Terrible news, and awful timing with the station having been unceremoniously demoted to the XM wasteland channels.
One of the few jocks who insisted on making his own choices, from KMET to KLOS and then XM. Headsets was one of the coolest shows. RIP.
75, RIP Jim Ladd once described FM radio as the “soundtrack of our lives.” It’s not difficult to understand what that meant, coming from the pioneer and most steadfast defender of freeform rock & roll radio. JIM LADD
Rest easy, Mr. Ladd. I wish that I would have met the man. I'm sure he had stories. Great voice. Rock 'n' roll believer!
Whenever I’d catch him on Deep Tracks, that warm feeling from those free form days would overtake me. The only one remotely comparable to him that remains and I know of is Earl Bailey. RIP sir.
Got to meet him at Crown Books in Torrance, CA (long gone, out of business) in 1991, after he signed his just released hard cover book Radio Waves: Life and Revolution on the FM dial. R.I.P. Jim
Very sad day. He was one of a kind. And yes, I am sure he was heartbroken with the recent decision to demote deep tracks. He turned me onto a lot of music recently that I missed that in the day. I would never have discovered Porcupine tree if not for him. RIP Jim.
Wow, sorry to hear this news. I used to listen to him hosting the syndicated program “Innerview” in the mid 1970s.
Now that you mentioned Innerview, that rung a bell in my mind that I have a cassette I recorded off an FM station in the late 70's, Jim Ladd's interview of Cheap Trick. I need to dig that out...
…listened to him for many years on El Lay radio. Seemed like one of us (a lover of music). Rest easy my man.
