It was at that moment, that the path of his future would be set. By the age of five, Tom became quickly attracted to his fathers endless racks of recording equipment. For obvious reasons. A celebrity within his own craft, Tom's father, renowned jazz guitarist Sonny Troy, would allow him access to his high end reel to reel tape recorder and the then newer technology in his Akai tape cassette recording unit he used in guitar sessions nearly every day. After being self taught with how to apply settings for recordings, what tapes to purchase, and later creating a make believe radio station where he would envision interviewing random celebrities, documenting each tape for his imaginary radio channel, became this young man's daily obsession.                                            

While his radio days were still far off............... As Tom got older, he created an amateur, yet real interview program whilst in high school titled Power69 & The Tom Gagliardi Show. The at times immature and nonprofessional program still managed to garner attention to students, teachers, friends & contemporaries with its mixed humor, stupid & obnoxious news stories and at times vulgar skits. However, his troubles in radio started before he even got behind a real FM radio station microphone. At the age of 15, he built a small radio transmitter from the tricks his father taught him with electronics from a young age. He would start to broadcast his program that would bring some unwanted trouble that would threaten his future radio career before it would even begin. After being triangulated by state authorities with his makeshift transmitter, Tom would be warned to never pull a radio interference stunt like that again by the powers that be. Like most normal parents, Tom's were not very happy. 

In the final years of high school, it was obvious that Tom had a knack for journalistic writing and began writing for the Maple Shade High School section of the Maple Shade Progress. His parents and extended family encouraged him to pursue being a writer, and avoid radio at all costs. His journalism teacher, Ruth Ferguson insisted, as did Tom's mother, to go where his strengths were. He later enrolled in journalism classes in his first semester at CCC. However, very secretly, he would defy everyone that pre-semester in the summer of 1991 by joining the then less than reputable, 91.5FM WDBK in Blackwood, New Jersey. Tom would be teamed up with well established mid-day radio personality, Greg Ficchi. Greg's five hour program taught Tom how to conduct himself on the radio which later saw his mentor designate one hour of his show to Tom's 'Lost Satellite' portion, where he would play obscure rock music he loved on his own time called 'progressive rock'. That August, Tom would carefully pick his first album to spotlight which would be the King Crimson Red album from 1974, gifted to him by the brothers who owned Gallo's Bakery in Mount Laurel, New Jersey. They became the first true contributors of the radio program. At the same time, Tom became disillusioned with the college newspaper after two of his articles, which were more in the editorial based style of writing, were unexpectedly censored, then pulled from the weekly print due to the main editor not agreeing with Tom's political critique. Despite showing the positives & negatives of the issue, his being silenced for his viewpoint immediately prompted him to fully change his major that semester to Radio, Television & Film. And he was ready to prove to his detractors that he would make it work in his favor.

The Lost Satellite Launches...............With the now obvious challenge, Tom was determined to do something constructive in radio. He would take on two radio shifts at WDBK 91.5FM. First in the Monday 6AM to 1PM talk/music format that featured a team of colleagues such as Darryl Elder, Jason Mollica, Joe 'DJ Wheels' Borsello, Carmine Sarlo, and countless others. It was also at this time that Tom would recruit co-worker & contributor Keith 'The Man' Myers to be his engineer & producer who would soon help design the prototype for the early development of the radio program that would become, The Lost Satellite. The early program logo design featured Tom's favorite NASA probe launched in 1977 known as the beloved Voyager 2. His obsession with astronomy & space travel would be a central theme to his future program for many years that carries on to even the present day. 

Tom along with Keith Myers, Jon Most, and many other contributors, would focus on the newly assigned Wednesday night slot of 8PM to Midnight that only the top audience driving programs owned, such as DJ Hitman, Nurse Erin & Nurse Laurie of the excellent program The Metal Hospital, The Bobber and many other up & comers in early 1992. At the same time, Tom took on the radio music director assistant intern position at the famed 93.3FM WMMR in Philadelphia, PA. Tom learned the nuances of what real radio was and sometimes in the most disappointing ways. His then radio idols such as the great Earl Bailey along with, Bubba John, Pierre Robert, and jock on the rival Philadelphia radio station WYSP 94.1FM in the legendary Ed Sciaky, would help shape his voice delivery, with the latter being the DJ who Tom had vocally idolized the most. While realizing the worst characteristics of some of the on-air celebrities during his travels in radio over the course of those two years, Tom enjoyed the advice from Earl Bailey and his wife Donna who encouraged the young & unshaped disc jockey to keep rolling forward despite the obstacles in finding who you are in this broadcast medium. Tom's main communications professor & advisor during two straight difficult semesters was the amazing Linda McNeely. This professor was very blunt and honest, and didn't coddle young radio talent. In fact, her harsh honesty on his aircheck tapes would rattle him when he was repeatedly told that he needed a lot work if wanted to work in radio as a career. In fact, coming right to the point in reviewing Tom's aircheck tapes by saying, "You need to get the south Jersey out of your voice. You will never make it radio if you don't learn to speak. It's not wooder, it's wah-tur. It's not sail-ed, its salad. Shape up or change your major, you just aren't good enough."    

While it was tough for an aspiring on air host to hear, it couldn't help but be noticed that Tom's radio show was getting attention. His blocks of progressive rock mixed in with deep cuts/obscure classic rock received an unlikely cult following. While still not sure what he really wanted to do in the field, he pressed on trying to find his groove. Gagliardi would drive his collaborators & friends insane by having off the cuff & intense brain storming sessions, at times live on air with people he admired and trusted, while experimenting by studying other radio talents he didn't know much of to find a spark. Just six weeks into his now nightly addition to his programs on Wednesday nights, 91.5FM WDBK engineer Carmine Sarlo, who would do meter ratings on those same nights, would be invited by Tom to join him for banter on to his radio program. The two would bond which even saw Carmine bringing in music that would further fuel Tom's interest to soon go into the deeper depths of experimental music. 

The Word Was Spoken.................................What many may not know, it was Carmine Sarlo's words on one particular Wednesday night that would change the course of the program's history & become one of the most important components to the evolution & travel of this bizarre radio show that was still in the throws of trying to find its own identity. As the story goes, it all began when Gagliardi would play a concert bootleg of the band Genesis which had been recorded in 1975 amidst The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway tour in 1975. The Felt Forum concert to be exact. Just before he started the set with introductive commentary, the often cynical and sarcastic Sarlo would comment to the host on air, "Well now....this illegal airing of this concert is what we could call a true Gagli archive, don't you think?" As the track Back In NYC began to play, the host realized it. That was it. Carmine unknowingly figured out the perfect name for a sputtering radio program that would grow far more serious in the years that would follow, that would now be called, The Gagliarchives. 

In the original incarnation of the weekly radio broadcast, the conceptual focus on local talent had begun. The now Gagliarchives Radio Blackwood, would go on to feature many local progressive rock influenced bands including an in-studio favorite based out of Collingswood, New Jersey in The Age of Reason. Tom would go on to spotlight Gardeners and Gravediggers, and even eventual staples to the program later in the decade in both Mastermind and Echolyn. The program then ventured into the live concert circuit, where the Gagliarchives host would go on to emcee their first ever live concert showcase on August 17th, 1992 at The Pennant East in Brooklawn, New Jersey. The bill featured The Age Of Reason opening for the legendary American progressive rock group Kansas. Tom later went on to say that while the experience was unforgettable, he had to be asked to leave for being underage at the venue. Which in essence meant, he could introduce the bands, but had to be escorted out until the opener finished where he could again re-enter & introduce the headliner and the after, be escorted out. Gagliardi would go on to host many concerts regionally at several different venues. The most frequently traveled hosted events were part of the Bonnie's Roxx showcase in Atco, New Jersey along with other venues in the southern New Jersey and Philadelphia region including The Middle East. 

The program's early audience radio requests during the 91.5FM WDBK era included classic rock deep-cut favorites at about 40% while the remaining 60% of programming focused on the host's revered genre of progressive rock. It would not be surprising to see early playlists that would feature bands & artists such as Jeff Beck, John Mayall's Blues Breakers, Emerson Lake & Palmer, Robin Trower, Procol Harum, Yes, Jan Hammer, Steve Hackett, Brand X, Marillion, Genesis and so on.  More publicity would follow as The gagliarchives would get its first big press spotlight in April of 1992 in the popular southern New Jersey newspaper, Courier Post. In an interview conducted by the famed Philadelphia music & pop culture journalist Chuck Darrow, he would feature Tom's first exclusive interview that spawned an even bigger list of followers to follow. All at the young age of nineteen. Just seven months later, the gagliarchives were named the #1 New College Radio Program by Gannett News Services as part of their annual 'Best Of South Jersey' awards ceremony in Voorhees, New Jersey in March of 1993. Ironically, as Tom would later describe it, it would be at that very award reception that he would unexpectedly collapse just minutes after receiving his award. This scared both his colleagues & close friends. To make matters worse, Tom would later be taken to the hospital where it was learned he would be diagnosed with a very strong form of the auto-immune virus, Epstein-Barr. This would lead to the host's partial blindness, liver failure, dangerously high temperatures, fourteen plus hours of sleep & exhaustion, and the soon to be life changing consequences. From March of 1993 until November of that year, Tom was out of commission. While the program was a mix of best of programs from both the Monday morning show, and the more popular Wednesday night program, Tom would slowly return to form in the live aspect, before airing his then last WDBK broadcast in late July of 1993. But it sadly didn't end there. The healing process would lead to his departure from 93.3FM WMMR permanently, and ultimately losing his Wednesday night shift at 91.5FM WDBK at the end of the summer. There were not a slew of genre specific radio programs showing favoritism to the deep cut themed style of music, let alone giving a voice to the less covered progressive rock genre itself. Being imprisoned by his own body & serious health circumstances, many would wonder if this was just a fleeting stunt that was coming to the end of its run, or would he somehow return to give this beloved genre the recognition it would deserve.

From The Place Beyond The Woods.................................

While the young radio host would be sidelined from the live broadcast circuit of his newly awarded radio program during most of 1993, his long time friends & supporters and contemporaries would start featuring one hour segmented versions of the gagliarchives radio program at many regional colleges & universities to keep the flame lit of what Gagliardi had originally set out to accomplish. This would also be the ushering in of the pre-recorded era of the program which were later formatted into two hour segments being broadcast on several regional non-commercial radio stations on both the AM & FM dial. After a brief & controversial return back to 91.5FM WDBK in November of 1993, there were still those short stints being heard in the northeast United States such as the Pocono Mountains & the New England area. But what many did not know, was that the week of has first 'last' broadcast at 91.5FM WDBK in July of 1993 that saw the likes of Mike Taylor, Kevin Boyce, Jon Most, Keith 'The Man' Myers and so many others reunite, Tom was in fact in talks with a new station. Burlington County, the region that Tom hails from, an offer would be presented by the then President of college relations of Burlington County College in Rich Pokrass. Pokrass was finally fulfilling his & the college's lifelong dream to finally create an FM radio station specific to the largest county in the state. While Tom spoke with Pokrass, he would skip his rehabilitation therapy appointment to venture to the heart of the New Jersey Pine Barrens to meet with college officials to hear the offer of what would be to come. It was on July 24th of 1993 that the radio host would learn of a soon to be constructed radio station that would soon give institutions such as Princeton, CCC, Monmouth,  & Rowan Universality a run for its radio money. This new soon to be constructed station would be in fact eight thousand times stronger than his preceding station, and cover most of the entire geographical area of southern New Jersey and the city of Philadelphia including the Ocean County section of the Jersey shore. The new station would named 88.9FM WBZC and would prompt the resurrection of the gagliarchives program into a soon to be fruitful era.

With rumors swirling that this new 88.9FM WBZC would go live in the Spring of 1994, Tom stated in an interview, "I just wasn't feeling like that was going to happen. There was a ton of bureaucratic red tape hindering the launch date." As The new station would be housed at the former Burlington County College in Pemberton, New Jersey campus, which later became known as Rowan University at Burlington, construction saw new studios created in the east end of the Lewis Parker Center. The new station was to be located on the western edge of the New Jersey pine barrens and for its time, would be one of the most state of the art radio stations that a two year college could dare to even boast. This new facility would include a powerful on air studio, a production studio, and an adjoining band studio for live and/or pre-recorded performances. But the summer of 1994 would see more delays. Things were not coming together for what radio people were calling the 'behemoth operation' quick enough for some. It was obvious that the station would not launch on the target date the new program director, Drew Jacobs was shooting for. Jacobs, formerly of Seton Hall radio & Monmouth College, kept morale up by setting a deadline for all signed up radio hosts to confirm the time slots they wanted. Producers & hosts had to give their three most wanted time slots. Gagliardi & company wanted the slot of Sunday night at 6PM ET to compete with then Philadelphia radio icon Ed Sciaky & his legendary program The Sunday Night Alternative. But health issues began to rise again for the young radio host in late 1994 that saw him have to take a step back to do more recuperation whilst endless doctor visits and tests would continue. While he would later not get the original radio time slot request, Jacobs decided that Tom's best time slot would be on Saturday nights starting at 10PM ET. While Tom was less than thrilled with the new start time, it would later prove to be a program signature for years to come. Drew Jacobs who Tom often referred to as 'The Fog' or the 'Fred Shero' of radio station bosses, instructed that the entire new station staff of students & volunteers, both young & old, had to report to their specific shifts to conduct simulated radio programs despite the transmitter not being yet activated. Many disc jockeys grew confused and felt it made no sense to do a radio show no one was hearing. But in actuality, it was genius. It made the station sound like it had been on the air for years. Many felt this is why they would later win the coveted Station Of The Year award from the National Association Of College Broadcasters.

With 91.5FM WDBK now in the rear view mirror, Tom still was longing for some kind of creative epiphany that would help reinvent his program by the time the switch would be flipped on. But still....to no avail could he find 'the formula'. The inspiration would have to wait. But on January 23rd of 1995. 88.9FM WBZC went live as Tom would pick up where his numbered programs left off on the last live broadcast. This would be Program 363 that late January of 1995. Unfortunately for Tom, by the time the station actually did go live, he felt even more out of place. In an interview with NEWEARS Radio in 2016, Tom stated that he had begun to question whether he lost the fire of his unfinished mental concept on what he wanted to give to a listening audience week after week of his favorite music genre. Tom later stated in that interview, that he would even question if it was worth producing and/or if the new regional listeners would even care. Despite being the first ever member at the newly christened 88.9FM WBZC, Tom felt by the summer of '95 it would be best to wrap the program idea up and move on. This even saw disappointment from fellow established disc jockeys at WBZC that tried different tactics to light a fire under the bewildered disc jockey. Including the program director himself, Drew Jacobs. With a time slot Tom didn't want, a circle of friends who didn't care nor respect what he had been trying to produce on a weekly basis, the moment of truth came. It would have a resolution that would feature a highly unexpected plot twist that would change the radio host and his life, forever. 

11-22-95. The Day It All Changed..........................    Despite Tom's thought the program should come to an end since he just couldn't seem to refine a better concept, strange things began to happen that he would later call, silent, loud messages trying to guide him to a happy medium. It was during this same time however, that the radio station's Program Director Drew Jacobs had gotten Telnet in the research area of the studio along with this new computer world called the World Wide Web. Despite these new resources, Tom still continued to plot his departure. But a trend would begin that would do its best to dissuade him. After connecting with very reputable public relations groups, record labels, and the like, gagliarchives were all but lifeless. But Tom would draw inspiration from a statement that Drew Jacobs the PD would say about the art of radio being exactly like a palette, easel, paintbrush & canvas. But the host still could not resonate a good enough formula to make his original, yet disorganized vision make sense on any front. But then one Friday night in the early summer, Tom sat with a friend to write his resignation letter to the radio station. Upon finishing, he would walk down the steps to leave his parents house, when in the background he could hear his mother's phone ring. As he opened the door to leave, he would hear, "Hey, you have a phone call." Perplexed he would respond, "Who is calling me here?" Mom would pause and ask before looking down the stairs again with mild confusion and say, "It's John Wetton?" Now it was well known that original program staffer Reggie Szatny loved to play practical jokes on Tom by saying he was a celebrity looking to see if he could be a guest on the program. Even doing it live on air in some instances. This happened several times with it being an actual comedy bit on the Monday morning program Tom hosted at 91.5FM WDBK.  Confident it was Reggie joking around, Tom would sternly tell his mother, "Mom, tell Reggie I can't joke around right now, I'll call him later." Tom's mother however was adamant that it wasn't Reggie. Miffed, Tom pounded his feet up the stairs, took the phone and clearly stated without even saying hello, "Reg, I can't joke around right now, I am going to be late for an appointment." This would be followed by the famed singer and later to be titled the 'Patron Saint' to the gagliarchives radio program John Wetton reply calmly, "Tom I swear it's John. Don't you remember me?" Clearly embarrassed, Tom sat and chatted with John and agreed to not only have him on to talk about his then new release Battle Lines, but also introduce him during his upcoming solo tour that would see the band Mastermind open for him in Philadelphia. John was also the very first F.O.G. line guest in 1992, soon followed by an in-studio interview with his one time band mate from Asia in Geoff Downes. 

After that phone call from John, Tom took stock in what he had, later separating himself from the negativity in his life, and soon started arriving to the studios earlier and earlier on Saturdays to see if he could feel a spark to create a format formula that would work. But the strangeness continued. The band Marillion would reach out to Tom soon after. Including giving an acoustic performance in support of their then new album, and z88.9FM favorite, Afraid Of Sunlight. Legendary Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett who would join Tom for an exclusive interview for the first time in 1995 as well of what would be many to come over the next several years. While small production changes helped make the program sound more professional, Gagliardi would create a very basic website that would spawn even more interest despite it being a very early time for online interest in the media. As November approached, and still being on the fence about the future of the underachieving program, the most important event in the history of the eccentric radio show would take place. It was on Thanksgiving eve that Tom would receive a phone call from his most vocal public relations colleague in the great Chip Rugeeri of Chipster PR. Chip would offer the host an opportunity that would soon greatly change the direction of the radio program. In a discussion that resembled 'I have good news & bad news', Chip would explain the offer of going to see King Crimson live in concert in support of their then highly requested return album titled THRAK that included an after show interview. The bad news was, that the concert was in the heart of New York City at the Long Acre Theater and you would have to leave now to get to the show on time. Gagliardi decided to do something spontaneous and would leave for the great city and draw inspiration and energy from the entire experience. From the moment he would exit the tunnel with what seemed like an acoustic & over tranquil version of the now late great Kevin Gilbert interpretation of the Genesis classic Back In NYC, that upon exit of the tunnel, would soon explode in its correct glory to ignite a spiritual fuse and soon change the course of this radio program's history. King Crimson would be nothing less than amazing, followed by the first of many meetings to follow with the great Trey Gunn. That night included Shish Kabob from a vendor while being towered in awe of the then commanding structures of the World Trade Center. As Tom would state many, many times over the years to follow, the feeling that anything was possible was like an old friend again. All the answers Tom looked for were close at hand. Upon driving home, Tom would stop at the 24 hour diner in Runnemede, New Jersey known as the beloved Philly Diner where Tom would force his collaborators into coffee soaked brainstorming sessions over the previous few years in that infamous burgundy third booth. The only difference this time, the pieces were in place and like discovering what felt like the equivalent of discovering E=MC2, the epiphany came to him adding more beautiful energy that night in what would be the clock & the skeletal frame/format to the new program concept. It was on this monumental weekend in November of 1995 where he would forgo the classic rock fillers for a pure, fundamentalist four hour progressive rock radio show. Had it not been for the course of events on the loved day that is 11/23/95, the radio program would have ceased to exist by January of 1996. When asked even in the current day of what changed the course of his history and/or the radio program itself, he simply responds with 11/23/95....the day that his & the gagliarchives radio program changed forever and were reborn. 

Have You Ever Heard Of Allison Steele?...............................................

As the website for the radio show would get a much needed facelift from then creator of Ghostland and later the co-founder one of the most prestigious progressive rock festivals in history with NEARfest, Chad Hutchinson would help host the new radio program website which would bring much needed traffic and most importantly music & artist news, and most importantly, new listeners. The floodgates would open as the program would try to refine its atmosphere, but it would also see the departure of our then staffers, Anchor Babcock, Keith Myers, Greg Hindsley, Steve Huston, Jon Most, and Bill Horst and see the arrival of Charles Nolan who would help bring more neo-progressive rock music to the table and who would be later joined by our future co-producer through the late nineties and into the mid two thousands in George Piatkowski. George would bring a whole new dynamic in supplying his 50,000 plus vinyl record collection of extremely rare progressive rock he had been collecting for almost three decades into the fold of the radio program. This again, changed the whole scope of the weekly show as well. As Charlie Nolan would depart in mid 1998, less than two years later by pure chance, Tom would meet the program's current co-producer going back to 2006 in the great Jack Webster. This new dream team was reinforced with reputable programming that fed into the vision held by the host, years before. Simply stated, a radio program that could dig into the vaults of the most obscure bands that had ever existed in history of the genres on vinyl from George, along with new, up and coming music that would be sure to gain the same respect provided by both Tom's contacts and Jack's studio library at Asylum Studios in Pemberton, New Jersey, there was no way they could lose. 

The listener database grew by the week. Tom would bring a new balance to both sides of the spectrum by evenly representing the different sides of the progressive rock scene and showing no discrimination. The new mantra was to push the new bands and give the same respect and coverage as they would the classic bands. This in turn, would bring more integrity to the WEEKLYTOP20, and the soon to be program favorite, year after year in The GlobalProgressive Rock Network's Top 100. Tom was frequently asked by older listeners who hailed from the New York City metro area especially, if he had ever heard of Allison Steele. Thinking it was possibly a band or artist, Tom always replied that he hadn't. He had even been asked by many famed musicians including bass player extraordinaire Percy Jones of Brand X, an early radio show fan as well, if Tom had ever heard of this Allison Steele as would many others. Tom still had no idea.

While the radio program host has said in many broadcasts that the gagliarchives are an FM radio show first, the brightly lit evolution of internet radio would change the game even more so.  The first internet broadcasts of the program started off with an explosion as keyboardist & legendary composer Rick Wakeman would be the first ever internationally heard gagliarchives on the soon to be multidimensional radio show, which was first heard on the now defunct Radio Free Kansas. With the later creation of 88.9FM WBZC's new internet radio stream, the snowball continued to roll accumulating more snow. Not long after, a chance online meeting with Davin Flateau and later Jim Brennan of the then new 24 hour progressive rock internet station Aural Moon, the stage was set. The Net's Progressive Rock Garden based in San Diego, California tripled the listenership as did the addition of two new FM frequencies in 95.1FM W236AF in Burlington City, New Jersey & 100.7FM in Mount Holly, New Jersey.  The program later added the excellent Pennsylvania based progressive rock station House Of Prog located at http://houseofprog.com in the year of 2019 as well. 

While the program for most of its history aired from 10PM ET until 2AM ET, only in the last few years did the listeners biggest request come true when the producers opted for an expanded program that included flashback archives recently digitized from analog tapes in the process of preserving the history of the program as well. The current radio program on average lasts six and a half hours which helps in exposing the audience to even more, new music from all different sides of the ever changing genre. While also getting segmented bits of the program's early history. Sadly and unexpectedly, after 23 years of broadcasting from the heart of the New Jersey pine barrens, 88.9FM WBZC who had recently been purchased by Rowan University, closed its doors in January of 2018. This became one of the most listened to programs of the gagliarchives radio show history Tom stated in a recent interview in 2019. This show is known as the highly sentimental Program 1561 - The Last Waltz. Nearly 23 years to the day of the first broadcast of Program 363 in January of 1995, 88.9FM WBZC was no more. The gagliarchives had recorded over 1200 weekends at the place known as 'home base' by the fans who tuned into the Pemberton, New Jersey based program. And for those 23 years, every Saturday night it happened all within the walls of Studio Z. The last five years from 2013 to 2018, a new dimension was added to the cult progressive rock radio program with the launch of the gagliarchives video Twitch channel located at http://twitch.tv/gagliarchives. The home for the radio show was felt to be more than just a radio station, but a creative sanctuary which was set amidst the untouched nature & wildlife of the pine barrens amidst old stage coach roads, and endless miles of deciduous and evergreen trees. The former setting provided an extremely welcome, yet remote atmosphere for all four seasons of the year. The western edge of the New Jersey pine barrens were a canvas for each week's radio program and will never be forgotten as the soul of the developing radio show from Program 363 to 1561. 

It was not long after that Tom would in fact learn who Allison Steele was. After fielding the question at least ten times a year, his co-producer Jack Webster would expose Tom to the radio legend. While putting together a program at Asylum Studios, another spirited listener email would ask that same question reiterating that Tom had been the reincarnation of the spirit of this Allison Steele. Upon asking Jack, Tom would be taught that Allison Steele was not a new vocalist, or a new progressive rock band that had a female name, but instead a progressive rock radio legend known as The Nightbird. As Jack would play bits of the New York radio legend from WNEW FM, the hairs on Tom's back stood up. It suddenly all made sense. Tom instantly knew the spirituality of the famed disc jockey and what she was trying to convey night after night in the late sixties into the nineteen seventies. And as one loyal listener couldn't help but point out, was that Allison had sadly passed as the gagliarchives had had its programming epiphany & radio soul reborn in September of 1995. While it's all a coincidence, Tom later stated that besides being embarrassed for not knowing who the beautiful radio host was, that he was more flattered that a comparison was even being made to this goddess of late night progressive rock radio. 

Tradition and consistency became a focal part of the gagliarchives longevity. With the radio show theme & setting conveyed frequently that it was broadcasting from the center of the mysterious New Jersey pine barrens. There were also many stapled segments that became part of the framework of the broadcast such as people reaching out to the program on the F.O.G. Lines. (Friends Of Gagliarchives) The given phone number that both listeners and artists would connect with the host either live or pre-recorded. And while program elements came and went, with some having their names modified, host Tom Gagliardi has pretty much stuck to the same audience wanted formula. A fan favorite became the popular 4th Hour Space Out, which has currently evolved into the 4th Set Space Out,  specializing in the music styles of the more spacey & psychedelic sounds of the progressive rock genre, including Krautrock & Kosmiche, along with ambient and other forms of electronic music.  The gagliarchives also features the longest standing portion of the program known as The Philadelphia Progressive Rock Concert Update that gives a quick live coverage of concert schedules for the week covering the heart of the busiest areas of the notable northeast United States with concert dates & news as far north as Maine, as far west as the Great Lakes, and as far south as Florida. Another long time tradition that has continued for nearly three decades and has seen its name tweaked a few times, is the much loved The Stargazer's Handbook. This mid program break is the astronomy fans' guide to all the weekly celestial events in the world of astronomy. And finally, as always, every program closes out with what is the current number one most requested release in the WEEKLYTOP20. This brief look at many of the new entries breaking into the weekly charts along with news and purchasing information as well has also been a selling guide to fans who may not even be able to tune in regularly. Tom & company also keep the WEEKLYTOP20 consistently updated & most importantly fueled by listeners daily emails & requests that can go well over a thousand bits of correspondence a week, along with online vendor reports of top selling releases as well. The charts have been a mainstay since the early '90's. 

Weekly, the listeners can expect album anniversaries from both the classics and some of the most obscure & rare releases of the genre and its sub categories. Birthday salutes, live concert anniversaries are also included with the occasional interview guests and listener emails and letters.  

The Progression Of Progress...............

The radio show continues to evolve and is now part of the metamorphosis that was 88.9FM WBZC into the newly reborn internet radio station, RCBC Radio in Mount Laurel, New Jersey. This new station on the outskirts of Philadelphia is now the online home to the gagliarchives spin-off, archive radio program titled The Analogue Tapes Series. The concept beginning in 2017, Tom's The Analogue Tapes Series spotlights all of the recently digitized analog tapes in the name of preservation, into a series of archive radio shows ranging from 1992 to 2018 and are listener picked in some instances while the others fall on important radio program anniversaries.  This weekly program is co-produced and scheduled by long time radio colleague and confidant, Jason Varga, host of the cult jam-band radio program Endless Boundaries.  RCBC Radio is 14 miles west of their former home in Pemberton, New Jersey; 72 miles northwest of the gagliarchives North 13th Studios in Brigantine, New Jersey; and 19 miles east of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The weekly program is still heard live on Saturday nights at 10 P.M. ET, with the following replays aired on Sunday at 6 P.M. ET; 3 P.M. PT; and 11 P.M. UK time & again on Thursday mornings at 7 A.M. ET; 4 A.M. PT; and 12:00 P.M. UK time on House Of Prog Radio and on Saturday nights live and replayed on Tuesday morning at 11AM ET at Aural Moon- The Net's Progressive Rock Garden. 

We'll See You On The Shoreline...............In a recent interview with the host, Tom stated that the radio programs are now produced weekly at North Thirteenth Studios located just outside of Atlantic City, New Jersey in the mysterious north end of Brigantine Island starting back 2013, and becoming a weekly production event starting in 2015. While relocation has happened, Tom, along with co-producer Jack Webster we have not forgotten the program's past dating back to their first arrival into the pine barrens in Pemberton in 1994. Looking back on the great moments, the gagliarchives have attended many notable progressive rock events and have produced several radio specials. Most notably & spoken of is the now defunct North East Art Rock Festival in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania & Trenton, New Jersey that took place from 1999 to 2012. The gagliarchives have also been present and/or produced radio coverage events such as Towson, Maryland's Progscape; Progfest in Los Angeles, California; Montreal, Quebec's FMPM; North Carolina's Progday, and as of 2017, Progstock which occurs every year in October in Rahway, New Jersey. The gagliarchives were especially known for their countless live hosted concert events in the city of Philadelphia most notably, but also included concerts in Pennsauken, New Jersey;  Atlantic City, New Jersey; Easton, Pennsylvania; Mount Holly, New Jersey; Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; New York City, New York; Long Beach Island, New Jersey; and many other venues and locations in the north east corridor. The gagliarchives have also done several live remotes and broadcasts from The Alliance For A Living Ocean non-profit organization in Long Beach Island, New Jersey, the Area 13 New Jersey Special Olympics, The New Jersey Farm Fair, The Cranberry Festival, and the Whitesbog Annual Festival. In 1995, the gagliarchives were a part of the WBZC 88.9 FM monumental moment when after just 8 months of being on the air, the new radio station went on to win the prestigious National Association of College Broadcasting's Station Of The Year award. That Saturday in November of 1995, just prior to the award announcement, radio host Janet Watts & Tom Gagliardi hosted a 2 hour simulcast on Providence College's 91.3 FM WDOM, and 96.5 FM WBSR at Brown University. It would be the first time the Gagliarchives were broadcast live somewhere other than southern New Jersey. Prior to winning the Station Of The Year award, the station's then top programs on the weekends were the gagliarchives, along with the calypso program Sounds Of The Caribbean hosted by the great Keith Rowe & Selector Jerry, Joe Wills & Nancy Longnecker's Burlington County Bluegrass, and Janet Watts & Roger Beckwith's Roadhouse Radio, a Delaware Valley local music and blues program which was a staple for the first 5 years of the station's existence. The time slot was later replaced with the program that preceded the gagliarchives for almost twenty years in Jason Varga's Endless Boundaries, a program that specialized in jam band music that saw many bands & artists crossover to both programs respectively. Local media referred to it as the best one-two punch on FM radio in the Delaware Valley on Saturday nights. This was what Saturday nights were like in the tri-state area from 2000 to 2018 where Jaybird and Tom would dominate in the Arbitron books regionally and with their online radio presence. The program would later take on 7 straight years of 2 to 3, 7 hour live broadcasts from the North East Art Rock Festival at the University Station Bar in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania as well. 

Looking Back...............................

The gagliarchives also had been known for giving back to the community by working with special needs children as part of the Special Olympics Area 13 organization by emceeing their track & field events, and their swim competitions at Burlington County College. Outside of the radio program, Tom garnered substantial attention with his 2004 release of the weekly history shorts known as The South Jersey History Moments which payed homage to the region with Tom telling little known, yet rich historical stories featured multiple times a week on 88.9FM WBZC. These on average two minute spots were featured every hour at both 88.FM WBZC & later at RCBC Radio as they tell the unknown stories of the townships, boroughs, and hamlets that make southern New Jersey, the settled & developed environment it is to this very day. 

Tom Gagliardi was also the play by play announcer for the z889 Saturday afternoon football games as part of the Burlington County Sports Network for many, many years. Tom became part of the first z889 broadcasted football match up in 1997 with Emmy-award winning radio legend and TV personality Joe Pelligrino. The game featured the classic Thanksgiving Day rivalry of Shawnee High School vs Lenape High School which would later became a schedule mainstay. It was at the dawn of the 2000's that z889 committed itself to broadcasting more football games and Tom continued covering various Burlington county games with the likes of many high school players and former professional players including NFL football star Irving Fryar who served as guest color commentator. It was in 2006 that Tom began working with fellow sports broadcaster and former Trenton Devils play by play announcer Brian Gatti. This raised the bar on the radio stations sports coverage and brought z889 Sports to the forefront of high school football announcing in southern New Jersey. Tom worked with many sports broadcast teams including Tim Deaner, Mike Germani, Joe Costello, Ryan Farrell and ultimately, legendary high school coach Jay Liberti. Tom, along with Coach Liberti and Brian Gatti, would take on an even bigger challenge by broadcasting the home games for the Arena Football team The Philadelphia Soul in 2013 & 2014. The broadcast team saw the Soul rise to the Arena Bowl Championship in the two seasons they aired. Tom has also covered many high school championship games both at Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey and The College Of New Jersey in Trenton, New Jersey. 

In 2011, the gagliarchives relocated their  home studios where most of the guest interviews occur in their new 'virtual North 13th Studios', along with the weekly radio program production as mentioned earlier, on the island of Brigantine, New Jersey, also known as North 13th Studios. For well over a decade prior, much of the gagliarchives pre-production took place at Asylum Studios in Pemberton, New Jersey, operated by long time co-producer, Jack Webster. Post 2018, all work for the program has moved boldly into the 21st century and is completed virtually amidst the cloud technology of both North 13th Studios & Whacky Jebster's Village Of The Sun. 

It Is What It Is................................

The goal in the modern day for the gagliarchives radio program is to provide up to the minute news on all progressive rock headlining stories, concerts, and events for the progressive rock follower and collector. Keeping it's virtual finger on the pulse of the genre, the gagliarchives provide weekly world premieres heard only gagliarchives first of both the new, popular artists, while remaining focused on introducing newer, less known bands & projects. The program still surprises with thematic based programming from time to time, but is driven weekly to stick to traditions such has reaching into the vinyl vaults in the third set, or prior to 2018, the third hour. The gagliarchives will shock listeners at times with extremely hard to find materials, along with rare recordings you will only hear on the gagliarchives donated and/or given by the band or artist from their very own archives. Every Saturday program, a long time tradition & staple known originally as The Fourth Hour Space Out and now as The Fourth Set Space Out, tracks and highlights the world of the psychedelic, the electronic, the ambient, the avant-garde and so much more. Over the years, this has become a cult fan-favorite portion of the weekly broadcast. The program bases its design off of a chronological database that was created by Tom that is continuing to be built and continuing to document the history of progressive rock both in the past decades and in the modern day. The gagliarchives continue to close out each weekly, regular radio program with the WEEKLYTOP20 and the most fan requested and buzzing album of the week. This weekly updated has been part of the program going back to 1994, and later helped shaped the year end collaborative GlobalProgressive Rock Network that brings you the annual Top 100 that includes listener driven votes.  

The radio program multiple times a month, will feature an exclusive interview with the movers & shakers of the industry that come from all walks of life be it writers, bands, festival creators, technology people, authors, record label owners, and the list goes on. The gagliarchives crew enjoy making the show a multi-dimensional program that is often forgot is partially categorized as talk & educational. 

The anniversary spotlights will include sound bytes of chronological world news and references to the time period's pop culture as well. As legendary Dream Theater keyboardist was quoted saying, 'The World's Most Listened To Progressive Rock Radio Program'. 

• Tom Gagliardi - Host / Producer / Presenter / Archivist / Engineer / Editor
• Jack Webster - Co-Producer / Cloud Manager / Archivist / Technology Advisor
• Michael Cohn - Production Assistant / Contributor Manager / Jow dee
• Lou Cornelius - Legal / Communications
• Connie Louis -  Database / North 13th Studios Production Manager
• Jason Varga - Imaging / Co-Producer The Analogue Tapes Series
• Grace Lotierzo - Editor / Imaging / Production 
• Loren Rojas Ospina - Spanish Language Voice Production

THE STAFF PAST & PRESENT: Jack Webster, Michael Cohn, Jason Varga, Jim Brennan, Rick Henry, Grace Lotierzo, Brian Schenkenberger, Gale Gervasio, Sean Mickle, George Piatkowski, Davin Flateau, Lou Cornelius, Chad Hutchinson, Roger Beckwith, Keith 'The Man' Myers, Kevin Feeley, Roger 'Dot' Lee, The Late Great Kevin O�Hara, Frankie 'The Fan' Alfeeri, The Late Great Big Bob 'Lovin' Volpe, Robert 'Agent' Bradley, Keith Green, Robert Blinebury, Sean Leehive, Matt Murdock, Charles Nolan, Anchor 'Java Joe' Babcock, Bill Horst, Randy Abidin, Daryl Elder, Jon Most, Carmine Sarlo, Kevin Boyce, Mike Taylor, Greg Hindsley, Adam Lewis, Muscles Rapscallion, Reggie Szatny, Steve Huston, Opus, Silly, Connie, Louie, and Steve The Janitor.

WDBK: Mike Gillen, Karen Kozachyn, Jason Mollica, Brian Fioretti, Joe Borsello, Matt Pilla, Chris Consalvi, Jennifer Osbourne, Brie McCaddin, Sandy Mendez, The Bobber, Countless interns, and the man that gave us our first radio moment�.the late great, Greg Ficchi.

WBZC: Drew Jacobs, Earl Gardner, Peter Palma, John Engle, Selector Jerry, Keith Rowe, Dom Conti, Brian Gatti, Coach Liberti, Kevin Gatti, Steve Shull, Joey Eisle, John Bannister, Joe Wills, Patrice Connelly, Jim Meehan, Bonnie Hart, Jeannie Becker, Tim Marshall, Brett Holcomb, Rich Pokrass, Our Brave Security Guards: Joe, Ben, Stokes, Henry, the other Joe, Ralph, and that beloved studio that was our home every Saturday night from 1995 to 2018.

CONTRIBUTORS OVER THE YEARS: The Innovating Consigliere Ken Golden, Tom Palmieri, Ann Rinaldi, Mattias Olsson, Tom Gallo, Janet Watts, Chip Rugeeri, Steve Feigenbaum, Gayle Ellett, Steve Dinsdale, Leonardo �Nardeeni� Pavkovic, Gary Houghton, Duncan Goddard, Matthew Kauffman, The Late Great & Beautiful Angela Cherubini, Scott McCleary, Jim Pitulski, Geoff Logsdon, Peter Morticelli, Mike Varney, Chuck Darrow of the Courier Post, Lisa Mikita, Christine Holz, Cozy Powell, Eric Corbin, Jon Freeman, Anne Leighton, Thomas Ziegler, Sean McFee, Jon Yarger, Ray Loboda, Lori Hehr, Ray Loboda, Jim Robinson, Tom Gallo, the Late Great Corey Butler, Chris Amelio, Big Gerry, & countless and nameless others over the last thirty years�

FAMILY, FRIENDS, INSPIRATION, & PUZZLE PIECES: Chuck Gagliardi For The Inspiration, Chloe Bradley, Nicolette Bradley, Dylan Bradley, Lauren Golden, Elena Lunn, Mike Gagliardi, Dave the mail guy, DJ Rob Skinner, Jane Gallo, Tony Gallo, John Gallo, Denise Myers, Vicki Myers, Thomas Ziegler, Michael Pack, Catherine Revak, Amy Foxwell, Kristen Brach, Jay Davidson, Nicole Humphrey, Martha Sue Piatkowski, Kristin Rhodes, Mackenzie Szatny, Shirley Neil, Tone Barbaccio, Cindy Beckwith, Stanley Whitaker, Rick Wakeman, Bill Pohl, Dave Kerman, the late great Allan Holdsworth, Gary Husband, Steve Hackett(thank you), Percy Jones(much love), the late great Guy LeBlanc, Gary Green, Chris Poland, Mark Kelly, David Myers, Mike Sary, Gregg Bendian, Jacob Holm-Lupo, Nicklas Barker, Trey Gunn, Patrick Moraz, Phyllis Weitzel, Markus Reuter, Steven Wilson, Bill Hicks, Providence Rhode Island, POWER69 Radio, Kelly Peak, Laura Peak, Scott O�Neill, Ocean City New Jersey, Apple Pie Hill, 3rd Street Jazz, Full Circle Records, Route 559, 88.9 WBZC, 93.3 WMMR, 91.5 WDBK, 90.7 WCLH, 91.3 WTSR, 100.7 WZXL, the blizzard of �92, the 1982 Plymouth Reliant, the 1987 Dodge Charger, the 1991 Oldsmobile Cutlass, the �97, �99, and �95 Jeep Wranglers, the 1993, 2007 and 2008 Philadelphia Phillies, The Philadelphia Eagles and of course 2017-2018�s Super Bowl Run during the closing of our beloved 88.9FM WBZC, The Philadelphia Soul, Epstein-Barr, Twin Peaks, Carl Sagan's Contact, Jim�s Steaks, the Ben Franklin Bridge, Wharton State Forest, the Orion constellation, NJ Proghouse, Area 13 Special Olympics New Jersey, Michael Bennett for your sincere words, John Noonan for keeping me focused, Megan Hildebrandt for the Journey, Mike 'Salty' Serlenga, Stacy Tule for being there, the late great Craig Ranshaw, Walter Bryant, Ruth Ferguson, Joel Reisman, Vincent Geraci, Linda McNeely, the late great Ace Tesone, Pinky & Tony, Chad Hutchinson for vision, patience and contributions, Ray Weston for my sanity, Krys Papineau & Gordon Hundley for bringing me to tears, Michelle Moog-Koussa for the belief & drive, Chris DeRose for trying to salvage hard drives, the Tuesday crew at Adelphia's, Saturn�s moon Titan, Third booth at the Philly Diner where the epiphany of the gagliarchives formula & format congealed in 1996, the city of brotherly love, Father Roberto Mesa & the volunteers at ground zero I encountered on 9/12/01, Mom Mom & Pop Pop on both sides, Uncle Chuck Gagliardi who inspired the fire & desire for all of this, my sister Dana Bradley for the first Genesis album, the 1,198 Saturday night programs at Studio Z, 30 years worth of listeners & the amazing North Thirteenth Studios where thoughts become a creative reality.

THE BIGGEST AND MOST IMPORTANT LIST OF THANKS GOES TO�..Jack Webster�for believing in it when I didn't & getting me back on track....you are the soul of this. A tearful thank you to the Patron Saint of the program since 1992, the late great John Wetton,  An infinite thank you to the divine old one for giving me the antennas to see the beauty in both creation & decay and understanding the concept of our life & death.

A most special thanks to my beloved & recently departed Mother & Father, And the strongest, most personal thanks to my loving, selfless, inspiring & amazing wife Loren Rojas Ospina...you are my everything.