James Pagliasotti
Jim Santella RIP
Jim Santella c. 1972 - credit: bmhof.org We have a sense of impatience about this project and for good reason. So many of the great...
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RADICAL RADIO
FREEFORM RADIO ARCHIVE
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James Pagliasotti
- Aug 26
- 1 min
Bank Shot
We had the pleasure a few weeks ago of talking with Steve Postell, he of the famed group of studio musicians known as Immediate Family (...
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James Pagliasotti
- Aug 19
- 1 min
WFMU-FM Lives On!
There are a lot of great stories in the history of radio. Being focused on freeform radio as we are, we can assure you there are many...
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James Pagliasotti
- Aug 14
- 1 min
WFMU-FM True Freeform Radio
Then there is WFMU-FM radio, and there is nothing else like it. The About Us section of their website tells it better than I ever could:...
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James Pagliasotti
- Aug 12
- 1 min
All That Jazz
Phil Schaap Jazz Collection; Special Collections Library; Vanderbilt University - credit: NYT History we've observed is what is stored in...
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James Pagliasotti
- Aug 6
- 3 min
Musicians and Artists and Sales
How to ‘splain it? Garth Brooks sold more albums than Elvis Presley, more than Led Zeppelin, more than the Eagles, even more than Michael...
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James Pagliasotti
- Aug 6
- 3 min
First Steps
First Steps - Pablo Picasso 1943 We took the first steps in our Freeform Radio project a few years ago. We built a website (HERE) as a...
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James Pagliasotti
- May 19
- 1 min
Tony Pigg Rest In Peace
Tony Pigg c. 1977 - photo credit: Lucinda Scala Quinn in the New York Times The Last DJ for us is that rare and special breed of the...
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James Pagliasotti
- Dec 19, 2023
- 2 min
RIP Jim Ladd (reprinted from the Los Angeles Times December 18, 2023)
credit: jimladdrocks.com Jim Ladd, disc jockey who was a fixture of L.A. rock radio in the 1970s, dies at 75. Jim Ladd spun vinyl and...
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James Pagliasotti
- Nov 10, 2023
- 3 min
Real Radio Trifecta
KVNF-FM Radio in Paonia, Colorado Fifteen hundred people live in the country comfort town of Paonia, Colorado, and the population of...
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James Pagliasotti
- Nov 1, 2023
- 2 min
Passing
Dusty Street courtesy KSAN Jive 95 Dusty Street died last week. Her former colleague, Scoop Nisker, passed away a few weeks ago. They...
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James Pagliasotti
- May 28, 2023
- 1 min
Mary Turner RIP
The famed KMET deejay passed away. Read her obituary HERE. Mary Turner - credit: LARadio.com
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James Pagliasotti
- May 18, 2023
- 1 min
Baby You Can't Drive My Car
Not anymore. Not with that old, scratchy, battered AM radio band that drove the dreams and heartbeat of so many teenage listeners to Top...
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James Pagliasotti
- Apr 18, 2023
- 3 min
Best Ever
credit: michaelbloomfield.com Bob Dylan called him, "the best guitar player I ever heard." Being the astute musicologist he is, Bob has...
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James Pagliasotti
- Mar 29, 2023
- 4 min
History of Car Radios
(Abbreviated from https://citroenvie.com/history-of-the-car-radio/) One evening, in 1929, two young men named William Lear and Elmer...
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James Pagliasotti
- Mar 29, 2023
- 5 min
Play It Like An Artist
Peter, Paul, and Mary, Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, the Freedom Singers, Pete Seeger, Theodore Bickel at the Newport Folk Festival 1963 Bob...
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James Pagliasotti
- Mar 14, 2023
- 2 min
Fly Jefferson Airplane
A lot of great music came out of San Francisco in the latter half of the Sixties, but none of it better than what the Jefferson Airplane...
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James Pagliasotti
- Mar 5, 2023
- 2 min
The Electric Flag Live in Concert November 1967
by James Pagliasotti text copyright 2023 Michael Bloomfield credit: Don's Tunes Mike Bloomfield left a successful stint with the Paul...
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James Pagliasotti
- Feb 28, 2023
- 3 min
Mickey Newbury Live at Montezuma Hall by Ron Middag
Mickey Newbury credit: mickeynewbury.com After working in radio in San Diego and LA, including stints as program director of KPRI in...
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James Pagliasotti
- Feb 27, 2023
- 2 min
Edward T. Bear R.I.P.
KSAN-FM staff with Ed Bear front row second from left photo credit: unknown Steven Hirsch, known to his many thousands of fans as Ed...
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