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...participants openly smoked marijuana, brought the youthful drug culture to a new apogee. Its signature is everywhere. Rock musicians use drugs frequently and openly, and their compositions are riddled with references to drugs, from the Beatles' "I get high with a little help from my friends" to the Jefferson Airplane's White Rabbit ("Remember what the dormouse said: Feed your head"). The culture has its own in-group argot: "bummers" (bad trips) and "straights" (everyone else), "heat" (the police) and "narks" (narcotics agents), and being "spaced out" (in a drug daze...
Richmond might as well be Indian-apolis or Des Moines. Of course the old monuments are still around-Robert E. Lee's home and Thomas Jefferson's graceful state capitol-but they have no effect on the modern city. The city appears as all-American as any medium-sized integrated city in the nation. The whites are moving to suburbia-toward Chesterfield and Ashland in the north and west-while the blacks are coming into the city seeking work from the nearby Southside. The lower middle-class whites resent the blacks, but can do little about it except vote...
...also made numerous interest-free loans to musicians and he gives intense loyalty to those who work for him. "If I have an act I think is good but that hasn't made it yet," he says, "I put it on a bill with the Who or the Jefferson Airplane. This approach to my business has gotten me a good reputation nationwide, but here in San Francisco the kids say: 'We love the music and we love the Fillmore, but we hate Graham because he's a f-ing capitalist...
...staged a benefit party that brought together poets, actors, and some of the pioneers of the big new sound called rock. It was a huge success and showed him what he could do. "It was the first time all those people met," says Graham. "Ferlinghetti, the Fugs, the Jefferson Airplane, Peter Orlovsky. It was the most beautiful evening of theater, the most beautiful party, the most joyful evening ever. Everyone was stoned -some on grass, yeah, but others on nothing at all but the scene, man. The musicians played, and the people kissed and hugged, and it was unforgettable...
...Negro blues and folk singer, whose laments in the 1940s led to a rebirth of folk music in the U.S.; during heart surgery; in Manhasset, N.Y. Born in Greenville, S.C., White spent his youth roaming through the South with such master bluesmen as Joel Taggart and Blind Lemon Jefferson. In 1941, he burst on the scene with Chain Gang, a bestselling record album of songs from the Georgia prison farms. Before long, he had scores of imitators around the country, and became a nightclub fixture-casually hunched over his guitar, a burning cigarette tucked behind one ear-singing his favorites...