Famous Firsts With Lynn Barstow
Lynn Barstow
Program Director
KROX (101X)/Austin
Callout research/programming grunt at KTKS Dallas-Ft Worth.
Springsteen 12/8/78 (E-Street Radio on SXM was playing it just last night!). My big sis took me. She hated it, but she hung in there.
I dabbled in both Country and shitty 8-Tracks as a kid, but the first vinyl rock record was Utopia’s Adventures In Utopia (first purchased CD was Queensryche’s Empires, but you didn’t ask that LOL).
Book Of Love, Rio Grande Valley, TX.
It may not have been the first, but the most memorable early one: Night #1, overnights at KKYS Bryan-College Station, TX. The radio station was in a mall, and during a song, I ran outside through a set of unlocked double doors to grab something from the car. I came back to “the doors” immediately & found them locked. Completely distraught, I started thinking about what I’d do for my next career, before realizing that I’d come out a different set of double-doors. Got back to the studio to a turntable thumping along at the end of a 45 record. No one ever knew.
