National Radio Day

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Today, August 20, is National Radio Day. I'd like to take this opportunity to remind myself and others, that it was FM radio, which initially got me into music. And if it weren't for the music, I never would have gotten into audio.

Born and raised in San Francisco, I was in kindergarten (late 70s), when I grew tired of banal cartoons, and watching the S.F. Giants lose 90 games (oh wait; they're still losing 90 games). So I went into my room, turned on the radio, and discovered the Bay Area's FM stations. I got to hear what is now called "classic rock" and "adult contemporary."

I don't know where we had gone, but one Saturday afternoon, my dad was driving the family home. We were stuck somewhere south of the Panhandle, probably near Buena Vista Park. My dad scrolls through the car's FM (in monaural, not stereo!) stations, and on comes some Eddie Money, Boston, and Cheap Trick. I was hooked! Boston sang, "Don't Look Back," but as I look back, it was radio which got me into popular music. And I've been a hard core hi-fi rocker ever since.

I understand that most audiophiles did not grow up on popular music. Many have written to me, saying how they wished they could have grown up on classic rock radio. But as National Radio Day reminds us, now that we have internet radio and digital music channels, forget the past; all of this great music is at our fingertips or click of a mouse.

The funniest scene was when my then preschool-age brother and I went bonkers to Cheap Trick's "Surrender." Little did we know that that song was about the parents (whom children often view as out-of-touch, passe, and uncool) still gettin' it on. And I just grin, when my 8-year-old son, just as I did 35 years ago, goes bonkers singing this song.

-Lummy The Loch Monster

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Topic - National Radio Day - Luminator 10:32:03 08/20/14 (12)

RE: National Radio Day - michaelhigh 06:46:10 08/23/14 (0)

RE: National Radio Day - 6bq5 10:37:49 08/21/14 (0)

RE: National Radio Day - Zipcord 07:48:02 08/21/14 (0)

RE: National Radio Day - Bill Way 19:55:59 08/20/14 (0)

Thanks ! My radio epiphany was - Ross 18:55:31 08/20/14 (0)

RE: National Radio Day - fantja 14:22:24 08/20/14 (0)

The LOOP and XRT - G Squared 12:17:23 08/20/14 (0)

RE: National Radio Day - Dman 11:46:15 08/20/14 (3)

At Least You Can Still Remember Them, LOL! - Luminator 12:58:49 08/20/14 (2)

RE: At Least You Can Still Remember Them, LOL! - M-dB 20:30:37 08/20/14 (0)

RE: At Least You Can Still Remember Them, LOL! - shutterbob 13:22:27 08/20/14 (0)

RE: National Radio Day - mkuller 11:36:48 08/20/14 (0)

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