I have been spinning on WHRW since 1979. A natural DJ since childhood, I would frequently "kidcast" from the family victrola. When I got older, I joined an Explorer Scout group at a local radio station. In college, I got my first shot at a real station and a real studio with two turntables and a microphone. It wasn't fashion back then, it was what there was. No Ipods, no downloads, not even CDs! You had to have the skills to manipulate turntables and a mixing board, or you couldn't hold a show together.
Today, with the advent of media overload, and technologies which anyone outside of a major record label or big-market radio station could only dream about back in the day, I still pretty much do radio as I did it 28 years ago - by playing anything which doesn't violate FCC rules (4-letter words are a no-no!) and staying open to new and interesting acts.
Life is too damn short to live in a rut, listening ONLY to the same 10, 50 or 300 songs over and over again!.
