“480 Minutes” - Memories of CMJ
From the “blast from the past” department: this week I received an e-mail from long-time listener Danielle in Florida who had been going through old papers & stumbled across this:
Funny story: I won the award but didn’t know until months later. CMJ (College Music Journal/music festival, RIP) never informed me. At some point BAGeL Radio received a poster tube in the mail. At that time (2005) we received TONS of physical promo materials most of which we had little interest in. Several months after it arrived I got around to opening the poster tube, inside of which was a cool hand-painted CMJ poster, one I liked enough to consider framing & hanging in the studio. It looked a lot like the one in the image w/ the bunnies above, only in color. I left it on a table under some heavy books to flatten it hoping to counteract the effects of being curled up in a tube for months. A few days later my then-girlfriend noticed it, moved the books to inspect, & asked me why I hadn’t told her I’d won a CMJ award. She showed me that it wasn’t just a cool poster, it was my award! The first CMJ award ever given to an internet radio station!
I framed the poster & proudly hung on the studio wall until we relocated to NYC where it got destroyed by a flood in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida in 2021. Also destroyed at the time: dozens of Fillmore posters (many framed) collected during The S.F. Years, & art at photo prints that were important to me but that I didn’t have space to display after relocating. Alas…
Thanks, Danielle, for the fun trip down memory lane.
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480 Minutes / Episode 972
