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  • Chiefs Great Deron Cherry Interview
    Deron Leigh Cherry (born September 12, 1959) is a retired professional American football free safety who played for the Kansas City Chiefs from 1981 to 1991. Cherry was a free safety and punter at Rutgers University, intercepting a total of 9 passes over his three seasons, which he returned for 126 yards and two touchdowns. In 1979, he was named the team’s MVP. In 1979 and 1980, Cherry earned AP All-East honors. In 1981, he was signed by the Kansas City Chiefs, as a free agent but was released in the final teams cuts. Cherry rejoined the club as a safety, and made his first career interception against the Oakland Raiders. 

    Cherry played high school football at Palmyra High School in Palmyra, New Jersey.[1]

    Regarded as one of the best free safeties to have ever played the game, he was a six-time Pro Bowl selection from 1983–1988, starting in five of them in his 11 years with the Chiefs. Few other Chiefs players have been selected to this number of Pro Bowls. He had six 100 tackle seasons in his 11 years as a member of the Chiefs, with a career total of 927 tackles. He was a 5-time All-Pro in 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, and 1988. He was also a five-time 1st team All-AFC and two time 2nd team All-AFC selection. Cherry's 15 career fumble recoveries place him in a three-way tie for the Chiefs record. He ranks third on the Chiefs list of most interceptions, and is only the 26th player in the history of the NFL to reach the 50 interception plateau. In 1987, he was selected to the Chiefs 25 year All-Time Team. 

    In 1987, he won the Byron "Whizzer" White NFL Man of the Year Award.[2] Prior to receiving this award, he was the Chiefs NFL Man of the Year selection in 1987. This is the most prestigious award given by the NFL Players Association.[3]

    He is actively involved in several civic organizations, including Special Olympics, Muscular Dystrophy Association, Project Warmth, Score 1 for Health, Camp Quality USA, and the United Negro College Fund.[citation needed] For the past 25 years, Cherry has hosted his Celebrity Invitational.[citation needed] This tournament has raised over $3 million to support the children of the Kansas City area. Cherry is a frequent guest speaker at civic, charitable, and corporate events throughout the country. 

    In 1995, Cherry became a limited ownership partner in one of the NFL’s then-new expansion teams, the Jacksonville Jaguars. This made him the first minority owner of an NFL franchise in the league's history. Cherry is also a managing general partner with United Beverage, a local Anheuser-Busch distributor. 

    In 2019, the Professional Football Researchers Association named Cherry to the PFRA Hall of Very Good Class of 2019 [4]

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    7 min
  • Spinal Tap's Derek smalls Interview
    Derek Releases New Album, released his first solo album, Smalls Change (Meditations Upon Ageing), 43 years after he abandoned his initial effort to branch out with It's a Smalls World. You can order the CD or vinyl, download the MP3 or stream it at Amazon. The bassist also has a website with music videos and tour dates.The songs include Rock and Roll Transplant, It Don't Get Old, Smalls Change, Butt Call, Memo to Willie, Gimme Some (More) Money, Hell Toupee, Gummin' the Gash, She Puts the Bitch in Obituary and When Men Did Rock.Guest artists include Jeff “Skunk” Baxter (Steely Dan, Doobie Brothers), David Crosby, Donald Fagen (Steely Dan), Jane Lynch, Steve Lukather (Toto), Joe Satriani, Paul Shaffer, Chad Smith (Red Hot Chili Peppers), Richard Thompson, Rick Wakeman (Yes) and Dweezil Zappa.

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    9 min
  • T Bone Burnett Interview
    A couple of possible interpretations arise out of the sonic effects superstar producer T Bone Burnett uses to tweak his vocals on his first new studio album in a dozen years, “The Invisible Light: Acoustic Space.”

    The distanced quality of a voice immersed in richly atmospheric soundscapes that Burnett, 71, has created suggests some extraterrestrial terrain light-years away, or perhaps an inner voice from deep within struggling to be heard against the noise of the outer world.

    “I didn’t want it to be naturalistic,” Burnett explained while seated at a broad, elegant wood dinner table at his home in Brentwood. “I wanted it to be electronic and from another place …like it was coming from this other land where all this stuff is happening. ‘Itopia’ — that’s what I’ve been calling it.”

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    10 min
  • Greater KC Building & Construction Trades MVP Week 2
    • The Greater Kansas City Building & Construction Trades Council represents Construction Trades within Kansas City and surrounding areas. The trades provide the Journeyperson, Staff and Apprenticeship Training Programs that get your career off the ground.The Greater Kansas City Building Trades Council takes pride in providing its local trades and their memberships expertise in construction by:Driving Economic Development in our Community.Committing resources to Recruitment, Retention, Mentoring and Safety Training.Marketing KC Trades, Apprenticeship Training and Journeyperson upgrading.Increasing our competitiveness in a changing market.Educational Cooperative Agreements with the Metropolitan Community Colleges and much more

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    6 min
  • Fox Fantasy Football Report Week 2

    Adam Copeland grew up in the East Bay in San Leandro as a Giants, 49ers and Warriors fan. He attended Moreau Catholic High School in Hayward where he played basketball and lettered for four years in baseball. Following high school he attended Chabot College where he called football and basketball games for the radio station KCRH. After Chabot, Adam majored in broadcast journalism at San Francisco State University.
    A lifetime Bay Area sports fan and San Francisco resident, Adam now hosts The Leadoff Spot, weekdays from 5-6 AM. He’s also produces and is an integral part of the Murph & Mac morning show from 6-10 AM. Copeland was recently named to the Sportscasters Talent Agency of America’s “Top 30 Sportscasters Under 30” list. 
    Adam’s youth and charisma paired with his sense of humor make for an informative and entertaining listen. Adam can also be heard before weekend Giants home games during Weekend’s in the Park with Marty Lurie.

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    4 min
  • Military Monday 9-14-2020


    For millions of Americans, the availability of public transportation is the determining factor in their ability to access jobs and any care they require. For a lot of those people, they either live outside the range of public transit or the places they need to go to are outside of public transit zones, forcing them to miss those opportunities. Forcing them to have to walk for miles to get where they need to be.
    Why do we do what we do?


       Life is not always predictable. Everyday people unexpectedly get sick, lose their job, or have their car break down on them. Most people do not expect those things to happen. Cars 4 Heroes is here to help people through those times by giving them transportation so that they can get back on their feet and turn their lives around. Our founder, Terry Franz, will tell people, “Our program is not called fix my life, we are just here to give them a tool to help them fix their lives.”
     Every year, we give hundreds of cars to families and people in need. For some, it is a wheelchair van that allows them to take their wheelchair bound family member out for the first time in years and for others it is just a simple car that can get them to work and doctors’ appointments.
    If our organization did not exist, would someone invent it?


       There are other charities that sound very similar to ours, but we are different in one major way. The cars we give away are donated. We do not take in donated cars, sell them and then buy other cars to give away.  Now, not every car we get is road worthy or need major repairs and those that are not are sold with the proceeds going towards fixing other cars and supporting events.
       Cars 4 Heroes cannot exist without the many people around us. From local radio stations such as 101.1 The Fox or tow companies like Redline Tow, they all are critical to helping us help those who gave so much for us.

    cars4heroes.org

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    11 min
  • Styx Ricky Phillips Interview

    Jamming with family  Ricky Phillips was born in Iowa but raised in Northern California. He comes from a musical family and both of his parents were actively involved in their local theater."My family sang in the car...everywhere we went...My dad would start...then my mom...and my brother, and I would come up with harmony parts and go for it", recalls Phillips. He started piano at the age of 6 and remembers he and his brother hanging around the theater and acting at an early age. "Mike was a great actor and passed me up on the piano in no time. I'd rather be out playing Little League or jamming to my dad's records than 
    "Worlox" learning lines or reading music. I think I had 7 piano teachers over the years and I hated them all." A few years later, he began sneaking out his dad's Martin guitar. He taught himself Beatles, Stones and whatever else he could lift off the radio. By the age of twelve, he began forming his first band with childhood friend Steve Gunner. They called themselves The Warlox. For a few years, Phillips was consumed by the guitar until one week his bass player decided to leave his bass at Rick's house where they were rehearsing. "I was beginning to notice (Paul) McCartney's melodic lines were my favorite parts of the songs and was blown away by the aggressive style of John Entwhistle...so I played this guys bass...like...all week end. My hands were shot and the blisters were pretty bad, but I was hooked."

     Phillips continued pursuing his love of the guitar through school but eventually quit in his senior year at San Francisco State to play full time. He spent the next few years playing 4 and 5 sets a night in rock clubs around the US and Canada. "That was my real education...on a lot of levels," quips Phillips. "I was looking at graduating and all I really wanted to do was play music. I had to at least give it a shot."
     
    The Babys At a certain point, he knew he had to make his move to either New York or Los Angeles. He ended up in Los Angeles with a suitcase, a bass, a guitar and 20 borrowed dollars in his pocket. He auditioned for a high profile LA band and got the gig. That gig got him the exposure he needed. Marc Salter, who was working for the British band The Babys, saw Ricky play. John Waite was replacing himself as The Babys' bass player so he could concentrate purely on fronting the band. Salter tracked Ricky down and brought Waite to meet him in a Hollywood music store where Ricky had begun working for $100 a week. Phillips recalls, "I grabbed a bass off the wall...price tag swinging and walked across the street where they'd been holding auditions for three weeks. We played two new songs 'HEAD FIRST' and 'RUN TO MEXICO' and then Waite, Cain, and myself sang the chorus to 'ISN'T IT TIME' and something else... I don't remember what... They left the room for five minutes and came back with their manager Chip Rachlin and asked me to join the band."

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    7 min
  • James "JY" Young of Styx Interview
    In order to achieve a collectively mutual goal of live excellence, a band must have a time-tested arsenal of aurally rigorous and rewarding material to get it there, and STYX draws from over four decades of barnburning chart hits, joyous singalongs, and hard-driving deep cuts to do so. Like a symphony that builds to a satisfying crescendo, a STYX set covers a wide range of stylistic cornerstones. From the progressively sweeping splendor that is “The Grand Illusion” to the hunker-down fortitude of all that is the “Blue Collar Man,” from the majestic spiritual love for a special “Lady” to the poignant rumination on the fleeting nature of fame in “Miss America,” from an individual yearning for true connection as a “Man in the Wilderness” to a soul-deep quest to achieve what’s at the heart of one’s personal vision in “Crystal Ball,” from the regal reach-for-the-stars bravado of “Come Sail Away” to the grainy all-in gallop of that rugged “Renegade” who had it made, the band draws on an unlimited cache of ways to immerse one’s mind and body in their signature sound. 



    In addition to the enduring power of that live experience, this indelibly interlocked incarnation of STYX is deftly represented on high-definition DVD and Blu-ray video. With a little help from their many friends in Cleveland’s Contemporary Youth Orchestra, One With Everything (2006) is a hybrid orchestral rock blend for the ages, while Live at the Orleans Arena Las Vegas (2016) documents their present-day prowess. And on The Grand Illusion / Pieces of Eight Live (2011), the band performs at its peak when tackling every track from a pair of their finest triple-platinum albums back to back. The inherent quality of these releases is paramount, reasons JY: “I insisted on the highest level of production, both visually and sonically. I believe that everything we do — whether it’s a visual element shown onscreen behind us onstage, how we appear on home video, or what we do in the recording studio — should be done 110 percent. This band is supremely talented, and we have to consistently create something that is going to be great over the test of time.” 



    Not only that, but the band re-recorded two discs’ worth of its classic material with much finesse and musculature, aptly known as Regeneration Volume I & II (2011 & 2012). Observes Tommy, “Now you have something you can take home with you and go, ‘Yeah, that’s the band I saw last night.’ We contributed openly to one another’s songs to help make them all bigger and more exciting. With this incarnation of the band, the pursuit of excellence is more intense than ever, except now our approach is much more nuanced.”

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    6 min

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The Slacker Morning Show on 101 the Fox! Kansas City's Classic Rock Station KCFX-FM Every weekday mornings 5am to 9am CST! Slacker is a 30+ year Radio Personality sitting down with Rock Legends,…