Dan Epstein was the guest on Listen Up!. Dan is an award-winning journalist and contributing columnist to Rolling Stone. His latest book, Big Hair and Plastic Grass: A Funky Ride Through Baseball and America in the Swinging ’70s, has just been released in paperback. We chatted about his book, his Rolling Stone column “High and Tight” – where Rock & Roll Baseball experts talk about the national pastime and the worlds where baseball and rock music collide and mesh. There was also dose of sludgy 70’s space rock, and other sounds from the 70’s. A couple tunes about baseball were tossed into the show as well.
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Man or Astroman – Maximum Radiation Level – Experiment Zero – 1996
Robert Calvert – The Right Stuff – Captain Lockheed and The Starfighters – 1974
UFO – Timothy – UFO 1 – 1970
Blue Öyster Cult – The Red and The Black – Tyranny and Mutation – 1973
Pink Floyd – Fat Old Sun – Atom Heart Mother – 1970
Captain Beyond – Sufficiently Breathless – Sufficiently Breathless – 1973
Be-Bop Deluxe – Sister Seagull – Futurama – 1975
Amon Düül II – Jalouise – Viva La Trance – 1973
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band – The Faith Healer – Next – 1973
Iggy and the Stooges – Gimme Danger – Raw Power – 1973
Mott The Hoople – Thunderbuck Ram – Mad Shadows – 1970
The Edgar Winter Group – Sundown – Shock Treatment – 1974
Warren Zevon – Bill Lee – Bad Luck Streak In Dancing School – 1980
The Baseball Project – Fair Weather Fans – Volume 2: High and Inside – 2010
The Skeletons – Take Me Out To The Ballgame – In The Flesh – 1988
The Baseball Project – 1976 – Volume 2: High and Inside – 2010
Bob Dylan – Catfish – The Bootleg Series Volumes 1–3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961–1991 – 1976
The Nightmares – Baseball Altamont – Baseball Altamont /Hold On and Pray – 1985
Roy Harper – When An Old Cricketer Leaves The Crease – HQ – 1975
Thin Lizzy – Cowboy Song – Jailbreak – 1975
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