He’s been called the “Voice of the Hydros” and the “Founding Father” of Northwest’s ’60s rock renaissance.
But before he was a disc jockey, a pioneering concert promoter, a hydroplane-race announcer and now a drug-and-alcohol treatment center owner — before Pat O’Day was any of those things, he was a Tacoma teenager named Paul Berg who had lost his father and was subsequently shuffled to Iowa for six months.