Off The Hook With Gage

It's a SLIMY, corrupt world, this radio biz, full of seedy, UNSAVORY bedfellows. * Take the way you help me perpetrate a weekly SHAM by pretending to listen to OFF THE HOOK while I pretend to care, k…

OFF THE HOOK is heard everywhere:  in parks, in cars, at the gym (imagine!) and in bed (recommended)! * And then there are those of you who enjoy your "Slough-Off Fridays" listening to OFF THE HOOK i…

STOP SHLUBBY RADIO! * You pride yourself on being smart, up-to-date and WITH IT, right? * So, why should you settle for the frumpy dump of picked-over remains heard on other radio programs? * OFF THE…

Pardon my OUTBURST, but OFF THE HOOK can do no wrong! * Its creator and host cannot be removed or held responsible for any acts perpetrated on the air between 1pm and 4pm every Friday on KXSF because…

So, it's come to this. * I'm expected to provide RIVITING, JOYOUS AND EDUCATIONAL musical programs EVERY WEEK for you? * What if they are merely MARVELOUS, FABULOUS AND BOOGIE-FIED? * What if I just …

Well, that BIG ASS SOLAR FLARE threatening to WREAK HAVOC with radio transmissions was a bust! * You call that a X5 flare? * Little did Sunspot AR3536 know that OFF THE HOOK wreaks its own havoc! * N…

RACING INTO THE DARK:  As much as we wish to leave this cruddy year, the road ahead looks CHALLENGING and uncertain, to say the least! * Besides, the devil we knew had some GOOD JAMS! * But, there wi…

Less a dollop, more a sprinkle of HOLIDAY CHEER on Today's OFF THE HOOK! * For, as the gate of Winter Solstice has opened the celestial skyways for a certain HOARY-HIRSUTE GEEZER to come storming pas…

OFF THE HOOK fishes not from stagnant pools, but from raging rivers teeming with FRESH SOUND specimens which gladly leap into our nets! * But we're gonna need some extra hands (read ears) to quell th…

Like the INTREPID explorer, OFF THE HOOK seeks out, finds and presents to you the RARE AND EPHEMERAL! * The lifespan of some of these musical species are so short-lived they resemble the poor mayfly!…

HEY! * Whatcha doin' at 1:00? * Howzabout we get together for a LISTENING SESH? * I've got a buncha KILLER NEW TUNES to play ya! * Yeah, and we can CELEBRATE some musical BIRTHDAYS, too! * You got a …

The SOLID SOUNDS and porous personality of OFF THE HOOK cracks with the FIZZ of the New! * Your Companionable Compere helps you on with your dancing shoes for FLASHY MOVES when the music git goin' or…

SEXY is as SEXY does and there's never a SEXIER you than when you're listening to OFF THE HOOK! * You can FEEL IT and everyone can see the particular ALLURE that those who are lured to OFF THE HOOK e…

Grab your pole and join me on the banks of the river OFF THE HOOK! * There's an ocean of tunes rifling down that LIVELY estuary and we're going to do our best to snag a few beauties or die trying! (n…

I went in for Uncle Ryan today at noon. * That's right, Uncle Gagie to the rescue for Uncle Ryan on The Uncle Ryan Show! * Two hours of music to make you say "UNCLE!" on KXSF 102.5FM / https://kxsf.f…

There's an old saying in radio.  I forget what it is and nobody says it anymore, but suffice it to say, it doesn't apply to OFF THE HOOK, a radio program utterly unprecedented in a time-honored way! …

Today on OFF THE HOOK, we mourn the loss and celebrate the music of two IDIOSYNCRATIC musical minds: the whimsical and ICONOCLASTIC "jazz" genius CARLA BLEY and inscrutably CHARISMATIC "power popper"…

It's time again for OFF THE HOOK!, the Friday Frolic that every week waddles into the hearts of the lumpen masses -its cringing, fawning fandom-, smothering with blankety piles of blubbery goo(d)ness…

Even though I lovingly prepare BEAUTIFUL AND STIMULATING programs for you every week, let's face it, OFF THE HOOK is really for ME. * And if you're like me, you're an impatiently anxious connoisseur …

On OFF THE HOOK you get QUALITY that can't be bought! (it comes free as a "thank you" for donating to the station) * And what do you get for opening your wallet when you really didn't have to, but in…