OFF: Gov't Mule (was Re: New to the list)

[owen]

DASLUD at AOL.COM wrote:

> In a message dated 6/25/99 5:17:38 PM, antisol at SOFTHOME.NET writes:
>
> << They must have had some popularity though to have been on 'BCN,
> an alternative-rock station held tightly within the tendrils of a
> inconceivably
> mammoth corporate monster.
> >>
> ================
> wbcn's "alternative rock" status began in '95, when they felt it would profit
> them to do so more than persisting in their being a dinosaur..."the rock
> revolution" they called it, and perhaps they still do...as far as i can tell
> they ENJOY the embrace of those tendrils...
> and IMHO if polkas were to become the next big thing, they'd be happy to be
> inflicting "the polka revolution" upon their listenership, of whom i am not
> one.
>
> oh he's just so goldurn cranky....
> (grin)
> "<>"

It used to be a contemporary/classic rock station, and not a bad one at that.
Then it was bought by Infinity broadcasting, which was then bought by CBS, which
was then bought by Disney (or something like that. I don't remember it too
clearly because I wasn't paying much attention while it happened). It somehow
became Boston's captain of  Alternative Music overnight, even though the Top 10
stations had been playing all that crap for several years.