KLAQ has had 3 different studios over its lifetime, this video features studio #2 as well as some old friends. Most of them are gone now. One, we lost fairly recently …
Affordable, portable video cameras and cell phone cameras started to come of age around then so the fun we’ve had here is pretty well documented. In the studio #2 days, that wasn’t the case so I thank Robb from Robbs Metal Works deeply for making some of his video available.
I hosted a show then called the 10:00 News. The precursor to Q Connected, it was an hour of nothing but new rock and an occasional spotlight on local rock. When I moved to middays, Scott Ronson … a rookie at the time, making his leap from remote tech to El Paso legend … took the show over.
The night he had The Hate Campaign on, Robb happened to be around too and caught the whole thing on tape. He also caught band members who were not only friends but absolutely critical players in the development of El Paso’s local music scene…