… By today’s standards, it’s astonishing.” “I was allowed to play whatever I wanted to play and interview whoever I wanted to interview. “This was the time on rock radio before playlists and research and corporate demands,” said Cerphe. “We were eclectic - the listeners knew that, and they loved it.”īy today’s radio standards, Cerphe and other WHFS DJs, including Jonathan “Weasel” Gilbert, Damian Einstein and Bob “Here” Showacre, had near-free rein over the music they played. “We were a social art form before social media,” he says. Cerphe says the station wasn’t just technologically ahead of its time. area to broadcast in FM stereo - resulting in the Washington High Fidelity Stereo call letters. Some of WHFS’s DJs will be feted Wednesday evening at Bethesda Blues and Jazz Supper Club, where NRBQ, which was often featured on WHFS, will perform. Once I landed that HFS gig, I looked at the world like I was seeing it for the very first time,” Cerphe says.

“I can’t wait to see it,” says former WHFS DJ Cerphe Colwell, who appears in the film.Ĭerphe was hired in 1970 to do a Saturday-night show from 7 p.m. The in-the-works documentary “Feast Your Ears: The Story of WHFS 102.3” will take viewers “on a psychedelic trip back to the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s, when free-form, progressive rock radio was in its heyday,” the project’s website says.įrom an unassuming studio “high atop the Triangle Towers” in Bethesda, WHFS was an important rallying point for many music fans. WASHINGTON - Long before the Internet and Google, a place existed where local music fans could hear obscure songs and learn about artists they’d never heard of - its “URL” was 102.3 FM. Business & Finance Click to expand menu.Īug| Former WHFS DJ Cerphe on the alternative station's heyday.

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