Expressing Some ROQ-Solid Positions

Regarding Patrick Goldstein’s Oct. 22 Pop Eye column, “KROQ Caught Between Rock and a Hard Place”:

Trip Reeb, KROQ-FM’s new manager, is right about one thing--some changes need to be made if the radio station is to live up to its slogan, “The Rock of the ‘90s.”

But why must KROQ fall back on the same safe programming used by other stations--KQLZ “Pirate Radio” and KIIS-FM? Why must it commit itself to playing Guns N’ Roses and (to quote Reeb) any “right new heavy metal song”?

What is needed in Los Angeles now is what KROQ was before starting its search for big numbers in the Arbitron game: an alternative outlet that isn’t afraid to play new music--hard-core, metal, punk, industrial, psychedelic, acid-house. . . .

MIKE CONTUS

Harbor City