Listening to XRT’s Saturday Morning Flashback, and they’re featuring 1999. Yep, I did the math, and that’s indeed 25 years ago – more than appropriate for a flashback.

I will say that the music has aged quite well. Most of the rock music from the 90’s used instruments and technology that existed long before that decade and are still in use today.

That, my friends, is how you create timeless music. Tune in, and enjoy!

#1999 #WXRT

When #WTTW aired this #GordonLightfoot performance in 1979, my dad taped the stereo simulcast on #WXRT and that tape lived in the family car for the next decade. RIP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGJtSc6Gl5Y

Fun there's a thank you to the Lincolnwood Hyatt House at the end; Gord stayed at the Purple Hotel!

Listening to Saturday Morning Flashback on #WXRT and it’s 2003.

Radiohead’s “There There” and Guster’s “Amsterdam” are as old now as David Bowie’s “Let’s Dance” and Modern English’s “I Melt With You” were then.

The end of the first year I was all on my own.

The end of 12 months of an unplanned period of just working and living that would later be bougie-dubbed a gap year.

The year I started medical school.

Music. Memory. Space. Time. Self-indulgence.

I’m so sad at the passing of #WXRT Chicago morning DJ Lin Brehmer. His voice was part of my morning commute for about a decade - then when I switched to a home office, I sometimes listened via streaming audio *because I could.*

Listen to Lin’s Bin and remember.

Summer 1989. I was interning at #WXRT under #LinBrehmer. Suffice it to say, there's a nonzero chance that I was the worst intern he ever had. Certainly in the bottom five.

Anyway, on my way out the door for the last time, he handed me a copy of Workbook by Bob Mould. Insisted that I take it.

Maybe he thought it would enlighten me or something? Challenge my priors? Elicit some humility?

Whatever he meant by it … well, it took a while, but I think it worked.

RIP, Lin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr6VPJgQrwg