Ρεμπετολογια - aka Allen Baekeland, RIP, CoD (JK, classic and classy all the way)

I just got off a radio show in which we remembered our dear friend Allen, known to ILX as Ρεμπετολογια.

I’ll post that show once it’s available.

But I thought — belatedly — since some of you knew Allen IRL and others knew him as a stand-up ILXor, that this might be of interest. A memorial show done last year, exquisitely put together by his friends at CJSW.

a tribute to Allen Baekeland - CJSW

CJSW’s obituary for Allen

Allen & Terry Tompkins on the Now Feeling’s 1988 cassette and Brand New Set of Lies.

Thanks! I was aware of some of that but nice to have a dedicated thread.

And some friends reminiscing & exploring his record collection & music he was involved in: https://cjsw.com/program/the-spin-evolution/episode/20211006/

Loved this guy. Just was thinking about him. Why? Oh, because of Martha Plimpton which made me think of Hair which made me think of the great stories he told about his friend Billy Cowsill. There are some more posts about him buried in the 2020 obituary thread.

Wikipedia also has the story of How Allen Saved the Radio Station.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CJSW-FM

Weird that the time stamp of this thread seems a year late compared to the links and the precipitating event.

I will check to see if he wrote anything about his show for a station zine (CIUT, when he was in Toronto) I put together around '88--if he did, I'll get it onto this thread. Never got past the first issue, but it did mutate into something else not affiliated with the station.