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Category: Chet Helms

  • Ron Polte on the Demise of the Carousel

    Bottom line: A bunch of hippies, a bunch of good people, got together and refused to run a business. And, I’m sorry, you’ve got to live in that world if you’re gonna run a business. On Rakow, in particular: What Ron Rakow did to those people, he chained them to a machine that couldn’t make…

  • The Common: September 5-6-7 ish, 1969

    Berkeley Tribe, August 8-14, 1969, p. 3. Regular readers will know that I have been chasing the idea of “Jerry and the Jeffersons” in my head for a good long while. It narrates the arc of Garcia’s life as a process of gradual privatization. I started it years ago, have picked it up and put…

  • Reconstruction at the Rainbow – April 11-12, 1979

    Probably my last substantial piece for at least three weeks. I. Barry Fey (1938 – April 28, 2013)[1] A. Background Once upon a time, twentysomething New Yorker Barry Fey set out to promote rock shows in Chicago and wound up in Denver. Arriving there in 1967, he would have found a town built on stuff…

  • From Family Dog to Friends and Relations, 1970-1971

    http://www.chickenonaunicycle.com/FD%20Shows.htm Does anyone know the story of the end of the Family Dog, and the re-emergence of 660 Great Highway as Friends and Relations Hall? I am sure it’s out there, but I don’t recall seeing it and I know nothing other than what I see in the listings. I am presently going through some…