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Fact #171667

When:

28091968

Short story:

Frank Zappa's Mothers Of Invention, The Fugs, Tim Buckley, Tangerine Dream and The Julie Driscoll/Brian Auger Trinity play at The Grugahalle, Essen, Germany, Europe.

Full article:

Ed Sanders (The Fugs) : That was the trip where we tried to sneak into Czechoslovakia from Essen. We rented a BMW, it was potato-harvesting season on the Czech/German border, right after the Russian tanks rolled into Prague and after the Chicago riots too. We wanted to go Prague and lie down in front of a Russian tank for an album cover. It was that kind of era. Then we got caught at an obscure border crossing where potato trucks would go back and forth. A guy jumped out from behind a kiosk with a machine gun and yelled "Halten-ze!"
(Source : interview by Michael Simmons, Mojo, June 2011)