The one of the FM was an incipient dial. It wasn’t even known as such. All stations had the obligation to broadcast in what was advertised pompously as Modulated Frequency. Thus, with all his words. The connoisseurs predicted a great future for him. It was.
Despite this, no radio knew what to do with that technical complement to which they used the smallest, most rudimentary and precarious of their studios. That it sounded much better was not enough value either, after all, the quality of most transistors and homemade receivers was not enough and there was no habit of changing bands. In these, Radio Barcelonaonce again the first, launched its second channel with a careful selection of music that time built into prelude to the successful radio formulas current.
Behind that idea was the same music journalist who directed ‘disc joggers’. A program ahead of its time presented by Constantino Romero and Rafael Turia to which for some season they were added Pepe Antequera as a counterpoint since their styles and preferences had nothing to do with it. At the control, between the sound technician and the musical editor, a voice behind glasses directed and gave the step according to the rhythm he mastered.
The early 1970s, the Franco regime slowly languishing and the puffs of long-awaited freedom they were still subject to their previous passage through the resistant censorship that continued to monitor the soundtrack of expectant lives. In line with those references that one could not stop listening to if one wanted to know what the world was singing, one would add ‘vibes’, the magazine with the indisputable seal of who fell silent this Saturday. Then came everything else.
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Àngel Casas was already a reference when he put on his television ‘show’ on TV-3. The screen, however, prints character and he had proven it during the previous five years at the head of ‘Music Express’ on the second channel of TVE. But that cult program had nothing to do with the great show that, together with ‘Dallas’ and Barça, helped to project TVC. First, because jumping to a first channel always involves approaching a broader audience and moving away from the aware and alternative to win over the new and transversal. and second because Televisió de Catalunya was born to be something more than the anthropological channel that the then general director of the only existing public entity intended. And so it was that the strength of the novelty, the impact, the audacity and the proximity of some shining stars made some Catalans believe that Show was the second surname of the person he always knew what, how and why he did what he did.
Someone said that the best fertilizer for a field is the footprints of its owner. Àngel Casas knew how to till a land that had been uncultivated until then to make it his own. He insisted on paying it properly and was able to reap its fruits before his health consumed him. She maintained the good humor that characterized her and that she distilled in her books despite the attacks of life that were not only physical. He always wrote and said what he thought fit. She felt free because the professional critic that he never ceased to be prevailed over the person who appreciated the closeness. And why the ahead of its time always usually arrive before everything. Even to his own conclusions.