![]() Unofficially, most of these seemed to be one half of a couple. This Eagleriffic crowd was mostly white, mostly blue collar and, despite my informal survey showing female KEGL-ignorance, a lot more women than the station’s target market would suggest. I don’t know KEGL’s actual listener numbers, but even in the hot Sunday weather Gexa was swarming like hive of tribal-tattooed bees - one of those massive hives you have to hire a colorful Discovery Channel exterminator character to remove. I feel like if you tune into KEGL for a given length of time, you get a Breaking Benjamin CD in the mail, along with a pair of cargo shorts. If you want to know how out-of-touch I am, I am unable to name a single Breaking Benjamin song obviously that put me in the minority at Gexa. To wit, as I walk through the gates and into Gexa’s oasis of praire grass, merch booths and shade, Stone Temple Pilots’ “Wicked Garden” blasts through the air.Īnd, frankly, Zombie and Breaking Benjamin are the only bands I was already familiar with, though certainly more so with the former than the latter. I could spend a thousand words on why this is (or a few: KXT already plays, nearly to exhaustion, the handful of classic- and alt-rock songs I want to hear), but I presume that little has changed with the station’s playlists and mission statement. ![]() KEGL’s target audience is males age 18 to 49, but even as a member of that particular advertising cluster, I can’t really remember the last time I listened to the Eagle, either. Which, with a lineup headlined by the likes of Zombie and Breaking Benjamin, wasn't too much of a surprise. When I told my friends I was going to BFD over the weekend, I got much the same reaction from everyone: In almost every case (seven of nine), the response was, “That station is still around?” Of those people, more than half were female. It's a question worth asking with a show like the BFD. I, however, would say some 18,000 people give a shit - or at least the ones that stayed until Zombie finished a lengthy, medley filled rendition of “Thunderkiss ’65.” “Who gives a shit?” he finally concluded. As he paced the stage during his wellworn living-dead-man routine, Zombie wondered aloud about whether or not rock music is dead. Rob Zombie was the marquee act at 97.1 FM KEGL's annual alt-rock radio bash, BFD, at Gexa Energy Pavilion on Sunday, and he had something on his mind. ![]() ![]() WIth Rob Zombie, Breaking Benjamin and more ![]()
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