Fact #79629
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The Buffalo Springfield, Electric Flag, Blue Cheer, American Music Band and Richie Havens appear in KGO-tv special The Sights And Sounds Of San Francisco. TV deejay Dick Clark will claim, in the January 1968 issue of Teen Screen magazine, that this show was a pilot for a possible television series.Full article:
Marty Balin (singer-guitarist Jefferson Airplane) : I don't know what The San Francisco Sound is. They asked The Beatles that kind of question when they started the Liverpool thing. They didn't know. In San Francisco The Grateful Dead are doing blues; we're doing folk and commercial music. Everyone is doing their own thing. It's an honest scene.
It's like being in a different time. People wear their beautiful clothes and everything is very free. It's full of love. There are places that give food away. Young guys with guitars and poets are coming in. It's very far-out how people flock together for something good.
(Source : interview in Hit Parader, 1967)
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It's like being in a different time. People wear their beautiful clothes and everything is very free. It's full of love. There are places that give food away. Young guys with guitars and poets are coming in. It's very far-out how people flock together for something good.
(Source : interview in Hit Parader, 1967)