Max Volume
Max Volume (born 20th century) is the stage name of American musician, radio personality, and voice-over artist Glenn Bailey.[1][2] Volume is a disc jockey at Reno, Nevada, classic-rock radio station KOZZ, and a singer-songwriter and guitarist with the Max Volume Band.[3][4] He has released seven albums on the Tadzhiq Music Group Label.[5] Volume is the Afternoon Drive DJ, Mondays through Fridays, on KOZZ-FM 105.7. Early lifeBorn Glenn Bailey, Volume was raised in Glendale, California.[6] He graduated from Crescenta Valley High School in La Crescenta, California. Volume earned an associate degree from Reno's Truckee Meadows Community College in 2006.[citation needed] After receiving a guitar at nine years old,[1] he taught himself to play and studied the music of Jimmy Page, Pete Townshend, and Neil Young.[citation needed] Radio careerVolume moved to Reno in 1979, and began working at Eucalyptus Records & Tapes. There, he met Michael Schivo and worked as a stagehand for High Sierra Concerts and Michael Schivo Presents. After meeting Bill Graham in February 1981,[citation needed] he worked as a stagehand for Bill Graham Presents,[4] eventually becoming a voice for the Reno concert-market commercials.[citation needed] He has played with rock drummer Chuck Ruff,[citation needed] and the rock band Terraplane. In the Fall of 1981, he took an internship at KOZZ radio station while attending Truckee Meadows Community College. Bailey first worked as on-air talent in March 1982. After noticing the phrase "Max Volume" was displayed on the face of many radio dials. Bailey adopted it as his on-air moniker.[1] He continued his radio career as a program director at Reno modern-rock station KRZQ from 1987 to 1992, followed by being a programming assistant at Sacramento, California, rock station KRXQ from 1992 to 1994, and finally working as a program director of Reno metal station KZAK from 1994 to 1996. He helped launch Reno active-rock station KDOT, and became music director for Lotus Communications Corporation.[citation needed] He has been an on-air disc jockey at KOZZ since 1997.[1] Discography
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