KFRC San Francisco Chuck Geiger 1983 California Aircheck Video

[@randyroubal8916]

Back when DJ's were Real & Fun to listen too, not like the pre recorded junk of today!

[@boeing757pilot]

Exactly Randy. Radio is garbage today.

[@1mezrahi187]

For sure 😂 and you can dance to and understand the words… 🎉

[@craigroberts6439]

You got that right Randy.

[@brianlewis1878]

I miss this type of presentation. Chuck is feeling the music. Awesome!!!!

[@michaellubeck8464]

the meth could have something to do with it ...music is divine on meth

[@blewis0719]

@@michaellubeck8464 haha... actually, Chuck didn't do drugs while on air. I guess he was just crazy like that.

[@laspiedrasrailroad]

We are going to recreate the video next year for the 40th anniversary of the video shoot.

[@echohunter4199]

Just remember to bring some cocaine then.

[@wickedout2010]

Back when radio was real good. Now a days its not even close! This is great radio. KFRC was amazing in the 1980's!

[@laspiedrasrailroad]

Thanks for checking out the video. It was one of the first CALIFORNIA VIDEO AIR CHECKS from George Junak. Shotgun Tom Kelly was on video and it was one fun night. To answer all of the questions.

[@boeing757pilot]

Cool! Loved listening to you back in the day!

[@guilhermecadima4201]

This vid is amazing. I born in 1993 and like almost of millennials, we got a "nostalgia" about 80s. It's like a time machine. When plays Africa, oh boy haha you are a legend Chuck

[@back2the80sradio]

Hey Chuck, great stuff. Would you be open to doing a Zoom interview or by phone for Back to the '80s radio?

[@laspiedrasrailroad]

@@back2the80sradio Absolutely

[@back2the80sradio]

@@laspiedrasrailroad How can I get in touch with you, Chuck in order to talk about interviewing you?

[@EricChaneyProd]

Good News Chuck's back in Radio as a PD in Alaska. Great Guy! Great Jock! I love his passion and energy.

[@kimcwhite6509]

He makes it look so fun!!! Great DJ!

[@MarioLopez-su2rq]

Dr don was my childhood dj when id be stuck in my room playin hot wheels miss him as o much

[@johnsampson1096]

Great presentation, as well with the audio processing!

[@Dodiscrossover]

Amazing....just amazing. Real radio...real DJ....top

[@michaellubeck8464]

He's TWEAKING! Look at his eyes

[@RandyOnTheRadio]

GAWD.... I miss this kind of radio. You remember, before the days of NO HEART RADIO, CUMULUS, CBS, and a few others, OWNING IT ALL... in the name of pigdom.

[@blazerbobcat]

First post on this channel. Don't make radio like this anymore. Thanks for sharing and posting.

[@charlieb3474]

Freakin great processing!

[@mudwiser1391]

When the boss jocks cracked the mic, it was pure excitement.

[@Dodiscrossover]

Amazing 80's 😊

[@Tazmanian_Ninja]

Whut. a. F*ckin'. AH-MAY-ZING. dude! Your uploads have brought the biggest smile on my face, this week!

[@SCLARK2112]

I sure miss the way America used to be....

[@mylifepart2]

i miss those days....totally....

[@johnstevens9978]

Wow, stereo AM it went over like a "lead balloon" thanks for posting this great blast from the past.

[@muziklvr7776]

That station got nearly 20 years out of the stereo antenna. I was listening to it back then.

[@robynwatts6578]

I still blame the FCC for that travesty! If they had settled on a standard and made it mandatory for radio manufacturers to adopt it, instead of letting the marketplace decide, we would still have current music on AM. My personal opinion: C-Quam’s AM Stereo was the best system that was available. It sounded just a good, even better than FM.

[@cnmcphaulsr4701]

Killer processing oh my God that must been a killer am optimal or some type of processing but it sounds great almost better than some FM radio stations

[@Underhills]

Yeah, I second that. Sounds wet and full.

[@juniorsilvabroadcast]

This is not FM? It does sound like shit. Totally muffled, this station sounded way better than this.

[@danieluva2848]

Probably hearing through the program bus.

[@jpittsmgmt]

how compressed was the mic? he dances all around it & at some points 2 or 3 feet from it but it still sounds like he's right up on the capsule... i've never owned a compressor that could do that...

[@gregorrante]

It's not the mic compression, it's the station's processing. This audio was recorded from the air monitor.

[@speaktruth4336]

Chalk it up to some crack engineers. Those guys had their shit together to make AM radio sound like that!

[@ModelA]

The mics were shotgun type, not omni so very little proximity effect. Then, there was multi-band limiting between the mics and the consoles, then the best homebrew 4-band limiter ever built (home made crossovers into split PR&E Multi-Limiters, then a homebrew combiner) then over the STLs to an Orban 9100 at the transmitter.

[@echohunter4199]

I was 18 that year and off to start my 26 year career in the Army.

[@pauldaviesvoiceover]

Just brilliant.

[@DanielScartozzoni]

I think this was 1984 and not 1983, because there are some songs that were released in early '84 as singles: 1) Huey Lewis & The News - "I want a new drug" 2) Lionel Ritchie - "Hello" 3) Pointer Sisters - "Automatic" 4) Eurythmics - "Here comes the rain again".

[@BartShore00]

Amazing! K-F-R-C!

[@Aspirateur1975]

Ce mec était juste extraordinaire !

[@doubled334]

Oui c'est vrai. C'est ne pas comme ça maintenant 😢

[@themightyx5652]

KFRC WAS/ IS THE BIG 610

[@clairegazzillo6221]

Great energy to bad the air personality are not like this

[@Danplaysdrums1]

I Want a New Drug was released in ‘84. This video is somewhere between ‘84 and ‘86.

[@ChrOltausOL]

"Automatic" by the Pointer Sisters was released as a 7-inch in January 1984, even as "I Want a New Drug". And also "Here Comes the Rain Again" was released in January 1984. So I think, the Video was taken in the first month of 1984.

[@HitsTownUSA]

Christian Oltmer you can tell KFRC is using the promo 45 version of “Here Comes The Rain Again”. The commercial 45 has a longer intro.

[@Billy_Darley]

back when radio was fun to listen too. i may have been born in '83 but i wish i could have been 18 in '78 so i could spend my 20's enjoying the 80's preferably in California. that state was awesome back then. total shit hole today.

[@bradleysmith681]

Radio was great back in those days. Fun to listen to. If you weren't listening, you felt like you were missing something....

[@Billy_Darley]

Bradley Smith exactly!

[@drkatel]

Billy Darley, I turned 18 in 1980. I was in college in the 80s and was a total top 40 radio addict from 1973 on. Then came MTV in 1982 and it was true that "Video Killed the Radio Star." But then the internet & KZbin (I guess?) killed MTV. I miss it all...top 40 radio and MTV when it played only music vids. You can envy me for experiencing the 70s and 80s. I'm truly happy I was alive for it, but now I'm 56 and I'd rather be 35 like you. The 90s were ok. Things didn't deteriorate until 2001.

[@garyatkins7142]

consolidation and automation killed the radio star

[@boeing757pilot]

Radio is shit today, almost embarrassing

[@cjbotts]

Yea he’s def not playing it up for the camera not in the least

[@mikeford7921]

chuck ur the man

[@cyrilsmith5706]

That dude is on good smack

[@garythompson400]

The crossed eyes are half the fun.

[@waxpicker1051]

Does anyone know know if this is "The Chucker" from Sacramento's KNDE late 70s???

[@georgejunak7466]

No. Different guy. That was Chuck Hale who worked at KNDE.

[@waxpicker1051]

@@georgejunak7466 wow, good memory & info. Appreciate that.

[@waxpicker1051]

@@georgejunak7466 you go WAY back George. Question to you: Do you know if there's still existence of that new years eve 1979-1980 marathon radio broadcast of 'Best of the 70's', which said goodbye, and hello to the 80s? I'd say it was a 11 to 12-hour program, which took the top 10 songs of each year in the 70s. I'm guessing it was an ABC Radio special....or NBC....CBS...?? Any clues? It was a great broadcast, and I'm trying to find it.

[@melvindersingh6223]

P hewert kickin it up to a higher notch huh

[@joshstephens3650]

Did they pay him in cocaine?

[@Rayvyn007]

This must have been after 1983 because Lionel Ritche didn't release "Hello" until 1984.

[@mxxjss]

This was from around sometime in the spring of 1984 as “Here Comes The Rain Again” by the Eurythmics and “I Want A New Drug” by Huey Lewis & The News were in the Billboard top 20 along with “Hello” at that time.

[@randyroadz8697]

Ah thanks Capn' Obvious

[@espphirephoto]

Ahh - Yep, that seems to coincide with the song ending and stopping when the song stops. VERY annoying but sure gets your attention! Thanks. :)

[@MrOlliebeagle]

El Chapo sends him Christmas Cards.

[@chrisdannatt7623]

Not certain this is the original recording.... It looks tight, but I think this may have been overdubbed...

[@Rod-b7y]

Why do they have to well??

[@tommcgowan777]

I noticed this clip was edited and re-uploaded.

[@greatscott88mph]

And then he went on to invent my pillow…

[@juanvarleta2558]

Rockin’ those Pro 4 triple A’s

[@ApartmentKing66]

Be interesting to watch the VU meters while Chuck's shouting into the mic.

[@espphirephoto]

what's the flashing light about 1:20 in?

[@coffeehigh420]

oh nothing to worry about, thats just his brain getting ready to explode into one huge puff of cocane

[@RageTVHTX]

@@coffeehigh420 that's always the go to answer just because the DJ is just good at what he does and having fun doing it. This is how it was done, just pure and raw energy. That flashing light was probably rigged to the phone so the jock could see there was a call coming in. I've seen that in some studios

[@mtnman1984]

It's the cue that the song is about to end.

[@ModelA]

SEC tones on the cart triggered a light to alert the jocks the song was near the end.

[@pantufatransamerica1452]

DOIDÃO

[@tvfita366]

Music in 1:07?

[@muziklvr7776]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/qXW4Z35mZ86apbc

[@mxxjss]

“Automatic” by the Pointer Sisters.

[@Larry-gn1xj]

That boy had strabismos!

[@MrOlliebeagle]

I can just see the coke boogers

[@didray]

c'est le genre de mec qui chez nous seraient dehors

[@johnblueriggs]

I want the shirt

[@DanielMesser]

Love it! :D

[@johnblueriggs]

Daniel Messer He now manages a few radio stations in Wyoming which I help him voicetrack for as needed. Someone told me he had some old 'video air checks' from back in the day. I totally remember when the radio sounded like this.

[@nickbisanz]

This guy is frightening. Not in a good way.

[@didray]

whqt a shame !!!!

[@didray]

Bad voice talent. really....