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RADICAL RADIO
James Pagliasotti
- May 18
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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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James Pagliasotti
- Feb 24
- 4 min
Dialed In
Davyne Dial has something to say and she's well worth hearing. Here's what she says about running a listener-supported community radio...
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James Pagliasotti
- Feb 3
- 4 min
Freeform Bobbin
Bobbin Beam is, well, amazing. She became a freeform deejay at WZMF-FM radio in Milwaukee, Wisconsin when she was still in high school....
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James Pagliasotti
- Jan 11
- 4 min
Free Form
Jim Morrison “Whoever controls the media controls the mind,” said the poet Jim Morrison, lead singer for the Doors in the late 1960s....
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James Pagliasotti
- Dec 26, 2022
- 7 min
Deejays Blazing
Raechel and Tom Donahue Tom Donahue is listening to rock & roll on LSD in 1967 San Francisco and says to himself, “This music has to be...
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James Pagliasotti
- Dec 14, 2022
- 6 min
Ephemeral Things
Ephemeral Things Life as an artist. A career in the arts. It’s a passionate need for self-expression and a challenging way to make a...
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James Pagliasotti
- Dec 7, 2022
- 2 min
Hall of Fame Notice
From the Colorado Music Hall of Fame Newsletter of 12/5/22 When I first moved to Denver in 1968, it was not at the forefront of hip and...
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James Pagliasotti
- Nov 20, 2022
- 5 min
Radical Radio
Radical what? Radio. Yeah, that’s what we said. There was a time, you know. And it mattered! Here’s why. It was called underground radio....
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James Pagliasotti
- Nov 19, 2022
- 5 min
Turn Your Radio On
There was a new generation of music coming on and a new generation of people who wanted to hear it. There was a new generation of radio...
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James Pagliasotti
- Nov 18, 2022
- 5 min
Corporate Underground
Corporate underground? An oxymoron you might say. Yet the origins of underground radio in the latter half of the Sixties was at least...
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James Pagliasotti
- Nov 17, 2022
- 5 min
Maybe Again
Maybe again. That’s what we were thinking when we considered the subject of this particular article. Maybe we can write about our...
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