Re: 9/30/72

[Sean Cribbs]

It's amazing what a simple Google search will turn up.

A serach for WMAL FM resulted in this site, among others...

http://www.dcnyradio.8m.net/custom4.html

...which states that WMAL 107.3 was licensed in 1950.

And this site...

http://www.100000watts.com/radio/DC.html

...states that WMAL FM is now...

WRQX
107.3 ID: Washington
Format: hot AC "Mix 107.3"
Owner: ABC
Co-owned: WMAL, WJZW
Web Site: http://www.mix1073fm.com/
ENJOY!

On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 15:31:35 -0800, Jim Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I don't know anything about any of this.  All I know is that on my 
cassette,
which is labeled SBD > DAT > CD and sounds like it,

Right after Deal on 9/30/72 an announcer says

"You're listening to WMAL FM-stereo in Washington, D.C."

It sounds like an announcer live during the show.


maybe it's a clever forgery designed to confuse everybody anywhere near
Washington, D.C.  And god knows you're confused enough already.  Maybe 
it's
a conspiracy.  Maybe it's a judicial coup d'etat.  Who knows?


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Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2003 17:35:51 -0500
From: "Robert Page" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 9/30/72
I know someone who attended this show, and he'd dated someone who worked 
at
the campus radio station, WAMU-FM, which had been a pretty cool 
alternative
station in the area for a long time.  That show, ironically, was 
actually
broadcast line by WAMU, according to the station's records, though the 
young
lady who worked there searched and was unable to ever come up with the
tapes.

As one of the few D.C. area shows that didn't circulate, it sorta held 
'holy
grail' status for quite a long time, not just that it had been one of my
buddy's first Dead show, but also their hazy drug-addled recollection of 
the
young well-endowed woman who got up on stage during the Dead's set and
balanced a lit cigarette on her nipple.

I don't actually have anything to add to the WMAL stuff, but our little
circle of folks had been of the understanding since the early 70's that 
the
show had been broadcast live on WAMU-FM.  I've lived in the D.C. area 
all my
life except the 71 - 74 period, and I've got to say, I've never heard of 
an
FM station with the letters WMAL.  That's an AM station round here.

Bob Page
- -----Original Message-----
From: Jim Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sunday, March 09, 2003 4:11 PM
Subject: 9/30/72

Right after Deal on 9/30/72 an announcer says

"You're listening to WMAL FM-stereo in Washington, D.C."

It sounds like an announcer live during the show.

My cassette is labeled SBD > DAT > cassette & sounds like it (i.e. 
little
analog noise).  The signal sounds like FM.  The label says it was 
dubbed
for
me on 10/15/99.

Why this tape didn't come into circulation sooner, who knows?

In 96 or 97 I passed Latvala a document indicating what shows were in
circulation up through '74.  At that time 9/30/72 and 10/2/72 were
prominent
among non-circulating tapes.  I noticed that a year or two later 
various
gaps started to get filled in.
--

Jim Powell
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