35000 Watts: The Story of College Radio | movie | 2024 | Official Trailer
Charting the wild journey of visionaries and rebels who changed the course of music history and made an indelible imprin | dG1fSjRoNXdBdXk0R28
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00:00Nobody knew who we were.
00:08We weren't on pop radio, we weren't on the billboard charts at all, but college radio
00:13definitely were there for us.
00:16Yeah, we couldn't have done it without college radio play.
00:24It's not like the mainstream radio stations were going to play that.
00:27College radio was it.
00:43That's what college radio did for us.
00:45It didn't have to be a major city for the crowd to really be there.
00:51College radio was huge for Love Tractor.
00:53I mean, we would not have gotten airplay, and we still don't.
00:57College radio was, thankfully, the one thing that embraced us, but it was also the one
01:02thing that we wanted to be embraced by.
01:04I mean, how many careers were launched because of college radio?
01:10Because of, you know, a bunch of knuckleheads spinning records for no money?
01:16Without college radio, for sure, it would have been different.
01:18Yeah.
01:19We would have been doing Taco Bell commercials.
01:22Right.
01:24College radio was a pretty sweet scene, and I imagine it still is.
01:30People just playing really weird stuff sometimes, and I love it.
01:33I'll listen to them late at night, too.
01:38The tribe that we created at that little college radio station, those relationships and those
01:43friendships have carried me through for the rest of my life.
01:47It's just a riot of people.
01:48It's just the geekiest, funniest, most devoted group of people.
01:56College radio has made me the person that I am.
01:59It's not an overstatement to say that college radio changed my life in every possible way.
02:06I constantly go back, how are you the way you are today?
02:08I'm like, well, a lot of it has to do with I was working at this radio station in college,
02:12and that was everything.
02:15College radio serves a very deep, connective purpose.
02:18It's not just playing music.
02:19It's not just news.
02:20It's about finding a place where you feel accepted.
02:32And the free beer at Live Remote helped.