Mark,
Geeezzz... They should come up with one of those little smile faces that is holding up a wine glass so you know when someone posting has had a couple!
My Bad.
I was wondering if while you were listening to those stations out of Long Island if you had ever heard The Good Rats. They were a local band that played around NY & Jersey back in that day, and had several albums out. They were a blast. Sort of like a cross between Zappa, Flo & Eddie & Twisted Sister, with really off-color subject matter. They were a hoot to see live, and actually really great players. And it was even funnier that when we were going to see them in our early 20s they were all (it seemed like) in their late 40s and early 50s. I'm sure you could google them and come up with something.
Did you ever pull in WFMU while cruising the dial?
That was the radio station out of Upsala College in East Orange. I think they are still on the dial, even though Upsala went belly up and shut down years ago.
WFMU was one incredible station back in the day. Their big claim to fame was that they were the first radio station to ever play Bob Dylan on the air. Dylan used to come visit Woody Guthrie at a house in East Orange that was a couple of blocks from the college, and they would play some, and someone from FMU ran tape at one of the sessions and put it on the air before Dylan ever recorded his first album.
The studios were in the basement of my dorm, and late at night we would get completely stoned and wander down and just sit in the lobby looking in the window to the studio watching the DJ and listening to the wildest stuff that any of us had ever heard.
And that is a pretty area that you grew up in. I rode through there a couple of years ago when I decided to take back roads on my way up to visit the Vanson factory up in Fall River Ma. I never knew RI was such a pretty state.
