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Meet Geno

Author Geno
November 12th, 2021 3:43 PM

Hey I’m Geno, the new guy at 105.7 WROR. Boston is home. After 30 years of being a radio journeyman, I can’t tell you how insanely excited I am to be on the air in my favorite city.

Young Geno

Before the Bruins, the Maine Mariners were my team.

I grew up in Westbrook, Maine as the only child of a single parent. My incredible mom worked 3 or 4 jobs at a time so she could bring me to Boston once a year. Mom and I would do the usual touristy stuff like a visit to the Museum of Science, the New England Aquarium and Faneuil Hall. We’d usually visit The Hilltop so we could buy bottles of that salad dressing to bring back to Maine. That stuff was SO good!

But the Boston visits would always be planned on a day when there would be a Bruins game in the afternoon so I could see my hockey heroes like Rick Middleton, Brad Park and Ray Bourque. Then later that night, there’d be a return to the Garden so I could see “Rowdy” Roddy Piper or Hulk Hogan at a WWF show. We always had nosebleed seats and stayed at cheap hotels. But I didn’t care. Those trips were always the highlight of my year. But my mother would later regret them only because she saw how much I loved Boston.

In high school, I didn’t outgrow my love for pro wrestling like most of my friends did. By that point, it was just me and my pal Scott left. We learned the moves we watched on TV and went to any live event we could afford to drive to. Scott was a skinny kid who probably weighed 130 pounds. I was 6’4. We knew which one of us was going to make it. Or so I thought.

Geno at Boston University

Boston love: wearing a Red Sox Hat, Celtics shorts and Aerosmith t-shirt as I worked with old reel to reel tape at Boston University.

My attention started to switch from pro wrestling to radio. Playing music, giving away cool prizes and having fun backstage at concerts… the idea that I would make a living doing that blew me away. Plus I looked terrible in pro wrestling trunks. My buddy Scott? He hit the gym and stuck with it and later became “Scotty Too Hotty” in the WWE. No regrets though for me. Right before my senior year, I came to Boston University for a summer program for high school students looking to pursue a career in media. I fell deeper in love with radio… and, to my mother’s disappointment, I fell in love with Boston too.

In 1991, the U-Haul was loaded up and I moved to Boston for the first time for college. I was accepted at Emerson and Curry College. Being a kid from Maine, city life scared me a little. Milton was a better choice for me so I was a Communications Major at Curry College. Mom would come down to visit often. I’d always take her to Trader Joe’s because they didn’t have them in Maine then. There’d always be a meal at Legal Seafoods and then I’d take her back to the bus station to ride back up to Portland. She’d break down crying before she got on the bus, but she knew Boston was where I’m happy.

At Curry College, although I had a couple great professors like Donna Halper and Boston radio legend Roger Alan Bump, my real education happened after class when I would turn on the radio. “Uncle Dale” Dorman, Howard Stern, Kid Valentine, John Garabedian, JoJo “Cookin” Kincaid, JJ Wright and “The Madame” taught me more than I could have ever learned from a book. I’d record their shows on cassettes that I still have to this day. Those tapes sit in a box that has moved across the country with me a half dozen times in my career stops from Worcester to Florida to California.

Geno and JT

My radio job travels have taken me around the country. This was me around 2002 at an Orlando event I did with Justin Timberlake.

Fast forward to 2022. Imagine how my jaw dropped when I got a call from Cadillac Jack. He’s the head honcho here at WROR now but he was the boss of most of those amazing talents on those cassettes I just mentioned. He created the high energy sound those stations had. Cadillac Jack’s exciting brand of radio fueled my passion for this career. It blew my mind when I found out he’d heard my show online and wanted to put me on the air here in Boston. And for a station with the incredible history like WROR? I just wish my mother was still with us so she could share in my excitement. But I know she’s looking down and proud and probably really happy I didn’t end up taking steel chair shots to my head in a wrestling ring.

If you made it this far, thanks for reading. Can’t wait to share more of my stories and hear yours on 105.7 WROR weekdays. Let’s connect. I’m @Geno1057WROR on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

 

Geno: From 1970s Bowtie Baby to WROR DJ

  • High school nerd… TV was my thing before I discovered radio. Always had a camcorder in my hand since iPhones weren’t such a big deal in 1991.

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  • Mom in the kitchen. She was the one who let me dream big.

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    She worked so many odd jobs to spoil her only child. I was a lucky kid. She supported me through all my career aspirations - from wanting to be a stock broker to a hockey player to pro wrestler to radio DJ.

  • Don’t know how mom did it but she’d book trips like this for us to Foxboro to see my hero Rowdy Roddy Piper at Sullivan Stadium

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  • Oof that 90s mullet. That’s me on the right. My buddy Scott on the left and Bushwacker Luke around 1990.

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  • Scott and I with Hulk Hogan

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    ... me pretending to attack him from behind. That would not have been smart. Anyone recognize the other wrestler in the background? Scott would later go on to become "Scotty Too Hotty" in WWE.

  • Mom somehow scraped enough money together to take us to see WrestleMania 4 in Atlantic City. She could’ve kicked both of their butts!

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  • One of my first times being a “guest ring announcer.”

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  • That’s me ringside announcing while Scott gets ready for one of his first matches.

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  • In studio at my first radio job at “Thunder 107” in Portland, Maine.

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  • From my ring announcing days in the 90s, posing in the locker room with Greg “the Hammer” Valentine.

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  • While I went to college in Milton, I’d do weekends and eventually became the afternoon guy at WXLO in Worcester.

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  • This was from the Worcester Centrum around ’98ish. Working in pop music during the boyband era was interesting!

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  • Lenny was probably shocked a Boston DJ could pronounce his last name.

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  • Hey Hey it’s a Monkee!

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  • I left Worcester in 2002 for the palm trees. I landed in Tallahassee, Florida – where the only exciting thing to do was go to FSU football games.

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  • Working at the party station Hot 104.9 made for some fun nights for this 20something!

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  • In 2003, I headed west to live in California. But not Hollywood… that was a day trip.

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  • Ice Ice Baby… hangin’ with Vanilla Ice in California sometime around 2008. I left to come back to Boston not too long after.

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  • Getting to work briefly for WBCN was a dream for me. Backstage at the last River Rave with Stone Temple Pilots. Scott was missing. You can probably guess the rest.

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  • While working for ‘BCN, I even got to meet my childhood hero “Rowdy Roddy Piper” when he dropped by one day.

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  • One of the coolest moments ever. Skating on Fenway Park Ice before the Bruins’ first Winter Classic.

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  • Another one of my favorites as a kid… Ray Bourque!

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  • What a morning this was – even got to snap this shot with Brad Park.

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  • Ahhh what a time it was to be a Red Sox fan 10 years ago!

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  • If we meet, ask me to tell you this story about when I snapped this photo with Steven Tyler from Aerosmith.

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  • Maroon 5 Boston show

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  • Hangin’ with Peter Wolf from the J. Geils Band when I worked for WZLX around 2010ish.

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  • Working with Toucher & Rich

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    When I came back to Boston to work for these stations, it was the first time I'd come off the air. I was working behind the scenes on the station websites and social media channels. But working with Toucher & Rich fired me back up to want to get back on the air. Will never forget this night CHARLIE SHEEN dropped by at 3AM IN THE MORNING to get interviewed after his Boston "concert."

  • Would you believe he was the nicest guy ever? He was at least that night.

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  • Backstage with Katy Perry at her Boston University concert

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  • Then it was off to Florida again…

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    When I first moved to Tampa, the Red Sox choked which allowed the Rays to sneak into the Wild Card. The locals loved my costume.

  • Always rep’d Boston… I still miss WBCN.

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  • Daughtry show in St. Petersburg, Florida in 2013ish.

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  • Yep, I even worked in country radio. Still sported my Pats gear in Florida. Got lots of flack for it, but whatever.

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  • Hangin’ with Luke Bryan at the ACM Awards in Las Vegas.

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  • Life is a beach.

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    Most recently, I've been on the air at the legendary Q105 in Tampa Bay. But now it's time to hit the airwaves in Boston!

Hey it's Geno. Thanks for reading. Got something to add to this story? Connect with me on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter.
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