Hall interviewing Johnny Cash backstage at Starwood Amphitheatre, year unknown.
Shame to start off our week with a piece of bad news, but that's just the way these things fall from time to time.
Lightning 100 reportsthat their longtime DJ and program director David Hall died on Saturday, Feb. 5. Says Lightning:
David’s steadfast professionalism and charm were hallmarks of his time at the helm of Lightning 100. He was THE face and THE voice of Nashville rock radio and Lightning 100, spanning decades at the microphone. He was a fierce advocate of many Nashville artists you hear on Lightning 100, a role which he relished as “David Hall Rocks Y’all,” every weekday afternoon. He brought them to Nashville radio and the rest of the world via live broadcast and the internet every Sunday with Nashville Sunday Night. In local music, David championed everyone from Jason & the Scorchers in the 80’s, The Evinrudes and Leigh Nash in the 1990s, to Gabe Dixon and Drew Holcomb and the Neighbors, in 2012.
Hall was a fixture in Nashville radio even before he began his tenure at Lightning 100, having also broadcast at WKDF and Classic Rock WGFX. While I can't personally recall too much about WGFX (that frequency and those call letters now belong to 104.5 The Zone, a sports-talk station), I can say that WKDF was — certainly at least for me personally — probably the reigning rock station in Nashville for a big chunk of time. First place I ever heard Nirvana.
Also, does anyone know the year in which the above photo was taken? Starwood was built in '85, so it wasn't taken before then. But the small glimpse at men's fashion we get tells me it probably wasn't taken after about '91 or so.
