The Magic of YouTube

This one takes me back a ways, some footage from the old WMSE studios from back when I was a DJ.  The main guy in the piece is Ric Laciak, one of the guys who played a lot of industrial stuff around the time I was on the air (early 90’s.)  Enjoy.

I’m actually in the video, but only my back in the Mistral t-shirt with the lower case “m” is visible.  It’s during the part where Ministry’s “Jesus Built my Hot Rod” is playing. 

I seem to remember Tom Crawford (current station manager, then DJ) got his hands on the single before it was released and before the station got its copy.  I brought it in for Ric who played it directly on the air.  I only knew about the part with the sample “Let’s hit the f**king road” and cut that out (that’s my hand on the board), but didn’t listen to the B-Side where Jorgensen wails out “Connect the Goddamn Dots!!!!” We thought the song was pretty tough and Ric decided to air it.  Then Ric gives me this look like, “WTF!?!  Did you just have me play that on the air and had some guy filming me do it?”

He isn’t kidding about turning up the volume either, we used to crank the monitors really loud. I’m sure I pissed off a couple people during my 3am - 6am slot since the studio was right underneath the dorm rooms in Margaret Locke Hall. Ah good times….