Word: commonical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...There are a lot of San Francisco people in Boston this summer. You run into them around. You'd be on the Common and you'd see a lot of people there you saw on the Pan-handle last summer...
...people on Beacon Hill were organized by being pushed off Boston Common. But Fleming and his bands have had little conflict with Cambridge police. Fleming originally checked with City Hall to see if he needed permission for his productions. Law requires a permit to sell, build, or use city electricity on the Common. With a $10-a-weekend generator, he doesn't need a permit...
...Common is for the common people. You can have a picnic on the Common. And you can graze cattle on the common," he said. The big amplifiers for the electric music are directed away from the Garden Street houses. They stop playing during marriage ceremonies in the church across the street and start in again and cheer as the couple comes out the church's doors...
David Friedman '69, manager of the Bead Game, says playing the Common is good exposure for his group, which doesn't have a record out. There are groups now in Boston that have good ablums out but haven't been able to sign to play for weeks...
Troy Fleming with his concerts is thus performing as much of a service for the musicians as for Cambridge's nascent community of free spirits. "Everybody's self-conscious," says John Leone, singer for the Bead Game, about the crowd on Cambridge Common; "they can't believe Boston's so cool that this could be really happening here...