Rick Caldwell
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In radio since Reagan was president and, at KRXO since Bush the first, I have honed my Classic Rock chops by not only listening to, but also by studying the music and artists that mean so much to 'our music.' I love live music and have seen just about every classic rocker to come down the 'pike.
My family life includes a loving wife since 1994 and a son who, oddly enough, loves music and radio and a lot of the stuff that dear old dad does. I miss Rainbow Records and browsing through stacks of CDs (like I need anymore!).
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How Bob Dylan Helped Me Make It Through Summer '08
 Posted 9/30/2008 6:40:00 PM
There's an underside to the music industry that I was introduced to first as a teenager and, in more detail almost 20 years ago, about the time I started to work at KRXO: bootlegs. There was guy who worked with us whose brother in law was a muckety muck at a record retailer (remember record stores?), who had an incredible collection of cassettes of live recordings from just about everyone who ever played a rock concert in this hemisphere. I was floored. Until then I was convinced that the only music availabe to us was the stuff the record companies wanted us to have, with the exception of the one Frank Zappa vinyl bootleg I had as a teenager. Most of the cassettes this guy had were not bootlegs that had 'proper' packaging and the like, rather, just stuff that guys, called tapers, taped. Most probably sounded pretty bad as ...
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