Back late 2000-early 2001 some fellow music geek compatriots and I had a weekly pirate radio station in our living room, call letters being WIGL, "our" being Eric Olsen and myself, the fellow compatriots (and instigators: it was their gear/idea) being Steve Tremblay, Pascal Spengemann, and Joe Power. It's funny to think that four of us were from New Hampshire, three of us even going to the same grade school (at different times).
We didn't talk much on the air, couldn't broadcast very far, and had minimally competent equipment. It made for some fun times, though, and definitely for some weird fucking radio. I taped most of them, and somehow those tapes have survived seven moves.
This particular show finds us on November 15, 2000 (twenty years ago in two weeks...jeezus). If you listen closely at the beginning you can hear the late Peter Jennings discussing the Florida recounts on the news. This broadcast was a special one as it was on this night that (for some reason) random cell phone calls kept jumping on our signal. Things veer from mildly funny to wildly dramatic. The shit really starts to hit the crazy fan at around the 27-minute mark (during Devo's "Auto Modown").
It does get a bit noisy at times (at least one of us couldn't figure out the levels and brought in tapes of questionable audio quality), but hey. We did it in my own home (my favorite place that I've ever lived. School Street Forever), and then I'd drive around in the weeks afterwards happily playing the tapes in my shitty Ford Taurus. Good times.
Enjoy!