Best New Band Ronda and the Arrivals 1989 Pittsburgh

[RadioFreeSpike]

I lived in the 'burgh from 87-88, when the Affordable Floors were big. Of those bands, only Six Gun Jury sound familiar; they were getting airplay on WPTS.

Did any of those bands go on for long, or did they fade into the mist of time?

[darkrazor99]

@RadioFreeSpike Six Gun Jury morphed into Spinning Jenny and then Orange Velvet Chairs in the 90's and early 2000's, with the same principle songwriters of Ray McLaughlin and Mark Urbano in all of those bands. Then in around 2005 or so, McLaughlin spun off into his own solo project Chancellorpink, which was actually named after one of the songs that got the most WPTS airplay, and that band has done pretty well too.

[puttputtking]

Dang! That CBS News Special Report background kind of scares me and I'm 22. It's just all the red in the background that kind of scares me. Anyway, I agree with weatherexpert2, if you have the CBS News Special Report/Coverage that followed this, I too would actually like to see that.

[weatherexpert2]

Do you have the CBS NEWS SPECIAL REPORT/COVERAGE that followed this?

[btm85bubs]

This aired on Tuesday, October 17, 1989. The earthquake that struck San Francisco on that date was one of the most significant American quakes of the past 20 years. A few minutes after this aired, CBS probably came back on with extended coverage.