Rodney Bingenheimer

It's the new world order, if we're being frank.

Jeff Bingham? Jeff Bingham is dressed as Rodney Bingenheimer, the mayor of the Sunset Strip.

That's true.

He used to have that

It's just full of cars.

I'm like, what's going on here? And I walk in, and you know who Rodney Bingenheimer was? Sure.

The K-Rock DJ, who was the first person ever to play Bowie on the L.A. radio, answers my front door.

I'm like, hello.

As a matter of fact, here's the really weird thing.

There's a DJ, Rodney Bingenheimer.

You know who Rodney Bingenheimer is? Yeah.

Okay.

If

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have an intro that was instrumental a little bit, that's only because the DJ could talk over it.

The song started off singing.

Yeah, yeah.

So yeah, I mean, everyone, that was, unless you're like, you know, Rodney Bingenheimer, who just retired.

He just retired.

He had his last show last night.

They were big voices.

There was KME-T, the legendary Mighty Met in L.A., and KLOS, a little more commercial, and then K-Rock started later, Rock of the 80s, which was really from the 70s, and Rodney Bingenheimer.

But there were only so many stations, and they had huge audiences.

If you look at something like the Johnny Carson Tonight Show, had on any given night 20 million people that would be unheard of now because there weren't a thousand different streaming services and shows on and so what happened with so that's fine and it's good for the consumer in many ways if you don't mind buying a la carte subscriptions every month that add up but the what happened with music is it had a big voice after the kent state massacre several weeks later when Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young put out the song Ohio, everybody heard it because there were big voices and big audiences.

Dramarama issued its first full-length release, 1985's Cinema Verite, on France's New Rose Records.

It was re-released in the US after receiving airplay on KROQFM radio from influential Los Angeles disc jockey Rodney Bingenheimer, who at first thought the band was French.

That from Wikipedia.

On the back of Anything Anything becoming so successful on alternative radio and featuring in the fourth installment of the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise, the group relocated to California from New Jersey before self-releasing their second album, Box Office Bomb, in 1987.

Local personality and DJ Rodney Bingenheimer, whom we've met before this season in connection to Joan Jett, helped spread the word and got them a deal with Chameleon Records, who released their next two US records, Stuck in Wanderama Land in 1989 and the 1990 EP Live at the China Club.

When Chameleon went bust in 1991, the label's larger backers, Elektra Records, stepped in to fund the completion and release of vinyl and promoted the dramas nationally, allowing them the opportunity of their first nationwide tour and first gig in the UK.

So perhaps the obstacles they faced during the recording did not feel much more than a temporary blip in their streak of good fortune that had taken them from a record shop in New Jersey to LA as full-time professional record releasing musicians.

Yeah.

And when The Dolls first arrived and walked into the lobby of the Hyatt House, Rodney Bingenheimer was there with about 40 to 50 girls, many of them underage, to meet the band.

And if you've heard our St- Stooges series, Rodney, who actually, he actually started his career as an intern, uh, for Mercury Rec- Mercury Records, and he just kind of hung around celebrities for a while.

He famously owned a nightclub on Sunset Boulevard called Rodney Bingenheimer's English Disco, which is probably where he met and brought all these girls.

That's-

That's how he supplied them

... it's definitely where he met these girls-

Yes

Um, first big show, LA, at The Whisky.

Rodney Bingenheimer, a, um, huge personality on K-Rock radio station in Los Angeles, um, is a big champion of theirs.

He's, he's still got his show.

He's playing them.