Didn't say it, but this is also coming from one of the regional VPs of one of the corporations. He hemmed and hawed when asked about it and then admitted that the edited versions were coming from corporate. For all I know they did go to the record companies and asked permission. The station I was at years ago always played the full album versions of most stuff [except In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida which was reserved for when a DJ was constipated and needed a realllllly long bathroom break] but I remember the hoo-haw created when we played the unedited versions of Charlie Daniel's " Uneasy Rider" and "Devil Went Down To Georgia". Strangly, no one griped about the Well he's a friend of them long-haired hippie type pinko f***" but guess that was well before the current craziness going on.The other thing is that the DJs really don't know where the music comes from, other than it's loaded in the automation system. That's the extent of their involvement.
Oh, that VP blocked me from commenting on his social media page because I called him out on some BS he posted.
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