KMET was the quintissential FM rock station in LA from about '67 until '86 or so. People LOVED it. There were other rock stations, but KMET was clearly the originator in LA.

I was thinking that I'd love to be able to tune in to a live stream of KMET somehow, as if it were still on the air today. But the station was turned into a new-age wallpaper-music outlet and the call letters reassigned to some AM station out in the sticks. Tragic.

KMET's heyday was during that brief and exciting time when we got away from our handlers for a while, when we were not being marketed to 24/7. Remember Paraquat? Some poison the US was spraying on Mexican dope crops -- unfortunately, if you smoked Paraquat-sprayed dope, you got ill. So one of the DJs earned his nickname of Paraquat Kelley by rallying listeners against Paraquat spraying. Awesome! That is how it should be. And that is how it was.

Unfortunately, KMET favored late 70s southern rock over New Wave and became less and less relevant. During the 80s the snotty-little-brother KROQ claimed the FM throne (with shitty music and an insane number of commercials per hour IMHO).

But, God, back in the day -- as the jingle went, "KMET / is the place to be / for the music / on your / ra-deee-ohh...."

THE MIGHTY MET.