Psychedelic Women

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...

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 pro...

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...

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 m...

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 countercul...