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The Daily Nebraskan
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1963
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by Larry Eckholt
Nebraskan Staff Writer
More over, Johnny Carson.
Someone else is entertaining
Lincoln's insomniacs.
The diversified sounds of
"progressive rock,"
transmitted by KFMQ-FM
radio in Lincoln, has bred a
loyal cult of pop music lovers.
Like Carson's television
marathon, KFMQ's show
draws a night owl audience
and is hosted by a University
graduate. Thereafter the
similarities end.
THERE ARE few com
mercials. There is little con
versation. But there is a lot of
music today's music.
"Today's music is
something more than the pop
music that is played on AM
stations," said Will Fowler,
host of the KFMQ show and
its originator.
"It is more than the top ten
hits, the current movie theme
song, or the popular ballads,"
Fowler continued. "But
no one really knows what it
is. Right now, pop music
could be termed a series of
trends."
Tune in one night, and
you'll become aware of the
trends.
HEAR THE hard rock
sounds of such groups as The
Cream, Canned Heat, The
California Pop Art Experi
ment, The Steve Miller Band,
and Arthur Brown.
Or Aretha Franklin, Ravi
Shankar, The Chambers
Brothers, Judy Collins, The
Gary Burton Quartet, Step
penwolf, Jose Feliciano, et al.
For changes of pace, Arlo
Guthrie, The Moodey Blues,
Credence Clearwater Revival,
the late Otis Redding.
And, for a real second
guessing, you might hear
some "pure" country
western. "WE PLAY honest
music,' " Fowler explained.
"We are looking for pure
sounds, not the plastic sounds
often heard on radio top 40
shows."
He defined 'plastic sounds'
as anything "watered down to
appeal to the masses."
"I consider Glen Campbell
and The Ohio Express as good
examples of the plastic
sound," he continued. "The
sound is easy-listening no
one has to get involved with
the music or the lyrics."
Fowler, however,
recognizes the problems faced
by many disc jockies whose
shows appeal to young people
and are carried on AM radio
station:
A HEAVY scheduling of
Tennis clinic
A tennis clinic and exhibi
tion match to raise funds for
starving Biafrans will be held
Sunday at 4 p.m. at Woods
Park (33rd and 0 Streets).
The clinic originally set for
last Thursday was postponed
Dy tne rains.
Rudolph Nah Roberts,
coach and captain of the
Liberian Davis Cup team, will
conduct the event and play an
exhibition match against Bill
North, 1967 Nebraska state
tennis champion.
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Fowler's on-the-air ap
proach is much different. He
introduces each song matter-of-factly.
He doesn't chit-chat
between songs, although he
does throw in an occassional
comment.
One night, for instance, he
even became didactic.
"I'M GOING to teach' you
how to tell if, other disc
jockies are cheating you on
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"And unless you hear that
last 'a wella' you know that
it's not being played in its
entirity," he added.
"I try to sound like a
human being on-the-air,"
Fowler explained, "and an
individualistic one at that."
The show is original for
Lincoln, but it is part of a
larger, older trend across the
country. San Francisco is
considered to be the
pregenitor of the rocks shows,
with its abundance of local
musical groups as an in
fluence. FOWLERS FIRST impulse
that progressive rock could
thrive in Lincoln came after
an appearance of the Gary
Burton Quartet at the Union
last spring.
"I thought if that many
people showed that much
enthusiasm at a concert,
there must be a turned-on
ere in Lincoln," h e recalled.
Then, on a program
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sponsored by KFMQ but
moderated by the youth group
of the local Unitarian Church,
a hour was devoted to the new
rock sound. It drew a
favorable response from the
listening audience, Fowler
said.
"I went to my boss and he
favored the idea of starting a
regular program," he said.
FROM A weekly summer
program, to a week-end, three
nights a week format, to a six
nights, 24 hours-a-week bar
rage, the KFMQ progressive
rock show has mushroomed
into one of the more popular
radio shows produced in Lin
coln, drawing a University
orientated audience, Fowler
said.
On week nights and Sun
days the show runs from 10:00
p.m. to 1:00 a.m.; Friday and
Saturday nights it continues
until 4:00 a.m.
"At first I thought I was
doing a public service,"
Fowler said. "People called
Carson McCullers'
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His public continues to
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three-hour show within 20
minutes. People lend him
records to use. Others stop
him on the street to suggest
new songs and groups.
"ALL I ask from my au
dience is to be as open
minded about listening to this
music as I am in choosing it,"
Fowler suggested. "Then I
am sure that the show will not
become just a passing fad."
But the cult is not passing.
It, too, is experimenting.
Groups gather to have a
rock party; an FM radio is
the honored guest. Others in
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