“Mel really made me see”: Ibid.
“flatly denied . . . that the troupe”: Canby, “Antonioni Makes His First U.S. Film in Death Valley.”
“America is my true protagonist”: Walker, “Michelangelo and the Leviathan: The Making of Zabriskie Point.”
“MGM still claims it doesn’t know”: Hamilton, “Antonioni’s America.”
“There is something mystical about him”: Ibid.
“[Mark was] sitting there in his big armchair”: Halprin, “Daria.”
“Turn and grab Mark as if you really wanted”: Canby, “Antonioni Makes His First U.S. Film in Death Valley.”
“bratty, free, earth-child quality”: Hamilton, “Antonioni’s America.”
“this year’s James Dean”: Bensky, “Antonioni Comes to the Point.”
“Mel had announced that”: Kindman, “My Odyssey Through the Underground Press.”
“That was the first time I heard [Mel’s] music”: Felton, “The Lyman Family’s Holy Siege of America.”
“It’s hard to say what he thought of them”: Ibid.
“After eight or nine months of my ranting”: Ibid.
“The whole thing was a big Hollywood lie”: Ibid.
“No one knew how high and wide”: Walker, “Michelangelo and the Leviathan: The Making of Zabriskie Point.”
“No plastic living beside the Hollywood pools”: McKinnon, “‘Zabriskie Point’ Stars Rap Movie.”
“one of his most ambiguous”: Canby, “No Life in Antonioni’s Death Valley.”
“is far more interesting to me as a failure”: Goldstein, “Did Antonioni Miss the ‘Point’?”
“too bad the medium isn’t the message”: Uncredited, Broadside of Boston.
“Antonioni didn’t represent reality”: McKinnon, “‘Zabriskie Point’ Stars Rap Movie.”
“I was cast at a bus stop”: The Dick Cavett Show.
“Mark loved being one of the Hill workers”: Kindman, “My Odyssey Through the Underground Press.”
“From fairly reliable, anonymous sources”: Felton, “The Lyman Family’s Holy Siege of America.”
“People on the Hill have to learn”: Ibid.
“I’ve got a steady job”: “New England Merchants Bank Robbery.”
“In committing their act”: Kindman, “My Odyssey Through the Underground Press.”
“It must have gotten tangled on his leg”: “New England Merchants Bank Robbery.”
“evicted from the commune for non-payment”: UPI Staff, “‘Zabriskie Point’ Star Is Held for Bank Robbery.”
“Mark would not cooperate”: Walker, “Michelangelo and the Leviathan: The Making of Zabriskie Point.”
“It was a revolutionary act”: Death Valley Superstar, directed by Michael Yaroshevsky.
“Mark Frechette has spent the past week”: Sales, “Where Are the Listeners? A Journey from Fort Hill to Zabriskie to Cell 104.”
“The anger was in those boys”: Ibid.
“We haven’t changed”: Ibid.
“Much of what Mark was saying”: McLellan, “Mark Frechette’s ‘Personal Act of Revolution.’”
“oddly formal” cocktail dresses: Ibid.
“Was the bank robbery a way”: Klein, “Frechette of Fort Hill: Robbing the Bank for Mel.”
“Before, when I was out on the street”: Ibid.
“They call themselves the ‘Stars in Stripes’”: Snyder, “Norfolk, Massachusetts, Inmates/White House Transcripts.”
“I’d love it if Nixon were here tonight”: Barnicle, “‘All the President’s Men’ . . . in Jail.”
“The president [and his collaborators] were portrayed”: Ibid.
“Being in that kind of a place for someone like Mark”: Death Valley Superstar, directed by Michael Yaroshevsky.
“We were close to getting out”: Ibid.
“It was a good bank robbery”: McLellan, “Mark Frechette’s ‘Personal Act of Revolution.’”
7: I SAW YOU COMING FROM THE CAPE
All quotes from author interviews with Joey Bebo, John Sheldon, Tom Kielbania, John Payne, Janet Planet, Victor Moulton, June Benson, Herbert Yakus, Ed Morneau, David Atwood, and Ivan Lipton, except as follows:
“I was about to work with one of”: Bebo, In the Back of the Van, 8.
“Everyone makes the same comment”: Beam, Gracefully Insane, 1.
“You could hide anything”: Ibid., 205.
“He was incredibly high”: Stuart, My First Cousin Once Removed, 176.
“People are saying, ‘Well, this means’”: Heylin, Can You Feel the Silence?, 259.
“[Van] was doing the tracks”: Ibid., 176.
“There was the Prudential, towering over”: Bebo, In the Back of the Van, 110.
8: A LITTLE MORE LIGHT INTO THE DARKNESS OF MAN
All quotes from author interviews with Charles Giuliano, Ralph Metzner, Dr. Andrew Weil, Joe Rogers, and Lewis Merenstein except as follows:
“He was using LSD to turn”: Lundborg, Psychedelia: An Ancient Culture, a Modern Way of Life, 279.
“He gives really strong doses”: Felton, “The Lyman Family’s Holy Siege of America.”
“He was growing horns”: Ibid.
“I love you, I love you”: Ibid.
“There is no reason to fear it”: Lyman, “To All Those Who Would Know.”
“We were very interested in anything”: Roberts, Albion Dreaming: A Popular History of LSD in Britain, 20.
“berated us and said the company”: Friedman, The Secret Histories: Hidden Truths That Challenged the Past and Changed the World, 127.
“We lost a couple”: Lattin, The Harvard Psychedelic Club, 213.
“They gave this patient LSD”: Bass, “Mentally Ill Patient in LSD Study Is Said to Have Killed Self.”
“It was the classic visionary voyage”: Greenfield, Timothy Leary: A Biography, 113.
“We expected to receive”: Dass and Metzner, Birth of a Psychedelic Culture, 14.
“a place where ‘I’ existed”: Dass, Be Here Now.
“We gave [psilocybin] to jazz musicians”: Ibid.
“transcended all form and saw”: Ibid.
“Before I got involved with Tim”: Dass and Metzner, Birth of a Psychedelic Culture, 14.
“I was a professor and I was”: Dass, Be Here Now.
“HARVARD EATS THE HOLY MUSHROOM”: Leary, High Priest, 158.
“I resolved to devote my ingenuity”: Weil, The Natural Mind, 21.
“It is exhilarating. It shows us”: Lattin, The Harvard Psychedelic Club, 57.
“a vast collection of rumor”: Weil, The Natural Mind, 64.
“I’m in the same situation you were in”: Dass and Metzner, Birth of a Psychedelic Culture, 88.
“BABY’S DEFORMITY BLAMED ON LSD”: Black, “Baby’s Deformity Blamed on LSD.”
“We were a cult turned inward”: Dass and Metzner, Birth of a Psychedelic Culture, 81.
“BIG ‘FAMILY’ STIRS PROTEST”: Castello, “Timothy Leary’s Dead, but Before That, He Lived in Newton.”
“an ever-changing scene of magic”: Dass and Metzner, Birth of a Psychedelic Culture, 14.
“Don’t think about the past”: Dass, Be Here Now.
“Maharaji indicated he wanted to try LSD”: Ibid.
“I didn’t know if that was”: Ibid.
“You make many people laugh”: Ibid.
“sort of be by myself in a cabin”: Parker, “Breakfast with Ram Dass—Interview with Dr. Richard Alpert.”
“Well, we see a Cadillac”: Ibid.
“The family felt that to some”: Ram Dass, Fierce Grace, directed by Mickey Lemle.
“the most engaging, lucid”: Taylor, “Baba Ram Dass (the Former Richard Alpert, PHD) Shares His Experiences.”
> “At Harvard I was a Good Guy”: Ibid.
“Sir, the motor car is dangerous”: Leary, Changing My Mind, Among Others: Lifetime Writings, Selected and Introduced by the Author, 143.
“The key to your work is advertising”: Greenfield, Timothy Leary: A Biography, 282.
“Wave reassuringly. Radiate courage”: Ibid., 283.
“A year ago LSD was almost”: McCabe, “Remember Dr. Tim Leary?”
“his rhetoric has a patina”: Mansnerus, “Timothy Leary, Pied Piper of Psychedelic 60’s, Dies at 75.”
“Leary is a pathetic pioneer”: Kenny, “Turned-On, Turned-Off High Priest.”
“I’d always wanted to have”: Conrad, “Local LSD PR-Girl Tells How to Make (and Take) Those Little Sugar Cubes.”
“I began to hang around”: Ibid.
“Bieberman was the ultimate”: Hanna, “Lisa Bieberman: Extended Biography.”
“When does this stuff wear off?”: Bieberman, Session Games People Play: A Manual for the Use of LSD.
“There should be someone more”: Ibid.
“I wanted to make the drug available”: Conrad, “Local LSD PR-Girl Tells How to Make (and Take) Those Little Sugar Cubes.”
“If I were you I would”: Uncredited, “Bieberman Sentenced for Shipment of LSD.”
“Flower power is no substitute”: Bieberman, Two Years in the Psychedelic Movement, 1965–1967: The First Twelve Issues of the Psychedelic Information Center Bulletin.
“Jim belonged to a time”: Ibid.
“betrayal and promise”: Bieberman, “The Psychedelic Experience.”
“People have left Millbrook”: Ibid.
“a pure-essence eccentric”: Leary, The Politics of Ecstasy.
“It is not bizarre, but clear”: Bieberman, Phanerothyme: A Western Approach to the Religious Use of Psychochemicals.
“I met a patient there who”: McCarthy, “Ram Dass Reemerges.”
“one of the great outliers”: Smith, “Bruce Conner’s Darkness That Defies Authority.”
“[He] was there three or four”: Felton, “The Lyman Family’s Holy Siege of America.”
“And everybody was getting fucked up”: Ibid.
“Johnny turned on the radio”: Stuart, My First Cousin Once Removed, 168.
“The last few months”: Von Schmidt and Rooney, Baby, Let Me Follow You Down, 291.
“The disbanding of Jim Kweskin’s Jug Band”: Ibid., 301.
“total insanity had erupted”: Wilton, “Last Week.”
9: THE NOISES THAT ROAR IN THE SPACE BETWEEN THE WORLDS
All quotes from author interviews with Russell H. Greenan, Ray Riepen, Joe Rogers, Peter Wolf, Jonathan Richman, Don Law, Mitch Horowitz, and Gunther Weil except as follows:
“The details are grisly”: Lask, “Crazy Palette.”
“I haunted the public library”: Greenan, It Happened in Boston?, 147.
“That city is really the Mecca”: Uncredited, “The Great Spook Temple Boston Town.”
“the religion of America”: Weiss, Life and Correspondence of Theodore Parker, 428.
“the spirit of her lamented husband”: Uncredited, “A Curious Story About Mrs. Lincoln Reiterated.”
field dependent on “electrical energy”: Kirkpatrick, “Edgar Cayce: MIA.”
“[Hastings] lived in another world”: Alan, Radio Free Boston, 16.
“But he also believed in the power”: Ibid.
“Ten thousand dollars?”: Goodman, The Mansion on the Hill: Dylan, Young, Geffen, Springsteen, and the Head-on Collision of Rock and Commerce, 38.
“Because of my relationship with Ray”: Alan, Radio Free Boston, 25.
dismiss any autobiographical content as “absolutely absurd”: Heylin, Can You Feel the Silence?, 141.
“You are fascinated, though a trifle”: Douglas, Listening In: Radio and the American Imagination, 48.
“brought to the ears of us”: Ibid., 52.
“It was like looking over”: Alan, Radio Free Boston, 34.
“It didn’t hurt us if”: Ibid., 27.
“It was important to let people”: Ibid., 48.
“hipper than the assholes running”: Ibid., 9.
“[He] was such a classical music”: Ibid., 19.
“Driving alone at night”: Douglas, Listening In: Radio and the American Imagination, 40.
“We used to get in the car”: Barton, “The Car, the Radio, the Night—and Rock’s Most Thrilling Song.”
“An ancient fortune-telling card”: Chapman, “What a Deck!”
“The baby-boom generation was the first”: Paglia, “Cults and Cosmic Consciousness: Religious Vision in the American 1960s.”
“tidy up my life”: Greenan, It Happened in Boston?, 224.
“parallelepiped houses of colored crystal rose”: Ibid., 228.
“three arched entrances set”: Ibid., 227.
“It was probably the greatest”: Lattin, The Harvard Psychedelic Club, 74.
“Everything in the world just seemed”: Cassie, “The Existential Medicine.”
“it left me with a completely”: Doblin, “Pahnke’s ‘Good Friday Experiment’: A Long-term Follow-up and Methodological Critique.”
“the most powerful cosmic homecoming”: Smith, Cleansing the Doors of Perception: The Religious Significance of Entheogenic Plants and Chemicals, 101.
“crumpled it up”: Lattin, The Harvard Psychedelic Club, 76.
“The original Good Friday experiment”: Doblin, “Pahnke’s ‘Good Friday Experiment’: A Long-term Follow-up and Methodological Critique.”
“fascinating and provocative conclusions”: Ibid.
“All students who had taken the drug”: Lattin, The Harvard Psychedelic Club, 79.
10: SOMETHING IN THE BRICKS
All quotes from author interviews with Ray Mungo, Chuck White, Barney Frank, Jesse Kornbluth, Steve Nelson, David Atwood, Ted Myers, Alison Burke, Fred Griffeth, and Jessie Benton except as follows:
“I had the privilege of studying”: UPI Staff, “Martin Luther King’s Widow Responds to Suit.”
“A few years ago, a young man”: Forsythe, “BU Honors ‘Fallen Knight.’”
“To Boston-born blacks, the lesson”: Lukas, Common Ground, 59.
“The only Black people I saw”: Jones, “John Curtis Jones Interviewed by Ivan Richiez, Chris Watson, & Erys Valdez.”
“The vision of the New Boston”: Abraham, “It’s Time to Finally Honor Martin Luther King’s Ties to Boston.”
“his finger in every pie”: Friedman, “Shoeless Barney Frank: Mayor White’s Dynamo.”
“It’s too late to cancel it”: Lukas, Common Ground, 32.
“bedeviled into gangsterism”: Uncredited, “After the Brawl Was Over.”
“form of rock ’n’ roll paganism”: Uncredited, “Alan Freed’s Rock ’n’ Roll Show Today Stood Up in Court.”
“These so-called musical programs”: Uncredited, “Rock ’n Roll Banned in Boston After Riot That Probably Never Happened.”
“they are not really R-’n’-R”: Cotler, “Boston Bars Rock and Roll Dance: Police Say Music Leads to Trouble.”
“If word ever gets out”: Lukas, Common Ground, 33.
“a salty old New Englander”: Sloss, “‘What’s Going On Here?’: Louis Lyons and the News.”
“negro leadership” of Roxbury: “Interview with Mayor Kevin White.”
“Yeah . . . but if I were you”: The Night James Brown Saved Boston, directed by David Leaf.
“black pride and black people”: Harris, “The Social Activist Side of James Brown You Won’t See in Get On Up.”
“I wanted to see people free”: Ibid.
“I’ll get you your money”: The Night James Brown Saved Boston, directed by David Leaf.
“L
adies and gentlemen, apologies”: James Brown at the Boston Garden, directed by David Atwood.
“He’s been doing some things”: Ibid.
“I had the pleasure of meeting him”: Ibid.
“He was a man who knew”: The Night James Brown Saved Boston, directed by David Leaf.
“This concert was like magic”: Ibid.
“The reports also say that”: James Brown at the Boston Garden, directed by David Atwood.
“Wait a minute!”: Ibid.
“In just a moment we’re going”: Ibid.
“I know [James] went through something”: The Night James Brown Saved Boston, directed by David Leaf.
“Well, the city is at stake”: Lukas, Common Ground, 36.
“Well, we’re doing a good thing”: The Night James Brown Saved Boston, directed by David Leaf.
“It was worth the 60K”: Ibid.
“the two killings seemed to”: Walsh, “How Robert F. Kennedy’s Death Shattered the Nation.”
“In Hippievilles around the country”: Davis, “U.S. Hippies Flocking to Boston Common.”
“As the hot weather sets in”: Uncredited, “Nation: Love-in in BossTown.”
That daughter, Eve Chayes: Johnston, “Mel Lyman: Special Place in Family; Man They Worshiped as God Is Nowhere to Be Found.”
“The hippies . . . are no longer a novelty”: UPI Staff, “Boston Curfew Plan Considered.”
“You’ve made a disaster area”: AP Staff, “Boston Common ‘Disaster Area,’ Judge Charges.”
“For it seems now more certain”: Bates, Reporting Vietnam: Part One: American Journalism 1959–1969.
“I woke up and took a small”: Kindman, “My Odyssey Through the Underground Press.”
“You could just feel it”: Foley, Confronting the War Machine: Draft Resistance During the Vietnam War, 15.
“I don’t believe we owe loyalty”: Ibid., 99.
“Thank you for coming”: Ibid., 202.
“Neither this mayor nor any”: Friedman, “Atkins Criticizes Mayor for ‘Hasty Statement.’”
“some black intellectuals compare”: Riddell, “Negroes Call It ‘Colonialism.’”
“the American flag was lowered”: Ascheim, Avatar #23, April 12, 1968.
“the greatest threat to the internal security”: Farley, “Preventing the Rise of a ‘Messiah.’”
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