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15. Dude, i still dont get it

Reply to DemocraticPatriot (Reply #11)

Fri Sep 29, 2023, 10:16 PM

Sep 2023

I was stuck in north east texas hell. All we had was a stupid, church regulated "rock" FM station out of Mt. Pleasant, TX.

And it sucked.

I get a shortwave with a junk wire antenna and my whole world is blown apart when it came to music.

KUSW out of SLC, Utah and WRNO out of New Orleans belting out real rock and roll. This was the late 80's early 90's, the last great burst of shortwave radio.

I had ZERO idea of the music that existed outside of my realm.

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