About Me/Contact Me

Greetings!

My name is Mike Sauter, and I have been a radio DJ since the fall of 1984 (counting my college radio station). I've been on the air at WICB/Ithaca (NY), WQNY/Ithaca, WHTG-FM/Eatontown (NJ), WHTG-AM/Eatontown, WBJB/Lincroft (NJ), WYEP/Pittsburgh (PA), and WESA/Pittsburgh.

You read more about me here. 

Along the way, I've also worked at a record store (Aardvark Records in Ithaca), in the mailroom of A&M Records in their NYC headquarters, and as an entertainment writer (for injersey.com, Two Rivers Times, Pittsburgh magazine, and others). I was even very briefly a musical performer circa 1990 in NYC and NJ as part of an acoustic duo called Nova Pilbeam. 

About 2002, I decided I wanted to make a list of all the concerts I've ever attended. It began as a text file and then I realized one can backdate posts on Blogger. So I started this blog.

If you have any questions or comments (for me, that is; if you have comments about the concerts, post 'em!), email me at mikesauter at gmail.

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