Texas Radio and The Big Beat

Post by **JLizard** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 8:58 pm

Wasn't most of the Doors music played on AM mono radio back then? Any thoughts on what that was like compared to getting the album and then hearing it in stereo? They didn't play music on FM back then did they? Thanks.

Post by **vince** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 5:06 pm

When the 1967 period of radio was in vogue there was only mono. Stereo tried to give the feeling of the location, relative to left and right of center, of instruments, singers or whatever. The quality of the music was not improved greatly with FM stereo. That had to wait for greater broadcast bandwidth to get the higher frequencies and lowest frequencies. Midrange was always available.

Of course, the ultimate was to hear the music live.