Okay, well your first sentence was kind of weird. Especially since I don’t know you and we’re on a blog, but that’s fine. But no, you can’t turn the radio station. Not when you didn’t have a radio that you could freely listen to. The only vinyl was my dad’s old 78’s and my older brother’s 45’s. I did listen to a lot of Beach Boys and Beatles back in the day. The car radio was controlled by my mom. Christian broadcast anyone? It wasn’t until I was maybe 15 when my mom stopped bothering to get me up for school. That’s when I I bought a small radio I could listen to in the bathroom when I was getting ready for school. That’s when I discovered KMET the Mighty Met and KLOS FM radio stations in Los Angeles. I first heard Brian Eno’s ‘Baby on Fire’ on KMET and that hooked me on everything subculture as far as music goes. Bowie, Eno, Iggy, New York Dolls. Then I first heard punk and eschewed pretty much everything else for many years. Getting free tickets to the Starwood every Friday night was a punker’s dream. I saw so many live punk bands, I miss those trashy, raunchy days when you can get into trouble but be too young to really get into trouble.
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