The Nuggets first broadcast on NYC Radio-Pat St John on WPLJ FM (1/17/80)

[johnnydelrey]

who started the garage rock resurgence? Lenny Kaye had a passion for it. He wrote the liner notes on that first Nuggets comp. I think he put it together. If Pat StJohn played it the first time in 80, he'd been sitting on it a long time. The 2 record set was released in 72. I found it in a record store looking for punk singles in 77. The guy at the store siad that album had been ther since the store opened and gave it to me. In the NYC area, I credit Bill Kelly, who was doing a garage (cont')

[johnnydelrey]

continued..... Bill Kelly was doing a garage rarities show on WFMU. I helped a little. I was throwing garge stuff into my punk show on WPRB. I think a lot of people heard these lost classics and got into it and started retro garage bands. Then came the Pebbles series, Bands like the Cramps mixed everything in and people took noticed and more bands picked up the calling. It just spread from there. New York metro area had plenty of talent to puul from. And here we are today. Does it matter?

[AmericanGarageSongs]

@johnnydelrey Sire records re released Nuggets in 1976. That's probably how Pat found out about it. WPLJ was the #1 FM station at the time. Very few listened to WFMU back then. How Pat got to play that set is beyond me. That was not their format. I used to buy my records from Vintage Vinyl in 1981. The people selling garage comp records back then deserve more credit then any DJ playing them. That's what started the Comp explosion. They made the records available. Now it's happening on You Tube.

[surfraptor]

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[gkoz791]

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[MB7rock]

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[Alphastare]

Great post!