which had its theme song, including the homeless update (Ain't Got No Home), the feminist update (Born a Woman) and the gay community update (You Don't Own Me).
That’s another curious change away from something that had once added humor to the program.
I wonder if James Golden/Bo Snerdly knows why the program evolved away from these things.
When did he stop playing Paul Shanklin songs?
Any idea of when it was, shalom aleichem?
Yes, I find Sexton and the other guy, very much like many other conservative talk hosts. That’s the problem, nothing special. We are a very picky lot. So, some day, someone will come along, not like Rush, special and unique in their own way. Can’t happen soon enough.
I believe I remember Rush said he stopped playing his (hilarious) song parodies when he went deaf. He wasn't able to hear the parodies, so he stopped using them. Which was sad for Rush's listeners, including me.
“He wasn’t able to hear the parodies, so he stopped using them.”
It seems like a lame rationale for Rush to have used. He couldn’t hear bumper music anymore and that continued. Although he “heard” the music through memory.
He had Snerdly or his wife and even Shanklin himself whose judgement he could have trusted on new parodies. Ending them was a decided loss for the show. Plus the targets of those satires bitterly resented them.
Like us nobody can ever take his place.
Rush was first a disc jockey; then a political radio host. That combo was responsible for much of his success. He was both an entertainer and an editorialist.
“Rush was first a disc jockey; then a political radio host”
That’s what many Rush fans missed and what all of his imitators lack.
Rush began to disk jockey when he was still in high school in the late ‘60s and he was doing it full time by the ‘70s.
In addition to honing his skills as a humorist and entertainer he made a close study of the technical aspects that make one radio broadcast better than another. He occasionally mentioned them. I don’t think a single one of his imitators even know those techniques exist.
Oddly enough he never registered to vote until 1988. Despite what his career became I don’t think that politics had ever been his consuming interest. He probably picked up his general inclination as a boy around the family dinner table but never made a study of it until he was hired in Sacramento. That’s one reason he was an easy mark for the Bush family to co-opt.
Yep
He aggravated both us at times but I did enjoy him and miss him....his veiled self deprecating puffery always tickled me
My mom thought he was serious ....his aggrandizement ...lol
I always wanted to call and bust him on where’d yer southern accent wander off to mister...
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