Roger Taylor
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If you want to follow me on Twitter, you're outta luck, I don't tweet. But you can send me an email.
Email address: RTaylor@wvradio.com
Hometown: Elkins
Married: 22 years to Juanita
Words to live by: Ladies & gentlemen take my advice, pull down your pants and slide on the ice.
What's Your Sign: "Dead End"
Favorite Restaurant: All of them. (That's the problem)
Favorite Drink: Diet Mt. Dew
Pets: 2 Cats, B. B. & Sox
Favorite Sports Team: The Mountaineers!
Best concert you've attended?: That's a tough one, Billy Joel, Doobie Brothers, KISS, Bob Seger, Tina Turner, Electric Light Orchestra, The Beach Boys, Steve Miller Band, Styx, Black Oak Arkansas, Three Dog Night, America, Kansas? DON'T MAKE ME CHOOSE!!!
Coolest Famous Person You've Met: Harry Chapin (way back when) & Darryl Worley (more recently)
Favorite Vacation Spot: Virginia Beach
Some of my favorite albums: Eagles - "Hotel California", Barenaked Ladies - "Stunt", Billy Joel - "Piano man", Al Stewart - "Year of the Cat", Boston - "1st" , Led Zeppelin - "IV", Elton John - "Caribou", Boz Scaggs - "Silk Degrees", Steely Dan - "Aja", Chicago - "At Carnegie Hall", The Who - "Who Are You", Meatloaf - "Bat Out Of Hell".
Favorite TV shows: Twilight Zone / M*A*S*H / C.S.I. / Psych / Warehouse 13 / Men of a Certain Age / American Pickers / Pawn Stars / Antiques Roadshow.
Some movies for your Netflix list: The Usual Suspects / Seven / A Few Good Men / The Big Chill / Silence of the Lambs / Memento / Deathtrap / The Green Mile / Animal House / Apollo 13 / My Favorite Year / Star Wars IV, V & VI (I haven't seen the others) / All the Indiana Jones movies.
Hobbies: I play a good round of bad golf now and then, enjoy going to the movies with my wife, I collect comic books, lunch boxes, radio premiums, NY World's Fair memorabilia, old medicine tins and quack medical items, anything old and interesting.
If you could meet anyone living or dead: I'd choose living.
Secret ambition: To make a hole-in-one. (I've come close)
IN THE BEGINNING:
I was born in Elkins, WV. Graduated from Elkins High School, Class of 1977. While attending Fairmont State College in 1978, I began working weekends at WDNE-AM, the only radio station in Elkins at the time. This was back, when we actually played records. (Do you remember those?) There was no such thing as a CD, DVD, iPod or home computer. (We had just made the move from 8-tracks to cassettes) We wrote our commercials on a manual typewriter. (Good thing I took "Typing I" in High School, twice.) We ripped the news off of a teletype machine and read it live. (Man, am I old!) I soon decided I could pay to go to college and study radio or I could get paid to be on the radio. I chose the latter and 32 years later, I'm still on-the-air.
LIFE CHANGING EXPERIENCE:
On March 20, 2004 I went to work on a Saturday morning and didn't go home for 7 weeks. I suffered an Aortic Dissection. (Actor John Ritter died of the same thing 6 months earlier) After a short ambulance ride to Davis Memorial Hospital, I was lifeflighted to Morgantown. By the grace of God and with the help of some talented surgeons, I survived open heart surgery at Ruby Memorial Hospital. I now have a man-made Aortic Heart Valve clicking away in my chest. I received a ton of Get Well cards from listeners and I know a lot of people were praying for me, I thank you for that. If you have chest pains, don't ignore it. If the doctor says your EKG looks good, so it's not a heart attack, go home and rest. But you're not satisfied, ask for a CT scan, especially if there is a history of dissections in your family. Find out more at: www.aorticdissection.com
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From the Taylor Museum: In 1977, I saw Billy Joel in concert, after the show I grabbed this poster from the window of the Big-T in Philippi. How about that ticket price: $4.00
