Robert Hunter 
interviewed by Denis McNamara
Broadcast on WLIR-FM 
Roslyn NY March 1978

Source: 1st gen BASF Performance Series 1800 reel to reel tape @3.75ips

Transfer: Akai GX-625 reel to reel deck> Tascam DR100 mkIII @16/48

Assembly: AACC for edits, CDWav for tracks, TLH for flac8, mp3tag for tags

-Track 1 includes

Stamford days / The Crescents / songwriting starts / meets Garcia
Garcia duet gigs / David Nelson trio / Mother McCree's / Alligator/China Cat
album chronology introduction
Anthem Of The Sun & Aoxomoxoa / Dark Star during Rio Nido gig / St. Stephen
Live Dead - The 11 / lyric publishing
Workingman's Dead - Uncle John's Band
Dire Wolf / New Speedway Boogie / Cumberland Blues / Casey Jones
American Beauty & Europe '72 / album credits / on the road again
Sugar Magnolia with some guitar bit & alternate lyrics
Truckin' extra verses, etc.
Dead bandmember - obscurity & the press - playing with Comfort

-Track 2 includes:

Playing In The Band / The Pump Song - The Greatest Story Ever Told
Bertha
1st Garcia solo album - Bird Song / Sugaree
Deal / Comfort / The Wheel
fame/Jefferson Starship/Harp Tree Lament/Manhole/It's Only Music/Come To Life
Spitfire unissued original title track "Night Hawk" / Starship history
lyricists - Grace Slick / Patti Smith / Bruce Springsteen
Bob Weir Bomb's Away / Cat's Under The Stars
Ruben & Cherise
backtrack to Round Records / Wake Of The Flood songs
Tales Of The Great Run Runners album
Blues For Allah songs - Crazy Fingers
backtrack to Mars Hotel - U.S. Blues
London - Ripple / Brokedown Palace / To Lay Me Down / Scarlet Begonias
Scarlet Begonias cont. & Friend Of The Devil / Tiger Rose
Steal Your Face / Tiger Rose album

-Track 3 includes:

Terrapin Station album
Hunter's solo career / working for the Dead & next Dead LP / closing

Notes:

- No other processing, EQ or normalizing performed

- reel from the Nick's Picks collection

- photo by Ed Perlstein at www.musicimages.com, used with permission

- track notes from Ravens on YT. Interview was done at Roberts hotel room in Roslyn, NY March 1978

- transferred and assembled by Mike Schuncke 11/2022