WBCN in Boston is kicking the bucket as of August 13th. Not having lived in the Bean in forever I don't know jack squat about its more recent history (by "more recent" I mean the past quarter century). But it was a pretty cool station to have grown up listening to, and I was among the many who got schooled on all the fundamentals and essentials from regularly tuning in BITD. Especially since the station was "progressive" and as likely to play "I Will Follow" (before anyone heard of U2, if such a thing is imaginable to those born after 1980) as Sabbath's "Iron Man" or even something off Innervisions (though their copy would always skip at the same spot on "Living For the City"; I always wondered why none of the DJs would ever tell each another about stuff like this).
Little known hip-hop connection: Def Jam Records/Rush Productions OG Director of Publicity, Run-DMC biographer, and Eyejammie Fine Arts Gallery big dawg Bill Adler was briefly a disk jockey at BCN in the '70s - some time between leaving Ann Arbor and landing in the Big Apple and becoming one of Russell Simmons' first hires. If you've ever heard Adler's velvety smooth speaking voice this kind of makes perfect sense. He obviously missed his calling.
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