🎧 The Beatles, "Posters, Incense, and Strobe Candles". This bootleg is legendary. WBCN (Boston) got hold of the early acetate recording of the "Let It Be" album (then called "Get Back") and rolled with it on air (knowing what they had was NOT the new Beatles album). Most recordings include the DJ patter and local adverts. A really fun listen. The WHOLE sordid affair is documented here:
You can hear the whole broadcast here:
I was in college in Boston in the late 90s/early 2000s. Charles Laquidera was on another radio station and retired. But between the few years I listened to him and other sources, WBCN was legendary.
Coming from New York, it was interesting to see the stations had a bit more freedom than the ones I grew up listening to, even in the late 90s. It seemed being a bigger market, NY had more people regulating it, something the Boston stations took advantage of.
@nblumengarten
NYC is my hometown - so I am with you there. By the late 80's I had pretty much stopped listening to the radio because it was basically two stations playing "stairway to heaven" and "layla" and there was zero wiggle room. Even college radio was kind of meh. i spent a lot of time at record stores in the Village!
It was interesting going back to NY between freshman and sophomore years. I had thought, as a naive 19 year old, I'd hear the same songs. Mostly, I did, but I found there were more artists Boston played than NY.
The main one I remember was Cornershop, who had two songs on the radio in Boston, "Brimful of Asha" and "Sleep on the Left Side."
I never heard either while I was back in NY.
@nblumengarten
I think WLIR 92.7 was the only station that would touch that kind of stuff.