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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...

James Pagliasotti
Mar 29, 20234 min read


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...

James Pagliasotti
Mar 29, 20235 min read


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...

James Pagliasotti
Mar 14, 20232 min read


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...

James Pagliasotti
Mar 5, 20232 min read


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...

James Pagliasotti
Feb 28, 20233 min read


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...

James Pagliasotti
Feb 27, 20232 min read


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...

James Pagliasotti
Feb 24, 20234 min read


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....

James Pagliasotti
Feb 3, 20234 min read


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....

James Pagliasotti
Jan 11, 20234 min read


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...

James Pagliasotti
Dec 26, 20227 min read


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...

James Pagliasotti
Dec 14, 20226 min read


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...

James Pagliasotti
Dec 7, 20222 min read


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....

James Pagliasotti
Nov 20, 20225 min read


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...

James Pagliasotti
Nov 19, 20225 min read


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...

James Pagliasotti
Nov 18, 20225 min read


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...

James Pagliasotti
Nov 17, 20225 min read
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