By Jack Silbert on June 13, 2025
We weren’t a big record-buying family, but somehow we owned the Beach Boys’ 1974 double-album compilation Endless Summer. And by the bicentennial summer and carrying into my 2nd-grade fall, I was in love with those Boys from Hawthorne and all those wonderful songs. (The Beatles’ red and blue compilations had come out in 1973, but […]
Posted in personal history | Tagged Beach Boys, Brian Wilson, R.E.M., WRCT
By Jack Silbert on July 16, 2014
I knew the other 2/3 of the Karl Hendricks Trio—but who exactly was Karl? Drummer Tom Hoffman was a great pal from English classes at CMU; bassist Tim Parker was a really nice guy who I knew from WRCT. But Karl… hmmm…. Sure, I had the 7″ from his band Sludgehammer. Yet I don’t think […]
Posted in personal history | Tagged Carnegie Mellon, Hoboken, Karl Hendricks Rock Band, Karl Hendricks Trio, Maxwell's, Pittsburgh, WRCT
By Jack Silbert on November 3, 2013
Maybe you’ve seen the name Frank B. on this site. Back in early 2008, Frank Boscoe invited me to become a contributor to Salt in Wound. Twenty years earlier, he was my music director at WRCT, the radio station of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Frank had a strong influence on my developing musical […]
Posted in personal history | Tagged #Poundsign#, Carnegie Mellon, Frank Boscoe, Jerry Fuchs, Leital Molad, meta, Pittsburgh, Rob Christiansen, Stephen Vesecky, The Gazetteers, unpopular music, Vehicle Flips, WFXIV, Wimp Factor 14, Wimp Factor Fourteen, WNYC, WRCT
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