I told myself I wasn't going to cry, but as I sit and write this, it's hard to not as I remember the past three years working with one of the biggest role models I've known to grow and love.
It took less than two minutes for hundreds of excited children to scoop up thousands of plastic eggs filled with prizes on the University of Montana oval on Saturday afternoon.
On Thursday, October 23, 107.5 Zoo-FM's Aaron Traylor, America's Tallest DJ, will take on the entire Washington-Grizzly Stadium to benefit the Montana Food Bank Network.
Yesterday, I reported on a story about some crazy Florida radio DJs who were suspended after an April Fool's joke went horribly wrong. Radio disc jockeys are America's true attention-getters. Yet, sometimes their wacky stunts will get them fired. But if they can pull it off, the risk may be worth the ratings.
That got me to thinking...."Geez, I've made some seriously dumb mistakes in my radio
This afternoon I was away from my desk for a few minutes meeting with a co-worker down the hall. When I sat back down I couldn't help but notice something fairly disturbing right in the view between my two computer monitors...
While I usually keep my private messages, well, private, this one I had to share because I'm sure many people secretly wonder the same thing as Brynn, a listener from Missoula who writes:
Dear Aaron Traylor,
I'm really trying to like you, you seem like a good guy who is trying to support his community and make an honest living but I'm just hearing a lot of mixed messages on your show and I thin
It was a whirlwind day for this young Missoula girl, who had been dealt a heavy blow with a recent update regarding her aggressive brain tumor. Yet, even with the odds stacked against her, Alisa Hoke's spirit was brighter than today's warm Montana sunshine. Nothing, not even the news that her cyber knife treatment was turned down by a California hospital, was going to ruin her day. After all, toda
It's been a while since I caught up personally with the Hyde family since Cashy's cancer had returned and I was honored to finally have him back on my show today. Clearly, the entire Hyde family is pulled in so many different directions since their battle has taken them all over the nation in search of a cure so it was quite amazing that the father had the time to get us an update.
Music and making out is much like Oreos and Milk. One is simple incomplete without the other. Here, in this humble DJ's opinion, are some songs from back in the day that always seems to get my dance floor in the mood for some serious baby-making.
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"Give it a few pages and you'll probably find yourself at the other end before you know what happened." (From a Missoula Independent review of The DJ Chronicles - A Life Remixed)
Based on the true story of "The Tallest DJ in America", Aaron Traylor, The DJ Chronicles, which was originally published in 2004, is now available for Kindle and Nook.
Here's an excerp
Voted Best Radio and Club DJ 2004-2011 c/o Missoulian, Independent, Idaho Broadcasters
To say he is America's Tallest DJ wouldn’t be far from the truth when it comes to Aaron Traylor who clocks in at a whopping 6 foot 10 inches and has been the premiere source of the Northwests born and raised talent for 20 years; a radio disc jockey, music innovator and a true legend in the local scene...