Suddenly he glanced over at me, both of us in mid-chorus. A pickup truck cruised by us on the freeway, the driver singing the same song. a ridiculously huge land yacht), bobbing my head to some Pink Floyd melody.
On the way home from a track meet in the early 80's, I was stretched out in the back of Tom Scanlon's 1978 Buick LeSabre (i.e. We spun the dial from one amazing broadcast to the next. Commercial-free weekends, exclusive concert simulcasts, on-air interviews, and other program surprises all spoiled us for rock and roll radio.
They slandered each other on the air and in back-room hijinks, but most of all they tried to one-up each other with programming. WMMS, M105, and to a lesser extent, G-98, KCLW, WGAR, and a few others were what played out of car radios, warehouses, garages, transistor radios on the schoolyard. Anyone growing up in Cleveland in the 70's was affected by the "Rock and Roll Wars" of radio stations battling it out for supremacy of the airwaves.
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