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ABOUT THE DIRECTOR:
Joe Viglione,
host of the Pop Explosion and Visual Radio, has interviewed Academy Award
Winners Jodie Foster, Michael Moore, director Robert Zemeckis, Grammy winners
Bobby Hebb, Rolling Stones/Eric Clapton producer Rob Fraboni, Grammy-winning drummer
Steve Holley, Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull, Ray Manzarek, Robbie Krieger, John
Densmore and producer Bruce Botnick of The Doors, along with personalities from
all walks of life including Bill Press of Sirius/XM (formerly of CNN’s
Crossfire,) Mark Farner and Don Brewer of Grand Funk Railroad, children’s
author and Jetson’s cartoon scriptwriter Laura Numeroff, Bobby Whitlock of
Derek and the Dominoes, iconic 60’s record producer Jerry Ross, comedians
Gilbert Gottfried, Gallagher, Margaret Cho and hundreds and hundreds of other gifted
individuals.
Viglione’s history in radio goes back to WCUW in
1978, 1979 for public access TV starting in Somerville on Day Street. 38
years later he returned to Somerville coordinating both the Pop Explosion and
Visual Radio supporting the Somerville/Cambridge/Boston/ New England music
community by spinning local music and interviewing members of local bands on
air, in – much like Philadelphia’s WKDU at Drexel University “playing genres
and styles ignored by other stations, and in maintaining a diverse schedule of
radio programming including audio versions of the TV program Visual Radio
(called Non-Visual Radio) after a show Joe produced and hosted in 2000 on
AM 1670 as well as AM 740 WJIB.
Today Non-Visual Radio airs on Activate Media dot
org in
Boston.
Viglione has
produced, worked as advertising rep, and consulted for program director Steve
Becker at WCGY 93.17 1991-1993, he was program director of WNSH AM 1570 in 1992
and P.D. of AM 1670 Allston/Brighton Free Radio in 2000.
As Program Director he hosted the “best of”
Allston Brighton Free Radio on the highly rated AM 740 WJIB on Saturday nights
airing interviews with Lou Reed, Christmas Box author Richard Paul Evans and
others.
Joe has hosted shows on a number
of area radio stations and public access TV stations over the past 41
years.
He has taped for VH-1 and the BBC
(the Songlines special on Bobby Hebb’s “Sunny”) and was Director of Research
for North American Media working with the CEO on the creation of PBS specials
for mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne and actor Paul Sorvino.
Viglione directed and produced the first
documentary film (released worldwide / MVD) on Marty Balin, Rock and Roll Hall
of Fame artist and founding member of The Jefferson Airplane.
In the nine years that he worked for
AllMusic.com / Rovi Joe wrote approximately 5,000 biographies, reviews of
books, albums, songs and movies. Some of
the material is published in about eight or more books (The All Music Guide to
Country, the All Music Guide to Soul, etc.) while he is quoted and thanked in
many more.
Joe helped the Boston
Phoenix with their very first Boston Band Guide, his work published in local
and national magazines Billboard, Radioworld, Goldmine, Discoveries, The Boston
Globe, Musician’s, The Beat, The Real Paper and more. He is currently the Chief
Film Critic for the popular TMRZoo, an online magazine, columnist for the Somerville News Weekly and – of course –
continues to host Visual Radio and the Joe Vig Pop Explosion.