Psychedelic Women Ep 5: Convos with the Women of the Counterculture: Radiate Part 5: Do You Believe in Magic?

The late 1960’s in San Francisco unfold and it’s tumultuous. In 1967 the Summer of Love brought 100,000 wannabe hippie teenagers to the City hoping to join RV’s mom’s friend group and the scene starts to fall apart.  RV’s mom is still in the center of the psychedelic revolution, working with KMPX, the first rock radio station in the country, Chet Helms and the Family Dog and the pioneering improv comedians at the Committee when a major pot bust shakes the inner circle of the counterculture to their LSD-soaked core.  In this episode RV’s mom tells us true stories about the CIA, FBI, Grateful Dead, Andy Warhol, Tiny Tim, Moby Grape, the Rolling Stones, Tim Leary, the Lovin’ Spoonful and the dramatic end of her marriage to Howard Hesseman and her new fling with the co-owner of the Straight Theater on Haight Street – a relationship that got..shall we say, complicated..and changed her life forever; plus more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices