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Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] AM: No Static At All
- Subject: Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] AM: No Static At All
- From: Mike Hawkins <michael.d.hawkins@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 16:39:01 -0700
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I saw Blue Cheer, Mount Rushmore and Big Brother & the Holding Company at
Avalon Ballroom one night. Blue Cheer almost put my ears out, and Janis
Joplin stuck a piece of glass in my eyebrow when her Southern Comfort
bottle broke. Twas a night I'll never forget.
On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 4:36 PM, Hawkins <ng0g@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Mike,
>
> Thank You! This brings back so many memories. I lived in San Francisco
> back then, of the park on west side of 9th Ave. between Kirkham and Lawton.
>
> Do you remember what group played on the street at the KMPX strike, and
> who paid for it? Blue Cheer, and Owlsley. Looking back it seems like a
> commercial, as Blue Cheer was one of Owlsley's "products".
>
> Steve "Now of a small farming town in Iowa" Hawkins
>
>
> On 6/17/14, 6:00 PM, Mike Hawkins wrote:
>
>> Similarly, KMPX in San Francisco broadcast album-oriented rock back in the
>> days when it was called underground. The DJs were generally from Top 40
>> AM
>> stations who felt there was more to the music than what could be said in
>> three minutes or less. KMPX became very popular in San Francisco, and the
>> owner decided that the DJs were getting paid too much money. Out of the
>> kindness of his heart, he instituted a pay cut and they instituted a
>> strike. They pooled their money and bought a floundering classical
>> station
>> owned by Metromedia named KSAN. They moved their format from KMPX to
>> KSAN,
>> and KSAN immediately became the #1 FM station in San Francisco for younger
>> demographics, and also became the station that was copied in every major
>> market. KSAN lasted from 1967 until it went country somewhere around
>> 1980.
>>
>
>
> --
> Stephen Hawkins NG0G
> ng0g@xxxxxxxxx
> 73 49 111 01001001
>
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