{"id":2862,"date":"2010-03-05T12:03:30","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T12:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=2862"},"modified":"2010-03-05T16:19:21","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T16:19:21","slug":"meanwhile-on-the-other-side-of-the-coin-stalker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=2862","title":{"rendered":"Meanwhile, on the other side of the coin: Stalker alert!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had a bad night last night due to *ahem* environmental difficulties<\/em><\/p>\n

So as I was awake at 3am and, prodded by a podcast listener’s email asking about something I mentioned on last week’s show, I spent the early hours of the day in the company of google, facebook and linkedin, trying to answer the question ‘Whatever happened to…?’<\/p>\n

John Deloach. Or is that John De Loach? Who knows.<\/p>\n

John was a presenter on the radio station AFN SHAPE.<\/p>\n

I used to listen to AFN SHAPE, and John in particular, whenever I was recalled ‘home’ to NATO’s No 4 Wing, 2nd Allied Tactical Air Force permanent base, from wherever in the world we’d been sent to, on yet another detachment.<\/p>\n

I liked his microphone style and his personality.<\/p>\n

I would have described John as an American version of Kenny Everett. Not as madcap as Kenny, John was still a long step away from his more mainstream colleagues.<\/p>\n

And I’m not naive, I know that he had a set-list and an A and a B playlist, but it was obvious, from listening to his colleagues, that John mixed it up as best he could.<\/p>\n

And the music was good; AFN SHAPE played more diverse music than any of the German or Benelux stations we could get on FM.<\/p>\n

Anyway, my googling, facebooking and linkedining were mostly fruitless, but I did come across a four-year-old discussion, on Craigslist, that offered up an email address of someone who used to work with John when he moved from SHAPE to USAF Ramstein.<\/p>\n

So maybe there’s a chance.<\/p>\n

And what happens if that chance bears fruit?<\/p>\n

I’m going to drop the guy a line and say ‘Hi John, you don’t know me but 250 years ago I used to listen to you on AFN Shape and…’?<\/p>\n

Lame.<\/p>\n

Lame, lame, lame, lame.<\/p>\n

No, I’m not going to do that.<\/p>\n

But, you know, I just want to *know* that he’s still around somewhere.<\/p>\n

Still OK.<\/p>\n

Still using that sense of humour of his.<\/p>\n

That’s all.<\/p>\n

And on this week’s podcast I’m going to play a snippet (maybe more) of the first track I heard John Deloach (John De Loach?) play on AFN SHAPE, all those centuries ago.<\/p>\n

Oh yes.<\/p>\n

And the music is still excellent, even after all these years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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