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In Reply to: After the Hot Tuna talk and the Airplane flights... posted by LWR on March 13, 2007 at 21:06:10:
As opposed to Long John Silver? Volunteers?
I know they had kind of fallen apart by then, but even so...
You can always email me stories of... the Bay Area...
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I acquired the Bay Area in 1965? Traded two hits of STP and my pet goat Alice for all future rights.
Most of the tales came from backstage at Winterland or the Fillmore. Some were from 2400 Fulton, their house across the street from Golden Gate Park, during record release parties or after gig parties. In at least one case it was an "instead of the gig " party.
Strange substances and delivery mechanisms were often involved as were young women of questionable age and evil intent. Butter and peanut butter sandwiches were created without as much as a single piece of bread. G -tanks were hissing in most rooms. The house was full of secret stairways and hidden rooms, it seems there was always something unexpected and quite pleasant when you found one of those rooms.
Often it involved drooling and hysterical laughter. There were new uses for common household objects, silverware for one. Body painting, both upon one or using one as a brush, reached great heights of popularity.
There were never police raids. We were depraved. It was good.
My college has one of the those one-month "interim" study periods between semesters. Two of my college friends who knew someone on the Airplane's crew managed to arrange an independent study living at 2400 Fulton as their interim project. I think would have been January of 1970 (maybe 1969). One of the best college assignments ever.
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-Thomas Edison
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