tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195590583641426943.post6090674921145689383..comments2024-03-26T23:10:34.814-07:00Comments on Grateful Dead Sources: June 9, 1968: Golden Gate Park, San FranciscoLight Into Asheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195590583641426943.post-60217343770888588092018-08-16T12:50:51.913-07:002018-08-16T12:50:51.913-07:00No music, but quite a discrepancy between the AP r...No music, but quite a discrepancy between the AP report and the Barb's account. This is a good example of how differently an event could be reported in the mainstream press and a local underground paper. <br /><br />Jefferson Airplane were interviewed in Kaleidoscope Chicago (another underground rag) later that year, and brought up Rock Scully and this event, when talking about dealing with cops: <br /><br />SPENCE: You ask Rock Scully, man. Now here's a cat who participated in the first Free Speech Sit-Ins at San Francisco, was in those movies, man, you've seen them, where they turned those fire hoses on and dragged those kids down the steps of democracy. He spent nine months in the joint, got out, got his teeth busted and had to have two front teeth put in. <br />Now when the heat comes around Rock is a beautiful diplomat. When we went out to play Bobby Kennedy's wake, out there it was Rock who handled the cops and realized we can't fight, there was a tactical squad out there. And he didn't want to see people's heads busted. He was thinking about those kids, man. And we could always play for those kids if we got a permit. <br />Now the law was right, because you're supposed to have a permit, it had been rented to somebody else for that day. You've got to do things right. <br />PAUL: It hadn't been rented to somebody else that day. <br />SPENCE: It had, because the cops got it. The cops had it that day. But the thing is that he learned from his bad experience. <br />GRACE: No, that's good, I agree with that. <br />KAL: But he hasn't forgotten it. <br />SPENCE: No, Rock hasn't. Rock's working the same way we are, man. He's trying to make music, and trying to like take care of business just the way he can. I think that he's doing it the right way. <br /><br />(from "Jefferson Airplane Raps," Kaleidoscope Chicago 11/22/68, p.9 - also in this interview, the Airplane agree that the Dead are "the real origin of acid rock," Spence commenting, "The Grateful Dead play 'acid rock' and it sounds like acid, if you can say something sounds like acid.") Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.com