Thanks to the Internet, Pittsburgh's Music History Plays On

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Lance Jones has stories to tell. Paul Cramer wants to keep one of Pittsburgh's most beloved radio stations alive. And Paul Carosi burns a torch for the city's most cherished -- and, sometimes, forgotten -- music icons.

In the past year, each has launched a website devoted to some aspect -- in Carosi's case, the whole kit-and-caboodle -- of Pittsburgh music history.

Jones' site, musicasaurus.com, features recollections from his career as director of advertising for National Record Mart, the defunct Pittsburgh-based chain of record stores, and from jobs at Coca-Cola Star Lake Amphitheatre (now First Niagara Pavilion), first as director of marketing, then general …