Radio Nowhere

One of the great examples of what radio ought to be: The day Nixon resigned I recall listening to WABX on my car radio hearing them playing " I Fought The Law" and blowing party horns like it was new years eve. The larger point is this: That's was a perfect example of a media source that was embedded in the culture it served. I didn't want to hear what the news station said about the news that day.. I had to hear what the guys on 'ABX were saying and playing, and doing about it. I sat in my car in a parking lot late for an appointment to hear more. I felt part of something, the music was about more than music, the cause was just, and we were all in it together.. much like the folks talked about in the recent Ken Burns War series... a sense of shared mission, and shared joy at victory.

I was looking at R&R today. Which one of those stupid sons of tricky dickey profiled in that rag are programing a station, or a channel as relevant to its customers as Station X was to me? I've asked the question before, but I'll ask it again..who the fuck dreams of growing up to program a "Jack" format? How fucking lame.........