Psychedelic Women

By Rainbow Valentine

Producer/Host, Rainbow Valentine was born into the inner circle of the San Francisco counterculture which didn’t seem unusual until she grew up and discovered not everyone’s family and friends were&nb... more

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How many episodes does Psychedelic Women have?

The podcast currently has 25 episodes available.

Psychedelic Women episodes:

May 30, 2025 Psychedelic Women Ep 4: Convos with the Women of the Counterculture: Radiate Part 4: Kathy Sturdy, Psychedelic Bling Builder
There’s an 1980’s song by the Jefferson Starship (formerly the Jefferson Airplane) called “We Built This City on Rock’n’Roll” and it’s about the ground-floor peeps of San Francisco’s 1960’s psychedelic revolution who literally did just that: built 1960’s San Francisco on Rock’n’Roll (fueled by LSD); and Rainbow Valentine’s mom was at the center of that inner circle; doing things like making bling for the Jefferson Airplane’s drummer, tripping with the Merry Pranksters and engineering for first rock radio station in the country, KMPX. In this episode, RV’s mom gets into the mid 1960’s, sharing true stories about actors in the Committee Comedy Troupe falling off cliffs, boating in Mexico with Neal Cassady, chauffeuring Mimi Farina, singing with Joan Baez, designing jewelry for Salvador Dali, gardening with Grace Marchand, working with rock radio pioneers, Raechel and Tom Donahue, the Grateful Dead, Dizzy Gillespie and the continuing saga of her marriage to future-TV star, Howard Hesseman plus much more.

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1h 2min
May 23, 2025 Psychedelic Women Ep 3: Convos with the Women of the Counterculture: Radiate Part 3: The Psychedelic Grace'n'Beauty Tutor
It’s the early to mid 1960’s in San Francisco and the folk
music scene is shifting to acid rock; the burgeoning subculture of psychedelic
art, music and comedy is at its finest hour according to Rainbow Valentine’s
mom who often found herself backstage between Janis Joplin and Pigpen after a day of teaching poise at sex-positive activist Margo St. James’s brothel or running errands for concert promoter, Chet Helms or The Committee Comedy Troupe before bellydancing beside Santana at LSD fueled concerts. In episode 3 RV’s mom shares stories about her fascinating life in 1960’s SF...including double dating with the first stripper in America to have breast implants, hosting celebrities before they were famous( like Jack Nicholson) her tumultuous marriage to future TV actor, Howard Hesseman plus the origin story of the Family Dog production company, a shocking possible-murder involving the Mafia and a piano and her secret affair with the Grateful Dead’s grubbiest musician...and more!

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1h 6min
May 16, 2025 Psychedelic Women Ep 2: Convos with the Women of the Counterculture: Radiate Part 2: The Bellydancing Bohemian
After being unwittingly radiated in the biggest secret
nuclear meltdown in America, Rainbow Valentine’s mom fled to San Francisco, landing in Beatnik central of the early 60’s where she married a famous, mid-century modern jeweler with access to Stanford-made LSD, became a bellydancing sidekick to a fire-eating Holocaust survivor, made bling for rock stars plus stories about Tijuana, Lenny Bruce, Dizzy Gillespie, the Coffee Gallery, the Committee comedy troupe, Janis Joplin, Mexican wrestlers, illegal gay bars, her third husband, TV actor, Howard Hesseman (of WKRP in Cincinnati) and more.

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1h 3min
May 09, 2025 Psychedelic Women Ep 1: Convos with the Women of the Counterculture: Radiate Part 1: North Beach Babe
In 1959 Los Angeles there was a nuclear meltdown larger than
3 Mile Island that was covered up and never cleaned up and its tragic fallout propelled host, Rainbow Valentine’s Future Mom, Kathy Mason Lerner, to flee to San Francisco where she landed in Beatnik Central aka North Beach, SF. There shemet a Beatnik jeweler to the Jazz greats who had access to LSD made by Stanford University and RV's mom's life on the groundfloor of SF’s psychedelic revolution began. In this episode RV’s mom tells us about Janis Joplin, Pink Floyd, secret, illegal, gay bars, black-velvet paintings, the Nazi scientist who Disneyland called a hero and much more…

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55min
April 24, 2025 Introducing...Psychedelic Women: Conversations with the Women of the Counterculture
Producer/Host, Rainbow Valentine was born into the inner circle of the San Francisco counterculture which didn’t seem unusual until she grew up and discovered not everyone’s family and friends were pot smugglers, rock stars and artists activating for peace, justice and equality. Rainbow Valentine’s mom, her friend’s moms and her mom’s friends were the bedrock of the world famous 1960’s counterculture - they were the first women in history to have access to (and take advantage of) The Pill, LSD and Rock’n’Roll. Psychedelic Women: Conversations with the Women of the Counterculture reveals never-before recorded stories of the sex,drugs and rock’n’roll of the paradigm-shifting 1960’s American counterculture.

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