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VomitRadio™ is the creation of Eric Egenes, veteran of Metal Radio for over 20 years.
Eric
started playing hard music on the airwaves at KUNM Radio in Albuquerque,
New Mexico back in 1987. Eric was Metal Music Director and hosted the
show "Radio
Nightmares" and gained a large listenership playing the best in underground
metal, punk and alternative rock.
Eric left Albuquerque in 1989 to attend broadcasting school in Portland, OR
for about a year,
and then returned to Albuquerque to work at KBAC, the top Alternative
Rock station in Northern New Mexico at the time.
In 1992, Eric started working for KZRQ, the Z-Rock affiliate in Albuquerque
and eventually ended up with the Music Director title. He programmed heavy music
within the format (the stuff most of his co-workers hated, but had a large fanbase
in Albuquerque).
Needless to say it didn't last and Eric was out of a job.
After
a year of searching, Eric landed the Program Director job at WTZR (another Z-Rock
affiliate) in Scranton, PA., in 1994. He started programming heavy music into
the format and started a weekly show called the "Weekend Powersurge"
(with the air name 'Johnny
Kilgore'). The management of the station and the Z-Rock network didn't like
this of course, and tried to pressure Eric to change to a 'listener friendly
alternative format'....which he refused to do.
Soon after the premiere of his show, Eric was fired.
In
1995, Eric ended up working overnights at KTEG, The Edge, in Albuquerque,
again as 'Johnny
Kilgore'. After a year and 3 months, dealing with overbearing program directors
who never gave him a raise or any amount of respect, getting turned down for
better airshifts (even though he was the #1 overnight jock in Albuquerque),
Eric got tired of the shit and totally snapped. He took over the radio station
for over 2 hours and played nothing but the heaviest of metal. The phones blew
off the hook in support...even the next morning when the morning show came in,
they also interviewed him live on the air to get the whole story (to quote Eric
from the interview "Sometimes you gotta grab the bull by the horns and
give him a swift kick in the nads").
Of course Eric was fired the next day, but with a smile on his face.
Eric left commercial radio with a vengeance! Five trade journals covered the
story (Gavin
Report,
Album Network,
F Magazine, Hard Report and FMQB) and he even got a mention on a local
TV station's morning news program. The Edge was getting slammed with phone
calls for months afterwards, eventually causing them to get a new request line
number.
And to this day nobody has forgotten the 'Legend of Johnny Kilgore'.
Over
the next three years, Eric worked as a strip club disk jockey, went to school
to learn about computers,
and worked in customer service for a major corporate online service
....and quit after 2 1/2 years to pursue other options and to save his sanity.
Also
about eight years ago, Eric came up with VomitRadio™.
He wanted to make his dream come true and have his own radio station.
A station where he could bring his idea to the world on how radio should be
done.
A station that would grab the other so-called 'hard music' stations by the
balls and make them run for their lives!.
On January 1, 2000, VomitRadio.com™ launched to the world and radio will never be the same again.
VomitRadio™ will continue to feature the best in metal, punk, industrial, hardcore, and also unsigned bands.
VomitRadio™ is here to stay!