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Carpenter has penned an endearing if flawed memoir about running a pirate radio station out of her Los Angeles apartment for three years and meeting all sorts of oddballs, rock stars and wanna-bes while staying one step ahead (well, most of the time) of the FCC. Her characters are right out of central casting: she describes herself as "a motorcycle-riding blonde with a bunch of leather in her closet"; her ne'er-do-well musician boyfriend as someone who has "an affection for needles"; and her tech-support guy as a likable slob with awkward social skills. The oddballs mostly come across as standard-issue L.A. airheads, and Carpenter's wooden ear for dialogue ensures they stay one-dimensional. But her frank, often funny narrative is easily absorbed, and the story's a good one: one woman quitting a humdrum receptionist job to flout the law by filling the airwaves with the indie rock she loves, music she believes the monolithic Clear Channels of the world aren't playing. While most of the bands from the book's mid-1990s setting are no more than funny names that never made it out of the local clubs, there are also cameos from several big (or soon to be big) acts, including the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Jane's Addiction and Beck. With the station inevitably shuttered in 1998 by the FCC, one wishes Carpenter had gotten the book done a bit sooner for full cutting-edge effect.
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Carpenter's autobiographical reflections on running low-powered FM radio stations without benefit of FCC credentialing is a folksy addition to discussions about access to the nation's airwaves. Carpenter says she is a very average young woman who just wanted to bring much-needed variety to the FM dial and decided to launch her own station. She quickly discovered that nonpolitical programming was the exception rather than the rule among her fellow pirates, including those expert in the technology she needed to master. Despite resistance and otherworldly weirdness from grimly committed pirate-radio politicos, she eventually broadcast on ultralow frequency, first in San Francisco, then in L.A. Her call letters-- KPBJ, KBLT (which the aforementioned politicos considered frivolous)--suggested the tasty listening options she offered as she and her DJs broadcast an incredible variety of music from her living quarters. Throw in the constant threat of FCC detection, and this looks more than ever like a credible mate to On the Road and the Fear and Loathing books in the ranks of insurgent outsiderdom. Mike Tribby
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Carpenter has penned an endearing if flawed memoir about running a pirate radio station out of her Los Angeles apartment for three years and meeting all sorts of oddballs, rock stars and wanna-bes while staying one step ahead (well, most of the time) of the FCC. Her characters are right out of central casting: she describes herself as "a motorcycle-riding blonde with a bunch of leather in her closet"; her ne'er-do-well musician boyfriend as someone who has "an affection for needles"; and her tech-support guy as a likable slob with awkward social skills. The oddballs mostly come across as standard-issue L.A. airheads, and Carpenter's wooden ear for dialogue ensures they stay one-dimensional. But her frank, often funny narrative is easily absorbed, and the story's a good one: one woman quitting a humdrum receptionist job to flout the law by filling the airwaves with the indie rock she loves, music she believes the monolithic Clear Channels of the world aren't playing. While most of the bands from the book's mid-1990s setting are no more than funny names that never made it out of the local clubs, there are also cameos from several big (or soon to be big) acts, including the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Jane's Addiction and Beck. With the station inevitably shuttered in 1998 by the FCC, one wishes Carpenter had gotten the book done a bit sooner for full cutting-edge effect.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
From Booklist
Carpenter's autobiographical reflections on running low-powered FM radio stations without benefit of FCC credentialing is a folksy addition to discussions about access to the nation's airwaves. Carpenter says she is a very average young woman who just wanted to bring much-needed variety to the FM dial and decided to launch her own station. She quickly discovered that nonpolitical programming was the exception rather than the rule among her fellow pirates, including those expert in the technology she needed to master. Despite resistance and otherworldly weirdness from grimly committed pirate-radio politicos, she eventually broadcast on ultralow frequency, first in San Francisco, then in L.A. Her call letters-- KPBJ, KBLT (which the aforementioned politicos considered frivolous)--suggested the tasty listening options she offered as she and her DJs broadcast an incredible variety of music from her living quarters. Throw in the constant threat of FCC detection, and this looks more than ever like a credible mate to On the Road and the Fear and Loathing books in the ranks of insurgent outsiderdom. Mike Tribby
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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San Francisco, Silver Lake, Los Angeles, Paige Jarrett, Santa Monica, Bay Area, Mazzy Star, Sunset Boulevard, Beastie Boys, Mike Watt, Circuit City, Roky Manson, Sue Carpenter, Groove Radio, Happy Harry, Marie Claire, Pump Up the Volume, Radio Shack, Rap Pages, Sonic Youth, Ant Man, Bay Bridge, Don Bolles, East Side Records, Echo Park New!
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