A Long Strange Trip (85 page)

Chapter 12. History of Olompali: California State Park display. Olompali: JG, BW, BK, Brenda Kreutzmann, PL, DR, RS, Tim Scully, 3/9/67 tape. First party: JG, BW, PL, Julia “Girl Freiberg” Brigden, Herbie Greene, Darby Slick, DR, RS, Tangerine, Florence Nathan, Jorma Kaukonen, Barry Melton. “rock star . . . to be true”: Jorma Kaukonen. “Grace really . . . or split”: Darby Slick, p. 108. “That’s Neal . . . counterprogramming”: Grace Slick, pp. 100, 27. “I closed my eyes . . . big joke”: JG to Alderson. Fillmore/Avalon: band, Chet Helms, BG. “who never appeared . . . opening night”: JG in “What Was That?” “no longer down”: “Rock ’n’ Roll: Going to Pot.” “Turn off your’’: “Tomorrow Never Knows.” “Dope, fuck”: PL in 3/9/67 tape. “cocky . . . better than cow- boys”: John Cipollina. Olema and Quicksilver: band, John Cipollina, David Freiberg, Ron Polte. Estribou Recording: band, Gene Estribou. Vancouver: PL, RS, Laird Grant. “got screwed around”: JG in Gleason,
Je ferson Airplane,
p. 326. Bear’s departure: band, OS, Tim Scully. “a really solid”: JG in Reich, p. 69. Dan Healy bio: DH, and see Nash,
Music
and Sound Output.
“People are starving”: BW. “the most successful”: Gleason, “All That Jazz.” Kelley/Mouse bio: Alton Kelley, Stanley “Mouse” Miller. “20th century teenage”: Stanley Miller in McDonough, p. 55.

Chapter 13. 710 Ashbury: band, Sue Swanson, Veronica Barnard Grant, Michael McClure, DR, RS, Allen Cohen, Mary Ann Pollar. “a fantastic universal sense”: Hunter Thompson,
Shark,
pp. 104–5. Oracle: Allen Cohen. “We’ll talk and screech”: from McKernan’s “Crazy Peace of Mind,” as quoted in Brandelius, p. 51. Diggers: Peter Berg, Peter Coyote. “Far more dangerous . . . the
culture”:
Coyote in Graham and Greenfield, p. 184. “The antidote”: Coyote, p. 64. “It’s yours . . . sacred”: Peter Coyote. “a mature street”: BG in Graham and Greenfield, p. 187. “Why don’t you guys”: DR. “Fire, fire”: Glenn McKay. “Got any juice”: Maruska Nelson. “You’re the manager”: RS to Joel Selvin. Love Pageant Rally: see Charles Perry; Allen Cohen, Peter Coyote, Laird Grant. Ken Kesey arrest: Brian Rohan. “The Dead are . . . our ethics”: Ron Polte. Halloween: Ron Polte, DR, Brian Rohan, Julius Karpen. “That whole [acid test] scene . . . out now”: JG to author and Al Aronowitz, 6/73.

Chapter 14. “There is no new . . . Founding Fathers stuff”: Felton and Dalton, “Year of the Fork.” “anxious to believe”: Christgau,
Grown Up,
p. 67. “out of step”: Spencer Dryden in Gleason,
Je ferson Airplane,
p. 224. “Everybody looked like”: Lydon, p. 114. “ ’cause we know . . . without it”: Marty Balin in Gleason,
Je ferson Airplane,
p. 101. “It’s not what you play”: Jorma Kaukonen. Signing with Warner Bros.: band, DR, RS, Brian Rohan, Joe Smith. “Tom, I don’t think”: Joe Smith in Selvin,
Summer of Love,
p. 94. Warner background: Joe Smith, Stan Cornyn. “Brian, keep the publishing”: Brian Rohan. Contract: Joe Smith, Brian Rohan. “It’s like dealing”: Scully and Dalton, p. 62.
Sons and Daughters:
band, Jon Hendricks. “It’s our responsibility”: JG in Jon Carroll, “A Conversation.” “rapidly gaining . . . sustained genius”: Sculatti, “San Francisco Bay.” “the newest adventure . . . originality is unmistakable”: no author, “Nitty Gritty Sound.” 710 Thanksgiving: band, Sue Swanson. “This is the bossest”: Gleason, “Thanksgiving.” “Dead Silverfish”: Barry Melton. “Rabble-rousing is their very”: Scully and Dalton, p. 77. Doors: see Hopkins and Sugarman. “unique Be-In . . . we shared”: Charles Perry in Lynda Obst, p. 188. “I’d never seen”: JG to Randy Groenke. “I’ve lost . . . smoking grass”: Julius Karpen. “Now, pay attention . . . very important”: DR. “Like, all that . . . my stomach”: JG in Jon Carroll, “A Conversation.” “swinging . . . day was full”: Gleason, “Tribes.”

Chapter 15. First album: band. Mountain Girl: MG, BW. “Whyn’t you try it”: Michael Lydon. Wenner interview: 1/26/67, courtesy of Joel Selvin. “Those I met”: Wainwright, “New Love Land.” “Man, you gonna . . . pig”: Eldridge Cleaver in Lynda Obst, pp. 192–93. Panthers: see Seale. “We want land”: Seale, p. 66. Recording first album: band, Kelley/Mouse, Joe Smith, Stan Cornyn. Reviews: Ralph Gleason,
Chronicle,
5/7/67; Paul Williams,
Crawdaddy!,
7–8/67; Richard Goldstein, “Popeye,”
Village Voice,
4/13/67. “pointless . . . Too much”: JG to Randy Groenke, 3/67, courtesy of Randy Groenke. “student guitarist . . . rowdy thing”: Gleason,
Je ferson Airplane,
p. 312.
Teen Set
session: Jim Marshall. “Alien” photo: Bob Seidemann. 3/20 party: band, DR, RS, Stan Cornyn, Joe Smith. “I want to say . . . Records to the world”: Stan Cornyn. Health department: Power, “Hippies Get.” Easter Sunday: Allen Cohen. KMPX: Raechel Donahue in Lynda Obst, p. 216. Goodman, p. 37. PL. Screen Actors Guild: comments of Richard Masur, president, SAG, 10/27/97, reported in
Screen Actor,
1/98. Otto Preminger: MG, BW, Sue Swanson. “No way, man . . . big difference”: Ray Manzarek, in Robble, “Reflections”; McClure. Moby Grape: see Selvin,
Summer of Love. Olompali Sunday Times:
G.D. archives. “Pretty little 16”: Charles Perry, p. 181. “Jerry’s got . . . the teachers”: John Cassady in
San Jose
Metro,
Dec. 18–24, 1997. HALO: Brian Rohan. “I never was . . . a process”: JG in Brown and Novick, p. 58. “personal liberation”: Raskin, p. xv. Russian River: band, John Warnecke.

Chapter 16. “some artifact”: RS in
Creem,
1/74. “functioned not only”: Goldstein, “Scenes,”
Village Voice,
6/15/67. Goldstein bio: Richard Goldstein. “if the industry . . . every artery”: Goldstein,
Greatest Hits,
p. 119. Group Image: see McNeill, p. 88; Gold- stein,
Village Voice,
6/22/67 New York visit: band, Laird Grant, DR, RS, Richard Gold- stein, Howard Klein, Paul Williams, Sandy Pearlman. “That’s right”: Dave Barry to Joel Selvin. “a shaggy lot . . . with the music”: Peter R. Borrelli,
Time
files. “the way to make”: PL. “hippies armed . . . by wires”:
New York Times,
6/9/67. Hoffman wedding: Raskin, p. 97. “I am leaving”: Freeman House. “I sense violence . . . the fuck”: JB. Millbrook: band, JB. “colorful patronness . . . Mellon family”: Leary, p. 126. “vaudeville for the mind”: Christgau,
Grown Up,
p. 116.
Crawdaddy!:
Paul Williams, Sandy Pearlman. “the problem is”: Christgau,
Any Old,
p. 36. “Most hippie rock”: ibid., pp. 40–41. “Rock was not in- tended”: Landau, p. 131. Monterey: see Selvin,
Monterey Pop;
Lou Adler in Joe Smith; Derek Taylor; Phillips (for laughs); Graham and Greenfield; Coyote; Adler in Rosen; Christgau,
Any Old;
band, DR, RS, Ron Polte, Julius Karpen, Peter Coyote. “Judgement reserved”: Derek Taylor, p. 111. “to rifle the coatroom . . . not happening”: Coyote, p. 99. “Are you gonna . . . pay expenses”: Christgau,
Any Old,
p. 19. “to come in peace”: Phillips, p. 229. “1,100 people . . . many colors”: Derek Taylor, pp. 84–86. “You won’t be able”: BW. “We have to follow”: Florence Nathan. “You know what foldin’ ” . . . let them in anyway”: Christgau,
Any Old,
pp. 29–30. “the English and American . . . mad, no”:
Monterey Pop
(film). “and wear some flowers”: DR. “Promoters, hustlers . . . or screwed”: Hunter Thompson,
Shark,
p. 99. “Pig- pen, Captain Trips”:
Vancouver Sun,
7/14/67. “We start off sympathetic”: John Wasserman, S.F. Chronicle, 7/24/67. “simian . . . to shreds”: Kareda, “Jefferson Airplane.” Toronto: band, MG, Jorma Kaukonen. Bonnie Dobson: Jackson, “Roots,”
Golden Road.
Montreal: band, Bill Thompson, Jorma Kaukonen, Jack Casady. “25,000 hippies”:
Montreal Gazette.
8/7/67 (no title; Jefferson Airplane Scrapbook). “stop playing so”: JG. “Are you sure”: DR. “a patron”: Rakow in Greenfield, p. 79. Chelsea Hotel: DR. Sinclair: RS. “at their best”: “The Hippie Temptation,” ABC.

Chapter 17. “What happened . . . were nuts”: SP. “Everyone is gonna”: Joe Winslow. “If you’re looking”: JG in Henke. “For sure”: Harrison,
The Dead,
p. 126. “We’re part . . . the hall”: Charles Perry, “A New Life.”

Chapter 18. RH bio: RH. “Look for a while . . . years . . . sunflower”: courtesy RH. “Shall we go, then”: T. S. Eliot, Collected Poems, p. 3. Straight Theater: Hillel Resner. “Learn body movement”: Straight poster. “What I would like”: Gleason, “A Most Unusual.” “You wanna . . . any drums”: MH. MH bio: MH. “I haven’t seen you . . . gotta meet him”: MH. “whipped into a”: Hart and Stevens, p. 135. “We are going to become”: MH. 710 bust: band, Florence Nathan, DR, Marilyn Harris Kriegel; see also Raudebaugh, “Cops Raid Pad.” “That’s what ya get”: Wenner,
Rolling Stone.
“Oh, so you’re”: DR. “I got ’em”: Florence Nathan. Press conference: DR; see Wenner, “The Dead.” “But if [hippiedom] . . . fashion”: Herb Caen, S.F. Chronicle, 10/15/67. “The media cast . . . attend services”: Digger archives. Death of Hippie: Peter Berg, Peter Coyote, Ron Thelin, Marilyn Harris Kriegel, DR. March on Pentagon: Lee and Shlain, p. 205. Ellsberg: Raskin, p. 124.
Rolling Stone:
Baron Wolman, Chet Helms, Michael Lydon. “This is not a counterculture”: Baron Wolman. “When I woke up . . . cloudy day”: early draft of lyrics, courtesy BW. “Certainly they are . . . gobble you up”: Lydon, p. 117. “That sounds like . . . meditation”: DR. “I hear you’re looking”: DR. RR bio: RR and Frances Shurtliff. “Matthews is fired . . . What”: RR. “You’re killing yourself ”: MH. New Year’s in Omaha: BK, RR. “almost immediately . . . fun and games”: Joe Smith to Danny Rifkin, 12/27/67, G.D. archives. “Oh, boy . . . just personalities”: JG in Graham and Greenfield, p. 202.

Chapter 19. “negative status . . . cheap to fix”: Spence, “Van.” “uncut, vilely . . . they stink”: Cahill, p. 16. Iowa story: Patrick Stansfield. Parking lot cuisine: see Zipern.

Chapter 20. Tour of the Northwest: band, Brian Rohan, RS, Ron Polte, John Cipol- lina. “pot orgy”: John Cipollina. “The Dead never played”: RS in Portland State
Vanguard,
1/26/68. “phenomenal . . . nitroglycerin”: ibid. (no title). Crystal Ballroom: see Hills. Un- derground press: see Peck, Pepper. “disregard for time-honored”: Biskind, p. 45. Closing of Haight Street: band, RS, Jim Marshall, John Warnecke. “Hey, here we are . . . great”: PL. Carousel: band, Dan Healy, Lydia Rakow, Bert Kanegson, Jon Riester, Brian Rohan, Ru- bin Glickman, Bob Matthews, Annie Corson, JM. “McIntire! What . . . exactly”: JM. KMPX/KSAN: see Raechel Donahue in Lynda Obst; also Nisker. “What a strange . . . things”: MH. “In no way encourages”: Kleps, p. 26. Recording of
Anthem:
band, DH in Sandy Troy, “Soundman.” “You had to set it”: DH, ibid. “How can we make it”: JG, ibid. “We really mixed”: JG in ibid. Charles Ives: BW, PL. “No tricks, just music . . . frenzied”: Annie Fisher, “Riffs,”
Village Voice,
5/16/68. “The coasts linked”: McNeill, “East Is West.” “are extremely driving”: John Kifner,
New York Times,
5/6/68. Olompali: MH, Don Mc- Coy. GUSS: Jacky Watts Sarti. End of Carousel: Jon Riester, Lydia Rakow. “1. free identity . . . the myth”: Digger papers, courtesy of Peter Berg. St. Louis: Jorge Martinez. Fillmore East: Bill Graham, Jerry Pompili, Amalie Rothschild, Candace Brightman. “got up when . . . you know”: Jerry Pompili. Barsalona: see Goodman. “It’s real estate . . . Constitution”: Jon Riester. “What do you want . . . losing the place”: JM. “It’s beautiful . . . great”: “The Very Grateful Dead,” S.F. Chronicle, 6/5/68.

Chapter 21. “We had the set-up . . . represent you”: Larry Magid to Sam Cutler, 10/18/73, G.D. files. “In the years to come”: Sam Cutler to Larry Magid, n.d., G.D. files. “People forcing me . . . a businessman”: Graham and Greenfield, p. 342. “It would cost”: Lisa Shaftel. “It’s true, I can’t . . . acrimonious”: John Scher. “Jerry stood up . . . Evah”: BG.

Chapter 22. “an extraordinary event”: Jim Miller,
Rolling Stone,
9/28/68. “It’s so com- pletely”:
New Musical Express
review, as quoted in
Spiral Light
27, p. 27. “Anthem” name: PL. “Well, I guess”: Bill Walker. “Dark Star” single sales: Warner Bros. Records, courtesy of Joel Selvin. “perfect two-and-a-half-minute”: Williams,
Rock and Roll,
p. 136. Chicago: see Joseph, Raskin, Peck, David Obst. “We are dirty”: David Obst, p. 100. Post-Carousel: band, Bert Kanegson, DH, OS, RS, JM. “the situation as it exists . . . Oh, yeah, right”: recording, G.D. archives. New songs: JG, RH. Hartbeats: JG, PL, MH. Avalon: Chet Helms, Bob Cohen. Millard Agency: BG, JM, RS, Janet Soto Knudsen. TC’s arrival: band. London run: Cookie Eisenberg, RS, DR, Peter Coyote, Jon Riester, Sue Swanson, Frankie Azzara. “Derek, Adolf Hitler”: Philip Norman, p. 439. Ampex: Ron Wickersham. “Fuck it”: Ron Wickersham. “Are you foxing . . . be nice”: Barry Melton. “It was the Fillmore West”: Jimmy Page in Yorke, p. 64. “garter belts sliding”: DesBarres, p. 133. Shoot-out with Led Zep: band, Herb Greene. “filled with mindless”: Constanten, “Between Rock,” p. 77.
Playboy:
band, OS, Jon Riester. “I want to thank”: PL, BK. “Ten minutes after takeoff”: Lydon, p. 129. “I wonder how long . . . away from me”: Joe Winslow. “We’re not gonna”: Jon Riester. “caused so much confusion . . . disturb other passengers”: letter from Dale W. Bauer, United Airlines, to Tom Sorce, Andrews Travel Agency, Berkeley, 1/27/69, G.D. archives. “I hear you have a problem”: Bill Belmont. “Jerry Garcia told me . . . the pressure”: Joplin in
Rolling Stone,
3/15/69.

Chapter 23. “Or there’s the one”: PL in Gans,
Conversations,
p. 163. “Play a slow number . . . I want”: BK. “the
only
one that”: John Barlow,
Swing 51.

Chapter 24. “We were after”: JG in Reich, p. 94. “made it into a one-man . . . up again”: Gleason, “All That Jazz.” “not a lesson but a course”: BW on WMMR, 9/8/76. Joe Smith cracks: RS, Brian Rohan, Joe Smith. “Mountains of the Moon”: special thanks to Judy Shoaf for help in tracing the mythology. “I’m dying . . . fantastic”: JG in Reich, p. 144. Black and White Ball: band, JM, Wendy Weir. “the most beautiful girl . . . so I left”: Herb Caen, S.F. Chronicle, 3/16/69. Doors: see Hopkins and Sugarman. “They’re the same type . . . pop music”: “Miami Bans GD Show,” S.F. Chronicle, 3/19/69. FBI and Co- lumbia: see Peck, pp. 175–77. “It’s him or me”: MH. Lenny Hart arrives: band, RR, JM, RS. “I am the Reverend . . . the spirit”: JM. “I had no control . . . scare them”: RS to Joel Selvin. “We’re doing the devil’s . . . do this”: PL. “Do you want to take”: RH to Joel Selvin. “Satan in our midst . . . good goddamn”: Lydon, p. 128. “There’s no cause worth”: John Lennon in Fawcett, p. 53. “But y’know, I dug . . . to be had”: JG in Lydon, p. 110. “I don’t really care to”: MH, PL. “Nero burning . . . people being sick”: Frankie Azzara.