Some “Beyond the Threshold” Flyer action

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Beyond the Threshold was WIDB’s punk show that ran between 1985 and 1987. The show featured punk and hardcore, but also played plenty of garage rock, surf, and assorted other weird garage sale record finds. The first year the show ran after Midnight on Thursdays for an hour, but for it’s second year it graduated to the Friday 8PM slot and picked up a second hour. Once host Dave Landis graduated the show was retooled by co-host Dale Gardner under the name Threshold Bowl-a-rama and ran for another 2 years with new co-host Frank Simpson.

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These two flyers were both in the era before home computer graphics programs, done by hand using Zip-a-tone dry transfer letters and pictures from an old Life Magazine.

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The Kissing Twins in Chalk 2012

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A bit of WIDB history lives on with the current generation in Carbondale. The station’s original kissing twins logo has been resurrected in recent years at WIDB (with the addition of “.net”) and here it gets the extra large sidewalk treatment.

Not sure what the backstory is on chalk drawing, but if someone with more info wants to chime in we’d love to give credit where credit’s due. As seen on WIDB.net’s FaceBook page.

Devo! Utopia! REM! and plenty more: it’s Heavy Rotation at WIDB in 1982!

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Here’s a look at what WIDB was playing almost thirty years ago. This one is from the Ken Krause (Music Director) and Dan Manella (Program Director) era and includes many artists that were WIDB staples well into the 80’s and beyond. You can look at rest of the playlist (including the 1982 Year end top 20 as voted by the WIDB jocks) and plenty of other playlists over the years in the playlist archives.

For the record, “Gonzo” LPs received 8 cuts of play per 4-hour shift, Medium or “Emphasis” LPs–consisting of newer or not-as-strong artists- -had 5 per shift, and New & Recurrent (older Gonzo and select Emphasis) received 4. Records were moved to the back of the rack after airplay to assure diversity as well as minimize repetition