Wes And Bill from 1990
In 1990 a kid named Jason Beck brought his band's demo up for them to play, along with some other bands they didn't have. He had been contributing to their fund drives for a couple of years, and had been coming up to the punk show Funhouse and bringing records for them to play for a while as well. At this time Sweet Nightmares went all night- 5 hours long. They had several bands come up and play live in the studio including Alyis and dead horse and put on some monumental live shows at local clubs featuring local, national, and even international bands.
Jason started coming up on a fairly regular basis and bringing records and demos for them to play, and in 1992 the Funhouse (punk) show ended. Since they had so much time on Sweet Nightmares, Wes suggested Jason do a punk/ hardcore/ grindcore/ thrash set for an hour right in the middle of the show. Bill had a decent amount of that stuff as well and contributed to that segment, along with a guy named Dave Freeman. Jason still brought metal down to play on the non-punk hours as well, and the 3 of them together collected and played a huge percentage of the newest and heaviest metal that was coming out at the time (Bill insisted on calling him Stitchface (referencing a joke on an old Simpsons episode) because he thought everyone should have a jolly pirate nickname).
Deadhorse, Live In Studio January 22,1992
However Bill felt somewhat limited by the boundaries of Sweet Nightmares- Tho in the early days they played a bit of regular heavy metal and bigger bands, and didn't just focus on the most extreme and underground bands the whole time, that's what the show had turned into- mostly death metal, black metal, thrash metal, crossover, speed metal, and grindcore (they did play some heavier industrial bands too, since that sound was big around then- bands like Puncture, Fear factory and Godflesh) Bill wanted to branch out and play less extreme forms of metal and bigger bands like Metallica and Iron Maiden, which the show had pretty much left in the 80s.
So in 1994 Bill convinced the station to give him his own show. He called it Ejacula, and it was 2 hours long and came on right after Sweet Nightmares. Unfortunately they took those 2 hours away from Sweet Nightmares, which perturbed Wes somewhat and caused a little friction between the two of them. Bill quit coming on Sweet Nightmares and Jason became the only co-host.
