

Yet before KNAC-FM abruptly switched over to a heavy-metal format earlier this month, there wasn’t a legitimate 100% hard-rock station in the entire country. And over the next six weeks, a quartet of metal warriors-Kiss, Twisted Sister, Aerosmith and Rush-will all be headlining the biggest halls in town.

Many of 1985’s biggest-selling albums were from heavy-metal bands, including Iron Maiden, Motley Crue, Ratt, Dio and the Scorpions.

And what’s more-local headbangers have a legitimate gripe. īut the real surprise here is that this complaint didn’t come from a black music fan, but from a heavy-metal fanatic. Popsters interested in this controversy can read Dennis Hunt’s interview with Rush’s Geddy Lee on. Patrick Goldstein’s Pop-Eyeings notwithstanding, Rush is not a heavy-metal band, writes a rather annoyed James Kahn of Hacienda Heights. Los Angeles Times Sunday FebruHome Edition Calendar Calendar Desk 1 inches 36 words Type of Material: Correction The catch, of course, is that to get KLA you have to be a subscriber to Group W Cable and ask for an FM hook-up. For the lost legion of ex-KNAC listeners, however, we offer the solution posed by Richard Wagoner of UCLA’s campus radio station KLA: Listen to his station, which is patterned after the old KNAC. NEW KNAC, OLD KNAC: The change in format at KNAC from alternative rock to the heaviest of metal has brought us much scrawled outrage-from both sides. Los Angeles Times Sunday FebruHome Edition Calendar Calendar Desk 2 inches 63 words Type of Material: Correction
