Kidd Squidd
Inducted in 2014
After graduating from high school in Kankakee,
Illinois, in 1966, Dave Squires, a.k.a. Kidd
Squidd left and went searching for on all kinds
of adventures. He hitchhiked to San
Francisco, California, he spent his nights at
Fillmore West and the Winterland, catching many
of the greats; Jefferson Airplane, Hendrix,
Buffalo Springfield, Janis with Big Brother and
the Holding Company. Eventually he moved
to Los Angeles in the ‘70s and played music at
social events.
Later in the '70s, he drifted back to Kankakee,
where he did DJ gigs at parties, immersed
himself in the history of rock 'n' roll, reading
everything he could get his hands on.
In 1980 he moved to Venice, California, working
days at a department store and spending his
nights haunting the "small, dingy little clubs
where the most essential rock 'n' roll was being
played — punk, new wave, ska."
Then in 1983, his brother, who lived in Tucson,
sent him a brochure about a new radio station in
Tucson. It's name: KXCI. Dave then moved to
Tucson and started working as a DJ at parties
and weddings while volunteering at radio station
KXCI. His first appeared on KXCI was on
Christmas Eve 1983, just three weeks after he
moved here from Venice, Calif. He started
off on KXCI's "Mystery DJ" program that let
members of the public come in and play music on
the air. Paul Barrington, one of KXCI's
co-founders, eventually invited him back for his
own show.
Kidd Squidd has been voted Tucson's Best DJ 16
times by the readers of the Tucson Weekly.
He changed the name of his program from Rockroots
with Kidd Squidd to Kidd Squidd's
Mystery Jukebox in the mid 90’s, because
his love and awareness of music expanded beyond
simply the Roots of Rock'n'Roll/Blues to many
more styles, both new and old.
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