The Full Story
Steve Myers has a resume of Broadcast Radio, Television, plus Video and Film Production careers over 50 years starting in his teens to his 60s. He is still providing Entertainment with DJ Bandstand.
One of his sidelines was a Mobile DJ Business in the 1980s and 1990s based in the Permian Basin of Odessa-Midland and expanded statewide later in El Paso of the 1990s. He also produced Wedding Documentary Style Videos in the late 1990s to 2010 in DFW. But a music DJ was and is his first love.
DJ Bandstand is an outgrowth of phone calls and zoom meetings with colleagues and friends in 2020. Being a Mobile DJ now is for Steve the most enjoyment and professional service satisfaction from his Radio, TV and Nightclub Career years. It should be no surprise that Steve has chosen to be the DJ once again as a semi-retirement path. Retirement is not the end of ones career path but the fulfillment of it. “Like Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger, The Eagles, and George Strait life doesn’t end in ones 60s – it just continues on in the things that we love to perform. DJ Bandstand is that role for Steve Myers.”
“I come to it honestly and on the shoulders of Radio and Television Personalities before me.” Steve started his radio career in grade school so to speak. When other neighborhood children played Cowboys and Indians building forts Steve Myers was building fort Radio Stations out of two by fours and cardboard. “I was imitating the Top 40 Radio Personalities in San Diego like Shotgun Tom Kelly of KCBQ and later KGB AM Radio. Those were the late 1960s.”
“In the 1970s my family relocated to El Paso I was influenced in my teenage years by personalities like Ray Potter and Gary Perkins of KHEY Country AM to FM Radio, Jhani Kaye of Jim Taber’s KINT AM to later FM Top 40 #1 Station and XEROK 800 AM with Chris Michaels and Steve Crosno.”
In addition to Steve Crosno I had many mentors and encouragers to thank on my way the way to this point. My parks and recreation’s coach in Elementary school Jerry Waldron, my parents in grade school to junior and senior high school. Chris Michael’s in El Paso and John Roman as my PD at KQIP.
Let me focus on some Steve Crosno stories: I met Steve through my father being interviewed on a cable talk show in 1974. He invited me to Intern with him at KDBC CBS 4 on Saturdays for a local Dance show. By 1976 I engineered one of his radio shows one summer from XEJPV in Juarez. At 17 I drove from my Eastside home to downtown El Paso via the Santa Fe bridge to Juarez. Just north of Vincent Guerro and Constitution streets in Juarez. Several AM stations owned by the syndicate on the 2nd floor. Open windows no air conditioning hot afternoons and studios with egg cartons stapled to the walls. It was 1940s RCA surplus broadcasting equipment of the USA. Ribbon microphones. I engineered the reel tapes of the Steve Crosno Show. It was my start in the business.
I barely knew Jhani Kaye but I studied his liners as a PD and his presence on the microphone as a focused listener. His pioneering tight formatted KINT 98 was his training ground to become one of the top programmers and air personalities in Los Angeles a few years later. It was a ratings winner sound and philosophy I hoped to replicate. That was his test market before rising to the top as I tried to follow a similar path.
Little did I know then that KINT 98 was made up of mainly teenagers to young professionals: Guy Phillips and Michael Wall the morning show of Phillips and Wall, Sunny Rio, JJ Mitchell, Robert Scott, Kris Kelley, Raymond Mesa, Bob Lee, Tony Pepper so many others. XEROK 800 too. I have an audio tape of Wolfman Jack on XROCK from 1972 titled Naked Radio. Funny bits by DJ’s ad libbing comedy to boost the ratings. Never did Naked Radio but I had my own fun in my time on KQIP FM Odessa as it was literally the real life version of WKRP in Cincinnati on CBS. John Roman was the Jhani Kaye as the PD who never said “Goodby Elevator Music, Hello Rock and Roll,” but his influence on the owner and GM Roy Elsner was spot on to take a flailing station to its highest profits. By 1984 John Roman took the station he came to in 1978 to the #1 spot in the ratings market. Those staffers are the guys I’m still in contact with today: John, Guy, Barry, Dave and myself as The Handyman.
The rest is Rock and Roll!
OVERVIEW
Steve Myers radio career started in his teens and blended into Nightclubs in his latter teens to twenties. His first paid full time radio job was in 1977.
He interned with Mobile DJ Services for Steve Crosno, an El Paso Radio Personality in the mid 1960 to the 2000s, then with his own system in the 1970s, 1980s & 1990s.
Steve Myers earned A BA of Journalism and Theater Arts from the University of Texas at El Paso in 1994 and a Masters of Interdisciplinary Communications in 2001.
Now into his 60s, DJ Bandstand was developed during the 2020 quarantines to launch in stages starting in 2021. His former clients and colleagues all suggested he was too young to retire.
DJ Bandstand is open for Business in the southern Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex offering Concierge Premium expertise for a variety of Greatest Hits formats and decades of the Best Music. Other ares he serves are in Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Louisiana. Those out of the metroplex incur travel accommodations extra expenses. Inquire for more information.
HISTORY
BROADCAST RADIO:
Steve Myers has served for 12 Radio stations in his career ranging from Top 40 to Album Rock, Disco, Oldies, Progressive Country, Christian, Adult Contemporary at two stations, and for a number one FM Country station in the late 80s. Stations in West Texas of Midland, Odessa and El Paso. Radio was his first love incorporated now into what is uniquely DJ Bandstand.
BROADCAST TELEVISION
Steve freelanced for KTPX NBC 9 while still working in Radio at KQIP of the mid 1980s. A few months later the television stations made him an offer he couldn’t pass up. He served NBC KTPX 9 for three years asa Copywriter, Field, Studio and Editing Supervisor, followed by TV Cable Midland by morning and Afternoon Drive for its KNFM Country Station both from 1988 to 1990.
In 1996 post his BA he reached his goal of station management for KZIA UPN 48 in El Paso for two years.
VIDEO PRODUCTION & FEATURE FILMS
As Television started morph in the late 80s Steve transitioned to a Senior Video Producer position for a Defense Contractor in El Paso with satellite companies at five Air Force and two Army Bases.
He went solo with his own company in mid 1989 and immediately picked up freelance production opportunities on three national PBS Documentaries and by 2001 on one Paramount Feature Film. He produced hundreds of of Industrial Videos projects for a variety of clients and non profit organizations such as Hospice of El Paso, schools, ministries and companies. In 2002 to 2010 he produced documentary style Weddings and Reception in the Arlington Dallas For Worth area..
NIGHTCLUBS & MOBILE DJ
One of Steve’s greatest loves and fame was as a Nightclub and Mobile DJ in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. Steve served the Flagship Giant Home Nightclub in Odessa with Graham and Associates who created and owned 15 large scale entertainment complexes in 4 States, and 17 Cities – eventually owning a Nashville Talent Agency. Steve also served Nightclubs like Close Encounters in El Paso in the late 1970s, Harrigan’s Odessa of the early 1980s and Kenny’s Memory Lane in 1988 to 1990 late in Midland. Through Oil and Economic Booms and Busts he continued to serve clients.
Steve owned Happy Feet and Company from 1982 to 1990 based in Midland Odessa and 1990 to 1996 based in El Paso. He served three states and hundreds of clients across Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma.
Steve specialized as Concierge DJ Services long before there was a name of title for the Profession. He offered the same for Weddings, Wedding Receptions, Private Parties, and Nonprofit Community Service projects. His primary regular clients included over a dozen major Oil Companies in Midland, Banks, Hotels and Country Clubs through the mid 1990s in El Paso.
COSTCO & DJ BANDSTAND
The concept of DJ Bandstand began oddly enough in the quarantines of the 2020 Pandemic. Downtime of phone calls with old friends to Zoom meetings with others all suggested he was too young to think about retirement. He had left the media in the 2002 joining Costco part time in 2007 where he worked part time supporting his full time Video Production Company and later writing/Novelist career. And while overseeing his parents increasing challenged health and elder care. He went Full Time with Costco in 2020 as virtually the only opportunity open as an essential worker. His artist father passed in 2007 at 80 and retired teacher mother ini 2018. He has one younger brother who is a Tax Wills and Estate Planner Attorney in Fort Worth.
DJ Bandstand started to take form when his new General Manager Dan McCoey transferred from Northern California to Arlington and #668. He held an all store meeting for 300 plus employees in 2021 but was challenged by his lackluster A/V technical equipment. Only a fraction of the
crowd could adequately hear Dan give his presentation with support managers.
Steve introduced himself post the meeting and brief resume of sound and video careers over 40 plus years. Dan was thrilled to have the input and assistance. Steve considered possibly to renting PA equipment and be the engineer. But Steve went one better; He purchased the equipment himself and rented it to Costco. That rescheduled meeting was a tremendous success and DJ Bandstand was born.
Over four more years Steve invested twenty percent of his income into what has become DJ Bandstand. Its a a state-of-the-art DJ and Live Music Mixing company with tasteful lighting and video options. He specializes in the Greatest Hits of 100 years from the 1920s to the 2020s. His radio focus
are in the 1960s to the early 2000s in over a dozen formats rarely offered now by Mobile DJ’s. 98% of DJs now take out the same 200-300 ‘bangers’ they call them which are sped up fragments of hits played in 30, 60 or 90 seconds into another. This is a RAVE template.
Steve offers a classic alternative the way the industry was in the 1960s, 70s, 80s and 90s. He is among a few that offer the Greatest Hits of all time. His library spits into over 50 different formats, in original recordings, and over 44,000+ titles in his 2 TB SSD drives. Plural, back ups to back ups. That’s what Broadcasting and Steve is still about.
He specializes in Country, Rock, Disco, 80s Dance Hits, and the top 100 to 250 hits per year from 1959 to 2026 with an emphasis on 1960 to the late 1990s in Rock and to 2013 in Country when new country took over in 2013. Steve also plays Big Band, Jazz, Classical and Ballroom favorites taught in
dance schools in the metroplex and often featured at Theme party nonprofit events. Steve just offers the alternative to the rave style of DJ.
INFLUENCES
Steve has always been influenced by the electronic media from a young age starting in Houston from 1962 – 1965, San Diego radio 1965 to 1971, El Paso media 1971-1977 and what were his teens to adult years from 1977 to 2001.
Singers and Standards of his parents generations in the early 60s, Top 40 and Country of the mid to late 1960s, Rock, Country, and soundtrack trends from Saturday Night Fever to Animal House, Grease, Urban Cowboy, to Top Gun, Dirty Dancing and a slew of other in the 1980s to 1990s. Many in the past 2 decades though for more current music he contracts with the best DJs knowing music of the past 25 years.
He was listening to Shotgun Tom Kelley and Wolflman Jack in the mid to late 60s in San Diego on XERB, KGB and KCBQ AM stations in his childhood to pre teens.
Then XEROK 800, to internships in his teens of El Paso at XRock with Steve Crosno and Chris Michaels. He was also listening to Johnny Thompson on 920 KELP, Jhani Kaye on 1590 KINT and early FM transitions to KINT 98. Johnny Thompson later wen on on KFIM before leaving DJ work to specialize as a Sales Associate and later Sales Manager of Television stations. Old DJ’s never die, we just fade away.
n Odessa of 1977 Steve was listening to the top stations from Dallas over the local cable of KZEW, KNUS, and KVIL delivered by satellite and microwave systems to cable companies – that was until they had higher ratings than the locals and that stopped in the 1980s.
Staring in 1977 Steve successfully was hired at KRIG AM The Rig 14 Top 40 working for program director Ron Harper. The used his air check form KRIG in early 1978 El Paso working weekends overnights for Chauncey Blackburn Jay Blackburn her husband programming the Loop in Chicago Chauncey overseeing the Pass at KPAS FM 94. From there it was follow the fad or music trends, KSET Disco 95, KSET Oldies 1340, K102 FM Country and finally KROD AM 600 Adult Contemporary in 1980.
By 1980 Steve secured his second full time daytime job with KQIP FM 96.9 Adult Contemporary in Odessa for 3 months evenings and then promoted to five years Mid days and as the stations Music Director.
He started Happy Feet and Company mobile DJ systems playing side gigs from 1982 to 1990 and worked for area Nightclubs and freelance TV production. In 1986 full time for KTPX NBC 9, 1988 for KNFM 92.3 Country programmed by KPLX in Dallas, and in 1990 with KLITE FM Midland.
1990s ACADEMIC YEARS
Steve Myers returned to the University in El Paso like many of his colleagues did to complete postponed degrees. In 1990 he worked for the UTEP Sports Information Office, by 1992 the Fox Fine Arts Box Office and in 1994 for the University Library Media deparment. He tried his hand KFNA News/Talk with former mentor Bill Blair but after two yeas did not choose to follow that rocky path. He continued with Happy Feet until 1996 transitioning to Television Management with KZIA TV, Corporate Defense Contractor MEE Inc/Rancho De Paz, and finally to his own Video and Film Production company through 2001 in El Paso and 2002 through 2010 Dallas Fort Worth.
THE LEAN YEARS
At 43 with two college degrees and almost thirty years of experience he landed in DFW post 9/11 which is when nearly everything was challenged or failed. He made ends meet till 2007 but took part time with Costco to keep the company functioning. At the end of 2010 he closed the production company. He focused for a decade leaning hot to write grants for PBS documentaries and dabbled as a Novels with the American Christian Fiction Writers organization. But what happened to radio, then television, then newspapers, advertising agencies and related producers happened to Publishing. Consolidations, bankruptcies and the changing of the guard.
The iPhone with HD cameras and You Tube was the beginning of the end through in real time vs hindsight it wasn’t easy to see. When Streaming starred and really took hold even giants among TV stations felt the pinch. Steve considered other options.
RETROSPECT
Though I did well for seasons and decades in Film and TV Production leaving Radio and TV behind – looking back I should have never closed my DJ Company. It has been the one industry that has not been decimated the way Radio, Television, the Movie Industry, and Video Production has downsized and morphed into unreliable jobs or careers.
Mobile DJs have proliferated. Even playlists and streaming services cannot come close to the abilities of a live DJ to read a room and play for the best of everyone.
I turned often to influential books and movies like Field of Dreams in the pandemic — for Inspiration. To Walt Disney who filed bankruptcy four times before producing for himself and starting Disneyland changed his destiny. Field of Dreams yielded several key thoughts.
Ray Kinsella/Kevin Costner – hears the voice, “If you build it, He will come.”
Steve Myers: I heard that voice and thought about becoming a Concierge DJ yet again. Do what he wasborn to do. Work smarter, not harder.
Terrance Mann/James Earl Jones – “The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army steamrollers. It’s been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game — it’s a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good, and it could be again. Oh -, people will come, Ray. People will most definitely come.”
Steve Myers: Substitute DJ for baseball. The one constant of Steve’s career throughout all the years has been as a Music DJ and radio host.
It reminds us of all that was once good, and it could be again. Like the many DJs who went to SiriusXM like Tom Kelley and the VJs from MTV with 80s on 80. People will book SMDJB. People will definitely value what I bring to them that isn’t the mainstream. Theme Weddings, and Receptions at Venues and Country Clubs. High end Hotels. Reunions for High School and College. Even businesses. Private Parties. Nonprofit support to the community. Chamber of Commerce Grand Openings and Ribbon Cuttings. Promotion and marketing. Major Anniversaries. Adult Birthdays. Retirement Parties. Theme parties. It’s all possible.
Moonlight Doc Graham/Burt Lancaster. “We just don’t recognize life’s most significant moments while they’re happening. Back then I thought, ‘Well, there’ll be other days.’ I didn’t realize that that was the only day.
Steve Myers: I could quote Doc Graham on this one philosophical thought alone to countless things in my life. Women I dated and wanted to marry. Should have. Radio jobs, Television and freelance production work. Stages of my life. Similar for the women I did ask to marry and who pursued careers instead of marriage. My time of media has come and gone shy of podcasting. Have no desire to do that. Except for proof of performances of DJ Bandstand. Can post those here.
Be the Concierge DJ end to end professional I was in the 80s and 90s – could be again. That’s something I could fill for the next five to ten years. Mentoring others already asking to be a part of it.
That’s why I pursued DJ Bandstand. That’s what I have to offer to select clients looking for something more than someone to spin records.
CONCLUSION
“I was never just a one genre listener or DJ – I loved nearly all the formats back then to now.”
Its no wonder why I chose to offer multiple formats of music in decades and genres in my own Mobile DJ Systems. I learned in various nightclubs the advantages of rotating the dance floor that not only increased bar sales and profits but gave the dancers something to appreciate and sit out others to socialize at their tables.
Its what made Happy Feet and Company such a success in the 80s and 90s and hope that lightning will strike twice as I fill this niche speciality as a Concierge with DJ Bandstand in North Central Texas.
Test runs serving two large Charity Ball Fundraisers in November 2025 with the River Legacy Park and Foundation and again in June 2026 with Dental Health Arlington have proven great successes for those Nonprofits and for myself as a Music Specialist and Provider.
The Question now is: “What can DJ Bandstand create for you” What type of event you are planning?
Let’s find out together!