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Friends,
It is with mixed feelings that I am announcing the end
of the longest running prime-time "Dark Music"
radio show. September 3, 2006 will be the last broadcast
of The Shape of Things to Come. Many of you may ask why.
(Others may say it's about time.) There are many reasons
why I've chosen now to leave. Mainly, it's time to move
on. 20 years is a long time to do anything. While in the
beginning the constant crusade of acquiring new music, begging
for pledges, and proving that I'm not just another dork
with a college radio show was fun and interesting, recently
it has become a grind. It's become tougher and tougher to
do it alone, although it took me a while to realize it.
On the other hand, actually doing the show has always been
great fun. Along the way, I've been lucky to meet some unique,
amazing, sincere, intense and extremely talented people.
I hope I was able to bring my sense of excitement to you
and allow you to meet these people as well.
I want to thank all the listeners, musicians and record
labels, who have tuned in, contributed to, supported and
helped me over the last 20 years. The list is long. Very
long. It would take about 20 more years to list everyone,
and I'd probably still miss a name or two. All of you are
what my show has been about. I've always said I'm your friend
with a very large music collection and I play music I think
you'll like. That's the way I approached the show. It was
never about me, it was always about the music, the future
of music and it was about you. When I said "It's all
for you, from me, Bob Westphal" I meant it.
Thanks also to Carl Kraus and Barry Sheffield, the management
of 89.1 WFDU-FM, who have also supported this show by keeping
it on the air for as long as they have. Even after I moved
out of the area, they bent over backwards to keep this show
alive. Thanks also to all my fellow DJs and friends from
the staff of WFDU. I really enjoyed all of the times we
spent together. They are all fantastic people and each of
them has a special place in my memories. Please don't stop
listening to or supporting WFDU and www.wfdu.fm. On September
10, Chris Gheraghty, will be taking over the 9 to midnight
slot on Sundays and opening up a branch office of WFDU's
popular and unique "New Music Legacy." You should
tune in. I know I will.
As for me, I will be taking some time to just have fun
with Angel, my wife, our cats Anime (the fat one) and Mordred
(the evil one) and our two tanks of salt-water fish. I'm
not closing the door on music, but now I can listen to something
and not wonder if I should play it on the show. Maybe I'll
get a hobby. Read a book or two. Maybe write one. Who knows?
Also, I am thinking about converting some of the old shows
I have on tape into MP3 and putting them up on my website.
You can check http://www.theonebob.com and http://theonebob.livejournal.com
from time to time so you know what I decide.
I always thought the neat thing about real FM radio is
that the signal transmits in straight lines, forever. In
a way, it's a little slice of immortality in which I've
been lucky to share. Perhaps on a planet more than 20 light
years away someone with a huge radio telescope is somehow,
through all the noise of space, picking up WFDU and my first
broadcast. And then the cycle starts all over again. (If
you're out there and you read this, please send me a tape
of it? Thanks!)
Tune in on Sunday nights, from 9pm to midnight, now through
September 3, for the last days of the Shape of Things to
Come.
As always, so long and thanks for all the fish.
Bob Westphal
DJ TheOneBob
theonebob@gmail.com
AIM: TheOneBob
LJ: http://theonebob.livejournal.com
http://www.theonebob.com
Headquarters Address:
6612 North Elizabeth St.
Tampa, FL 33604
THEONEBOB@GMAIL.COM
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