Just a posting about a loss that has nothing to do with politics, the environmental, pro or anti anything. Not about any vital or critical social relevant issues. But a thank you I want to share.
Yesterday Laura Ellen Hopper who in 1975, helped found KFAT in Gilroy, a free-form station notorious for its rejection of conservative radio conventions and founder of KPIG in Watsonville, died Monday from complications of lung cancer. She was 57.
KPIG championed emerging singer/song writers, emphasized artists who were often ignored by mainstream radio and provided career-making exposure to performers.
In my opinion, by far the best music and irreverent commercials on radio or the web.
Thank you Laura for providing the environment for endless escape hours for so many years to help get away from things that seem very important but in the big scheme don’t really matter that much. Your influence will be missed but your finger print will remain at ‘Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 7’ in SF.
Kpig can be listened to on 1510 am out of San Francisco for your listening pleasure. Its hard to hear after the sun goes down. They will survive without Laura Ellen because they can garner a large enough audience in nor cal for the quirky type of (songwriters, rebel country, electic hippie classic rock, and 60's and early 70's country rock) music they play. And hey they have real people dj's. For anybody that likes this genre, its amazing it can be picked up on the radio dial instead of hunting on internet radio. It is like a old restruant like Pete's Harbor or Tommy's Joint in S.F. It's good when there is something classy around that doesn't change.