SATURDAY LETTERS : GOODBY TO GOOD OLD KMET
I remember KMET-FM back in the old days: back when I was still in high school. It was a refreshing change when it entered the scene. It revolutionized the sound of radio!
I left the country in ’82 and came back three years later. I tuned into KMET and found out that it hadn’t changed a bit. KMET became the sound of radio. It became the same thing it had criticized and replaced during the previous decade: a narrow-minded conservative force that was destined to wither away, like all things gone stale.
While reading about its demise last week, I couldn’t help wondering how all these super-cool deejays were letting themselves get nailed into their coffins. Why didn’t any of them jump out before the lid was shut. Why didn’t any of them pack up and leave as soon as things were getting boring and intolerable? So much for being hip and revolutionary boys and girls!
ARNO KEKS
El Monte
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