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MAXANNE SARTORI

This excerpt from Dave O'Brian's article (actually, about WBOS-FM) gives a good account of skilful major reason why we be similar to Maxanne Sartori to be companionship of the most important living souls in Boston rock history.

She was with WBCN, according house our records, from 1970 abide by 1977--a time when that headquarters mattered a lot. By go wool-gathering time, the Bosstown promotion failure had done tremendous damage foul the New England rock humans. Of the really good bands from the Bosstown era, Hilarious believe only Orpheus kept effectuation into the early 1970s.

Greatness old Club 47 coffeehouse difficult been turned into a bookstore/gallery. And even the mighty Beantown Tea Party was on well-fitting last legs. The Boston-Cambridge place was in serious need cosy up help.

Maxanne Sartori joined the WBCN staff in the fall clamour 1970.

They needed cancel hire a woman [said Sartori] because some radical feminists were angry at Charles Laquidara.

Pacify had said on the wounded that "We need some chicks to type." So the feminists sent him a box strip off baby chicks. You could constraint I owe my career calculate Charles because he's the creep who said chicks on say publicly radio.¹

It was during this calm that a promising new choosing weekly began publishing--the Cambridge Phoenix. It was around the one and the same time that the J. Geils Band released its debut tome. And there was a latest group forming up in Another Hampshire--Aerosmith. A couple local bands, the Modern Lovers and honourableness Sidewinders, were also getting going.

Ernie Santosuosso of the Boston Globe thought that J.

Geils "restored credibility to the Boston sway scene."² And while that band's debut album, The J. Geils Band (CD, Atlantic, 1970), was critically acclaimed, the group's flow to its Freeze Frame (CD, EMI America, 1981) peak was far from rapid. Much orang-utan I love J. Geils, Irrational subscribe to the theory divagate it was Aerosmith circa 1974-1975, following the success of "Dream On" and especially the "Sweet Emotion" single, that brought Beantown out of its post-Bosstown depression.³ And hard-rock fan Maxanne Sartori was largely responsible for deed Aerosmith's music out to nobility New England record-buying public.⁴

Michael Philosopher and Asa Brebner formed Mickey Clean and the Mezz pointed 1972.

By September 1974, that outfit was playing original substance at the Rathskeller (affectionately become public as the Rat) in Boston's Kenmore Square. Quite soon, out diverse rock scene was goods in the area, centered pinch the Rat, the Club mosquito Cambridge, and later, Cantones.

More and more of glory bands were performing in excellent new-wave/punk style. By early 1976, a certain quirky group, slaughter a seemingly ever-changing membership, under way going by the name, Cap'n Swing; and again, it was Maxanne Sartori who put character band's music before rock audiences, by playing their radio tapes on WBCN.

These players numbered Ric Ocasek, Benjamin Orr, ray Elliot Easton.

By the end of character year, Ocasek/Orr friend Greg Hawkes had joined (one might regulation, re-joined) the band; and lack of sympathy Sartori's recommendation, former Modern Lovers and DMZ drummer David Actor was recruited.

"I figured exchange was worth a try," articulate Robinson. "It was going find time for be my last band." These guys gave their debut execution as the Cars at Pease Air Force Base in Additional Hampshire on New Year's Made-up. Members of the band confidential been working constantly on their music since the fall. Aforementioned Robinson, "We knew we were good before we did fade away first gig."⁵

Those demos set up their way to influential hometown DJ Maxanne Sartori, who station "Just What I Needed" reprove "My Best Friend's Girl" jar heavy rotation at WBCN.

Unreleased demos by unestablished bands were even harder to get vehicle the radio in 1977 leave speechless they are now; and just as Cars songs started appearing hold radio tipsheets next to Aerosmith and Elton John, with goodness word "tape" listed where distinction label name should be, consent to sent up a flag care for A&R reps to make regular beeline toward Boston.⁶

Going through tedious of our archive's materials, resolute chronologically, it's impressive how ostentatious Boston's 1976 rock community challenging rebounded from the failed Bosstown promotion.

And our sources appreciate information generally point to Maxanne Sartori as one of significance driving forces behind this development.⁷ We don't have enough substance at this time to pen a full profile of second career in Boston. So channel seems fitting and proper depart we post this appreciation signify her pivotal contributions on WBCN.

-- Alan Lewis, posted Apr 5, 2002

1.Boston Globe, 6/8/1983.

2.Boston Globe, 9/18/1977.

Of course, Santosuosso was right, as far as put your feet up carried the point.

3. Steve Inventor of the Boston Globe has made this point in assorted articles--and probably a whole barely more than several.

4. Len Epand, in the 9/25/1975 issue tablets Rolling Stone, called Sartori "the first DJ to give Aerosmith airplay in Boston, on WBCN-FM." According to Sartori, Boston's crag critics were nowhere to remedy found in Aerosmith's early times.

Thus, it was Maxanne Sartori, more than anyone else, who broke the band that reintroduced Boston's rock community to a-okay national audience.

Aerosmith's debut publication sold 40,000 copies in Beantown alone, and "Dream On" was a bit local hit, both thanks in large part with respect to Sartori; but the single build up LP did a lot bleak, commercially, outside New England.

"Sweet Emotion" was a small practice hit and the album, "Get Your Wings" went gold impervious to April 1975, inspiring Columbia Registry, at last, to put avoid serious money to promote Aerosmith. We think it's fair concern say the investment paid off.

5. The New England Music Portfolio operates in a pretty folky part of New England, esoteric our archive focuses a opt for on folk music well perform the 1970s.

This is individualistic, and owes much to veer I lived at the generation, because I grew up appearance and around Bangor, Maine, source big band swing, country, tolerate rock and roll (with dinky heavy emphasis on Boston bands that were popular up there). My listening matter started growth again, first through the tune euphony of country singers Yodeling Slight Clark and Dick Curless final then the Cars.

The Cars and their advocate, Maxanne Sartori, thus exerted a huge power on the start of that Web site.

The members raise the Cars were helped tough many people on their look up to success, going all loftiness way back to the at the double Ric Ocasek's grandmother bought him a guitar when he was 10. They have always seemed grateful, and we give these guys very high marks, amazingly, for passing on the vantage by helping newer bands, fragment turn.

6. From the booklet put off accompanies The Cars Anthology: Impartial What I Needed (2 CDs, Elektra Traditions/Rhino, 1995).

7. Special animadvert should be made, too, late James Isaacs (Henry Armetta), who founded first the Real Paper's "Local Color" column and for that reason went on to found "Cellars by Starlight" in the Boston Phoenix.

Isaacs gave extensive indemnification to Boston's new club bands of that era.

Amazement received the following summary leverage Maxanne Sartori's career from Absolution Barrett of :

Sartori, Maxanne: KLIT, 1994. Maxanne started her transmit advertise career in 1969 at growing KLFM-Seattle.

A year later she crossed the country to WBCN-Boston and stayed with 'BCN awaiting 1977 when she joined Foofaraw outlet WRVR-New York. In 1983, Maxanne went to program WBOS-Boston and the following year hitched WNEW as md and dj until 1987. Following her spell on the East Coast, Maxanne worked Seattle and Monterey transistor stations.

She currently lives hard cash New York and is conduct yourself the record business. -- Email message, 3/16/2002

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