Bios:

The Rock School Radio Show
has Retired.


The August 23, 2026 show was our last. It was also our 1000th.
That's enough. If you wish to get in contact with someone about the show, contact Damon Sunde at damon.sunde@selu.edu at KSLU.

Take a look at the people behind Rock School.



Joe and Tammy Burns
As of August 2015, my wife Tammy joins me as the full time Rock School co-host. That makes four co-hosts now. Name them? OK. Chad P. Beth West. Monique Gregoire. And now Tammy. It's like she's the lead singer for Van Halen.

It's only fitting. We met at a radio station in Florence Alabama - WQLT, 107FM. It was a 100,000 watt flame-thrower stuck way up in the corner of the state. I was the afternoon jock and she was the copywriter. That meant she wrote the commercials. We dated even though we had both signed a document at the station saying we wouldn't.

I knew she really liked me when I got a job programming an AM/FM in Utica, New York and she left with me. We married less than a year later.

She been with me through seven radio stations, six states, a masters degree and a Ph.D. and two children we adopted from Guatemala. We've been married 35+ years so it looks like it's going to stick. I guess.

Her? Oh, well, she's from Hackleburg, Alabama, has two undergraduate degrees which she paid for through work and student loans, a respiratory degree and a respiratory registry. She's worked at level one hospital trauma wards in three major cities and has stories that would make your toes curl.

She currently sells drugs - she's a pharmaceutical rep.

And she hosts a radio show. Did I mention that?