"Ghost To Ghost"?

lostindreamland · Post by **lostindreamland** » 10-31-2009 05:25 PM

I think that it would be a hoot if George Knapp did G2G. I think George has that quality to really connect with people and I also think that is why Art is so great.

Shirleypal · Post by **Shirleypal** » 10-31-2009 06:33 PM

lostindreamland wrote: I think that it would be a hoot if George Knapp did G2G. I think George has that quality to really connect with people and I also think that is why Art is so great.

I think you are right about that..Knapp is the closest to Art that I have ever heard.

Ziroc · Post by **Ziroc** » 10-31-2009 07:06 PM

Coast to Coast AM is dead.

otero1 · Post by **otero1** » 10-31-2009 08:02 PM

Ghost to Ghost AM 1993 - 2007 (Art Bell)

Broadcasting right now!

bigvig316 · Post by **bigvig316** » 10-31-2009 09:21 PM

I like Ian. I think he is better than George. With the one hour of Art is because of the time change.

racehorse · Post by **racehorse** » 10-31-2009 09:39 PM

bigvig316 wrote: With the one hour of Art is because of the time change.

Even so, despite the host, I can not think of a "Coast" topic more deserving of an extra hour of live calls than "Ghost to Ghost".

Art used to do five hours every night for years. There is an increasing tendency on "Coast" to cut back the program even further. Taped portions of replays of previous shows now fill many hours of "Coast" as the live portion is often truncated.

ArtBellfan · Post by **ArtBellfan** » 10-31-2009 10:53 PM

Maybe Art will call in tonight with a ghost story? I would die if he did.

bigvig316 · Post by **bigvig316** » 10-31-2009 11:32 PM

Maybe Art should come back to the show permanently. Or find a host with the drive and passion that he had.

Plainsman · Post by **Plainsman** » 11-03-2009 08:32 PM

Ziroc wrote: Coast to Coast AM is dead.

Absolutely. I still can't understand why Art stood by and let it happen. He seems to have a very "blue collar" attitude about retirement." Most people who create something so cutting edge, so meaningful, and so beloved as C2C once was would never allow it to die a slow, lingering death as Art did with C2C . I'm still shocked he walked away without so much as a glance back. It's sad.

Plainsman · Post by **Plainsman** » 11-03-2009 08:36 PM

Live365 wrote: I agree with Race that Art probably wasn't asked. It is isn't the same show anymore. They've moved on, for good or for bad, and they don't "get it". They don't get the value of the tradition. I remember having this debate last year and I still agree with myself: G2G should just be discontinued, or re-formatted. To try and keep it going half-a$$ed just makes things worse.

But for tonight, it is what it is. Of the many things I dislike about Ian, foremost is his tendency to blather on -- usually about himself -- even in focused interviews. If he pulls that tonight in the G2G format it will be a complete catastrophe. While yes, cutting Ian's show short and re-playing an Art show from eight years ago is a bit of a dis, it may be the only reason a lot of people bother to listen. Count me among them.

Ian was always a like a pair o brown shoes with a tuxedo insofar as C2C was concerned. Totally inappropriate host for the C2C format. He lost what tiny bit of credibility he had when he interviewed Jesus Christ on C2C. He embarrassed himself and the two or three listeneres he had left.

joequinn · Post by **joequinn** » 11-03-2009 11:36 PM

GHOST-TO-GHOST was meh on rye! The jig is up, folks, and the game is OVAH! Accept it!

Live365 · Post by **Live365** » 11-04-2009 10:30 AM

Plainsman wrote: I'm still shocked he walked away without so much as a glance back. It's sad.

My heart always sinks that much more when Art does come back (for a night) and says things like: "apparently this was a topic recently" or "no, I wasn't aware George had interviewed him". He doesn't even listen. To his own show. Granted, a lot of people don't listen anymore, but you'd think he would check in every so often to at least see what was happening.

SETIsLady · Post by **SETIsLady** » 11-04-2009 07:22 PM

Its not Ghost to Ghost without Art.

Sean_in_Montreal · Post by **Sean_in_Montreal** » 11-05-2009 12:26 AM

Art doesn't listen to Coast because its not his show anymore and hasn't been for a long time.

Basically he's a fill in host for the fill in host's now.

It would be better for all of us for him just to walk away and never come back. Hearing him so rarely is just torture now. Its just a reminder of how good Coast to Coast used to be.

lostindreamland · Post by **lostindreamland** » 11-10-2009 02:11 AM

Personally, I am grateful when Art is on. Noory is an average host at best, but what makes C2C still interesting to me are the guests on the show.

I find it hard to believe that Premier can not find a host with the passion of Art or George Knapp. There has to be someone out there.

I think that Art has been through so much with his son, Ramona, being defamed, too many 16 hour days doing nightly radio, I think that he just wants to enjoy life and doesn't want to deal with the grind of doing radio every night.