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I'm one of the latest additions to The Arch staff, but I've definitely not new to this area. Granite City is my hometown and I spent the first 21 years of my life there. Most of my time growing up was playing records and tapes and listening to the radio. Other kids wanted Santa to bring them toys. Not me. I got my first close 'n play record player when I was three years old and my passion for recorded music hasn't waned since. My first record collection consisted on many 45's my mother would find at yard sales. These were mostly 50's and 60's oldies that people were selling off in the 70's. The first full album I had was Steve Miller Band "Fly Like an Eagle" on 8-Track when I was four-years-old. A strong child's appreciation for KISS soon followed. Since then I've followed many musical pathways, there's just so much great music to be heard.My first radio job came after college moving me to Springfield, IL for almost a decade. While there, I worked at a hard rock station and met many of the grunge-era and 80's acts. Also, the occasional actress or president! (Bill Clinton) What a great time for rock music! It was non-stop party and most of it now is just a non-linear blur, but what a time! I returned to my home area a few years ago and now am proud to say I work with the Number 1 radio team in St. Louis!
I've been in radio for fifteen years, but just in the last few weeks I've been with The Arch, I've played Madonna, Daughtry, The Chipmunks, Prince, Juice Newton, Jim Croce, Velvet Revolver, and others for the very first time in my career. It's all about the variety.
Johnny Depp directs new Keith Richards documentary
This archived news story is available only for your personal, non-commercial use. Information in the story may be outdated or superseded by additional information. Reading or replying the story in its archived form does not constitute a re-publiccation of the story.Yes!! The only guy cooler than Mick Jagger is getting his life story in cinemas!! Johnny Depp is set to direct the first major documentary on Keith Richards!
You may remember that Depp based his "Captain Jack Sparrow" character on the staggering brilliance of Mr. Richards himself. This resulted in Keith portraying Sparrow's father in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" sequel. Depp was so fascinated with Richards (which makes sense because Richards is fascinating) that he says he's going to start work on the documentary next week.
Can you imagine? Falling out of a tree! Snorting his father's ashes! And those are just the most recent events. This is going to be awesome!! Well, hopefully anyway. Johnny Depp has only directed one other movie... something called "The Brave" in 1997. I've never seen or heard of it, have you? We know that Depp has the admiration, we'll have to wait to see if the has the skills. This project is in it's infancy so no word yet on casting or release. Keep your sticky fingers crossed that it actually gets made and doesn't get scrapped as did planned docs on Janis Joplin and Stevie Ray Vaughan.
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