October 26, 2025 • 43 mins
In this special edition of Back to the 80s Radio, host Toscano steps out from behind the console and takes you on a deeply personal journey through the decade that defined him.
It’s the story of growing up in Southern California in the 1980s—the sounds, the streets, and the song that changed everything: U2’s “Where the Streets Have No Name.” More than a memory, it’s a look back at how music can shape a life, heal a heart, and ignite a purpose.
This is one man’s story of faith, family, and the soundtrack that made it all possible.
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It’s the story of growing up in Southern California in the 1980s—the sounds, the streets, and the song that changed everything: U2’s “Where the Streets Have No Name.” More than a memory, it’s a look back at how music can shape a life, heal a heart, and ignite a purpose.
This is one man’s story of faith, family, and the soundtrack that made it all possible.
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/covering-the-80s-toscano-chang-unleashed--5883226/support.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Live from the heart of southern California to the world.
This is Back to the Eighties Radio, the show that
cranks up the past and makes it loud again. Hey,
(00:32):
everybody's Tocotto here from Tuscono and Chang. Welcome to Back
to the Eighties Radio. I'm glad that you joined me
today because we are setting the dial back to two
years nineteen eighty four and nineteen eighty seven, the year
of course at Los Angeles became the center of the
world the Summer Olympics MTV cassette decks. Every song had
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something to say, whether you're cruising down Imperial Highway or
what are your boulevard, grabbing a slice of pizza man,
or hanging out with friends in the glow of an
arcade machine. Today, I'm taking you there to the streets
where I grew up, listening to the music that saved
me personally and to the one song that changed everything.
(01:19):
If you want to find out what band and song
it was, stick around here Back to.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
The Eighties Radio.
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Speaker 6 (03:02):
Won't you come to me of me?
Speaker 7 (03:18):
Hobby the dancer?
Speaker 8 (03:21):
You know it be? Tell me your trouble in our house,
giving me everything inside and out love strange to really
think of the tender thing, the news that when we're
working on slow change before us apart one of life,
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get any harby.
Speaker 9 (03:47):
Anything, don't choose, don't get it out of me, don't
do don't don't.
Speaker 7 (03:57):
Don't you can't about me?
Speaker 10 (04:05):
Will you stand above me?
Speaker 7 (04:09):
Up my way?
Speaker 9 (04:11):
You never love me?
Speaker 10 (04:14):
Rain keep started rain kisport down.
Speaker 8 (04:22):
We acorn me.
Speaker 10 (04:27):
Call my name by walk on by ray King start
rain King started down down, down.
Speaker 11 (04:39):
Down, don't try.
Speaker 8 (05:01):
It's my fun.
Speaker 9 (05:02):
Will women and.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Almost home or to yours?
Speaker 8 (05:08):
Then said find any insecurity?
Speaker 7 (05:15):
Don't you forget about me.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
I'll be in.
Speaker 10 (05:21):
That's what you do, go to food, take you apart,
I'll go buy together.
Speaker 8 (05:32):
Don't shoot you forget up about me?
Speaker 9 (05:38):
Don't don't don't do don't.
Speaker 8 (05:41):
You forget about me?
Speaker 7 (05:49):
He spun about me?
Speaker 10 (05:53):
Get my way nether love me?
Speaker 8 (05:57):
Ready to keep starting.
Speaker 12 (06:02):
Down?
Speaker 10 (06:10):
Oh my ba?
Speaker 6 (06:12):
Who by.
Speaker 13 (06:15):
K s.
Speaker 14 (06:17):
K s down.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Down?
Speaker 8 (06:58):
Who forget up about me? Don't don't don't don't don't.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Forget about me?
Speaker 8 (07:13):
But you were going by?
Speaker 12 (07:18):
Will be come money?
Speaker 15 (07:22):
Ask you more?
Speaker 6 (07:23):
Come by?
Speaker 15 (07:26):
I want cary money.
Speaker 7 (07:30):
Where you wont go in?
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Who you would?
Speaker 13 (07:40):
Cooling with it?
Speaker 6 (07:41):
He will?
Speaker 2 (07:48):
You will come?
Speaker 6 (07:54):
I'll come on.
Speaker 8 (07:58):
You know you wanna come.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
You just heard Simple Minds with Don't you Forget about Me?
Back to the eighties radio song. That a song that
became the anthem from The Breakfast Club. You remember that
movie that managed to tell all of our stories as
high schoolers without ever leaving the high school library. It
was a song that captured what the eighties were all about, longing, rebellion,
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and even the fear of being forgotten. And that was
me in nineteen eighty four. So let's go back. A
twelve year old kid grew up in Downy, California. We
lived in a small two bedroom apartment complex off of
Gardendale Street near I think the other cross street was Paramount.
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I might be off for a street or two, but
I remember that it was my mom and dad, myself.
It wasn't fancy, but it was it was what we had.
I remember our neighbors had started with cable first when
we got there, and I was so excited because they
had on TV and Select TV, two channels of cable.
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And then of course it was our turn and we
got cable and our cable had like tons of channels.
We had Showtime and HBO and so exciting and MTV,
and as a twelve year old, that was incredible. On
summer afternoons, the smell of asphalt and cut grass mixed
with barbecue smoke drifting from the balconies. Kids were riding
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their BMX bikes in the parking lot. We were playing
cops and robbers with toy guns that looked real. And
across the street from my apartment complex was a supermarket
called super A Foods, and that's where we spent some
of our time because our parents used to send us,
or at least they used to send me to go
get milk or eggs or whatever, and I'm jaywalking, of course.
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And on the way back, I had to spend that
change on the arcade machines by the front doors, playing
either Galago or misspac Man Defender. And I believe they
had another game called USA Olympics. You might remember that
one if you lived through the time. If we weren't there.
We were down at Imperial Highway in Lakewood Boulevard. But
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there was a tiny shopping center. A few of the
places there, Pizzaman pizzeria, a laundromat, a real state office
tucked between them, and of course the best place in
that locale the arcade. It was dimly lit, walls were
plastered with posters of bands and pinball tournaments. I mean,
you could walk in and hear the electronic symphony of
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eighties gaming. The high pitched beeps, the joystick clicks, people
pounding on the machines to give them their quarterback, and
sometimes guys hitting that pinball machine too hard where he
made it tilt. It wasn't just fun, it was freedom,
and that was our world. If you grew up in
the eighties, wherever you were, you know what I'm talking
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about the tight streets, the familiar phases that the songs
echoing from car stereos up and down the block, people
blasting from their cars, Michael Jackson, Van Halen, the police, Duran, Duran,
and run DMC. It was the soundtrack of growing up
in the mid eighties. And then, of course life changed
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for me. My parents divorced that year. And before you
start feeling sorry, of course I wasn't one of the
kids who, at least I don't think I was. I
used to ask myself and wonder why all the kids
that parents get a divorce are so sad. I was
so happy when they got a divorce. My parents used
to fight all the time, and it was just madness
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at my house, and as an only child with nobody
else to talk to but just maybe friends for a
certain amount of time outside, it wasn't enough. So I
was really happy when they divorced, maybe deep down inside.
Of course, like any child, we really hope that they
stay together and things are good. But it wasn't. And
I didn't understand all of it. I mean, what kid does.
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But I remember the silence, the kind that lingers after
the yelling stops, the kind where even the TV sounds
too loud, And I remember Mom packed what we had
into boxes and we moved to Santa Fe Springs, pretty
much a city or two over, and she had bought
her first real home together, three bedrooms, two and a
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half bath, new carpet smell. It was the kind of
house that felt bigger than it was, just because it
was ours. And why Mom? What can I say about
my mom? Ah, She's stronger than any hero I'd seen
on TV. She was a tough cookie, still is. She
worked long hours and still found the time to make dinner,
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helped me with homework at times, unless it was math,
and she wouldn't help me at all. And she kept
me in line. As a matter of fact, she kept
me in line so hard that I used to call
her sergeants slaughter.
Speaker 5 (13:35):
Well, let me tell you, how does the slaughter?
Speaker 14 (13:37):
Can it?
Speaker 7 (13:38):
South?
Speaker 11 (13:38):
Sanose? Where the men or men? So are the women?
Speaker 1 (13:42):
She used to think it was the funniest thing in
the world. But trust me, she earned that title. And
at night, when the house went quiet and the street
lights outside turned on, I turned my radio on. I
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had a record player, but I also had a boombox,
one of those lasonic boomboxes. You'll remember those. They're huge.
They were just great sounding and listened to Kiss FM.
I used to listen to Karoq and k Loos. Those
stations became my family. Those jocks, those DJs, those on
air personalities became my friends.
Speaker 16 (14:28):
After seven, seven t five now on Paro one oh six, Monica,
I can't believe you didn't report this.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
This is absolutely true.
Speaker 16 (14:34):
I've been reading this in a bunch of newspapers that
a doctor at Harvard Medical School has been telling women
that if they have infections of any type and they're
worried about it. You mentioned this to me the other day, Yes,
And I had to look at um finally, and I
did see it the other day. I think in the
Herald that they're supposed to put their underwear in the
microwave often. Though, now I'm gonna say that, I'm going
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to say something. I don't know what I'm talking about now,
but the thing was called a yeast infection. Is that
a bad thing? Does it hurt? Does it itch? What
does it do? It's when you have a problem baking bread. No, no, no,
come on, I'm no.
Speaker 9 (15:06):
It's a female pro problem.
Speaker 16 (15:08):
So if you have this problem you have, well, you
put your underwear in the microwave of it and it
kills the germs. I just read that the other day.
Speaker 12 (15:15):
But the US isn't, gosh, this is gross on your underwear.
Speaker 16 (15:19):
It's don't don't mention it. I don't know what else
it does. So, ladies, if you're having trouble, and the
doctor said, there's gonna be a lot of jokes made
about this. I heard this guy talking the other day
on one of those consumer networks and stuff, so I
just wanted to bring it to you. I mean, it's
just another wonderful use that And of course, you know,
putting toy poodles in there, which was another.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
One more like music became my counselor. It was the
one thing that didn't change addresses when everything else in
my life did. And somewhere in those nights prior to
eighty four, I'm talking maybe eighty two eighty three, as
I listened to kr OQ with my cousin and I'll
get into that in a little bit, I discovered the
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band of my life.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
You too.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
I don't remember the exact moment, but I do remember
the feeling and their sound hit different. It wasn't just
catchy to me. It was honest. It was it was
hope and heartbreak all tangled up in reverb. I'm gonna
take a little break when we come back. There's a
lot more of this story. Ever, wish you could go
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back to the eighties with the crazy clothes.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
And those wacky hairdoes well, Let Tescano and Chang transport
you back in time, back to the eighties.
Speaker 9 (16:34):
It certainly is a big bun to get a very
big fun, big luffy bun.
Speaker 10 (16:38):
It's a very big, fluffy fun.
Speaker 7 (16:42):
Where's the beef?
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Some hamburger places give you a lot less beef on
a lot of bun.
Speaker 7 (16:46):
Where's the bee?
Speaker 14 (16:47):
Ad Wendy's we save a hamburger We modestly called a single.
Speaker 15 (16:50):
And Wendy's single has more beef than the wholper all
big Mac Wendy's.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
You get more bean and less bun.
Speaker 14 (16:56):
Hey, I don't think there's a.
Speaker 12 (16:59):
You want some think better?
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Your wind is kind of people.
Speaker 11 (17:10):
All around me, of a million faces, one hearth places,
one earth faces writing deliver for the daily races, going nowhere,
going nowhere.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
That is a ring up their glasses. No expression, no
expression of my head. I want to drown my sorrow,
not to morrow, not to narrow.
Speaker 17 (17:42):
And I find a kind of funny.
Speaker 15 (17:44):
I find a kind of.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Sad that dreams in which I'm tying of the best
home of the head.
Speaker 12 (17:50):
I find it how to tell you because I find
it not to take when people run in circles.
Speaker 9 (17:56):
It's a very very man.
Speaker 6 (18:03):
Mad mad mad would.
Speaker 17 (18:14):
Children waiting for the take days, feel good, happy birthday,
Happy birthdays to fill the way the temporary church.
Speaker 11 (18:26):
Citend listen, citandlessa.
Speaker 17 (18:30):
Went to school and I was spelling loveus, the one
new me, the one new.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
And little teacher tell me what's my lesson? The Christ
through me, the Christ from me?
Speaker 17 (18:47):
And I find it kind of funny.
Speaker 12 (18:49):
I find it, kind of said, the dreams in which
I'm dying of the establiable head.
Speaker 17 (18:55):
I find it how to tell you dings.
Speaker 12 (18:57):
I find it how to.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Take when caper running cycles.
Speaker 17 (19:01):
It's a very very mad was.
Speaker 6 (19:07):
Mad, was.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Mad mad?
Speaker 14 (19:16):
Was?
Speaker 11 (19:39):
I think it's a private.
Speaker 12 (19:42):
Kind of funny, a fine kind of sidles it dreams
in which I'm dying all the best out of the head,
of finding how to tell you, because I finding how
to take it when.
Speaker 6 (19:54):
People run in cycles, it's soil there mad.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Back to the eighties radio that was tears for fears
in the mad, mad world, just like today. Right, Hey,
I just want to take a little pause before I
continue with my story and just thank you from wherever
you're listening to us from. If you're from the United States, hey,
thank you. Thank you guys for the support. If you're
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listening to us from Canada or Mexico, Central America, South America,
thank you, guys. And if you're listening to us from
Europe or the Caribbean, or Australia or somewhere in Africa,
or you know, Croatia or Ukraine or Russia, I mean,
who knows, somewhere in Asia. Thank you guys for listening.
You make this all possible, and you mean the world
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to me and to Chang as well. But all right,
let's go to nineteen eighty five, because by nineteen eighty five,
radio wasn't just my personal escape, it was my own dream.
Every summer before that, like let's say, from eighty one
to eighty three, eighty four, somewhere like that, I'd stay
with my cousin Ralph. Now Ralph was the kind of
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cousin that he should have been my brother, and I
always felt he was my brother, still do till today.
He lived in Highland Park in southern California, right off
the seven to ten near forty third Street, I believe,
or forty eighth Street, one of those. He was five
years older. He was much cooler than I could have
ever thought I was at his age. He just embodied
everything that I wanted to follow. What a role model.
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He was confident, He was sort of hero for me.
He had this silver top loading tape recorder you'll remember,
like they kind of used in office buildings or medical offices,
the kind that made the loud clack or click when
you hit the record. And we'd sid cross legged on
the carpet pretending to be DJ's from KROQ one O
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six point seven, the rock of the eighties, and we'd
intro songs by in Excess to Cure Duran Durand, and
we'd throw in fake commercials, crank calls, and announce our
own top five countdown, and we had fake personalities. I mean,
we were awful, probably, but we thought we were legends.
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And looking back, that's where it all began. That's where
I learned that radio wasn't just about playing songs. It
was about connection, the kind that reaches through static and
somehow touches our souls. Now fast forward to nineteen eighty seven,
in particular March twenty seven, when that day came. Rick
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Dees announced it on KSFM on one oh two point
seven that year. Yes, there is an in case you're
just joining us, I'm not making this. Three thirty today
at seventh and Maine.
Speaker 6 (23:03):
Re announced first here in southern California that they were
being not going to be shooting their video here in
La at seventh and Main Street.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
I'm going to be there. I turned on the TV
later and saw the Chaos motto on the roof the
band blasting through the desert like intro. People were just
flooding the streets. Police were trying to shut it down.
They got the mayor involved. He was a pretty pissed.
Speaker 14 (23:24):
Major thoroughfare at three thirty in the afternoon. Okay, what
I was explained to Ben there is we would have
to go on what's called attack alert to get this
problem solved, and we're not going to do. They've got
a responsibility to the citizens of this city. You're drawn
people in Ericam, Orange County and all over the goddamn place.
We're shutting the location down. There is no vote. It
happens now.
Speaker 13 (23:44):
They wanted to play bay.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
It was the most rebellious act of beauty I had
ever seen, a band taking faith, aren't in passion and
giving it to the streets. And I thought, Wow, that's it.
That's what I want to do. Not be a musician
like them, but to stand on a rooftop of sound
and give people something to believe in again. And with that,
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let's take a little break, a break to experience more
of the nineteen eighties.
Speaker 7 (24:33):
See the stone set in your eyes, see the thorn
twist in your side. Ah ways.
Speaker 11 (24:44):
For you.
Speaker 7 (24:50):
Slive hand and to still face on a bed of me.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
She makes me ways.
Speaker 14 (24:59):
And we.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Found you, were fully found you.
Speaker 11 (25:09):
We fall, We found you.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Through the storm, rich less shot.
Speaker 7 (25:20):
You give it all, but I want more and I'm
waits to be four year were fully thought you.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Who we love.
Speaker 12 (25:40):
I can't leave?
Speaker 7 (25:44):
Were goll We.
Speaker 6 (26:00):
Said, where.
Speaker 11 (26:02):
Any yourself?
Speaker 7 (26:06):
Alf an you.
Speaker 11 (26:11):
An yourself?
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Where to turn.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
The body reach?
Speaker 6 (26:23):
She got me with nothing to win and nothing live
to anything, So yourself edit yourself where we don't gotch?
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Who goes gotch?
Speaker 9 (26:58):
Goda we go, we go to.
Speaker 15 (27:29):
We go wee, I thay we Where are you holding
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my hand?
Speaker 1 (28:53):
There's your brother hand between two pillows.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
Those aren't killows. Oh see that.
Speaker 14 (29:10):
Bears game last week?
Speaker 11 (29:11):
Hello game, Hello game.
Speaker 9 (29:13):
Team This year, they're gonna go all the way.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
That was you too, singing with or Without You from
the Joshua Tree album, where Bono once said that that
song was about the tension between family, faith, and calling
and man, and that's exactly what it felt like to
grow up in those years. Thank you for joining me
on this intentional time machine where I'm talking to you
about my personal story where I turned fifteen in nineteen
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eighty seven going to Santa Fe Springs High School, and
Santa Fe Springs had become my home, where my collection
of vinyl and the collection of cassettes grew large with
music from Journey You to Genesis, Van Halen Queen, and
a stack of blank tdks and memorys and Maxel Ta
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apes and an incredible looking Losonic boombox that my dad
had given to me. Yeah, well, what can you say?
It was one of the perks of the divorce, and
I'd sit there every Friday night after coming home from
hanging out with my best friend in the world, Mark
Hernandez at that time, which, by the way, as a
side note, thanks brother, thanks for being the brother I've
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never had. And so I'd sit there trying to catch
the start of a song, trying to record without the
DJ talking over it. You'll remember every time we'd hit record,
we probably had that song that we wanted to record
for a long time, and we finally caught it, and
what happens the DJ would talk right over the music.
Don't you hate that?
Speaker 14 (30:41):
This was it?
Speaker 18 (30:41):
At the beginning of your party music marathon with money
in the music Friday, My attitude is showing Jojo cooking
here on C one six, write the song down word this.
Speaker 5 (30:55):
Will get you one hundred and six dollars if.
Speaker 14 (30:57):
You count to win. Who were like.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
And thinking back today, those DJs were right on point,
you know the struggle. Those cassettes were my journal. Each
one told a story about where I'd been, who I was,
and who I wanted to be. Then one day my
cousin Ralph called and he said, hey, hey, cousin, I
got us some tickets to see you too. I thought,
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of course he was kidding, but he wasn't. It was
the Joshua Tree Tour November eleventh, nineteen eighty seven, at
the La Coliseum. I remember going to get the tickets
somewhere close to where he lived. It was either Pasadena
or Eagle Rock, or just somewhere. It was at a
ticket Master. We waited from three in the morning until
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they opened. We just hung out with people of like
mind and even got a chance to flirt with a
girl at that hour. But as the day of the
concert arrived, I remember waiting in line with the fans
and denim jackets and their shirts that said you two.
I had smelled like hot dogs and beer and the
echo everywhere of laughter and strangers singing together. Man, when
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those lights went out and that ethereal organ intro started,
you could feel the vibration of how loud the music
was on your feet. When the edge struck that first
note and Bono stepped into that light, eighty to ninety
thousand people just stood up and sang as one. And
when he's saying I want to run, I want to hide,
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something inside me broke and something else was born. And
for the first time in my life, I felt seen.
I didn't feel alone. He's saying what I couldn't say,
And in that moment, I realized that music was never
just sound. I like today it's just background noise. It's
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white noise. It's something that the younger generation just not
all I know. I know there's a few that enjoy
music for what it is, but for the most part,
people today just use music as a background. It's just
a playlist that you don't really pay attention to. But
at that moment, back then, music wasn't just sound. We
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left a concert in Awe. I had my brand new
YouTube concert shirt with all the dates in the back.
It was a white shirt and I had the Joshua
Tree logo all over the front. In the back, all
the dates, the hum of the traffic as we went home,
the cool night air, and a thousand thoughts in my head.
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That night, I knew who I wanted to be. I
just wanted to be someone who could make people feel
something like I felt again. We'll be right back. This
is back to the eighties radio.
Speaker 13 (34:01):
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Speaker 9 (35:19):
I can feel come the night, Bullo, not anyway for
someone ronge Bollo canning feel calm in the night?
Speaker 15 (35:45):
Oulo Bollo.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
Well, so me drowning.
Speaker 13 (36:04):
Out and hand.
Speaker 11 (36:09):
I'm seeing your face four hundred.
Speaker 9 (36:14):
I'm no week.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
You know who I am?
Speaker 2 (36:19):
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Seek white my bedroom No way then saw me a
back lies nine coming me night? Oh Lord, I waiting
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for solon rong.
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Oh No, I can be calm.
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Night Hollo when I'm be awaiting for the stormer long
Bolo Bulo. Right, I remember, Lord of worry.
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How could Lie gains.
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The first time?
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The last time?
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We ever?
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But I know the reason why you get the silence of.
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The weird thing for me doesn't show but haze rose.
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So strangeousy you me call me.
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Please help support us in your donation. Today we are
going back to the eighties. I was Phil Collins in
the Air tonight, a song that still hits like thunder
no matter how many times you've heard it. Ah for
those of you who don't know, Phil Collins wrote that
in pain actually, and somehow it became healing for everyone else.
And that's the power of music. That's the power of honesty,
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and that's the power and beauty of the nineteen eighties.
You know what, those years they taught me that vulnerability
wasn't weakness, it was connection. And the eighties didn't hide emotion,
they amplified it. Heartbreaks were loud and hard, the love
songs just the same. Love songs were desperate, and the faith, well,
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sometimes it showed up between the lines. And as I
look back now and I realize every move, every song,
every lonely night, had a purpose. The city of Downy
taught me roots, The city of Santa Fe Springs taught
me strength. With my cousin where he lived. In the
city of Highland Park it taught me passion, and my
band You Too taught me faith. It all led here
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to this show, back to the eighties radio. Somehow, the
music that saved me back then is the same music
that connects us now. The same melodies that carried me
through confusion and pain are the same ones that still
remind us that hope never really left. You know, the
eighties weren't just a decade. They were a heartbeat. There
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were the sound of a generation that dared to feel everything, joy,
the pain, the hope, the heartbreaks, and turn it into
music that still echoes today. And all of us you
me listening, that went through that. We didn't just listen
to the songs, we lived them. Every melody was a
piece of who we were, and somehow, through the static
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of life, that music taught us to believe again. Wherever
you are today, maybe sitting in traffic, maybe at home,
maybe you're just walking and listening to the program, maybe
looking at old pictures, maybe just thinking wondering where the
time went. Remember this, I never really left us. They
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live in the way we love and the songs that
still make us cry, in the laughter that comes when
we remember who we used to be. And that's what
my story is all about. And if you ever felt
that same connection, if those songs carried you through tough
times too. Then I want to encourage you guys to
read the whole journey in the upcoming book from author
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Eric Shores. The book is called Life Goes On the
Lessons We Learned from Eighties Music, and you can get
it here actually, so write to me at FM Eighties
Radio at gmail dot com to get more info on
how to get this book. It's going to blow you away.
It's filled with stories from people like you and me,
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people who were shaped, healed and inspired by the music
of the greatest decade on Earth. And yeah, you'll find
my story there too. It's a lot more than what
I just gave you today. How one song where the
Streets have No Name changed everything for me. So if
you want more information on the book and when it's
released and how you can get your hands on it,
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send me a message at FM Eighties Radio at gmail
dot com and let those memories remind you who you
were and who you still are. This is Tuscano and
you've been listening to Back to the Eighties Radio. We're
here introducing the eighties to a whole new generation.
Live from the heart of southern California to the world.
This is Back to the Eighties Radio, the show that
cranks up the past and makes it loud again. Hey,
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everybody's Tocotto here from Tuscono and Chang. Welcome to Back
to the Eighties Radio. I'm glad that you joined me
today because we are setting the dial back to two
years nineteen eighty four and nineteen eighty seven, the year
of course at Los Angeles became the center of the
world the Summer Olympics MTV cassette decks. Every song had
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something to say, whether you're cruising down Imperial Highway or
what are your boulevard, grabbing a slice of pizza man,
or hanging out with friends in the glow of an
arcade machine. Today, I'm taking you there to the streets
where I grew up, listening to the music that saved
me personally and to the one song that changed everything.
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If you want to find out what band and song
it was, stick around here Back to.
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Won't you come to me of me?
Speaker 7 (03:18):
Hobby the dancer?
Speaker 8 (03:21):
You know it be? Tell me your trouble in our house,
giving me everything inside and out love strange to really
think of the tender thing, the news that when we're
working on slow change before us apart one of life,
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get any harby.
Speaker 9 (03:47):
Anything, don't choose, don't get it out of me, don't
do don't don't.
Speaker 7 (03:57):
Don't you can't about me?
Speaker 10 (04:05):
Will you stand above me?
Speaker 7 (04:09):
Up my way?
Speaker 9 (04:11):
You never love me?
Speaker 10 (04:14):
Rain keep started rain kisport down.
Speaker 8 (04:22):
We acorn me.
Speaker 10 (04:27):
Call my name by walk on by ray King start
rain King started down down, down.
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Down, don't try.
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It's my fun.
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Will women and.
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Almost home or to yours?
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Then said find any insecurity?
Speaker 7 (05:15):
Don't you forget about me.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
I'll be in.
Speaker 10 (05:21):
That's what you do, go to food, take you apart,
I'll go buy together.
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Don't shoot you forget up about me?
Speaker 9 (05:38):
Don't don't don't do don't.
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You forget about me?
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He spun about me?
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Get my way nether love me?
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Ready to keep starting.
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Down?
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Who by.
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K s.
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K s down.
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Down?
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Who forget up about me? Don't don't don't don't don't.
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Forget about me?
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But you were going by?
Speaker 12 (07:18):
Will be come money?
Speaker 15 (07:22):
Ask you more?
Speaker 6 (07:23):
Come by?
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I want cary money.
Speaker 7 (07:30):
Where you wont go in?
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Uh?
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Who you would?
Speaker 13 (07:40):
Cooling with it?
Speaker 6 (07:41):
He will?
Speaker 2 (07:48):
You will come?
Speaker 6 (07:54):
I'll come on.
Speaker 8 (07:58):
You know you wanna come.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
You just heard Simple Minds with Don't you Forget about Me?
Back to the eighties radio song. That a song that
became the anthem from The Breakfast Club. You remember that
movie that managed to tell all of our stories as
high schoolers without ever leaving the high school library. It
was a song that captured what the eighties were all about, longing, rebellion,
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and even the fear of being forgotten. And that was
me in nineteen eighty four. So let's go back. A
twelve year old kid grew up in Downy, California. We
lived in a small two bedroom apartment complex off of
Gardendale Street near I think the other cross street was Paramount.
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I might be off for a street or two, but
I remember that it was my mom and dad, myself.
It wasn't fancy, but it was it was what we had.
I remember our neighbors had started with cable first when
we got there, and I was so excited because they
had on TV and Select TV, two channels of cable.
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And then of course it was our turn and we
got cable and our cable had like tons of channels.
We had Showtime and HBO and so exciting and MTV,
and as a twelve year old, that was incredible. On
summer afternoons, the smell of asphalt and cut grass mixed
with barbecue smoke drifting from the balconies. Kids were riding
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their BMX bikes in the parking lot. We were playing
cops and robbers with toy guns that looked real. And
across the street from my apartment complex was a supermarket
called super A Foods, and that's where we spent some
of our time because our parents used to send us,
or at least they used to send me to go
get milk or eggs or whatever, and I'm jaywalking, of course.
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And on the way back, I had to spend that
change on the arcade machines by the front doors, playing
either Galago or misspac Man Defender. And I believe they
had another game called USA Olympics. You might remember that
one if you lived through the time. If we weren't there.
We were down at Imperial Highway in Lakewood Boulevard. But
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there was a tiny shopping center. A few of the
places there, Pizzaman pizzeria, a laundromat, a real state office
tucked between them, and of course the best place in
that locale the arcade. It was dimly lit, walls were
plastered with posters of bands and pinball tournaments. I mean,
you could walk in and hear the electronic symphony of
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eighties gaming. The high pitched beeps, the joystick clicks, people
pounding on the machines to give them their quarterback, and
sometimes guys hitting that pinball machine too hard where he
made it tilt. It wasn't just fun, it was freedom,
and that was our world. If you grew up in
the eighties, wherever you were, you know what I'm talking
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about the tight streets, the familiar phases that the songs
echoing from car stereos up and down the block, people
blasting from their cars, Michael Jackson, Van Halen, the police, Duran, Duran,
and run DMC. It was the soundtrack of growing up
in the mid eighties. And then, of course life changed
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for me. My parents divorced that year. And before you
start feeling sorry, of course I wasn't one of the
kids who, at least I don't think I was. I
used to ask myself and wonder why all the kids
that parents get a divorce are so sad. I was
so happy when they got a divorce. My parents used
to fight all the time, and it was just madness
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at my house, and as an only child with nobody
else to talk to but just maybe friends for a
certain amount of time outside, it wasn't enough. So I
was really happy when they divorced, maybe deep down inside.
Of course, like any child, we really hope that they
stay together and things are good. But it wasn't. And
I didn't understand all of it. I mean, what kid does.
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But I remember the silence, the kind that lingers after
the yelling stops, the kind where even the TV sounds
too loud, And I remember Mom packed what we had
into boxes and we moved to Santa Fe Springs, pretty
much a city or two over, and she had bought
her first real home together, three bedrooms, two and a
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half bath, new carpet smell. It was the kind of
house that felt bigger than it was, just because it
was ours. And why Mom? What can I say about
my mom? Ah, She's stronger than any hero I'd seen
on TV. She was a tough cookie, still is. She
worked long hours and still found the time to make dinner,
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helped me with homework at times, unless it was math,
and she wouldn't help me at all. And she kept
me in line. As a matter of fact, she kept
me in line so hard that I used to call
her sergeants slaughter.
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Well, let me tell you, how does the slaughter?
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Can it?
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South?
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Sanose? Where the men or men? So are the women?
Speaker 1 (13:42):
She used to think it was the funniest thing in
the world. But trust me, she earned that title. And
at night, when the house went quiet and the street
lights outside turned on, I turned my radio on. I
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had a record player, but I also had a boombox,
one of those lasonic boomboxes. You'll remember those. They're huge.
They were just great sounding and listened to Kiss FM.
I used to listen to Karoq and k Loos. Those
stations became my family. Those jocks, those DJs, those on
air personalities became my friends.
Speaker 16 (14:28):
After seven, seven t five now on Paro one oh six, Monica,
I can't believe you didn't report this.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
This is absolutely true.
Speaker 16 (14:34):
I've been reading this in a bunch of newspapers that
a doctor at Harvard Medical School has been telling women
that if they have infections of any type and they're
worried about it. You mentioned this to me the other day, Yes,
And I had to look at um finally, and I
did see it the other day. I think in the
Herald that they're supposed to put their underwear in the
microwave often. Though, now I'm gonna say that, I'm going
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to say something. I don't know what I'm talking about now,
but the thing was called a yeast infection. Is that
a bad thing? Does it hurt? Does it itch? What
does it do? It's when you have a problem baking bread. No, no, no,
come on, I'm no.
Speaker 9 (15:06):
It's a female pro problem.
Speaker 16 (15:08):
So if you have this problem you have, well, you
put your underwear in the microwave of it and it
kills the germs. I just read that the other day.
Speaker 12 (15:15):
But the US isn't, gosh, this is gross on your underwear.
Speaker 16 (15:19):
It's don't don't mention it. I don't know what else
it does. So, ladies, if you're having trouble, and the
doctor said, there's gonna be a lot of jokes made
about this. I heard this guy talking the other day
on one of those consumer networks and stuff, so I
just wanted to bring it to you. I mean, it's
just another wonderful use that And of course, you know,
putting toy poodles in there, which was another.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
One more like music became my counselor. It was the
one thing that didn't change addresses when everything else in
my life did. And somewhere in those nights prior to
eighty four, I'm talking maybe eighty two eighty three, as
I listened to kr OQ with my cousin and I'll
get into that in a little bit, I discovered the
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band of my life.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
You too.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
I don't remember the exact moment, but I do remember
the feeling and their sound hit different. It wasn't just
catchy to me. It was honest. It was it was
hope and heartbreak all tangled up in reverb. I'm gonna
take a little break when we come back. There's a
lot more of this story. Ever, wish you could go
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back to the eighties with the crazy clothes.
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And those wacky hairdoes well, Let Tescano and Chang transport
you back in time, back to the eighties.
Speaker 9 (16:34):
It certainly is a big bun to get a very
big fun, big luffy bun.
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It's a very big, fluffy fun.
Speaker 7 (16:42):
Where's the beef?
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Some hamburger places give you a lot less beef on
a lot of bun.
Speaker 7 (16:46):
Where's the bee?
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Ad Wendy's we save a hamburger We modestly called a single.
Speaker 15 (16:50):
And Wendy's single has more beef than the wholper all
big Mac Wendy's.
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You get more bean and less bun.
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Hey, I don't think there's a.
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You want some think better?
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Your wind is kind of people.
Speaker 11 (17:10):
All around me, of a million faces, one hearth places,
one earth faces writing deliver for the daily races, going nowhere,
going nowhere.
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That is a ring up their glasses. No expression, no
expression of my head. I want to drown my sorrow,
not to morrow, not to narrow.
Speaker 17 (17:42):
And I find a kind of funny.
Speaker 15 (17:44):
I find a kind of.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Sad that dreams in which I'm tying of the best
home of the head.
Speaker 12 (17:50):
I find it how to tell you because I find
it not to take when people run in circles.
Speaker 9 (17:56):
It's a very very man.
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Mad mad mad would.
Speaker 17 (18:14):
Children waiting for the take days, feel good, happy birthday,
Happy birthdays to fill the way the temporary church.
Speaker 11 (18:26):
Citend listen, citandlessa.
Speaker 17 (18:30):
Went to school and I was spelling loveus, the one
new me, the one new.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
And little teacher tell me what's my lesson? The Christ
through me, the Christ from me?
Speaker 17 (18:47):
And I find it kind of funny.
Speaker 12 (18:49):
I find it, kind of said, the dreams in which
I'm dying of the establiable head.
Speaker 17 (18:55):
I find it how to tell you dings.
Speaker 12 (18:57):
I find it how to.
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Take when caper running cycles.
Speaker 17 (19:01):
It's a very very mad was.
Speaker 6 (19:07):
Mad, was.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Mad mad?
Speaker 14 (19:16):
Was?
Speaker 11 (19:39):
I think it's a private.
Speaker 12 (19:42):
Kind of funny, a fine kind of sidles it dreams
in which I'm dying all the best out of the head,
of finding how to tell you, because I finding how
to take it when.
Speaker 6 (19:54):
People run in cycles, it's soil there mad.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Back to the eighties radio that was tears for fears
in the mad, mad world, just like today. Right, Hey,
I just want to take a little pause before I
continue with my story and just thank you from wherever
you're listening to us from. If you're from the United States, hey,
thank you. Thank you guys for the support. If you're
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listening to us from Canada or Mexico, Central America, South America,
thank you, guys. And if you're listening to us from
Europe or the Caribbean, or Australia or somewhere in Africa,
or you know, Croatia or Ukraine or Russia, I mean,
who knows, somewhere in Asia. Thank you guys for listening.
You make this all possible, and you mean the world
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to me and to Chang as well. But all right,
let's go to nineteen eighty five, because by nineteen eighty five,
radio wasn't just my personal escape, it was my own dream.
Every summer before that, like let's say, from eighty one
to eighty three, eighty four, somewhere like that, I'd stay
with my cousin Ralph. Now Ralph was the kind of
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cousin that he should have been my brother, and I
always felt he was my brother, still do till today.
He lived in Highland Park in southern California, right off
the seven to ten near forty third Street, I believe,
or forty eighth Street, one of those. He was five
years older. He was much cooler than I could have
ever thought I was at his age. He just embodied
everything that I wanted to follow. What a role model.
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He was confident, He was sort of hero for me.
He had this silver top loading tape recorder you'll remember,
like they kind of used in office buildings or medical offices,
the kind that made the loud clack or click when
you hit the record. And we'd sid cross legged on
the carpet pretending to be DJ's from KROQ one O
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six point seven, the rock of the eighties, and we'd
intro songs by in Excess to Cure Duran Durand, and
we'd throw in fake commercials, crank calls, and announce our
own top five countdown, and we had fake personalities. I mean,
we were awful, probably, but we thought we were legends.
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And looking back, that's where it all began. That's where
I learned that radio wasn't just about playing songs. It
was about connection, the kind that reaches through static and
somehow touches our souls. Now fast forward to nineteen eighty seven,
in particular March twenty seven, when that day came. Rick
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Dees announced it on KSFM on one oh two point
seven that year. Yes, there is an in case you're
just joining us, I'm not making this. Three thirty today
at seventh and Maine.
Speaker 6 (23:03):
Re announced first here in southern California that they were
being not going to be shooting their video here in
La at seventh and Main Street.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
I'm going to be there. I turned on the TV
later and saw the Chaos motto on the roof the
band blasting through the desert like intro. People were just
flooding the streets. Police were trying to shut it down.
They got the mayor involved. He was a pretty pissed.
Speaker 14 (23:24):
Major thoroughfare at three thirty in the afternoon. Okay, what
I was explained to Ben there is we would have
to go on what's called attack alert to get this
problem solved, and we're not going to do. They've got
a responsibility to the citizens of this city. You're drawn
people in Ericam, Orange County and all over the goddamn place.
We're shutting the location down. There is no vote. It
happens now.
Speaker 13 (23:44):
They wanted to play bay.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
It was the most rebellious act of beauty I had
ever seen, a band taking faith, aren't in passion and
giving it to the streets. And I thought, Wow, that's it.
That's what I want to do. Not be a musician
like them, but to stand on a rooftop of sound
and give people something to believe in again. And with that,
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let's take a little break, a break to experience more
of the nineteen eighties.
Speaker 7 (24:33):
See the stone set in your eyes, see the thorn
twist in your side. Ah ways.
Speaker 11 (24:44):
For you.
Speaker 7 (24:50):
Slive hand and to still face on a bed of me.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
She makes me ways.
Speaker 14 (24:59):
And we.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Found you, were fully found you.
Speaker 11 (25:09):
We fall, We found you.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Through the storm, rich less shot.
Speaker 7 (25:20):
You give it all, but I want more and I'm
waits to be four year were fully thought you.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Who we love.
Speaker 12 (25:40):
I can't leave?
Speaker 7 (25:44):
Were goll We.
Speaker 6 (26:00):
Said, where.
Speaker 11 (26:02):
Any yourself?
Speaker 7 (26:06):
Alf an you.
Speaker 11 (26:11):
An yourself?
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Where to turn.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
The body reach?
Speaker 6 (26:23):
She got me with nothing to win and nothing live
to anything, So yourself edit yourself where we don't gotch?
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Who goes gotch?
Speaker 9 (26:58):
Goda we go, we go to.
Speaker 15 (27:29):
We go wee, I thay we Where are you holding
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my hand?
Speaker 1 (28:53):
There's your brother hand between two pillows.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
Those aren't killows. Oh see that.
Speaker 14 (29:10):
Bears game last week?
Speaker 11 (29:11):
Hello game, Hello game.
Speaker 9 (29:13):
Team This year, they're gonna go all the way.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
That was you too, singing with or Without You from
the Joshua Tree album, where Bono once said that that
song was about the tension between family, faith, and calling
and man, and that's exactly what it felt like to
grow up in those years. Thank you for joining me
on this intentional time machine where I'm talking to you
about my personal story where I turned fifteen in nineteen
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eighty seven going to Santa Fe Springs High School, and
Santa Fe Springs had become my home, where my collection
of vinyl and the collection of cassettes grew large with
music from Journey You to Genesis, Van Halen Queen, and
a stack of blank tdks and memorys and Maxel Ta
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apes and an incredible looking Losonic boombox that my dad
had given to me. Yeah, well, what can you say?
It was one of the perks of the divorce, and
I'd sit there every Friday night after coming home from
hanging out with my best friend in the world, Mark
Hernandez at that time, which, by the way, as a
side note, thanks brother, thanks for being the brother I've
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never had. And so I'd sit there trying to catch
the start of a song, trying to record without the
DJ talking over it. You'll remember every time we'd hit record,
we probably had that song that we wanted to record
for a long time, and we finally caught it, and
what happens the DJ would talk right over the music.
Don't you hate that?
Speaker 14 (30:41):
This was it?
Speaker 18 (30:41):
At the beginning of your party music marathon with money
in the music Friday, My attitude is showing Jojo cooking
here on C one six, write the song down word this.
Speaker 5 (30:55):
Will get you one hundred and six dollars if.
Speaker 14 (30:57):
You count to win. Who were like.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
And thinking back today, those DJs were right on point,
you know the struggle. Those cassettes were my journal. Each
one told a story about where I'd been, who I was,
and who I wanted to be. Then one day my
cousin Ralph called and he said, hey, hey, cousin, I
got us some tickets to see you too. I thought,
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of course he was kidding, but he wasn't. It was
the Joshua Tree Tour November eleventh, nineteen eighty seven, at
the La Coliseum. I remember going to get the tickets
somewhere close to where he lived. It was either Pasadena
or Eagle Rock, or just somewhere. It was at a
ticket Master. We waited from three in the morning until
(31:44):
they opened. We just hung out with people of like
mind and even got a chance to flirt with a
girl at that hour. But as the day of the
concert arrived, I remember waiting in line with the fans
and denim jackets and their shirts that said you two.
I had smelled like hot dogs and beer and the
echo everywhere of laughter and strangers singing together. Man, when
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those lights went out and that ethereal organ intro started,
you could feel the vibration of how loud the music
was on your feet. When the edge struck that first
note and Bono stepped into that light, eighty to ninety
thousand people just stood up and sang as one. And
when he's saying I want to run, I want to hide,
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something inside me broke and something else was born. And
for the first time in my life, I felt seen.
I didn't feel alone. He's saying what I couldn't say,
And in that moment, I realized that music was never
just sound. I like today it's just background noise. It's
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white noise. It's something that the younger generation just not
all I know. I know there's a few that enjoy
music for what it is, but for the most part,
people today just use music as a background. It's just
a playlist that you don't really pay attention to. But
at that moment, back then, music wasn't just sound. We
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left a concert in Awe. I had my brand new
YouTube concert shirt with all the dates in the back.
It was a white shirt and I had the Joshua
Tree logo all over the front. In the back, all
the dates, the hum of the traffic as we went home,
the cool night air, and a thousand thoughts in my head.
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That night, I knew who I wanted to be. I
just wanted to be someone who could make people feel
something like I felt again. We'll be right back. This
is back to the eighties radio.
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I can feel come the night, Bullo, not anyway for
someone ronge Bollo canning feel calm in the night?
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Oulo Bollo.
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Speaker 13 (36:04):
Out and hand.
Speaker 11 (36:09):
I'm seeing your face four hundred.
Speaker 9 (36:14):
I'm no week.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
You know who I am?
Speaker 2 (36:19):
Love, so watch it so in mind twice.
Speaker 15 (36:28):
Seek white my bedroom No way then saw me a
back lies nine coming me night? Oh Lord, I waiting
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for solon rong.
Speaker 6 (36:56):
Oh No, I can be calm.
Speaker 15 (37:04):
Night Hollo when I'm be awaiting for the stormer long
Bolo Bulo. Right, I remember, Lord of worry.
Speaker 16 (37:36):
How could Lie gains.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
The first time?
Speaker 6 (37:43):
The last time?
Speaker 1 (37:45):
We ever?
Speaker 10 (37:49):
But I know the reason why you get the silence of.
Speaker 15 (37:57):
The weird thing for me doesn't show but haze rose.
Speaker 4 (38:05):
So strangeousy you me call me.
Speaker 6 (38:17):
Ll blow.
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Name the song row.
Speaker 13 (38:28):
L love.
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B name of the song rang my l Lie.
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Speaker 1 (39:45):
Please help support us in your donation. Today we are
going back to the eighties. I was Phil Collins in
the Air tonight, a song that still hits like thunder
no matter how many times you've heard it. Ah for
those of you who don't know, Phil Collins wrote that
in pain actually, and somehow it became healing for everyone else.
And that's the power of music. That's the power of honesty,
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and that's the power and beauty of the nineteen eighties.
You know what, those years they taught me that vulnerability
wasn't weakness, it was connection. And the eighties didn't hide emotion,
they amplified it. Heartbreaks were loud and hard, the love
songs just the same. Love songs were desperate, and the faith, well,
(40:33):
sometimes it showed up between the lines. And as I
look back now and I realize every move, every song,
every lonely night, had a purpose. The city of Downy
taught me roots, The city of Santa Fe Springs taught
me strength. With my cousin where he lived. In the
city of Highland Park it taught me passion, and my
band You Too taught me faith. It all led here
(40:57):
to this show, back to the eighties radio. Somehow, the
music that saved me back then is the same music
that connects us now. The same melodies that carried me
through confusion and pain are the same ones that still
remind us that hope never really left. You know, the
eighties weren't just a decade. They were a heartbeat. There
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were the sound of a generation that dared to feel everything, joy,
the pain, the hope, the heartbreaks, and turn it into
music that still echoes today. And all of us you
me listening, that went through that. We didn't just listen
to the songs, we lived them. Every melody was a
piece of who we were, and somehow, through the static
(41:39):
of life, that music taught us to believe again. Wherever
you are today, maybe sitting in traffic, maybe at home,
maybe you're just walking and listening to the program, maybe
looking at old pictures, maybe just thinking wondering where the
time went. Remember this, I never really left us. They
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live in the way we love and the songs that
still make us cry, in the laughter that comes when
we remember who we used to be. And that's what
my story is all about. And if you ever felt
that same connection, if those songs carried you through tough
times too. Then I want to encourage you guys to
read the whole journey in the upcoming book from author
(42:25):
Eric Shores. The book is called Life Goes On the
Lessons We Learned from Eighties Music, and you can get
it here actually, so write to me at FM Eighties
Radio at gmail dot com to get more info on
how to get this book. It's going to blow you away.
It's filled with stories from people like you and me,
(42:46):
people who were shaped, healed and inspired by the music
of the greatest decade on Earth. And yeah, you'll find
my story there too. It's a lot more than what
I just gave you today. How one song where the
Streets have No Name changed everything for me. So if
you want more information on the book and when it's
released and how you can get your hands on it,
(43:08):
send me a message at FM Eighties Radio at gmail
dot com and let those memories remind you who you
were and who you still are. This is Tuscano and
you've been listening to Back to the Eighties Radio. We're
here introducing the eighties to a whole new generation.
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