Psychedelic Women: Conversations with the Women of the Counterculture Ep 8: The Acid Rock Radio Pioneer Part 1

Imagine life without free radio. If you lived in America before 1967, that was reality… there were no free radio stations until a group of misfit artist visionaries high on LSD decided to recreate their psychedelic record parties onto the airwaves. In this episode, RV talks to her mom’s pal, Raechel Donahue - the pioneering woman who trained and employed the first women in America to be radio engineers and DJs and turned free acid rock radio a reality called KMPX (precursor to KSAN). Raechel Donahue, DJ, filmmaker, voiceover actor, wife and widow of Big Daddy Tom Donahue, tells us about San Francisco beatnik life before it morphed into hippies. Stories about her adventures bellydancing, go-go dancing, modeling for a gay Holocaust refugee who invented the thong bikini and how horse racing, LSD and Tourette’s syndrome led to the birth of rock radio in America and the greedy corporate overlords who tried to squish them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices