Your self-titled record was one
of the first I ever played on
college radio. Wow! Yeah, college radio was sort of in its heyday during that time.
Maybe closer towards the
end… It was like just before a
really great amp blows. It always sounds good and then you
lose it!
Back then you still had the
dream of being a DJ and being able to play whatever you
wanted. Is it frustrating to be
an artist who was there when
there was that freedom for
someone to see you in a club
and start spinning you the
next day and then to see the
red tape it takes to get airplay
today? Yeah, it’s very frustrating. I think, for me, I feel like the
change happened gradually.
We’d been together for so long
and it was just a gradual disintegration of that sort of freedom
and the maverick-ness of radio.
New Jersey Stage
Remember when people would
break songs? Great DJs were
famous for introducing us to artists and it was just an amazing
time. I think it gradually eroded
over the years. It’s almost like
I knew it was happening, but I
didn’t have that bad thing that
new artists have to go through
now where they look at the landscape and say, “Jesus, I wish I
could have experienced radio in
its heyday.”
And it’s true. I just feel lucky
that I got to experience it because I know people in their 20s
who just pine for the days that
we had in the mid and late 80s
when there was a lot going on in
the indie world. I think there’s a
lot going on now, but it’s more
on social media and the Internet.
It’s a different ball of wax.
I think about the stations we
had around here and the DJs,
they were all looked up to because they were considered the
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