Letters

The Edge a complete wash-out: First and foremost, Sam hit a home run this time out. KDGE has been a complete wash-out since 1994. It is patently absurd that the station is still, over 10 years since he's been gone, trying to ride the coattails of the legendary George Gimarc and the other brilliant folks who were in large part responsible for turning me on to good music. What Paul Nugent failed to mention in his rant against Sam's article (Letters, June 30) is that six of the bands that he name-dropped broke more than 10 years ago when the station was still good, a fact that he knows well, because he helped break both The Nixons and Deep Blue Something. Paul posed an interesting question: He asked whether or not bands in L.A., New York, Chicago or Boston had it any better than in Dallas. The answer to that question is yes, each of those cities has radio stations with meatier playlists than KDGE, and those stations all support local artists vigorously. Of course, I can understand Paul's vested interest in excluding all this information. He is, after all, in the business of getting KDGE to play his artists' records. The Edge, by virtue of its existence, is not deserving of praise. Praise has to be earned, so the proposition is clear: KDGE needs to roll up its sleeves and get to work. Anybody who says anything else is selling something.

Frisco