WDVE in Pittsburgh used to broadcast live local concerts like Kansas,Gino Vanelli and Seals and Croft. KSAN in San Francisco used to have a dope report on Fridays.KQAK used to broadcast live comedy shows with folks like Robin Williams.Now it's NPR and sports talk.
DVE is still around. But many of our lives revolved around music. Buying music, going to live shows. It's still very important to me but not to the younger generations who think they are entitled to "free" music.
KAAY in Little Rock. The "Mighty 1090", 50,000 watts of AM playing 60s/780s rock. In the evenings, the signal would skip as far north as Chicago, west to New Mexico, east to Atlanta.
And not just contemporary rock, but special shows: my favorite was Clive Clifford's "Beaker Street", which played deep album cuts, sometimes with stories about the groups and conversation about the meanings of the songs.
Long gone now, though.
Thanks for the stories, guys! I really enjoyed the reading! Looks like I'm not the only dinosaur in the group.
Brian
We had WMEX and then 50,000 watts of WBZ burning us from Boston in those days. Later on there was RKO then BCN. No lack of tunes from any of them. Arnie "Woo-Woo" Ginsburg and a whole host of others from mid-50's through to the Day the Music Died, or shall we say, was transformed?
99X, WPLJ, WBAB on Long Island. BAB had "Homegrown LI rock bands features too. Music is like the memory stick of life.
DVE is still around. But many of our lives revolved around music. Buying music, going to live shows. It's still very important to me but not to the younger generations who think they are entitled to "free" music.
There's the old saying you never miss what you never had.
Ear buds and MP3's have gutted a lot of of what live music was about.
Imagine going to a nightclub and there is no shared PA ,only earbuds tuned into different DJ's.
It's no wonder that older music outsells the newer stuff.
The last cool rock band I discovered was Tool back in the early 2K era.
There's the old saying you never miss what you never had.Ear buds and MP3's have gutted a lot of of what live music was about.Imagine going to a nightclub and there is no shared PA ,only earbuds tuned into different DJ's.It's no wonder that older music outsells the newer stuff.The last cool rock band I discovered was Tool back in the early 2K era.
Amen to that, brother! I am truly sickened by synthesizers, electronic percussion and whatever it's called when singers try to prove their worth by attempting to hit every conceivable note possible on a simple three chord melody! Think national anthems here!
Brian
