Bob Weir 75 -- October 16, 2022

Happy 75th birthday to Bob Weir, who was born on 16-October-1947. He was one of the founders of the Grateful Dead. He composed some of their more popular songs. KFRC didn't play the Dead's music much, except for "Truckin'."

Grateful Dead - Truckin'

Grateful Dead - Sugar Magnolia

   

Grateful Dead - The Other One

Monterey Pop, 50 Years -- June 16, 2017

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50 years ago today, on 16-June-1967, the three day Monterey International Pop Music Festival began.  It featured nationally-known acts like Jimi Hendrix, Otis Redding, the Who and Simon and Garfunkel, but was mainly staged to introduce San Francisco bands to the world.  Janis Joplin with Big Brother and the Holding Company, the Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead made an impression.  Documentarian DA Pennebaker filmed the event. Monterey Pop was released the next year.

Trips Festival 50 Years -- January 21, 2016

Fifty years ago, on 21-January-1966, the tribes gathered at San Francisco's Longshoreman's Hall for the Trips Festival.  I don't remember this, but I do remember later events in Golden Gate Park, which we could hear from our back yard.

Years later I read Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.  I better understood many things I had heard about when I was a kid, about Ken Kesey, Stewart Brand and the Merry Pranksters.  The Festival went on for three days.  The Grateful Dead and Big Brother and the Holding Company performed.