Steve Whiteman of Kix talks Hagerstown, Baltimore and Orioles baseball in April 1994

True story: Nestor took voice lessons from the affable and always available Whiteman on Harford Road when his throat was hurting from screaming on the radio every day in the 1990s. “Ya got nothin’ to lose…” This is very early Nasty Nestor!

Steve Whiteman of Kix talks Hagerstown, Baltimore and Orioles baseball in April 1994 on Nestor’s Rock and Jock show. Nestor Aparicio hosts a special preview show for the 1994 baseball season, featuring various rock stars. He announces Steve Whiteman from Kix, James Young from Styx, and local musicians like Eddie Lauer and Rob Belander. Whiteman discusses his band’s six albums, their current tour, and their financial struggles. He expresses excitement about the Orioles, praising their new acquisitions and criticizing past signings. Whiteman also shares his traditionalist views on baseball rules and stadiums. The conversation on April 4, 1994 touches on the band’s recording process, their modest lifestyle, and their love for sports, particularly baseball.

SUMMARY KEYWORDS

rock stars, baseball preview, Steve Whiteman, Howard Stern, James Young, Mike Mesaros, Eddie Lauer, Rob Belander, Tommy Conwell, new album, live shows, Orioles excitement, pitching strength, traditionalist views, studio recording

SPEAKERS

Nestor Aparicio, Steve Whiteman

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Nestor Aparicio  00:00

We do welcome you to join into the fray. We have some rock stars tonight is our, of course, the nasty rock and jock preview show for the 1994 baseball season. We have some confirmed rock stars who are definitely going to be here. We got some rock stars who might be here, and we got some rock stars that will not be here, confirmed. I tell you what, this will be the last nasty rock and jock show that I do, unless I get syndicated, because I’m not going to chase rock stars all day again. This is my end with with the nasty rock and jock special. And before I even begin, let me say here at 606, we’re on the arrow, eight o’clock tonight, that I already regret doing this show. Steve Whiteman from kicks will join us in about seven minutes from a recording studio. He said, if you hear any rock and roll in the background, it’s just maybe one of the band guys you know, bang, bang, bang and all that stuff. Chips. Enough. If you haven’t heard of him, well, you just haven’t listened to Howard Stern long enough. He’s Howard Stern’s favorite rock star. He’s my favorite rock star. He’ll join us at seven o’clock, along with Jay why? James Young from sticks. Yes, you remember sticks, the band from the 70s and 80s. Yes. James Young will join us at seven o’clock, along with chips enough. Mike Massaro, especially, supposed to be checking in at some point during the next two hours. We have Eddie Lauer, our local rock star, Guy checking in. Rob belander from no not mark Belanger. Rob bill and we swore Mark lander off the show long time ago. Rob belander, his son is in a local band called Birth of silence. He, of course, a big Oriole fan, and he’ll be joining us at some point the next hour and a half. And Tommy Conwell, from Tommy Conwell on the little kings, scheduled to check in. At some point. We’re hoping these guys can actually find open lines when they call in. 481, 1360, pound sign, 1360 You got any questions for Steve Whiteman of kicks, he’s the singer, yeah, he’s the cute guy, the blonde guy. He’ll be checking in about the five or six minutes. We’ll have him here on the Big Show. It is a wacky Wednesday, a sports forum, a nasty rock and jock preview kind of day we’re going to bring Steve Whiteman in from kicks to tell his tales to the little ones. Steve, how we doing? Hey? Okay, well, he wouldn’t

Steve Whiteman  02:12

answer one question. I asked him, What did you ask him? I was asking if, if he was going to get a hit.

Nestor Aparicio  02:19

Well, I guess when he gets in the line of a commercial, well, he’s just going to be a sort of a background. You got an audience there? Do you? Yeah, I’m

Steve Whiteman  02:27

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in the studio.

Nestor Aparicio  02:28

What are you guys doing in the studio open? Thought,

Steve Whiteman  02:30

we do just go over to hope something happens, right?

Nestor Aparicio  02:33

Well, that, I mean, you’ve had, like, what, seven or eight albums happen at a loping now, right? Yeah,

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Steve Whiteman  02:37

we’ve loafed through six. We’re gonna loaf through another one here real soon. Well, that’s

Nestor Aparicio  02:41

good to hear. You guys been playing around town. Yeah, actually, we’re

Steve Whiteman  02:44

on our way to reading Pennsylvania reading. And yeah, we’re doing we’re going out for like, weekends, playing, just keeping our chopped up, trying out some new material on the live crowds. And important

Nestor Aparicio  02:55

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question, are you making any money? Hell no, no, no.

Steve Whiteman  03:00

We do this for love. We don’t need no stinking money.

Nestor Aparicio  03:04

You’re still living in that ratchet jack out in Hagerstown, right? Yeah, I tell you what. Well, I know this is, this is a baseball show, sweet. We must discuss baseball wisely. Hit me. Okay. For the birds this year. How do you feel about them? I want to know the honest truth here. Sabo palmaro, excited.

Steve Whiteman  03:20

I’m really excited for the first time since, I think since I’ve been a little kid and I’ve been watching the Orioles all my life, these guys are gonna laugh at me because I’m talking sports, and they don’t care. But I care. I don’t think the Orioles have ever, ever gone out and bought it and bought players like

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Nestor Aparicio  03:37

that, like Fred Lynn and Don Ossie. They were washed up bombs and Glenn Davis, oh, we’re not allowed to say the GD word on the show. We see where the Mets cut him anyway. Only thing you’re supposed to say is the first baseman from Houston. That’s all we’re allowed to say on the show. So we don’t, we don’t want to mention to get on this program. Okay, I have to

Steve Whiteman  03:57

mention him because he was such a bust. He made me sick.

Nestor Aparicio  04:02

Well, how do you feel about the new alignment here? We got the we got a Central Division. Now we’re gonna have four teams in the plus. Hell, we’ve increased our playoff chances by 50%

Steve Whiteman  04:11

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I know. I don’t know. I don’t know if I like that yet. I think I’m a traditionalist. I don’t like changing things. I don’t like the two point conversion football. I don’t like, I don’t like them breaking the divisions down. I think when you play 180 some games, if you don’t know who the best is by, then you shouldn’t give another chance.

Nestor Aparicio  04:26

Are you still the kind of guy like me? That’s kind of po about diamond vision? You know what? I

Steve Whiteman  04:30

mean, yeah, we don’t need that. Yeah. I

Nestor Aparicio  04:32

don’t think we need Camden Yards. I mean, just go back to 33rd street booth fashion. Well,

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Steve Whiteman  04:37

I wouldn’t go that far. How many are pretty cool, yeah.

Nestor Aparicio  04:39

How many times you been out there? I’ve

Steve Whiteman  04:40

been out there about a dozen times, okay, the last two years. Yeah, how

Nestor Aparicio  04:44

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many games you get to a year?

Steve Whiteman  04:45

I try to go to four or five. That’s tough. Everybody looks

Nestor Aparicio  04:49

at you rock stars, and we say, man, they’re in the studio. They’re working hard. They got all the babes, you know, all the money. Why do they need baseball?

Steve Whiteman  04:58

I love sports in general. But I’ve been an oil fan all my life.

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Nestor Aparicio  05:01

Well, that’s a good thing to be, yeah. Now you’re from where? Hagerstown, right, right? You grew up out there. Actually,

Steve Whiteman  05:07

I grew up in in West Virginia, up in the beach. Yeah,

Nestor Aparicio  05:14

I could, I sensed a little bit of that in your other Thank you. Thank you. Anyway, as far as the birds go, this year, Yankees, Blue Jays looking good. Have you studied the American League at all here? What cites you the most about this team?

Steve Whiteman  05:26

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I think, I think the pitching. I think if Mike Messina is healthy, and if Sid comes through and oh boy,

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oh boy, here

Steve Whiteman  05:34

we go again.

Nestor Aparicio  05:35

Oh, didn’t you just say the GD word? That’s not hope. That’s

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Steve Whiteman  05:39

not hope. I don’t think we deserve that twice in a row. Yeah, you had a chance to kind of spring training at all, no Bob and watching on HPs.

Nestor Aparicio  05:46

I had all the babes in the beer for you. I mean, I did it for you. Well, thank you. I went down, I said, I know Steve Whiteman from kicks. And they said, Hey, we’re all yours. How are you guys doing nationally as a band? I mean, we played, I’m sorry to hear

Steve Whiteman  06:02

your question.

Nestor Aparicio  06:02

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Yeah, tell me Shut up. Okay, thank you. Thank you very much. What are you guys doing to studio? Tell me what you’re doing besides loafing right now I’m

Steve Whiteman  06:12

talking to you. Well, I mean doing some guitar tracks. And after he gets done, Donnie will lay down a bass track, and then I’ll do a vocal track, then we’ll sit around outside

Nestor Aparicio  06:21

having a Bucha and a camera or something. When this is going on, you actually got it just a pretty boring process, putting together music.

Steve Whiteman  06:28

It can be it’s kind of exciting when it’s all done and while you’re doing your part, but waiting around for everybody to get done. We got a TV. We’re gonna put up a basketball hoop, and we’re going to get some hookers in here real soon.

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Nestor Aparicio  06:42

Well, we will tell your wife about that, my friend, she doesn’t mind

Steve Whiteman  06:47

to pay for him,

Nestor Aparicio  06:49

Okay, well, the rock star lifestyle, you got limousines of champagne too.

Steve Whiteman  06:53

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No, we can’t afford that. Just hookers. We don’t need we we run around in a van and we do anything real cheap so we can have our hookers in the studio, a case of cold, cold, right again, Rolling Rock now we stepped down. Oh well, we’re Bub

Nestor Aparicio  07:06

wise around here. Only the king of beers here, only the king of beers will do here. Anyway. It’s kind of amazing. I mean, I spent some time with some rock stars like yourself when I was a music critic for the sun, and then being a sports guru as I am at this point, it’s kind of amazing. These guys are pretty bored. The athletes. They have to go out through the batting practice thing. They have to stand around the outfield. And right now you’re sitting there doing a sports talk show, and you should be doing rock

Steve Whiteman  07:29

and roll. Well, take the good with the bad. It could be a lot worse. Could be working at Sears, you know,

Nestor Aparicio  07:35

get out of here, Steve. Go back to doing whatever you were doing. And please don’t say hookers on my airwaves again.

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Steve Whiteman  07:44

I have to. I’m not in delay. It’s my job. It’s what you do, what I do for a living. Get out of here. Steve,

Nestor Aparicio  07:54

and so do I? All right, Sheila, Steve, thanks for your time, see at the ball game. All right. Bye, bye. All right. You.