Links to the History of KMPX and the FM Music rEvolution

The rEvolution Always Starts At Midnight A Concise History of Creative Music Programming (addenda)

	Pink Floyd meets Wizard Of Oz KMPX Documentary Film	History - Part 1 History - Part 2

updated April 2007
	WOW! Super summary of the KMPX et al (106.9 ) lifespan in all its forms, Free and otherwise.
	FreeFormRadio.org (at LegendarySurfers.com) covers ALL of America's founding Free-Form Stations. Here is their KMPX-KSAN page.
	In 1968, Metromedia backed Tom in a move of his whole staff from KMPX (106.9) to the desireable dial position KSAN (95.1) (immortalized here at Jive 95)
	Tom Donahue -- the father of Underground FM radio [aka: Progressive; free-form]
	In 2007, the Spirit of Free-Form continues in Mendocino (KOZT-FM) and in Santa Cruz (KPIG-FM)
	MR. POP HISTORY verfies KMPX was the Original Underground (not WOR-FM New York)
	Howard Hessman KMPX 1967 Did you know "Dr. Johnny Fever" from WKRP In Cincinnati really was a real DJ at America's original Underground FM? Art imitates life.
	San Francisco Museum of Art: S.F. Rock 1965-1969
	MAGNIFICENT book (Free PDF-no pix) linking all the Music elements of the Frisco Flower Child Cultural Revolution.
	Who's Who of the Haight-Ashbury (very comprehensive site)
	Radio Archive Catalog: History of Broadcasting
	The Early, Oily Days (reprint of a 1968 article about Free-Form WFMU)
	San Francisco - Birthplace of the CounterCulture (from the Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame)
	LIVE MUSIC and LIVE RADIO were cornerstones of the '60s Cultural Revolution
	Billy Joel Live at The Boarding House -- Broadcast on KMPX Jan. 1972
	A profoundly different meaning for "Community Involvment with their Radio"
	Long list of many San Francisco DJs
	RARE! Magnificent article from CRAWDADDY MAGAZINE about the 1967 Music Scene in San Francisco (DAMN! now only a teaser for subscription)
	OBSCURE! A KMPX blurb from The Washington Post, November 1967:
	DISTANT! A Tom Donahue interview from London 1970
	DEFINITIVE! Ben Fong-Torres remembers them there Good Ol' Waves in the S. F. Chronicle (May 2005)
	AIRCHECKS! From both Ben Fong-Torres (incl. Radio Resume)and Big Daddy Tom Donahue.
	Another personal Hisory of Free-Form Radio by Alex Cosper

Victorian Radio House from
our 1970 KMPX rEvolution Press Kit

My KMPX business card from our
1970-71 KMPX rEvolution Ratings triumph
when we out-drew Donahue's powerful KSAN!

the kewlest counter-culture music programming phenomenon?
Pink Floyd Meets The Wizard of Oz

	History - Part 1 History - Part 2	Historic KMPX Links Brand New Remake!

Copyright © 1964-2007 Marc Arno

	THE CELESTIAL JUKEBOX -- "The Phil 'n' Jerry Radio Show" (April 1967)
	Grateful Dead tapes -- list by Scott Shurr