EVH Wolfgang Guitar

The February issue of Guitar World magazine is said to have an exculsive interview with Eddie Van Halen about the conception of his EVH Wolfgang for Fender. Here's a look at the production photo and read more on this interview where he says " A guitar is a very personal extension of the person playing it. You have to be emotionally and spiritually connected to your instrument." FULL STORY

Steamtown Unplugged w/ Jackson Vee

Veggi-Love Ad Banned!

'Veggie Love': PETA's Banned Super Bowl Ad

NBC has rejected an ad pitched to run during Super Bowl 43 for being too sexy! Was it a beer ad? NO! Was it one of those weird GoDaddy.com ads? Not even close. Its an ad for PETA.org... People for the ethical treatment of animals. According to the website, PETA's ad—which features a bevy of beauties who are powerless to resist the temptation of veggie love—was deemed too hot for the Super Bowl. NBC rejected the video because of concerns over "rubbing pelvic region with pumpkin," a woman "screwing herself with broccoli,"If this commercial doesn't convince you to put down your chicken wings and eat veggi's, then you better call for a prescription of Viagra. More HERE

Daily Rant; Jillian Barberie's new Nutrisystem commercial

Not only am I sick to death of seeing this commercial, I am sick to death of how annoying she has gotten. I used to think Jillian was a pretty cool chic. She knew a lot about sports and made it in a guys world... ahem, remind you of anyone? Anyway, the first commercial with her was ok. She looked great! It was commendable that she got all that baby weight off and got her sexy body back. Thumbs up, very inspirational indeed. For 2009, they went on with her, after she was played out in my opinion. I loved the Chris Berman commercials myself and thought they were a nice change. But noooooooo they have to grab on to the sexy appeal and, face it, Jillian is a lot more sexy than far over the hill and slightly creepy Marie Osmond. Don't worry if you haven't seen it because it is a plague upon cable right now. This commercial, I don't know if it is the poor quality or what, but it makes her look anorexic. Jillian is far skinnier than I think is healthy for her height. Sure she can wear a bikini, and I'm not baggin on some hot chic because she is skinnier than I am, no way! She was hotter in the 2008 commercial where in 2009, she looks sickly and extremely over tan. She looks a lot older and oranger! If I were to guess I'd say she was bordering around 90lbs (with 5 lbs of hair and 10 lbs of silicone). It just irks me t hat she was doing so well, looking so well, and portraying a healthy way of losing weight that it nearly convinced me to jump in. Now, I wouldn't buy anything she was hocking. Give me "Mike all I eat is Golic-bread" any day over this beef-jerky look alike!

Wii Ready 2 Rumble Revolution

Coming soon for Wii players... "Ready 2 Rumble Revolution". Boxing type game that will feature "celebrity impersonations" of 16+ famous people such as David Beckham, Brad Pitt, James Brown, John Travolta, Sylvester Stallone, David Hasselhoff, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaun White, Simon Cowell, Justin Timberlake, and Antonio Banderas. More here from Yahoo!

Daily Rant: Breast Feeding Photos Banned

Today I heard, and read, on several news sources that Facebook has decided to ban photos of mothers breast feeding their children. What they've actually said is "Photos containing a fully exposed breast (as defined by showing the nipple or areola) do violate those terms (on obscene, pornographic or sexually explicit material) and may be removed," Which is right. I don't think that breast feeding photos should be allowed on Facebook. There are many sick individuals out there who would look at photos like that far out of the context in which they were posted. I doubt the mothers posting these would like to receive lewd messages from these people. Heck people send messages like this to people who aren't exposed... plus there are people under the age of 18 on these sites and these types of photos can also be used for purposes other than they were intended for. We try to keep our kids safe and pure from these images. It is not right to have them out there. I believe in some instances, you can get an "adult" album which is only accessible by those over the age of 18. Still, we all know what these galleries are for, and that would not be in promoting breast feeding of infants and the welfare of children. I support facebook's owners in their decision to can such images. Of course people have a right to freedom of expression but I think they should think about what they are expressing, and more importantly, what the consequences of this will be. (i.e. nasty messages and sickening acts prompted by innocence).

Steamtown Unplugged w/ Jay Luke of the Mess

Bike Hero

This is such a wicked video a friend of mine showed me on YouTube. It's a kid and his friends who set up, Guitar Hero style, the song "Prisoner of Society" by The Living End. This is an insane speed metal band and its set on hard! I can't imagine how long it took this kid to set it up and get it right, but he rides through his town, in perfect timing and even has lights on the front of the bike corresponding to blink when the chords are hit.

Daily Rant: Vending Machines

I do understand why we have vending machines at work. Still, it irks me that they are here. Some of you may know that over the past 2 years, I've lost about 100 lbs. Having a vending machine staring you down every time you have to go to the bathroom, its hard to resist. All of the yummy goodness trapped inside, waiting to be liberated with just a nominal bail of pocket change. Of course I break down. Peanut Butter cookies, Dipsey Doodles (corn chips that bring me way back to my childhood cafeteria days) and a bevy of various candy bars. It haunts you, once you get the idea of that sin-riddled indulgence in your mind, you sit and stew. You wonder "Do I have any change?". I, myself, despise pocket change. A subject better left to broach on another day. Needless to say, I was void of change. But the vending machine gods of course have thought and pondered on this and conveniently have included a little slot that will happily suck in your dollar bill and spit out the change. This way you have change for a latter visit! How inventive. Do I have a dollar? NO! Just a lonely five-spot. So, I suck up my pride and begin asking coworkers to break my bill. They know what I'm up to, what's dancing in my brain and wearing me down to near insanity-by-hunger. With a chuckle and a smile, someone finally obliges and I merrily skip off to the lighted box trapping my snack inside. What to choose? It becomes overwhelming. So a few choices are made, buttons punched, change spit out, and low and behold my sweet, salty and oh so bad for you snacks are dispensed. I must mention that we have a quite cantankerous soda machine too which charges anywhere from $1 to $1.50 for refreshment. You take a chance when getting lured in by this shrew's wares. It's a crapshoot if you will actually be rewarded with your selection or it will get stuck, causing you to kick, punch and curse at the darn thing until one of two events occur. 1. You finally unwedge your purchase and emerge victorious... or 2. the business manager hears your struggle and comes to reprimand you like some sort of displaced mother, to which you respond by shoving your hands into your now empty pockets, hang your head and shuffle off to stew at your desk about the robbery. I think from now on I'll stick to the free coffee or water. Still, I know deep down in my heart, tomorrow will come and I'll be digging for change again, coming up with the leftovers of the previous day and shaking my fist, cursing the vending Gods as they look down upon me and snicker.

Daily Rant: Pardon This Interruption

Inauguration Day, 2009. Possibly the most historical event since 9/11. Coverage on every major network... ABC, CBS, WVIA, MSNBC, NBC, FOX... hell I even think Hannah Montana took a break for a few hours. Still, I am a die-hard fan of CNN Headline News. Robin Meade is like, my all time idol, plus I enjoy the rest of the crew. I was excited that Robin was doing the coverage and so decided to tune in to CNN HLN for my dose of coverage. All morning they talked, showed the crowds on the national mall, showed various past presidents, other dignitaries. I learned a lot I must say. Then came the moment the world was waiting for, the swearing in of the 44th president of the United States of America and his subsequent speech. It started out as moving but as the clock struck 12:23pm in the 97.9X studio, here comes (dun. dun, dun) Comcast Newsmakers... blocking out the speech and going on about some local crap that no one cares about. Really, every morning I get annoyed by this needless fodder and now, in the middle of the first speech Barack Obama makes as president, I'm searching for my TV remote? You would think that no single event, or person, was more of a news maker today of all days than the President addressing the nation. You'd think, that someone in the control room at Comcast would say eff this, and keep rolling with the speech. No... not the case. So, I finished the broadcast on MSNBC. In this day and age where there are so many outlets for the media and such a dog fight for ratings, you'd think that this would be a no-brainer. Ha! Comcast really dropped the ball on this one and I'm sure it will reflect in their ratings as I'm sure thousands or possibly millions of remotes clicked nearly simultaneously away from their station.

Daily Rant: Flacco's Uni-brow

Ok, I know that guys don't typically care what they look like. In fact, they don't give a crap what other dudes look like either, right? Well anyway... this weekend, like millions of other Americans, I watched the AFC play-off game. Watched the Ravens go down at the hands of the Steelers (WOOT for PA team in the Superbowl!). Still, I kept getting distracted by that GAWD-AWFUL caterpillar taking a siesta across the forehead of Raven's QB Joe Flacco. Seriously, Dude! I know he makes millions of dollars a year, probably drives a sick sports car and has more real estate than my entire family combined... it still doesn't exempt him from the fact that personal pride, or even personal hygiene are a prominent judgment factor in our society. I know some of you could give a crap about this guy. That is wrong! Completely wrong. Sure he wears a helmet for his job, but that is what? Four hours per week? Ok maybe a total of half the time of a normal job per week, if you include practice of course. We also must factor in that he will be walking around with this abomination sticking out in plain sight with no shield of the helmet for the next six or seven months! The dude gets run over, trucked down and beat to a pulp each week by huge linemen... and he can't take the ten-second pain that women all over they world grin and bear daily? Pathetic. Seriously! I think I'm going to start the "Force Flacco to get waxed ASAP" petition. There is no excuse for one's eyebrows to meet in the middle. No matter how rich and or famous and or talented one is.

Hostile Takeover Weekend: Zoey's Playlist

Hostile Takeover weekend on 979X. What does that mean... exactly? It means YOU take control of the airwaves @ 979X! Pick your playlist now CLICK HERE

I have successfully taken over McKay's show... in a very hostile way.
Most of my choices were made based on the fact that I love each and every one of these videos... remembering when MTV used to actually play videos. I can recall Aerosmith's video with the cutting edge technology at the time and the break out series of Alicia Silverstone. The Chili Peppers video that looked like a video game, Nirvana with their wrenching images and the absolute very best video I've ever ever EVER seen... Prodigy, smack my bitch up. Lastly, I chose Cassie because it makes me recall one of the very first times the band Flyleaf came to hang out and preform in the 979X rock lounge. It was the first time I ever heard "Cassie", and Lacey explained how the band was touched by the Columbine shooting several years ago, especially the story of the young girl, Cassie, who was asked by the shooters if she believed in God. Answering yes caused them to kill her. I am a pretty tough cookie, but this brought tears to my eyes and brought so much more meaning to the song for me.

Zoey's Playlist
Flyleaf- Cassie
Red Hot Chili Peppers- Snow
Aerosmith- Amazing
Prodigy- Smack My Bitch Up
Nirvana- Heart Shaped Box

Daily Rant: Jolly Ranchers

So I've decided that it truly isn't healthy to keep inside what pisses you off. So, each day I'll just rant a bit about things that irk me so they don't build up inside and make me go postal one day. Nope, that wouldn't be good at all. So today... Jolly Ranchers.



Jolly Ranchers candies, invented in 1949 in a place where really nothing good comes from, Brooklyn NY. Sure, things from Brooklyn may appear well and good on the outside at times. I myself, just today, walked past the candy dish of a co worker and spied the candies sitting innocently waiting to be tasted. Lured in by the fruity temptation, I swiped a few and padded back to the 979X studio. Now, DUH, I talk on air for a living. This can not possibly be executed when one has a mouthful of sticky candy. No, but like a dumbass, I popped one into my mouth and soon found my teeth stuck together with the seconds ticking away before I had to crack the mic. In a panic, I tried to pry my jaw open to no avail, nothing but pain. Oh why, WHY do these candies have to be so tempting and tasty only to be found to be the sneaky little creature looking to thwart my quest for dental hygiene and radio super-stardom? Le-sigh. Eventually the sugary goodness melted away and the I was feed from my temporary state of lock jaw. Still... beware the Jolly Rancher!

p.s. Watermelon is still the best!

Steamtown Unplugged

Steamtown Unplugged @ the Mall at Steamtown, Thursday January 15th. We were joined by the band The Waiting who rocked the stage! Also gave some people some free Peanut Chews and Pepsi Max! Come join us next week for live music from Jay Luke! Here's what you missed...

Hostile Takeover Weekend!

So we've kicked it off... but there is still time for you to submit your own playlist to 979X for the Hostile Takeover Weekend! CLICK HERE

You'll hear Playlists from:

Deanna Fujita of Mertztown, PA
Papa Roach- Hollywood Whore
Red Jumpsuit Apparatus- Your Guardian Angel
Seether- Rise Above This
Nirvana- All Apologies
Theory of a Deadman- Hate My Life

Marcie Sipos of Weatherly, PA
Shinedown- Second Chance
Disturbed- Prayer
Stone Sour- Bother
Three Days Grace- I Hate Everything About You
Godsmack- I Stand Alone

Shasta Culp of Sunbury, PA
Stone Temple Pilots- Sex Type Thing
Seether- Breakdown
Staind- Believe
12 Stones- Adrenaile
Alice in Chains- Don't Follow

Stanley Gutkowski III of Mountain Top, PA
Shinedown- 45
Crossfade- Cold
Nickelback- Something in Your Mouth
Sick Puppies- My World
Three days Grace- Never Too Late

Alicia Derr of Sugarloaf, PA
Breaking Benjamin- Evil Angel
Apocalyptica- I Don't Care
Rev theory- Hell Yeah
Tantric- Down and Out
Disturbed- Inside the Fire

Scott Hosmer of Kingston, PA
Motley Crue- Girls, Girls, Girls
Ozzy Osbourne- Crazy Train
Atreyu- Becoming the Bull
Limp Bizkit- Faith
Saliva- LAdies and Gentlemen

Brittany Speck of West Pittston, PA
Three Days Grace- Over and Over
Alice in Chains- Man in the Box
Saliva- Always
Disturbed- Down With the Sickness
Theory of a Deadman- Bad Girlfriend

Spackle Barrett of Minooka, PA
Foo Fighters- Monkey Wrench (live)
Incubus- Oil and Water
Spin Doctors- Little Miss Can't Be Wrong
Beastie Boys- Intergalactic
Kings of Leon- Sex on Fire

Mary Ramsey of Factoryville, PA
Green Day- Basket Case
Toadies- Possum Kingdom
System of a Down- Chop Suey
Poison- Talk Dirty To Me
Breaking Benjamin- The Diary of Jane (Acoustic)

James Murphy of Clarks Summit, PA
Bush- Mouth
3 Doors Down- Citizen Soldier
Trapt- Who's Going Home With You Tonight
Skillet- The Last Night
Buckcherry- Crazy Bitch

Don't see your playlist here? It's cool... we're doing the Hostile Takeover all weekend! Submit your playlist NOW!

Spiderman: the Broadway Musical?

Yes, the rumors could be true. According to U2's The Edge, he and Bono have written scores for the upcoming Spiderman: the Musical. Slated to come to Broadway in 2009, the roles have yet to be chosen but another rumor is swirling (and for quite some time now) that Marilyn Manson Ex fiancee Evan Rachel Wood will play flame dame Mary Jane Parker.

The List

If you've ever watched "Friends" (a show I'm a huge fan of), then I'm sure you've seen the episode about "The List". For those who are like "Zoey, WTF are you talkin about?" I'll explain. In this particular episode, the Friends discuss "The List" that each person has. On this list is 5 celebrities (Actors, Rockstars, Sports Stars, Political Figures, etc.) that you may "Hook-Up" with if the opportunity arises, regardless if you are in a relationship or not. My list is as follows:


1. Jared Leto
Band: "30 Seconds to Mars"
Film:"Fight Club", "Basil", "Panic Room"
TV: "My So Called Life"


2. Kasey Kahne
Sports: NASCAR Sprint Cup Driver


3. Andy Roddick
Sports: Pro Tennis Player; Current-ranked #8 ATP


4. Chris Carrabba
Music: "Dashboard Confessional"


5. Tom Felton
Actor: "Draco Malfoy" in the Harry Potter series

Unlike Ross, I never laminated my list and changes have been made. I've actually retired Gavin Rossdale from my list since he is a family man now. I've met both Jared Leto and Chris Carrabba and both are still firmly still on the list. So who makes your list?

Kid Rock & Dale Earnhardt Jr. "Warrior" Video

A few months back, Kid Rock and NASCAR superstar (and Zoey crush) Dale Earnhardt Jr. teamed up for a video to support the Army National Guard. The single is called "Warrior" and it's a great salute to those heroes of the National Guard! Enjoy!