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B2 TU Arizona Republic Sundiy. Mirth IS. I9W OlETfi STATE WATCH 'Gifted' Valley BJ Toad Hall dies at 55 ferred." Plenty of energy was transferred in the early days of KDKB, concert promoter Danny Zelisko said. "It was an incredibly special time," he told IVirttr umv a knnih nf tiinnipe uhrt ha1 an I 1 I .1 write music. Most recently, he worked for three yean at KZON-FM, an alternative rock station.

He left KZON after falling ill with the AIDS virus in 1996. One of the songs he wrote, Like a Baby Bird Learning to Fly, as a message of hope for people with HIV and AIDS. He performed it at an AIDS fundraiser in 1996. "If I thought that this song Toad Hall By MIchMl Clancy The Alteon Republic Toad Hall, who woke Phoenix up to rock radio in the 1970s, died Friday. Hall, whose real name was Gary Kinsey, was 55 years old.

A native of Phoenix, Hall was the morning personality for seven years on KDKB-FM. He started in 1971 when the long-term marriage of FM radio and rock music was just beginning. KDKB was the voice of the counterculture in Phoenix, led by legendary program director Bill Compton, whose name remains on Compton Terrace, an outdoor cohcert facility. Creative tensions and a move toward stricter formats ended the honeymoon. Compton was fired, and Toad Hall, who took his name from the children's book The Wind in the Willows, quit in 1977.

Hall previously had worked short stints at KOY and KDKB's predecessor, KCAC-AM. He later worked for KSLX-FM. He also had a career in advertising and continued to do voice work and Motorist with flat struck trying to cross freeway lanes A man whose car had a flat tire on the freeway was struck and Za critically injured by a Jeep as he attempted to dash across the JljBl. roadway, the Department of Public Safety said. The man, whose name was not released, got the flat and pulled to the emergency lane of Interstate 10 at the on-ramp to the eastbound Loop 202, around 6 a.m., the OPS said.

Both he and another man started to run across the on-ramp to Loop 202. One of them stopped when they saw the Jeep approaching; the other kept running. The Jeep's driver tried to swerve out of the way, but wasn't able to avoid hitting the man, the DPS said. The driver was not issued a citation in the accident, the DPS said. Mississippi man killed as truck flips A Mississippi man returning home from a spring break trip to California and Mexico was killed Thursday night when the truck in which he was amazingly powcnui voice, iney orougni inc cuy together the way the Sun did.

They had an absolute hold on the ears and minds of their audience." Hall, whose list of favorite performers included Jackson Browne, the Beatles, Enya and Nat King Cole, said that the music kept him going. "Music to me is everything," he said. Marty Manning, afternoon personality on KESZ-FM, worked with Hall at KDKB. "He woke people up with such love and such joy. People loved him.

It was a labor of love and poetry, and he was really gifted at it." Hall is survived by three grown children two sons and a daughter and his ex-wife, Philippa. Information on services was not available Saturday. would impact even one person who has the disease or lost a person to the disease, it will be yorth it," Hall said at the time. Hall spent his radio career resisting formats and the more businesslike aspects of the industry. He told The Phoenix Gazette's William Porter in 1993, "What I've come to understand is that it doesn't matter if you're making a salad or playing music on the radio, what matters is the energy trans- tiding flipped on Interstate 10 near Marana and ejected both occupants, police said.

Michael Brett Dobbs, 19, of Pascagoula, died at the scene of head II IR demm trauma, said Eddie Villegas, a state Department of Public Safety patrolman. The driver of the car, who fell asleep while going approximately 75 mph eastbound on I-10, suffered minor injuries and was released from You on not atonm. 20 i University Medical Center in Tucson on Friday night, police said. Neither man was wearing a seat belt, police said. Compiled from reports by The Arizona Republic and ttw Associated Press.

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