"The Last Resort" >>>>

"You're listening with Malcolm and 'South Texas Freestyle'..."

-- Malc promo and station ID
-- Rick Springfield: "Jessie's Girl" (partial)
-- Malc transition: "Following along a theme..."
-- Cars: "My Best Friend's Girlfriend"

-- KGUL sweep jingle
-- Joe Walsh: "Life of Illusion"
-- Eagles: "The Last Resort"
-- Malc backannounce: "First time I heard that, I was just devastated..."

-- IMAGE: Floor shot of Malc @ KGUL, August 1981

-- NOTES: Length: 0:17:44; Quality: Good - I was getting in the groove with my Sunday "freestyle" program. - "The Last Resort" has always held special meaning for me.

"South Texas Freestyle" >>>>

Once a week, I got to play what I wanted to, on Sunday nights. The show quickly became labelled as "South Texas Freestyle"...

-- Pat Benatar: "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" (partial)
-- Malc promo: "Hitting you with my best shot, you're with Malcolm and 'South Texas Freestyle'"
-- John Stewart & Stevie Nicks: "Gold"
-- Fleetwood Mac: "Sarah"
-- Malc backannounce and prep for signing off on the AM

-- Loggins and Messina: "Be Free"
-- Malc backannounce: Messina stole one of my girlfriends (an exaggeration)
-- KGUL-AM Sign-Off

-- KGUL-FM continues past sundown
-- Marshall Tucker Band: "Last of the Singing Cowboys"
-- Outlaws: "Ghost Riders in the Sky"
-- Charlie Daniels Band: "Indian Man"
-- ZZ Top: "Leila"
-- KGUL Album Hour promo: ZZ Top's "El Loco"
-- ZZ Top: "Heaven, Hell or Houston"

-- Malc promo and station ID
-- Yes: "Yours Is No Disgrace"
-- Malc backannounce

-- "Jessie's Girl" (partial)

-- NOTES: Length: 0:47:52; Quality: Good - long-time friend Jackie Bales coined the term "freestyle." It wasn't quite freeform, but it was kinda, in the South Texas style. This might have been the first night the title of the show was used.

"It's Never Too Late To Start All Over Again" >>>>

This was my theme at this time. I'd lost my bid for the Ojai City Council in 1980 and was having what I thought were difficulties getting further into the KTYD family in 1981. With the addition of a third son, financial pressures mounted as I was hoping to reinvent myself and start all over again in somewhat familiar ground...

-- Iron Butterfly: "Before You Go" (partial)
-- Steppenwolf: "It's Never Too Late To Start All Over Again"
-- Moody Blues: "Stepping Into A Slide Zone"
-- Fleetwood Mac: "Sisters of the Moon"

-- "You've been listening with Malcolm..." outro: "See ya manana!"
-- Lynyrd Skynyrd: "Simple Man"

-- KGUL Sweep jingle
-- BBC Rock Hour - Mick Fleetwood: "The Visitor" (partial)

-- IMAGE: Malc hard at work, KGUL, Summer 1981

-- NOTES: Length: 0:28:42; Quality: Fair with some tape hiss - Listen carefully to how "Before you go" ends and "It's Never Too Late To Start Again" begins. That was the kind of thing I could do that very few others had the ear for. My problem was I never got it through my thick skull that I was the only one listening with headphones on. - I've always loved that bass line on "Sisters of the Moon" and the lyrics and sound of "Simple Man."

"KGUL AM & FM, July 1981" >>>>

Not getting enough airtime at KTYD in Santa Barbara, I first went back to Colorado to see if I could scrounge up something through my old "Coderado" radio friends. Finding nothing, I then went back to South Texas to see if I could drum up a new gig and a new life.

-- Charlie Daniels Band: "Birmingham Blues" (partial)
-- Malc transition: "You're with Malcolm and..."

-- Lynyrd Skynyrd: "One More Time"
-- Robin Trower: "Sailing"
-- Blondie : "Shayla"
-- Phil Collins: "In The Air Tonight"
-- Stories: "Brother Louie"
-- War: "All Day Music"

-- Malc Promo: BBC Rock Hour
-- Freddie King: "Going Down"
-- ______________: "Hip Shaking Woman"
-- Bob Seger: "Travelling Man" (live)
-- Bob Seger: "Beautiful Loser" (live)

-- "You're listening with Malcolm at K-Gull radio..."
-- "Iron Butterfly: "Before You Go" (fade out)

-- IMAGE: Malc behind the mike at KGUL AM & FM, Port Lavaca - Two hours up the Texas coast from where I used to live (Port Aransas), 1972-74.

-- NOTES: Length: 0:43:50; Quality: Fair, but a fair amount of tape hiss - My Sunday evening gig, maybe the first or second one at KGUL. - Skynyrd's "One More Time" was one of many they did that didn't get a lot of airplay compared to their hits, but was totally my kind of music: soulful in a country way. - Stories' "Brother Louie" is a classic and, amazingly, still gets the odd airplay, today. - The feel of War's "All Day Music" reminds me so much of a partying South Texas afternoon! - Just throwing stuff out to see what stuck, as I had no real way to know what the FM rocker kids of Port Lavaca/Victoria liked. No audience data. Flying blind. - Weekdays, on the FM and AM, I did the morning show, spinning country music! Monday mornings was a tough turn around. Talk about a dual personality!

"My Last Hours on Freeform KTYD" >>>>

These were the last hours of my being able to do true freeform at KTYD, May 1981. I, of course, did not know it at the time, but I could feel it. However, I was more blinded by my need for more airtime than anything else and I would soon leave because of it.

-- Brian Eno and David Byrne: Quoran
-- Captain Beefheart: "Observatory Crest"
-- King Crimson: "I Talk To The Wind"
-- King Crimson: "Epitaph"

-- Malc ID over:
-- Fleetwood Mac: "Before The Beginning"
-- Fleetwood Mac: "Future Games"

-- Malc back announce and shout out to KCFR and KFML
-- PSA for Associated Students UCSB
-- Promos and commercials and commercial goofs including:
-- Classic Promo goof of Gerry DeWitt's "60's Revisited" by (I think) Jim Trapp

-- Malc station ID over:
-- Garnett Mimms: "Cry Baby" (most of it)

-- IMAGE: Dad and Sons on Pauline Street, Ojai, CA 1981

-- NOTES: Length: 0:38:58; Quality: Poor to Fair - MALC1981-0501-5 is actually #6 of the night and this segment #5. So, MALC1981-0501-5 is actually the very last hour segment of my time at KTYD when it was still could be called a freeform station. - A number of all-time favorites on this segment! Almost all of them. - Sure glad I got "Observatory Crest" on tape (and now digitized). Captain Beefheart's most commercial song, but a real favorite of mine. - If you didn't play "I Talk To The wind" followed by "Epitaph," you just were not a freeform DJ as far as I was concerned. I did it when I could. - The Fleetwood Mac cuts are in my Top 50, also. - Garnett Mimms: talk about soul!