|
|
THE FREEFORM RADIO REVOLUTION HAS COME FOR YOU!
Join us each Monday evening from 9pm 'till MIDNIGHT
On our new home on the Internet, HomeGrownRadioNJ.com
So what is it about this Freeform radio thing that I seem to have?
It all begins around the summer of '65. It was a time of magic for me and my friend Dan. We camped out nearly every night that summer. We usually roamed the streets of our upper New York state town, harmlessly wearing ourselves out and falling asleep in the tent in Dan's back yard. I always carried my Bradford transister radio with us. I received it as a passing present that year and it had given me and Danny magic at our fingertips. The summer nights filled with Beatles! Stones! Counting flowers on the wall...and "Open all night ...Barney's men's stores ...special Edwardian suits" clear and crisp each from their acoustic barrels in a cellar at 77 WABC the home of the All Americans! I soon tired of the rotated selections and discovered that the transistor had a switch that pointed to letters FM and AM. I wondered what the FM would bring. So working the thumb wheel which tuned the station I soon found that mostly nothing actually was being received on this side so I click it back to AM and yeah, here's a hit I love.After a day or two my disinterest with the same 25 songs (and I was nuts about those groups mind you, just desirous to hear something else!) back to the FM side up and down the dial searching for what I didn't know....then around mid of that summer around 2 or three in the morning I hit some thing. Around (2fm or a little before it I listened to a girl who was playing discs! Long Plays of Classical and Methodist music!!! ......AND every once in a while "MY BOYFRIEND'S BACK!" or some chick rock song!
The contrast gave me goose bumps!!! I was
hooked! I commenced what has been a life's long appreciation
of underground and alternative programming philosophies, while
putting them into actual practice at various forums.
I am so pleased to be
now heard on the World Wide Web in two places: Right here on
Homegrownradio.com on Monday evenings from 9pm till midnight and on
Tuesday afternoons from 3 till 5 pm you can pick up my Internet show
originating from the studios of WDVRFM on 89.7 in Hunterdon County N.J.
and on 91.9 in the greater Trenton/Princeton area!
Nosce Te Ipsum!
Know thy Self is the translation from the
Latin.
Freeform radio
not only is the best format created for Radio Broadcast but IS the natural
format of Human beings. For centuries folks in a area gathered together,
young and old alike, Master and slave, Lord and serf to enjoy
entertainment that was usually brought to them by way of the traveling
minstrels, or gypsy circus, presenting a wide array of delights that
enriched all the folks that came to watch. As radio and television came
into our lives, the most successful and ground breaking were the variety
programs. Many an unknown artist was helped along the way by show hosts
who paid no attention to the demographic information. They were bold
enough to give a chance to the impractical and obscure. An informational
survey might tell you how popular someone might be...but they do not
create the culture! In fact, because it is a picture of what was...it can
not spot an Elvis or Beatles. It discards blues and Jazz as too narrow to
gain any huge mainstream appeal.
| Ralph with his hero John Zacherly | Ralph at Yasgur's Farm on the 20th Anniversary of Woodstock |
Ralph then... |
... and Now |
He has been called the "King of Freeform Radio!"
 |