Brother Love's Underground

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This article is about the 60s radio show. For other acts of the same name, see Brother Love.

Brother Love's Underground was radio show in the late 60s that was dedicated to psychedelic and underground rock music. It originated from Pittsburgh radio station WAMO-FM and was created by Ken Reeth, its DJ and emcee. It was also aired, via tape, on Dynamic Broadcasting which owned WILD-AM in Boston, WUFO-AM in Buffalo and WOAH in Miami.

While working at WAMO, which had a soul and R&B format, Reeth got the idea to do a show promoting the growing psychedelic rock music scene, mostly based on the West Coast in San Francisco and LA. Like Tom Donahue, his west-coast counterpart, he was one of the first to introduce listeners to Iron Butterfly, Country Joe and the Fish, Mothers of Invention, the early Doors, Jimi Hendrix, West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, Vanilla Fudge and others. Although many of the artists on the show have been mainstays of classic rock stations for decades now, this was very adventurous radio programming at the time.

According to Reeth himself, in an online post, very few tapes of the show exist, but he had one.