Off The Hook With Gage: Recent Episodes
Gage Kenady
Off the Hook presents a delectable smorgasbord of musical offerings from the dawn of recording to the present day. Ranging from playful pop to daunting musical obscurities, ethnic flights to local lights, Off the Hook aims to tickle your ear-bone with scintillating sounds and the opinionated expertise of host Gage Kenady. Off The Hook: the show that shows.
Enjoy SILKY SOUNDS in an environment of utter confusion! * How does Kenady turn what should be a walk in the park into a HIGHWIRE ACT? * And why does he speak of himself in the THIRD PERSON? * Because, let's face it, OFF THE HOOK is bigger than the both of them! * Be real for once and get down to sounds that'll have you driving through the park! * OFF THE HOOK, crashing in silk pajamas at 1:00 on KXSF 102.5FM * https://kxsf.fm/
OFF THE HOOK: your weekly new music GO-TO. * But, where does your go-to COME FROM? * In a laboratory, surrounded by fuming beakers of pure sound, cackling to himself as he pursues his WARPED musical vision, a modern alchemist seeks a panacea to the problem of dull radio! * His ceaseless curiosity and IDIOSYNCRATIC tastes ensure that, but is the world ready for his weekly monsters? * An on-going experiment in transformational transmissions, it's like magic and passion had a baby! * And every baby is perfect on OFF THE HOOK at 1:00 on KXSF 102.5FM / https://kxsf.fm/
He goes his own way with little to say. * On his radio show, OFF THE HOOK, he lets the music do the talking! * He's GAGE KENADY, his maverick status is legendary, and he WANTS YOU to join the ranks of the hoards (soon to be legion) of listeners trying to CRACK the code of THIS man's musical MIND: sweet sailing, then BANG! -there's that bit of dissonance he seems to require! * What makes this man tick?? * Be complicit in his complexity at 1:00 on KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/ And NO MANG-MANG!
If you can't find what you're looking for on OFF THE HOOK, you've come to the right place! * For OFF THE HOOK caters to the INSATIABLE Music Maniac who likes to stay ONE STEP AHEAD of the Cowed Crowd who are content with their Comfort Cud! * Ruminate elsewhere, Bossy! * OFF THE HOOK offers fresh musical pastures untrampled and untrammeled! * Wander in Free Wonder through soundscapes unheard! * An unbridled yokel ye may yet be! * OFF THE HOOK on KXSF 102.5FM ( https://kxsf.fm/ )
IT'S FRIDAY! * And Friday is my day to be your Audio Chauffeur! * Let me take the wheel for a swervy journey to SOUND TOWN! * (aka OFF THE HOOK) * Loosen that seatbelt, put your feet on the dash and suck on that open container -there are no laws on this toll-free road! * I've got my LICENSE TO SPILL, so you auto let me drive you crazy on OFF THE HOOK, my VEHICLE to CONVEY! * This road-tested pile-up of crashing good tunes can be heard in archive here -> https://kxsf.fm/
Come and get it! * Lap up a mess of HOT JAMS sure to sate your audio hunger and quench your musical thirst with heaping helpings of exotic comfort sounds! * These victuals be ear-bound and Radio Dinner never sounded so good! * So loosen your belt and belly up to OFF THE HOOK for a feast you'll look forward to repeating! * It's a musical PLEASURE GLUT for the ears! ( https://kxsf.fm/ ) * Bon appétit from OFF THE HOOK, The Show That Cooks!
If you listen to us, OFF THE HOOK promises to do things to you that have never been done before! * A promise, not a threat, every week on OFF THE HOOK! * OFF THE HOOK can't control the level or direction of its influence -high or low/good or bad- but plagiarism is to be expected! * Suffice it to say, it would behoove you to get a MOB of friends together to spend some TIME listening to OFF THE HOOK! * Canaries may sing and you may, too! * This is no hollow promise! * Let OFF THE HOOK be your Special Master on KXSF 102.5FM / https://kxsf.fm/
My listener, The MUSIC SNOB: The music he MUST HEAR on OFF THE HOOK is NOW and shouldn't have to wait 10, 20 years for others to learn about and appreciate. * Is it too much to ask of just one measly radio program to be up-to-date? * If OFF THE HOOK must work so hard to please its toughest customer, to constantly scour the interwebs in search of the NEWEST and MOST NOVEL musical selections to satisfy this most demanding of listeners -this know-it-all whose tastes are refined and so so broad- how can the rest of you fail to fall for the painstakingly prepared charms of The Show That Shows?
The attention-grabbing antics of OFF THE HOOK are pretty much limited to these posts. * For the OFF THE HOOK show itself is a refined and generally sober experience that is above hyperbolic (often false) come-ons like "GYRATE MADLY TO THE FANTASTICALLY PULSATING SOUNDS OF OFF THE HOOK!" * nor needs to lure your libido with suggestive lines like "PROBING NEW SOUNDS THAT WILL PENETRATE THE INNER RECESSES OF YOUR BEING! * That said, oldies fans will find today's OFF THE HOOK absolutely BULGING with (some SEXY, some dead) Birthday Tributees! * Tune in to KXSF 102.5FM or https://kxsf.fm/ Your being will THROB!
Move your hand to the right, shut the alarm * Hop five steps, turn the radio on * Throw your butt in the chair, take a puff: You're doin' the OFF THE HOOK! * (come on, it's easy!) * Get a-tappin' your feet, sip your bev * Leap out of your seat, bust a move * Throw your hands in the air, text a friend: we're doin' the OFF THE HOOK! * (getting more complicated now) * Get a quizzical look, knit your brow * Feel your heartbeat increase, holy cow! * Feelin' kinda changed, don't know how (s'from doin' the OFF THE HOOK!) * Grab your partner for the Friday craze: OFF THE HOOK on KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/ Over-excitement that's good for you.
As Summer is upon us and the days now wane, the Sun within OFF THE HOOK burns ever brighter as we begin our leisurely plummet into Fall * But, tho' distractions be pleasurable and many, OFF THE HOOK shall not stray from your side and hopes that you will be not to constancy untrue * For this weekly benefaction is mutual, and as we sup together from life's Horn, our inspirations are replenishable and our bond supports our souls * FREE TICKETS, ROCK & ROLL, Summer in The City. * OFF THE HOOK on KXSF 102.5FM * https://kxsf.fm/
Ever feel like an ABDUCTEE? * Every Friday at 1:00 pm a switch flips in your head and you hypnotically make your way to the radio to have EXPERIMENTS performed on you by OFF THE HOOK! * How this thing started you don't remember, and where/when/how will it end?? * No one puts a gun to your head and OFF THE HOOK cleverly absolved itself of any responsibility from the get-go with the disclaimer of its name! * They say there's FREE WILL, but come on, it's the IRRESISTABLE FORCE of OFF THE HOOK we're talking about! * https://kxsf.fm/
AT LAST! * A radio program that keeps you FIT by refusing to cater to your lazy-ass tendency to listen to the familiar shop-worn sounds heard everywhere else! * OFF THE HOOK promotes HEALTHY LISTENING habits by offering diverse programming and introducing new strains of musical hybrids! * FINALLY!, a music broadcast that STRETCHES you and reduces musical flab! * While increasing flexibility, OFF THE HOOK, The Show That Shows, also keeps you taut by exercising your Discernment Muscle (for necessary context, it provides the Birthday Segment) and builds strong bones -like the Spine (strengthen this before it disintegrates into jelly; also useful for standing up to your friends who question your choice of radio programs)! * Reject comfort-programming! * OFF THE HOOK challenges you to be a better You! * Join us at https://kxsf.fm/)* It's a workout!
You gave THANKS and now look at you! * A bloated corpus lying supine on the floor after gorging yourself silly during yesterday's gluttonous revels! * I hope you can get your more moderate housemate to help you tune into the ALL NEW and digestively restorative OFF THE HOOK! * While you were hoisting your nth glass of wine, someone was acting responsibly to ensure there would be NO LEFTOVERS on today's OFF THE HOOK! * You're welcome.
AS GOOD AS IT GETS! * OFF THE HOOK strives to do its level BEST to bring you STIMULATING programming each and every week! * It hopes you will be INSPIRED to hang the whole dang three hours of its host's IDIOSYNCRATIC CURATION! * But, who's kidding who? * Its host is just an opinionated old man who can barely manage to work the controls in the studio and his dream of OFF THE HOOK being seen as the Flagship of KXSF (102.5FM / http://kxsf.fm ) is laughable! * Be that as it may, OFF THE HOOK is as good as it gets! * Take it or leave it at 1:00.
Maybe DEMOCRACY is NOT DEAD after all! * The results are still coming in, but OFF THE HOOK appears to be on track to remain the Top Musical Radio Program Featuring Predominately Current Music of any Bay Area station operating on a mere two watts! * Yes, listeners have voted with their ears and, unlike many races, YOU can still vote by listening to OFF THE HOOK at http://kxsf.fm * FREE RADIO (plays what it wants, costs you nothing) is NOT DEAD!
Who's gonna wear your shoes when you want to run away from THE BLUES? * Well, you are! * And you're gonna run right over to OFF THE HOOK, where even SAD SONGS are glad! * It's not Rocket Science and it doesn't even make sense, but please trust The Show That Shows to show you a good time, sailor! * So, go on, RUN right now to http://kxsf.fm * OFF THE HOOK is a music-playing program.
TRICK OR TREAT? * With OFF THE HOOK it's usually both! * But, while OFF THE HOOK is always SPIRITED, it doesn't believe in GHOSTS! * Therefore, despite its proximity to HALLOWE'EN, and allowing that the GORY CORPSES of the past WILL RISE as they always do in the Birthday Segment, you will not smell the ROTTING FLESH of last year's BURIED hit parade, but will hear only FRESH BLOOD on Today's OFF THE HOOK! * Tune in at 1:00 (I know it's SUPER-NATURAL for you to do so) and wear a COSTUME, if you like, but don't miss OFF THE HOOK on KXSF 102.5FM http://kxsf.fm ! * BOO to you, too!
UNSUNG though I may end up, I'll be DAMNED if I let my roster of ROISTEROUS ROCKERS suffer a similar fate! * These songs and their singers shall not be consigned to lonely, forgotten corners of the Musicverse, but shall have their day (if only one) via the OFF THE HOOK program! * Arcing triumphantly over the city span through the MIRACLE of RADIO technology, these BUMPTIOUS bellwethers of bold beginnings will proudly proclaim "I AM HERE!" * We would like for YOU to be here: to hear The Show That Shows, OFF THE HOOK!
Woo-hoo! * OFF THE HOOK! * GO GO GO! * Today's OFF THE HOOK presents SONGS with a crushing lilt! * SOUNDS to make you successful! * OLDIES by the score (actually fewer than twelve)! * and FREE TICKETS to live performances! * Three hours CANNOT be spent more enjoyably! * So, what are you waiting for? One o'clock? * YES! on KXSF 102.5FM! * OFF THE HOOK! * Put yourself in the middle of the ACTION!
IT'S MY BABY! * Giving birth to OFF THE HOOK every week is a MIRACULOUS thing and, after days of Labor, I DELIVER it to you alive, kicking and decidedly non-binary! * Now and then some insensitive clod will point out flaws THEY perceive, but to the proud parent they are all PERFECT! * Yes, OFF THE HOOK is my baby and I'm already Pregnant with ideas for the next one! * Attend the birth of this week's baby!
OFF THE HOOK has always been HARDLY STRICTLY BLUEGRASS, but SPECIAL in its own unique way! * And while regular listeners are not bothered by its Very Rarely Bluegrass programming, they are also relieved to not have to traipse across town in overcrowded buses or surge-time taxis to dehydrate themselves fighting over blanket space! * Phew! * No, they are more than content to kick back with a couple of doobies in the comfort of their own home or car listening to the VERY SPECIAL HARDLY STRICTLY BLUEGRASS (read: practically never) OFF THE HOOK! * Become a regular!
Autumn is upon us and you can use a break. * Although the Dog Days are behind us and we feel a glimmer of hope that Public Enemy #1 may finally be put down, we know that it's too late to change our downward trajectory. * Too many bad dogs and the selfish ghosts of the past leave us with our only hope: hope that the rest of our days (and our kids', I guess) are spent in not too much discomfort. * Bummer? Yes. * But for three hours we can live in the present, feeling-not thinking, staying our fear of the future! * It's called OFF THE HOOK, bathing our senses in rapturous music, keeping us feeling alive and hopeful, if only in the now.
HE'S AT IT AGAIN, forcing a bunch of NEW MUSIC on listeners HE thinks is good! * That's his job! * This Curator Extraordinaire works overtime to ensure a STIMULATING program every week! * His standards are so high, it's no wonder he's been called been called "a PROGRAMMING GENIUS" by someone not associated with any publication! * If he fails to persuade, it's the fault of the listener! * I'd tell you his name, but instead I'll ask you to listen to MY show, OFF THE HOOK!
An UNHEALTHY OBSESSION? * Only recently have I asked myself the question posed by many through the years, as I slog through piles of RUBBISH in order to extract the SWEET KERNELS of sound that I present to you, dear listener, each week on the OFF THE HOOK program (with a side of my personal corn)! * IS IT WORTH IT? * Our answers may differ, but as a public servant who is COMPELLED to educate, for the betterment of all ears and minds, mine would be a resounding 'YES!' * You, on the other hand, may care less for a diet heavy with current music (today's extra-long Birthday Segment will offer respite) and OFF THE HOOK may not be for you. * TRY IT! * If you don't like it, maybe we can still be friends. Maybe not.
INDICTED? For taking RECORDS AND DOCUMENTS (Birthday Segment notes) home with me from the KXSF studio following the OFF THE HOOK program? * THEY"RE MINE! * And, in my quest to Make Radio Great Again, they're essential! * That's why you'll hear nary a crummy song (I don't think) on today's (or any day's) OFF THE HOOK! * Join your Special Master when you're ready to hear NO CRUMMY SONGS! * Indicted? I should be Knighted!
THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE! * Whether at home or in the office, it's time to pack up your workweek starting at 1:00 with OFF THE HOOK! * What constitutes a great preekwend (pre-weekend)? * Well, something FREE for starters, something that ROUSES (makes you move, maybe gets you a little horny), something that goes good with drugs! * Check, Check, Check! * OFF THE HOOK does it all with INCREDIBLE MUSIC and the sparkling repartee of acrobat/MC Gage Kenady! * Like a swashbuckler of the airwaves, the devil-may-care DERRING-DO of this tightrope walker with two left feet will have you on the edge of your seat gnawing nails -will he make it? * Find out and prepare to have your swash buckled on OFF THE HOOK!
Another Friday, another cab fare. * But it's worth my personal expense to keep San Francisco (and the world!) musically educated! * Otherwise, you might veer towards 'publican songs of civil war! * Hey! We have a society here! * The American educational system has clearly failed and critical thinking is all but dead! * You need the facts. * Fact is, you can't think for yourself if you let others do it for you with one-sided viewpoints and misinformation! * Fact is, OFF THE HOOK offers you a BROADER musical palette with options NEWER than those dusty old saber-rattling war songs! * Fact is, OFF THE HOOK comes to you FREE and it's fun!
Well, I've Raided my various Search platforms in Order to Document the latest new Records Released this week and will Unseal Evidence of material that will Warrant your spending three hours with me today! * Just want to Inform you that you will be in Receipt of a Garland of pretty tunes full of Motion that have not been Planted merely to Serve my own self-interests! * Although I feel it would be a bit Déclassé of you to request it, I would gladly sign an Affidavit to this effect in hopes that you will Investigate at least a portion of the fine program I have prepared. * If you don't like it, at least you tried, and I'll have to consider you OFF THE HOOK!
Hang onto your ears because OFF THE HOOK ROCKS YOUR FACE! * Yes, this most UN-CRUMMY weekly program -FOR CHAMPIONS and losers alike- scrapes the MEAT from the bone and shoves it in your cranium, animating a DEPRAVED DANCE that will have your neighbors shuddering behind their shutters! (that's what you like, right?) * Toxic and non-fattening, it's OFF THE HOOK! * Hang on to your face.
n whose shoes do you walk? Only just your own. * On what path do you tread? None before shown. *
With quickening steps you boldly go to spy a wilderness unknown. * Up ahead is OFF THE HOOK, whose heart's not made of stone. *
A friendly guide to clear the way, the byways it be prone. * So tune in sharp at one o'clock, lest your chance be blown. *
At 102.5-FM (KXSF it is known) * It's OFF THE HOOK, the Show That Shows. * Nothing to do with phones!
I like you. * It seems very few actually LISTEN to music anymore. * You're different. * You can't wait to find out WHAT'S NEW in music every week on OFF THE HOOK! * While others are TikTok-ing away, or require only a nostalgic aural wallpaper to soundtrack their mundane social media fabrications, you're in it for a deep dive of contemporary MUSICAL INSPIRATION! * The kind you come to expect on OFF THE HOOK, the Show That Shows you that the wellspring of humanity is PUMPED by the creative impulse! * You'd like for everyone to be so inspired, for a better world. * Tell them, good person: OFF THE HOOK on KXSF 102.5FM / http://kxsf.fm You I like.
How can I describe the WONDERS TO BE HEARD on today's OFF THE HOOK? * I can't. You'll just have to listen! * BUT, I can tell you about The Birthday Segment, where tunes from Stars of Yesteryear will break up the onslaught of TERRIBLY EXCITING new music that won't -just can't!- be heard anywhere but on OFF THE HOOK! * I can tell you, too, that I will be giving away FREE TICKETS, and, if we're LUCKY, we'll be wrapping up with Uncle Gagie's Singles Box! * Well, I, for one, am already feeling satisfied! * It's OFF THE HOOK!
He's back! * It's here! * Are you ready for the 'OFF THE HOOK 10th ANNIVERSARY SHOW!' ? * Yes, THE SHOW THAT SHOWS has been showing you what's what for 10 years! * Can you believe it? * Neither can I! * Just starting to get the hang of this thing and -Phew! -ten years older! * (and TEN YEARS SHARPER! -you should hear some of the first shows) * We'll have Lights! * Streamers! * Dancers! (you) * Popcorn and punch! * And the BEST DOGGONE MUSIC, as has been our mission lo these many years! * Please join us for this inexplicable anniversary!
BREATHTAKING in its scope, HARD-HITTING in its approach, OFF THE HOOK is not for the mild-mannered easy chair set! * With MIND-BOGGLING new music mined from the coalface of the contemporary scene, OFF THE HOOK presents BURNING NUGGETS of sound cut straight from the Rock! * Not for namby-pamby Sunday spelunkers, OFF THE HOOK takes you on a DEEP DIVE into the depths of the underground for a program SO HOT you might burn your face! * Accept the challenge!
WE'VE GOT OLDIES! * Yes, OFF THE HOOK PLAYS (a few) GOOD OLD SONGS OF YESTERYEAR (after you've consumed a healthy portion of current releases)! * RE-LIVE THE GLORIOUS PAST WHEN MUSIC WAS GOOD (mostly songs you're not familiar with)! * BATHE IN THE NOSTALGIC GLOW OF TIMES LESS COMPLICATED (because you're simple?)! * REVEL FOR A MOMENT IN THE CLASSIC SOUNDS OF YOUR YOUTH (then it's right back to strikingly-new material, chum)! * OFF THE HOOK: EVER LOOKING BACKWARD (over my dead body)!
Because young people need to be told THE TRUTH about new music * Because old people need to GET WITH IT * OFF THE HOOK: Improving society, supporting creative artistry.
It can be lonely being AHEAD OF THE CURVE, but while my dearth of "Likes" is my Badge of Honor, I still request your company and urge you to accept the OPPORTUNITY I offer to avail yourselves of the SPECIALLY CURATED programming I bestow upon you clueless mass! * In one fell swoop (three hours), you become UP-TO-DATE and no social media scenester or influencer can take that away from you! * They will hit a brick wall when it comes to telling you what's what after you've listened to OFF THE HOOK! * NO WACK TRACKS!
RADIO FOR MUSOS! * Still listening to old favorites? * Why, when your NEW FAVORITE SONGS await you on OFF THE HOOK? * Think how impressed your friends will be when you drop the names of UNBELIEVABLY FANTASTIC songs by INCREDIBLE NEW artists they've never heard of! * (those would be your square friends who don't already listen to OFF THE HOOK) * Prestige is one thing, but sharing gets you into Heaven! * Hip your friends to The Show That Shows, OFF THE HOOK!
Pardner, I wouldn't want people laughing behind your back because you're not UP TO DATE with the LATEST SOUNDS. * Surely you can spare a measly three hours to listen to OFF THE HOOK, a show presenting the most MAGNIFICENT (sometimes just BEST) NEW MUSIC on the dial and in the stream! * We've got OLDIES for the NOSTALGIC (in the "Birthday Segment") and INFO for the CURIOUS! * OFF THE HOOK: for your own betterment!
ATTENTION! * Parts of OFF THE HOOK may make you feel uncomfortable! * That's good! * It shows you've been KNOCKED OUT of the complacency you've allowed yourself to be lulled into! * Your reaction to the STIMULATING programming of OFF THE HOOK affirms that you are ALIVE and thinking! * Congratulations! * Isn't it great to feel something?
Today's OFF THE HOOK is going to be a MOTHER with EARTHy and unearthly delights co-existing peacefully in a sustainable Environment (we hope) of mutual crust! * The OFF THE HOOK eco-system is ALIVE and thriving, planting NEW SEEDS of musical inspiration in our three-hour orbit! * The Florist of your musical Forest, OFF THE HOOK puts the ardor in your Arbor, so join us -PLAN IT! *
Good Friday, everyone! * But, whoever said TAX DAY is good? * Well, with a program of EXCITING new music selected especially for you, OFF THE HOOK says just that! * The only true certainty In the impermanent world of OFF THE HOOK is LIFE and the living, thriving sounds presented today shall be testament to that! * Plus, we do Birthdays. * File in and return to OFF THE HOOK! * It shouldn't be too taxing.
GRABBING YOU BY THE EARS until you cry "Uncle! I love it!", OFF THE HOOK may shake you all around, but never shakes you down! * This is FREE RADIO! * Hear what tries to be kept hid by greedy corporate radio goons from a sweet (sarcastic, smarmy, stumbling) and benevolent presenter who knows what's good for you! * To recap: FREE: costs you nothing but your time and mind! * SWEET: but never treacly! * Shake: SHAKE, RATTLE AND BLOW UP with OFF THE HOOK!
Tune in NOW for a Special remote broadcast live from Miami where Gage interviews The Chargers in their secret locker room on the eve of their new dawn! * We'll also hear wrestling 'n' laundry tips from MASTER chef Rudy Giuliani ! * AND animal poets of the Klondikes! * You'd be a fool not to miss this yeah yeah yeah edition of OFF THE HOOK!
I was tooling down the mean streets of San Francisco and flipped on the FM. * What I heard was so APPALLING, I realized that the reports I had heard were true: the state of local radio is UTTERLY ATROCIOUS! * I was about to FLIP OFF the radio when, like a GLEAMING BEACON from the heavens, I came upon 102.5, otherwise known as KXSF! * The power with which this BENEVOLENT RADIANCE hit me belied its paltry 2 Watts and I knew there was hope yet for the otherwise unfortunate denizens of our fair city! * RAH-RAH RADIO! * A particularly NOURISHING OASIS in the radio wasteland is the OFF THE HOOK program!
PLUMBING THE DEPTHS, one encounters the Umbrella Mouth Gulper Eel. * He's OFF THE HOOK and heading for you! * He flies through the Air! He slinks through the Stream! He looks like a stiletto heel and his bite brings wisdom and bliss! * Hear what he brings from the deep. * Catch him on the OFF THE HOOK program. * Plumb the depths with us.
HEY, GOOD LOOKIN'! * When I see someone so SHARP and well-appointed looking at their watch, I know I'm dealing with a FIERCELY INTELLIGENT individual with IMPECCABLE TASTE counting down the minutes to OFF THE HOOK! * A person ahead of the curve who enjoys a ROLLICKING GOOD TIME while sampling tomorrow's menu of musical mayhem today! * Someone whose shrewd discernment can only be sated by the SAGACIOUS SOUNDS on OFF THE HOOK! * Other people like it, too!
We hope that you will join us on OFF THE HOOK today. * We strive to bring you a good variety of the best current music. * For those who don't like or care about new music, we have oldies in the form of "The Birthday Segment". * You might even hear a song you know and like! * "Uncle Gagie's Singles Box" is also a fan favorite. * On a dreary day, OFF THE HOOK can cheer!
OFF THE HOOK: spiffy, with-it sounds for NOW people! * A SEXY, diverse and CONTROVERSIAL "water-cooler show" bringing lashing tongues and flying fists that end in harmonious hugs at the thankfulness shared for such a GODSEND! * This week your host brings not only the HAPPENINGEST hits for the hippest heads, but also a Tribute to the iconic vocalist of the MOST ICONIC "A Whiter Shade Of Pale", Procol Harum's GARY BROOKER (R.I.P.)! * It's OFF THE HOOK!
The inner world from just outside the world outside: 'tis where OFF THE HOOK resides, bringing Freedom Sounds from the freest of them all, Gage Kenady! * Freedom from tyrannical commercial radio! * Freedom from conventional musical thoughts! * Freedom never squandered! * Fuse your inner world with the inner world of OFF THE HOOK! * This is what your inner world wants. * FREE radio! * FREE music! * FREE thoughts! * P.S.: costs nothing!
It's gonna happen no matter what: a juggernaut that can't be stopped: OFF THE HOOK at one o'clock! * A bevvy of bodacious burblings, breaking down boundaries 'round every bend, beats through bracken to your brain! * Don't turn away from the new, but turn, too, to the past: OFF THE HOOK's Tribute to King Crimson/Foreigner- founding multi-instrumentalist IAN McDONALD (R.I.P.) * Past/Present come together -and in your favor- on OFF THE HOOK!
Get a SOUND GRIP on the LATEST TRENDS without wearing gloves! * OFF THE HOOK, your Top One-Stop Shop for all things Pop is stocked with Rock, Talk and Shock! * STACKED with racks of tracks that never slack, OFF THE HOOK brings things to make you fling and sing! * OFF THE HOOK: gloves-free radio. Your ears will be bigger for it!
Who can resist the ALLURE of the unknown? * All week long you ponder "What FANTASTICAL things will I hear on the next OFF THE HOOK?" * When the hour(s) of reckoning come, you're gobsmacked: "How are such sounds possible? And how can there be SUCH BEAUTY in such an ugly world?" * 'Tis part of the mystery, my friends! * The mystery and majesty of OFF THE HOOK, The Show That Shows! * A riddle and a puzzle that you will help solve!
If you're not living in the present, you're nowhere. * Be now. Hear now. * The past is gone. Ain't comin' back. You can't live there. * Be now. Hear now. * OFF THE HOOK is now. Really now. Way now. * If you care about your own existence, you'll listen to NOW MUSIC NOW. * OFF THE HOOK: now music now.
OFF THE HOOK WANTS YOU! * Opportunity available for people from all walks of life to participate in a once (or more)-only experiment involving increased listenership of OFF THE HOOK regardless of predetermined content. * This is an UNPAID position. * Benefits include 1) exposure to ONE-OF-A-KIND musical programming! 2) It's free! 3) Kills time while preparing to not go out! * Today's added incentive: a Tribute to Ronnie Spector (R.I.P.)!
DOPE SOUNDS from the SICKEST DJ of them all! * Gage Kenady bombards your butt with BUMPTIOUS BEATS and lilts your loins with SEXY SOUNDS on his OFF THE HOOK program! * They may drop tomorrow, but Kenady has the LATEST JAMZ today! * Don't miss out on the RADDEST from the BADDEST! * It's OFF THE HOOK, y'all!
WHAT IS "BEST"? * On today's New Year's Eve edition, OFF THE HOOK grapples with that very question! * "Worst" would be the year 2021 (we hope), but best in music this year? * OFF THE HOOK, The Show That Shows, will show some of the highlights! * (there IS one BEST song, from the ABSOLUTE BEST album of the year, but you'll have to stick around to the end of the show to find out which) * So tune in, settle in, and let OFF THE HOOK soundtrack your New Year's Eve party preparations!
HEY, SCROOGIE! We're going to slap a BIG FAT SMILE on your curmudgeonly face with CHRISTMAS SONGS to swell your heart and lighten your outlook on the OFF THE HOOK HOLIDAY HAPPENING! * Yes, OFF THE HOOK, that Noble Enabler of Cheer, has concocted a program to make you as merry as a bellyful of berries! * And if you think you've heard it all, ho ho ho, you're wrong because OFF THE HOOK DOESN"T REGIFT! * No, we have a SACKFUL of (mostly) new, NAUGHTY AND NICE, soon-to-be-favorite Xmas tunes in store for you! * It's OFF THE HOOKmas!
OFF THE HOOK is back with SOOTHING sounds to melt the bunched-up jangle of your hectic unraveling world! * As COMFORTING as a warm blanket on a stack of flapjacks or a COZY cabin covered in country gravy, just like mama used to make! * You'd mainline this shit if you could, so we dole it out in weekly three-hour doses. * Radio HEALING begins with OFF THE HOOK -your helpful little friend.
EXCITING SOUNDS for you to hop and flop to! * BEAUTIFUL SONGS for you to sing and cry with! * CREEPY NOISE for you to bury your head in! * HISTORICAL MATERIAL for you to remember the good old days! * OFF THE HOOK has it all! MIKE NESMITH (R.I.P) Tribute! *