Wouldn't that be something if Springsteen's 'Radio Nowhere' was about
the jettisoning of Asbury Radio? When I listen to it I hear a lot of
potential veins, but I'm still not sure about how I feel about the
ones that were actually tapped.
Alas, the song seems to be more about the lack of musical
identity, than community radio, per se. We did play local musicians
though, so maybe...
I often did wonder if Bruce ever knew about Asbury Radio - we were
the only radio show about Asbury Park, after all. I used to make a
joke about the fact that I did turn down a Springsteen interview,
back in the early 70's, in favor of one with Robert Klein.
(Obviously, I was very young!) I invented this whole thing about how
Bruce wouldn't visit Asbury Radio because he was still punishing me.
Don't think anyone fell for that one.
I used to seriously worry that Bruce ignored us because he
thought the show, by examining the redevelopment process in depth,
was somehow undermining the quest of redevelopment. (With the
exception of the Esperanza's original name, "The Rising", can you
think of a time Bruce interferred in the plans?) This was because our
critics often grouped the show into the 'they're against
redevelopment' label. The idea was absurd. How could anyone be
opposed to redeveloping a barren, blighted landscape on its face?
However, the devil, as we know now,was in the details.
It's nearly a year since we were forced off the air and I wonder
if we could've even had a show if we were to have started today.
There's too much riding on the waterfront's success. How would
Cherokee Investments, with its $30 million in the kitty, (It is a 50%
partner in Asbury Partners) react?
There is almost a collective holding of breath out there right
now. The notion being that if anyone of us exhales the bubble may
deflate even more. One must smile continously and recite market comps
while doing so. We must all drink the Kool-Aid. The stakes are too
high not to.
I've always felt that Asbury was a strange little microcosm of
what's going on nationally. Have you noticed how the word 'politics'
has replaced 'communism' in our 'emphasis vernacular'? I swear sex
and politics are the two biggest taboos of this century. Sex is
imperative to human life and politics, well, Jesus Christ was
political, for...
So what does Bruce think of all this? I think we're all clear on
where he comes down about sex, actually. And, he's never really
choked on political issues regionally. But how does he react to the
closing of the WB? And the Pony, did someone say it's next?
Here's what I overheard about the closing of the WB: the powers
that be who have mucho buckoh's riding on the sale of these
waterfront condos want Bruce and his gritty following out of Asbury.
They want to change the image and the message, and attract people who
are sufficiently entwined in the system to afford to invest here.
You know the problem with that? You got it. We'd reduce AP to just
another overpriced bedroom community by the sea, thus killing the
goose that laid the egg that bore the glory days.
But maybe not. Maybe they are right. History, ambiguity, it's
messy. We like it clean these days. No gray - just black and white,
and lots of antiseptic.
Well, what does someone else think?
Maureen
AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "rook782" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Do you think Springstein is a member of Asbury Yahoo Groups?
>
>
>
>
> --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "dapawprint" <dapawprint@>
wrote:
> >
> > I just read that one of Bruce Springsteen's new songs is
> titled "Radio
> > Nowhere" does anyone know if this song relates to Asbury Radio?"
> >
>
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