Q: Why is your show called “Bat Country Radio”? Didn’t you steal that from Avenged Sevenfold?
A: No. The name of the show refers to a violently bizarre landscape of the mind described by the late Dr. Hunter S. Thompson in, “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.”
Q: What kind of music do you play?
A: Mostly punk, metal and alt-grunge from the '70's, '80's and early '90's that makes the ears bleed and sets the brain on fire. The stuff that has fallen through the cracks and been all but forgotten by mainstream commercial radio.
Q: Why is your show on at such an un-godly hour?
A: Because if I was allowed to play this kind of stuff during the daytime, KXCI would likely get burned to the ground by a torch-and-pitchfork-wielding mob of enraged baby boomers.
Q: Why don’t you ever play country music?
A: Even though I’m a recovering Texan, on most days I would rather listen to a live audio feed from the killing floor of a slaughterhouse. But seriously, you can’t swing a dead cat in this town without hitting a country music station of some sort. Enough already.
Q: Most of the bands you play are like, old and stuff. Why don’t you ever play anything new?
A: I play the old stuff because it’s what I’m most familiar with. And even though a great deal of it tends to suck, I occasionally do play newer stuff.
Q: The music you play hurts my ears. Why don’t you play stuff you can dance to?
A: What is it with this generation having to turn everything into a dance track? I was at a show a couple months ago and I heard a fucking techno-disco version of "Back In Black" that made me want to pull my fucking teeth out. As fate would have it, I was born with two left feet and couldn’t dance if a gun was put to my head. And you actually can dance to this stuff, if you’re willing to suffer a few sprains, bruises, and the occasional compound fracture.
Q: What about mashups? Why don't you play any of those?
A: Back in my day, mashing was for potatoes, or for a guy's face if he looked at you the wrong way. We had to buy entire albums and listen to the whole goddamn thing one song at a time - AND WE LIKED IT!!! Seriously, mashups are okay, you should hear the one I have of Fiddy Cent vs Flock of Seagulls vs William Shatner - it's wicked cool.
Q: Why don’t you offer your show as a podcast?
A: I recently asked The KXCI Powers That Be about this and was told it has something to do with recording industry guidelines. Believe me, if it were up to me, I would.
Q: How much do you get paid?
A: I don’t. This is a volunteer gig that I do purely for the fun of it and for the freedom to play damn near anything I want.
Q: Why don’t you try to get a job at a real radio station?
A: Because I'm more interested in music than locker room toilet humor or insipid Hollywood gossip. And besides, KXCI is a real radio station. If I was offered and chose to accept a job at a commercial station I would most likely have to sacrifice the freedom to play what I want, and become a shill for local car dealerships, among other things.
Q: When will you ever play some Skynyrd, man?
A: When Pat Robertson shaves his head and converts to Krishna Consciousness, or when Britney Spears gets accepted into Mensa.
Q: Did you ever have a mullet?
A: Yes, unfortunately.
Q: Favorite band of all time?
A: Rush, hands down.
Q: Favorite Metal band of all time?
A: Queensryche, when they still had DeGarmo.
Q: Favorite Thrash Metal band of all time?
A: Anthrax.
Q: Favorite Alternative band of all time?
A: Jane’s Addiction
Q: Favorite color?
A: Black.
Q: Boxers or briefs?
A: Boxers.
Q: Why do you call yourself Paleo Dave?
A: Because there were already too many Daves at the station, because most of what I play comes from the Paleolithic age of Heavy Metal, and also because I have a degree in Archaeology.
Q: And finally…if heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive?
A: I'm sorry for Nixon, Reagan, Bush I, Bush II, Cancer, Reality TV, and Metallica's "St. Anger" CD. The pool's out back, drinks are on the house, stay away from the brown acid, and try not to break anything.
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