It was about 25 years or so ago and I was driving to work one morning when WXRT’s very own Lin Brehmer played this song by Captain Beyond. It hit me like a ton of bricks that I knew this song very well, but hadn’t heard it in ages. I couldn’t remember any details about time or place but it was as familiar to me as something I listened to every day. I got to work and immediately ordered the CD.

Me and Gina met Lin once backstage at a New Years Eve show with John Hiatt and BB King that I can guarantee he did not remember the next day, but I listened to him on air in the mornings for years, and got introduced to so much great music by him. It is he who inspired me to call each and every great song “the greatest song ever written” and it was also him that gave me the name of this blog when he mentioned a show or something he used to do called “The Sensory Dispensary”

I miss listening to Lin, and was saddened when he passed from cancer a few years back. I don’t listen to the radio anymore these days but I have fond memories. He used to do his station IDs by calling himself “your best friend in the whole world” and while I was doing my long commutes alone in my car, he really was.