talk in glowing terms about their drug experiences. Radio Unnameable was a counterculture radio show before anyone ever applied the term to America drop-out youth. Bob Fass was a hippie before there were hippies.
From the earliest days of Radio Unnameable, Fass experimented with sound, inspired by the audio art he heard by John Cage and Bill Butler. He collaborated with Gerd Stern and Michael Callahan media collective, USCO, which had produced sound fields for Timothy Leary Fillmore East shows, then dove in and began creating dense mixes on the air.
On the spur of the moment, Fass would layer four or five sources of sound; an instructional typing record a Hopi Indian ceremonyan anti-war songcannons firingan excerpt from a play. He would weave the sources in and out; make them louder, then softer, introducing new voices and noises that would comment on the state