![]() One of the things I loved most about Led Zeppelin was how the often strange and drawn-out ends to their songs spurred me to be more creative in the transitions I engineered. Like two people meeting in the doorway of a restaurant as one leaves while the other arrives, the two songs overlap for several seconds, and this creates a pleasing sense of continuity. To drop a new song in properly, you have to match its rhythm and even its musical key with those of the song you’re fading out. ![]() It’s an art that involves both intuition and expertise, and it took me quite a few on-air mishaps before I finally felt relaxed in my soundproof, windowed box at the station. ![]() ![]() Spinning records requires more than mere technique, and this was especially true back in the pre-digital, vinyl days. When I wasn’t working at a research lab in the Psychology Department, I spent my time hanging out at the student-run FM radio station, WPGU, where I was the nighttime disc jockey. This was the mid-1970s, and I was an undergraduate at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana. In college, I majored in psychology and minored in Led Zeppelin. ![]() The distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. ![]()
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