Talk:The Greaseman

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Greaseman's comment regarding Lauryn Hill and the tuck incident actually went something like this (I was listening when he said it): Hill actually had said that if she knew so many white peopke were going to buy her album, she never would have made it. Greaseman found her comment so stupid that he said in retort, "No wonder they drag these people behind trucks."

The article says he did the following: He had been playing a sound bite of Lauryn Hill in which she states that her music is only for black people and that she is ashamed when white fans tell her they like her music. Snopes claims that she's never said this.Virgil61 09:24, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

This article is very lacking on informaiton about his career. It doesn't even mention his syndication at Infinity, for instance. (Though mysteriously mentions him returning to syndication.) I'm going to try to fill the section out a little more. (And, if I have time, expand his radio gimmick section as well.) Dormammu 19:12, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Greaseman should also be credited with creating the pop culture meme "Who's your Daddy?".

  • RE: "Who's your Daddy?": Check out this reference: A slang term meaning "I control you", which is often used in prison and by members of the underworld. The expression, which can be traced back to the mid 1800's, has two sets of connotations: "I am looking after you" or "you are defenseless". The former usage may be derived from the term "sugar daddy," and often has sexually suggestive undertones; the latter usage may allude to parental dominance and authority.

Today, the expression "who's your daddy" is commonly used as an assertion of domination or sexual control in return for payment or protection. It is also sometimes used literally, as an insult questioning a person's parentage.

--Vituperex 12:42, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

"igniting a firestorm of protest from black and white listeners alike"

Just black and white? No other race or ethnicity?

[edit] Exclusive Foxhall road area?

Greaseman also used to do this bit about his theoretically pompous neighbors in the upscale Foxhall road area. I doubt he really lived on Foxhall road (or in DC at all), but there was a guy that regularly called in with a fake british accent claiming to be his neighbor. The neighbor invariably complained that G'mans dog had soiled his lawn. At one of G'mans live public shows at the Bayou, he said an anonymous listener called in and started doing this bit. It caught on and was a one of the few bits that was not a monologue. Anyone remember that bit or know who the mystery listener was? Madhu 00:23, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

I used to see Grease at the Sutton Place Gourmet near Foxhall. Perhaps he did live there. Sfahey 16:23, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
Those were the "RJ calls" listed in the article page. I'm glad someone else remembers; the mystery listener was a Dundalk/Baltimore native, just a regular guy with no entertainment background. He's my dad. 23:14, 02 March 2007

I actually met Mr. Tracht today. If he ever did live in the Foxhall Road area of Northwest Washington, D.C. (which is possible, as I believe that his radio contracts when he worked there were quite lucrative) I can report that he no longer does. He told me where he lives, but I won't post it here, the man has a right to his privacy. CrashRiley (talk) 21:53, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Sound effect

Hey Sfahey, that is not a sawing wood sound, that is a squeaking bedspring sound. You are hearing it wrong. Sawing wood wouldn't make any sense there, anyway. 128.244.110.203 11:47, 11 September 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Tuna Fish

I thought the music from "Tuna Fish" comes from Mozart's Piano Sonata No. 11 in A major, K. 331 Piano Sonata No. 11, the third movement, "Alla Turca", aka the "Turkish Rondo"

Listen to this: http://www.marypages.com/RondoallaTurca.mid

N'est-ce pas?

Dave David M. Hennessey (talk) 20:46, 13 February 2008 (UTC)