Jim Baird
--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> [From Sam Smith's Progressive Review. Touring with
> the Dead, how
> painfully dull that must have been! "Counterculture
> expert Todd
> Gitlin" is the funniest thing I've read all week.]
>
> APB NEWS: FBI and CIA documents obtained through the
> Freedom of Information
> Act indicate the bureau and the federal Drug
> Enforcement Administration
> monitored performances of groups such as the
> Grateful Dead and Jefferson
> Airplane. APBnews.com has obtained files the FBI
> maintained on both bands
> .... When those suspected to be FBI agents appeared
> at Jefferson Airplane
> gatherings, they would sometimes wind up on an
> unwitting LSD trip after
> being handed a spiked drink, said Paul Kantner, lead
> singer of Jefferson
> Airplane .... Back then, it wasn't hard to pick out
> the informers, said Todd
> Gitlin, a professor at New York University and
> counterculture expert. "The
> FBI guys traditionally wore black shoes and looked
> like G-men from the
> '50s," said Gitlin. "And the informants were always
> too gung-ho" ....
> Another band that caught the government's eye was
> the Kingsmen, the 1960s
> pop quintet whose hit Louie Louie was suspected of
> being obscene. Hoover's
> agents spent hours playing the record backward and
> forward, slow and fast,
> trying to decipher the song's garbled lyrics.
>
> APB NEWS
> http://www.apbnews.com/media/gfiles/dead/index.html
>
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