This week we are putting as many things related to DD in one place, right here. Today, let’s get back to the basics of this blog and talk about the on-air stuff.
To start from the beginning of this series, go here.
Our first air-check is from the morning after Disco Demolition. Steve can barely talk. His voice is shot. I’m sure that on the inside Stever is freaking out. His Coho Lips get-together that he thought would be lucky to draw 5,000 people was now national news.
At this point, Garry is in transition from being the “news guy” to becoming promoted to “sidekick” status. I left in his news pieces for perspective. When Steve started at WLUP-FM, Garry was the overnight DJ broadcasting under the name Matthew Meier. He would stay on the air after his nighttime shift to do the drive-time news for the first couple of hours of Steve’s show.
So here is about 30 minutes of audio from WLUP-FM from Friday, July 13, 1979.
On the third anniversary of DD, Steve read some articles that were in the newspaper in ‘79 and tried to clear up a few “inaccuracies”. This was previously posted on this blog and can be found here.
Our friends over at the YouTube site The Original Shock Jock previously posted the 10 year Anniversary show that you can listen to here.
Enjoy!!
Tags: Disco Demolition, Steve Dahl
Hey, great score, good to hear a more complete version of this. When I posted this last year in July it jumped up to being one the most viewed videos on the channel. The hilarious thing is that there are still people pissed off about Disco Demolition 31 years later.
Anyway, great post, and Happy Anniversary, Disco still sucks and Steve Dahl still rules!
Thanks for the blog. Really thank you! I love to listen to the old stuff.