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KROQ Historian - History of 106.7 Kevin and Bean, Jimmy Kimmel, Ralph Garman to Klein & Ally

By Zonk 3 min read

Summary

My kids got me thinking that I might qualify as a K-Rock historian. I’ve listened since the late ’80s and with dedication since about 1990. My 16-year-old son asked why he’d want to listen to my “boomer music,” and when we went to the Klein Ally show meetup, my daughter looked at the line and said she didn’t think she fit the demographic. I get it. The music I hear on K-Rock is the oldies to them, just like my parents’ hits from the ’50s and ’60s were to me. I’m bad at song titles and lyrics while Rachel knows all of them. We share a love of K-Rock, though for her the morning show is Klein Ally and for me it’s Kevin and Bean.

So I put together a list of morning show moments to see if you remember them. The show started in early 1990 with Lisa May on traffic. There was the Doug the Slug call-in hoax that ended up on Unsolved Mysteries, Poor Man getting fired over a prank on Bean, Jimmy the Sports Guy, and Michael the Maintenance Man’s boxing match. That led Adam Corolla to call in and train Jimmy, and Jimmy Kimmel and Adam eventually left for TV. Ralph Garman joined around 1999 or 2000, and I tell my 9/11 story of Ralph and Doc on the Rock taking over the broadcast. I even got an email response from Ralph afterward.

Then things started to unravel. Lisa May and Doc on the Rock were let go in 2015, and Ralph followed in 2017, which was so awful because nobody saw it coming. Bean announced he was leaving in 2019, the show was rebranded, and about two months later they fired everybody. Kevin got one last on-air word before security walked him out. I was skeptical of the new show, but Klein Ally is excellent and does its own thing. It’s been important to me and especially to Rachel’s mental health during her fight with breast cancer.

Key Points

  • My kids say my K-Rock music is “boomer music,” which made me realize it’s now their oldies, just like my parents’ hits were mine.
  • The Kevin and Bean show started in early 1990, and I remember bits like the Doug the Slug hoax, Poor Man’s firing and the Michael the Maintenance Man boxing match.
  • Ralph Garman joined around 1999 or 2000, and he and Doc on the Rock took over the broadcast on 9/11, which I remember as a comforting, class move.
  • Lisa May and Doc were let go in 2015, Ralph in 2017, Bean left in 2019, and then everyone was fired a couple of months after the rebrand.
  • Klein Ally is an excellent show that doesn’t copy Kevin and Bean, and it’s been a joy for Rachel throughout her cancer battle.

This post was automatically generated from my YouTube video. Watch above or view directly on YouTube.

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