Boston trip

I wandered into the 'bcn studio some time in the fall of 1968. the Big Mattress: The Golden Years • WBCN • 312 Stuart Street. The station had changed from classical music to underground rock, etc. in the spring of that year. The music and the attitude were so different, so important, that visiting the station became something of a pilgrimage.

The visit was brief. Jim Parry was on the air. There was a massive Ampeg tape machine, maybe two, and there were LPs on every surface. "What are you doing here?" Parry asked.

"Just looking."

On the same trip to Boston, I visited A Nubian Notion, which IIRC, was located on Cambridge Street. It was quite the place for a white kid from the exurbs.