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(This is gonna be a long one, and unfortunately it took me so long to hash out that these jdecepta auctions are ending in the early evening, so you might wanna get a snack and then get a bid in while you still have time kids…)

In 1991, when I was just starting to get into music beyond Casey Kasem’s top 40 and the Beatles, I was also just starting my first year at the high school. Being from a small suburban Metrowest town in the age of no internet, there weren’t a ton of options to shape my musical world view. I was a small nerdy 8th grader (my town’s high school went from grades 8-12 at the time) who wore turtlenecks under collared plaid button up shirts and had glasses that would have helped Mister Magoo gain 20/20 vision, so actually befriending the older kids whose fashion and music choices intrigued me was out of the question for at least a couple years, and the nearest record store I knew about was a Strawberries two towns over. I wanted to find out what the hell a Dinosaur Jr was, but I was still confined to what I could find on the radio. Thankfully, luck was with me, as my school had it’s own radio station operating from right after school until 10 o’clock at night. So after dinner, I’d hit my room to do my homework and listen to the final show of night. Which fortuitously enough, tended to be the shows that played the music I was interested in checking out. This also led to me being introduced to music I didn’t even know existed, and in the case of one particular show, that included the likes of Danzig, the Misfits (via constant talk of Metallica covering Last Caress and them singing it at random times), and of all bands, GWAR.

The name of this particular 8-10pm show now escapes me, but for a show with a GWAR obsession, the two upper classmen who ran it were surprisingly normal, semi-preppy dudes. Their names I actually remember, because they also had a morning show called Coffee And Donuts With Adam And Steve. Steve was the more visually preppy of the two, but Adam wore a leather jacket and Converse All Stars basically every day. Only not in the dirty, shop class punk rock way; his always looked pristine, kind of like he had been in a high school production of Grease and the look just stuck. Irregardless, these two dudes and their show were in a small degree responsible for getting me into a lot music my parents hated (the vast majority of the blame still lies at the feet of the punks who hung out in the band room and the dudes from DBNO). Their hatred actually turned out to be pretty ironic; the Adam in Adam and Steve? Adam Green, director of the horror movies Hatchet, Hatchet II, and Frozen (which was actually really good). And now he’s doing a tv show for Fearnet that’s actually named after our mutual hometown, and which features Oderus Urungus from GWAR in a supporting role. My parents think this is FANTASTIC. Go figure.

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