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Dave Perlis

Dave Perlis

Writer, musician, and filmmaker from Marin County; co-hosted the late-night talk show Night People on WFMU; author of "Morning in Marin" (2026) and Deadcast correspondent on Grateful Dead history.

Jul 16, 2026

19:14
But Morning in Marin, named after the Howard Wales composition, of course, finds a place where Bay Area music intersected with lots of other forces.
19:22
Alan Watts, the Zen philosopher, was bringing acid to Marin and to Tamalpais in the late '50s, which is way before I think most people realize acid was in the mix, culturally speaking.
19:34
And this combination of influences led to the Marinissance, and masterpieces and influential works from people like Alan Watts, the Beats, including Jack Kerouac, Gary Snyder, Lew Welch, Joanne Kyger, who's a wonderful poet, um, Richard Brautigan, some of the masterpieces of Philip K. Dick, a lot of what people think of his greatest works, uh, the plays of Sam Shepard, a great run of albums from Van Morrison, some of my favorite Van Morrison albums, and the films of George Lucas, Walter Murch, Michael Ritchie, Huey Lewis and the News had emerged by 1985, and of course, the Grateful Dead.
20:12
So when you combine all of those cultural influences, all inspired by these same values, by 1985, this was what was popular culture in America.

6 MINS LATER

25:55
That's the power of love.
25:59
Huey Lewis and the News as a band are mostly raised in Mill Valley.
26:04
The Power of Love was recorded in Sausalito at The Record Plant, and then the music video for Power of Love was filmed surreally at this club called Uncle Charlie's, which was in a strip mall in a town called Corte Madera, which is in central Marin.
26:20
And this is where Huey Lewis and the News really gelled.

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