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You think you know me. I'm on the radio. I have two daughters. I'm a photographer. I play cowbell. I direct midget porn. I am the Oakland County Flip Cup Champion, three years in a row. But do you really know me? Do you know that 1993-1997 may have been the most incredible time of my life? Not just because there's a wedding an a trip to Ireland in there. For almost four years, I worked at the most incredible radio station to ever exist on your radio dial: 103.9 WDRE in Philadelphia.

It doesn't exist anymore. Don't bother looking. 'DRE was a movement. It's now a memory. As I now host a morning show in Detroit... ten years later... 584 miles away... I STILL hear about DRE. People still e-mail me and say "there's no other station like it, where is everyone now?"

As we mark the ten year anniversary of the sale and "pulling of the plug" on 'DRE, you should know that the staff is gathering for a little memorial of sorts. I'm green with envy that I can't make it to Philly for this, but I have recorded a little piece that will be included along with some other jocks who are scattered across the country. In studio tomorrow night: Bret Hamilton, Dan Fein, Gil Edwards, and Marilyn Russell. (Marilyn & I co-hosted WDRE's first live broadcast, a New Year's Eve train wreck of a countdown!) Preston & Steve (now at WMMR), Chris Derer, John Castino and my old partner in crime Sarah Clark will be a part of the broadcast too. It's all the brainchild of my former PD Jim McGuinn. He used to have some stellar basement jam sessions and you'd never know who might show up to play. Jim now hosts a show on Philly's public radio station and carries the torch.

If you are an old 'DRE fan in Philly and would like to hear this trip-down-memory-lane, tune in to 88.5fm, WXPN tomorrow night (Wednesday) 8-11pm ...or online at www.YrockOnXPN.org and www.xpn.org.

I wonder if they'll have embarrassing old tape of our morning show? I know they will be playing kick-ass 'DRE tunes that didn't see a lot of national airplay but we played the shit out of, like:
Fun Loving Criminals – Scooby Snacks
Letters To Cleo – Here and Now
Elastica – Connection
Whale – Hobo Humpin Slobo Babe
PJ Harvey – Down By the Water
...and of course my U2, Beasties, Rage, G. Love, and the Sonic Sessions. WDRE was my iPod... eight years before the iPod was invented!

Those four years gave me a love of radio and some unbelieveable fun memories like 'DREfest, playing soccer with The Cure, broadcasting from an Irish Pub, Trippin With Vinnie, carrying the lead singer of Radiohead to the stage because he couldn't quite walk, Preston sitting in every seat of the Corestates Center, record shopping with Garbage, flag football game with our morning show vs. Preston, Tony Bennett singing at our Christmas party, and those Sonic Sessions!!!

OK I could spout for another three hours about WDRE but I gotta go to bed, so I'll leave you with a good old-fashioned D-R-eeeeba!