On a recent sunny morning, I walked with former KSAN DJ Peter Laufer up Mt. Tam in Marin County to get the scoop on a new book about the legendary underground San Francisco rock station and the people who made it tick.
The news department reported on the Indian invasion and occupation of Alcatraz Island. The station sent their stories around the world. Reporters covered student protests at San Francisco State University and at Cal, warned about “bad acid” and urged listeners to attend teach-ins and learn how to practice civil disobedience.
Laufer added, “I was then and still am in love with radio, which is the most magical and visual of media. KSAN was a marriage of convenience between countercultural folks and Metromedia, the corporate ownership. We made the station profitable and we exercised creative freedom.” “KSAN functioned as a communications center for the antiwar movement,” Nisker recounts. The main message was always the music. Rock songs were our liturgy.”
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