Mellotronists

In a message dated 08/27/06 3:53:40 AM Central Daylight Time, 
mellotrongirl@... writes:

> In response to WORJ-FM being mentioned in a recent post:
> I have this list of 9 p.m. album features from WORJ dating from
> 1972-1973-ish. They would play new LP's in their entirety from
> Hawkwind, Amon Duul 2, T. Rex, Todd Rundgren, ELP, ELO, and even stuff
> by Butts Band, Jo Jo Gunne, Ramatam, Osibisa, John Kongos, etc. when
> it came out. In other words, the station turned a lot of us Floridians
> on to prog &other decent groundbreaking rock bands. 

Amen, well said, it was a big influence to at least two of us on this list..  
I also liked the "King Biscuit Flour Hour" concerts.

> Too bad they're gone! What a powerhouse of an influential radio station 
> they
> were--causing me to make many trips into Bruce Baer Records in Winter
> Park; bicycling in from De Land to pick up the cassette versions.
> 
> 


Yes, searching for that special album used to be a quest - now it's a couple 
of clicks of the mouse ;-).  Bill Baer Records was kind of a landmark in the 
Central Florida area, they had a giant stuffed Polar Bear in the window of the 
store!         No matching M400, though.


Ken M.