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"It had been all so genuine, before the end of our collective innocence. Top-40 jocks screamed and yelled and sounded mightier than God on millions of transistor radios. But on FM radio it was all spun out for only you. Over a golden web by the master weaver driven by 50,000 mysterious watts of crystal clear power...before the times of trashy, hedonistic dumbspeak and disposable three-minute ditties...in the times where rock lived at many addresses in many places." (from FM) As a man, Richard Neer dreamed of landing a job at WNEW in New York - one of the revolutionary FM stations in the united states that were changing the face of radio by rejecting rigid formatting and enabling disk jockeys play whatever they wanted. He felt that when he acquired there, he'd have made the big style. Little do he know he'd have shaped rock record as well. FM: The Rise and Fall season of Rock Radio chronicles the beginning, growth, and loss of life of free-form rock-and-roll radio through the reviews of the movement's flagship channels. In the past due '60s and early on seventies - at channels like KSAN in SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, WBCN in Boston, WMMR in Philadelphia, KMET in LA, WNEW, among others - disk jockeys became the gatekeepers, critics, and gurus of songs. Jocks like Scott Muni, Vin Scelsa, Jonathan Schwartz, and Neer developed devoted followings and experienced incredible influence on the listeners and on the early careers of designers such as Bruce Springsteen, Genesis, the Autos, and many more.Full of fascinating firsthand reviews, FM documents the commodification of an iconoclastic phenomenon, exposing how counterculture was coopted and used by the mainstream. Richard Neer was an eyewitness to, and participant in, this record. FM is the tale of his exhilarating drive.
