Author: Chris Campbell

This is a pre-recorded show that Jon produced and aired on April 10th, 2016. Below are the 30-minute chunks from the WREK archive system — download all of them and play in order (e.g. alpha sort) to hear the entire show, approximately two hours long as usual. The show starts 2m37s into the first chunk, and except for being pre-recorded instead of produced live, is pretty much typical of Jon’s shows, covering enormous ground with covers, B-sides, and themed sets that he may or may not have explained. As usual he romps from the 1980s punk of Husker Du and MDC to the delirious British pop of Wedding Present to the … whatever you call Housewife, Broadcast and Desert Mountain Tribe. Farther down in this post is the playlist, and at the bottom is a brief explanation of how we even have this show.

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This is a pre-recorded show that Jon produced and aired on July 3rd, 2016. Below are the 30-minute chunks from the WREK archive system — download all of them and play in order (e.g. alpha sort) to hear the entire show, approximately two hours long as usual. The show starts 0m54s into the first chunk, and unlike most of his shows that skittered all over the rock landscape, this one featured the British band Madness. Farther down in this post is the playlist, and at the bottom is a brief explanation of how we even have this show.

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This is a pre-recorded show that Jon produced and aired on January 1st, 2012. Below are the 30-minute chunks from the WREK archive system — download all of them and play in order (e.g. alpha sort) to hear the entire show, approximately two hours long as usual. The show starts 8m45s into the first chunk. Farther down in this post is the playlist, and at the bottom is a brief explanation of how we even have this show.

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On 20-Feb-2022, WREK paid tribute to Jon by re-airing one of the PC shows that they happened to still have in their music production system. That show was then available for streaming from their website for the following two weeks, but I then also captured it for posterity here. WREK happened to have this show’s audio in their system because it’s one that Jon had prerecorded in 2017. It’s a bit of an oddball show for him, since he was actually playing two albums in their entirety, so less sprawling coverage of rock music, but still a great listen. The full playlist is below.

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Jon passed away in on January 5th. There’s much to say about Jon, but this post will be focused on the website itself.

Dave Slusher and I set up this blog website for Jon back in 2006 as an outlet through which he could publish. From Sept 2006 to Feb 2008, Jon posted a longer form piece here every couple weeks, and you can still see those here — just scroll down! Then, like many of us I suppose, once he started on Facebook (in 2008-2009) he stopped posting on this personal blog. In 2014, when he started posting show playlists to Facebook, I was (for a short time) cross-posting the playlists here. At some point the website itself went defunct.

Upon hearing the news of Jon’s passing, I immediately reached out to Dave about restoring this website. Dave still had the domain registration and the site files, and Dave restored it all this morning, and I logged in and did some minor cleanup.

The site is a great snapshot of his writing — scroll down past my playlist posts to get to Jon’s own writing! In coming months, I will post content here in memorial to Jon, samples of the tributes that overflowed in the weeks following his passing.

– Chris C

On Sunday September 14th, Jon recognized the 30 year anniversary of Personality Crisis by talking about how it all got started. I’ve transcribed the story here for posterity.

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See the January 7th post here for background about the radio show and Jon’s playlists. He posts pictures of the playlists to a public photo album on Facebook; we were trying keep up copying them over to this blog, but stopped so just go to that FB link.

Update Jan 2022: with Jon’s passing, his show sadly no longer airs, so while the links below will provide you with mp3 files, they won’t be of Jon’s show.  Of course, we have captured multiple shows here on this website — see the sidebar or home page for those.  We’ve kept the information below for reference, and it’s useful if there are any other shows on WREK that you like and want to listen to offline or time-shifted.

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See the January 7th post here for background about these new playlists.

To the right is a picture of Jon’s playlist for the January 26th, 2014 Personality Crisis radio show on WREK.

If you are reading this before 10pm Sunday Feb 2nd, then use these links for last Sunday:

(EDIT: links expired, deleted)

See the January 7th post here for background about these new playlists.

To the right is a picture of Jon’s playlist for the January 19th, 2014 Personality Crisis radio show on WREK.

If you are reading this before 10pm Sunday Jan 26th, then use these links for last Sunday:

(EDIT: links expired, deleted)

See the January 7th post here for background about these new playlists.

To the right is a picture of Jon’s playlist for the January 12th, 2014 Personality Crisis radio show on WREK.

If you are reading this before 10pm Sunday Jan 19th, then use these links for last Sunday:

(EDIT: links expired, deleted)

See the previous post here for background about all this.

To the right is a picture of Jon’s playlist for the January 5th, 2014 Personality Crisis radio show on WREK.

If you are reading this before 10pm Sunday Jan 12th, then use these links for last Sunday:

(EDIT: links expired, deleted)

I am not Jon, rather a longtime listener to his show.  I’ve been listening since 1988, when as a Georgia Tech student, I wandered into the WREK studios and started down the music rabbit hole. Now follow me as I tell this story about how now, after three decades, we can see Jon’s playlists!

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