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Debby Frost, WHRB - The first Punk Radio Show in America

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Varulven

The first Punk Radio show in America was aired in Cambridge Massachusetts by Deborah Frost on WHRB.

Debby also wrote for New York Rocker and was the pulse of the New Wave in Boston. She went on to marry the fellow from Blue Oyster Cult and is now in a band with him - The Brain Surgeons.

Give credit where it is really due.

Also, a certain "WTBS" d.j. who has masqueraded as "the first punk rock d.j." for decades claimed he was the first person to have the SEX PISTOLS 45 in Boston. He might have been the first person to air it, but
Miriam Linna from Norton Records sent a copy to me before the WTBS jock ever got his hands on a copy.

The truth shall set you free.
 
punk, new wave, disco, wasn't Blondie all 3 within about 3 months.

I remember seeing the front of Trouser Press with the headline "Blondie goes disco and the punks go wild" with an accompanying cartoon that showed rioting punk rockers.

Heck I was there and I don't remember what was punk, and what was new wave, what was crossing over, etc.
Damn I'm having another senior moment.

Hey I see where the Pousette-Dart band is doing some gigs locally. Flashback time! John Cafferty opened for Three Dog Night last night.... Anyone remember when they played Mr C's Rock Palace in Lowell on a regular basis? The old Commadore Club on Thorndike St.


(anyone remember waiting for that elusive third BOSTON cd? I saw Brad Delph last night and he says he thinks BOSTON is touring next summer)
 
2 Dog Night & John Cafferty

2 Dog Night had a huge audience last night, Neggy, but were not as vibrant as when they were
all together. It's all about the money now. But it was still a fun show at the Oldies 103.3 event

A question myself and two other "radio people" were bantering about was - what was the huge draw?

---3 Dog Night

---John Cafferty with his Beaver Brown legacy

---the perfect weather.

Granted the weather was Terrible for Rick Derringer & Steppenwolf, but combined they were never the hit machine that 3DN was. One DJ said it was the good weather; an ex-dj said it was a good call to put
Beaver Brown on. My own opinion- I think 3 Dog Night have an amazing draw all these years later
(and the good weather was certainly a help to get all their fans out).
 
Re: 2 Dog Night & John Cafferty

Varulven said:
2 Dog Night had a huge audience last night, Neggy, but were not as vibrant as when they were
all together. It's all about the money now. But it was still a fun show at the Oldies 103.3 event
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so that's why the traffic s_cked on Storrow last night... glad I got off at the Longfellow.

We can all have our own opinions about who was first, etc... I still think his show ruled... as did Greg Reibman (sp?) on WERS and Paul Greenberg on WMWM... all of 'em were part of something that changed my life... I didn't know about Ms. Frost's show but wish I did... when did it start? What kind of stuff did she play?
 
Debby Frost was in a band called THE BLOODY VIRGINS, wrote for NY Rocker and had her wonderful local
radio show. Then Oedipus came along and we actually had a scene and listened to both shows religiously.
It was a special time. You could count on Oedipus to play THE SHIRTS and cool underground stuff.

You can write to Debby and hear her great new band here: http://www.myspace.com/brainsurgeons

as for Storrow Drive, you are INDEED lucky you got off where you did. It was the 3DN that snarled traffic.
We went to the Post Office first (gotta get the eBay sales out) so we avoided that whole mess by going
down 93 right to South Station, then over to the gig.
 
Also, a certain "WTBS" d.j. who has masqueraded as "the first punk rock d.j." for decades claimed he was the first person to have the SEX PISTOLS 45 in Boston. He might have been the first person to air it, but
Miriam Linna from Norton Records sent a copy to me before the WTBS jock ever got his hands on a copy.


The first DJ in Boston to play "Anarchy in the UK" was Barb Kitson at WERS.
 
Barb Kitson

Epsilon!- such memories the name Barb Kitson stirs up!

Barbed Wire - Barb Kitson - first made her Paradise appearance with THRILLS during my
Boston Rock Revue #2 Dec. 2, 1978. She was also the DJ on the Willie Loco Alexander
& The Boom Boom band album we released "The Sperm Bank Babies" - which was a WERS broadcast
the band wanted me to put out because they were not happy with the "homogenization" on the
MCA record. Willie was autographing the discs and flinging them across the room at the gig in Nashua!
Fun days!

In 1988 I helped mix Barb's studio recording, "Blind Passion", at Mission Control in Westford and she joined my band for a spell.

More fun times. Last I heard from her was about 4 years back - a really funny phone message when the band was thinking of reforming and asked if I knew where she was: "Joe, tell them that the Ramones are dead...what's the point?" But I believe they did reform or will reform. Lead guitarist Johnny Wadell is on Air America a.k.a. Johnny Angel on WRKO.
 
Re: Barb Kitson

Varulven said:
Lead guitarist Johnny Wadell is on Air America a.k.a. Johnny Angel on WRKO.
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He uses the name Johnny Wendell in LA... and he's filled in for Stephanie Miller on the Jones Network, not Air America. I asked him about it and he said the company thought "Angel" wasn't right for a talk show or something like that. His real name is John Carmen.
 
Is David Essex even still alive? If so where the hell is he?.

"Rock ON"!
 
Essex married the singer from the DC Tenz (or was it Rash of Stabbings) from Rhode Island. Not Thrills' singer Kitson.

I believe they had children, moved back and forth between the UK and RI and are now divorced.
 
PugUgly said:
Essex married the singer from the DC Tenz (or was it Rash of Stabbings) from Rhode Island. Not Thrills' singer Kitson.

I believe they had children, moved back and forth between the UK and RI and are now divorced.
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You are correct, I had Barb Kitson crossed up with Carlotta Christie. (Early senility settling in. Not good.)
 
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