“The Panthers call their breakfast”: Davidson, “Panther Image: Ghetto Defense.”
“We are twenty-four-hour revolutionaries”: Googins, “When Panthers Roamed Boston: The Boston Chapter of the Black Panther Party.”
“There must be a black theater”: Marquard, “James Spruill, 73; Actor and Founder of Influential Black Theater Company.”
“Naturally the neighborhood became enraged”: Felton, “The Lyman Family’s Holy Siege of America.”
“Black power is beautiful, man”: Davis, “White Revolutionaries Settle in Roxbury.”
“The Resistance and the School of Theology”: Foley, Confronting the War Machine: Draft Resistance During the Vietnam War, 314.
“ongoing free-speech exercise”: Ibid., 315.
“taken out physically”: Fripp, “1000 Await Police at B.U. Sanctuary.”
“This is the FBI”: Foley, Confronting the War Machine: Draft Resistance During the Vietnam War, 315.
“The Sanctuary at Marsh Chapel”: Ibid., 316.
11: WE HAVE ALL BEEN ASTRALS MANY TIMES
All quotes from author interviews with Charles Giuliano, Dave Wilson, John Payne, Tom Kielbania, Wayne Hansen, Jessie Benton, Lewis Merenstein, Brooks Arthur, David Palmer, Kathy West, Jay Berliner, Richard Davis, and Warren Smith Jr. except as follows:
“BUT MEL LYMAN IS THE AVATAR”: Avatar, March 1968.
“be the only company in the entire world”: Slung, “Non-Psychedelic Reflections of Fort Hill.”
“dialogue with the audience”: Kindman, “My Odyssey Through the Underground Press.”
“The music thus became a reward”: Ibid.
“One day in the late spring”: Mills, “An American Avatar: Mel Lyman.”
“The people outside of Fort Hill”: Ibid.
“declaration of spiritual war by Mel”: Kindman, “My Odyssey Through the Underground Press.”
“the bundles still warm from the presses”: Kelly, “Avatar Job Nets 45000.”
“For the better part of a week”: Felton, “The Lyman Family’s Holy Siege of America.”
“Today the great people are the musicians”: Lyman, “Some Enlightening News,” 19.
“Mel was making plans to accelerate”: Kindman, “My Odyssey Through the Underground Press.”
“Hey, I love Mel because”: Von Schmidt and Rooney, Baby, Let Me Follow You Down, 296.
“Their music had an edgy sense of urgency”: King, A Natural Woman: A Memoir, 135.
“Folk rocker is a powerhouse!”: Uncredited, “Myddle Class Review.”
“The band was just not going”: Beaudoin, “Not Everything’s Been Said—Remembering the City Featuring Carole King.”
“The deep love for writing”: West, A Song for You: The Quest of the Myddle Class, 18.
“I’m playing with Van Morrison”: Ibid., 240.
“He’s dead,” Harvey Alter told the officers: Ibid., 264.
“But he started coming on to Rick”: Ibid., 257.
“It is unfortunate, that so many”: Tarbi, “Drugs Cited in Student Sentence.”
“I won’t go into details but I think”: Cox, “Mick Cox: A Group of Letters from Van Morrison and Other Correspondence.”
“This little guy walks in, past everybody”: Heylin, Can You Feel the Silence?, 192.
“He seemed spaced out”: Ibid., 193.
“A new, and quite apparently”: Sheahan, “Scientology . . . Lend-lease Racket.”
“The Earth is a classroom”: Brother Philip, Secret of the Andes.
“There were several paintings”: McDonald, “My Peace Offering to Van Morrison.”
“the feeling that I’m floating”: Grissim Jr., “Van Morrison.”
“Oh yeah, I didn’t write that”: Heylin, Can You Feel the Silence?, 394.
“I didn’t know what some of”: Yorke, Van Morrison: Into the Music: A Biography.
“They ruined it”: Heylin, Can You Feel the Silence?, 198.
EPILOGUE: AFTERWARDS
All quotes from author interviews with John Payne, Tom Kielbania, Lewis Merenstein, Janet Planet, Brooks Arthur, Jay Berliner, Richard Davis, Warren Smith Jr., Peter Wolf, Shelly Yakus, Joe Smith, Jef Labes, John Platania, Rick Shlosser, Jessie Benton, David Cay Johnston, and Jim Kweskin except as follows:
“Van Morrison, his Astral Weeks album”: Hibbert, “Jonathan Richman: The Man Who Hates Sitting Down.”
“[Boston’s] got a kind of sad beauty”: Ibid.
“Unlike Van’s masterful Astral Weeks”: Uncredited, “Moondance Review.”
“Astral Weeks and Moondance and never again”: Shteamer, “In Full: Lewis Merenstein, Producer of Astral Weeks.”
“We know what’s going down”: Traum, “Van Morrison: In Conversation.”
“It made me trust in beauty”: Kreps, “Bruce Springsteen Reveals Eight ‘Desert Island’ Songs.”
“It was particularly important to me”: Bangs, “Astral Weeks,” 20.
“Of all the records I have ever”: Smith, Off the Record, 272.
“He went ‘Questions! Questions!’”: Scharpling and Mann, “Interview with Aimee Mann.”
“I remember we almost came to”: Hilburn and Philips, “Quotations from Chairman Mo.”
“In came a young woman”: Moore, “Spaceship Interview Given via Ouija Board.”
“The audience didn’t go for”: Kindman, “My Odyssey Through the Underground Press.”
“a gesture against all the things”: Felton, “The Lyman Family’s Holy Siege of America.”
“This cat might go out”: Uncredited, “Many Religious Communes of Young People Are Under the Sway of Compelling Leaders.”
“They’re well organized”: Krassner, “My Acid Trip with Squeaky Fromme.”
“I didn’t see any spirit”: Hertzberg, “Vibes.”
“Was this Mel Lyman”: Felton, “The Lyman Family’s Holy Siege of America.”
“those fucking bastards”: Ibid.
“Boston is sort of like”: Ibid.
“This is a whole new culture”: Ibid.
“What this Mel Lyman guy”: Mauer, “Letter to the Editor.”
“as long as people continue”: Williams, “Letter to the Editor.”
“Howard Hughes of the Underground”: Acton, Le Mond, and Hodges, Mug Shots.
“Is Mel Lyman still around?”: Beggy and Shanahan, “Jokes Flow from Waters: Leno Dogs Affleck.”
“His Family says that he died”: Johnston, “Mel Lyman: Special Place in Family; Man They Worshiped as God Is Nowhere to Be Found.”
“Once we were talking about”: Johnston, “Once-Notorious ’60s Commune Evolves into Respectability; After 19 Years the Lyman Family Prospers as Craftsmen and Farmers.”
“I was told that Melvin died”: Johnston, “Mel Lyman: Special Place in Family; Man They Worshiped as God Is Nowhere to Be Found.”
“avatar and cultural leader”: Kindman, “My Odyssey Through the Underground Press.”
“I’m afraid Mel was not very pretty”: Felton, “The Lyman Family’s Holy Siege of America.”
“I shot dope and ran IBM machines”: Lyman, Mirror at the End of the Road.
“I can’t ever forget the time”: Ibid.
“I have to write my own”: Ibid.
“Hallooneysations, hassooleenations,” runs one entry: Ibid.
“infectious hepatitis from shooting heroin”: Ibid.
“We may study ESP if we live”: Ibid.
“Last night I struck my love”: Ibid.
“To Judy, who made me live”: Ibid.
“I walked into Dunkin Donuts”: Ibid.
“I am indeed a supreme being”: Ibid.
“the most optimistic note of the evening”: Silber, “What’s Happening.”
“The dozen
s of framed photographs”: Johnston, “Once-Notorious ’60s Commune Evolves into Respectability; After 19 Years the Lyman Family Prospers as Craftsmen and Farmers.”
“Their lifestyle forces them to constantly”: Ibid.
“Oh my God! Look at that picture”: Neuman, “On Anniversary of Apollo 8, How the ‘Earthrise’ Photo Was Made.”
“the largest audience that had ever”: Uncredited, “Apollo 8: Christmas at the Moon.”
“Please be informed there is a Santa Claus”: Ibid.
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