WWPV Staff   The Few, The Proud, The Certifiably Insane
     
 
Name: Kyle Chadburn

 

Name: Vinny Mannering (a.k.a. The Troublemaker)
Position on staff: WWPV Station Manager   Position on staff: Program Director and Staff Muscle
How long have you been a staff member?   How long have you been a staff member? Three Semesters
Show title and time:   Show title and time: "The Pre-Game Show" Saturdays 5-7pm
Favorite band(s): Allman Brothers Band, Pink Floyd, Tom Waits, Derek Trucks Band, Gov't Mule, Phish, Ryan Adams, Son Volt, Wilco, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash....the list goes on   Favorite band(s): Third Eye Blind, Nirvana, Matt Nathanson, Better Than Ezra, Muse, The Motor City 5, Rocky Votolato, Straylight Run, Warren Zevon, Jackson Browne, Velvet Underground, Johnny Cash, Jay-Z, R.E.M., U2 (Yeah, I know... I'm eccletic)
Favorite WWPV moment: all of 'em   Favorite WWPV moment: Pounding 3 Red Bulls and then freaking out on the air, because I was basically having a seizure. Good times. That or arguing with my co-hosts, Jon and Chris.
Where do you expect yourself in 5-10 years? Teaching small children the mad crazy importance of life   Where do you expect yourself in 5-10 years? Celebrating the 5-10 year anniversary of answering this question.
Best Concert(s): Phish @ Coventry, Derek Trucks @ Higher Ground '05, Allman Brothers Band @ SPAC '04, Gov't Mule/Soulive @UVM '06, Willie Nelson @ Shelburne Museum '06   Best Concert(s): Third Eye Blind (Hatch Shell, Boston), Better Than Ezra (Avalon, Boston), Matt Nathanson (Higher Ground, Burlington), Muse (Bank of America Pavilion, Boston), Warped Tour (Brockton Fair Grounds, Brockton)
     
 
Name: Andrew "The Other Twin" Parise

 

Name: Andy Kuzmin
Position on staff: Production Director and Business Director   Position on staff: News & Sports/Staff Meteorologist (or you can call me like the "go to guy" or something like that. since there is no news & sports)
How long have you been a staff member? 3rd Semester   How long have you been a staff member? 1 semester
Show title and time: Against the ZAAANE! Saturday 3-5   Show title and time: The Kitchen Sink. Thurs. 8-10PM
Favorite band(s): Guster, Dave Matthews Band, Better Than Ezra, Third Eye Blind, and O.A.R.   Favorite band(s): Umphrey's Mcgee, The New Deal, Classic Rock in general
Favorite WWPV moment: ZOX Live at SMC 2007!   Favorite WWPV moment: Zox show last year.
Where do you expect yourself in 5-10 years? Firstly, I want a job… baby steps here people… baby steps.   Where do you expect yourself in 5-10 years? hopefully doing this as a profession.
Best Concert(s): Dave Matthews Band @ Mansfield MA: 2003 and 2005, ZOX @ SMC 2007.   Best Concert(s): every Umphrey's Mcgee show I've ever been to, Trey Anastasio/Phil Lesh summer '05
     
 
Name: Redmond Deck

 

Name: Phil “normally witty but didn’t feel that clever at the moment” Smith
Position on staff: Webnician   Position on staff: PR Director
How long have you been a staff member? Since Fall '07   How long have you been a staff member? Just started this year
Show title and time: Los Wompos (Sun. 7pm - 9pm)   Show title and time: The Moving Picture Show, Sundays 5-7 PM
Favorite band(s): Audioslave, Beck, The Bravery, Calla, Chris Cornell, Coldplay, Death Cab for Cutie, Eiffel 65, Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Six, Evanescence, The Flaming Lips, Fountains Of Wayne, Franz Ferdinand, Good Charlotte, Gorillaz, Guns N' Roses, The Hives, Incubus, Johnny Calling and The Cash, The Killers, k-os, K'naan, Led Zeppelin, Linkin Park, Maroon 5, Michael McDonald, Moby, Muse, N*E*R*D, Orson, Outkast, Powderfinger, Ray LaMontagne, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Scissor Sisters, Seal, Soundgarden, Supertramp, They Might Be Giants, The Zutons   Favorite band(s): Queen, Freezepop, Flaming Lips, The Shins, Goblin Cock, Muse, Beirut, Johnny Cash, John Williams, Danny Elfman
Favorite WWPV moment: Recreating the WWPV website   Favorite WWPV moment: When a listener asked if all of us on the Biscuits and Skritz show were on drugs. We were stone-sober
Where do you expect yourself in 5-10 years? Somewhere beneficial   Where do you expect yourself in 5-10 years? Living in a crater on Mars training live Pokemon. That and maybe teaching high school science
Best Concert(s): The Flaming Lips at UVM   Best Concert(s): Weird Al at the Woodstock Fair in Connecticut. It was so stupid and we were told to sit down, but it was FREE!!!!!!
     
 
Name: Andrew Reid

 

Name: Tyler Machado
Position on staff: Co-Music Director   Position on staff: Co-Music Director
How long have you been a staff member? Since Spring 07   How long have you been a staff member? One semester
Show title and time: Flirtin' with Disaster Friday 5-8   Show title and time: From Hell To Breakfast (Thursdays, 10pm-Midnight)
Favorite band(s): Tom Petty, Guns and Roses, Rolling Stones, U2, Aerosmith, Allman Brothers.   Favorite band(s): Wilco, Radiohead, My Morning Jacket, Yo La Tengo, The Slip, Broken Social Scene, Pavement, Andrew Bird...
Favorite WWPV moment: Setting up concerts in Eddie's Place   Favorite WWPV moment: Still to come. Every show is better than the one before it. I expect to achieve radio show perfection before too long.
Where do you expect yourself in 5-10 years? Teaching science in a High School somewhere.   Where do you expect yourself in 5-10 years? I'll probably be a deep sea explorer, dedicating my life to searching the deepest reaches of Lake Champlain in my submarine for the elusive Champ.
Best Concert(s): Eric Clapton, Tom Petty, Johnny A, Rusted Root, and the Allman Brothers.   Best Concert(s): Radiohead (Mansfield '03 & Boston '06), Wilco (Boston '07 & Shelburne '07), My Morning Jacket (Langerado '07), The Slip (more times than I can count)
     
 
Name: Dan "Tank" Borkowski

 

 Name: John Connors (a.k.a. "One Chord")
Position on staff: PSA Director   Position on staff: Technology Advisor
How long have you been a staff member? This is my first (and sadly will be my last) year, but I was a DJ last year.   How long have you been a staff member? Since '06
Show title and time: "Breakfast 'n' Skrits" Saturday from 7:00-9:00 PM   Show title and time: "Those Monday Blues" Mon. 5pm-8
Favorite band(s): Old Crow Medicine Show, Pink Floyd, The Band, Bob Dylan, The Fiery Furnaces, The White Stripes, The Strokes   Favorite band(s): Roomful of Blues, Susan Tedeschi, Janiva Magness, Kirk Fletcher,  Derek Trucks, Marcia Ball, Michelle Willson, Henry Butler, Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy, Robert Johnson, Big Bill Broonzy, AC/DC, Queen, Led Zepplin, RadioHead, Ziggy Marley, The Black Keys , Cake, System of a Down, Flogging Molly, The Crystal Method, ... There are so many bands, artists, genres, and styles that I enjoy. Actually, making a list is quite hard especially a short list.
Favorite WWPV moment: The first night Phil did the voice of twinkie the kid (the first time), I did the voice of Enos T. Phelps, and Steve "Zio" Picazio was Charly Mathematics.  It was one of the most memorable and ridiculous shows EVER!!!!   Favorite WWPV moment: The first caller who wasn't a relative or a friend of mine who happened to catch the show to tell me he enjoyed the show .  Now, each and every caller is a great moment.
Where do you expect yourself in 5-10 years? I expect be Moe Szyslak...I hope to be better than dirt, except that fancy store-bought dirt with all those nutrients...I can't compete with that...   Where do you expect yourself in 5-10 years? Still doing interesting work for the College and with luck I will have learned enough music, chords and techniques to play an entire Blues song on a guitar, piano or any instrument...maybe learn more than "One Chord".
Best Concert(s): Old Crow Medicine Show at Higher Ground this summer, Old Crow at Martha's Vineyard, CSNY at the Tweeter Center, Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band on the Firehouse Arts Center Patio (Burlington).   Best Concert(s): Past Blasts- AC/DC, Tacoma, WA Summer 1983; Styx, Madison Square Garden, Fall 1979; The Go-Go's, Seattle, WA, Summer 1983; George Thorogood, Tacoma, WA, Summer 1982; B-52s, NYC, Fall 1979, Ray Charles, Burlington, VT 1978, Recently : Susan Tedeshi, Higher Ground, Fall 2005, Marcia Ball, Higher Ground, Feb 2006. Bik Bent Bram, Flynnspace, Fall 2006.