FM Album Rock

Sometime in the early 70's FM radio came into it's own. Up until then it was pretty much restricted to what we called "Dentist Office Music" and classical.

Suddenly AM radio and it's static and pop music gave way to "Album Rock" on WWCK FM and it opened a whole new dimension to my musical taste. WKMF country and WTAC rock was a thing of the past.

Led Zepplin, Aerosmith, The Rolling Stones and countless others like Grand Funk Railroad blared through the air with a clarity we had never heard from the radio.

As we moved into High School....and I do mean High....VanHalen was white hot....and also some "Southern Rock" like Lynard Skynard and 38 special gained some popularity....but the hard driving rock was my favorite of the time.

There were a number of great concerts at old IMA Auditorium....some of the ones I remember are Foreigner, REO, Heart, Santana, then the IMA Sports Arena...Ted Nugent, Foghat, April Wine..I'm missing a few but you get the idea.

Right after graduation WCK changed their format to "pop" instead of album rock and my musical tastes didn't have a local radio outlet.....punk rock was coming on the scene with The Cars, The Clash, the Sex Pistols and others....it was fun for a while but something was missing.