OTHER: Woronzow News, Tony Hill, High Tide

[John McIntyre]

Since High Tide is the current topic, I just want to reminisce about how I
discovered
them.  It was back around 1972 - 73, and I was taking Beginning Audio
Production from what was then called the Television - Radio Department.  (It's
now Telecommunication.)  We had to practice cueing up records and for practice
material we had the rejects from the campus radio station, one of which was
"Sea Shanties" by High Tide with the drawing of an old schooner on the cover.
I was expecting it to be a collection of old sailing songs and was totally
blown away when I heard the music.  It reconfirmed my opinion of the
intelligence of the radio station's staff that they would discard such a gem.

(In fairness not all the DJs were bad guys.  Dave Dimartino, who later went on
to become editor of Creem was one of them.  Dick Rosemont went on to start a
great used record store called Flat Black & Circular and was the inadvertent
source for the great Michigan Nuggets collection, although he did have a few
lapses.  One of his throwaways when he was culling the station's collection was
Arzachel and he sold me a copy of Organisation's "Tone Float" as just another
French import without realizing it was pre-Kraftwerk. (-8)

John McIntyre
Physics - Astronomy Domine Dept
Michigan State University
mcintyre at pa.msu.edu