WZBC 90.3FM

• Sounds of Dissent

• Truth and Justice Radio

• Late Night Reggae Jam with Neita Michael

• Benjamen Walker's Your Radio Nightlight

2001, as Story Teller on "the Night"

Before "The Theory of Everything" Ben Walker produced "Your Radio Nightlight" Freeman made one episode with Ben and two of his old friends. "The Night" contains our true stories from a 'special' school somewhere in New Hampshire. ...stories about sadism, redemption, strange bathroom habits ...and so much more. (60:00) -Listen!

• Lucid Sounds / Expanding Awareness

WMBR Programs

• No Censorship Radio

Chuck U. and Linda P. aired many of Freeman's special reports on events in Manhattan, Washington DC, Boston, Cambridge...

• WMBR News

2004, Reporter / News Producer. Freeman produced several reports for the Weekly WMBR News program

• Music for Human Beings

(2006-7, Live Performer)

Hosted by: Arthur Rainbowbeam, Lester Woods, & Pat Greenleaf. "Strap yourself into the gliding waves of your life. Taste the flowers, they are your divinity."

• The Most Merciful Thing

(2006, Live Performer)

Hosted by Thadeus Morgan and Arthur Pede, The Most Merciful Thing isn't just another conspiracy show...It's an actual conspiracy!

• Darkbot "Music for Lonely Robots"

(2005, Media Contributor)

Freeman produced this reading of a Brautigan poem for Dark Bot (1:15). Listen!

• Radio with a View

Freeman questions WMBR's very questionable practice of selling air time.

WBRS Programs

• Alphabet Soup

(Producer, 1990-93)

Freeman produced this childrens' program for three years. ...Played lots of Bill Harley ...and you should too!

• Quality Time

Freeman: "I produced this talk program for several years. It featured the participation of Brandeis students and local school-age boys and girls on both sides of the transmitter. We exposed Fat Jack Burns' abuse of students in the Waltham schools, and I'd often get an escort to the Waltham border courtesy of the Brandeis Police. Maybe that was because of the threats on my life by a sleazy campus Republican or maybe it was something else entirely."

• What's Left

(Producer / Artiste, 1990-93)

Not to be confused with dear friend Linda Pinkow's 2005 show on WMBR, this was a creative and truly anarchic multi-studio extravaganza where I realized the spiritual nature of Art through my favorite medium...ray dee oh.

• All Genre All Night

(Producer/ Artiste, 1990-93)

Anything goes. Live calls and interviews, any style of music, triple-turntable vinyl orgies, open reel tricks, cart machines on acid. And sometimes I just played music.

• The Joint 10th Anniversary Celebration

(Performer, 1993)

I only played once on The Joint. This was a live performance of glass-smashing with hammers accompanying Jazz Drummer Lawrence Cook, radio guru Chimpy Tonearmeau and friends.

WMFO Programs

• No U Turn Radio

(2005, Media Contributor)

Dean Wallace hosts this program founded by my Associate in progressive media Martin Voelker. No U Turn features progressive lectures, and airs my material.

• Free Of Form Radio

(2005-06, Media Contributor, Guest)

Allston-Brighton Free Radio

Freeman appeared on Allston-Brighton Free Radio as a Guest of "The Allston Curmudgeon" (about MBTA Police misconduct) and also at "The Round Table "(about local environmental issues (See this website for more info.)

WERS Programs

• Dispatches From The Future

Media Contributor

WERS's arrogance is it's worst handicap. The broadcasting 'school' trains 'Engineers' on top notch equipment they'll almost never be using in the real world. Their recordists, when I've seen them, haven't had a clue how to use their fancy gear. Their children's program The Playground, has a playlist of about fifty songs, and they dare not break the top-down protocol. When they had one of my favorite performers, Bill Harley, as a studio guest, they played the only song of his they ever play...over and over and over. Such "diversity! " THEY CALL IT "MUSIC FOR THE INDEPENDENT MIND" If your mind is independent, then why do you need to have this hammered at you? insipid.

Great Sounding signal, though.

Their claims of "musical diversity" are a tremendous insult to the stations that actually practice programming diversity. WBRS, for example, runs programs in, at last count, seven languages. (English, Hatian Creole, Modern Hebrew, Yiddish, Spanish, French and Modern Greek.)

When broadcaster Lee Noble decided he'd had enough of wers-radio, he did a lovely swan-song program which he dedicated to the guys at the Billerica House of Corrections and to yours truly. He railed on the 'banal' programming, and the attitude at this lame station, pointing out that "banal rhymes with anal ...which is where this station belongs...up my ass!" So long Lee.

Emerson University has a horrible administration that tries to micro-manage and control everything. This struggle is reflected in conflicts with the faculty and students that make the news. One of my friends from Emerson was kicked out because she got married. Read about it in her book.

WERS and Emerson 'U' ...Get over yourself!

"The Lost 45s with Barry Scott" began on Emerson College radio. After graduation, the show was picked up by a commercial radio station and has received #1 ratings ever since. The program recently celebrated 20 years on the air at Oldies 103.3/WODS-FM in Boston-- including 6 years in national syndication. The Boston Herald calls it "The most successful weekend show in the history of Boston radio!"

NPR / PRI

• Whadya Know? (Nationally syndicated Comedy Quiz)

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• Talk Of The Nation

Freeman called in to challenge some stupid white men who ran the FCC. Instead of protecting the public interest, as they are charged to do, they turned them over, auctioned frequencies to corporations. Somehow these jackasses seem to think think they've done a pretty good job. Or maybe they want us to think they've done a good job. We're not buying it. ..are you?

Narrative

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Returning to his native Massachusetts in 1990, Jeff became a fixture at WBR(i)S-FM at Brandeis university, producing several weekly live programs (childrens, all-genre, and improv) and a block of live talk shows that ranged from serious to silly. It was at this time that he and Dennis Bergeron broke the infamous "Jerky Tape" on Boston FM.

Freeman: "It was viral. The kids on the streets were shouting the Jerky Tape gags! We'd crack up, cuz' they had no idea we were the 'radio guys' who opened that pandora's box. Within a few weeks WBCN had it, and it was making money. (The terrible movie came later.) I saw this Jerky thing as encouraging, because of how it spread (before it hit the air) ...it was recorded and distributed person to person, not top-down or center-out. That's like magic. That's how revolutions happen."

Hijacked to Appalachia for a few years, Freeman returned in 2000 to Massachusetts with a vengeance. Within a few years, he had become a major content provider for WMBR-FM and WZBC-FM. In the pursuit of recording excellence, Freeman established a professional sound company.

Freeman: "I was hindered by three problems, lack of organization, lack or understanding, and lack of respect for my efforts to bring events to a wider audience. I began offering free public address services purely as a means to get better recordings. It worked. Next thing I knew, I was managing bigger speeches conferences, shaking hands with Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn and Desmond Tutu, ...and depositing checks with which our emerging team would expand our tool chest. It all meant ...Better Recordings!"

Jeff's also learned a trick or twelve from his senior ally in sonic revolution, Bill Hanley, who says he came to this same point the other way round. That is, his pursuit of live sound (He's worked with just about everybody in music through the 50's and 60's before amplifying the big Vietnam peace rallies.) lead him to record major label master tapes at Newport, the Fillmore East and the original Woodstock.