RTP-area local music and culture

[jane <witten AT email.unc.edu>]

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bendy wrote:
> jane wrote:

>> jane ... who has never
>> consciously heard "classic
>> rock" radio ...
> 
> ...that's the rub, probably. Seems to have more to do with the younger 
> deejays not being as jaded to those songs. And hearing the tracks 
> sandwiched between gang gang dance and such, it gives me fresh ears too.

indeed, that's kind of the point,
as far as i, as a dj, am concerned.
make it sound fresh, make it be a
suprise ... amusingly, last week i
decided to kick of my shift with
Blondie's Hanging on the Telephone.
the young one who was on at the
time enthused that it was her fave
Blondie song ... it gives me a bit
of faith, actually ...

jane ... old enough to remember
her shock when a college dj  (round
about 1983)  introduced a Cheap
Trick tune as "roots music" ...