Both Bob Adams and Dave were made for each other and married at the hip when it came down to AIR TIME.

They were both well oiled machines when assembled together for their AM early morning gig, but apart, as Adams said for the Star, they were worlds apart.

Dave was one of the most private persons in the world.  He kept to himself and for understandable reasons, any man with a personal life who's always exposing his personae in public on the airwaves probably wants to keep his personal stuff personal.

As producer, I screened calls from time to time where someone tried to tell me something Dave did or was in his real self, and as producer, you screen those calls out, keep them off the air, but you wonder.    He was a fantastic on-air personality for the four hours he kept Ventura County alive from 5 -to- 9 morning drive time he was our most personal friend.

In private, Dave loved the horses and daily racing forums would entertain him on breaks from the ad nauseum radio advertising copy he was forced by management to read.  Cinero was an enigma within and enigma and quite a puzzle because of his flashy public side and his real and very private self-contained person when off-air. 

I knew Cinero as a great talent.  He loved his craft and found great reward and personal satisfaction from his life on the air, especially at KVEN.  I know it was hard for the Morning Show Team to leave their beloved little radio-active studio they had on Market Street when  KVEN moved its operations to Walker Street.  The character of the Walker Street location for KVEN had the flavor and familiarity of a tin can.....gone was the beautiful wood paneling and classic sound rooms from where Barry Turnbull would do his sports and other on air talent would record their promos and ads.  Walker Street was not all that much fun for Dave & Bob so It was refreshing when KVTA lured them and the mpst of entire staff of KVEN to work up the dial and downstreet from KVEN.  Thus, Cinero and his buddy Bob Adams moved over to Victoria and up the dial from 1450 to 1520. 

Most of the KVEN staff went to KVTA when the boomer blasted out talk radio from KVEN with it's Booming Doo-Wop-Bee-Bop-Hip-Hop.   The moves were tough for the boys, but as they knew - nothing in Radio lasts forever and change comes with the territory.

After settling in at KVTA, Dave had east coast issues and yearnings so needed to travel coast-2-coast from Ventura to Providence, Rhode Island. This was surely wearing and losing Bob as his on-air cohort was also hard for Dave as he needed someone as "sparky" as Adams to bounce his insane wit against and get the dead-pan retort from Adams that kept you listening to the show just to see where they would go next. 

Adams, a broadcast veteran and pioneer deserved his retirement from the air.  He served Ventura County faithfully and selflessly for over 30 years.  Adams was always the voice of our disaster and the calming voice that blessed us with the good news after it was all better.   Adams departure from the AM dial was felt first this new year and then Cinerno, never to let  Adams get the punch-line, delivered his departure from the AM dial, from the radio airwaves, and from our hearts and lives.

Dave, we will miss you and having been someone who got up at four AM to do a five o'clock start with you for a year of my mornings, I must say you were always quite the guy - our county and lives will not be the same without you.

See you in the great eternal hum of the amplifiers and transformers.

 

Bill Winter
Editor - Oxnard Journal
& Dave & Bob Show producer from Jul 1994 to Jun 1995 at KVEN Studios.