The Golden Age Of Underground Radio, Vol. 2, B. Mitchel Reed

True this. I have never heard the Byrds sound more powerful than on this cut on this album. Even on the other Byrds stuff Steve has done. It sounds like McGuinn/Clark fronting the Who.

 

Wow I forgot about this site! Thanks for the reminder...listening to KDIA RIGHT NOW.

 

Great! You will enjoy it. Vol 1 is awesome as well.

Also, both volumes can be found at Amazon.com.

Vol 1: http://www.amazon.com/Golden-Age-Un...&keywords=the+golden+age+of+underground+radio

Vol 2: http://www.amazon.com/Golden-Age-Un...&keywords=the+golden+age+of+underground+radio

 

Yes, I do that as well. I want to keep the original copies as nice as possible.

 

FM Underground radio was my favorite format from the time I first became a convert from top 40 sometime in 1970. Here in Toronto CHUM FM from 1970 to 1975 was absolutely the most wonderful commercial radio I have heard. Starting around 1974 the whole format at CHUM FM and everywhere in North America started to go downhill. I have recently been able to digitalize some tapes that I made during the waning days of the format and have uploaded some of these air checks online. Stations include CHUM FM and some from Western NY ( WBUF, WUWU, WZIR etc). Sound quality is not great and most of my uploads so far have been in mono so please forgive that. There was a wonderful show called Oil of Dog on WZIR and WUWU and I have lots of tape on that some uploaded and some to go. Audiophiles will not be impressed but you will get a taste of what was going on in the Toronto/Buffalo area then and wonder why the offerings available now are so dull and barren.

This is just a fan project for me as I want to share and inform and spread the word with the faint hope of actually bringing back the format in some form though I doubt that in this day and age. I also have a weekly contest in emulation of the format.

Take a moment to check out my site when you can:
http://www.lettheuniverseanswer.com/

 

I just found out from Steven that he mastered a third CD like this. It is Wolfman Jack, "Howlin' On The Air. I just found it on both Amazon.com and eBay (eBay is much cheaper, still sealed, and the guy has multiple copies of it for sale. Here is the link in case you know anyone else who might want one: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Wolfman-Jac...120868694272?pt=Music_CDs&hash=item1c2455e900

 

I would give almost anything for some more air checks of the Beamer!!

 

Yes, I totally understand. That is why airchecks are so hard to find. The licensing prohibits it.

 

I find it fascinating listening to BMR on WABC airchecks from the mid-60s (he has some of the fastest patter I've ever heard!) And comparing it with the much more mellow BMR on this disc. I cherish both volumes AND the Wolfman disc. Thanks again, Steve, for always doing your best.

 

I grew up on a different place through a different time but the memories you have posted here are simply beatiful.

 

B. Mitchell Reed and Tom Donahue were in my opinion the true underground DJ's of their time. When I was in San Francisco it was KSAN and Los Angeles KMET. Hearing Reed on his show was like going to church for me and he was the minister. He would comprise play lists that were completely unrelated but for some reason it all came together. I remember him being really pissed off at the whole Altimont Rolling Stones debacle. He made the point that maybe the Rolling Stones Let it Bleed. should be retitled "Let Them Bleed". I can remember that to this day. I am truly sorry he's gone because he could have shed a lot of light on that whole late sixties era through his eyes. I consider BMR and TD as important to American FM radio as John Peel was to the British FM radio.

I was in San Francisco the day KSAN changed from a rock to country format. They signed off with Blue Cheer's Summertime Blues. I never listened to that station ever again.

 

Steve's not in charge of these decisions. AF and the rights holders are.

 

And if you don't have a copy, you should be banned from the forum, IMHO

 

One of my all-times.^^^

 

Yes, I have some of that too. Awesome stuff. I would love to have some of his KPPC or KMET stuff though, for sure.

 

Yes, and the truth is that TD and BMR were the fathers of FM underground rock, creating (together) the two very first free form/underground/rock stations in 1967: TD at KMPX in San Francisco, and BMR at KPPC in Pasadena (my home town) in the basement of a church on Colorado Blvd.

 

Did you ever mix any stuff there?