Set I
The following is a rough list of topics covered:
electric banjo, pedal steel guitar, music equipment talk, etc.;
Jefferson Airplane, Jerry assisting on Surrealistic Pillow LP;
The San Francisco Sound;
hippies, Grateful Dead view of music, etc.;
The Fillmore audience;
talk about Newsweek article, "Dropouts With A Mission" and Jerry seeing himself as a dropout;
Jerry discusses precursors to the S.F. scene and switching from banjo back to guitar;
rock and roll influences (Chuck Berry, The Beatles, etc.), becoming successful while sharing with their friends, etc.;
the Vietnam War;
"the world needs to take care of itself";
Grateful Dead music not advocating any political message;
looking forward to first trip to New York;
Buffalo Springfield, Moby Grape, Skip Spence, Jorma Kaukonen;
Mathew Katz and other old style band managers;
S.F. radio and the radio business;
Jerry's short review and hopes for the success of their not yet released first album;
what might happen to the S.F. scene, etc.;
talk about some band equipment which had just been stolen from their warehouse;
the Haight Ashbury scene;
The Hell's Angels;
the stolen band equipment has been found!;
more Hell's Angels talk;
Jerry's beliefs;
The police;
drugs;
Jerry's tapes - "go get them from Sara";
possibility of playing banjo with The Grateful Dead > kids talking much louder than Jerry;
existentialism;
"Blow Up" film and Grateful Dead plans to be in a movie;
Look magazine article on Jefferson Airplane with Jim Marshall photos of the S.F. bands;
jazz and other styles mixing with Rock and Roll;
talk about getting the stolen band equipment back;
talk about the old gun that Jerry is playing around with during the interview;
interview conclusion