We used to listen to CKLW here in Cleveland too in the evenings. That was our big thrill because it had some kind of silly "forbidden" property to it because it came from what seemed like a million miles away back then. (How cool. We can listen to radio from CANADA!!! Not understanding then that as the crow flies, Cleveland to Windsor is like 94 miles.... and nothing but lake between here and there.) This was just about the time that that "other radio band" was coming into vogue. We had a station here at 93.1 FM named WZAK, and while during the day it was a lot of ethnic programming, largely for the Slavic languages but 50% English, until 10pm when Doc Nemo's Underground came on to the sound of Bob Seger's "Heavy Music". It was a one hour show that was the only place in town to hear non "commercial" cuts from Cream, Hendrix, The Who, The Blues Project..... it caught on quickly with the musician community and lasted a couple of years until the homogenization of radio started. It took about 15 years until WZAK sold out and became just another station, and they are now a terrible station, programmed from a distant control center like most, and playing the awful sexist, racist, angry crap that sells advertising aimed at the urban listener base.

I would hate to be a kid in this society. It's hard enough being an adult in this society... Poverty, unemployment, illiteracy due to parents not caring enough to make the kids go to school.... so many of these kids really have no chance of becoming anything but the next generation of parent who breeds more kids into a progressively declining state. Music offered our generation a place to where we could retreat. Now the music is so negative, praising domestic violence, drug abuse, killing.... makes me sad after growing up with "All you need is love...."