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How soon does the name change to Fillmore West or as soon as we can get together with the people who own the place and finalize the paperwork and so on. What's the reason for your move? Well, there are a number of them. It's a larger place

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where the facilities are much greater to do many more things, much more diversification and activities. Um The opportunity came up to take it also, we've been having some problem in our neighborhood which I would like to avoid what's going to happen to the Fillmore. We're going

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to continue to operate the film more. We're going to try to work more closely with the community within the community, the film, more community so low. So far as programs are concerned, much more involvement by the black community, an opportunity to have much more of a

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social and cultural and political platform within the auditorium. And uh hopefully they will be doing most of the work and we would like to have the opportunity to work with them and advise them in any areas that we can, but we will still retain the the

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uh control. So as far as the administration is concerned, you have to be the most famous impresario rock bands in the country probably in the world. How did you get involved in this? And what do you attribute your success to fate? Luck. Having been raised in

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New York City, uh having become involved with the theatrical scene in San Francisco some years ago with the San Francisco Meme Troupe. And having had the film will present itself the facilities available three years ago at a time when things were ripe and hopefully added to

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the luck and the fate done our best to bring in the what we think the public should hear and see and that was given to them by the plastic society. You're opening the Fillmore West with the Butterfield blues band Fleetwood Mac. 10 years after do these

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names come from who sits around thinking of names for rock groups, the kids, the young men and young women who comprise the, who make up world within the world, which is a very large world much larger than the mass realizes underground. Underground is no longer underground.

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It is pushing on the surface of the other world and it's now a very large movement, not only the world of Iraq, but it's its new realism. It's not just when you talk about rock, you don't, you're not really talking about music, you're talking about expression

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and a freedom there in. But within the freedom, there are the problems of not realizing, realizing that uh you cannot change the masses thoughts overnight. And uh that's involved in the rock, in the poetry, in the art of the uh young revolution. The name of a

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group have a lot to do with whether or not it becomes a success. Do you, do you think it has a certain magic draw? There was a time, I think the names when it was just like the word psychedelic at one time meant something or acid

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was a very dangerous word to use. Uh the name of a group, I don't think any longer is that important, except if you've had that name for two or three years and you're not famous but to come up with a new game, you know, the all

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stars, uh the, the, the public that digs this music has become so uh conversant and so knowledgeable that you're going to have to show them in your music and the name doesn't make it anymore. It's not, measurements aren't important. There is one that I just discovered

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for the first time a few weeks ago. In fact, you had them booked at Fillmore. The crazy World of Arthur Brown. I wish I thought of that. It's a good name. As I said, the, I really don't think the name is that important. I think what's

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more important is that, which really should be thought about in the world of Iraq. And that's what, what is the level of acceptance of the responsibility of being a star and being a rock n roll star. And what is the professional attitude? And what about the

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acceptance of the fact that the rock star is a professional entertainer and is a very important person in the community, in the general community. And as that, he carries great power. What is done by the rock star with this power that he has, which is a

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tremendous issue. I think it's a tremendous problem. And it's something that over the years the rock musician should involve himself with as much as he involves himself with his music, let him involve himself with the power that he has. And what does he do with it?

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Do you find that the kids actually dance a lot or do they just, uh, for the most part, sit around on the floor and listen. It's gone beyond the point of just dancing. I'm sorry that there isn't as much dancing as it used to be. But

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one of the nice things about them not being that much dancing anymore is that it, it gives credence to the fact that the music is important that there was a time when even the best bands were primarily back up sound for the duration of the individual,

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regardless of what the band was, the kids would run into the hall and say, oh, the airplane out of sight and then they would turn and just move. But because the subject matter at lunch time in the sophomore class now is whether or not Clapton is

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better than Bloomfield rather than, uh, did you really dig Rock Hudson Kissing Doris Day? Because this, the topic matter changes in the classrooms and on the sidewalks, it is not important for them to listen and to be able to attempt to understand what is going down

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in the music. They can no longer go to a dance hall and just dance and at the end of the night, discuss it, the subject is a major subject. Now, therefore, they must be conversing the knowledgeable in that subject and that's why they've stopped dancing and

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they are listening. Do you feel the drag? Do you feel that this kind of music that this sound is with us is gonna be here a long time. There will be diversions from it. The sound that's with you. The, the, the, the, again, the terminology psychedelic

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is going to go out the musicians who really involve themselves with just psychedelic music. How loud can we get and how uh disord we can get that's gone. The, the best of the filet will stay the good musician, charted music orchestration. There'll be, there'll be a

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unison with jazz, with raga, with poker. Um It will be more of a joining of the various types of music, but it will get away from just being rock n roll, but the bass will be thump, thump and there will be variations from that we have

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the Beatles. So thanks for that. God bless them.