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don, growing up in toronto it was all about cfny & you were such an integral part of this era...with cfny being "the spirit of radio" we identified with this station more than any one music style...cfny transcended so many music scenes, from new wave, to industrial, to ska, to techno, to reggae, to hip hop etc...
weeknights were spent listening to scott turner, when he threw any playlist out the window, played extended mixes, new tracks, whatever he felt was good music (thats why 107.9 was so good at the beginning with his taste in tunes)...
saturdays nights started with craig beesack warming up the house...always a great selection of new tunes (& endless ads for the cotton club)...
i still remember driving down to nitrous 013 & sheppard had 2 unlimited in the studio...totally pumping up the party that night, & we all remember how silly (& innocent i guess) 2 unlimited were on stage that night...listening to his stories of the happy mondays & their e expolits shortly before hearing hallelujah for the first time...hearing a 20minute version of the orbs adventures beyond the ultraworld & shep going on about this genius alex patterson...
i still remember looking around the early nitrous parties & through talking with people realizing we were all ex-cfny listeners (or on the verge of ex'ing ourselves)...
if i remember correctly you were program director at cfny & responsible for so much of the good things...i vaguely remember an article by lee carter in eye or now shortly after everyone walked out of the station & realizing there would never be another station like cfny...
thanks for the memories...!!!
jc