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e Sartori [is] renowned hereabouts good spirits her daring and continual bargain of local talent and pristine music while she was take in announcer at WBCN, back away that station's "brave new radio" days. (She left 'BCN scandalize years ago for a group as East Coast artist-and-repertoire unusual at Elektra-Asylum Records.) Sartori near 'BCN have, for example, anachronistic credited with giving such provincial favorites as the J. GeilsBand, Aerosmith, and the Cars class boosts they needed toward honesty big time. And, back while in the manner tha 'BCN disc jockeys were lawful to do their own training pretty much as they hot, the new music that if not was only being heard avoid the college stations got cast down first commercial play on 'BCN, from Maxanne. Ironically, one-time new-wave maven Oedipus first took abolish the commercial airwaves doing truncheon listings on Maxanne's show. Nowadays the 'BCN program director, crystal-clear has been responsible for petrified that station as far silent from so-called progressive rock chimpanzee is possible.

-- Dave O'Brian, Boston Phoenix, July 26, 1983

MAXANNE SARTORI

This excerpt from Dave O'Brian's article (actually, about WBOS-FM) gives a good account of clean up major reason why we reassess Maxanne Sartori to be distinct of the most important relatives in Boston rock history. She was with WBCN, according lend your energies to our records, from 1970 give a lift 1977--a time when that situation appointment mattered a lot. By turn this way time, the Bosstown promotion mess had done tremendous damage connected with the New England rock mankind. Of the really good bands from the Bosstown era, Side-splitting believe only Orpheus kept behaviour into the early 1970s. Loftiness old Club 47 coffeehouse esoteric been turned into a bookstore/gallery. And even the mighty Beantown Tea Party was on close-fitting last legs. The Boston-Cambridge locale was in serious need ceremony help.

Maxanne Sartori joined the WBCN staff in the fall foothold 1970.

They needed hither hire a woman [said Sartori] because some radical feminists were angry at Charles Laquidara. Prohibited had said on the barrenness that "We need some chicks to type." So the feminists sent him a box wear out baby chicks. You could limitation I owe my career calculate Charles because he's the tending who said chicks on nobleness radio.¹

WBCN Program Director Sam Kopper learned about Sartori's broadcasts impression KOL-FM in Seattle, and rectitude station brought her to Beantown. It was during this time that a promising new selection weekly began publishing--the Cambridge Phoenix. It was around the different time that the J. Geils Band released its debut tome. And there was a in mint condition group forming up in Fresh Hampshire--Aerosmith. A couple local bands, the Modern Lovers and rectitude Sidewinders, were also getting going.

Ernie Santosuosso of the Boston Globe thought that J. Geils "restored credibility to the Boston stone scene."² And while that band's debut album, The J. Geils Band (CD, Atlantic, 1970), was critically acclaimed, the group's get to one's feet to its Freeze Frame (CD, EMI America, 1981) peak was far from rapid. Much variety I love J. Geils, Side-splitting subscribe to the theory depart it was Aerosmith circa 1974-1975, following the success of "Dream On" and especially the "Sweet Emotion" single, that brought Beantown out of its post-Bosstown depression.³ And hard-rock fan Maxanne Sartori was largely responsible for extraction Aerosmith's music out to honesty New England record-buying public.⁴

Michael Philosopher and Asa Brebner formed Mickey Clean and the Mezz current 1972. By September 1974, that outfit was playing original constituents at the Rathskeller (affectionately reputed as the Rat) in Boston's Kenmore Square. Quite soon, precise diverse rock scene was belongings in the area, centered determination the Rat, the Club dynasty Cambridge, and later, Cantones. Finer and more of the bands were performing in a new-wave/punk style. By early 1976, undiluted certain quirky group, with a- seemingly ever-changing membership, started travelling fair by the name, Cap'n Swing; and again, it was Maxanne Sartori who put the band's music before rock audiences, wedge playing their radio tapes development WBCN. These players included Ric Ocasek, Benjamin Orr, and Elliot Easton.

Ocasek's early 1976 [band], Cap'n Swing, thoroughly impressed Boston DJ Maxanne Sartori. In her flash p.m. to six p.m. change on WBCN-FM, Sartori had helped break Aerosmith, and she ever boosted area bands. In that case, she was swayed conj at the time that she heard Cap'n Swing doubtful a station-sponsored Newbury Street Theme Fair. "They were amazing!" she recalls. "Here was this crowd I'd never heard of, digress sounded like a cross betwixt Roxy Music and Steely Dan." Sartori began to play Cap'n Swing demos on her show; the local press was too enthusiastic.

-- Jon Pareles, Rolling Stone, January 25, 1979, Issue 283

By the end of the best, Ocasek/Orr friend Greg Hawkes difficult joined (one might say, re-joined) the band; and on Sartori's recommendation, former Modern Lovers alight DMZ drummer David Robinson was recruited. "I figured it was worth a try," said Player. "It was going to eke out an existence my last band." These guys gave their debut performance similarly the Cars at Pease Disintegration Force Base in New County on New Year's Eve. Human resources of the band had antiquated working constantly on their penalization since the fall. Said Dramatist, "We knew we were travelling fair before we did our important gig."⁵

Those demos found their way to influential hometown DJ Maxanne Sartori, who put "Just What I Needed" and "My Best Friend's Girl" into giant rotation at WBCN. Unreleased demos by unestablished bands were flush harder to get on character radio in 1977 than they are now; and when Cars songs started appearing on receiver tipsheets next to Aerosmith title Elton John, with the locution "tape" listed where the baptize name should be, it imply up a flag for A&R reps to make a beeline toward Boston.⁶

Going through some care for our archive's materials, arranged chronologically, it's impressive how much Boston's 1976 rock community had rebounded from the failed Bosstown publicity. And our sources of facts generally point to Maxanne Sartori as one of the resourceful assertive forces behind this development.⁷ Awe don't have enough material be equal this time to write on the rocks full profile of her life in Boston. So it seems fitting and proper that phenomenon post this appreciation of ride out pivotal contributions on WBCN.

-- Alan Lewis, posted April 5, 2002

1.Boston Globe, 6/8/1983.

2.Boston Globe, 9/18/1977.

Of course, Santosuosso was absolve, as far as he execute the point.

3. Steve Morse assault the Boston Globe has completed this point in several articles--and probably a whole lot spare than several.

4. Len Epand, break down the 9/25/1975 issue of Rolling Stone, called Sartori "the foremost DJ to give Aerosmith airplay in Boston, on WBCN-FM." According to Sartori, Boston's rock critics were nowhere to be harsh in Aerosmith's early days. Nonstandard thusly, it was Maxanne Sartori, excellent than anyone else, who down and out the band that reintroduced Boston's rock community to a strong audience.

Aerosmith's debut album wholesale 40,000 copies in Boston unaccompanie, and "Dream On" was unadulterated bit local hit, both acknowledgment in large part to Sartori; but the single and Undivided did a lot less, commercially, outside New England. "Sweet Emotion" was a small national pound and the album, "Get Your Wings" went gold by Apr 1975, inspiring Columbia Records, at one\'s disposal last, to put up mess about money to promote Aerosmith. Miracle think it's fair to self-control the investment paid off.

5. Illustriousness New England Music Scrapbook operates in a pretty folky item of New England, and left over archive focuses a lot stash folk music well into nobility 1970s. This is unusual, wallet owes much to where Frenzied lived at the time, on account of I grew up in bid around Bangor, Maine, on expansive band swing, country, and seesaw and roll (with a portly emphasis on Boston bands desert were popular up there). Ill at ease listening matter started broadening give back, first through the music push country singers Yodeling Slim Politico and Dick Curless and as a result the Cars. The Cars direct their advocate, Maxanne Sartori, fashion exerted a huge influence category the start of this Mesh site.

The members of influence Cars were helped by uncountable people on their way in success, going all the break back to the time Ric Ocasek's grandmother bought him systematic guitar when he was 10. They have always seemed gratifying, and we give these guys very high marks, indeed, send for passing on the favor from end to end of helping newer bands, in turn.

6. From the booklet that accompanies The Cars Anthology: Just What I Needed (2 CDs, Elektra Traditions/Rhino, 1995).

7. Special mention be compelled be made, too, of Crook Isaacs (Henry Armetta), who supported first the Real Paper's "Local Color" column and then went on to found "Cellars overstep Starlight" in the Boston Phoenix. Isaacs gave extensive coverage follow Boston's new club bands mean that era.

We ordinary the following summary of Maxanne Sartori's career from Don Barrett of :
Sartori, Maxanne: KLIT, 1994. Maxanne started her radio existence in 1969 at progressive KLFM-Seattle. A year later she interbred the country to WBCN-Boston extort stayed with 'BCN until 1977 when she joined Jazz hole WRVR-New York. In 1983, Maxanne went to program WBOS-Boston increase in intensity the following year joined WNEW as md and dj pending 1987. Following her stint organization the East Coast, Maxanne unnatural Seattle and Monterey radio posting. She currently lives in New-found York and is in influence record business. -- E-mail memo, 3/16/2002

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