Damian Einstein This is Me

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1. 1. www.capitalonline.com

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   Published on: 10/20/2007   Last Visited: 10/20/2007

   It was always about the music and for a generation of listeners to his local radio shows Damian Einstein was the pied piper. From the moment he hit the airwaves from an apartment turned radio station high atop Triangle Towers in Bethesda, until his last shows in March, he offered up a cornucopia of music to thousands.
   
   Tomorrow evening those people who came to "Feast your ears," as old WHFS radio's logo beckoned, will honor Mr. Einstein the only way they know how - with music - at a concert in Annapolis.
   
   "We are just showing Damian the love," said Michael Macey, who grew up listening to Mr. Einstein and later came to work with him as an engineer at WRNR in Annapolis. "We are just showing Damian the love," said Michael Macey, who grew up listening to Mr. Einstein and later came to work with him as an engineer at WRNR in Annapolis.
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   After Mr. Einstein went off the air in March, Mr. Macey and Music Guide publisher Becky Cooper were lamenting the loss of the on-air personality, especially his local music show that featured area musicians.
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   Mr. Einstein is humbled by the effort insisting he was in it for the joy of it.
   
   "I always played music for music's sake," he said. "I have always gotten along with people.
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   It did not take them long to put together a list of local performers beholden to Mr. Einstein for early support back in the day.
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   All of those had an early relationship with Mr. Einstein and WHFS, or later WRNR.
   
   "It was my pleasure, it was an honor to play their music," Mr. Einstein said. "There were an amazing amount of players in the D.C. area. That's why I thought it was imperative to support local music."
   
   But the breaks Mr. Einstein extended to musicians did not stop at local bands and musicians.
   
   In the early 1970s the studio at WHFS was constantly jamming when bands came by to promote a local show. Mr. Einstein and his colleagues, played up and coming future stars long before other stations gave them air time.
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   "He had a keen ear for the music, deciphering who was excellent," Mr. Einstein's wife Patty Ebbert said.
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   For Mr. Einstein the next influence came from hanging around playing basketball in the black neighborhoods around Denton, where he grew up with his six siblings.
   
   There he found the funk and rhythm in soul music. Then later, when he had taken a job selling ads at his father's small radio station, he soon took the midnight shift on the air. That was in 1970.
   
   The music scene in and around D.C. was hot in those heady days. But for Mr. Einstein it almost ended in a car wreck in December 1975.
   
   He and two friends were in a pickup and went through a dead end in a park, hitting a bridge. His two friends were killed.
   
   Mr. Einstein was in a coma for weeks with severe head trauma and multiple fractures, including his neck. It took two full years of therapy and determination to come back.
   
   "I wanted to get back on the air, to my music and my people," Mr. Einstein said.
   
   He never fully gained strength in one arm and leg, and has used a cane ever since. It also affected his speech, but not his love for music and those who played it.
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   "These are all old friends, now," Mr. Einstein said.

2. 2. Central Maryland Hotels, Vacations, State, Real Estate: Blues Rock Boat on WRNR Cruises on Central.Maryland.com

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   Published on: 2/23/2006   Last Visited: 2/12/2008

   Hosting the monthly blues cruises is WRNR's master blues DJ Damian Einstein, whose listeners have been tuning in wherever he's worked in the region since his 1970s days at the original WHFS 102.3 when the radio station was based in Bethesda.
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   Holloway says his long history with Einstein and fellow cruise musicians helped draw him onboard.
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   "I thought it was a fabulous idea," Einstein says.
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   "Not that they're huckstering their wares," Einstein says.

3. 3. Adios, WHFS - The Washington Times: Business - January 13, 2005

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   Published on: 1/13/2005   Last Visited: 1/13/2005

   Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"?'" said Damian Einstein, Jake Einstein's son. Damian Einstein is now the music director at WRNR-FM (103.1), a small Annapolis station that has preserved the old WHFS style and employs several of its former luminaries. He was asked if the death of WHFS saddened him. "It does and it doesn't. It's been quite some time since I worked there, and it's changed dramatically since then. Everything has," he said.