WCOZ/WCAS DJ and "FM underground" pioneer Larry Miller returns to the air!

Donna Halper dlh@donnahalper.com
Sun Oct 2 23:15:57 EDT 2005


>Eli wrote--
>
>The doors to progressive "underground" rock programming were
>blown open a few months later in the Bay Area when Larry Miller
>joined foundering, brokered-time FM station KMPX San Francisco
>for a "free-form" overnight program in February 1967, blending
>the album rock of the day with folk, blues, jazz, R&B, and
>whatever else fit in while establishing a "flow" and creating
>thematic sets, creative elements which were generally not part
>of formatted AM Top 40 radio.

Do ask Larry about the other person who joined KMPX with him and was 
equally instrumental in the success of what was then free-form progressive 
music-- a guy named Tim Powell.  His contributions to what became Album 
Rock are often overlooked.  Nice to see Larry back in the biz again, by the 
way.



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