About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 35. Chapters: Andy Breckman, Benjamen Walker, Bill Zebub, Bob Fass, Bronwyn Carlton, Chris Tsakis, Danny Fields, Dave Amels, Dennis Diken, DJ /rupture, Double Dee and Steinski, Douglas Rushkoff, Evan "Funk" Davies, Gerard Cosloy, Ira Kaplan, Irwin Chusid, Jason Forrest, Kenneth Goldsmith, Ken Freedman, Laura Cantrell, Michael Shelley (musician), Nachum Segal, Nardwuar the Human Serviette, People Like Us (musician), R. Stevie Moore, Tom Scharpling, Vin Scelsa, Wildgirl. Excerpt: Bob Fass (born June 29, 1933) is an American radio personality and pioneer of free-form radio, who has broadcast in the New York region for 40 years. Fass s program, Radio Unnameable, first aired in 1963 on WBAI, a listener-sponsored, non-commercial radio station operating out of New York City. From the beginning the show featured the work, and impromptu interviews, of counterculture figures such as Paul Krassner, Bob Dylan, and Abbie Hoffman, and the first performances of Arlo Guthrie's Alice's Restaurant and Jerry Jeff Walker's Mr. Bojangles among others. Bob Fass in WBAI's Master Control (Photograph by Bernie Samuels). As an early pioneer of free form radio, Fass would air a variety of different features each night. As Marc Fisher describes it: ..". he started free-form radio, each night creating a program with no format, an improvised melange of live music, speeches, and random phone calls. Radio Unnameable was a radio party line on which Fass piled one caller atop another and said, 'Speak among yourselves.' It was a forum for eyewitness reports from war zones and urban conflicts, recitations of poetry and prose, solicitations for political causes, testimonials for illegal drugs, and experiments with noise and silence." Notable guests include investigative reporter Mae Brussell, Abbie Hoffman commenting on the Chicago Seven trial, a planning session for the Central Park Be-In, and the first radio appearance of Phoebe Snow. Neil Fabricant, Legislative Director of New York s ACLU during the 1960s, has said that Fass was a midwife at the birth of the counter culture. Ralph Engleman, in his book, Public Radio & TV in America: A Political History, cites Fass as "the father of freeform radio." He also plays a major role in Marc Fisher s book, Something In The Air, which covers radio s impact in the post TV years. The Washington Post columnist describes how the I m mad as hell and I m not going to take it any more! scene in the film, Network, grew out of an actual
