RE: Back in My Day...

Being a teen in the mid-80's my friends and I got completely swept up by early hip-hop. A lot of it was still "underground". The genre was so different back then, mainly party music. There was a local, low-powered radio station in Columbus Ohio, CTNT. You had to connect the coaxial cable wire to your radio to even get the station to come in. They spun the newest records from NYC everything Thursday afternoon and would mix live on air. This was always an event and we'd tape it onto cassettes to play later.

A couple of friends and I bought turntables and a mixer from Radio Shack and began DJ'ing. We'd discover when our local records stores would get in their shipments and we'd ride our bikes there make sure we got the newest releases. After rap I had my classic jazz phase for almost a solid decade. Bob Marley's music was a constant throughout it all. Before the internet and all of the modern digital distractions, music seemed like it was a much bigger part of life.