“You’re entering her world, and she's going to take you on this journey with her music.” "A big sister with impeccable taste" “And that’s what she made you feel like,” says Annette Zilinskas, an LA-based musician who appeared on “SNAP!” with her band, The Ringling Sisters. Whether alone at home or driving at night, everyone was drawn together by a big sister with impeccable taste. But it was a pre-internet community, listening together at the same time. And from that point forward, I recorded and mixed most of the SNAP live performances for the next three years, until “SNAP!” ended.įor a while, the show was a kind of center for alternative and independent music and culture in Los Angeles. She walked down the steep cement stairs that led into KCRW’s basement studios with two canvas tote bags on each shoulder, filled to maximum with CDs and vinyl. The first time I ever met Deirdre was a few minutes before showtime. She just said, “We’re gonna throw you into the deep end, Bob!” ![]() ![]() Her usual engineer was unavailable, and Deirdre didn’t care that I had literally never mixed live music before. Deirdre called me and asked if I could come in that night to mix a performance with two musicians. In 1988, I had recently been hired as a production engineer at KCRW. But I was put into the “SNAP!” world, and I was part of the show. I was the mix engineer in the studio for most of the “SNAP!” live performances in the late ‘80s.īefore that, I had very little experience as a music engineer, let alone mixing national bands live on the radio. I recorded a lot of these shows during my earliest days at KCRW. These 30-year-old boxes literally have my handwriting on them with Sharpie. I have a personal connection to these tapes. If you’ve never heard of the program, I want to introduce you to the world of “SNAP!” And if you were around to hear the show, get ready for some sonic déjà vu. That’s the story we’re telling over these first two episodes of this series. and they create a portrait of the woman who created “SNAP!,” DJ Deirdre O’Donoghue. But after a while, the tapes start to tell a story. ![]() It’s a document of all the remarkable performances, interviews, and episodes of “SNAP!” that took place in KCRW’s performance studio.Īt first, it’s overwhelming to look at so much sound and try to figure out what to do with it all. Most of it hasn’t been heard since it was originally broadcast on the airwaves of KCRW in the late 1980s. Everything you’ll hear in this episode and on this podcast comes from O’Donoghue’s personal archive of hundreds of reel-to-reel tapes, DAT tapes, and hours and hours of tapes which are now over 30 years old. From 1982 to 1991, DJ Deirdre O’Donoghue hosted KCRW's "SNAP!,"a freeform alternative and independent music and culture program in Los Angeles.
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