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30 years goes by fast

raccoonradio

raccoonradio

March 11, 1981; WMWM Salem returns to the air after being off for 5 months (Oct '80 storm knocked down tower, fried board and transmitter). We missed losing our license by a day.
March 12, 1981: Suburban Beat with host Bob Nelson, starting off with Gary Numan's Praying to the
Aliens. His first show. Oddly enough, today there's a Bob Nelson at WMWM--must be his son... :)

Just kidding. Old geezer like me (that IS me) remembers: no computers, no CD players. Small studios in a diff.
building. There was the night in our current studios when the record library literally collapsed. And so many other memories...rock, punk, country, reggae, R&B, blues, local music, comedy...played it all.
 
It sure does...I was a senior in high school listening to the "Rock of Boston" on my FM converter in my 68 Bug while skipping school.
 
faderraider said:
It sure does...I was a senior in high school listening to the "Rock of Boston" on my FM converter in my 68 Bug while skipping school.
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Talk about time flying, I remember listening to Uncle T. on WBUR whem someone told me about this "new" station called WBCN, I told him it was a classical station.
 
FM converters, remember those...a friend's brother (who passed on in the 90s) was driven to buy one when he couldn't take the then-hit Disco Duck on AM top 40 radio. I recall my older brother winning an album from WMEX: Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods. I remember in 78 or was it 79. my Dad and I going to Back Bay AMC as he bought a car, and WBCN was on strike-- they were in exile on WZBC doing the Duane I. Glascock Parade. (I also recall some project in high school where I had to send away for a WBCN press kit, a folder with sheets about each DJ--got thrown away yrs ago, damn...also in high school in late 70s I would head to a newsstand/mag store in Lynn picking up Waves, later Radio Waves, a local mag that was kind of a radio version of TV Guide. They published an article I did when I was 17: "Radio Ratings Hype:
Fair or Unfair?" (stations running contests like The 12 Days of Kiss-mas)

3/30/81: WMWM's ancient teletype going haywire with bells ringing and furious typing: Pres. Reagan had been shot.
 
mgpt6 said:
I am not the only one who remembers the Strike broadcast in April 79 on ZBC .
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I was at the Strike benefit show at the Orpheum. Sass, Stompers, The Fools, - 'surprise' appearance by J. Geils Band, then James Montgomery until the wee hours.
 
Ah, I was 17 at the time.

Have met Stompers lead singer Sal Baglio a number of times incl. at a "churchapalooza" event in
Salem (attempt to buy an old church to make into an arts center) where he sang his original
songs (and we've had him at WMWM a number of times)

I had fun doing my show yesterday; played back some old promos and IDs (sounded a bit muddy)
and also parts of a 1997 performance in the studio (sounded better, preserved on audio cassette)
by a local jug band
 
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