the same supplies as any other broadcaster—two turntables, a microphone, a stack of records, perhaps a guest in the studio, a friend on the phone,… (but) the radio program he created however transcended those common wares.
Radio Unnameable
Bob Fass Spins Radio Unnamable
(Photograph by Charles Rotmil)
The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett, which Fass was reading at the time, gave the show its title. His signature greeting, ood morning, cabal, came from a listener. wanted a sign-on line, like William B. Williams ood morning, world, says Fass. omeone sent in a postcard suggesting, ood morning, cabal. I looked it up in the dictionary and discovered that the word, cabal, comes from orse. Originally, people met on horseback at night with their identities concealed-even from each othero plot or plan something subversive. And I thought, that it: ood