If Gerry Ryan was still alive ?

Sardonicat · 28-12-2018 09:07PM

leonffrench wrote: »

Probably would have been "taken out" for saying something "offensive" by this stage.

Yeah, think he would have done a George Hook by now. I bet there's loads of stuff from his show they wouldn't broadcast anymore.

TBH, I probably hadn't deliberately tuned into him for about 10 years before he died.

In the 90s his show captured the zeitgeist of the country but it had long since gone to ****e by the time he died. Partly due to a culture change and partly because he was no longer any good.

SEPT 23 1989 · 28-12-2018 09:16PM

Sardonicat wrote: »

Yeah, think he would have done a George Hook by now. I bet there's loads of stuff from his show they wouldn't broadcast anymore.

TBH, I probably hadn't deliberately tuned into him for about 10 years before he died.

In the 90s his show captured the zeitgeist of the country but it had long since gone to ****e by the time he died. Partly due to a culture change and partly because he was no longer any good.

Don't think the outraged ones now would be into him rummaging in his santas sack

And asking mothers of children do they like mickey when a competition for a trip to Disneyland was on

Jay Zee · 28-12-2018 09:20PM

He said Samantha Mumba had a fine pair of breasts when she was 16&#55357;&#56878;

Sardonicat · 28-12-2018 09:22PM

Jay Zee wrote: »

He said Samantha Mumba had a fine pair of breasts when she was 16��

Based on that comment his death saved his career.

28-12-2018 09:28PM

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Don't think the outraged ones now would be into him rummaging in his santas sack

And asking mothers of children do they like mickey when a competition for a trip to Disneyland was on

Remember the discussion on anal sex? I’m sure Mrs Ryan was delighted with that!

_Brian · 28-12-2018 09:32PM

Deleted User wrote: »

No. He was losing his appeal.

I think he was going off the boil, he’d become heedless and often disinterested in people calling in.

Also I think his ego would have pushed him to other stations demanding more and more cash.

I was an avid daily listener for years, but towards the end I’d be mad listening as he wouldn’t be listening to callers resulting in him asking stupid repeating questions.

McCrack · 28-12-2018 09:35PM

Jay Zee wrote: »

He said Samantha Mumba had a fine pair of breasts when she was 16��

Who?

28-12-2018 09:38PM

Gerry Ryan's show on Radio 2 from 10.00pm - midnight was brilliant. Especially during 1984 and 1985. On Christmas Day he hosted a programme called The Twelve Inches Of Christmas where he'd spend the 2 hours playing the best extended mixes of the year. Hipsters didn't like it.

Franz Von Peppercorn · 28-12-2018 09:42PM

YoungRogerian wrote: »

I don't listen to Radio much so I'll take your word for it.

Aren’t you the edge lord.

goose2005 · 28-12-2018 09:43PM

Sullivan Disgusting Robber wrote: »

Didn’t one of his buddies have to pay for his funeral?

and rte had to give all his kids jobs to keep the family afloat

YoungRogerian · 28-12-2018 09:43PM

Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »

Aren’t you the edge lord.

The edge Lord?

Sardonicat · 28-12-2018 09:58PM

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

Gerry Ryan's show on Radio 2 from 10.00pm - midnight was brilliant. Especially during 1984 and 1985. On Christmas Day he hosted a programme called The Twelve Inches Of Christmas where he'd spend the 2 hours playing the best extended mixes of the year. Hipsters didn't like it.

Hipsters didn't exist then. Their parents were listening to The Twelve Inches of Christmas.
Yeah, I remember that. It was a natural progression to listen to his day time show in the 90s as a 20 something if you'd listened to his music show in the 80s. There was a time when he really was very fresh and fun and edgy. Sad really, how things went in the end. Then genuinely tragic to die like that. He could have been a long timer in broadcasting but he destroyed his talent then himself. Pity

Sardonicat · 28-12-2018 10:01PM

I was an avid daily listener for years, but towards the end I’d be mad listening as he wouldn’t be listening to callers resulting in him asking stupid repeating questions.[/quote]

In the early years he had a talent for making the show about his listeners. A real gift. Became all about himself in the end.

28-12-2018 10:03PM

Sardonicat wrote: »

Hipsters didn't exist then. Their parents were listening to The Twelve Inches of Christmas.
Yeah, I remember that. It was a natural progression to listen to his day time show in the 90s as a 20 something if you'd listened to his music show in the 80s. There was a time when he really was very fresh and fun and edgy. Sad really, how things went in the end. Then genuinely tragic to die like that. He could have been a long timer in broadcasting but he destroyed his talent then himself. Pity

They weren't called hipsters then but they existed alright. Music snobs with a savage anti-pop attitude. One gave me a look that would cut you in two when I had the temerity to buy Sonic Youth's EVOL and Now 7 at the same time in 1986. Nowadays you'd find some of them on the Rollercoaster Records forum.

Gerry - what a waste. But thanks for the manic pop thrills of the 80s.

Sardonicat · 28-12-2018 10:03PM

wrote:

I was an avid daily listener for years, but towards the end I’d be mad listening as he wouldn’t be listening to callers resulting in him asking stupid repeating questions.

In the early years he had a talent for making the show about his listeners. A real gift. Became all about himself in the end.

SEPT 23 1989 · 28-12-2018 10:06PM

Sardonicat · 28-12-2018 10:13PM

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

Sardonicat wrote: »

Hipsters didn't exist then. Their parents were listening to The Twelve Inches of Christmas.
Yeah, I remember that. It was a natural progression to listen to his day time show in the 90s as a 20 something if you'd listened to his music show in the 80s. There was a time when he really was very fresh and fun and edgy. Sad really, how things went in the end. Then genuinely tragic to die like that. He could have been a long timer in broadcasting but he destroyed his talent then himself. Pity

They weren't called hipsters then but they existed alright. Music snobs with a savage anti-pop attitude. One gave me a look that would cut you in two when I had the temerity to buy Sonic Youth's EVOL and Now 7 at the same time in 1986. Nowadays you'd find some of them on the Rollercoaster Records forum.

Gerry - what a waste. But thanks for the manic pop thrills of the 80s.

Ah, I was probably one myself. Depends how old you were, I suppose I was listening to Gerry in 84 but trying to tune in to John Peel on the Beeb a few years later pretending I liked The Fall. Don't do that music snobbery thing now I'm past it.

Gerry played "Relax" on his show after the Beeb banneds it, remember? Was a proud moment thinking we were actually more progressive than our neighbours on that one. And that summed the 'early' Gerry up. He knew that times were changing and there was a generation hungry for social change so he reflected that back at us and made us feel we had some say.

mloc123 · 28-12-2018 10:19PM

Anyone have a link to the famous post that started his hatred of boards?

28-12-2018 10:21PM

Sardonicat wrote: »

Ah, I was probably one myself. Depends how old you were, I suppose I was listening to Gerry in 84 but trying to tune in to John Peel on the Beeb a few years later pretending I liked The Fall. Don't do that music snobbery thing now I'm past it.

Gerry played "Relax" on his show after the Beeb banneds it, remember? Was a proud moment thinking we were actually more progressive than our neighbours on that one. And that summed the 'early' Gerry up. He knew that times were changing and there was a generation hungry for social change so he reflected that back at us and made us feel we had some say.

The Fall are my favourite band! I started listening to John Peel in 1985 (crap reception) but always kept an eye on the charts and continued to buy pop music (and Smash Hits) because that's what I started on. Like you, I am past worrying about what people think.

I remember Gerry playing Relax - very early January '84 IIRC. An important gesture. He loved Two Tribes as well. He did his best to play every version - I remember he played the Keep The Peace mix that was on the cassingle - you wouldn't hear that anywhere else and was also playing Paul Hardcastle's 19 as soon as it hit the shops.

StereoSound · 28-12-2018 10:22PM

The amount of times I heard him say Penis and Vagina on the air. He would probably still be doing it.

28-12-2018 10:26PM

Does anyone remember him doing a Sunday afternoon program called “Groovin on a Sunday afternoon”? Or am I imagining it? Would have been very early 80’s.

28-12-2018 10:27PM

I think Gerry would still be there. He wasn't just the biggest earner for 2fm. He brought in over 5 million in advertising. To this day no one on any station brings in that sort of money.

I do wonder how the show might have evolved in the last 10 years. In the 80s his show had not one but two mobile phones. It was the first show to have live roving reporters. His show got emails when the compition were still using snail mail.

Maybe the formula would be stale by now but personally I'm amazed that RTE haven't released 20 years worth of the G Ryan Show podcasts. I think people would pay for these for charity of they could be broadcast on the weekend for old idiots like myself.

Sardonicat · 28-12-2018 10:33PM

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

Sardonicat wrote: »

Ah, I was probably one myself. Depends how old you were, I suppose I was listening to Gerry in 84 but trying to tune in to John Peel on the Beeb a few years later pretending I liked The Fall. Don't do that music snobbery thing now I'm past it.

Gerry played "Relax" on his show after the Beeb banneds it, remember? Was a proud moment thinking we were actually more progressive than our neighbours on that one. And that summed the 'early' Gerry up. He knew that times were changing and there was a generation hungry for social change so he reflected that back at us and made us feel we had some say.

The Fall are my favourite band! I started listening to John Peel in 1985 (crap reception) but always kept an eye on the charts and continued to buy pop music (and Smash Hits) because that's what I started on. Like you, I am past worrying about what people think.

I remember Gerry playing Relax - very early January '84 IIRC. An important gesture. He loved Two Tribes as well. He did his best to play every version - I remember he played the Keep The Peace mix that was on the cassingle - you wouldn't hear that anywhere else and was also playing Paul Hardcastle's 19 as soon as it hit the shops.

The Fall are nobody's favourite band, you poser! And you on here bitchin about music snobs - the cheek! Although I do have some very dim and blurry memories of lurching around to a track called ' Eat yourself Fitter' in a very dinghy night spot in a very bleak North of England city. I may have been doing this because I was in the company of some very cool and edgy Mancunians and I didn't want to commit social suicide or, indeed, get beaten to death.

Back to Gerry, he certainly knew his pop. He played quality stuff. You wouldn't find 5 Star on his play list. ( You're not going to tell me that your second favourite band is 5 Star, are you?)

28-12-2018 10:35PM

leonffrench wrote:

Probably would have been "taken out" for saying something "offensive" by this stage.

Gerry was actually quite tame despite the tag "shock jock". Believe it or not George Hook in his 70s was the biggest "shock jock" Ireland has ever seen.

Sardonicat · 28-12-2018 10:36PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Does anyone remember him doing a Sunday afternoon program called “Groovin on a Sunday afternoon”? Or am I imagining it? Would have been very early 80’s.

I remember the show, I loved the theme. Not sure if it was Gerry's show but he may have done stand ins. Could be very wrong about that. We are going back a long way and my memory muscles are getting tired now.

Bullocks · 28-12-2018 10:37PM

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Best laugh I had over the Christmas fair play

Bullocks · 28-12-2018 10:42PM

He could well have turned his life around and be putting out a show that would cater to us old folk that enjoyed him in the 90's but are all grown up now.

28-12-2018 10:58PM

Sardonicat wrote: »

The Fall are nobody's favourite band, you poser! And you on here bitchin about music snobs - the cheek! Although I do have some very dim and blurry memories of lurching around to a track called ' Eat yourself Fitter' in a very dinghy night spot in a very bleak North of England city. I may have been doing this because I was in the company of some very cool and edgy Mancunians and I didn't want to commit social suicide or, indeed, get beaten to death.

Back to Gerry, he certainly knew his pop. He played quality stuff. You wouldn't find 5 Star on his play list. ( You're not going to tell me that your second favourite band is 5 Star, are you?)

It's true about The Fall - have a read of this piece I wrote around the time of Mark E Smith's death. Great band, it's a lot of their fans that are music snobs.

Not sure if Gerry played Five Star. They were only warming up at the end of '85. I don't recall listening to his show much from '86 onwards. I did see Five Star live on the Children Of The Night tour - the one sponsored by UltraBrite toothpaste. A Monday night in the RDS shortly after the Inter Cert results. At the time, they were touted as a British Jackson 5 which was quite accurate. I gave this year's box set an inclusion in my top 10 compilations of the year https://twitter.com/apopfansdream/status/1076040344997953536

neirbloom · 28-12-2018 11:01PM

I used to enjoy listening to him while I worked with me father over the summer months when I was younger. Both gone now and both seem to come from a completely different bygone era as to what we are living in now lol.

As obnoxious and loud as Ryan was with his opinion's at least he had something to say for the life of me I cant listen to 2FM now for more than 5 minutes without wanting to throw my car stereo out the effing window.

Sardonicat · 28-12-2018 11:02PM

And I thought I had eclectic tastes .

If Gerry Ryan was still alive ?

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