JIM BAD BOY BAADE: FLINT ROCK JOCK / ROCK FILMMAKER GUEST POSTS TODAY!

Photo: 1983 at WWCK goes to Michelle LaRose

We have a guest post today from the best looking DJ in retro rock history! Jim "Bad Boy" Baade who is also a superb Rock Radio filmmaker. 

We thought my readers and fellow retro music fans would love to see all of Jim's historic rock history films! Hopefully, many more to come!  Kick em Out Bad Boy!

Photo of Jim with Greta Van Fleet holding up a copy of Local DJ (Left to Right Sam Kiszka, Me, Jake Kiszka and Josh Kiszka. Photo Credit Sophia Baade

Flint’s Best Rock was a passion project I made while taking a filmmaking class at Mott Community College in 2012. I didn’t realize the movie would resonate with so many people, but it did and that just blew me away. The film recounts the glory days of WWCK, an Album Rock powerhouse in the ’80s that went to become the Best Rock Station in America according to Billboard Magazine!!

It wasn’t corporate radio, but true radio- when radio had a lot of power! I wanted to be as honest and intelligent as I could in telling the story about something I loved and was a big part of... and it kinda sent shockwaves both locally and nationally to an extent. It won Best Doc at the Flint Film Festival and was elected to be in the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland.

Photo Credit Sophia Baade

Local DJ was a tribute to my mentor and true Rock n’ Roll Hero - Peter C Cavanaugh!! It was my highest professional honor to have Pete endorse and love my film.

The group photo is of a small reunion of WWCK DJ’s (left to right: Jim, Randy Stephenson, Tim Siegrist, and Randy Bhirdo)

Local DJ is 101 minutes of an immersive experience connecting key elements of a half-century of radio, Rock n’ Roll and Culture featuring Michigan’s significant contributions. A microcosm of our shared experience to Rock music in American with non-stop throbbing, pulsing and pulverizing red hot Rock seen through the life and times of Rock n’ Roll Hall Fame DJ Peter C Cavanaugh.

https://vimeo.com/330236501 (Flint’s Best Rock 2012) - Password 1234

https://vimeo.com/330230347 ( Local DJ The Story of Michigan Story) - Password 1234

https://vimeo.com/331733752 (Local DJ The Story of Michigan of Rock Trailer) - Password 1234

LOCAL DJ IS A MOONDANCE FILM FESTIVAL FINALIST!!

Peter C. Cavanaugh

The Michigan based film "Local DJ: The Story of Flint Rock n' Roll" was recently awarded Finalist status in the highly regarded Moondance International Film Festival for 2017. The Michigan feature documentary was included in the honor among films from Ireland, Turkey, Iran, Singapore and Australia.

Local DJ: The Story of Flint Rock n' Roll follows the life and times of Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame DJ/Promoter/Executive Peter C. Cavanaugh as he made his mark as a pioneering broadcast programmer and concert promoter throughout much of the later half of the 20th century.

Told mostly from within Flint, Michigan - the one time capital of the industrialized world, "Local DJ" is a remarkably paced film highlighting Michigan Rock n' Roll and its stars like: THE MC5, Bob Seger, Ted Nugent, Alice Cooper, and The Stooges!

Written, Produced, Directed and Edited by Jim Baade whose other film "Flint's Best Rock" won Best Documentary at the "2013 Flint Film Festival". Both of Baade's films are housed within the Library and Archives of the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio.

LOCAL DJ: THE STORY OF FLINT ROCK N ROLL BOOK AND FILM!!

This is one of the very best rock documentaries I have ever seen.  The true story of Michigan Rock n Roll. I loved Peter Cavanaugh's autobiography and now we have a film that brings the book to life!

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Watch the full film (free) below from Jim Baade.

PETER CAVANAUGH'S BOOK LOCAL DJ! FREE DIGITAL EDITION FOR THE 4TH!

PETER C

One of the very best books on the history of rock n roll ever.....I loved every page! You fans of Detroit and Flint rock music from the 1960s and beyond will adore Peter C's book!

FREE! FREE! FREE!

This is a special “Fourth of July” Thank You From Peter Cavanaugh for all of your support through the years as we celebrate the Fortieth Anniversary of our last “Wild Wednesday” at Sherwood Forest on June 26, 1974.

Presenting – “Local DJ -- At A Glance” – The Digital Edit -- AVAILABLE IN ALL DIGITAL FORMATS FREE OF CHARGE UNTIL MIDNIGHT SUNDAY, JULY 6th AT https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/453967

Following the original publication of “Local DJ” in 2002 and a subsequent “Tenth Anniversary Digital Update” in 2012, I was urged to edit select sections from the book dealing primarily with Flint Rock & Roll history for my friend, Vince Lorraine, such to be run as monthly columns in his classy “My City” magazine commencing in September of 2013.

With the last chapter, “Epilogue: Toledo and Beyond” having been released in the July 2014 issue and after receiving outstanding response to the columns and hearing from dozens of old friends and scores of new ones, I have been encouraged to digitally publish the series as “Local DJ -- At A Glance.”

Essentially, this “Digital Compression Edit” ruthlessly slashes 126,535 words in the expanded “Tenth Anniversary Update” to 14,376 - in the process providing a significantly more time-efficient presentation that is substantially more “family friendly” as well. Left behind are hundreds of sordid highlights and amazingly wild tales of sex, drugs and Rock & Roll the more adventurous “At a Glance” readers can easily discover elsewhere.

This is for all the Moms and Dads who had to leave the room when “Buffalo Dick” was “on the air.”

And aging children everywhere.

Peter Cavanaugh
Oakhurst, California

FLINT'S BEST ROCK: JIM BAADE'S DOCUMENTARY

Flint's Best Rock, The Movie by Jim Baade

In Flint, Michigan in 1971, the United Methodist Church withdrew support for WMRP-AM/FM, and the radio stations were sold that year to John W. Nogaj, who changed the FM's call letters to WWCK as a nod to Windsor, Ontario's powerhouse AM top 40 radio station CKLW.

WWCK or CK as it was called back then was the biggest rock station in the US for a time.  It meant everything to it's young and very loyal listeners. In Rock's prime time CK interviewed all the biggest bands who played in Flint at the IMA Sports Arena..

When I produced the Super Sale at Flint IMA every March, we often had CK disc jockeys on hand to support the show.  We were a big advertiser and as we were a young show staff of mostly girls we loved CK Disc Jockey Jim "Bad Boy" Baade the most...He was so much fun and we thought he was so cute..

So imagine my surprise when I received an email from Jim about his new film project.  Jim had no idea that we had met years before so I was excited to work with him again. Jim created a great film documentary about WWCK's rock past and he is now working on a film about the Women rock radio jocks and their contributions to the medium...We can certainly help find the rock-jock ladies from the Detroit area!

Jim "Bad Boy" Baade

Jim's film "Flint's Best Rock" is now officially a part of American rock history as it has been accepted into Cleveland's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame!

This is a story that had to be told! "Flint's Best Rock" will not let you go and you will finish with deep sense of appreciation for this once proud radio station.

Read more about Jim Baade:

MLive Story You Felt Like a Rock Star

MLive Story Flint Documentary Archived

ABC12 WJRT Story Flint Documentary Headed for Hall of Fame