***A note to air check traders. Please do not record these air checks and try and trade. I have the original tapes many of which I recorded myself and thus the authenticity can not be in doubt and can be easily traced.
Continuing with my series on WKNR FM from Detroit ( actually Dearborn, Michigan). Another clip from “Uncle” Russ Gibb. He speaks a lot and there is an interesting section where he “raps” about his goal of one day owning a radio station. He says something that we would never hear on commercial radio today. He says some good and bad things about WKNR FM as well as it’s main competition WABX FM.
He also speaks about an upcoming Iggy and the Stooges concert he is promoting at the Grande Ballroom where the broadcast originates from.
Plus some interesting commercials for a Janis Joplin concert as well as one for a Led Zeppelin, Spirit and Illinois Speed press triple bill.
The original tape was recorded on slow speed reel to reel which offers generally poor quality but the 50 year old recording has survived incredibly well.
Thanks so much for sharing these WKNR-FM airchecks. I’m enjoying them very much! As a kid living in Detroit , some of my earliest radio memories are of listening to Keener 13 (WKNR-AM). Having an AM-only transistor radio, I completely missed out on what was happening on WKNR-FM. By the time I got hip to FM radio, WKNR had gone soft. But thankfully WABX and WWWW were there to inspire my love of free form / progressive rock radio!