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November 2001
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What's Up This Month on the New Jersey Coast
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Volume 2, Number 11, page 18
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SHOREWORLD (continued from page 17)
Veering into the Dusty Springfield hit chestnut "I only wanna be with you", Roth and Mars bopped in form like born rockstars as Mitchell belted out the Dusty hit with its pop-orchestral arrangement intact. Images of the Rollers's legendary mob scene hysteria still vivid, the band lashed into 'Yesterday's Hero', a Pop anthem if ever there was earmarked w/the Bay City signature sound; Like Slade and Sweet before them, these guys might've been scorned in certain musical circles, and tho the Rollers ruled the magazine covers as reigning teenybop pop princes, they could deliver Pop-Rock anthems with lasting visceral crunch that came easily across w/songs like "Hero.."
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Ian bantered with the audience a bit, and G man had the smoke machine crankin' full blast as the band rolled out the classic 'Rock n roll love letter', seguing next into
'She Put the Light On' from Mitchell's 1st solo LP, about, hey what else, but 'she put the light ONN!".
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Shawn Mars & Ian Mitchelle
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A few minutes later, the same back-up band plus Sandy West, legendary Runaways drummer came back out with former Runaways Frontchick Cherie Currie: The small crowd whistled
and clapped as Currie dedicated the show 'To My family, all of you here tonight' as she and the boys roared into a nicely hard-ass opening blast of "Queens of Noise", followed by the more
ominously riffed 'California Paradise" w/her impassioned pipes warming up our rock hearts in simmering stride... (continued on page 19)
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Dave Mac (continued from page 17)
Edgar Winter's White Trash, Roy Buchanan, Robben Ford, The Word, etc). A main requirement is that the music he selects for broadcast be passionate, regardless of the artists' fame or
reputation. Whether from the Internet, music magazines, liner notes, requests, or other radio shows, Mac's sources and resources are only limited by the time he has available to seek out more music
of that passion.
Much to the credit of his radio station, some of the featured artists on Sunday nights are also part of the regularly programmed music that can be heard throughout the rest of the
week, too.
"90.5 The Night" has progressed from it's former almost exclusive jazz leanings only less than two years ago to a wildly colorful palette of musical offerings that covers everything from old soul music to the latest singer/songwriter/folk leanings to bluegrass to straight-out rock from artists
(continued on page 20)
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