The Jive 95 - An Oral History of America's Greatest Underground Rock Radio Station, KSAN San Francisco - Hank Rosenfeld

The author worked at "The Jive 95" in San Francisco,---the first hippie-run FM station in America. After interviewing the original crazy characters who were in their 20s when they created the phenomenon, I compiled this Oral History of America’s Greatest Underground Rock Radio Station. From 1967-80, it was the countercultural center/clubhouse/ vortex of consciousness for a new generation of young people in the '60s and '70s. A community-beloved commercial radio original, staffed by intrepid pranksters, drug-enlightened DJs and brilliantly radical news people.From the revolutionary Summer of Love in 1967 Golden Gate Park, through the antiwar, civil rights, ecology-enlightened, crazy 1970s America, to the rebellion's bitter corporate-clampdown ending in 1980, KSAN was considered THEIR station (the love generation's) Invented by "Big Daddy: Tom Donahue (6'5", 400 lbs; 1996 inductee into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame), almost overnight, KSAN became the voice of th counterculture. Rock g