Test clicked amighty all over the facebook options to see more of what it has... and more of the odd AJAX actions.  Then, having completely overstayed my welcome on the WHCN Alumni group, I deleted the account.  Good, all posts were gone.

Then, durnit, my old buddy Dave tells me that he has a facebook account - and He's a old time fully-Redmond-centric 'Softie!.  That is just plain wrong :)

On again.  But now off again... I just don't have things to share that good normal people find interesting enough to spend all of 5 seconds on before clicking a vote button.

Alas, least I know that my interests are boring, eh?

Last fall my friend Kat told me that there was a WHCN alumni group on facebook that I just had to join.  I told her that  I'd coded against the fb api but never really saw the draw of being a user.

She called me an old fart and that was that.

Couple nights ago after mixing cold and hot sake I did a boogle for HCN and the group popped up.  I saw Kat's postings from last year, and Kim Alexander's and Dan Hayden's and Johnston Izzi's and got all nostalgic and joined and posted.

I know I have a cleaner copy of this somewhere but till I find it, this is still one of the greatest things a classic rock fan could hope to hear. It's Lowell George's last radio interview, wonderfully done by Ed O'Connell on WHCN on June 22nd, 1979 before George did his show at the Hard Rock Cafe in West Hartford.

Just seven days later Lowell George was found dead of a heart attack in his hotel after a gig down in in D.C..

You *do* want to hear this one even with my first-found copy's slight phasiness. But don't tell any of the surviving members of Little Feat that it's here, they HATE what Lowell says about their parts of the Little Feat breakup... truth hurts, and this is a big Ouch for them.

Quite a bit different from today's idea of hot AOR mornings, this goes back to the days Michael was up against Stern at 'CCC (and when Mr. P had overnighter Bob Bittens recording Stern to get him out of town... which worked by the way).   Chip Triest later became one of the coolest AEs I'd ever worked with.. I remember him trying to teach me that money was not a bad thing, took me a long time to figure out that he was right.

Paul Harris, Gary Lee Horn, Mr. T, Ghandi, Carl Sagan, Victor Herena, Cabbage Patch Kid in a blender, Asylum Hill Streeet Blues, Mr. T, Tom Carvel, Bang the Drum All Day, Return of the Rabbi, Brain (hearing that character got me laughing again), Mr. T, Martha... and on and on.

If you remember the 80's this will be a lot like watching Family Guy... and if you don't remember the 80's then it will also be like watching Family Guy, but maybe a bit less funny ;-).

It started being a common thing in the early 90's, rock artists would go into radio stations and "take over as jocks". But one of the first big times it happened in America, and, importantly, where the artist actually did a real show live, was on HCN in 1988.

Here's a partial (maybe I'll find the whole thing eventually) of Bruce Dickenson the morning after Iron Maiden played the Hartford Civic Center in July 1988.

Of the hundreds of Picozzi & The Horn airchecks it was part of one of my station olden gigs to edit and archive, this is one that I'm really glad I saved with a special note. It was marked "P&H Pretty hot" and was recorded April 24th 1990.

Mentions of Kat Sinclair's Next Big Thing, The Lich, Marching Weathermen, 60 Seconds, Nedsky, Paul McCartney's New Haven pullout controversy, Van Halen's brand new Cabo bar grand opening call-in... Oh, and it being the day that the Hubble Space Telescope was launched there are several mentions of that plus at around 40:00 you'll hear the ABC news Discovery/Hubble launch report.

Boyo, we all sure accumulate a lot of stuff over the eras. Several moves ago I finally let go of the refrigerator sized Sony pro reel deck that WHCN gave me for my home-work in the late 1980's. Moves since have seen the eventual diminishing of the extra-bedroomful of 15inch reels themselves, but for decades my packrattiness just could not part with the mass of cassettes and DATs from the days of local AOR being a god.

As time goes the list below will grow. Some of most of it will be total shit to anyone but me, some or most of it will be total shit these days even to me. But if you did Rock Radio or the mighty WHCN back in the the heyday of American hot-promotional AOR, then maybe some of it will just be kinda neat for ya.