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argyl

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6. Yeah, late 60s/early 70s the suits lost control of the airwaves.

Reply to Warpy (Reply #3)

Tue Oct 3, 2017, 03:15 AM

Oct 2017

Hippy FM DJs would play whatever the fuck they and their audience liked and wanted to hear. We’d call in and request tunes we wanted to hear and the DJs were more than happy to oblige. They sure weren’t going by any set playlist.
When “Frampton Comes Alive” came out I knew the good times were done for. Couldn’t hit a station that didn’t have a song from that mediocre at best LP.
Then “Saturday Night Fever” and The Bee Gees. The final nail.

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Yeah, then it mostly went to hell in the 70s when the suits horned in Warpy Sep 2017 #3

Yeah, late 60s/early 70s the suits lost control of the airwaves. argyl Oct 2017 #6

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