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Fact #76301

When:

Short story:

Mad River play the first of two nights at The Steppenwolf, Berkeley, California, USA.

Full article:

The Mad River Story

by Johnny Black, first published in Shindig, August 2008

AT THE CLOSE of the '60s, the power of America's rock bible Rolling Stone was immense. Entire careers hinged on the opinions of the magazine's esteemed critics. In May 1968, when a Stone writer called Eric Clapton "the master of the blues clich