The KLSU radio host archetype

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I remember driving around campus in the late 90s and would occasionally flip to KLSU. The DJ was always the same combination of bored/sad stoner type. At the time I just thought it was a passing fad, but every few years since then I'll check in and it's the same thing. Even in 2025 it's still going strong which I find amusing. Who are these people, what did they do in high school, what was their childhood like? How are they already so jaded at such a young age?

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Kinda like strip club DJ's. They nearly all have the same voice.

"And now taking the main stage.... Sappphiirreeeeee."

It's usually like stoner hippy bisexual alt art girls. Those are the kinds of women who go to college for a journalism degree, so those are the types who work at KLSU. They usually are into indie alternative music. Today, that's shoegazy stuff, post-punk, yacht rock esque stuff, and lofi hip hop beats to study to. If it even sorta sounds like rock or metal that wasn't recorded in a tin can and wasn't made by someone else who works with/dates someone who works there, they absolutely hate it. KLSU are the polar opposite kinds of American wypipo from the people on the OT.

Back in the day it used to be dudes who were in bands themselves and they played cool shite. Remember when they had The Industrial Show on there? Or when they did that fictional Pirate Radio takeover special?

I get off work at 330am sometimes and I always throw it on to see what kind of weird shite they have on at that time. Sometimes it’s something cool like Herbie Hancock or Sigur Ros, but most the time its just some kinda soundscape lol

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Paging Zappas Stache

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I agree with the OP but also remember many of these DJs, like myself, have no radio training or experience. So in my case I did look at the DJs who had some experience and kind of copied them. But also , college radio is anti-commerucak radio which has the phony potisirivity voices that dominate the airwaves........(read this in a droning stoner voice)

In the earlier days, there was an apprentice program. I learned under Dr Jazz … amazing experience - a lesson on technical execution and jazz history

The station had an amazing vinyl collection… Which was later discarded when the station took a turn toward modern rock and became very commercial and slick in the mid 90s to late 90s.

Real name was Marc Cohn I believe ….
New Yorker and a real stickler for the process, so I actually learned a bit that semester

I was there fall of 91’ to spring 94’
Andrew Knackley and Katty Biscone were there and managers I believe

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Brother John

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I remember that name too. I was there from about 87-89. The music director part of that time was Jeff Suey aka Boogie Boy and he could be an arse but I was friends with him although I don't think he liked me. He and I actually ran track and cc at LSU together until he got way deep in the alt music world, showed up to practice one day with a purple Mohawk and soon quit runnung gave up his full ride scholly, he was a hell of a runner. He is a big time media mogul out in LA now.

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Paging Zappas Stache

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beat me to it

When I was at KNWD (Voice of the Demons), I told a 6'7", 235 pound basketball player that he couldn't tape albums at the station. Fortunately, he didn't take offense.