Psychedelic Women: Conversations with the Women of the Counterculture Ep 9: The Acid-Rock Radio Pioneer Part 2

Can you imagine process-serving the Beatles? Raechel Donahue, SF's acid-rock radio pioneer, was a psychedelic second away from doing just that because she and her husband, Big Daddy Tom Donahue, produced the Beatles very last concert in North America and it didn’t go quite as planned.  And that’s just the first 5 minutes of this episode which includes Raechel’s life in swinging 60’s London where it was common to see Led Zepplin hitchhiking, the Rolling Stones buying baby clothes and smuggling pot in Pampers was routine.  And have you ever heard of the Medicine Ball Caravan aka Woodstock on Wheels? Produced by Tom and Raechel Donahue, who tells us about the epic roadtrip documentary (edited by a young Marty Scorsese) that took 150 hippies and rock stars across 1970’s America to play psychedelic music festivals in small red towns.  Plus, we learn he history of Frito chips and hear stories about the Record Plant, Sly Stone, Trident Studios, a psychedelic wedding at the Jefferson Airplane’s mansion and a psychedelic funeral...all told to us by Raechel Donahue, the Anne Frank of Rock'n'Roll, as Big Daddy Tom Donahue called her. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices