Mike Lupica on Nostr: "Poptones" by Public Image Ltd. came on the radio while I was driving to work this ...
"Poptones" by Public Image Ltd. came on the radio while I was driving to work this morning and it reminded me of a night in 2006 when the band Radio 4 were playing live on my WFMU radio show. As they were preparing for their set, the station's elevator broke, with two members of the band stranded inside of it somewhere between the 3rd and 4th floors.
As a programmer, this is not the sort of thing you want to have happen in the middle of a live broadcast. It was late on a Saturday night, so there were no other WFMU staffers around to assist me, apart from the live sound engineer. I was the interim building manager at the time, and I distinctly remember putting on "Poptones" (because it was the longest song in my record cart that night) and running down to the basement to frantically restart the elevator's control box and liberate the band members from their steel enclosure of doom.
And to this day, that's what I think of every time I hear "Poptones".
As a programmer, this is not the sort of thing you want to have happen in the middle of a live broadcast. It was late on a Saturday night, so there were no other WFMU staffers around to assist me, apart from the live sound engineer. I was the interim building manager at the time, and I distinctly remember putting on "Poptones" (because it was the longest song in my record cart that night) and running down to the basement to frantically restart the elevator's control box and liberate the band members from their steel enclosure of doom.
And to this day, that's what I think of every time I hear "Poptones".