Out for a Thanksgiving week jaunt of the clubs and concert halls, the Voice's Riffs reporter experienced not just Jimi Hendrix, but the Jefferson Airplane, Slim Harpo, and some “profoundly witty, imaginative Scottish folk music for the year 2001.”
"Political parties, unions, churches, and personalities, will mean less and less in the future. Guerrilla politics with its emphasis on movement and its commitment to issues, is the best antidote to the banality of Nixon”
“The Russians had done more than invade Czechoslovakia — they had sent their damn tanks crashing into our skulls, they had invaded the hopes of socialists all over the world.”
“The new consciousness born in these States can be traced back through old gnostic texts, visions, artists & shamans; it is the consciousness of our ground nature suppressed & desecrated.”
“Since I was shot,” Warhol says, “everything is such a dream to me. I don’t know what anything is about. Like I don’t even know whether or not I’m really alive or — whether I died. It’s sad”
“The cops dropped me in the street and disappeared. My face, and my press card, were covered with blood. I went to the hospital to get five stitches in my forehead. So I missed the climax of the Yip-In, but I can pass on various accounts of witnesses”
“The yippies may nominate a 300-pound pig for president. His program is garbage. After nomination we will eat him and become the candidate. The only answer to an absurd system is absurdity and laughter, followed by anger, and then absurdity and laughter”
“The reality of the 'mass naked happening' seemed to lie in the media, in the pictures, in the gesture — which meant nothing except insofar as it was reported”
