Tonight the feed on 97X WOXY went silent. Winamp just keeps bouncing from url to url trying to find it, so I call him off. For those who don’t know, 97X was an Ohio based radio station that for 20 years stood as a modern rock lighthouse with an FM beam. Untainted by the corporate creep that has swallowed most stations, WOXY truely played modern rock.

97X, BAM! The Future of Rock and Roll.

I picked up the internet broadcast some time in the last year and it was like finding a friends I had lost touch with. I had been listening to this station all my life. Growing up at the Beach in Delaware, I heard it through the mixed tapes my friends made me of Front 242 and Nick Cave. When I went to live shows and fell in love with Too Much Joy or Catherine Wheel. When I found WOXY I got re-aquianted with the music that raised me.

As it would happen, this is the same time I got into the whole blogging thing, and I had also stumbled across Sledge’s site, but it was actually months before I realized the same guy I was laughing with on the net I was also hearing in between Stellastar* and Public Enemy on 97X.

I don’t think I’m that influential that I jinxed the station, but it really stinks that I only got to hear it for a short while. You will be missed, WOXY. It was hard to hear you guys let go of something tonight which has left such a profound impact on you and the world at large- but I’m glad I caught it. I know you guys said it, but I think it’s something that we should be telling you:

Thanks.

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