![]() Our guests included John Entwistle and Kenney Jones of the Who, Ronnie Wood of the Stones, David Gilmour of Pink Floyd, Sir Bob Geldof, Robert Cray, Rod Argent, Scott MacKenzie, Wang Chung and Maggie Bell. Personal note: KFOG management apparently considered Mike better at being a personality than an interviewer, so when, in late 1986, the morning show went to London for a week of live programs, with a parade of rock artists visiting its pop-up studios at Capital Radio, program director John Rivers invited me along, to conduct the interviews. In her Facebook note to supporters, Crum wrote: “He knows he was loved by his fans, and was always surprised that people remembered him after all this time.” The cardiologist at Valley Care in Pleasanton did an amazing job. He posted a message: “Well, your old Dung Boy is happy to say he survived a heart attack. He also had heart problems, but somehow remained cheerful. In midyear, he reported that he’d also with Mike, added loss of vision to Mike’s list of woes. Early in 2016, after a hospital stay and visits with specialists, he wrote, “So far, Myelofibrosis (a blood cancer), rheumatoid arthritis (and) diabetes are the biggest issues, with a few smaller ones to boot.” Since he didn’t have adequate health coverage, Crum started a GoFundMe campaign, and Mike filed reports. ![]() Then, he met and got engaged to Judy Crum in 2013. Divorced, his only close family was his daughter, Antigone, a musician. “I lead a very boring existence,” he said. “No one who heard his show ever forgot him.”Īfter leaving KFOG in 1992, Mike revived his oldies show on other stations and online, at He also did podcasts, and his features can be found on Soundcloud.īut in recent years, he eschewed radio jobs (“I got tired of being fired for a living,” he told Whiting) and, living in an apartment in San Mateo, worked as a lab administrator. “He swiftly became a big success,” Logan recalled. It exploded from the radio with a funky groove and furious intensity.”Ī year after his debut on KFOG, Mike also was given the morning show, with a name change to “M.,” minus the dung. Logan met him in Grand Rapids, Mich., where they worked at WLAV-FM, which aired the “Idiot Show.” It was, Logan said, “a free-form mixture of roots rock, immaculate soul and excellent oldies. He said he first did the “Idiot Show” on college radio in Allendale, Mich., in 1977. “Dung was very excited about music,” Mike told The Chronicle’s Sam Whiting in a 2012 profile, “and I try to convey that to my listeners.” You are contributing to debate and discussion, and helping to make this website a more open place.Soon after KFOG went from “beautiful music” to rock in 1982, program director Dave Logan tapped Mike, who was doing production work, to host the “Sunday Night Idiot Show.” He called himself “Dung Boy,” spun oldies and raved like a son-of-a- Wolfman Jack, sputtering inane phrases like “O-DEA?,” “YOW!” “Buh-DAY” and “Ay-WAY!” Thank you for following these guidelines and contributing your thoughts. We will not publish comments that link to outside websites.If you're using an alias, make sure it's unique.We will not publish: Comments written that are poorly spelled or are written in caps or which use strange formatting to get noticed.We screen for comments that seek to spread information that is false or misleading.We will not publish comments that are profane, libelous, racist, or engage in personal attacks.Preference is given to commenters who use real names. ![]() Please be advised:Ĭomments are moderated and will not appear on site until they have been reviewed.Ĭomments are not open on some news articles Bell Media reserves the right to choose commenting availability. Bell Media reviews every comment submitted, and reserves the right to approve comments and edit for brevity and clarity. ![]()
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