Yes, that includes "More Than a Feeling. Rush's 1974 show at the Agora, aka "The First American Broadcast," was part of a successful run early on in Cleveland, which helped Rush gain popularity in the States. Matt remains one of the most popular air personalities from WMMS' fifty year history. Kid Leo Interviews Van Halen April 20, 1980. Springsteens famous 1978 Agora show is, arguably, the most famous gig in Cleveland history. Thats how big MMS was. [58][59] During this time, WMMS used slogans derived from its call sign: first as "Music Means Satisfaction", and later as the place "Where Music Means Something". Saturday, Mar 4, 2023 from 9:00am to 4:00pm. [26][38][39][75][76][77], The World Series of Rock was a recurring, day-long and usually multi-act summer rock concert held outdoors at Cleveland Municipal Stadium from 1974 through 1980. This feature ran at the exact moment of the KSU shootings twenty years later. Win tickets to see Brit Floyd at Jacobs Pavilion at Nautica. Use of and/or registration on any portion of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement, Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement, and Your Privacy Choices and Rights (each updated 1/26/2023). Goldfinger, The Refreshments, Triple Fast Action and others played the second stage at the top of the hill. It was the same logo used by all of the FM radio stations owned by Metromedia at the time. WMMS Coffee Break Concerts, an idea from Denny Sanders, was an intimate concert for a few hundred at the old Cleveland Agora. [170][171][172], WMMS has also served as the FM flagship station for the Cleveland Guardians Radio Network since 2013, again sharing network flagship status with AM sister station WTAM. Joan Jett, Sandy West and company played 13 songs, including "Cherry Bomb" and a cover of The Velvet Underground's "Rock & Roll. BLF also praised musicians and was a great fan of the Texas Tornadoes and Blue Cheer. typify the show's irreverent style. "Born to Run" was the essence of everything I loved about rock 'n' roll. Under Malrite ownership, WMMS would become an album-oriented rock (AOR) powerhouse, much in the same vein as its former MetroMedia progressive rock siblings. 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Tickets, $24 to $275, plus fees, at the box office, ticketmaster.com and livenation.com and by. Currently there are 2 upcoming events. On-site, play-by-play announcer Tim Alcorn calls games alongside color analyst Jim Chones, a former Cavaliers center. ". Lorton. [129][130] Radio & Records twice named WMMS "Rock Station of the Year: Markets 1-25" (200506) as part of the now defunct publication's annual Industry Achievement Awards. The band clearly enjoyed performing on Nautica's stage, right next to the waterfront, with Weiland stopping at one point to point out the large boats that were passing by. . Cookie Settings/Do Not Sell My Personal Information. Find tickets to all live music, concerts, tour dates and festivals in and around Ashburn. Benatar had just released her soon-to-be massive success of a debut, In the Heat of the Night." [51] Seeing a small but significant groundswell of support for the medium in the market, WHK-FM adopted a new progressive rock format on August 15, 1968. [88] Management ordered a change to the Buzzard by giving it a flat-top and mullet. His radio career began in 1973 with Cleveland on100.7WMMS. The WMMS broadcast features numerous highlights, including the hit "Runaway.". Cleveland Police briefly detained Ky-Mani Marley after the singer threatened Rover for comments made during an April 20, 2010 in-studio interview. Seth "the Barbarian" Williams took the overnight shift when Pennington moved to evenings in 2001. He finds himself traveling to LA to kill someone but ends up becoming a part of the theater scene. [51] Like most early FM stations, WHK-FM mostly simulcast the Top 40 programming of its AM sister station. No. Judas Priest was one of those bands that made a stop at the Agora before they became famous during the 1970s. WMMS-HD2, which relays its signal over low-power FM translator W256BT (99.1 FM), is the Cleveland affiliate for iHeart's all-news oriented Black Information Network. Dead & Company. In May 1994, Trent Reznor came home in support of his epic "The Downward Spiral" album. WMMS Coffee Break Concert: The Early Years A special from 1978 featuring early performances when the show emanated from a tiny studio at the radio station. . Lonnie Gronek, then general manager of the station, claimed in The Plain Dealer article that the process had gone on "for years", however other accounts dispute Gronek's claim. On May 4, 1970 four students were killed by gunfire from the Ohio National Guard at Kent State University. While both Rover and Alan Cox are primarily "hot talk" programs, rock music airs during regular middays, nights, overnights, weekends and online during Cavaliers and Guardians play-by-play. Denny Sanders Denny Sanders 1972 - 1986 "Those guys who pilot those ships through here? Cleveland Police wearing riot gear were called in just as headliner Green Day took the stage. "[110] Studios were moved again to a combined facility in the suburb of Independence, Ohio. Goldfinger, The Refreshments, Triple Fast Action and others played the second stage at the top of the hill. The next Artful Dodger concert is on June 03, 2023 at Brockwell Park in London, England, United Kingdom. The Agora "Alpha" first opened in 1966 in Little Italy before moving a year later to East 24th Street. She was well on her way to becoming the queen of rock and roll. Denny was also instrumental in convincing former WMMS owner Milton Maltz to continue the stations rock format in the mid-1970s. The live shows tell quite the story. Until Aug 20, 2022. Not only did it feature a up-and-coming band called Foo Fighters as the opening act, but Seattle band Hovercraft was also on the bill. Moms to be participated in the bikini contest for a chance to win $1,000. "[33] By April 2008, the station had reverted to branding as The Buzzard but using a road sign-style logo similar to a U.S. Route shield in an allusion to the mascot. [96] Gorman changed the WMMS format to alternative rock,[97] playing new acts like Nirvana, The Offspring, and Nine Inch Nails, on October 27. Springsteen Concert Poster - Agora - August 9th, 1978, Springsteen - Agora - Scene Magazine - August, 1978. Good old Red! Buzzard Morning Zoo video featuring Mr. Leonard. But her Agora set was modest, featuring just seven songs. It's most famous for heavily plugging the MC5, The Velvets and The Dolls on one hand and science-art groups like Soft Machine and King Crimson on the other. The show also drew national attention after holding a book burning party for Fifty Shades of Grey on July 8, 2012. [139], Bo Matthews (Alex Gutierrez), who became the station's program director in early 2004, hired Ohio native Benjamin "Maxwell" Bornstein that April for a more "personality-driven" afternoon show following the departure of Tim "Slats" Guinane for WXTM. Among the more significant moves taken by WMMS was the formatting of the morning zoo concept created by Z100's Scott Shannon onto the show Jeff & Flash (Jeff Kinzbach and Ed Ferenc) were already hosting. With Lou Reed. "[32] "De-emphasized" in the fall of 2007, the scavenger was revived the following spring to coincide with the station's 40th anniversary and with the arrival of morning personality Rover. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Advance Local. Some 2,000 people showed up to see AC/DC, then a hard-rock act still on the rise. Belkin Productions staged these events, attracting popular hard rock bands and as many as 88,000 fans. A few of the live recordings during the band's "Stained Class Tour" gig worked their way onto single releases. His cover of "River Deep, Mountain High" is mind-blowing. Arriving from Boston in Cleveland in September 1976, BLF was highly opinionated. One listener was selected to marry the love of his life or at least at the time during a live broadcast on 100.7 WMMS. At Bat only for streaming", "iHeart does not stream Indians games. The music structure also was modified at this time as artists such as Michael Jackson, Madonna and Prince soon found airplay on WMMS. Len "Boom" Goldberg's unmistakable voice was heard for three decades on 100.7 WMMS. It was brief but memorable, especially for fans of college rock. The very first logo to ever be created for WMMS was a red and white rainbow. [148][149][143][150], Radio personality Alan Cox, formerly host of The Morning Fix at WKQX/Chicago and The Alan Cox Radio Show at WXDX-FM/Pittsburgh, took over weekday afternoons as host of The Alan Cox Show on December 16, 2009. "Round for round, pound for pound, there ain't no finer band around. "[27][36] WMMS played a key role in breaking several major acts in the U.S., including David Bowie, Rush, and Bruce Springsteen. The Agora is etched in Cleveland music history. [51], Among the most notorious broadcasts of The Howard Stern Show occurred on June 10, 1994. Jeff & Flash were also credited as being major contributors in bringing the Rock Hall to Cleveland, by heavily promoting on-air a USA Today reader poll to decide which city should get it.[82]. Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Detroit, St. Louis they ran another stations birthday party. In the trailer for the new show the character Barry, played by Bill Hader is wearing a vintage WMMS shirt. [57], Following a legal dispute with a competing station owner over non-compete clauses in their contracts, former Top 40 WIXY personalities Dick "the Wilde Childe" Kemp and Lou "King" Kirby were signed by MetroMedia for the top 40 format. Rover regularly takes calls throughout the show, and often interviews guests in studio and over the phone. Right up until his departure in 1988, Kid Leo played "Born to Run" as his signature sign-off song every Friday night at 5:55 to kick off the weekend for area listeners. Already strained by ongoing contract renewal negotiations, the incident further alienated the two parties, and by November of that year the show was cancelled. Bands that played the CBC. Part two is missing ', Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 19781984, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=WMMS&oldid=1137903859, The Cleveland Plaza/Statler Office Tower (now, This page was last edited on 7 February 2023, at 00:47. The announcement came less than two weeks before the show. Date unknown. The Buzzard became synonymous with WMMS, Cleveland radio and the city itself, spawning a series of T-shirts so numerous that they are now impossible to catalog, many with slogans like "Where Music Means Something" and "Ruler of the Airwaves.". [53] They were rewarded with a night that they would remember for the rest of their lives. Matt was part of the early days at Cleveland State Universitys radio operation that only broadcast to the cafeteria, but soon after he got in on the ground floor of WMMS during its eventual transition to the Buzzard. For STP vocalist Scott Weiland, who spent time as a kid living in Bainbridge Township and attending grade school in Chagrin Falls, the concert was a homecoming experience and he referenced his time growing up in Northeast Ohio during his conversations with the crowd that evening. Leesburg, VA. Read More . Brian and Joe talk to Rob Thomas from Matchbox 20. [83][89] Lisa Dillon, Ric Bennett and Tom Renzy also would depart the station that same day. For the station's tenth anniversary in 1978, WMMS hosted and broadcast a live Springsteen concert at the Agora Ballroom independent of his concert tour. They broadcast many live concerts, including their Coffee Break Concerts, which were a mix of performance and interview content, in the 1970s and 80s. [96][98] Billboard and Airplay Monitor magazines together named WMMS Rock Station of the Year (Medium Market) in 1995,[103] and Modern Rock Station of the Year (Medium Market) in 1996. [117] BuzzardFest 2000 was held on June 30, 2000, at the Nautica Stage; Stone Temple Pilots, performing in Cleveland for the first time in six years, headlined the event.[118]. [38][39] Considered "a true radio legend," WMMS DJ Kid Leo was chosen for Rolling Stone's "Heavy Hundred: The High and Mighty of the Music Industry" (1980) and named "The Best Disc Jockey in the Country" in a special 1987 issue of Playboy. 1.2.1Coffee Break Concerts 1.3Album-oriented rock (1973-94) 1.3.1From "Find Me" to FM powerhouse 1.3.2World Series of Rock 1.3.3Rock Forty and the Rock Hall 1.3.4Rolling StoneReaders' Poll 1.3.5Changing times 1.3.6The Cleveland Funeral 1.4Alternative rock (1994-97) 1.4.1The Next Generation 1.4.2BuzzardFest 1.5Active rock (1997-present) Boom also spent time on the Buzzard Morning Zoo and filled in during other air shifts. However, Matt would be dismissed permanently from the station in late 1992, the victim of budget cuts. Leesburg. You gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta get dooooooowwwwn!, His rant followed Bruce Springsteens Born to Run. The kickoff to the weekend continued with Ian Hunters Cleveland Rocks and Earth Quakes Friday on my mind.. It really was an awesome time.' In 2014, Springsteen finally released the Agora concert officially on CD and download. Music News German City Cancels Roger Waters Concert, Calls Him Antisemitic Feb 28, 2023. . Jack and Meg played 22 songs with an encore capped by "Seven Nation Army.". The performance was recorded for radio and titled "A Small Affair in Ohio." Excerpts from Denny Carleton's Coffee Break Concert 1976 with Fred Grupe Randy Klawon with Matt The Cat on WMMS. [161][162] The House of Hair with Dee Snider also airs on Sunday evenings. Prince did show up and hopped on stage to perform with Sheila E. Lauper was becoming one of the biggest stars in music in 1983. [105] John Gorman, who has since openly criticized the industry's current state, departed for CBS Radio in Detroit, but soon moved to media consulting. Discover more music, concerts, videos, and pictures with the largest catalogue online at Last.fm. . ", While his epic stand at Blossom Music Center still holds the attendance record for that venue, Michael Stanley's run at the Agora in October 1976 was perhaps more important. Close Menu. Matt Harris served in the interim until WMMS hired Dick Dale (Bert Morris) from WPLA/Jacksonville. The Clash played just nine shows during its first trip to North America in 1979. Denny left WMMS to start another local station, but returned for a long stay at WMJI. Morgan Wallen. Candlebox headlined the 2 stage show at Blossom Music Center on May 18, 1996. The new logo depicted the sex, drugs and rock and roll image that the owner was looking for. Students were protesting the bombing of Cambodia by the United States Armed Forces. In 1988 The Plain Dealer printed a story which said the employees of WMMS had stuffed the ballot box to reign as 10 year champions. Rolling Stone once called it the greatest live LP in Springsteen's catalog. Tom Waits WMMS Cleveland Coffee Break Concert 12-03-75 5,244 views Feb 8, 2017 125 Dislike Share Save Dadalorian 31 subscribers 1. On August 9, 1978, there was no hotter ticket in Cleveland. The show itself rapidly covers a range of topics in a comedic format, from major current events to obscure pop culture; regular segments like "Sperm News", "Why Florida Sucks", and "Are You Smarter Than a Dumbass?" The debut issue of Buzzard Bone, arrived in September of 1995 and featured the brand new Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as the cover story, with an article tracing the history of the museum, which had its grand opening that same month. A major contributor to the ratings success was an airstaff that remained fundamentally unchanged for many years: personalities like Kid Leo, Jeff & Flash, Matt the Cat, Dia Stein, Denny Sanders, Murray Saul, Debbie Ullman, Betty "Crash" Korvan, Ruby Cheeks (Debra Luray), BLF Bash (Bill Freeman), TR (Tom Renzy) and the late Len "Boom" Goldberg were invaluable to the station's popularity. [136], From the 1994 exit of Jeff Kinzbach and Ed Ferenc until the arrival of Rover's Morning Glory in 2008, WMMS gained notoriety for airing 13 distinct shows in morning drive. Eggs & Sausage 4.. But both were to feature Steve Van Zandt. WMMS does not air additional network programming, and the station only airs select games during spring training. 1201 S Joyce St Arlington, VA. [145] WMMS itself also airs The Rover Rewind, a weekly recap show on Saturday mornings. The WMMS Mushroom Logo can be seen a few times throughout the movie - During a backstage scene at the Music Hall right before Stillwater takes the stage and when groupie Penny Lane played by Kate Hudson is dancing alone in the empty venue - you can see a banner with the Mushroom Logo and the slogan Where The Music Means Something. I love all tracks and dialog Colt 00:00 / 05:01 Digital Album Streaming + Download Kid Leo's boxing announcer themed introduction welcomed both the fans in the audience at the Cleveland Agora and the many more listening on the network radio broadcast, to the evening's "Main Event," the 10th anniversary concert celebration for WMMS, which would be hosted by The Boss himself, Bruce Springsteen. Rolling Stone Magazine conducted a yearly Readers Poll to which WMMS won Best Radio Station of the Year nine years in a row from 1979 to 1987. Denny Sanders came to WMMS in 1971 from Boston where hed been working as a DJ from the time he was just 16 years old. You can still find the performance on 180-gram vinyl. [71], From the onset, Helton's streamlined artwork resulted in an aggressive, yet family-friendly symbol for the station, one that continues to endure more than 40 years later. The bands performing are: Kelly Rowland / Aqua / Kelis / Natasha Bedingfield / Rachel Stevens / Beverley Knight / 911 / clea / Jamelia / Jayde Adams / Soul II Soul / Krystal Klear / Arielle Free / hifi sean / Queer House Party / Ekkah / Leo Kalyan / Louis III / Nimmo / Tom Aspaul / Artful . Contact; Advertise on 100.7 WMMS; Mama, come get your baby boy! We use cookies to improve your experience using this site. 4, their fourth album, which had been released the previous year, but dug deep into their back catalog for a crowd-pleasing set that featured all of the hits and a hefty selection of deeper tracks that were also fan favorites. [98][106] The sale came almost immediately after passage of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, a time when radio companies nationwide rushed "at a fever pitch" to acquire new properties. In 1958, both WHK and WHK-FM were sold to Metropolitan Broadcasting, itself renamed MetroMedia two years later. Weiland and STP were touring in support of No. WMMS "Coffee Break Concert" series hosted lots of name artists and legendary performances over the years. WMMS Coffee Break Concert Jan 30, 1980 The Cleveland Agora Cleveland, Ohio, United States Scroll to: Top Bands Details Genres Setlists Videos Photos Map Comments Band Line-up Alex Bevan Concert Details Date: January 30, 1980 Venue: The Cleveland Agora Location: Cleveland, Ohio, United States Notes: People in radio say he was not an easy guy, that dealing with him was like a daily root canal. Other artists that shared the main stage were No Doubt, Patti Rothberg, The Tragically Hip, 311, and the Holy Barbarians. We joked about the Buzzard becoming Cleveland's Mickey Mouse a "Buzzard Land" amusement park filled with sex, drugs and rock and roll A study conducted by MBA students at Case Western Reserve University in 1975 found that the new WMMS logo was more recognizable to those living in Greater Cleveland than both Chief Wahoo of the Cleveland Indians and even Coca-Cola. 'MMS listener favorites like Green Day, Letters to Cleo, Everclear, Better Than Ezra, Alice in Chains, Garbage and Silverchair were just a few of the bands featured in Buzzard Bone. He came to the Agora armed with a new album, Darkness on the Edge of Town. [125] As part of the stunt, Denny Sanders returned to host an airshift, programming the music at his discretion. [123] WMMS veteran John Gorman has remained a vocal critic of iHeartMedia, once remarking on the company's former Cleveland executive, Kevin Metheny (dubbed "Pig Virus" by Howard Stern during their time at WNBC): "He had a volatile time here. 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