Southern California had some great free form stations and KNAC FM was certainly one of them. Enjoy Ron McCoy on this prime slice of free form with a wildly eclectic playlist that includes everyone from Laura Nyro to Blue Oyster Cult and many more.
Ron plays a solo track by Ian Mathews but I am linking the track below from his group Matthews Southern Comfort and taken from one of the oldest albums in my collection.
I had a friend who had met Bob B Blue when he was working in San Bernardino. One night we went up to the original KNAC studio in a very old, classic building on Ocean Ave in Long Beach. What an experience. It was just as the uninitiated might have imagined it to be. Posters all over, DJs looked like street people. It was soooo cool. We may have smoked something on the landing. I can’t really remember…I’m 73. Later we visited Bob in the new, much more corporate offices on…maybe Pine St in Long Beach. He was wearing a sports coat and had gone syndicated as I recall.
Those were fantastic days for FM radio in the LA area. Wouldn’t it be fun for someone to experiment with resurrecting deep cuts, avant-garde radio? Seems like there’s been a sad, long slide since those days.
In high school I worked as a “gopher” at KNAC. It was still free form at that time. It was a blast. Free records and concerts and maybe some mind expanding substances.
What was the original address of KNAC