Steven Seaweed began his career in Carmel at KLRB. He always claimed he took the New Year’s Eve shift because no one else wanted it. No, it’s not his real name–but he’s not saying what’s on his driver’s license.
Seaweed attended San Jose State University and picked up weekend shifts on the “Jive 95” KSAN starting in 1978. When KSAN underwent a format change to country music in 1981, Seaweed stuck around for a time, then moved on briefly to KFAT in Gilroy.
In 1982, he began a 14-year run on KRQR (“The Rocker”), where his on-air name acquired a nickname: “The Weed Man”.
In 1996 he moved to 107.7 “The Bone”, where he held down the midday shift, including his Hot Lunch feature, until his 2017 retirement.
Seaweed was honored with a plaque in the BAMMIES Walk of Fame outside San Francisco’s Bill Graham Civic Auditorium.