"The Jive 95: An Oral History of America’s Greatest Underground Rock Radio Station, KSAN San Francisco"/Hank Rosenfeld [Episode 147]

Booked On Rock with Eric Senich · Aug 9, 2023 · 58m · transcript

Hank Rosenfeld's book The Jive 95: An Oral History of America’s Greatest Underground Rock Radio Station, KSAN San Francisco is an oral history of KSAN in San Francisco, America’s first hippie underground FM station. Rock gods, political stars, and literary celebrities, including Jerry Garcia, Ken Kesey, Sly Stone, and John Lennon were all interviewed by founder Tom Donahue and his cohorts, whose listeners “tuned in and turned on” to bands like Jefferson Airplane, The Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Country Joe and the Fish, Hot Tuna, The Beatles and Santana, among…