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& Elliot & The Z Morning Zoo" came from nowhere to become one of the prominent morning shows in New York. What were the factors that contributed to the show's success? MOTO P Ican remember Elvis and Iwent to dinner and ordered alot of drinks, FROM THE NEW STUDIO ALBUM and laughed about how stupid they were to give us the show. Elvis was an incredibly talented disc jockey from afternoons, and Ihad only been THE WORLD NEEDS A HERO producing morning shows at that point, and we just kind of looked at IN-STORES MAY 15TH! each other and said, "Okay, I'll produce the thing and you run the thing, and here we go." There was no hidden master plan there, it was just get what you could, beg, borrow, and steal and see who could work R&R Active: 23-22* out. We put together areally good one. There's something that sparkled in everyone involved with that show and it all worked out. R&R Rock: 28-26* Monitor Active: 24-21* The FCC just issued new indecency guidelines. Did you find these to be helpful in identifying the location of the elusive "line" that Monitor Mainstream Airplay: 28-26* should not be crossed? Monitor Heritage: 3I -28* No. fmqb Hot Trax: 20* Will these guidelines affect what you do on the air in any way? Not at all. There's amisconception that because the FCC is based in Album Network Power Cuts: 28* D.C., that they're gunning for us. Iknow one of the commissioners was on CNN acouple of months ago and my name got brought up, specifi- VIDEO ADDED AT cally, as to what he would like to change. You've got to change commu- nity standards before you're going to change me, so I'm not worried REPEAT AIRINGS OF about them coming after me at all. MEGADETH: BEHIND THE MUSIC ON

FITLi TUES. MAY /5 8:00 PM Suspensions...occupational hazard, or something that you take seri- WED. MAY 16 3:30 PM WED. MAY 16 MIDNIGHT ously? FRI. MAY 18 9:00 PM Ihave always been one of those who feels my instincts are right, or at SAT MAY 19 MIDNIGHT least right more than they're wrong. I'm not going to do ashow out of fear of being suspended. Iwould rather take achance on something Added At and hope for the best, and if it's wrong, then I'll get punished for it.

What's the best thing about working in our nation's capitol? vCuire.ave- lauSte Turns/ow The people here are awesome. You get everything from people working in the Capitol building, and for the State Department, for the Secret Service, as well as listeners in Virginia and Maryland. It's weird. Everybody grows up reading about the White House and the ON OVER 150 ST Washington monument and the Lincoln Memorial. We get to go stand there. It's awesome. We met some Secret Service guys and found out Just Added At:

that the car that Al Gore got driven around in every morning - r) \/ whether it was going from his mansion to the White House, or to the WZZO KRNA airport, or wherever -his guy was listening to DC101 every morning. / et VVTOS VVZ It's adifferent type of celebrity in Washington. Igot to go to some par- b ties at the White House. That's probably the coolest thing. Top 5 Phones At: WYSP KUPD W r) / What was that like? It was awesome. Icould drink and throw cigarette butts on the south ...And Ten More! lawn. Itook my picture with Clinton. The first time we went -I went with Diane, the co-host on the show -and we're standing on the south Produced by Dave Mustaine and Co-Produced by Bill Kennedy Management: Larry Mazer/Steve Wood for Entertainment Services Unlimited lawn of the White House, downing beers, laughing and saying, "What the hell are we doin' here?" 0 2001 Sanctuary Records. Inc. -Kevin X Boyce A Ilyaron of Sanctuary Records Group (e) www sancluaryrecordsgroup corn www.MEGADETH.com

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