Back in the days when Creem Magazine was a rock journalism institution, Dave Marsh was the Guru. It was Rolling Stone with a Michigan work ethic, stripped of excess and printed on glossy stock. It inspired a generation of great writers like Lester Bangs, Dave DiMartino, J. Kordosh and Susan Whitall. It was a place where those in the know went to know more about rocks great and near great. And on every page, you could feel Dave's influence.

That influence lives... on Sirius Satellite Radio. Starting Sunday October 10 from 10 AM to Noon Sirius Talk will debut Kick Out the Jams! With Dave Marsh. The reference to the classic MC5 tune is no coincidence:

"The show will be based at the intersection of music and politics," says Dave. "I plan to tell stories, rant and foment, as usual, besides interviewing music figures and others, and receiving calls from listeners. I'll also play a record here and there (maybe even a countdown of the 1001 singles book). I hope the show will be a lot like an over-the-air version of Rock & Rap Confidential. "

"I plan to be myself--despising Bush, disdaining Democrats, fighting the war, looking for things that sound like freedom, attacking injustice (ranging from the demolition of the Tennessee public health care system to the exclusion of Lynyrd Skynyrd from the R&R Hall of Fame), and delighting, always, in the music and what it brings to our lives. "

Although Sirius is a subscription radio service, Dave is high on the technology because, "it doesn't have to kowtow to the FCC so adult humans (or even the kids, who have rights, too) get to speak the way people speak in real life and I don't have to hunt down a 'brothers and sisters' version of the theme song. And there's no advertising, so that much less to fear in the way of pressure to conform."

Sounds to us like must-hear programming in the style of WKNR-FM, without the seven-words constraints. Dave encourages feedback, "Except maybe for, 'Don't do this, you idiot.'"

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