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	Podcast:		Other News
	Episode:		Former Seattle DJ Dick Rossetti On The Painful Side Of Nostalgia
	Category:		Government & Organizations
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	Publish Date:		2018-04-07 12:03:00
	Description:		This story originally aired on April 29, 2017. It’s not always easy to come face to face with your past. Sometimes nostalgia is painful. Dick Rossetti knows this well. He was a DJ for Seattle’s big alternative rock radio station, 107.7 The End, in the late 1990s and early 2000s. He lucked into the job, which is normally a super competitive gig that people who are funny on the air take very seriously off mic . This was not Rossetti. This wasn’t something he dreamed about doing. He was a rock 'n' roll guy. But as it turned out, he loved being on live radio. This was at the height of alt rock music. He got to interview bands like the Strokes and Pearl Jam. Plus, he would take calls and talk to listeners on air. Ultimately, that was his favorite part about the job: talking to all the different people who found comfort in his radio show. Rossetti left commercial radio in 2006. However, he kept recordings of nearly every hour he was on air. He used to listen to these tapes to get better at
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