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Callers to the WBCN Listener Line got advice on everything from new bands to how to survive a bad drug trip. So was its sound: Now-famous megagroups, from Aerosmith and the Clash to the Ramones and U2, all found early support on 104.1.ĭuring the station’s heyday, its DJs, the music scene, and listeners were all intensely interconnected. Innovations at ’BCN-like the mix of music, talk, and humor that Charles Laquidara brought to his morning show The Big Mattress-were soon replicated across the country. Emerging acts like Led Zeppelin and the Who segued into jazz, classical, and trippy sound montages.
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The station had unlikely roots as a classical music outlet (its call letters standing for “Boston Concert Network”), but on the Ides of March, 1968, disc jockey Joe Rogers fired the first rock salvo-Cream’s “I Feel Free.” From that moment, ’BCN became one of a handful of FM radio stations seeking to supplant AM’s supremacy with freeform programming that captured the cacophonous sound of the counterculture. There isn’t a museum yet, but Boston archivist David Bieber-who, as a grad student, profiled the nascent WBCN for this magazine in 1970, and later worked at the station-has leased key artifacts to the Verb Hotel, a boutique hotel opening this month next door to WBCN’s former studios. Last fall, former music director Carter Alan published a history of the station, Radio Free Boston: The Rise and Fall of WBCN (Northeastern University Press), and a documentary film is in the works. Is it possible that WBCN, the greatest rock ’n’ roll radio station in American history, died five years ago this month? Like the biggest rock bands, it began as an underground revolution, then-in a haze of sex- and drug-fueled mayhem- transformed radio, went mainstream, enjoyed unimaginable financial prosperity, and was ultimately undone by that success, as its corporate masters foisted upon the Rock of Boston a series of edicts so stringent that it ended up as boring and pre-programmed as the AM-radio dinosaurs it had so creatively displaced.īut even after its run, ’BCN won’t go away. photograph courtesy of the david bieber archives