Off The Hook With Gage

So, it's come to this. * I'm expected to provide RIVITING, JOYOUS AND EDUCATIONAL musical programs EVERY WEEK for you? * What if they are merely MARVELOUS, FABULOUS AND BOOGIE-FIED? * What if I just say No? * OK, you got me! * You know I can't withhold from listeners the musical TREASURES I come across each week! * That would be antithetical to the righteous code of OFF THE HOOK! * You win!  Just...

Well, that BIG ASS SOLAR FLARE threatening to WREAK HAVOC with radio transmissions was a bust! * You call that a X5 flare? * Little did Sunspot AR3536 know that OFF THE HOOK wreaks its own havoc! * No solar X-rays with PLUMES OF SOLAR PLASMA in the form of coronal mass ejections will degrade OFF THE HOOK's signal! * We'll do that ourselves and eject THEIR ass while we're at it! * OFF THE HOOK, the...

RACING INTO THE DARK:  As much as we wish to leave this cruddy year, the road ahead looks CHALLENGING and uncertain, to say the least! * Besides, the devil we knew had some GOOD JAMS! * But, there will always be good jams! * And they will always be heard on OFF THE HOOK, the Show That Shows that as we laugh in the face of CERTAIN DEATH, so will we not DANCE AWAY from our responsibility to rock you...

Less a dollop, more a sprinkle of HOLIDAY CHEER on Today's OFF THE HOOK! * For, as the gate of Winter Solstice has opened the celestial skyways for a certain HOARY-HIRSUTE GEEZER to come storming past our chimneys, flinging joy and GLAD TIDINGS, we wrap ourselves in his Snowy Beard and SHIVER with the knowledge that this man is a MYTH! * And while a Myth is not necessarily an Untruth, we dare not...

OFF THE HOOK fishes not from stagnant pools, but from raging rivers teeming with FRESH SOUND specimens which gladly leap into our nets! * But we're gonna need some extra hands (read ears) to quell this inundation, lest the ceaseless swelling stream wells up over the banks! * Every guest at the banquet is requested to bring a friend hungry for the LATEST AURAL cuisine! * (We'll be also uncorking so...

Like the INTREPID explorer, OFF THE HOOK seeks out, finds and presents to you the RARE AND EPHEMERAL! * The lifespan of some of these musical species are so short-lived they resemble the poor mayfly! * And while these FLASHES OF SOUND are born every minute, flitting and dying right under our noses, YOUR MOST DEDICATED RESEARCHER is willing and able to record their existence, snatching from oblivio...

HEY! * Whatcha doin' at 1:00? * Howzabout we get together for a LISTENING SESH? * I've got a buncha KILLER NEW TUNES to play ya! * Yeah, and we can CELEBRATE some musical BIRTHDAYS, too! * You got a radio or computer, right? * OK, then! * BYO at your place for OFF THE HOOK on KXSF 102.5 / https://kxsf.fm/

The SOLID SOUNDS and porous personality of OFF THE HOOK cracks with the FIZZ of the New! * Your Companionable Compere helps you on with your dancing shoes for FLASHY MOVES when the music git goin' or props your feet up for appreciative cogitation on the WONDROUSNESS of it all  -OFF THE HOOK gooses your juices either way! * Your only other options are work or death, so we'll see you at 1:00 on KXSF...

SEXY is as SEXY does and there's never a SEXIER you than when you're listening to OFF THE HOOK! * You can FEEL IT and everyone can see the particular ALLURE that those who are lured to OFF THE HOOK exhibit! * (Lest you think we're using SEX to sell OFF THE HOOK, may we remind you that we give it away every week!) * You don't need a SEXtant to find OFF THE HOOK, it's found every Friday at 1:00 on K...

Grab your pole and join me on the banks of the river OFF THE HOOK! * There's an ocean of tunes rifling down that LIVELY estuary and we're going to do our best to snag a few beauties or die trying! (not really) * It's all fresh catch in this special location teeming with UNHEARD WONDERS and if a few GET OFF the hook and can't be caught for keeping, well, isn't it a PLEASURE just to watch them whiz...

I went in for Uncle Ryan today at noon. * That's right, Uncle Gagie to the rescue for Uncle Ryan on The Uncle Ryan Show! * Two hours of music to make you say "UNCLE!" on KXSF 102.5FM / https://kxsf.fm/

There's an old saying in radio.  I forget what it is and nobody says it anymore, but suffice it to say, it doesn't apply to OFF THE HOOK, a radio program utterly unprecedented in a time-honored way! * OFF THE HOOK puts a capital M on music and a capital FU on rules and expectations (and professionalism, quite frankly)! * Danger lurks around every mic break, but your host is no hollow weenie, just...

Today on OFF THE HOOK, we mourn the loss and celebrate the music of two IDIOSYNCRATIC musical minds: the whimsical and ICONOCLASTIC "jazz" genius CARLA BLEY and inscrutably CHARISMATIC "power popper" DWIGHT TWILLEY! * We'll likely have to go into extra-time to properly cover these two UNIQUE musical one-offs, but it will be a most enjoyable and edifying excursion! * Tune in for RESPECT and fun on...

It's time again for OFF THE HOOK!, the Friday Frolic that every week waddles into the hearts of the lumpen masses -its cringing, fawning fandom-, smothering with blankety piles of blubbery goo(d)ness! * Like a dirge on a barge, an iceberg in pursuit, you can't escape this scuzzy slow motion snow cone because it's already in your mind! * The iceberg, the challenge, it makes less sense when you list...

Even though I lovingly prepare BEAUTIFUL AND STIMULATING programs for you every week, let's face it, OFF THE HOOK is really for ME. * And if you're like me, you're an impatiently anxious connoisseur because you know there's not enough time to cram in all of the GREAT NEW MUSIC in a three-hour show! * There's the Birthday Segment and Uncle Gagie's Singles Box, too! * I hope you will join me in sayi...

On OFF THE HOOK you get QUALITY that can't be bought! (it comes free as a "thank you" for donating to the station) * And what do you get for opening your wallet when you really didn't have to, but in a way you do? * You get the VITAL resource of UNCENSORED (except for the poo-poo) programming that allows you to hear STRIKING new material that I'd probably get fired for playing on another station (...

On today's Show That Shows, we show you what those silly things on the side of your head are for! * In addition to EXCITING NEW SOUNDS, oldies lovers will THRILL to a bumper crop of Birthday Celebrations! * Not only will we have Ticket Giveaways, but KXSF legend, the DJ formerly known as FLYING JAPAN will be making a SURPRISE VISIT to tell his story! * And we'll still find time for some shameless...

Enjoy SILKY SOUNDS in an environment of utter confusion! * How does Kenady turn what should be a walk in the park into a HIGHWIRE ACT? * And why does he speak of himself in the THIRD PERSON? * Because, let's face it, OFF THE HOOK is bigger than the both of them! * Be real for once and get down to sounds that'll have you driving through the park! * OFF THE HOOK, crashing in silk pajamas at 1:00 on...

OFF THE HOOK: your weekly new music GO-TO. * But, where does your go-to COME FROM? * In a laboratory, surrounded by fuming beakers of pure sound, cackling to himself as he pursues his WARPED musical vision, a modern alchemist seeks a panacea to the problem of dull radio! * His ceaseless curiosity and IDIOSYNCRATIC tastes ensure that, but is the world ready for his weekly monsters? * An on-going ex...

He goes his own way with little to say. * On his radio show, OFF THE HOOK, he lets the music do the talking! * He's GAGE KENADY, his maverick status is legendary, and he WANTS YOU to join the ranks of the hoards (soon to be legion) of listeners trying to CRACK the code of THIS man's musical MIND: sweet sailing, then BANG! -there's that bit of dissonance he seems to require! * What makes this man t...

If you can't find what you're looking for on OFF THE HOOK, you've come to the right place! * For OFF THE HOOK caters to the INSATIABLE Music Maniac who likes to stay ONE STEP AHEAD of the Cowed Crowd who are content with their Comfort Cud! * Ruminate elsewhere, Bossy! * OFF THE HOOK offers fresh musical pastures untrampled and untrammeled! * Wander in Free Wonder through soundscapes unheard! * An...

IT'S FRIDAY! * And Friday is my day to be your Audio Chauffeur! * Let me take the wheel for a swervy journey to SOUND TOWN! * (aka OFF THE HOOK) * Loosen that seatbelt, put your feet on the dash and suck on that open container -there are no laws on this toll-free road! * I've got my LICENSE TO SPILL, so you auto let me drive you crazy on OFF THE HOOK, my VEHICLE to CONVEY! * This road-tested pile-...

Come and get it! * Lap up a mess of HOT JAMS sure to sate your audio hunger and quench your musical thirst with heaping helpings of exotic comfort sounds! * These victuals be ear-bound and Radio Dinner never sounded so good! * So loosen your belt and belly up to OFF THE HOOK for a feast you'll look forward to repeating! * It's a musical PLEASURE GLUT for the ears! ( https://kxsf.fm/ ) * Bon appéti...

If you listen to us, OFF THE HOOK promises to do things to you that have never been done before! * A promise, not a threat, every week on OFF THE HOOK! * OFF THE HOOK can't control the level or direction of its influence -high or low/good or bad- but plagiarism is to be expected! * Suffice it to say, it would behoove you to get a MOB of friends together to spend some TIME listening to OFF THE HOOK...

My listener, The MUSIC SNOB: The music he MUST HEAR on OFF THE HOOK is NOW and shouldn't have to wait 10, 20 years for others to learn about and appreciate. * Is it too much to ask of just one measly radio program to be up-to-date? * If OFF THE HOOK must work so hard to please its toughest customer, to constantly scour the interwebs in search of the NEWEST and MOST NOVEL musical selections to sati...