I started listening to Loveline on the radio while at the University of Southern California in 1996. It was already a nationally syndicated radio show at that point but was still a mostly local Los Angeles phenomenon. Fascinated by the magic combination of Dr. Drew's analysis and the wit and street sense of Adam Carolla, I listened to it every night. Each show was a lesson in psychology, giving me new insights about myself and my peers and people in general. And listening to Adam and Drew handle other people's issues helped me address some minor (some would say major!) issues of my own.

I called the show once and got to talk to Adam for a few moments. For a documentary for our new campus television station, I was even able to get into the Westwood One studio to shoot some footage during one of the shows. After the shoot, they sent me a promotional photo autographed by Adam and Dr. Drew.

As I listened to these shows in my dorm room, I felt compelled to start recording them as I listened to them. I felt like I was listening to something special, and I wanted to have copies of it for myself. I found that a whole show would fit perfectly onto a 90-minute tape if you hit pause every time they went to commercial. I ended up recording about 100 shows before graduating.

I happened to tune in on November 3, 2005 to learn that it was Adam's last show. I tried desperately to call in, because I wanted to thank him for helping people like myself, but I couldn't get through. How else could I thank him? I started thinking about putting together a web site with all of my recorded shows, organizing them and sharing them with the public as a way to "give back" to the community. But I never got around to it.

In July 2009, Adam (my collaborator, not Carolla) found a reference to the Loveline footage I shot on my personal web site. An avid collector of Loveline material, he sent me an e-mail. He mentioned an archive of recorded shows that he and his friend Giovanni had collected, and I told him about my box of tapes and my web site idea. Finally I had some help, not to mention a much larger selection of shows! Giovanni insisted that I send him my box of tapes to transfer. The result of our efforts is this web site.

I hope people find lovelinetapes.com entertaining, educational, and helpful, just as Loveline was for me.

I started listening to Loveline in the 6th grade. All I had to listen with was a cheap clock radio. I would put it under my ear like a pillow and listen to the entire show that way so I wouldn’t get in trouble at for staying up so late. I later got a CD player with a digital tuner and headphones.

Sadly KRock in Syracuse, NY dropped the show in early 2004 and I was forced to stop listening. I discovered some of the low bit rate shows on file sharing programs a few months later and started downloading them. I had dial up at the time and wasn’t able to download the higher quality stuff from the other websites. Eventually we got higher speed Internet and I downloaded as many shows as I could get my hands on.

That wasn’t enough though. I knew I was missing out on the early years of Loveline and decided to search the interwebs for any old shows people may have. I’ve worked with a number of tape traders who would trade me their old Loveline shows for other interviews and bootlegs they were seeking. Several generous sources (such as Jeff, the creator of this site) have come forward over the years and donated cassette tape recordings they made for themselves years back to be transferred to mp3 files by Giovanni. Eventually I hope we complete the entire archive.

I discovered LoveLine back in 1996 when the MTV show premiered it was the 2nd month of 7th grade and I had just turned 13 a few days before the 1st ep, at the time I watched a fair amount of mtv so I caught the show by chance and found it to be very compelling.

Immediately I was aware of Adam's humor and the unique rapport between him and Drew, the show would air 5-7 nights a week with marathons on the weekend that would be 2-6 episodes from 11pm/12m-5am, that whole November and December of 1996 all the memories I have in some way involve the LoveLine mtv show.

Shortly after I discovered the TV show I discovered the much superior radio show which at the time was syndicated on 100.7 the buzz in Wa state, this must have been sometime in 1997 or so.

I then began archiving mp3's of the show in late 98 and have been doing it ever since, I have been working in and around various online communities since the late 90's, I remember exchanging old mp3's on the original Napster, Audiogalaxy, too many gnutella clients to name and many other different P2P programs, I've been using the DC++ hub since the early days and would frequent all the old LL ftp's (kevin U's, lovelinehamandcheez, etc.) I used to love downloading from the Lovelinearchive (RIP) and worked on Lovelinecentral (RIP) with Adam D. and rush before it was closed down.

In the past few years my efforts have been dedicated to finding old tapes and then transferring them, I have a unique setup for the process and very specific settings, it results in the best sounding shows yet to be released, It takes me about 3-4 weeks on average for 100 shows but I have done 200 in less than 6 weeks before, these old fan made recordings are the last hope we have of ever completing the archive, if you're reading this and have any tapes please email me ASAP.

Loveline is deeply woven into the last 13yrs of my life and no matter how much I hear the old eps I never can seem to get enough nor does it ever get old to me.