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Anngelle Wood is a true renaissance woman keeping busy as a radio DJ, music & entertainment writer and reporter, hair stylist, pet adoption proponent, local band supporter (see Rising Tide series) and overall rock enthusiast. She can be heard locally on 100.7 WZLX-FM in Boston and as one of the hosts of "On The Town with Mikey Dee," the local music show Wednesdays at 9pm on 91.5 WMFO-FM at Tufts University.

She's the former Music & Entertainment reporter and co-host of the WFNX morning show heard in Boston, Providence, Manchester and Portsmouth. She was part of 5 - count 'em, 5 - incarnations of the FNX morning show! Something that makes her both proud and sick at the same time.

She's also been on-air at WBUR, Boston University. Anngelle's been interviewed on the BBC/London's 6 Music program on Echo and the Bunnymen's 25th anniversary tour launch The Paradise in Boston.

ANNGELLE IN THE PRESS

Born in the great Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the same city as Rob Zombie and Tom Bergeron (Hollywood Squares) - how's that for star power? A product of the 70s in the often uneventful area of the Merrimack Valley. If I was not annoying my siblings by tattling, raiding their record collections of Cheap Trick, Led Zeppelin, and Bob Seger records, I was getting sent to the principal's office or running the streets naked with my dog (not in that order).

I remember my first Led Zeppelin experience. It was pop week in elementary school, "In Through The Out Door" had just been released and my brother had it. Our 2nd grade music teacher invited all of us to bring in a record to share in class. While the other kids were playing their Donna Summer and Bee Gees 45s, I played "In the Evening." 

So the naked dog stories happened earlier on. The dog was Jeff, an old German Shepard I don't remember well as he left one day and never came home. Later came Duke - the menacing, but loving, blind-in-one-eye superstar Bullmastiff. Duke's days were filled with round-the-clock excitement as he literally ran the neighborhood (leashes weren't necessary, nor was neutering unfortunately). Duke was the light of our lives, but less popular among the mail carriers as they refused to deliver to us forcing us to get one of those P.O. boxes. Duke was most popular at the local doughnut shop, The Doughnut Grove, where he visited almost daily.

My first real pre-Leif Garret crush was on a Sgt. Pepper-era Peter Frampton after seeing it on television. Something I wasn't supposed to see. (I also wasn't supposed to see "Carrie" or "Jaws" but thankfully I'm the youngest). Though I still wanted to be a figure skater like Dorothy Hamill without the bad hair but I was beginning to consider other options like becoming a back-up singer in Pink Floyd.

I later did time in a ridiculously private NH church school. So private they didn't really teach us anything. In a word: HELL! And I still don't know math. Pleated skirts, knee socks, and rules. Didn't take long until I was in trouble again. Being chastised for everything from wearing make-up to being a bad influence on the other girls. I opted-out of choir when the director tried to make me sing solos. This afforded me more time to engross myself in 80's radio: hit radio, disco, and kick-ass rock n' roll. I discovered Journey then Def Leppard and then Motley Crue. All hell soon broke loose.

I have my GE AM/FM/cassette player to thank, that and my church choir director. The one that wanted me to sing solos, solos I was apparently too cool for. Hit radio was awesome when I was 12. I started off rather sweetly, loving Journey and Reo Speedwagon. Bonnie Tyler, Lionel Ritchie and Hall and Oates were putting out the hits. When Def Leppard released "Pyromania" I was changed forever. Rebellion had started to rear its ugly head. I remember trying to tape songs off the radio but the damn DJs would talk too much. It was around that time, 12 or 13, that I thought being on the radio would be really cool despite having any idea how one goes about getting on the radio.
 

My interest in music continued to grow. I'm sure it was fueled by those church going days where worldly things like Rock n' Roll were taboo. During that time, a local video music channel cropped up, V66 played tons of Boston bands including Face to Face, 'til tuesday, Extreme, and Mass(!), as well as some national stuff like The Dream Academy, Prince, and Aerosmith. I loved it but sadly it went the way of the home shopping channel. I continued to immerse myself in radio.

 



Ah, the 80s. I loved 'em and I have the pictures to prove it. By my teen years,
I had grown into a metal head. I studied Circus, Creem, Hit Parader and Metal Edge like gospel. I owned nearly every Dokken, Motley Crue, Ratt, Skid Row, Lita Ford, Poison, Aerosmith, Ozzy, and Guns n' Roses cassette tape made. I went to concerts at every opportunity and was quite proud of my concert t-shirt collection. (I laugh now when I look back at the ridiculous amount of money I spent on overpriced concert merch). First concert: Motley Crue, Worcester Centrum. I was 16. I'll remember it always.

Best show memory: Aerosmith, New Year's Eve at the Boston Garden - 1980-something. Story: Told my mother I would be with friend's watching movies all night. Truth: we drove her car to the Garden to see Aerosmith and Dokken from the front row.

 

 

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