Posted on December 31 at 9:01 a.m. (Suggest removal)

What a sad loss! I, too, grew up with the musings of J.D. Barber, Ralphie Boy and Newms on Z104...vowing to someday work with them. In 1989, my dream came true! I was the Z104 overnight guy who got to pull the carts for Mr. Barber in the morning! What an honor! I learned (sometimes to my misfortune) that it was "better to have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy!"

I went on to work with J.D. at Q106 and Y105. I'll never forget the morning he was standing outside the studio window (of Q106) drinking a cup of water and a comment I made on the air (that I can't exactly recall) caused him to spit it out all over! "Buddy, Buddy!" he said, "Did THAT just go over the air?"

If there's a "Rock 'N Roll Heaven," then there's definitely a "Radio Heaven" and I will see you there, my friend!

My sympathies to J.D.'s family and all of the people whose lives he touched.

Dave Murphy (MY 95.7 in Milwaukee)

On God Bless...J.D. Barber