60's Echoes on Vernon FM Radio

29/08/2024

Prepare for an overdose of great 12-string jingle jangle folk, rock and much more tonight on 60's Echoes! Great sounds from the Blue Things, Beatles, Who, Byrds, H.P. Lovecraft, Searchers, Hollies, Love, Gene Clark, Left Banke, Neil Young, and a long set of cool, groovy and outasite 60's garage from all points USA. Hit time is 9:00 pm EST, on WSRX-FM, 107.9 in the Vernon, NJ area, or stream us live from anywhere on www.vernonfm.org. See ya.

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27/08/2024

Whew, great show tonight if I do say so! Jimi Hendrix, Vanilla Fudge, Jefferson Airplane, Cream, Deep Purple, Five Americans, a real deep cut by The Move, Five Americans, Fever Tree, Byrds, Stones, Beatles, Yardbirds, Creation, Spirit, Nazz, Moby Grape, Southwest FOB, Iron Butterfly, Bobby Fuller Four, Blues Project, and a cool, groovy and outasite set of 60's garage! Hit time is 10:00 pm, EST, WSRX-FM, 107.9 in the Vernon, NJ area, or stream it on vernonfm.org. See ya there.

20/08/2024

Just wrapped up the show for tonight! Great tracks by The Beatles, Who, Kinks, Small faces, Easybeats, Zombies. Them, Stones, Yardbirds, Lovin' Spoonful, Jefferson Airplane, Blue Things, Daily Flash, Thirteenth Floor Elevators, Blues Project, Vagrants, Love, Standells, Knickerbockers, Left Banke, Human Beinz, Pretty Things, Moby Grape, and of course, that cool, groovy and outasite 60's garage rock we always play. We broadcast tonight, 10 pm EST, on 107.9 in the Vernon, NJ area, or stream us live on www.vernmonfm.org. See ya then.

18/08/2024

Here's DJ Bob's Second Desert Island Disc. This week, it's The Beatles' Revolver, which, in my humble opinion, is their most experimental and influential album to date in their career as rock trailblazers. Those of you who were around in the 60's, know that by this point, The Beatles were quickly approaching the pinnacle of their creativity. Rubber Soul was the first album, a musical departure from their moptop past lives, and an expansion of the band's sound, and Revolver was a big second step that culminated with Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

Revolver marked George Harrison's real emergence as a songwriter, and the expansion of his interest in Indian music. It also showcased experiments in string and brass arrangements, hard edged rock, ballads, and finally, the chaotic avant garde explosion of Tomorrow Never Knows, with its tape loops, backwards tracks, sound effects, synthesized vocals, and hypnotic drum track, played live by Ringo. No rock group had ever done anything like it before. As usual, The Beatles were the forerunners. They did it all first.

So, there you have it. Revolver is this week's Desert Island Disc, a true rock classic.

13/08/2024

Wow, just finished the show! Great cuts by Creedence, Beatles, Stones, Remains, Kinks, Aztecs from Australia, Sonny & Cher, Glen Campbell, Spanky & Our Gang, Association, Animals, Fleetwood Mac (when they were a blues band), Yardbirds, Brian Auger & Julie Driscoll, Cream, Byrds, Grass Roots, Beau Brummels, Love, Buffalo Springfield, The Who, and more, PLUS a 16 song set of obscure garage rock! It is cool, it is groovy, it is outasite, and it's the sound of real American rock 'n roll, teenagers emulating their heroes and doing the best they could. 10:00 pm WSRX-FM, 107.9 in Vernon, NJ, or stream it on vernonfm.org.

08/08/2024

Tonight's show is a real barn burner, a high energy happening! Great tracks by The Five Americans, Thirteenth Floor Elevators, Buffalo Springfield, Byrds, Love, Iron Butterfly, Standells, Beatles, Who, Yardbirds, Ronnie Wood's British Birds, and lotsa' cool, groovy and outasite garage rock, including my buddies, the Confederate Society from Glen Ridge, NJ! The show starts at 9:00 pm EST, locally on WSRX-FM, 107.9 in Vernon, NJ, or stream it live on vernonfm.org. See ya'.

06/08/2024

On tonight's show, we have great 60's tracks by The Beatles, Animals, Searchers, Hollies. Move, Byrds, Donovan, Lovin' Spoonful, Buffalo Springfield, Blues Project, Creedence, Jefferson Airplane, Moby Grape, Standells, Los Bravos, Seeds, Sonics, and much more, plus our usual sets of cool, groovy and outasite 60's garage rock. 10:00 pm, WSRX-FM, 107.9, Vernon, NJ, or stream it on vernonfm.org

01/08/2024

Tonight's show is in the can, and features a tribute to the late, great British blues godfather, John Mayall, plus boss tracks by The Beatles, Stones, Thirteenth Floor Elevators, Byrds, Jefferson Airplane, Pretty Things, H.P. Lovecraft and long set of that cool, groovy and outasite 60's garage rock; real, honest American music played by teenagers doing the best they could. Broadcast time is 9:00 pm tonight on 107.9, WSRX-FM in Vernon, NJ, or stream it on vernonfm.org. Later!

30/07/2024

Just finished tonight's show. Great tracks by The Animals, Nashville Teens, Creation, Who, Them, Remains. Rascals, Castaways, Seeds, Strawberry Alarm Clock, Fever Tree, Hollies, Stones, Manfred Mann. Kinks, Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, Doors, Gene Clark, Spirit, and more, plus two long sets of cool, groovy and outasite 60's garage rock. The show starts at 10:00 pm tonight on WSRX-FM, 107.9 in the Vernon, NJ area, and streaming on vernonfm.org. be there!

27/07/2024

Here's a new feature; DJ Bob's Desert Island Discs. Each week, I'll talk about one of my classic desert island 60's rock discs and why. Number one, in honor of guitarist Jerry Miller, who passed away last week, has to be Moby Grape's first album on Columbia Records.

When San Francisco exploded as the center of hippie culture in '67, the major record labels came calling, and The Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Big Brother & The Holding Company and other bands were quickly signed, including Moby Grape, perhaps the greatest of them all. While some SF bands indulged in drug-fueled, meandering jams. Moby Grape's songs were tightly arranged and economical. All five members sang, and all of them were songwriters. With a three-guitar attack that never got cluttered, tons of talent, and great songs, they seemed poised for success, but everything quickly went wrong. On the night of their record release party, three members were arrested for consorting with underage females. They had a terrible manager who ripped them off and surreptitiously took ownership of their name and publishing royalties. Columbia foolishly released FIVE singles at once from their first album. DJ's were so confused, they barely played any of them. Guitarist Skip Spence was eventually committed to Bellevue Hospital in NYC after attacking drummer Don Stevenson with an axe. He left the band shortly after and never truly recovered from his mental illness.

Their follow-up LP, Wow, was overproduced and didn't sell well. To sum things up, Moby Grape broke up and regrouped many times over the years, and released new music sporadically, but never lived up to their potential. Their first album, simply titled Moby Grape, remains their masterpiece, and stands up well today. It's an album I cannot do without. If you have never heard it, or don't have it in your collection, just order a copy on vinyl or CD. Trust me, it's amazing, and it's our first Desert Island Disc. Moby Grape should have been huge, but they crashed and burned, like so many other rock 'n roll bands back then.

24/07/2024

Tomorrow night's show starts with a five song tribute to Jerry Miller, lead guitarist of Moby Grape, who passed away last Saturday at the age of 81. Jerry played gigs with his own band right up until the end. Following that is a killer set of raw British R&B, with great tracks by The Stones, Pretty Things, Animals, Syndicats and more, plus a LONG set of cool, groovy and outasite 60's garage rock by American teenagers doing the the best they could, emulating their British and American idols. It's real and honest rock 'n roll! Check it out Wednesday at 9:00 pm EST on WSRX-FM, 107.9 in the Vernon area, or stream it on vernonfm.org.

22/07/2024

Tonight's show is a keeper! Paul Revere & The Raiders, Bobby Fuller, Love, Byrds, Knickerbockers, Elevators, Yardbirds, Them, Kinks, Beatles, Jefferson Airplane, Monkees, Grass Roots, Moby Grape, Quicksilver, Remains, Standells, Seeds, Blues Magoos, a real oddity by Kenny Rogers, and more, plus lots of great 60's garage. Hit is 10:00 pm tonight, on WSRX-FM, 107.9 in the Vernon area, or stream it on vernonfm.org. Later!

15/07/2024

Tonight's show is in the can! Beatles, Byrds, Monkees, Who, Grassroots, Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Steppenwolf, Guess Who, Cream, Remains, Nazz, Jefferson Airplane, Move, Moby Grape, Mountain, Procol Harum, Spirit, Music Machine, and a lot more, PLUS, our usual long set of cool, groovy and outasite 60's garage, including an impossibly rare deep cut by the Dover, NJ band, The Offset, taken from the new compilation CD, Psychedelic States New Jersey, Volume Two!

Hit time is 10 pm tonight, WSRX-FM, 107.9 in the Vernon, NJ area, or stream it on

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08/07/2024

Just nailed down tonight's show. Lots of great tracks by the Stones, Pretty Things, Animals, Kinks, Yardbirds, Sorrows, Youngbloods, Lovin' Spoonful, Moby Grape, Blue Things, Byrds, Easybeats, Small Faces, Nazz, Beatles, Spencer Davis Group, Rascals, Vagrants, Wilson Pickett, Booker T. & The MGs, John Mayall, Jeff Beck, Cream, and more, plus a long set of groovy 60's garage rock as always. WSRX-FM, 107.9 in the Vernon, NJ area, or stream it on vernonfm.org. Hit time is 10 pm till 12 midnight. Later!

01/07/2024

Tomorrow night's show is in the can. Kicking things off is an entire set of "B" bands; Great tracks by The Beatles, Buffalo Springfield, Byrds, Buckinghams, Blue Things and Ronnie Wood's Birds, followed by The Small Faces, Procol Harum, Stones, Who, Pretty Things, Blues Project, Left Banke, Circus Maximus, Yardbirds, and more, plus a Full Hour of cool groovy and outasite 60's garage at 11:00 pm. Check it out! 10 pm-12 am EST, on WSRX-FM, 107.9 in the Vernon, NJ area, or stream it on vernonfm.org.

29/06/2024

Don't miss my "drop-In" on Stu Rutherford's Rock 'n' Soul radio show on WFMU-FM at 6:00 tonight. Stu and I will be playing selected tracks from volumes 1 and 2 of Psychedelic States NJ on Gearfab Records, which we both helped produce. Tune into either 90.1 or 91.1 on your FM dial, or stream it on wfmu.org. It's gonna be cool, groovy and outasite!

27/06/2024

If you tried to tune in to the show just now and found it off the air, that's because, well, we are off the air! After severe thunderstorms, we lost our Internet connection around 8:45 or so. When that happens, we're temporarily out of business. Our apologies, but Mother Nature makes the rules. I'll just copy and paste tonight's show for next Wednesday. Don't forget to tune into Monday's show, from 10 pm-12 am.

25/06/2024

On tonight's show, we start out with six hits from the New Musical Express, June charts in 1967, including Procol Harum, Kinks, Who, Traffic, Beatles and Bee Gees, plus great tunes by the Bobby Fuller Four, Leaves, Byrds, Love, Doors, Sonics, Yardbirds, Stones, Move, Creation, Strangeloves, Rascals, Mitch Ryder, Richard & The Young Lions, and the usual mega barrage of cool, groovy and outasite 60's garage. We start in 13 minutes on WSRX-FM, 107.9 in the Vernon, NJ area, and streaming on vernonfm.org!

19/06/2024

Great show tonight! Yardbirds, Beatles, Who, Small Faces, Pretty Things, Rascals, Raiders, Monkees, Left Banke, Shadows of Knight, and a whole lotta' of unreleased 60's garage that you have never heard before. WSRX-FM, 107.9 in the Vernon, NJ area, or stream it on vernonfm.org. 9:00 pm!

18/06/2024

OK, so what's on tap for tonight? Beatles, Monkees, Beach Boys, Dave Clark Five, Stones, Simon & Garfunkel, We Five, Byrds (as always), Blue Things, Jefferson Airplane, Syndicate Of Sound, Rationals, Doors, Who Standells, Vagrants, Yardbirds, Buffalo Springfield, HP Lovecraft, Love and a big helping of obscure 60's garage rock, most of which we have never played before. Check it out, 10 pm-12 am tonight , WSRX-FM, 107.9 in the Vernon, NJ area, or streaming on wenonfm.org.

13/06/2024

Good show tonight! Great tracks by The Lovin' Spoonful, Rascals, Youngbloods, Blues Project, Vagrants, Beatles, Byrds, Small Faces, Remains, Nazz, and eleven insanely obscure, cool, groovy and outasite 60's garage rockers from Texas, Pennsylvania and Ohio, all making their broadcast debut tonight. Check them out at 9:00 pm EST, locally on WSRX-FM, 107.9 in Vernon, NJ, or stream live on www.vernfm.org!

05/06/2024

Tomorrow night's show is in the can, and if I do say so, it's a strong one! Classic tracks by The Action, Them, Who, Downliner's Sect, Germany's Boots, Sweden's Lee Kings, Sir Douglas Quintet, Strangeloves, Rascals, Spirit, Paul Revere & The Raiders, Nazz, and a ton of great 60's garage rock, including one impossibly rare cut from my Glen Ridge, NJ friends, The Confederate Society. Check it out at 9:00 pm EST, on WSRX-FM, 107.9 in the immediate Vernon, NJ area, or stream it live on www.vernonfm.org!

Skylands Radio Cooperative intends to establish and maintain a non-commercial, educational, community based and operated low power radio station covering the town of Vernon and adjacent towns. Our goal is to provide an outlet for mutual education and entertainment as a means of fostering community i...

01/06/2024

My post cut off! Stream us on www.vernonfm.org. Signing off!

Skylands Radio Cooperative intends to establish and maintain a non-commercial, educational, community based and operated low power radio station covering the town of Vernon and adjacent towns. Our goal is to provide an outlet for mutual education and entertainment as a means of fostering community i...

01/06/2024

Well, it looks like we're getting our act together at WSRX-FM, 107.9 in Vernon, with our new programming software. It's a little more involved then the old software, which makes me question why these people always seem to make their updated software harder to deal with than what we already had. We're still in the process of uploading all our music, and because our song library is so vast, it's literally taking days to get it done. The good news is, my library is 100% intact, and I have programmed the first hour of my Monday show. So, don't forget, 60's Echoes is on this Monday night at 10:00 pm EST. As always, lotsa' great 60's rock on your Sussex County commercial-free alternative (to the local no-soul, corporate competition). See you Monday night. Stream us on

Skylands Radio Cooperative intends to establish and maintain a non-commercial, educational, community based and operated low power radio station covering the town of Vernon and adjacent towns. Our goal is to provide an outlet for mutual education and entertainment as a means of fostering community i...

29/05/2024

It pains me to say this, but we will be off the air for a while tonight, straightening out some hardware and software bugs, but never fear, we will be back at you as soon as we can with more great 60's rock.

28/05/2024

Hope everyone had a great Memorial Day! Time to chill with some great 60's rock; Moby Grape, Beatles, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Seeds, Them, Small Faces, Blue Things, Byrds, Grass Roots, Leaves, Iron Butterfly (RIP, Doug Ingle), Buckinghams, Glen Campbell, Laura Nyro, Hollies, Fortunes, Creation, and as always, LOTS of cool, groovy and outasite 60's garage rock. WSRX-FM, 107.9 in the Vernon area, or stream it on www.vernonfm.org. Starts at 10 pm EST. Check it out!

Skylands Radio Cooperative intends to establish and maintain a non-commercial, educational, community based and operated low power radio station covering the town of Vernon and adjacent towns. Our goal is to provide an outlet for mutual education and entertainment as a means of fostering community i...

22/05/2024

omorrow night's show is in the can, and it's a theme show, England versus the USA for the most part, featuring tracks by The Beatles, Monkees, Yardbirds, Buffalo Springfield, Cream, Spirit, Love, Kinks, Rascals, Spencer Davis Group, Blue Things, Pretty Things, and Gene Clark, plus an extra long set of stone killer 60's garage rock, by bands from California, New Jersey, Texas, Florida and Louisiana. Tune in locally on WSRX-FM, 107.9, at 9:00 pm EST. Who will win? Old Blighty, or the Good Ole' USA? You decide! See ya then!

16/05/2024

Tonight, we are featuring great tracks by Paul Revere & The Raiders, fever Tree, Nazz, Cyrkle, Monkees, Vagrants, Rascals, Association, Spencer Davis Group, Sonics, Richard & The Young Lions, Love, Jefferson Airplane, Byrds, HP Lovecraft, Moby Grape and of course, a groovy set of killer 60's garage rock. Check it out! 9:00 pm EST, www.vernonfm.org.

14/05/2024

Tonight's show is a killer! Turtles, Monkees, Cyrkle, Byrds (natch), Cowsills (yes, really!), Grass Roots, Mamas & Papas, Beau Brummels, Animals, Hollies, Beatles, Who, Small Faces, Creation, Kinks, Move, Moby Grape, Jefferson Airplane, Bobby Fuller, Pretty Things, Left Banke, Spirit, and LOTSs o cool, groovy and outasite 60's garage rock. 10 pm-12 am, www.vernonfm.org!

Skylands Radio Cooperative intends to establish and maintain a non-commercial, educational, community based and operated low power radio station covering the town of Vernon and adjacent towns. Our goal is to provide an outlet for mutual education and entertainment as a means of fostering community i...

08/05/2024

Tomorrow night's show is officially in the can. I picked some great stacks 'o wax, many of which I have never aired before, by Spanky & Our Gang, Association, Youngbloods, Rascals, Buffalo Springfield, Byrds (of course), Small Faces, Hollies, Traffic, Blind Faith, Yardbirds, and a HUGE Barrage Of 60's garage, the way I always do. so tune into WSRX-FM, Wednesday night at 9:00 pm, EST, 107.9 in the Vernon area, or stream it on

Skylands Radio Cooperative intends to establish and maintain a non-commercial, educational, community based and operated low power radio station covering the town of Vernon and adjacent towns. Our goal is to provide an outlet for mutual education and entertainment as a means of fostering community i...