Spotlight on Billy West
Thin skinned Billy West talks about his Spotlight Special on Howard 100 and tries to justify why he is constantly banning people and deleting messages he doesn't like on his message board.
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Nib,Benthio,Shamela and TonyBones,
I've recorded my recollections for Sirius about time spent there until I left 12 years ago.I talked about everybody on the show and the old bits,flights of fancy and performances that I did.This will be heard during the special.Those shows were just flat out head and shoulders above of the other station's offerings.Other stations did not know what hit them back then.
Billy
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Shayde---I always was aware,appreciative and grateful for the passionate fans! I just was blown away by the fact that anybody was paying attention to what I did and I never had a sense of entitlement.I didn't get into the biz to be famous and never imagined I could make a living.It chose me.I was invited into the house and in return I wanted to be the best mostly to say,''thanks for giving me a chance.'' But don't forget that Howard had cultivated that audience from nothing by being the greatest ever in radio.You don't get audiences handed to you.That,I respected more than anything.Everyone tried to take him down.Big dumb disk jockeys,myopic little program directors,media commentators,entertainment reporters and critics.There's all kinds of tricks in radio to get you to listen.Dopey jocks would give away money to bribe people to listen.It had NOTHING to do with putting on a great show.As feral as I already was to start with, I was pushed to more unbridled performance levels as a result of being there.
Over the years,the reason I was getting impatient with people who would come on my website and me ask the same stuff over and over was that I was tired of having to explain myself.I know most of it came from a place of love and believe me I'm grateful---but there would be a lot of wise guys sayin,''how does it feel to go back to being a nobody?'' I would ignore it at first then I started throwing out people who gave me a hard time.It was getting like,''hey,what the f**k,man.Who do you think you are?'' And I'm thinkin', ''what ever happened to,''hi,how ya doin'?'' The thing they didn't understand is I've always believed that you have to be the hero of your
own world.And if that's the case,you'll never be a nobody. I think making people laugh is one of the most noble things I could ever do.I wish everybody the best.Alllllllllright.Even the schmoes.
Thanks,
B.
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What I've noticed is when you get an afront from a poster--and it is rude or abrasive,it's usually someone that gets banned from websites WHEREVER they go.I think they just do a frantic search to see what websites they HAVEN'T been thrown off of to come in and act smart-assy and ''eternally wronged'' and eventually get the boot.Some people's ego's will not permit them to behave themselves in anyone's forum.The worst one's are the guys doin' their own stupid version of the Stern show.Their agenda is to pester me and cry to everybody who will listen that I've
''wronged'' them in some way 'cause I won't play their game.
Billy
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Hi clever1,
Some of it is a little outdated I'm sure but it was comedically handled by all of us in a way that was very different from everybody else at the time.I still think we pushed the envelope way more than the rest.
Enjoy,
Billy
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Nib,Benthio,Shamela and TonyBones,
I've recorded my recollections for Sirius about time spent there until I left 12 years ago.I talked about everybody on the show and the old bits,flights of fancy and performances that I did.This will be heard during the special.Those shows were just flat out head and shoulders above of the other station's offerings.Other stations did not know what hit them back then.
Billy
----
Shayde---I always was aware,appreciative and grateful for the passionate fans! I just was blown away by the fact that anybody was paying attention to what I did and I never had a sense of entitlement.I didn't get into the biz to be famous and never imagined I could make a living.It chose me.I was invited into the house and in return I wanted to be the best mostly to say,''thanks for giving me a chance.'' But don't forget that Howard had cultivated that audience from nothing by being the greatest ever in radio.You don't get audiences handed to you.That,I respected more than anything.Everyone tried to take him down.Big dumb disk jockeys,myopic little program directors,media commentators,entertainment reporters and critics.There's all kinds of tricks in radio to get you to listen.Dopey jocks would give away money to bribe people to listen.It had NOTHING to do with putting on a great show.As feral as I already was to start with, I was pushed to more unbridled performance levels as a result of being there.
Over the years,the reason I was getting impatient with people who would come on my website and me ask the same stuff over and over was that I was tired of having to explain myself.I know most of it came from a place of love and believe me I'm grateful---but there would be a lot of wise guys sayin,''how does it feel to go back to being a nobody?'' I would ignore it at first then I started throwing out people who gave me a hard time.It was getting like,''hey,what the f**k,man.Who do you think you are?'' And I'm thinkin', ''what ever happened to,''hi,how ya doin'?'' The thing they didn't understand is I've always believed that you have to be the hero of your
own world.And if that's the case,you'll never be a nobody. I think making people laugh is one of the most noble things I could ever do.I wish everybody the best.Alllllllllright.Even the schmoes.
Thanks,
B.
----
What I've noticed is when you get an afront from a poster--and it is rude or abrasive,it's usually someone that gets banned from websites WHEREVER they go.I think they just do a frantic search to see what websites they HAVEN'T been thrown off of to come in and act smart-assy and ''eternally wronged'' and eventually get the boot.Some people's ego's will not permit them to behave themselves in anyone's forum.The worst one's are the guys doin' their own stupid version of the Stern show.Their agenda is to pester me and cry to everybody who will listen that I've
''wronged'' them in some way 'cause I won't play their game.
Billy
-----
Hi clever1,
Some of it is a little outdated I'm sure but it was comedically handled by all of us in a way that was very different from everybody else at the time.I still think we pushed the envelope way more than the rest.
Enjoy,
Billy
posted by Doc at 5:01 AM
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