Revisiting The Sound 100.3, short takes coming up
As I return back from one journey (a conference in Dallas) and prepare for the next destination (Corvalis, Oregon to visit my son), I realize I'm accumulating a lot of frequent flyer miles...on Spirit Airlines. Somehow that's disturbing, but I digress. A new edition of short takes should be posted this weekend, meanwhile I'm reprinting something that I originally wrote for Don Barrett 's LARadio.com. It was five (5) years ago today that The Sound 100.3 (KSWD) signed off. I offer this story from the archives as a tribute and appreciation to a station that still have fans lamenting its farewell. As The Sound prepares to hang up the headphones, I join the many mourning the loss of “Southern California’s Classic Rock.” There are many stations playing good tunes, yet The Sound was different. The music was the soundtrack of my formative years, which likely biases my affection for their playlist. But I found I could leave my radio on 100.3, even sitting through (the relativ...