Every night Power 96 plays the Hard Rock Drive Home, featuring Guns'N'Roses and Metallica. The show also features many washed up hair bands such as Great White, the Scorpions and Poison.* I slide into the driver's seat of my little Echo and crank up the music at the Park-and-Ride, a pleasant coda to the end of my work day.
The best part is Power 96 hardly has any advertisers - mostly the breaks feature ads for the Rice County Solid Waste disposal site and spaghetti dinners at the Faribault VFW. There are no cell phone ads featuring nasal-voiced adults arguing over minutes. It puts a smile on my face every time I hear about the $3.99 Chinese Buffet at the HyVee grocery store. Who would want to eat at a Chinese buffet in the grocery store? Only Faribault residents, I'm guessing. In Farmington we have our own Chinese restaurant, which serves all-you-can-eat crab legs.
At noon Power 96 plays a show called "Whole Lotta Lunch", comically named after the Led Zepplin tune, "Whole Lotta Love." I suppose down in Faribault everyone goes over to the $3.99 Chinese buffet for a whole lotta' lunch. When I told my pal Sarah, a native Northfieldian about my discovery of Power 96 and their unusual ads, she wisely responded, "We have our own culture down here."
If you live in the Southern metro, I highly recommend you tune into KQCL 95.9 for a hard rock drive home (not to be confused with just a hard drive home, which is what we had during that blizzard Friday night.) Rock on!
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I've listened to "THE HARD ROCK DRIVE HOME" since the beginning over a yr. ago. I've met Gina B, burned some CD's for the show & everything. I was so SICK of traditional classic rock & when radio surfing, there the show was. I love all the music from the 80's. Why have people forgotten this music. In my opinion, it's the New Classic Rock! To H with the old - in w/the new!!!!!! Sue B
ReplyDeleteGina B - you go girl!!!