Re: (TV) Since we're there

["Andy Ferguson" <afne04343@blueyonder.co.uk>]

> I think you're a bit wide of the mark there, Andy.

At least thats peoples assumption that flower power ended at Alamont.
And most people associate people like him - and even MC5 in their misguided
notions - with hippies and flower power so I was speaking from the point of
view of 'the people/joe public' as opposed to myself and thought it might
have made a nice snappy answer instead of a 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 line description
of what I really meant........catches breath.....cheers Andy

> Read "Steal This Book" by Abbie Hoffman; not much about flower power
there.
> And one of the key people behind the Summer of Love in San Francisco was
> Emmett Grogan (who was featured in that recent Mojo special about Hippies)
> who was, among other things a major junkie and criminal, as well as being
> all-round brilliant. Read his autobiography "Ringlolevio", and consider
that
> Emmett claimed that Abbie was a chancer who stole his (Emmett's) ideas.
> Emmett was probably the main reason for Altamont as well, according to
Sonny
> Barger of the Hell's Angels.
>
> Both Emmett and Abbie died in the 80s, apparently suicides.
>
> --JoeT
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