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jazmaan
Fifth Love
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 Posted - 22/05/2005 : 04:55:35
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Once upon a time in Los Angeles there was an AM radio station called KBLA. Most Angelenos remember KBLA as a country & western station but for 18 brief glotious months between early 1966 and the Summer of Love in 1967, KBLA was an experimental, adventurous pre-underground rock station. A few airchecks from that era still survive.
Most interesting to Love fans might be the aircheck of KBLA's last three hours on the air before the owners pulled the plug on the progressive rock experiment and switched it over to country music at midnight June 15, 1967. (Oddly enough that was also the first night of the Monterey Pop Festival!)
Anyway, DJ Dave Diamond featured several Love songs during that last show, including some tunes that never got much airplay like "You I'll Be Following" and "Signed D.C."
Of course the very last song before the stroke of midnight was The Doors' "The End."
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Loov
Second Love
USA
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Posted - 29/05/2005 : 00:59:02
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Cool story, Jazzman. I should remember KBLA. I do remember Dave Diamond and others, but my memory has been somewhat ravaged.
I'll ask my sister if KBLA was one of the stations we listened to on our pink plastic radio. We were pretty clued in to anything 'underground' so it wouldn't surprise me. KPPC was a favorite. What else do you remember about radio from those times?
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bob f.
Old Love
USA
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Posted - 29/05/2005 : 02:36:30
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| Loov-wasn't Elliot Mintz on KPPC? A surely missed mind on 60s-early 70s radio in L.A. |
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Loov
Second Love
USA
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Posted - 14/06/2005 : 06:26:54
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Oh hi, bob f. dear, didn't see this until now. I remember Elliott Mintz well.the very name conjures an old mood... While we're about players in 60s L.A. media, here's one: Art Kunkin! Had a daughter close to my age, stole a boyfriend away ( sort of).
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bob f.
Old Love
USA
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Posted - 15/06/2005 : 02:56:44
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| Loov- funny story about Art Kunkin, editor , once, of "the FREE Press" progressive newspaper, here, in L.A. Saw him at an event in Santa Monica in about 1975. the event was a recruitment/meeting for the cult/ufo group headed by Applegate " Bo and Peep" , the same group to later meet their maker by mass suicide. i pondered for weeks wheather to join up and move in with them. i'm glad i didn't. Kunkin was there to report the event. |
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