Rich Van Slyke the voice of the Shark since it's inception (September 2012) also can play a mean guitar. I've always wanted a legal ID for a radio station that was its own song (think early MTV theme).  After a few conversations with him I told him what I'd like in terms of tempo & sound by using songs by bands we play.  Rich patiently listened to me as I said things like Offsprings' "Come Out and Play" & Foo Fighters' "Times Like These". I give Rich a lot of credit for not laughing at me because my music speak is remedial at best. His is a much higher level. 

The words in the legal ID were what The Shark used before I started here (Jan. 2013).  I think Keith Hastings wrote the "rocking long island from airport plaza" line back in September 2012.  Initially when I spoke to Dave Widmer (GM extraordinaire) about the legal and wanting to make it stand along like it's own song he seemed interested but also dug the "rocking long island from airport plaza" line because that's where our offices are located. And in his words, "sounds really cool"

Rich did 3 different versions and we decided this one was best. 

The actual version of the ID was slightly tweaked by Sean Lynch who added a doorbell, shark chomps, and did something EQ-wise that I'm not sure what to this day but was pretty bad ass if you ask me.  I'll upload that later.

So the eternal question of how many people does it take to create a legal ID for a radio station is 189. LOL! 

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