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Yeah, yeah. Nothing existed, which adequately covered rock and roll. Uh, there were plenty of, you know, in past years, 10 years ago, 15 years ago, five years ago, two years, you know, not they say 10 years ago. You know, there were some adequate publications around that

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did cover the field will, but rock and rolls, you know, is a, is a, is a particular form that's changed tremendously, keeps changing and vastly change. You make a tremendous amount of changes. And uh, there was no publication around that covered it the way it should

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be covered. You know, the, that it treated it the way it deserved to be treated, that, you know, understood it really, you know, and understood it not, it's not serious music, you know, it's not teeny bob stuff. It's just good music to have fun, Bye. There's

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a lot of people who have tried to take the power inherent in rock and roll of the thousands and millions of people who follow rock and roll follow the styles of the Beatles whose lifestyle is set by this and tried to translate it into political power

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and use it for political ends, You know. But it's always been unsuccessful. It's never worked. And I can give you example after example of how it has never worked. And, and that's because rock and roll is something else, it's not a serious thing. I mean, it's

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not a, a, uh, a form or a media which says, let's get on the march to do this. It's a thing which says have fun, enjoy yourself, have a good time, rocket up, smash up soccer to enjoy yourself. And it's not at all. That other thing

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you're on the up until just a very few years ago, rock and roll was thought to be the province of what is now called the teeny boppers, the 14 and 15 year old high school students in the main and in recent years, uh sophisticated publications such

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as yours and the FM radio and it's uh reaching a different age group now, I would think why, what's the difference between a rock and roll now and the rock and roll of the Elvis Presley Everly Brothers? It's changed, it's changed. I mean, the thing about

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a popular art, any kind of popular artist tremendously subject to change. And and and the Elvis Presley Fats domino chuck berry. Everly Brothers era was a very good era of music. I mean that was a lot of good music in them. There's a lot of really

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good music after that. It went to a lot of schlocky terrible, The real, if you can recall uh Frankie Avalon, you know, and cookie burns, you know, kookie kookie lend me your comb and cookie burns couldn't sing, he couldn't sing, he did his tone deaf, he

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couldn't sing and Frankie Avalon paul Lincoln. It was very bad. The Beatles has what's changed rock and roll from, from what that was to what it is now as it became more and more a better idiom, better music, more and more people were drawn to it

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all the all the kids of my age who had listened to Elvis Presley and fats domino chuck berry and then had to sit through way low through Frankie Avalon. So on. I mean after Frankie Avalon, you know when that started man uh the thing was folk

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music, you know and everybody was a big folk music free. Uh But the Beatles brought it all back home and then their movie came out and everybody said oh my God, you know, they're just like us, they're great, they're having fun, they're enjoying themselves, you know

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and it's good to and it's pleasant, you know, it's good listening and that's what brought back the older audience I. E. The older it's me 20 years old to rock and roll. Yeah. Is there such thing as a san Francisco sound? Or is it just that

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this happened to be the place where acid rock or whatever it's called started. There is a san Francisco sound as such, but it's very amorphous and very difficult to define. Uh although it's very obvious I wrote a long article about this one so much I couldn't

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go into now. I think the important thing about san Francisco is that it's a scene, it's a warm, supportive, friendly city that's historically had the bohemians, the beats that supported the arts, poetry, jazz and similarly today it supports rock and roll is I mean it's the

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only city, United States where the police in SAn Francisco are reasonable enough or subject to enough public pressure on the part of the local newspapers, i. E. The SAN Francisco Chronicle not to close down a rock and roll club. Whereas in city after city, throughout the

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United States, they're all closed down tremendous police and harassment. This is the only city in the United States where such a new art scene could develop because of the liberality, the friendliness, the supportive nature of the atmosphere. Yeah. And the best player, right? Diarrhea every night

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and I both part. Mhm. Mhm. Mhm. Really? Really? Mhm.