Long time WMPG Technical Director remembered with Memorial Stone
For more than ten years WMPG DJ’s had Phil Hersey to thank for keeping all the equipment up and running. Phil’s favorite time at WMPG was either late at night repairing equipment or when a band was playing and he was the engineer. Phil was the WMPG Technical Director and engineer for our Local Motives program, the program dedicated to live local music. If you were in a local band around here for the last…
Take a virtual tour of WMPG’s facilities!
Have you ever wondered what WMPG’s music library looked like or perhaps the on-air studio? If yes, then here it is, we recently took out our digital camera and took a walking tour. Take a look at our 67,000 cds and 30,000 lps! Check out our new audio console compliments of the Maine Association of Broadcasters. Meet a few of the people that keep WMPG running! Thanks to Stephanie Sample for the creative editing of…
Ron Raymond reviews Merl Saunders’ “Blues From The Rainforest: A Musical Suite”
Merl Saunders Blues From The Rainforest: A Musical Suite Grateful Dead Records, 1990 By Ron Raymond WMPG Music Director The recent passing in October 2008 of legendary musician and frequent Grateful Dead collaborator, Merl Saunders, at the age of 74, reminded me of an album he did in 1990 titled Blues From The Rainforest. This was the album he was promoting when I actually got to meet him that same year. And, it’s one of…
