These pics were taken while I was working at Z100 FM in San Antonio, Texas. Z100, "The Home of the Buzzard", was an FM Rock station in a top ten market and where I turned of drinking age. Needless
to say it was party central for awhile. I worked there during the years of 1979 and 1980 under Program Director John Lodge who had recently come from “The Loop” in Chicago, IL. "The Loop", aka WLUP, featured Steve Dahl amongst it's luminaries of the time.
Steve Dahl you might remember blew up a bunch of disco albums during a White Sox's game at Chicago's Comiskey Park during the anti-disco era of the early 80's. I was fortunate to have interviewed Steve while working at Z100. What sticks out in my mind most about that interview was Steve's claim that he had arrived at our studios in San Antonio by driving his "mobile abortion clinic" So I told him his hands were a mess and that he should have cleaned up first.
The gentleman sitting in the background is Rick Laquer a family friend of my dad's who lived in San Antonio and was gracious enough to give me a bed to sleep in when I first arrived in town.
The plaque you see was given to me by Z100 Program Director John Lodge. If I remember correctly, I believe it was given to me in lieu of a Christmas bonus. The engraving reads “Bill Bennett For those who give the rewards are high, here's yours!”
Yep, that's me in the buzzard costume sitting in the stands of a San Antonio Spurs game. That is Z100 drive-time personality Keev Kristy's wife Gina sitting next to me.
The aircheck below represents one of several formats that KZZY went through in the year-and-a-half that I was there. It also includes my NAB nominated spot for the new ZZ Top Deguello album - an honor I am very proud of.