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' . '_ ~+-_l., . \ . .,,. ,i..I,.-~-.:-i-1~.: I" . 'l'' . Or-,,~~.15'- Please send comments to: 1'-~ 'I~f'f"( KUCI folklore tells tenna modification, A few months later Re ae of an il legaI "radio and a library of 400 thier toils paid off station" operating out records. Under the as KUCI recieved per­ A Reggae Summer of a dorm room on the direction of Station mission to change fre­ by Goldilox UCI campus. In late Manager Charles quency to HH.9 FM, l~ob an engineering Richardson, the sta­ where it remains to Looking back on anything. For those student named Craig tion began the .first this day. this past summer, it who sweated it out, Will decided that the of its growth years. can truly be said that local talents such as time had come to move At about this time the L.A. area had a Prince Ital Joe and KUCI out of the under­ In 1972 KUCI made the management of KUCI reggae jamboree. Ac­ ldren and a host of ground and into the its mark on the com­ helped to resurrect tually, even before others kept the pace real world. Will wor­ munity with live the University of Cal­ the temperatures began until 10:00. Then, ked until the middle broadcasts of home ifornia Radio Network to soar, reggae ar­ the king of Rock of 1~0~developing the men's basketball games (UCRN). The UCRN is a tists such as Steel Steady took the stage. idea, obtaining the from the Anaheim Con­ statewide network con­ Pulse and U840 heated Alton Ellis had not first appropriations vention Center. The sisting of alI of the up SoCal for what was performed in the - from the Associated first news broadcast UC campus radio sta­ to be the best summer States for over 20 Students of UCI (AS­ also occured in lY72. tions. The network of reggae and cultural years, but he looked UCl), and setting up DJ Kalph Hawkins set was developed as a music so far. as young as ever, the groundwork for the the longest-continu­ mechanism for the ex­ crooning out such FederaI Communication ous-show record when change of information The summer shows songs as "Weep No More Commission (FCC) ap­ he foolishly stayed on of interest to stu­ started off with the Under the Willow Tree" plication. Will was the air for 72 hours. dents at alI of the UC "cool ruler," Gregory and other favorites forced to abandon his campuses, including lsaacs, who brought an that were so familiar; efforts in late 1~0~ 1973 was the year news, public affairs, enjoyable evening of yet you never really due tothe rigor of of special programming political information, lovers' rock ·to the knew "a who responsi­ his chosen area of on KUCI. We began and, of course, enter­ Hollywood Palladium in ble ." st~dyat the Universi­ regular broadcasts of tainment. By pooling late June. Opening ty. Another engi­ performances at Patogh alI of its resources was Macaw, a Trinidad­ Five days later, neering major by the Coffeehouse (what is statewide, the UCRN ian type get-up that the Palace, which has name of Earl Arbuckle now known as the Lum­ was able to broadcast turned The Sweatbox been the host of many continued with Will's bermill). Senator live reports from the into The Lave Boat. of the hottest reggae work. His main task Howard Baker was car­ Democratic National Having been spoiled by imports since last was to purchase alI of ried live in a lecture Convention in San such opening acts as spring, presented the the necessary equip­ at UCI as were the Francisco this summer. the Rastafarians and Itals and the ~ledita­ -- ment as well as com­ canditates for Cali­ These reports were Blue Riddim, who pro­ tions. The ltals, who plete and submit the fornia governor that aired simultaneously vided true roots are in the traditional FCC application. year. In the spring on alI ~ UC stations, sounds, Macaw seemed Wailers three-part­ of 1973 KUCI was able including KUCI, and too polished. The harmony style, were On October 17, 1909 to broadcast a 8each occured 4 times a day "cool ruler" had the decked out in ites the FCC granted KUCI lSoys concert from during the week-long ladies squirming with red, gold green. They Program Test Authority Crawf ord Hall. convention. The UCRN such tunes as ' "Night were lRlE! Although to broadcast on ~9.9 was the only college Nurse" and "Slave Mas­ the Meditations had MHz. The license was In January of 1~73, media netwark r ep­ te r t " theBoo t& Iiladica top FaPkio g . for t~ granted on November KUCI first established resented at the con­ backing him up with an evening, with "Runnin' lSth, 1909, and thus a 24-hours-a-day/7­ vention. We are very irie ryddim that kept from Jamaica" ' . and KUCI was born. The days-a-week permanent proud of this accomp­ your head ringing for "Rastafari Chariot," originaI studios and programming schedule lishment, as we are of hours. the energy of the offices were in a and increased the var­ our other fine news crowd mellowed to med­ small closet in the iety of its program­ department features, About two weeks itation, unlike the Physical Sciences ming as a result. such as our coverage later, the Hollywood impressive set of the building. The even­ of the November elec­ Reggae Splashdown took "vital ltals." ing-only broadcasts 1970 throught lYtll tions, and upcoming Hallroom. As usual, featured record from were years of contin­ reports of UC Regents the show, which was While some Babylon­ the UJ's own collec­ ued growth for KUCI. meetings. scheduled to start at ians may consider the tion. (For alI you The news and public Each summer KUCI 4:UO pm, didn't star t White House in Laguna trivia buffs, the affairs departments goes through a kind of on time. For $14.00 a Beach, whose name first song ever play were expanded as KUCI rebirth as a new man­ shot, the pIace really speaks for itself, the on KUCI was "Sugar, tried to reach out to agement team is chos­ could have provided pIace to see reggae in Sugar" by the Ar­ the community, both en, complete with new some air conditioning, U.C., the only real chies.) In the first student and otherwise. ideas and enthusiasm. or even a fan happenings lo .cally for broadcast show, Sta­ The quality of KUCI .,see,p5 tion Manager Greg Wol­ continued to improve ford presented to the just as the UCI campus listening audience the itself improved. philosophy that would be the driving force In l~bl disaster begind KUCI. We were struck. KCRW, a sta­ to alternative radio tion sharing KUCI's f or Orange County by frequency, recieved providing a creative permission from the public forum f or news, FCC to relocate their public affairs and antenna and increase .. music not heard else­ their power. This .' ~,, where. move effectively cut KUCI's broadcast range KUCI quickly expan­ down to a few hundred ded its schedule and yards. KUCI had ap­ Tom La Duke outgrew the closet in plied for a new fre­ which it was housed. . quency but the appli­ In the spring of 1~71 cation was somewhere construction began on in the midst of the the third floor ~ of paper , mill. known as Gateway Commons for the FederaI Govern­ studio and office mento The entire space. Hy the fall of staff as well as con­ .t;,~ \fj~~".&~~ ~ 1 ~71 KUCI had "spa­ cerned community mem~ cious" new studios, a bers protested and ~~,H't/Jt fJ~'·O separate office shard demonstrated in an by alI 12 management effort to speed up the staff people, an an- application processo ~All over the pIace with the Bangles. All Over the Place With the Hangles. by John T.

When we talked ican psychedelic ga­ last t hey were making the over a period of about are list e ning t o alI Bangles (Ap­ with the rage-punk), all held effort to meet us, to thr ee months because the new musi c that's '~3 see KUCI's by power f ril -- together ul talk to us, to find there we r e int e rrup­ comin g a ut. a nd we Spring 19~3 Pro gr am vocal ha rmonizing . out what we wanted out t ions -- David Kahne were re al l y stru gg­ ~uide) , the all-female o f the group . The y ha d to f ly ba c k t o New lin g , ju s t le arning qu a rtet wa s alrea d y One af te rn oo n i n see med to be ver y e a ­ York to mi x a Rameo how to wr ite d if fe re nt one e mos t l a y, we r ­ of th te Jul in te ger t o le t us be _ our ­ Void sin gl e , he had to t ype s of 80 ng8 and promising band s to vi e we d t he Ban gl e s sel ve s a nd t o jus t let tl y t o Hawaii to do a experim~ntiaga nd hav­ emerge f r o m the L.A. a gai n. At thi s time us g r ow. They ca rne to Cll5 conve nt ioa, he had ing lots of rejèc ti on s ene i n ~ecent th e y had end ed a club sc just a I ot of s hows just to do thi s aud that . and things like that, They had a 7 1/2 month h times. iatus keeping an eye on us, And these various 1n­ even though we were EP aut on f ram the sta ge and seIt-titled seeing what kind of terrupti ons wer e very signed t hac whole an ind e pendent labei wer e now preparing for new 80ngs we were disrupti ve to us and tim e . (the la t e Faulty a st rin g oi Wes t Coast wr i t i ng , thing s li ke frus trating . JT: Ther e 's no credit performan ces, t o be fortunate ly th e EP ba s t hat , then t he y fin a1- SH: Not t o mentioa listed for who plays f o owed by another been rei s s ued by I RS), ll ly de c i de d t ha t the y t he pr e - prod uc t i o n keybo ar ds on t he al­ had a l re a dy rec e i ved na ti onwide to ur . Pre­ wer e i n te r es t e d and we pe r io d la st e d f o r a bum. n ona l e x pos u r e , and s e n t were each a f t he ati sa t down a nd tal ked t o lon g ti me . VP : Dav i d Kahne w a bout t o emba band ' s t h r e e ( count ere rk t hem , a nd we wer e i n­ VP: The whol e thing pl a yed th ern. He was OlI the 'em) lead singers: ir first terested, soit wo rked s ee med li ke it wa s s ort of au r sp i ritual onwide uea dl g guit a ri st / son gwriters nati inin aut. There were other t aki ng a helluva l ong ke ybo ar d ist , ' caus e . Sooa tour afterward, Susanna Hoff s and lab e ls, but the y just time, y'know, and you when th i ngs go t tense group landed a the Vicki Peterson, and wer en't as impressive. get to a point where, or whateve T he'd go contract with CBS and drummer Debbi Peterson DP: CBS seemed the although we we re very into the studio and later spent most of (Vicki's sis). (The most supportive. excited about the al­ there was always a Winter/Spring 19~4 in remaining member, bas­ JT: The great thing bum and proud of it, piano in there -- he's the studio with pro­ sist Michael Steele, is, you get to be on it was nice when we start playing "Hero ducer/engineer David was detained at the the same label as could finally put it Takes a Fall" in Kahne (Translator, dentist's office.) Dylan and the Byrds ••• away and say, "OK, Muzak-style, andwe'd Rank and File, ~omeo 'l'he dialogue, in keep­ VP: Oh, yeah! , Simon we've done that, now gather around and Void). The resulting ing with the SoCal and Garfunkel •••• we can do •••• " star t singing ••• album, All aver the upbringing of alI in­ . JT: Now, Vicki, when SH: Now we can play DP: ••• like Vegas. Place. carne out in volved, was punctuated Iran into you about a Uve again! VP: Like Bobby Darin June to rave press by the usual "yeahlls, month before the album VP: We missed that. tunes. reviews and strong IIlikells, and "y'­ carne out, you men­ SH: That whole year ', SH: I swear, if we local , airplay (inclu­ know"s. l:iere are some tioned how relieved ever do, like, The ding, by the way, the looking back, now that of the highlights: you were that it was David Letterman Show, Hl on KUCI's the album's out -- it position completed. Any spe­ we have to bring David playlist throughout was very much of a * * * cial reason why? growth period, but it Kahne with us -­ the entire summer). VP: Because it had VP: ' He' s amazing. The record captures was sort of like grow­ JT: Did you recive been so consumptive of ing pains, too. 1t SH: -- and have him the Bangles' uniquely any interest from ma­ all of our energies play Muzak versions, irresistable sound at jor lables besides was kind of a rough and attentions for so period, 'cause the EP elevator versions of its best: solid musi­ CBS? long. Even though we was so old at this our songs! 1t's just cianship and material, VP: Yeah, ~e did, but actually only recorded point that it was hard so funny. heavily influenced by CBS seemed to be the about a month, the 6U's rock to really have areaI JT: Then you could (Hritish­ one that they were actual time we sat in 1nvasion pop and Amer- excitement about doing get airplay on KB1G coming to the shows, a studio was spread live shows. 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I remember. cause those plays, the Down to Li verpool.1I in the song? 111 '11 mean, that to me, is a DP: The dog did. protagonist is always DP: That was a song only take this shit sign of somehow being [l~ughs] somebody who starts done -by a guy named for so 10ng?1I established! SH: Somebody played a out as a hero -- like Kimberly Rew who used Sli: W-well, nnnnnn VP: Then you know you pineapple can. Oedipus Rex, for in- to be in a band called AH: [agreeing] Sort have arrived! DP: Yeah, I played stance, seriously the Soft Boys, and of, yeah. JT: Where'd you get pineapple -- lead and then does some-he's an English bloke SH: But I never that Electrolux Phono­ pineapple. thing bad -- like he who now is in a band swear, so they had to graph that's on the SH: Anyway, let's had sex with his moth- called Katrina and the force me to say that. album cover? fight about that later er, is what he did. Waves, and in fact VP: Yeah, Sue never VP: The photographer -- no -- and we used [Vicki and Debbi they've released a swears. had one of those it then, and we gasp.] And that's how record out on a small JT: So is that why groovy things. thought, "This is, we get the Oedipus label which has the there's no lyric sheet DP: Vacuum rock! like, an unrecognized Complex and blah blah same song on it. And with the album? So SH: You should have instrument. Somebody blah we heard the song you couldn't -­ seen the terrible rec­ has to know about VP: That's how a lot through one of our VP: Yes, so you have ords, though, that we this." of psychoananlysts friends who brought it to guess yourself. had to play on it. DP: lt's a classic maketheir money. ' to David Kahne, who DP: You have to guess JT: Who's picture is instrument. Sh: -- but anyway, he brought it to rehear­ what it is and make that in the background VP: Folk art. has this fatal flaw in sal and we alI really alI sorts of other of the album cover, on JT: Maybe that could his character, that he liked it. words. the wall? be your first commer­ had this desire for JT: Who is IIJames?" JT: This morning I VP: You are very ob­ ciaI endorsement his mother, and once VP: lt's about James went to the library servant, Mr. John! like around Christmas he commits the crime, Caan in Brian's Song. and I found the Mat­ That's an Osmond do a Slinky commer­ and IIhis crimes are [laughter] thew Arnold poem, "Do­ Brothers poster I have ciaI. [Debbi begins brought to the light SH: IIJa-mes" is just a ver Beach,1I which you on my bedroom wall. singing the Slinky of day Il person that you had a said one time onstage lt's the most tacky -­ j ingle.] VP: As they say. thing going with and you stole from for I think it was taken Sli: Tlaughs] Maybe. Sli: he falls. And then you decide to get your song, "Dover it 1973. lt's great. JT: Just out of cu­ Oedipus, of course, out of that thing be­ Beach. 1I . You can feel the poly­ riosity, what products poked his eyes out, cause it's bumming VP: [laughs] It has ester in their shirts. would you like to en­ you know, he has to do '"}'our voyage. [laughs] nothing to do with it. lt's the most amazing, dorse, besides the Vox something drastic af- VP: lt's totally bum­ JT: I guess the sen­ amazing photograph. Wah-Wah Pedal? terward. But it's ming your voyage. timent's sort of the JT: I just have to DP: AlI ri-hi-hi­ true, in alI those Sli: He's the kind of same, but ask you this: What is hight! plays, like Antigone person who's just into SH: The sentiment's the significance of VP: Tampons and alI of them, they bumming your voyage, the same, but the line the Slinky that's pic­ DP: [hoiding ~ ~ofafollow the same steps and at first you tha~we actually stole tured on the inner cushion] Pillows. VP: The same basic didn't realize that, [ilOr we could come and sleeve? Bangle Pillows gol And o~che'=" ll structure, and we were but then once you re­ talk DP: Slinky art. "Sleep with a Bangle. just noticing that alize that you just langelo"] was from a VP: It's a sex toy. Watches ••• kind of thing and sort don't -­ T.S. Eliot poem. Sli: We used a Slinky JT: You said on a of applying it to per- VP: You say. IlHey ••• " VP: Which everyone when we recorded the recent radio show that sonaI experiences. SH: IIl'm not Si',;onna know -- 1 mean. that's song "Bitchen Summer" for IIHero Takes a Sli: Just a character take this bull ••• " .seep5 jog some very special 3am the next morning,~_ memories. including the show fIJ What, programming???? Now, some of you "Maximum Rock and may not want to listen RoII." Now that's the press their own per­ saying, "Well, if to the type of music kind of radio that you What, Programming??? sonalitites by playing those bands were any that your neighbors can write home about!! by Warren Bobrow music that they enjoy good, then they would consider acceptable After all, we do want as well as expressing be played on commer­ and will also contrib­ to play the music th~t Yes, in fact, there the personality of you ciaI radio now." But ute to the early death you won't hear any­ is a method to our the audience by play­ that just isn't so. of your lawn. For where else. madness here at KUCI. ing as many o,f your After all, U-2 put out you, we play thrash, And, of course, a11 of our programming We do try to pIan out requests as possible. two albums before they and lots of it. Most what you are going to Now, do you think Rick made it on commerciaI of it happens to be play includes every local hear in each timeslot. Dees plays his favor­ radio, but those re­ ed after midnight. How­ band who has sent a But not too much. Af­ ites or your requests? cords were very popu­ ever, for the Clark tape or record of music uso We ter all, if we picked No way. So make a lar on alternative Kents among you who their to out every little thing jocks' day and make a radio stations like like to only spike you feel that these bands on our radio shows, we request. The number KUCI. hair on the weekends, are popular in the would be just as bor­ is 1:S56-KUCI. It is these up and we have three hours of clubs for a reason, ing as every other At bands that you the heaviest metal on and we would just lo ve radio station, and you KUCI, not only do we hear on Saturdays from 6-9pm for you to tell a wouldn't want that, play some very popular with the Metal band, "Hey, I heard would you? At any bands, but we play throw Korality Show with Ace you on KUCI." rate, we like to have bands that you won't . that you might have Fury. Then we have So there it is, the our disc jockeys ex- hear on other stations heard last time you six -- that's right, KUCI music program­ in a million years. six! -- hours of hard­ ming. It i8 set up so core from 9pm The BangIes Jsb. (4'::> you may be until that you will hear lishman and not by alternative music that four women from Las you will like and want Angeles. something ••• to k.eep our to hear some more. JT: I remember in the without voices strong. pens to Tell that to Rick early versions of Sii: First of all, to hottest Whatever-his-name-is "Restless," when you take good care of moment the next time you try did it live, it had them, because when you he likes to make a request on that 12/8 part during do on tour and you to have his station. i' the instrumental break you sing every night for interest that sounded like the hard months and months and end of "7 and 7 Is" by kind of songs. months hopefully, Sue. ner's "What's Love Got Love. JT: If there's one if we're on tour for a f> To Do With It?," say­ VP: That blues break­ thing that makes the · long time! -- you can lng "This ls reggae down -- we used to do Bangles distinct, it'. wreck your voice and M~5 music." I couldn't "... . - it onstage becuase it the harmony and how get nodes and stuff. bean Tokyo Steel ~r- figure what she meant. was campy and it al ­ you use it. I mean, So it's sort of for chestra, and Peter By then, security ways took people back, when you play the rec­ health reasons Tosh to top it off. loosened, Mighty Spar­ and then we'd start ord, beginning with VP: Preventive. Wow! and the cracking up and people Side l, the very first SH: -- as well as Along comes August would go, "Whoa! What thing you hear is the just wanting to im­ 19th, and the show is ..-----.:._ -t hi-s?!" _ was a band harmonizing on a is It prove f or_.~ ,tbe next poat poned . Vi sa prob~ very odd thing to do! chord. Does it always record. lems? G~nja smug- around SH: That used , to be come naturally or is JT: 'Cause when he gling? Who knows. friend me an obsession of ours, it something you have mentioned it, I said, Now we must wait until and said, "Watch out, to change time and to work at? "Wait a ' minute, they September 9th. When the natives are get­ have millions of dif­ VP: Harmonizing it­ don't need voice les­ that finally rolls ting restless." Too ferent styles withing self comes very natur­ sons~ they're already around, Peter Tosh late, we were already a song. That was one al to the band. It's perfect singers ••• " cancelsand Fela Kuti two sections from the thing David sort of something that we al­ VP: Everybody has can't get out of Ni- front, skanking away worked 'with us on, ways do and always that reaction, but ••• geria again. But we to the most uplifting which was trying to have and always enjoy. Sii: ••• but could we trudge to the HQlly- sounds of the enti re get us to groove on a But we often spend a sing "Respect" by wood Bowl anyway want- day. Mighty Sparrow certain feel and keep lot of energy trying Aretha Franklin? I ing to .see Mighty should 've been top it there. to find something nèw mean, we can sing what Sparrow and some cul- bilI. JT: I ntoice through­ to do with the voices. we sing on this record ture, even though we out most ofthe songs We did that on "liero well, but we wanna be should've known that a The 95-degree day there seems to be a Takes a Fall," we did able to sing other show at the Bowl would cooled down to evening theme of deceit, like that on "Liverpool," types of styles, gos­ be a sit-down-in-you- and Egypt 80 took the between lovers. Was SH.: "James" ••• pel screams and stuff. seat evert. At first stage minus Fela Kuti. that intentional or VP: A lot of songs on DP: It's a technical the whole ordeal was After three different did it just happen the album, we worked thing, just like play­ ridiculous. People explanations from that way? , , with our voices, and ing guitar or any­ selling . their 3rd row three different people DP: Well, it's kinda Uavid Kahne was also thing. You wanna work seats to buy a cheap about why Fela was weird that alI those instrumehtal in that, at it and improve, and ticket, empty seats being held in Lagos, songs got thrown to­ and used it as an we care enough about everywhere which Fela's son took over gether on one album, instrument to bui Id the band to put the weren't .. allowed to be as boss. lie blard out because a lot of those new chords that we Ume iuto doing it. used, by order of some some tasty ·sax solos songs like "James" and wouldn't have thought yellow-shirted beef- while the countless "lie's Got a Secret" of using. But harmon­ * * * builders that "tried" members kept the calm, . are old tunes that izing itself is a very to control the crowd. jazzy African sounds Vicki wrote, like, natural thing and we As of this writing, down low. Fela's fe­ five years ago. And a do it so often. Warm­ the Bangles are stilI TheCaribbean Tokyo male dancerswere lot of them tend to be ing up before the show out on the road, open­ Steel Orchestra lost decked out in replicas pretty nasty and de­ we sing in harmony ••• ing for the likes of A credibility when they of Nigerian folkware, pressing songs, but it DP: When we were kids Flock of Seagulls and started with some Toto executing some erotic wasn't intentional. we used to listen to Cyndi Lauper, but also song and then of alI dancing. 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