good dolphin wrote:
rogers park bryan wrote:
good dolphin wrote:
Can we get Grobber on here to post Dahl v. Lujak.
I used to love when people would call in to rip Jim Shorts....brilliant and psychotic radio
Interesting that Dahl has so much respect for Stern considering everyone thinks Stern ripped Dahl off.
It is not a matter of "thinks". I could give you a fairly conclusive timeline with attached audio evidence to prove the thievery. Stern didn't just amplify an idea, he took bits in their entirety almost verbatim.
The best evidence is when Stern started calling up the Bijou Theater hotline. Dahl had been making it a weekly bit. How did Howard suddenly find the hotline to an obscure gay porn theater in a city in which he didn't broadcast and decide to make it a bit?
I had always thought it was sour grapes on Dahl's part. Then I heard the Bijou tapes on a best of segment and it changed my view...then a lot of other things started to sound familiar (homo club, Anthony voice, etc.).
Found this on the SFN...
Dahl beat Howard when both were in Detroit, so Howard would absolutely know what Dahl was doing.
Dahl syndicated first (Milwaukee and Detroit).
Dahl talked to his girlfriend/wife and family members on air first.
Then there are the calls to Iran, blowing up of records, talking to god (Dahl actually played Satan with the voice modulator but it was the same bit), the fake black voice traffic reporter through a megaphone, the homo club (right down to the door closing, the dripping water and echo), the making fun of interns, the Bijou Theater, spanking women, talking to porn stars (Seka was a huge Dahl fan and eventually got her own show because of it), the live shows on weekends, song parodies, taking listeners for shows on the road (for Dahl it was Hawaii)...
All of that was Dahl first. Including getting a vasectomy on air live before Katie Couric did her colonoscopy. And I think Kinnison was on Dahl's show first before Howard's, though that I'm not 100 percent on.
This site, while not the best, offers a glimpse of the early Dahl:
http://www.thestevervault.com/blog/A bit too much editing for my taste and there's a lot of jumping around in time. But still, it's Dahl amd Meier in the glory days.