My last word on the subject. Gotta go.

Love Billy

ORIGINAL: Joe Bravo
Ditto as before. There are very few radio stations playing metal.

Wow, arrowhead was right, you really don't get out much.

Heh. And here I just bought the new Megadeth CD.

"Wash me in blood and let me be
the first born of the dead"

lol. Jolly good fun that album.

Oh my gawd! I missed this part.

ORIGINAL: Joe Bravo
If you ain't into jazz, you ain't happening. And that's exactly the way any exec in this industry is going to treat you.

lmao. You are, of course, just trying to flamebait right? You are joking, right? Or are we talking about the cheese industry or something?

Edit: Metallica has sold over 85 million albums in it's still thriving carreer. Maybe they had to play "the girl from Ipanema" before the industry took it seriously. Prolly not though.

ORIGINAL: APC3

ORIGINAL: Joe Bravo
Ditto as before. There are very few radio stations playing metal.

Wow, arrowhead was right, you really don't get out much.

If you think differently then apparently you aren't out at all. I've lived in more than twenty homes from Fort Richardson in Anchorage to Fort Dix in New Jersy with San Diego and Toledo, Ohio in between (including St. Louis where I now reside). I haven't noticed a single radio station playing heavy metal in the past ten years on a regular basis any place I've lived. And I can't think of any placed I've lived during that time that didn't have a full-time jazz station.

ORIGINAL: OldGeezer

Oh my gawd! I missed this part.

ORIGINAL: Joe Bravo
If you ain't into jazz, you ain't happening. And that's exactly the way any exec in this industry is going to treat you.

lmao. You are, of course, just trying to flamebait right? You are joking, right? Or are we talking about the cheese industry or something?

Edit: Metallica has sold over 85 million albums in it's still thriving carreer. Maybe they had to play "the girl from Ipanema" before the industry took it seriously. Prolly not though.

And this statement has what to do with the topic at hand--getting studio session work?

You have to listen to FM Seriously though, in Detroit there are, and have been for over 10 years, 3 full time heavy metal/hard rock stations. As matter a fact, I just went through the stations 3 or 4 times and could only find one station playing jazz. And to be honest, to me radio isn't my biggest source of music, no matter which station you listen to, you'll only hear at most a few songs from any particular album, usually the so called hits, and from my experience, most of my all time favorite songs have never been played on the air. Sometimes I wonder if you really are just having fun with us, if so it has been and is fun, you make me laugh a lot.

"in Detroit there are, and have been for over 10 years, 3 full time heavy metal/hard rock stations."

And they would be?

Here's a listing of every radio station in Detroit:

AM 540 - CBEF - International
AM 560 - WRDT - Religious
AM 580 - CKWW - Gold/Easy Listening
AM 680 - WNZK - Ethnic/Talk
AM 690 - WNZK- Ethnic/Talk
AM 760 - WJR - News / Talk
AM 800 - CJKW - Windsor News & Talk
AM 950 - WWJ - News
AM 990 - WDEO - Religious
AM 1030 - WUFL - Religious
AM 1050 - WTKA - Sports
AM 1090 - WCAR - Religious
AM 1130 - WDFN - Sports
AM 1200 - WCHB - Talk/Religious
AM 1270 - WXYT - Talk/Sports
AM 1310 - WDTW - Talk
AM 1340 - WEXL - Gospel Music
AM 1400 - WDTK - News/Talk
AM 1440 - WMKM - Religious
AM 1460 - WPON - Oldies
AM 1500 - WLQV - Religious
AM 1550 - CBC - CBC Radio One, Windsor Public Radio
AM 1600 - WAAM - Ann Arbor Talk
FM 88.1 - WHPR - Urban Contemporary
FM 88.1 - WBFH - Bloomfield Hills Schools
FM 88.1 - WSDP - Plymouth High School
FM 88.3 - WSHJ - Southfield High School
FM 88.3 - WXOU - Oakland University
FM 88.3 - WCBN - Univ. of Michigan
FM 88.7 - CIMX - Modern Rock: 89X
FM 89.1 - WPHS - Warren Consolidated Schools
FM 89.1 - WEMU - Jazz / Blues / NPR
FM 89.1 - WGTE - NPR
FM 89.3 - WHFR - Henry Ford Community College
FM 89.3 - WBLD - West Bloomfield Schools
FM 89.5 - WOVI - Novi High School
FM 89.5 - WAHS - Auburn Hills - High School
FM 89.5 - W208BB - Religious
FM 89.9 - CBE - CBC Radio Two, Windsor Public Radio
FM 90.9 - WRCJ - Classical & Jazz
FM 91.5 - CJAM - Univ. of Windsor
FM 91.7 - WUOM - Ann Arbor Public Radio / NPR
FM 92.3 - WMXD - Classic Soul/R&B
FM 93.1 - WDRQ - Variety Hits: Doug FM
FM 93.5 - WHMI - News, Classic Hits
FM 93.9 - CIDR - Adult Album Alternative: The River
FM 94.7 - WCSX - Classic Rock
FM 95.5 - WKQI - Contemporary Hits/Top 40: Channel 955
FM 96.3 - WDVD - Hot Adult Contemporary
FM 97.1 - WKRK - Talk: Free FM
FM 97.5 - WYDM - Hot Adult Contemporary
FM 97.9 - WJLB - Urban: Hip Hop/R&B
FM 98.7 - WVMV - Smooth Jazz
FM 99.5 - WYCD - Country
FM 100.3 - WNIC - Adult Contemporary
FM 101.1 - WRIF - Active Rock
FM 101.9 - WDET - Detroit Public Radio/NPR
FM 102.7 - WHDT - Urban/Hip Hop
FM 102.9 - WWWW- Country
FM 103.5 - WMUZ - Christian Contemporary
FM 104.3 - WOMC - Oldies
FM 105.1 - WMGC - Adult Contemporary
FM 105.9 - WDMK - Adult Urban Contemporary: Kiss FM
FM 106.7 - WDTW - Country: The Fox
FM 107.1 - WQKL - Adult Alternative: 107one
FM 107.5 - WGPR - Soft Urban/Jazz

I don't see heavy metal listed in there. But wait, look, four jazz stations! Hooray for Detroit!

Radio being what it is, a corporate endeavor, I wouldn't expect to find anything other than pretty tame stuff there for the most part, as your list above pretty much proves. I don't think it says much about the popularity of any genre that doesn't fit within those corporate limits. Album sales probably is the better measure of that. Though, unfortunately, these days it's probably more like downloads (of the illegal kind) than actual sales.

Sorry, did I need to reiterate that Ozzfest is the top grossing tour for many years running now?

Or at some point, does Joe actually know how to admit he's wrong.