I happened to be listening to Double J in the shed the other night, just for something different while I was packing the trailer for our trip away next week.
This special on 30 years of RAGE made me stop, sit down with a beer and realize how much music was brought into my life by this program. I had no idea that it was born so organically.
Watch 30 years of RAGEI don't know if there where any other young teenagers like me, but remember that I would call the programming hotline on Friday afternoon and listen to the whole set list that was planed for the weekend.
I'd note down the blocks of music that I wanted to hear, sometimes it was a couple of hours that interested me, sometimes it was most of the night.
If I had footy or something on the next day and I couldn't stay awake all night, I'd program the VCR to record the hours that I wanted.
Otherwise I'd set up the mattress in the lounge room and feast on the wild variety of music that they played.
Growing up in a small country town that only had two AM radio stations (one played songs from the 50s they other songs from the 70s) RAGE was my window to the big wide world of music.
I still listen to so many different songs and artists today that I only discovered because of that show.
