He couldn’t have picked a better song.
Blind Melon’s “Change” played to thousands of listeners on the Gulf Coast as Woofy “ugly cried” in the studio for one of only a handful of times in the past 28 years. Likely the last time was when he had throat cancer in 2010.
The longtime radio personality composed himself quickly.
“I don t feel the sun s coming out today,” Travis Warren sings in the first verse.
And it didn’t.
Clouds hung over the Cumulus Media building on Hollywood Boulevard as Woofy ended his career as the voice of 99 Rock.
‘Young, dumb and stupid’
He was obnoxious at times. He was opinionated.
But his friends will remember him as a “big-mouthed rock star.”
Kreiser, who was known for being the frontman and/or promoter for many Northwest Florida metal bands, such as Bomb Threat, In Harm’s Way, Television Graveyard and Holding God Hostage, died Dec. 30 in a hit-and-run incident.
The collision occurred about 8 p.m. Dec. 30 as Kreiser was walking along U.S. Highway 98 near East Timberlake Drive in Florosa.
A white vehicle traveling west in the inside lane of traffic struck Kreiser, 44, then fled the scene, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.