On Veteran's Day the Chill Room brings in H.T. (Tom) Brown to read from and discuss his new memoir called Summer of Love, My Ass! Tom and I worked together in the 90s for Rhino and we share love of music, liberal politics and history. Tom's Vietnam-era adventures are both startling and funny. It is also informative of how young people are broken down to be reconstructed as soldiers - unless they are determined otherwise. And Tom was so determined!
Produced and engineered by dj bennett (chillroom@killradio.org)
With thanks to my listeners, Thomas Ferranti, Reggie Collins, and to killradio and radio4all.net. Comments welcome.
The Chill Room, 11 November 2011 11pm PST
2 hours 15 minutes, antiwar show for pinkos and Zappafiles
The music we share is all selected by Tom to represent the era. As a longtime Zappa fiend, Tom also shares some of his favorite Frank music too. This is not a regular Chill Room collage but a friendly, evocative talk sorting out time and space. And to get some of you to buy the book.
Set list: Electric Flag--Killing Floor / Bob Dylan-Subterranean Homesick Blues / Mothers of Invention-Trouble Every Day (mono) / Country Joe and the Fish-Fish Cheer_I Feel Like I'm Fixing To Die / Arthur Barrow-Believe It / Frank Zappa-Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up / Mothers of Invention-It Can't Happen Here (from Mothermania) / Frank Zappa-Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance / The Fugs-Wide Wide River & Burial Waltz (It Crawled Into My Hand, Honest!) / Traffic-Feelin' Alright