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Thanks for the site
Date: 06-30-2005
By: Skip
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Great website, boy does it bring back memories. I was one of the teenagers that hid under the covers and listened on a pocket radio with and earphone.
I wish I had some great Shep stories I could tell but alas not really. I can say that I lived outside of Princeton, NJ when I first heard him, This was in the early 60's. I went my freshman year to Princeton High, this was probably like 1964-1965 (then moved) I had been listening for at least a couple of years at that time. Why I mention this is during that year I was told by a school buddy that Shep's son also went there. I had him pointed out (it was a big school compared to where I had come up from) we lived in the country, and something like 50 or so kids moved up to this school from our secondary. Princeton was a large high at that time to us. Anyway I would like to be able to say I grew to be good friends and and all that. But it didn't happen. I think I remember at the time someone saying that his son didn't talk too much about him and that Shep would come from time to time to visit him. I never even talked to him directly, I guess I got the feeling there wasn't a great bond there and what am I going to but go on about how great his father is?
Looking over the list of recording, I really feel sick now, Back about 1990 or so I got rid of my old reel to reel tape players and all my old tapes. (I was in a rush move and just didn't realize what I was giving up, I hadn't listened to the tapes for 20 years or so) I took to a flea market/auction house several big boxes of tapes, in there was probably a couple of years of his shows. I had rigged up the tape players to record his shows nightly and then I would play then back. I forget if the tape players were from Lafayette electronics or not. He got me hooked on electronics also, but I never took as a career. Helped me in the stage crew at school though.
I didn't find a lot on the site about some of the gang of 4. You had Shep, Flick, Swartz (sp?), and Brunner (sp?), I remember him saying that one of the last two was killed during the war (WWII) were they real or composites if so what was there story.
It was interesting about his brother (I remember him mentioning him from time to time).
When I was a kid listening I did write the station about if they sold tapes of the shows- never heard back.
I had always wanted to go to the live Saturday show but never got the chance- my father knew a guy that was familiar with the area and place and I talked to him at the time to see if he had been there. He said he had heard of Shep, but it was a different crowd there and he didn't go there.
I had (might still have it in an old box) a 1st edition of In God We Trust, I will look for it.
Favorite blasts from the past:
The show were he found a self-destruct device in a surplus store, off one of the RADAR units and tried to get it to go off.
The Dago bomb and his father's fireworks business - Excelsior Fireworks Company.
Thanks for having this site to bring back fond memories and let me know what happened to my youth Cult hero.
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