KBCA Jazz Radio, February, 1976– more than three hours of broadcast

Sometime about 10 years ago, I met a guy at a garage sale in the Battle Creek neighborhood of St Paul. Bill was a jazz drummer in his sixties, and told me about some Sunday all-day jam sessions that some cats would hold in South Minneapolis back in the 1970s. He had some old Staples Singers records, and a box of reel to reel tapes. Hoping he had tapes of the jam sessions, I volunteered to transfer them to digital, so we could examine the tapes further. What popped up instead was this set or recordings. Bill said that when he was in L.A. for a few days, he had recorded some radio in his motel room with his portable deck. Commercials, gig announcements, and news reports are intact. It’s a great snapshot of how Jazz was presented on commercial radio back then. Thanx, Bill, wherever you are.

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photo courtesy of socalradiohistory.com

Beastie Boys radio outtakes REV 105 era

(painting by Jesse Golfis, hanging in my living room)

It has been a particularly reflective week or so in light of Beastie Boy MCA moving on to bigger and better things.  Here’s one of my favorite outtakes from an interview with the Beastie Boys which aired on REV 105 and Spin Radio Network:

Studio outtakes  -

Here’s the edited version for the REV 105 commercial –

Their quick humor and obvious skill on the mic brings a smile to my face every time I hear it.  A refreshing change to hear people enjoying themselves and having such a great time.

KFAI- Fresh Air Radio- Rock of Rages 10-26-85 interview with Impaler

RAWK! Thanks to Jon Copeland for granting permission to post this.

PART 1- 33 minutes

PART 2- 37 minutes

KFAI Fresh Air Radio ‘Random Access’ program ‘Ventures Special’ circa 1984

Over two hours of The Ventures! Thanks to The Lizard for lending me the cassettes and info sheets, and to Jerry Modjeski for the go-ahead to post this for your listening pleasure.

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