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Quote from: Kizuna Ai on May 21, 2018, 04:17:41 PM
>20 posts

filthy casual

The only measurement of credibility here is time.

Do you think you can just come in here and disrespect members who has been here for years and years?

Quote from: GravitySucks on May 21, 2018, 04:10:17 PM
Lying POS. It’s been less than 8 and a total of 20 posts. Go suck an egg.

It's closer to 10 than 5 and you don't even have right to comment considering when you signed-up.

Quote from: Shithead on May 21, 2018, 09:40:06 AM
R.I.P.

Quote from: Richard Groyper on May 21, 2018, 09:56:14 AM
i attacked him when he was alive. i have no remorse.

Quote from: Azzerae on May 21, 2018, 08:36:38 AM
I don't care a fuck that Art was a piece of shit. So am I. He was a brilliant broadcaster, and that's all that matters to me. He admitted the things that Mr. Pontius said he did, on air - not directly - but always alluded to guilt he had about people he abandoned in his life. He also, on many occasions mentioned his love for women. I must be a sociopath too, because I know all the stuff Art did was awful, and wrong, but I guess I do really bad shit too and its water off a ducks back.

I've been a member of this site for almost 10 years. And here comes people who's been here for a week, a month or two years and insinuate that I can't speak my mind because he's dead!?

Was Art Bell the Bill Cosby of talk radio?

Quote from: ShayP on May 17, 2018, 09:21:35 AM
I think it was Millennium.

https://millennium-thisiswhoweare.net/guide/characters/profiles/art-bell-himself

No I'm aware that he was involved with Millenium but that's not it. This was a one or two season  tv-series/mini-series

Anyone know the name of the sci-fi series that was said to be inspired by Art Bell? Late 90s/early00s about some guy radioing from his outhouse.

Great show yesterday!

Banking Whistleblower, october 17.........Great show!!

you don't understand how George Noory has tried to diversify the show in a way that Art Bell couldn't . Just listen to Art's show on Sirius. It doesn't touch on all those emotional stories and financial stuff...not to mention the shows Ian did...

Art Bell is obviously the better radio host but you don't seem to understand what it is that Noory has tried to accomplish with the show.

anyone what song that is that is played in the intro over varous JFK and Jessie Ventura clips?

Good morning good evening. From the city of angles the gateway to the west

Quote from: Lunger on May 23, 2013, 08:22:06 AM
My concept of the kind of person that is a fan of That Idiot Norry ...


Wrestling Fan Breaks Down And Cries

I think the wrestling fan has more in common with the Art Bell fan than the Noory fan. Art Bell fans should skew more to the wrestling/sci-fi/comics/ side of it while Noory fans should be into current events/economy/history/religion

 

Quote from: Roy Hinkley on May 22, 2013, 11:11:31 PM
If you look at it, I think George has a lot of characteristics of Asperger Syndrome.  If you read the social interactions, well, there are no coincidences...

Quote from: WOTR on May 23, 2013, 12:21:11 AM

As somebody who lives my life somewhere on the spectrum, I have to disagree with your assessment.  We (and I realize that I am speaking for a large number of people...) do not want him any more than you do. natures way of making up for causing emotional retardation.)  Again George fails the test.

OHHHHH Shit! This just got real!

Quote from: Sardondi on May 15, 2013, 05:37:22 PM

So you gotta tell me, how could Clear Chan threaten Art? Do you mean under the terms of his non-compete agreement? Because I thought that had lapsed, and I had thought that when the non-compete time-expired, the former employee could even go into direct competition with his former company if he wished. Unless he signed that right away forever, which of course anyone can do.

Or do you mean that Clear Chan could threaten Art like the Mafia threatens folks - by being the meanest bunch of assholes around? In the case of Clear Chan, I assume that would mean being willing to commit "lawfare" against Art, in which they simply overwhelm him with their scores of lawyers who abuse the legal system for fun, whether they have a valid claim or not. Or could Clear Chan have threatened their own stations, warning them that signing Art up would be considered a violation of those stations' commitment to Clear Chan's "Lineup Of The Mediocre Artists"?

Your thoughts?

It's what happened to Michael Savage. Not many details have been made public but apparently he signed some kind long long-term non-compete contract with TRL and it took him years in court to get out of it.

My sound system can't take shit much longer. Will you hire a god damn vocal coach already?

Quote from: Roger on January 19, 2013, 02:06:41 PM
I understand your annoyance, but personally can allow some latitude regarding his habit of saying 'ok' since he is under pressure as a 'fill-in host'. He's obviously balancing several things at once.  I respect all these guys on that level of working live radio.  It is not an easy thing to pull off. After all, it isn't simply being a talking head.  It is a multi-tasking operation. No one gets a job like that without having gone through some prior hurdles. Many hurdles.

<p> It isn't quite fair to compare any host 'post-Bell' to Bell.  After-all, even Bell could be quite 'annoying' sometimes. "Concision" or awareness of 'breaks' makes even the best host apparently 'rude'.  These guys or gals in radio are always looking at the clock.  I admit that Bell seemed inordinately unconcerned about this concision thing, yet he respected it. He danced around it like a ballet master does with 'x'es on a floor. Bell seemed utterly unafraid.  Where he got this power, no one seems to know, but none following him seem to have mastered this fearlessness with as much grace.

I can only guess, like genius in so many other fields, one is either born with it or not. Or, maybe, he knows someone or is friends with someone in ways others are not.  I doubt the latter being a factor, believe the former more likely.

It seems a pun, but is unintended: art is art. Da Vinci evinced genius impossible to be inculcated by his instructors.  He became a teacher in latter years, yet none ever equaled, nor ever after compared.  The 'spark' of genius was Da Vinci's alone evidently. Unless we are mislead in thinking what we call 'his' isn't.

In the same way, I think, in Bell, was a highly evocative, in-garrulous, patient and listening interviewer. An 'interrogateur' if you will.

Not always. Sometimes, he too, would interrupt at the most in-opportune moments . . . according to a listener's perspective.  The most interesting sentence might be in formation which a listener is hanging onto, waiting for another word when Bell would interrupt and insist on some prior point being more fully delineated.  And, guess what? the hanging point would remain hanging forever unfinished. I can hear the thousand heads banging against the walls near their beds on such 'peccadilloes' or minor sins. Yet, believe it or not, they did accumulate. Yes, indeed, even the great Art Bell began to accumulate an annoyed number of 'faithful' followers. Begrudging followers.

People grew highly annoyed at the number of 'breaks'. Length of 'breaks'. Awareness of Art's apparent lack of interest in his guests, etc.

We are practically unaware of the work involved in radio. Entertained once, entertained always is our rule.  The effort involved in enjoyment of radio work is almost nil in comparison to the amount of work involved in production. These people do, actually, earn their checks.

End of Part I

Listen I never said Art Bell was the perfect and ultimate radio host. He is probably one of the best hosts in the history of radio though. One of the reasons he was great was that when he didn't understand he would ask follow-up questions.


Rob Simone IMO could be better than Noory, Knapp, the Vegas-guy, Punnett, but he has to be "real" on the air. Not just brush over the stuff he doesn't understand. Learn from Art Bell bro and stop saying "ok" to everything.

Quote from: Morgus on January 31, 2013, 12:25:11 AM
Rob Simone has joined the ranks of talking heads on paranormal TV shows just like Noory and others do on Ancient Aliens.
I saw Simone on last weekend's new episode of Unsolved Alien Files that John B. Wells is the voice announcer on.

They couldn't get Barry White to do it?

Quote from: Luxlogs on January 24, 2013, 03:52:51 PM
First reply and I'm glad I have something worthwhile to offer.

In the last month James McCanney has mentioned Art and The Hale Bopp mess on his weekly short wave show. He says that Art was RIGHT and Hale Bopp DID have a companion. Also Heavens Gate was a Sanctioned Hit and not a mass suicide.

All past shows are archived

http://www.jmccanneyscience.com/

Thanks
Niel

What do you do for a living?

Quote from: Yorkshire pud on January 11, 2013, 01:37:42 PM
Would you be willing to be interviewed if you'd humiliated yourself to that degree? I think you wouldn't.

They journalists who went through all the hassle to get there can't stay one more day and film some hippie having a meltdown?

I'm disappointed that I can't find any news reports from Bugarach post dec 21. All the networks did stories from  Bugarach in the days prior to dec 21 but not one of them did anything with the disgruntled believers and what happened when the world didn't end.

Quote from: Ben Shockley on December 31, 2012, 11:35:16 AM
You are right.
I have read that questions got so bad that he did that-- particularly when the twisted story came out (immediately with the son thing) that Art was a molester... you are correct.
But that was just a little period -- certainly not justification for Noory to think he is in any way similar to Art in terms of radio chutzpah.

as long as there is a grain of truth it's fine right?

I think he is great but two things
1. It's annoying that the he says "ok" to everything.
2. He has to ask more follow-up questions. That he should learn from Art Bell. When Bell doesn't understand he is not embarrassed he asks the follow-up questions until he gets it.

Quote from: Ben Shockley on December 31, 2012, 05:02:10 AM
"At some point" could mean anything.   But before he went to Phils, Art was pretty clearly taking any and all calls.   He did sometimes "screen" by talking to callers during commercial breaks before putting them on in the following segment.   That was rare and apparently happened only with guests that Art didn't want to bug with too much extraneous crap.

As for Noory: yes, his crew does screen, and they do it to only put on the dumbest callers to try to make Noory look good by comparison.   Art got some weirdos on the phone, but also a lot of fairly interesting people.   In the Noory era, a lot of the "interesting people" won't call, and if they do, they don't get on.

Well you know he had a rough period when his son had problems and he was getting paranoid. I wouldn't blame him if he told the network to screen all calls for a period of time.

Art Bell probably did have the network screen all calls at some point.

Quote from: Eddie Coyle on December 12, 2012, 07:06:32 PM
        As one of the poor souls in that market, Roth's audition was actually mornings on classic rock station WZLX in the spring of 2005. He was pretty bad...but managed, somehow, to be worse on the syndicated show in '06. What a disaster.

         But he'd be working with Eddie again within a year...so it worked out.
   

Dude you're lucky to have been there and heard that.
I will forever wonder how great that Boston show must have been for them to hire that trainwreck. Roth was on in mornings on the entire east coast pretty much. All big cities.

http://www.coasttocoastam.com/guest/lanza-robert/44471

QuoteRobert Lanza, M.D. is considered one of the leading scientists in the world. He is currently Chief Scientific Officer at Advanced Cell Technology, and Adjunct Professor at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. He has hundreds of publications and inventions, and over 20 scientific books: among them, “Principles of Tissue Engineering,” which is recognized as the definitive reference in the field.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/9750422/Connecticut-school-shooting-Adam-Lanza-was-assigned-psychologist.html

QuoteAdam Lanza caused so much concern because of his social awkwardness at high school that he was assigned a psychologist, according to a former school official.

My favorite c2c-guest btw. haven't heard his third appearance though.

Quote from: NowhereInTime on December 05, 2012, 05:58:49 PM
My recollection was that George filled in for Rush Limbaugh when he was going through his hearing difficulties.  I understood that PremRat & Art both approved of his performance during that time (circa spring/summer 2001 if I recall correctly) and that George showed himself capable of hosting a nationally syndicated show.  Fool me once shame  on you.  Fool me twice, then Sumthin's Happeneen!!!

I think this is how it usually happens.
A big radio corporation once hired David Lee Roth to replace Howard Stern. The management sent Roth to Boston to do two weeks of radio on overnights and they were very pleased with what they heard.

Quote from: b_dubb on October 22, 2012, 03:27:26 PM
you need to use quotation marks around greatness when you mention noory

hater

Ok I have to admit. Sometimes Noory is big retard on the air. Like when he claims that 25% of one third equals three out of ten....or when he cut of a guest to claim that Ford took bail-out money in 2009.

Other times he is right there. Doing the shows that Art Bell never did. Being the fabric of the night time America. Listening, feeling, being open to emotions.

This is not anti-Art Bell. It's just that Art Bell didn't do those kind of shows.

Quote from: ziznak on October 15, 2012, 04:01:47 PM
uh oh

I've been here longer than you. Where is your credibility?