Talk:The Electrifying Mojo

Remodel

I'm starting a major remodel to this article. It's a work in progress. Mojo was very influential to my musical tastes and I hated to see the poor condition this article was in. I also started Midnight Funk Association to move some of the information out of this article. --Brad101 10:53, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

"The late 1990s brought Mojo to WCHB-FM for a stretch in 1998. He also was making guest appearances on the now-defunct WDTR around 2004. Mojo moved from the smaller WGPR to WJLB in its prime years, then on to WHYT as its star passed."

^^ This entire passage needs to be rewritten and parts of it need to be moved to earlier in the page. Mojo's WGPR-WJLB-WHYT era ended in 1987. He did return to WGPR in later years, but that's not covered in the above paragraph. BRAD, you're doing a SUPERB job on the revision of this article. I did extensive work on it last year, and I love that someone else has taken up the task. I think we need more info on Mojo post 1990. I'll be keeping an eye on this page and helping out where I can. Let's keep in touch! Smokeverbs 02:47, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your comments :) Whatever is currently in the History section I have not sorted through yet and I've also been using it as a dumping ground for other parts of the article I haven't sorted yet. There is a lot of information I haven't added yet either which wasn't in the article to begin with. --Brad101 17:31, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

• I also love to see this article getting some attention it deserves. I am very excited to hear that he may get a satellite radio show, partly just to let him loose on the air(?)waves; but mostly cuz the mere hint at the existence of archives of his old shows thrills me to no end. From a purely archival/educational standpoint, it would be great to get ahold of these and catalog them, then this article could make reference to details of specific shows -- highlights of the magic that was mojo. of course, the selfish side of me wants them to be available via the web as well.... hehe Jon Lon Sito 20:25, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

I'll be getting satellite radio as soon as I find out his first airdate. I don't know yet if it's going to be on XM or Sirius, but when I spoke to him about 3 months back, he was in negotiation with both companies. Wherever he ends up, I'll be recording each show to .wav and 192k/s mp3 (you *can* do that, even though I don't believe either company would tell you how ...). Mojo says he can't/won't distribute any of his old shows himself, due to copyrights on all the music he played; I'll be buying a new HDD, the largest I can find, just to keep his archive shows... smokeverbs 18:47, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

• wow, if you do this, that would be great. in the event you felt like it, i could probably find some webspace to put some/most of the shows (maybe resampled to a lower bitrate, just to save on bandwidth/drive space?). bandwidth permitting (i mean, who knows how many fans are out there? it could be an onslaught to my servers!). further, i would be glad to help build a table of show dates and content. Jon Lon Sito 23:28, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

Ok gang, I've done about all I can do to cleanup the article a bit except for maybe some nitpicking here and there. I've noticed that the various radio station pages linked from this article don't even make mention of Mojo so I will find time to go around and add links to this article. I am happy to know that a google search on "The Electrifying Mojo" brings this article up as the first hit. Not bad! --Brad101 22:59, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

thanks for the good work, brad101. i will keep an eye on this and add/tweak stuff if i can. Jon Lon Sito 06:31, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Mojo sighting?

i copied a (rightly deleted) chunk of update someone stuck in the mojo article recently. i thought it was noteworthy, at least on some level. i put it in in the user (DetroitWantsItsMojoBack) talk page. Jon Lon Sito 22:31, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

• You can't go home again. In other words, no matter how much you remember about Mojo, it just won't be the same as it was the first time you listened. Even I found his WMXD broadcasts to be somewhat less exciting than his WGPR days. This is beside the fact that becoming a crazed fan of Mojo can only hurt in the long run. He would rather stay out of the limelight. --Brad 01:29, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Nice mp3 finds.

Found and added some links to actual audio recordings of Mojo from the past. One of them wasn't relative to this article but it had Mojo and Bootsy Collins live in the studio. Also found a recording of a Midnight Funk Association intro which is linked from that article. Was nice to hear him again. --Brad 07:14, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

references

This article has no references. If verifiable 3rd party references demonstrating the notability of this radio personality cant be found and the article improve with footnotes, then it will be nominated for deletion.--Rtphokie (talk) 11:42, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

There have been some references added but they are mostly links to blogs. A Google News Search brings up hits from the Detroit News, the LA Times and more. Can someone add these to demonstrate notability of this person?--Rtphokie (talk) 11:42, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

All I've been able to find are news links that require payment to view the whole article. Other than that someone is going to have to hit microfilm at the library. --Brad (talk) 17:26, 12 June 2008 (UTC)