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But, um, i- it, it's pretty good, but the, the whole festival had the feeling of the end of the, the era, the end of Woodstock.

Uh, there was some dispute about the, uh, ticket prices and, and they busted down the fences and people came in, which, you know, was all right.

It was just kind of a chaotic festival.

It had incredible lineup, like you said, but it kind of didn't get the attention because it was sort of the, the, the crumbling of the outdoor hippie festivals, being the ultimate, you know?

Yes.

And so, uh, Etheridge wrote this for his daughter when she was 14.

Now I'm gonna move this mic down in, in the front of my face so I won't drown out the vocal.

Sure, yeah.

Okay.

This is called Belly Song.

[sniffs] And I, and I must admit that the sea in you has sung to the sea in me.

And I, and I must admit that the sea in me has fallen in love with the sea in you, because you have made something out of the sea that nearly swallowed you.

[maracas rattling] And this poem, this poem I give to you from the bottom of the sea in my belly.

This poem is a song about feelings, about the bone of feeling, the stone of feeling, a feather of feeling.

Wow.

Yeah, your turn.

Oh, okay.

Well, yeah.

You know, I come from the Vietnam era.

where we got the kicked out of us you know and um wow lying is becoming a forte now it's shocking ah um you know i when our band got going we were totally in line with everybody in the street only we were on the road and um You know, I heard Angela Davis say something the other day in a talk, which was a little reassuring.

She said, whoever's president isn't necessarily how to further the revolution.

The revolution is furthered by lots of folks getting together.

I mean, Chuck, you, you threw it out there, but, and I remember John, you know, maybe three years ago when you were telling me that you were working on it and it was fun, but I mean, what was the, what was the process? And I mean, you know, you, people would think you come from very different musical perspectives, but of course, Chuck, I know that you like every kind of music, but, but John you, were you paying close, close attention to what Public Enemy was doing or what Chuck was doing or hip hop culture in general? I know The Doors have been sampled by a few people, Snoop, Jay-Z, Tribe Called Quest, but The Doors are not, you know, they're not sampled like say James Brown or P-Funk.

Most times, when you take the people who were there firsthand and you show them this thing that someone else created saying, "Well, this is how it was," they just shake their head and go, "They're not even close." But that movie, to you, not only a great movie but fairly accurate? Very accurate?

Um, in this book, I write about how, uh, Amy Madigan, Ed Harris' wife, says to me at a party when they're shooting the Oliver Stone movie, uh, "They're gonna take a six-year career and cram it into two hours.

It, it's gonna be an impressionistic painting.

Don't get too crazy." I was already kind of, "Ah-"I'd say a third of it is fiction, but, uh, it's a beautiful sort of impressionistic painting.

I mean, funky lettuce, but you know what I'm saying.

[laughs] We auditioned several bass players, one being a girl.

We were ahead of our time.

But it made us sound like another white blues band like The Stones, and then Ray stumbled onto this keyboard bass, and so we went with that.