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Gerry Kemp end Chris Stills have introduced the late-night program "The Vet Show" to share era music
and related news with KAVE listeners on 95.3 FM.
Local broadcast serves veterans
Programmers give audience relevant music, news
By Tirn Neff
Emmakj Contributor
lor war veterans living In
Lane County. Sunday night at
11 niiiv In* thu most important
tinn* slot on Itx al radio
Using tin* airwaves as a
means to real h more than
44.000 local veterans, (lurry
hemp and Chris Stillwell fill
their Lite night slot with a vet
eran oriented mix of music and
news
They (all it the "Vet Show"
a one hour program devoted
to the interests and concerns ol
veterans, airing Sunday nights
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Lamp and Stillwell, hoth vet
emits of the Vietnam War, share
the responsibilities of produc
ing the show hamp handles
tile musical details while Still
well produces the news
hamp. an adjunct professor
who teaches one course a! the
University each summer, pro
grams the music sets from his
vast collection ol Vietnam-era
records The show's format al
lows him to Include songs that
radio stations rarely tout h
We play a certain range ol
music that you never hear on
radio these days." hump said
For example, you would never
heat )mu Hendrix's 1983.'
One, it's too long And two, it's
too 'out there So I'll play that
song, the entire thing "
Although the show generally
focuses on Vietnam era music,
Katnp strives to keep the* seg
merits fresh and upbeat.
Even though most
of the music I play is
from 1965 to 1975,
I’m just as liable to
bring in a U2 song
just to shake people
up a bit. ’
— Gerry Kamp
"I try not to make the show
re all v nostalgic." he said.
liven though most of the mu
sic I play is from 19f>5 to 1975,
I'm just as liable to bring In a
tsong just to shake people up
a bit
Stillwell focuses his news
segments on issues of particular
interest to war veterans.
"I try to keep up on local is
sues as well as state and federal
stuff," Stillwell said "The
countv veteran's services office
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barely stumbles along, and
that's an issue that concerns
us,"
Stillwell also closely fol
lowed a resolution put before
the state legislature during the
last session that would have ex
tended housing benefits to vet
erans of the Persian C.ulf War,
Panama and Grenada.
"They swept the resolution
under the rug," he said
For Stillwell, the apparent
hias of the program's news to
ward problems faced by veter
ans is solidly based on tael, he
said.
"1 don't editorialize, but the
facts speak lor themselves,” he
said "There is a definite pat
tern of neglei t that needs to he
addressed
Thu combination of Vietnam
era music and news for veter
ans has proved unique among
radio shows
"As t.ir as we know, there are
no other similar shows," hump
said We've put tin; word out
on what we're doing, and we've
heard no word about other si
milar shows We're unique and
KAVI. is unique lor taking us
on."
hemp and Stillwell devel
oped the idea for the Vet Show
after seeing a replica ol the
Vietnam memorial wall on dis
play at the Kugene Celebration
in 1985
"A group of us veterans were
sitting at around midnight talk
ing about our experiences,"
saui Stillwell. "One ol us said
'God, it would be great to do
this on radio
When they met a couple ol
years before, Kamp and Still
well had immediately become
close friends after discovering
th.it they had both been "river
rats" in Vietnam
It was unique to be both
Nan and in-countrv with mud
up to your knees," Stillwell
said "We were both 'mud
Navy,’ so we had a lot in com
mon
Between Kump's vast record
collection and Stillwell's prior
experience as a news deeply tor
a San Francisco radio station,
the idea of producing a show
especially for veterans seemed
natural.
We went around to different
•cations in Eugene," Kamp said