Goodbye Moe Lauzier
Poor Moe Lauzier - it does take a certain amount of self-respect and drive to get behind a microphone, but Lauzier was just a shill the station used to further its backwards right-wing propaganda. How can anyone with any credibility admit they voted for the smirking chimp, George W. Cheney? Egads. That's the problem with Mr. Lauzier, even he doesn't realize what a washed-up old burnout he was on the air. No one cares that's he's gone other than the fact that we are THANKFUL that he is gone. One down, a dozen or so more to go.
WRKO's Moe Lauzier was awful. He was just plain awful. When awful on-air personalities infiltrate a station the station becomes awful.
Lauzier was indicative of RKO, and with Carr Howie mumbling under his breath at the corporate hierarchy so full of malarkey - well - I've got some air checks of on-air personalities who mumble about the corporations and corporations never ever EVER forget. Carr better cash in all his poker chips a.s.a.p. with Enterscam, Greater Media and any other organizations now because if you believe in the laws of Karma, well, Virgin Boy & Nanchy Ranchy Shack are sharpening their claws and knives and waiting for the moment to do to "The Captain" what he did to Jerry Williams...a true Et tu, Brute? moment! that we can't wait for!
What can we say about Moe in this eulogy?
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; We come to bury Lauzier, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; but in Moe's case, it will all be forgotten because there's nothing worth remembering!
Moe's biggest sin was that he was the ultimate in boring talk. Talk has to be inviting, compelling and somewhat humorous. Lauzier was none of the above.
Maybe he can do commercials with Phat Whitney up on the North Shore.
"Stick a fork in it, Pat, it's done, just like Lauzier's radio career." Now that would be funny!
Here's where the sad old boy went wrong:
---it was Moe's way or the highway (much like WRKO itself)
---Moe would talk AT you, not converse with you (much like WRKO itself)
---He was a hardcore Republican. That crowd that says they are pro-life, but some nitwit named "Virgin Boy" will gloat that bombs are dropping on Iraq and over a hundred thousand people are now dead. So much for Pro-Life!
Mo00000000 Lauzier was WRKO incarnate. He was a stain that wrecked the weekends, but couldn't seem to get over the bar and onto a regular shift. How pathetic is it to be a veteran at 680 AM and see Todd Fiend-burg, with emphasis on fiend, get your gig! OUCH!
Poor Moooooooo Lauzier....RKO is the quintessential self-loathing radio station. It hates itself. A very public battle with Howie Carr and a hostile takeover of his contract...isn't that kind of like putting an injunction on the wife forcing her NOT to get a divorce? What a twisted world!
The best thing RKO could've done was hired Mooooo Lauzier for one last fling, three days of playing Tone Loc's "Funky Cold Medina" and forcing him to announce the frigging song intro and outro for three days straight before they imploded the station. They should've let Howie Carr go to WKKK - Ku Klux Klan radio with that other clucklehead Jay "Don't Call Me Jimmy" Severino where they could've done the Finneran/Carr we hate each other routine ad infinitum.
But, alas, RKO chooses to die a slow death...hideous radio with the Clones of Todd Fumbleberg augmenting Finneran's foolishness...the only good thing on the station is the foolish Chump Line when idiots AREN'T attempting to sing on it.
Low Mauzier
http://moeissuesoftheday.blogspot.com/2008/04/what-am-i-going-to-do.html
Moe sayeth:
The way I was released, I was fired.
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So what can WRKO do with its dreadful station?
---Go back to the 70s and play Donna Summer and Rick Derringer.
Derringer's new jazz recordings are a hell of a lot better than sitting through another concert of his where "Hang on Sloopy" sounds like the needle wore out the 45 RPM. I was watching Derringer up at the Palace in Manchester and thinking..."This is SO BORING, this dude ought to play jazz..." and lo and behold he goes into a jazz number and - voila - the concert actually had some verve!
Some brio! Bravo!
When Derringer played on the cape back in the 90s (when the late John Kalishes was rocking down at Christine'splace) Rick D was cooking but these days he needs to just drop the oldies routine and go play
the Regattabar http://www.regattabarjazz.com/
---Sports is getting so overdone in this town. The ratings are going to end up like all those Boston Patriots (oh, excuse me, New England Patriots...showing my age, but as old as I am I'll never be as old as Moe Lauzier! HA ) framed pictures at Building 19 1/2...they have STACKS of them. Losing Game 19 cost the city so much emotion even the Red Sox don't have the charm...in fact, it is SO big business...are the Dropkick Murphy things even the real band? It's kind of like The Grass Roots with no original members - some corporate shell of a rock group doing the bidding of Yawkey Way - which isn't a bad thing, God Bless 'em, it's just too bad it isn't a more compelling band like Fox Pass or something...c'est la vie...why on earth would Entercomm want TALENTED musicians on the airwaves...
WRKO is a microcosm of the problems inherent in all of radio in 2008. Indicative of the lack of vision, the failure to communicate things of interest to the community, and most of all, the utter disregard for the fact that there is competition that isn't just down the dial. IPods and the internet are slicing away at radio, just as the internet is slicing away at booksellers.
The Record industry might lose the CD just as the cassette, 8 Track and vinyl album dwell on eBay pretty much exclusively, and the next generation may not respond to big business.
They will create new business models. It is my perception that radio will follow the record labels into exile...just as the labels are dependent upon Led Zeppelin and the Beatles while newer artists are more business savvy with technology in their hands to maximize profit, radio has a bunch of properties but doesn't know what to put on it.
What would you rather have, Howie Stern or Howard Carr?
Howard Carr is the sterile (in more ways than one) homogenized (without the homo) vanilla extract - like, with all the flavor extracted out of it. Howard Stern - love him or hate him - bucked the system.
Howie Carr fighting with WRKO is kind of like Osama Bin Laden fighting with The Ku Klux Klan. Who gives a flying if you see Kay?? Two wrongs beating each other up is a good thing.
That's when Two Rongs Due Make A Right - ha ha ...not as in Right-Wing-Whacko-Conservative but RIGHT OUT THE DOOR...let's hope Moe Lauzier is just the first of a lot of good news about these BORING old has-beens being shipped out to parts unknown. Then WRKO will implode, Julie & Jason will run off to Bill Gates and beg for a job at Microsoft (maybe they can run YAHOO radio or something? and THEN and only THEN, Moe Lauzier can come back for one last fling...playing Tone Loc for 3 days straight before he shuts off the WRKO lights for good.
The above rant was written before Reese on the Radio was removed. WRKO has had Abramoff/Tom Delay/Larry Craig syndrome for years now
Monday, April 7, 2008
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