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It was good to be back in a community radio station, with wall to wall vinyl records and all kinds of posters on the walls.
Listen now!On the air during the Cinequest Festival for an hour with Robert Temmett, of KFJC-FM, talking about "WBCN and The American Revolution."
It was good to be back in a community radio station, with wall to wall vinyl records and all kinds of posters on the walls. SNEAK PREVIEW FROM THE EDIT ROOM: Click below to see a clip from the film's rough assembly including WBCN's backstory along with the tale of the greatest live song ever recorded. WBCN's Charles Laquidara and Tommy Hadges explain WBCN's set-based format and the efforts to raise listener musical awareness. The Cars at their Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction thank WBCN and Maxanne for discovering and breaking the band -- by playing their tape before they had an album. Amazing. See and listen to their comments and demo tape version of "Just What I Needed" below. "Just What I Needed" Cars demo tape from 1977.WBCN and The American Revolution's producer Bill Lichtenstein talks with WBZ's Bradley Jay.3/20/2018
My interview with Bradley Jay on WBZ-AM about "WBCN and The American Revolution" and the station's 50th anniversary, March 11, 2018, midnight - 2am. Click and listen below. Danny Schechter, WBCN's intrepid "News Dissector" left us three years ago today, on March 19, 2015. It's fair to say that for those of us who knew, listened to and watched, worked with, and were family to Danny, it's still hard to believe he is gone, and a day doesn't go by when we are not left thinking "What would Danny say about this?" Danny gave me my start in journalism, at age 14 at WBCN. Later, we worked together at ABC News in New York. And for years, the companies we each started were only floors apart at the fabled film building at 1600 Broadway in New York. I have been fortunate in the production of "WBCN and The American Revolution" to have interviewed Danny, whose wise insights I get to see frequently (the nature of editing...) along with his work and some unexpected archives uncovered for the film, which tell Danny's story as a central part of WBCN's early days, and the story of "how a radio station, politics, and rock and roll changed everything." WBCN and Danny's role there as "the News Dissector" was a life-defining experience for Danny -- he used to marvel at how, years later, during his time as a producer for 20/20 at ABC News, our boss there, ABC News President Roone Arledge, would take glee in referring to Danny by his WBCN nickname: "the News Dissector." Below are some archives to remember Danny on this third anniversary of his loss, which comes the same week as the 50th anniversary of WBCN, which went on the air on March 15, 1968. This is a clip from the interview Danny gave for "WBCN and The American Revolution," in which he describes the role of WBCN in changing everything during the tumultuous years starting in 1968: This silent film clip of Danny speaking to protesters, a year before he joined WBCN, was taken by the film collective Newsreel, in Cambridge at M.I.T. on November 4, 1969, as over 1,000 students and supporters marched from the MIT Center for International Studies (CIS) to the MIT Instrumentation Labs, to demand an end to MIT's role in Vietnam war research and weapons development. You can read more about this protest in the Harvard Crimson of 11/5/69 by clicking here. You can support the completion of "WBCN and The American Revolution," with its previously untold story of the radio station, of which Danny played a central part, with a tax-deductible contribution now as part of our crowdfunding campaign. Visit Finishthefilm.com or click here to see the trailer and make a donation now!
Interviews with WBCN announcers Steven "Seagull" Segal and Debbie Ullman about the early days of WBCN and how a radio station, politics and rock and roll changed everything for The American Revolution documentary coming March 2018. The American Revolution is coming but we need your help!
Make a tax-deductible donation now and help to complete this non-profit production for March 2018. Visit the secure web site of the Center for Independent Documentary, the film's 501(c)(3) fiscal sponsor, at: Bit.Ly/filmdonations. WBCN studios circa 1970.
Len Cohen, station General Manager (left) with sign. Photo: Jeff Albertson. The American Revolution Collection, UMass Amherst. The latest files from the FBI obtained under the Freedom of Information Act for The American Revolution documentary reveal the bureau's interest in WBCN as a media platform for distributing information about the war in Vietnam and helping to organize opposition to it:WBCN before "The American Revolution." The station's broadcast schedule from February 27, 1967.8/17/2017
Who ever heard of a woman on the radio?
Who ever heard of a radio station mixing comedy and music with news reports?
Who ever heard of a radio station playing albums?
Who ever heard of a radio station hiring a skywriter to give the peace sign to an entire city?4/24/2017
Who ever heard of a radio station hiring a skywriter to give the peace sign to an entire city?
Who ever heard of a radio station that was a home away from home for world-renowned radicals and revolutionaries? Photos left to right; John Lennon, Danny Schechter, Yoko Ono; Bernadette Devlin; Abbie Hoffman; and Danny Schechter, Tom Hayden, Jane Fonda.
Blues Legend James Montgomery is in. Are you?Bid now to win an acoustic house concert for you and your friends, with Blues legend James Montgomery and band, or other once-in-a-lifetime experiences, and help us complete "The American Revolution" documentary for release in March 2018. James Montgomery and band will perform an acoustic house concert in your living room, meet Cheap Trick on their summer tour, or sit for a portrait session for you and family with world-renowned photographer Peter Simon. Click here and bid now! And coming soon a chance to play golf with Red Sox pitching icon Bill Lee, and a special opportunity from Bonnie Raitt. In association with Charity Buzz. Click here and bid now on the Charity Buzz web site.
All donations are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law through the film's 501(c)(3) non-profit fiscal sponsor, the Center for Independent Documentary. Cheap Trick is in. Are you?Bid now to win a chance to meet Cheap Trick backstage before a performance, or other once-in-a-lifetime experiences, and help us complete "The American Revolution" documentary for release in March 2018. And look for a chance to play golf with Red Sox pitching icon Bill Lee, and a special opportunity from Bonnie Raitt. Coming soon. In association with CharityBuzz. Click here and bid now on the Charity Buzz web site.
Producer Bill Lichtenstein discusses "The American Revolution" documentary on "Active Radio" with Hartley Pleshaw, WCAP Boston. March 11, 2017."The American Revolution" producer Bill Lichtenstein on the air at WBCN circa 1973. Photo by Don Sanford. |
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