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Bradley Jay

About Me

BIO

WBCN - alt rock jock (Current)
WBCN - morning show sidekick (number one in demo), WBCN-mid-day (number one in demo), WBCN - evenings (number one in demo), WBCN - Public Affairs Director, host of public affairs talk show and host/mix DJ for WBCN dance show
WBZ - Talk host/ producer and weekly MOS piece known as Jay Talking (Current)
WPRO - talk host fill in host
WSAR-afternoon drive “Hot Talk” show host
Movie Show on Radio host
WHFS Washington-Afternoon drive/morning host fill-in
WXRK New York - host fill-in
WZBC - Boston College Radio Host
WUNH - University of New Hampshire Radio host
GRAMMY AWARD host/interviewer for Westwood One 2000 - 2002
GRAMMY RED CARPET ARRIVALS principal on-camera interviewer/host 2000-2002
Westwood One national coverage of Woodstock 99 host/ principal interviewer
BROADCAST LIVE FROM MOSCOW for Russian and US audience
UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE Bachelor of Arts: Communications Major, Business Minor
Concord Hospital School for Operating Room Technicians
Nominated for BILLBOARD Major Market Personality Of The Year
Guest appearance on FATBOT SLIM'S Platinum-selling album "You've Come A Long way Baby"
Publication in THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY ON-LINE as freelance writer
SKILLS: Protools, Ableton Live, Native Instruments, Reason, Waves, Guitar, Crazy good at music mash-ups

I am from very small town called Center Strafford, New Hampshire.Center Strafford was so small that in grammar school all eight grades were in one room and my teacher had also been my father’s teacher.There was no high school, no market, no dentist, no doctor, no bowling alley, and no alley of any kind. No two buildings were close enough to form an alley between them.
There was no post office. A truck would simply pull up to the town line and toss out a full mailbag. It was up to us to go down to the edge of town and rummage through the bag ourselves.

The only thing to do in the winter was to ram around on snowmobiles. We had to be careful not to get de-capitated by barbed-wire fences. Summers were so boring that they made my teeth wobble.

For a long stretch, the police force consisted of one guy named Bud. If some one called the cops to report a domestic disturbance his whole family would pile into their '72 Chevy wagon and head to the scene. Bud would go to the door while the thousand pound family sat in the car.

There was only one other person in town that was my age and he lived a mile away. One summer the big thing was this. We would get on his black and chrome bike with balloon tires. He would sit on the seat and I would sit on the little rack over the rear fender. One end of a long rope was tied to the bike and the other to the chassis, only the chassis, of wrecked baby carriage. It had been a big expensive one with good rubber wheels. He would pedal as fast as he could with me on the back and we would drag this piece of a baby carriage through big a deep pothole in the road. As the carriage hit the pothole the rope would tighten, the carriage thing would jump high in the air and come crashing down, just a little more messed up each time. We did it for days and days.
I got my first gun in the seventh grade. It was a Sears and Roebuck single shot 22-caliber rifle. In the eighth grade I got a 20-gauge shotgun with a 3 shot clip and an adjustable choke. The nearest house was so far away we could just open the window and open fire.

I left that town as soon as I could. When I was seventeen I went to school to learn to be an operating room technician. A tech gets to actually assist in operations. Whatever. I even got to sew a guy up once. I sewed it too tight and his skin puckered up.

Then I went to college and did college radio at UNH in Durham.

Then I came to Boston and got a radio gig.

So how did I become the person I am today?Well, it is very likely that the engine that drives my creativity is fueled by the need to get far away from a town where people look at you funny if you have cool shoes.

- Bradley Jay


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Member Since: 28/10/2006
Band Website: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9IVRKvWHr8
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FORMATIVE EXPERIENCES

Broadcast live from Moscow, went to a wedding In Amman, listened to Courtney Love CD in King Hussein of Jordan boat in the Red Sea, saw Bastille day fireworks in Grenoble introduced Talking Heads at Hampton Beach Casino (Fear of Music), protested in the streets of Berlin over a zip code change, was moderator between David Bowie and a few BCN listeners while listeners asked questions. Bowie did five songs live, first big rock show was Bowie at the Boston Garden-Station to Station Tour, guest on Fatboy Slim’s Platinum Album “You’ve Come A Long Way Baby, rode in an open cockpit bi-plane, rode in folding wing WWII carrier plane, sat four feet behind the drummer on stage at an STP show at Foxboro Stadium, played guitar in the band "Jeff and Jane Hudson", did performance piece and song called Sushi Bar, performed with "Thunder Brothers" in a festival in Holland, saw Sugarcubes, The Birthday Party, Siouxsee, XTC, Gang of Four, Nina Hagen, The Wolfgang Press, The Swans, did college radio at University of New Hampshire and Boston College, went to Superbowl, actually ate a pound of good caviar, interviewed 21 artists in 3 days at Woodstock 99 and saw the fires, did a DJ set at Foxboro Stadium, did a DJ set at Tweeter Center, had New Years in Prague, was a surgical technician for 3 years, was the primary celebrity interviewer at Grammy Awards for Westwood One for 3 years.

FORMATIVE PLACES

Istanbul, Killybegs, Tralee, Sorrento, Glastonbury, Bath, Venice, Florence, Aqaba, Moscow, Florence, Auschwitz, Pompeii, Jerusalem x 2, Dead Sea x 2, Death Valley x 9, Berlin x 8, Olomouc, Rome x 2, Innsbruck, Brno, Milan x 2, Nice, Aix en Provence, Avignon, Arles, Hyeres, Metz, Grenoble, Chamonix x 2, Prague, Lisbon, Lagos, Sintra, Berner Oberland x3, Zurich, Geneve, Amsterdam, Utrecht, Brussels Oostende, Auschwitz, Cracow x 2, Zakopane, Budapest x 5, Vienna 2, Paris x 4, Reykjavic x 4.

INTERVIEWS INCLUDE

Chris Matthews, Lemmy from Motorhead, Oliver North, Slash x 2, Sec Def Robert Gates, Tom Morrelo, Willie Nelson, Funkadellic, Fatboy Slim x 3, Bowie x 4, Caroline Kennedy, Michael Kelly, Ben Bradlee, Larry King, Allen Ginsberg, Tori Amos David Bowie x 4 Queens of the Stone Age, Dave Grohl, Russ Meyer, Robert Shapiro, Tool, Elvis Costello x 2, Michael Patrick MacDonald, Christine Alise

PEOPLE I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE DINNER WITH

Brian Eno,
Sounds Like: Visit Bradley Jay on Facebook. University of New Hampshire Spaulding High School
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Obama: New Hope For America And The West

http://vimeo.com/4095163
Posted by on Sat, 18 Apr 2009 20:39:00 GMT

MUST SEE OLD SCHOOL ROCK VIDEO LINKS

Cure Underground " A Forest" Boston http://www.kinodv.net/movies/archiv e/The_Cure-A_Forest.html Human Sexual Response "Pound" at Streets http://www.kinodv.net/movies/archive/HSR_Pound.html G...
Posted by on Sat, 06 Sep 2008 09:03:00 GMT

Check Out Jay Talking at www.wbz1030.com

For Hot Street Action Check Out Jay Talking www.wbz1030.com
Posted by on Sun, 10 Aug 2008 15:50:00 GMT

Jay Talking nominated for Podcast of the Year. http://masscann.org/

Jay Talking nominated for Podcast of the Year   http://masscann.org/ Jay talking podcast is at www.wbz1030.com Click on WBZ Podcasts Scroll to bottom  
Posted by on Sun, 10 Aug 2008 15:39:00 GMT

Thunder Brothers to Play Freedom Rally Visit http://masscann.org/

Thunder Brothers to Play Freedom Rally on Boston Common. http://masscann.org/
Posted by on Sun, 10 Aug 2008 15:34:00 GMT

Travel photos by Bradley Jay. River Rave Photos by Jim McGinn

All travel photos  by Bradley Jay. River Rave Photos by Jim McGinn
Posted by on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:52:00 GMT

Procession mastered by Jeff Berlin

Procession  mastered by Jeff Berlin
Posted by on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:20:00 GMT

All songs written produced and performed by Bradley Jay

All songs written, produced, mixed, and performed by Bradley Jay. Procession and Dig Two Graves mastered by the great Jeff Berlin.
Posted by on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:17:00 GMT