Radio station WBAI (NY), 99.5 on your FM dial, host of the Grateful Dead radio show Morning Dew, just conducted an hour and twenty minute interview with me about Aces Back To Back and the Grateful Dead. Show host Don Grossinger and producer Stu Robinson were so gracious to devote what will be a considerable chunk of their weekly two-hour program to my book. The interview/ show will air this Saturday night (Sunday morning) between 1:00 am and 3:00 a.m. EST. You can tune in at 99.5 FM in the tri-state area or listen out of state at wbai.org. The show will also be archived on the WBAI website so you can download and listen to it at your conveniience. WBAI, a part of the Pacifica Radio Network, is a non-commercial, listener-supported radio station with a transmitter atop the Empire State Building. The history of WBAI is iconoclastic and contentious; the station was once referred to in a The New York Times Magazine piece as an anarchists circus. WBAI played a major role in the evolution and development of the counterculture in the 1960s and early 1970s. The station covered the 1968 seizure of the Columbia University campus (the Grateful Dead performed durrig the campus occupation on May 3, 1968) live and uninterrupted, as well as innumerable anti-war protests. Arlo Guthries Alices Restaurant was first broadcast on WBAI. In 1973, the station broadcast comedian George Carlins infamous Filthy Words routine uncensored. WBAIs broadcast of Filthy Words became a landmark moment in the history of free speech. William Burroughs presented a retrospective of all his works on WBAI. The series consisted of four programs, beginning with Junkie, and was followed by The Yage Letters, read by Burroughs and Allen Ginsburg, The Last Words of Dutch Schultz, and, finally, Naked Lunch.
Posted on: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 02:13:21 +0000
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