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Looking Glass must be slipping. Or he’s not from CA.

Dusty Street passed today, she was a DJ for the radio station KROQ. One of the first women DJs.

She was like 77 or something. I’m lite on the details cause I’m lazy but it was on a news cast in LA.
 
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KROQ back in the late 70's she started there, she later got fired for going against their music standard. Spent her last 20+years on Sirius/XM. Her DJ voice never really changed as she hosted Deep Tracks.

She's an ICON in radio. May she RIP.

Poorman was my favorite DJ back in my KROQ days, let go so they could afford Kevin and Bean and later parting them out.
Radio has to suck pretty bad if your a DJ. Also Rodney on the ROQ was a great KROQ DJ and his mid day albums.
 
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Freddie Snakeskin, babie! Wasn't he married to Buffy Helmet the traffic chick?

Jed sucked/always sucked/hated that laugh

Of course the Bladerunner and his sidekick Meechelle were the best. Bumped into him at Cruel World - only a few people recognized him :( But where you find Berlin - you'll find Blade.
 
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Willie B said:
…Not completely sure about this, but I believe she was a DJ at KMET before K rock???…
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I was kinna thinking that too, but boy that was a Long time ago, to be remembering stuff. Life was a little "hazy" back then.

I do remember her voice through. She was a Great DJ. 👍🏼
 
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OCMerrill said:
KROQ back in the late 70's she started there, she later got fired for going against their music standard. Spent her last 20+years on Sirius/XM. Her DJ voice never really changed as she hosted Deep Tracks.

She's an ICON in radio. May she RIP.

Poorman was my favorite DJ back in my KROQ days, let go so they could afford Kevin and Bean and later parting them out.
Radio has to suck pretty bad if your a DJ. Also Rodney on the ROQ was a great KROQ DJ and his mid day albums.
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Rodney on the Roq was the go to I believe on Sunday evenings back in the late 70s. I still hear Poorman on the radio in bullhead on 97.9.
 
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Let us not forget Jed the Fish,

KNAC !!! Listened to the removal or should I say staged removal…who knows.

91X ? FYA! I was able to pipe that into Paradise Cove Malibu depending on the Fog literally.

Lets not forget the…..

Mighty 69yyy !!!!! The OG of Mexican radio!


 
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rivermobster said:
I was kinna thinking that too, but boy that was a Long time ago, to be remembering stuff. Life was a little "hazy" back then.

I do remember her voice through. She was a Great DJ. 👍🏼
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… I think I just read some thing that she did a short stint at KLOS and maybe KNAC???…
 
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It was approximately the summer of ‘84. I took Ms. Street With me in my K5 Blazer on a Beer run during a Party in Pasadena……
 
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Dusty Street, who broke ground as a woman DJ in rock and roll radio and helped shape the sound of KROQ-FM/106.7 in the ’80s, died Sunday, Oct. 22 at her home in Eugene, Oregon. She was 77.

Her death was first reported by longtime friend and KLOS-FM/95.5 colleague Geno Michellini on Facebook on Sunday.

“I have been in Eugene the last two days at Dusty Street’s bedside,” he wrote. “The numerous afflictions that she has been so indomitably fighting these last years finally caught up to her. I am writing with a broken heart to say that Dusty left us tonight.

“Tonight I lost one of the best friends I ever had and the world lost a radio and music legend as befitting her starring role in the ‘San Francisco Sounds’ documentary movie that just came out recently,” he continued. “She was all that and so much more.

“There will never be another Dusty Street. The queen is gone, but she’ll never be forgotten.”

Street got her start in San Francisco radio in 1967, working briefly at KMPX-FM before jumping to KSAN-FM, both of them underground free-form stations, where she stayed most of the ’70s. At the time, she was one of the first women rock DJs on the West Coast.

In 1979, Street headed south to KROQ where she stayed most of the next decade.

“Time is a cruel mistress,” longtime KROQ DJ Richard Blade wrote on his Facebook page. “We all lost a dear friend today. It was Dusty who trained me to run the board at KROQ, and trying to emulate her expertise was a tough job. She brought so much of her love of music – particularly Dark Wave like Siouxsie, Bauhaus, and many others, to the airwaves.

“In today’s barren terrestrial radio market, there is no one like her,” he continued. “I’ll so miss her voice, her laugh, her caring for animals, our trips to Hawaii together, and our visits when I’d do a gig in Cleveland, where she did her show on SiriusXM and made her home for the past decade. Your talents will not be forgotten. Fly low and avoid the radar, Dusty.”

Street eventually left Los Angeles, working in Las Vegas and then Cleveland. For the past 20 years she hosted the Deep Tracks and Classic Vinyl shows on SiriusXM.

“We have lost one of our own,” the SiriusXM Facebook page posted. “Dusty Street has passed away after 77 joyous trips around the sun. And yes, Dusty Street was her real name. We are heartbroken.”
 
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