Just saw that DJ #Linbrehmer died. Before he had 38 successful years in Chicago, he worked the weeknight shift at WQBK in Rensselear NY in the early 1980s, where he helped keep me sane in my high school years and spurred a lifelong love of good music.

On Two Minutes Fifty-Nine, my fledgling Clash podcast, I pondered the ways music keeps us connected to the ones we lost, inspired in part by untimely passing of Chicago legend Lin Brehmer of WXRT in Chicago https://twominutesfiftynine.com/2023/01/27/episode-4-the-music-they-left-behind/ #TheClash #TheOnlyBandThatMatters #93XRT #LinBrehmer #RIPLinBrehmer #ItsGreatToBeAlive

Summer 1989. I was interning at #WXRT under #LinBrehmer. Suffice it to say, there's a nonzero chance that I was the worst intern he ever had. Certainly in the bottom five.

Anyway, on my way out the door for the last time, he handed me a copy of Workbook by Bob Mould. Insisted that I take it.

Maybe he thought it would enlighten me or something? Challenge my priors? Elicit some humility?

Whatever he meant by it … well, it took a while, but I think it worked.

RIP, Lin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr6VPJgQrwg

Missing Lin Brehmer.

#wxrt #LinBrehmer

#LinBrehmer was a voice in my ear for years driving throughout #Chicago. It'll be strange not to hear him again. Rest in peace.

I'm so sad about this! https://blockclubchicago.org/2023/01/23/lin-brehmer-mourned-by-chicagos-music-community-there-was-no-difference-between-the-person-and-the-persona/

I met him once in college, when I was still considering radio as a career and visited XRT with a classmate. He had just finished his shift, but took the time to show us how he'd assembled his playlist for the day (leaving just enough room in the schedule for playing some stuff on a whim). Then he showed off the big wall of XRT live recordings and we all nerded out. 💙

#LinBrehmer #chicago

Every morning in my 20s the alarm was set to WXRT and Lin Brehmer telling us “it’s great to be alive” before playing some Queen or Talking Heads. His passion for the Chicago Cubs was unmatched no matter how bad the season. Such a shame.

Legendary Chicago radio host, Lin Brehmer, died Sunday after a long battle with cancer.

#chicago #WXRT #LinBrehmer #BestFriendInTheWholeWorld #cancerSucks

https://abc7chicago.com/lin-brehmer-death-wxrt-radio/12726270/

Chicago radio personality Lin Brehmer, drawn 1984 Topps style

#riplinbrehmer #linbrehmer #wxrt #chicago #baseballcards #cardart

RT @chrischeng27@twitter.com

This will remain perfect @93XRT@twitter.com #LinBrehmer

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/chrischeng27/status/1617212921376825344

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#OurBestFriendInTheWholeWorld
#WXRT #Chicago #LinBrehmer
https://www.audacy.com/wxrt/Lin-Brehmer

RT @Helen_Highly@twitter.com

@emilylhauser@twitter.com Lin came to ‘XRT as music director in 1984, same year as I came to Chicago to begin my adult life. I will always think of Chicago as my hometown, and if you loved Chicago, you loved @93XRT@twitter.com, and if you loved WXRT, you loved #LinBrehmer. “Take nothing for granted,”
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RIP.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Helen_Highly/status/1617224626345758720

#LinBrehmer sounded like the jolly grandpa everybody wished they'd grown up with. After I moved to Chicago, he somehow made my morning commute warm and welcoming with only that soft, baritone voice. I missed that presence when Lin moved to the midday shift, but I took joy in the occasion that I could tune in and hear him opine about the meaning of life through Christmas ham, his favorite childhood toy or another disappointing Cubs season. Lin left behind a hole that will be impossible to fill.

#LinBrehmer sounded like the jolly grandpa everybody wished they'd grown up with. After I moved to Chicago, he somehow made my morning commute warm and welcoming with only that soft, baritone voice. I missed that presence when Lin moved to the midday shift, but I took joy in the occasion that I could tune in and hear him opine about the meaning of life through Christmas ham, his favorite childhood toy or another disappointing Cubs season. Lin left behind a hole that will be impossible to fill.