Chuck

And one of them you already mentioned, which was transistor radios.

So now you didn't just have to sit at home with the oldsters to listen to your favorite hits.

And then also AM radio started to show up in cars essentially as not even an option after a while.

Like you got the AM radio whether you wanted it or not.

Yeah, I think more than half of American cars had AM radio receivers factory installed by the 1950s.

And that was a huge, huge deal, obviously.

And, you know, it was the dominant paradigm for music until 78.

And there was that period from...

uh, kind of the, the early seventies to the early eighties, uh, little under 10 years where that, you know, sort of, uh, yacht Rocky AM mellow gold stuff really, really took over.

Yeah.

Um, you had to kind of watch what you put on the radio cause FM was playing, um,

you know they were playing the the aor album oriented rock stuff that had a little more machismo and um testosterone fueled like you know rock bands big hair yeah exactly big hair long hair um not a mustache in sight unless it was part of a beard probably but sure

Wasn't the case on AM with Yacht Rock.

They were mustachioed dudes generally, sensitive guys.

The songs weren't about usually like conquering women.

Most of them were about getting dumped by women.

A lot of sad sack music coming out on AM radio in the 1970s.

I still listen to a lot of that stuff.

Yeah, and a lot of the constraints, I found this to be true throughout my life, that when you put constraints on something, it automatically fuels creativity.

Because it doesn't mean you don't still want to get across subversive ideas.