Building THIS IS ROCK 'N' ROLL RADIO # 1100

This Sunday night, October 24th, Dana and I will be hosting the 1100th edition of This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio with Dana & Carl. With the playlist finalized and the file already sent to Dana for the hoodoo that he do so well, I can state for the record that This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio # 1100 is gonna be pretty freakin' good. If you have other plans for this Sunday night, cancel 'em. You need to be with us instead.

Approaching a milestone show, figuring out the specifics of how to acknowledge and celebrate, may seem like a challenge, but it really isn't. I mean, there is the challenge of figuring out what to omit so the playlist can fit into a mere three-hour time slot, but the act of coming up with choices is a snap. Sometimes our friend and intrepid stats man Fritz Van Leaven puts together a countdown show for us, and we do what Fritz tells us to do. Other times, including Sunday's TIRnRR # 1100, Dana and I bounce around ideas for what collection of songs can serve as an approximate summary of our story so far. Of course, it's gotta be a great radio show on its own merit, but with what we have to work with, that takes care of itself.

On the occasion of our 1000th show two years ago, I said this:

"For this celebration of our 1000th show, we’re going to play a number of songs that we have played before. We’ll play some hits, and we’ll play some deep tracks, maybe some things we’ve played recently, maybe some things we haven’t played in a while. You’ll hear stuff you know, but if we play something you don’t know, turn it up anyway—that’s how you discover even more songs to love. 

"That's our ongoing credo, and I think we demonstrated it in our 1000th show. I think it's evident in each of our shows."

Same approach applies to TIRnRR # 1100, with some of the same songs, and many different ones, too. I do believe you'll dig it. Please join us from to 9 to Midnight Eastern on Sunday, October 24th, for This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio # 1100.

This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio with Dana & Carl airs Sunday nights from 9 to Midnight Eastern, on the air in Syracuse at SPARK! WSPJ 103.3 and 93.7 FM, and on the web at  http://sparksyracuse.org/