This is a song recorded in 1976 by the Steve Miller Band. A song about two young (possibly teenage) bandits and the police officer pursuing them, it was one of the many hit singles produced by the Steve Miller Band in the 1970s and featured on Fly Like an Eagle. The song peaked at #11 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in July 1976[1] and also charted well in Australia.
1973 is my wheelhouse for music because my brother was a few years older than I was so I was swamped with Deep Purple, Woodstock and the Grateful Dead. I was a senior in high school in 1976 when this song came out. Steve Miller songs were everywhere. Unfortunately or maybe fortunately, I was in Utah for my high school years and the availability to a wide variety of music was limited but The Steve Miller band was always on X-Rock 80. X Rock was a border blaster, a broadcast station that in practice is used to target another country. The term "border blaster" is of North American origin, and usually associated with Mexican AM stations covering large parts of the United States and United States border AM stations covering large parts of Canada.
XEROK-AM is a commercial AM (medium wave) radio station in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico. It is licensed to operate with a power of 150,000 watts on a carrier frequency of 800 kHz, although its new transmitter is now powered at 50,000 watts. The station calls itself "Radio Cañón."
XEROK is the dominant Class A station on 800 AM, a Mexican clear channel frequency. The station had a colorful history as a border blaster, aiming its programming at listeners in the United States, when at night, its 150,000 watt signal could be easily heard in many parts of the Southwest.
In the evenning, with near zero humidity or clouds, it was possible to pick up tons of radio stations. Most of them were the russian woodpecker versions blocking Radio Free Europe or Voice of America. But X-Rock came in clear most nights.
Good things do come across the border.
1973 is my wheelhouse for music because my brother was a few years older than I was so I was swamped with Deep Purple, Woodstock and the Grateful Dead. I was a senior in high school in 1976 when this song came out. Steve Miller songs were everywhere. Unfortunately or maybe fortunately, I was in Utah for my high school years and the availability to a wide variety of music was limited but The Steve Miller band was always on X-Rock 80. X Rock was a border blaster, a broadcast station that in practice is used to target another country. The term "border blaster" is of North American origin, and usually associated with Mexican AM stations covering large parts of the United States and United States border AM stations covering large parts of Canada.
XEROK-AM is a commercial AM (medium wave) radio station in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico. It is licensed to operate with a power of 150,000 watts on a carrier frequency of 800 kHz, although its new transmitter is now powered at 50,000 watts. The station calls itself "Radio Cañón."
XEROK is the dominant Class A station on 800 AM, a Mexican clear channel frequency. The station had a colorful history as a border blaster, aiming its programming at listeners in the United States, when at night, its 150,000 watt signal could be easily heard in many parts of the Southwest.
In the evenning, with near zero humidity or clouds, it was possible to pick up tons of radio stations. Most of them were the russian woodpecker versions blocking Radio Free Europe or Voice of America. But X-Rock came in clear most nights.
Good things do come across the border.
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