#gary stevens

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Winning Colors (1988 Kentucky Derby)

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Gary Stevens

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WCLM 1450 AM 10PM-6AM 9/1/2017

This is an 8-hour block of music programming I produced for the 10PM-6AM slot on WCLM 1450 AM in Richmond, Virginia for Friday September 1,

Good News: Here is yet another 8-hour block of music programming featuring shows by the Bopst Show, Rat Ward Radio, and DJ Graybeard’s, “Good To Your Earhole” that originally broadcast on WCLM 1450 AM on 9/1/2017.

This is an 8-hour block of music programming I produced for the 10PM-6AM slot on WCLM 1450 AM in Richmond, Virginia for Friday September 1, 2017.  Bopst Show: 2 Hours Rat Ward Radio: 2 Hours Bopst Show: 2 Hours Good To Your Earhole: 2 Hours Produced and mixed by Chris Bopst 8/31/6/2017 Like my previous post of WCLM 1450 AM programing, I put together this overnight programming to come on after Sweet Lou's, "Latin Jazz & Salsa Show" (check out his radio station here).. After he signed off at 10PM, all he had to do was hit the play button on the station's computer to keep the music programming going until 6AM. There was no need to sequence, shows, drops, spots, PSAs, or commercials; I had mixed all that together in this one file. This spared Preston Brown, the station's forever hustling manager, from the tedious task of sequencing individual files to play until the morning when the station went live again. It also allowed me to sequence and pace commercial blocks (which I spent an inordinate amount of time putting together) and programming seamlessly as the computer program we used would sometime freeze up if there were too many individual files running back-to-back. This block of programming has 4 hours of the Bopst Show with 2 hours of Rat Ward Radio sandwiched in between. Rounding out the 8-hour block is, Good to Your Earhole, a show hosted by music enthusiast and former bass player for Richmond legends the Good Guys, Charles "Graybeard" Williams. He named his show after the Funkadelic song, and he plays a variety of black music from different eras and genres. Charles is still involved with music as a programming committee member of the Richmond Folk Festival as well as hosting his long-running shows on WRIR, "The Motherland Influence" and, "The Other Black Music". At the time, I was pushing Preston hard to give him more airtime, but, as things usually happen in the radio business, the station was sold acrimoniously before we could make that happen. The new owner revamped the format and got rid of everybody that had been part of WCLM.  Of well, it was fun while it lasted.    I hope you enjoy this as much as I did putting it all together. Chris Bopst 1/19/2026

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Jonathan and the new ‘Merrily We Roll Along’ company with members of the original Broadway and London casts at the first preview. From Gary Stevens on Instagram (selected photos):

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Experiencing Monday night’s first preview of New York Theatre Workshop’s exhilarating new production of “Merrily We Roll Along”, together with fellow members of our original Broadway cast (Liz Callaway, Mana Allen, David Loud, David Cady, Jim Walton and Evan Pappas from the original London cast) was nothing short of magical! And celebrating with this brilliant new cast and crew was the icing on this delicious cake!Congratulations to each and all!!! Here’s to us, who’s like us, damn few. #passingthetorch #merrilywerollalong #newyorktheatreworkshop #sondheim #broadwaymusicals

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honestly, the three radio anchors in Mafia II are all great, and I love them all (in different ways), and they are all so shippable. I also believe they are so well done to represent the different “types of people”, or different attitudes to the great changes in the 1950s

of course, Rockin’ Ricky Fox from Empire Central Radio is my favorite, because of his youthful enthusiasm, lively personality, and the chaos he causes haha. no, but he’s great, and he’s like the all-american hope and spirit, but also the eagerness and will to try new things, explore, ditch the rules, disobey the “square parents”, listen to the hip music, and be your own person

then we have Slammin’ Sammy Stevens from Empire Delta Radio, who also has a love for modern music, but also, judging from his expressions, voice, and voice actor, happens to be Black. and this of course would surely give him a different view and experience of the whole “American dream” in the post-war USA. also, he might have a different view of the music as well, and of the importance of popular singers and groups.

and then, last but not least, we have Gary Stevens from Empire Classic Radio, who is like the boomer among their generation. he is the most classic (and classy) out of them, but also obviously the one most tied with the WASP idea of the post-war generation, white-picket-fence lifestyle, Christianity, and disdain for rock’n’roll (he repeatedly talks about “the evils of the rock’n’roll”). he even blames the shootout in the old forge on marijuana and rock-n-roll records. where Ricky Fox speaks to the ‘kids of America’, Gary Stevens talks to their parents. also, he blabbers about the “wickedness that is consuming our younger generation”.

like, their respective interaction would have been so interesting. I have some ideas, but I would need to do a bit more research into history (to not make any possible fic sound like fetishizing of the past or something), but imagine:

Gary as a closeted and repressed man. Ricky and Sammy meeting somewhere,. maybe Ricky secretly admires (and copies, tbh) Sammy (even with the nickname - Rockin’ as in Slammin’ - without giving him credit, lmao). maybe he never really admitted that to anyone, because they wouldn’t accept it. maybe they would be sharing their love for rock’n’roll, with Sammy actually sort of “opening” Ricky’s eyes towards the prevailing racism in the music industry, maybe taking him to some dance hall “for non-whites” to show him the other side of America (because yes, Ricky talks shit about the square parents, but still talks to the well-off white kids from suburbia, the “rebels without cause” kind). Gary and Ricky having an awful lot of tension, ehm ehm. Gary realizing that Sammy ain’t that different from him.  Sammy and Ricky coming up with a stage nickname for Gary, as they have “Rockin’” and “Slammin’”, and making fun of him being a boomer of their time.

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World Horse Racing on Twitter

“.@GStevens_jockey + @BreedersCup = 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Enjoy all of Gary's Breeders' Cup wins, including the incredible battle between Beholder and Songbird 😱 https://t.co/REizHdCxYp”

Gary finally retired due to risk of serious injury. He had quite a career.

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Point Given enjoying the winter weather here in Kentucky.

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My endless list of favourite horses: Kobe’s Back. [Ridden by Gary Stevens.]