Off The Hook With Gage

UH-OH, now you've done it! * You've started reading these words and are now being INEXORABLY SUCKED into the whirling maw, through the gullet, and down to the very heart of OFF THE HOOK! * Fight though you might, your half-hearted struggle belies your protestations, for while OFF THE HOOK is that irksome friend you just can't shake, your curiosity is DELIRIOUS at what you might find in that pit! *...

You gave THANKS and now look at you! * A bloated corpus lying supine on the floor after gorging yourself silly during yesterday's gluttonous revels! * I hope you can get your more moderate housemate to help you tune into the ALL NEW and digestively restorative OFF THE HOOK! * While you were hoisting your nth glass of wine, someone was acting responsibly to ensure there would be NO LEFTOVERS on tod...

AS GOOD AS IT GETS! * OFF THE HOOK strives to do its level BEST to bring you STIMULATING programming each and every week! * It hopes you will be INSPIRED to hang the whole dang three hours of its host's IDIOSYNCRATIC CURATION! * But, who's kidding who? * Its host is just an opinionated old man who can barely manage to work the controls in the studio and his dream of OFF THE HOOK being seen as the...

Maybe DEMOCRACY is NOT DEAD after all! * The results are still coming in, but OFF THE HOOK appears to be on track to remain the Top Musical Radio Program Featuring Predominately Current Music of any Bay Area station operating on a mere two watts! * Yes, listeners have voted with their ears and, unlike many races, YOU can still vote by listening to OFF THE HOOK at http://kxsf.fm * FREE RADIO (plays...

Who's gonna wear your shoes when you want to run away from THE BLUES? * Well, you are! * And you're gonna run right over to OFF THE HOOK, where even SAD SONGS are glad! * It's not Rocket Science and it doesn't even make sense, but please trust The Show That Shows to show you a good time, sailor! * So, go on, RUN right now to  http://kxsf.fm  * OFF THE HOOK is a music-playing program.

TRICK OR TREAT? * With OFF THE HOOK it's usually both! * But, while OFF THE HOOK is always SPIRITED, it doesn't believe in GHOSTS! * Therefore, despite its proximity to HALLOWE'EN, and allowing that the GORY CORPSES of the past WILL RISE as they always do in the Birthday Segment, you will not smell the ROTTING FLESH of last year's BURIED hit parade, but will hear only FRESH BLOOD on Today's OFF TH...

UNSUNG though I may end up, I'll be DAMNED if I let my roster of ROISTEROUS ROCKERS suffer a similar fate! * These songs and their singers shall not be consigned to lonely, forgotten corners of the Musicverse, but shall have their day (if only one) via the OFF THE HOOK program! * Arcing triumphantly over the city span through the MIRACLE of RADIO technology, these BUMPTIOUS bellwethers of bold beg...

Woo-hoo! * OFF THE HOOK! * GO GO GO! * Today's OFF THE HOOK presents SONGS with a crushing lilt! * SOUNDS to make you successful! * OLDIES by the score (actually fewer than twelve)! * and FREE TICKETS to live performances! * Three hours CANNOT be spent more enjoyably! * So, what are you waiting for?  One o'clock? * YES! on KXSF 102.5FM! * KXSF 102.5 FM San Francisco  * OFF THE HOOK! * Put yourself...

IT'S MY BABY! * Giving birth to OFF THE HOOK every week is a MIRACULOUS thing and, after days of Labor, I DELIVER it to you alive, kicking and decidedly non-binary! * Now and then some insensitive clod will point out flaws THEY perceive, but to the proud parent they are all PERFECT! * Yes, OFF THE HOOK is my baby and I'm already Pregnant with ideas for the next one! * Attend the birth of this week...

OFF THE HOOK has always been HARDLY STRICTLY BLUEGRASS, but SPECIAL in its own unique way! * And while regular listeners are not bothered by its Very Rarely Bluegrass programming, they are also relieved to not have to traipse across town in overcrowded buses or surge-time taxis to dehydrate themselves fighting over blanket space! * Phew! * No, they are more than content to kick back with a couple...

Autumn is upon us and you can use a break. * Although the Dog Days are behind us and we feel a glimmer of hope that Public Enemy #1 may finally be put down, we know that it's too late to change our downward trajectory. * Too many bad dogs and the selfish ghosts of the past leave us with our only hope: hope that the rest of our days (and our kids', I guess) are spent in not too much discomfort. * ...

HE'S AT IT AGAIN, forcing a bunch of NEW MUSIC on listeners HE thinks is good! * That's his job! * This Curator Extraordinaire works overtime to ensure a STIMULATING program every week! * His standards are so high, it's no wonder he's been called been called "a PROGRAMMING GENIUS" by someone not associated with any publication! * If he fails to persuade, it's the fault of the listener! * I'd tell...

An UNHEALTHY OBSESSION? * Only recently have I asked myself the question posed by many through the years, as I slog through piles of RUBBISH in order to extract the SWEET KERNELS of sound that I present to you, dear listener, each week on the OFF THE HOOK program (with a side of my personal corn)! * IS IT WORTH IT? * Our answers may differ, but as a public servant who is COMPELLED to educate, for...

INDICTED? For taking RECORDS AND DOCUMENTS (Birthday Segment notes) home with me from the KXSF studio following the OFF THE HOOK program? * THEY"RE MINE! * And, in my quest to Make Radio Great Again, they're essential! * That's why you'll hear nary a crummy song (I don't think) on today's (or any day's) OFF THE HOOK! * Join your Special Master when you're ready to hear NO CRUMMY SONGS! * Indicted?...

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE! * Whether at home or in the office, it's time to pack up your workweek starting at 1:00 with OFF THE HOOK! * What constitutes a great preekwend (pre-weekend)? * Well, something FREE for starters, something that ROUSES (makes you move, maybe gets you a little horny), something that goes good with drugs! * Check, Check, Check! * OFF THE HOOK does it all with INCREDIBLE MUSIC...

Another Friday, another cab fare. * But it's worth my personal expense to keep San Francisco (and the world!) musically educated! * Otherwise, you might veer towards 'publican songs of civil war! * Hey!  We have a society here! * The American educational system has clearly failed and critical thinking is all but dead! * You need the facts. * Fact is, you can't think for yourself if you let others...

Well, I've Raided my various Search platforms in Order to Document the latest new Records Released this week and will Unseal Evidence of material that will Warrant your spending three hours with me today! * Just want to Inform you that you will be in Receipt of a Garland of pretty tunes full of Motion that have not been Planted merely to Serve my own self-interests! * Although I feel it would be a...

Hang onto your ears because OFF THE HOOK ROCKS YOUR FACE! * Yes, this most UN-CRUMMY weekly program -FOR CHAMPIONS and losers alike- scrapes the MEAT from the bone and shoves it in your cranium, animating a DEPRAVED DANCE that will have your neighbors shuddering behind their shutters! (that's what you like, right?) * Toxic and non-fattening, it's OFF THE HOOK! * Hang on to your face.

n whose shoes do you walk?  Only just your own. * On what path do you tread?  None before shown. *  With quickening steps you boldly go to spy a wilderness unknown. * Up ahead is OFF THE HOOK, whose heart's not made of stone. * A friendly guide to clear the way, the byways it be prone. * So tune in sharp at one o'clock, lest your chance be blown. * At 102.5-FM (KXSF it is known) * It's OFF THE HOO...

I like you. * It seems very few actually LISTEN to music anymore. *  You're different. * You can't wait to find out WHAT'S NEW in music every week on OFF THE HOOK! * While others are TikTok-ing away, or require only a nostalgic aural wallpaper to soundtrack their mundane social media fabrications, you're in it for a deep dive of contemporary MUSICAL INSPIRATION! * The kind you come to expect on OF...

How can I describe the WONDERS TO BE HEARD on today's OFF THE HOOK? * I can't.  You'll just have to listen! * BUT, I can tell you about The Birthday Segment, where tunes from Stars of Yesteryear will break up the onslaught of TERRIBLY EXCITING new music that won't -just can't!- be heard anywhere but on OFF THE HOOK! * I can tell you, too, that I will be giving away FREE TICKETS, and, if we're LUCK...

He's back! * It's here! * Are you ready for the 'OFF THE HOOK 10th ANNIVERSARY SHOW!' ? * Yes, THE SHOW THAT SHOWS has been showing you what's what for 10 years! * Can you believe it? * Neither can I! * Just starting to get the hang of this thing and -Phew! -ten years older! * (and TEN YEARS SHARPER! -you should hear some of the first shows) * We'll have Lights! * Streamers! * Dancers! (you) * Pop...

BREATHTAKING in its scope, HARD-HITTING in its approach, OFF THE HOOK is not for the mild-mannered easy chair set! * With MIND-BOGGLING new music mined from the coalface of the contemporary scene, OFF THE HOOK presents BURNING NUGGETS of sound cut straight from the Rock! * Not for namby-pamby Sunday spelunkers, OFF THE HOOK takes you on a DEEP DIVE into the depths of the underground for a program...

WE'VE GOT OLDIES! * Yes, OFF THE HOOK PLAYS (a few) GOOD OLD SONGS OF YESTERYEAR (after you've consumed a healthy portion of current releases)! * RE-LIVE THE GLORIOUS PAST WHEN MUSIC WAS GOOD (mostly songs you're not familiar with)! * BATHE IN THE NOSTALGIC GLOW OF TIMES LESS COMPLICATED (because you're simple?)! * REVEL FOR A MOMENT IN THE CLASSIC SOUNDS OF YOUR YOUTH (then it's right back to str...