Submitted by Uncle Arthur on Sat, 03/03/2007 - 12:09am.
Okay, you wuz all talkin’ about high school nostalgia. Then I’m on widr.org looking at the 409 photos someone found of 1970s WIDR. And I found this photo, above. It is surely not of the 1970s. It is of 1984-1985. I’ve probably told this story to some of you, while drunk probably. But the Tuesday and Wednesday late night WIDR programming got me through the end of my high school years.
Back then I was listening to the Sex Pistols and … wait for it…
RAMONES
… and the Dead Kennedy’s. And I’m thinking, at 17, I have reached the limit in abrasive noncommercial music.
And then I hear "WE’REALLPROSTITUTES!" and the Meat Puppets and Dickies and Black Flag and all sorts of freakish combinations of things from these two DJs. They seemed to play a lot of this local band, Violent … Banality? Something like that.
I listened to all those others on that station, as well.
Anyway, keep on supporting WIDR. They keep on doin’ it. (I hope the kids there now understand how good they got it. Look at that picture — they all had to do FOUR hours of radio, using only TWO turntables, with vinyl albums that were mostly Frank Zappa or Spyro Gyra. Jeeze.)
Submitted by redstarwraith on Mon, 03/05/2007 - 1:17pm.
i’m guessing that photo had to be mid-eighties? Joe Puleo was around then but was gone by the late eighties. I ran into him in Minneapolis when he was a roadie for Yo La Tengo . . .
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heh-heh.. "Hugh" ---What a
heh-heh.. "Hugh" –What a dorky name.
I know that pic!
Prolly a little later than 85
I was there off and on from 85-90 and The first couple years would have had the name Paul Steinbrunner who was GM at least in 85.
Seems like he was on the roster a little later too.
Then again my memories are hazy at best from those years!
I think it was Puleo who
Wait>>>>
Joe Puleo? is he any relation to Johnny Puleo and his Harmonica Gang?!
vinyloddities.blogspot.com/2006/01/johnny-puleo-and-his-harmonica-gang.html
Hmmm...... J murrphy
Memories...
Back then I was listening to the Sex Pistols and … wait for it…
RAMONES
… and the Dead Kennedy’s. And I’m thinking, at 17, I have reached the limit in abrasive noncommercial music.
And then I hear "WE’RE ALL PROSTITUTES!" and the Meat Puppets and Dickies and Black Flag and all sorts of freakish combinations of things from these two DJs. They seemed to play a lot of this local band, Violent … Banality? Something like that.
I listened to all those others on that station, as well.
Anyway, keep on supporting WIDR. They keep on doin’ it. (I hope the kids there now understand how good they got it. Look at that picture — they all had to do FOUR hours of radio, using only TWO turntables, with vinyl albums that were mostly Frank Zappa or Spyro Gyra. Jeeze.)
mid eighties?
WIDR Oldies photo