I was watching Ron Howard’s Beatles Documentary “Eight Days a Week”, and listened to George Harrison describing the incredible excitement he felt when he first heard a Beatles record on the radio.
I myself had a similar experience.
Sometime in late 1987 (my first album, Plasma Bat by Hugh was released earlier in the year) one of my songs was going to be played sometime during the night on 89 X, the Windsor-based alternative rock station. They had a very late night show for even more “alternative” bands, and they’d let me know they would play my song “Having Fun with Pointed Things” that night. Unfortunately, I had a gig of some kind of gig that night in Flint, but as soon as it ended I jumped into my car to drive home, and hopefully turned on my radio to 88.7. The distance between the line from Flint and Metamora to Windsor was just barely within range of the station, but this became sort of an advantage to the experience, as “Having Fun with Pointed Things” came on the radio and, just as radio ought to do, the signal faded in and out as I moved from West to East on the expressway. I was gratified by the experience!