Meet the Jocks
Dex was born in a little log studio. No, actually, he was born on an extension of a laundry chute because it was during the baby boom years and there were no available rooms in the hospital. They made his mom comfortable in the laundry. (true!)
He’s been in radio more than 50 years. Geez, you’d think he woulda learned something.
Currently he serves as a Justice of the Peace; license valid only in a small Pacific atoll.
He dabbles in cooking — for which the town’s compost dept. is eternally grateful.
You can sometimes find him face-down off Bainbridge Island after a friend told him, “Go soak your head.”
If found, kindly return him to Pure Gold Oldies.
Why, we don’t know.
Phil has been spinning records for so long – even he can’t remember how long. He’s worked at several East Coast radio stations – all having different formats ranging from middle-of-the-road (MOR), country, Top-40, Oldies – even Big Bands. He also entertained U.S. Forces overseas on American Forces Radio. Join Phil weekday mornings on the early bird show and let him wake you up easy with hit songs from the golden galaxy.
I’ve been in love with Radio since I was a small child crawling around studios where my father was an announcer.
At home, around 5 yrs old, I would play 78RPM records and talk into the speaker while changing the record. I thought people could hear me on their radios.
My first station was a REMCO Radio station I got for Christmas and came with a long wire that reached the next door neighbors kids.
Then came my Pirate Radio years, in my teens, with a transmitter kit to broadcast on the AM radio band. I Strung a long wire in the trees for an antenna and I was ON THE AIR!
The first real job in Radio was at KXLY AM in Spokane, WA. I was still in high school and did a weekend shift.
Soon I moved into Television and spent 30 wonderful years in News, Production, and Management, in Seattle, at KOMO TV, KIRO TV, KSTW TV.
In 1996 I started one of the first internet radio stations, PUREGOLD ROCK N ROLL. Later becoming PUREGOLD OLDIES.
Mickey Bo’s obsession with rock ‘n’ rhythm began as a lad in western Massachusetts when he nearly levitated watching Elvis on TV in ’56. He ain’t been the same since.
As an adolescent, the Mickster spent paper route earnings on hit records and played them on a pirate radio station in his bedroom. Because of a weak signal, though, neither neighbors nor the government retaliated.
When a high school senior in 1964, Mickey upped his game by becoming a deejay at his hometown radio station, followed by announcing jobs elsewhere in Massachusetts and Texas before joining Armed Forces Radio & Television with the Air Force in Thailand and Korea during the Vietnam War. After discharge, he took up radio news, eventually reporting world events for the Voice of America in Washington, D.C.
His passion for original rock ‘n’ rhythm smoldered, however, so he fanned the embers and became your backbeat buddy on Mickey Bo’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Revue after retiring from his federal gig in 2007, confident of its guarantee of steady meals.
Mickey lives in Falls Church, Virginia, into his second half century in radio and wondering where the time — and his hair — went.