Looking Good Back in the Neighborhood
Drake Davis is a 6th Generation [Paternal/5th Maternal] Californian who graduated from San Francisco State University in December of 2018. Currently, Davis is about to launch a career in voice-over having over 5.5 years on-air over two decades in Sacramento & Portland, OR; better yet, Davis was there with four additional years in live performance at the birth of Disco and height of the Roller Disco Era in Sac. Poised to go far and in possession of the coveted SFSU Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts [BECA] Degree, Davis can be be harnessed to make money for your media outfit.
Lookin' Good Back in the Neighborhood
Hi Everyone,
Arriving about two weeks ago, it has been a hectic couple of weeks. I am going to post a couple of short nostalgic stories, have been working feverishly to get content onto all of my social media platforms, and scrambling to dial-in classes and get homework underway; well, the two classes at City College [CCSF] the Social Media for Professionals and ProTools courses are heading into the third week, already.
Twitter, FB, and Instagram Drake?
No, I am not going to get caught-up in the addictive behavior. For most of you, it is cool if you want to collect friends and likes from people who may or may not exist and advertise products, etc. I am in a social media class and am having my worst assumptions confirmed from what has been revealed; the origins of companies such as FB and Google--that last one envisioned back during the origins of ARPNET and tied to DARPA which makes high-tech weapons of war--is very cloaked in backdoor deals with numerous spy agencies and cash infusions from the Military Industrial Complex.
Also, I have under three weeks to land what will be my second internship!
Anyhow, I want to let everyone know I will be returning to the subject matter for the blog having taken a slight detour for the What I Did on Summer Vacation or previous post, and this one okay?
Let me see if I can post-up some good content for everyone and get back to adding pictures--the obtaining of which was a main focus of the summer trip--to both my linkedin and SFSU eportfolim.
Here are the addresses if you are so inclined:
https://portfolium.com/ddavis31
https://www.linkedin.com/in/drake-m-davis-aka-the-reel-drake-davis-929329ab/
...if you have linkedin and are a media type or otherwise a resourceful colleague who wants to network, send me an invite, okay? Hey, your following my blog, so it is the least I can do!
In current personal news and developments:
First, former two semester radio co-host of Juxtaposed, Christopher Robin and I broke-in the radio station after our BECA 505 [Radio-2] class Thursday hosting a brief music interlude; it will be our second time in a class that can be taken up-to three times, so a few returning old-timers and familiar faces of Pros, for sure. Gary [or is that garret? Muriel, CJ, Malcolm Priston & Alex Paddia, and finally, Benjamin of the bilingual infotainment show--that also has spanned three semesters--comes to mind.
Unfortunately--if a listener--Chris and I have chosen not to carry-on with our show.
Second, I will be partnering with Octosquid [Joaquin Dante on the down-low] from the popular Friday night political round-table show, Warden's Northwest. Joaquin is even a little more whacked on the conspiratorial fringe aspects of the body-politic. He has been known to follow Q-ANON [no thanks] and is really fast on his feet in response or on the uptake.
So, stay tuned for that. We submitted show requests and should be on by weeks'-end or the following week at latest, if they are still massaging the schedule.
Additionally, there will be a blog created for that show and I will have plenty to say about the Tech Giants attempts of destroying the 1st Amendment and WHAT IS now truly election meddling with all of this censoring of Libertarians, Conservatives, Gun Owners/Second Amendment supporters, Christians--you name it!
Third, I have secured housing and will be moving-out of my notorious 10X5 storage area I have called home for well-over a year; hence, I need not explain to an employer where I live and why they should overlook this and still hire me. Furthermore, I can proudly post the KQED piece on homeless CSU Students; moreover, the interview featuring me at the KSFS News Desk was picked-up and ran on all 63 NPR Stations on the California Report airing at 8 AM and 4 PM, Drivetime.
...hyperlink may not work, so put in a browser and check-it-out!
https://www.kqed.org/news/11648942/cal-state-university-students-struggling-with-lack-of-housing-food
[CORRECTION: The KQED story states incorrectly, "Davis had a brief talk radio career."
Not true: I have worked in music radio four times in the Sacramento market, twice in the mid-nineties at a news-talk station in the Portland market, and even made a brief appearance on the Mile High City's Airwaves in 1990.
I would encourage everyone to check-out the extensive web post accompanying the article as well that featured a couple of pictures of me at home in the KSFS studios. It is a testament to my tenacity and grit to have achieved all that I have, and that I am now poised to work in what has always been the dream market since my teenage years.
My well-laid-out plans are coming to fruition:
Namely, just as I ran for congress after a better part of two decades saying that I would do so, and having met face-to-face with President Bill Clinton, it is my time to work on-air in this market--my grades, previous experience in Top 25 Markets, and my talent demonstrates, I belong here. Working as a writer, board operator, or some dues paying will be in order for a year or two--all the while building my voiceover career--I may not end up getting that radio station billboard at the Western terminus of the Bay Bridge or a couple of hot shotgun/shout jingles [Drake Davis!] but they too are both on my bucket-list!
Finally, let me add that I have to get to some homework and post a couple of vintage short stories posted to this blog that do keep with the premise of Simpler Time & Place...the Best Era...Ever!
...oh, and I have been working on finding another forty or fifty songs from the era to add to our playlist. Features for the show will include a mellow Adult Contemporary formatted songs for a day or narrow special themed music from the era certain weeks, and the rather bazaar features such as classic masturbation songs you listeners have cum to expect. Always a little risque--while keeping it PG--you can expect the quirky comments and observations from the disc jockey who never grows-up to continue!
...speaking of never growing-up: Here is a picture from those mid-eighties days with the one that got away--five year relationship and two years engaged--one and only, Stephanie Gibbons.
...now this is perhaps a bigger mistake than leaving Westinghouse Broadcasting?
It was all wrapped-in-one; hence, couldn't afford to keep my muscle car on the road due to the low pay--it was paid for--nor could she see fit to put her career on hold and change hours to accommodate my overnight schedule at KAER 92.5 FM.
Five years younger and met the Summer of '83 at seventeen just as I got out of the Army, the age difference worked against us as she discovered just how powerful her allure was by the on-set of her early twenties.
This was the love of my life never to be equaled again.
moreover, she hated the idea of moving about the country--up and down the Group W radio station dial until I was to have arrived in LA [KFWB] by my mid-thirties!
AND, let us admit the request lines and women that at least still in those days--certain ones anyway--still threw themselves at air personalities; this always bothered her--as it should have.
Honestly, my inability to keep it in my pants, or as she put it, "You'd screw anything with two legs...
Wait, I mean, 'anything with legs!'" laid at or was the crux of the problem, pun intended.
OUCH, Baby!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STs1QlyawpY
"The Love I Lost" (1973) by Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes seems fitting. You may need to copy and paste this and the following link in a browser as they both are not hyperlinking, for some reason.
In my heart, I know--we both know--we let each other down...ahh, the glamorous career of radio broadcaster--here we go again!
Which reminds me...
Keeping with the landing stripe [Give me Red,--Red--I Want Red as Sammy Hagar sang in the 70s] and bikini lines, here is a classic from 1981. The song was my best friend and classmate, Josh Lehman, and mines' or our Friday night opening song--homework or the school week over--at the dorms in Sonora, CA The Mother Lode.
So, let the new and last semester, my Bay Area radio transition, and the hot young chicks [now to be defined as those in their late thirties and forties!] that are soon to follow get underway, people; I have worked towards and been waiting a lifetime for this!
here we go again:
Just Down Madison Ave From Orangevale's Rollingwood Commons--both of us worked there--Folsom Dam
[And be sure to check-out the brunette wearing SFSU Blue and Yellow colors at 3:21m TRT]
Might as well post my 72 SS Chevelle I referred to when explaining the hardships of the era, too:
Showtimes should be posted by weeks' end with the new political show returning to Joaquin's old time-slot of 8 PM on Friday Night or two hours earlier at 6 PM Friday, hopefully. ST&P has been requested to be on in the 8:30-Noon slot on a weekday. We will see if my senior status at the station carries any weight this semester as it did doing the first show of the last Spring Semester and being in my requested time.
Okay Bi,
Drakester
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