I just happened to read Downbeat (December issue?) where one of their top 5 albums of the year was Steve Tibbetts' Life Of. I'll wager most people have never h

I just happened to read Downbeat (December issue?) where one of their top 5 albums of the year was Steve Tibbetts' Life Of. I'll wager most people have never heard of him. There was a jazz/fusion/younameit FM station in Mountain View in the early 80s called KPEN. They got copies of Tibbetts' first two albums (eponymous, and "Yr") directly from him and gave them some airplay. I was hooked, told some friends, and I put together a group buy of his first two albums' self-pressings. So I have autographed self-pressings of his first two albums... with his own original cover art... from 1980! For those who want to check out his early stuff, check out the song "Sure" on his first album, and the song "Three Primates" on Yr. KPEN's license frequency, 97.7FM, is now KFOG's South Bay broadcast frequency. KPEN's studio was in the long-defunct Old Mill shopping center, later the big HP development on Central Expressway.