HARVEST TIME!!!
It's harvest time and the new crop of bands seems ready.

     So what do you do ? It's a weekend afternoon, you're not 21 years old, and want to experience the local music scene in Pubs and Clubs along the NJ Coast. Luckily for you, a number of pubs host All Ages Shows, Alcohol Free events where local performers both new and well seasoned make a point to perform for a younger audience.
     The Saint was hosting such an event, presenting some (continued on page 7)

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  And finally, out of Eatontown NJ came Forgotten Heroes. Together for about 2 years, this band offers a trancy version of jazz-rock sung by Mirella. A very together band musically, the group deserves "honorable mention" for being the only band that showed up at Café Bar's Halloween party with anyone in costume, additionally all of the audience members arriving in costume that night were here to see Forgotten Heroes.

The group currently has a 6 track CD entitled Martinis and will return to the studio in mid November to work on a new release. Watch for a more in depth interview with them when their CD is ready. --Joseph Cullity.

Dave Mac: A Blues Man for the Blues Fan

     There was a time when album-oriented rock radio on the FM dial was innovative and fresh. In the late 60's and early 70's, the music seemed to go in all directions and one of the most innovative purveyors of the rainbow of musical tastes in the New York City metropolitan area was WNEW-FM.   The announcers on that station were legendary for creating moods and taking listeners on journeys into both real and imaginary environments nurtured between headphones or stereo speakers.

     As time marched on and corporate broadcasting entities took over radio en masse, program directors tightened up play lists and restricted the directions that deejays could carry their conversations with their audiences. Creativity took a nosedive except for a few
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