Recently, I grinned when unearthing a tape whose label includes the words, "top 40 mock shift." The tape is of me doing a mock on-air shift for a fictitious top 40 station during broadcasting school. Although I'm a little curious to hear how my air check from nearly 30 years ago sounded, I don't plan to listen to it anytime soon.
I like knowing that I have the tape, but as I've written previously, my natural on-air delivery is better suited for subtler formats. I'm sure I didn't scream and shout my way through my song intros on that tape, but I just know that I wasn't really myself on it...
...except, perhaps, during my intro to Us3's "Cantaloop." With such a solid, respected jazz riff as my backdrop, I'm sure I rose to the occasion there.
