merciality of rock which gave rise to the al form of expression. For one thing, the that it would bea "revolutionary" lies that produce it and reap its profits er understood it. Ford executives drive any's cars but Sir Joseph Lockwood, of EMI, the record company which, le, released the Beatles' records, has mutted that he doesn't like their small companies like Sun and Chess hich first discovered the early stars Presley and Chuck Berry were run by whites who know that kids and ked this weird music, but they didn't really care why. As long as the music offend the businessmen's sensibilities too they never allowed outright obscenity as long as it sold, they didn't care what it within the commercial framework, dways had a certain freedom.
devotion to powerful aestnelic e it for it to sell, so that the audience did it create a spending sprees, drugs and women mussing loot; what legend does artists are paid very little artist may receive a record who were traditionally the mass rock audience Jim Morrison became rock's number-one sex idol and the teenie-boppers' delight. The group played bigger and bigger halls - the Hollywood Bowl, the garish Forum in Los Angeles and really thought about what the meant: would he really take Cleaver in and protect him against Cleaver accept the welcome? "I don't know, police attack, a very likely necessity should man. I'd have to wait until that happened."
Cleaver would be well-advised not to choose the Airplane's mansion for his refuge. For Kantner's mushy politics turned-on liberalism that thinks the Panthers are "groovy" but doesn't like to come to terms with the nasty American reality politics of the much touted "rock revolution.' They add up to a hazy belief in the power of art to change the world, presuming that the place for the revolution to begin and end is inside individual heads. The Beatles said it nicely in "Revolution"; "You say that it's the institution, we-ll, you know, you better free your mind instead.
Jac Holzman, president of Elektra Records, said it in businessman's prose: "I want to make it clear," he said, "that Elektra is not the tool of anyone's revolution. We feel that the "revolution' will be won by poetics and not structure of the world. It's reached the kids and by politics - that poetics will change the is getting to them at the best possible level."
There is no secret boardroom conspiracy to divert antisocial youthful energy into rock and thus render it harmless while making a profit for the society it is rebelling against, but the corporate system has acted in that direction with a uniformity which a conspiracy probably capitalists are worried about their ability to could not have provided. And the aware control where kids are going;
So the kids are talking revolution and smoking dope? Well. so are the comnanise