Legendary rock radio DJ Dusty Street has died

I am honored to say she was a friend. I met her when I was an intern at KLSX in Los Angeles. I was just a college kid, but she treated me as an equal from day one.

Her love of music and knowledge of music was amazing… and eclectic. Hence why she was considered a friend by artists as diverse as Bob Weir of The Grateful Dead, Billy Idol, and Dr. John.

She once told me the only time she blushed and got tongue-tied was when she met Otis Redding backstage at The Fillmore.

Dusty laughed a lot, usually making herself the punchline. She said a department store once advertised that people could bring in examples of their favorite scents – certain flowers, baked goods, etc. – and they would make a perfume from it.

Dusty brought in her dog.

“I want to smell like puppy ears!”

And that voice. She could have read selections from the US tax code and people would have begged her to read more.

Here is an interview I recorded with Dusty in 2018.

And you can read about her life and career in this piece by Variety.

And as others have been doing online, I will end with the line she always signed off with at the end of her shift… fly low and avoid the radar.