by Ann Powers
15. Richard Alpert, “Drugs and Sexual Behavior,” Journal of Sex Research, vol. 5, no. 1 (February 1969), p. 51.
16. David Bromberg, “Interview: Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead,” Jazz & Pop, February 1971.
17. Josh Sides, Erotic City: Sexual Revolutions and the Making of Modern San Francisco (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009), p. 124.
18. Mikal Gilmore, Stories Done: Writings on the 1960s and Its Discontents (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008), p. 261.
19. Jerry Hopkins and Danny Sugerman, No One Here Gets Out Alive: The Biography of Jim Morrison, updated paperback edition (New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2006), p. 195.
20. Tuli Kupferberg, “The Hip and the Square: The Hippie Generation”; Communication Company, “Haight/Hate?,” in Kornbluth, Notes, pp. 224, 266.
21. These and other press quotes from Doors clipping file, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Library and Archive, Cleveland, Ohio; “implicational” comment from Paul Williams, Outlaw Blues: A Book of Rock Music (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1969), p. 94.
22. Albert Goldman, “SuperSpade Raises Atlantis,” New York, vol. 1, no. 23, September 9, 1968.
23. Steven Roby and Brad Schreiber, Becoming Jimi Hendrix: From Southern Crossroads to Psychedelic London, the Untold Story of a Musical Genius (New York: Da Capo Press, 2010), pp. 42–44.
24. Charles Shaar Murray, Crosstown Traffic: Jimi Hendrix and the Rock ’n’ Roll Revolution (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1989).
25. Alfred G. Aronowitz, “Brash Buccaneer with a Wa-Wa,” Life, vol. 11, March 15, 1968.
26. Charles R. Cross, Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix (New York: Hyperion, 2006), p. 142.
27. David Hajdu, Positively Fourth Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Fariña, and Richard Fariña (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2001), p. 74.
28. Cross, Room Full of Mirrors, p. 164.
29. John Perry, Electric Ladyland, 33 1/3 series (New York: Continuum, 2004), p. 40.
30. Cross, Room Full of Mirrors, p. 178.
31. Herbert Marcuse, Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud (Boston: Beacon Press, 1966), p. xvii.
32. Chester Anderson, “Notes for the New Geology,” in Kornbluth, Notes, pp. 77–80.
33. Jimi Hendrix interview with Steven Barker, in Steven Roby, ed., Hendrix on Hendrix: Interviews and Encounters with Jimi Hendrix (Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2012), p. 264.
34. Murray, Crosstown Traffic, p. 69.
35. Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man (New York: Random House, 1952), p. 5.
36. Cross, Room Full of Mirrors, p. 189.
37. Jimi Hendrix interview with Jane de Mendelssohn, http://jimihendrix.forumactif.org/t664-interview-avec-jane-de-mendelssohn-11-mars-1969.
38. Ralph J. Gleason, “The Power of Non-Politics or the Death of the Square Left,” in Kornbluth, Notes, p. 234; Tom Wolfe, Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers (New York: Macmillan, 2010), p. 85; “dissolving”: unidentified press clip, Hendrix press file, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Library and Archive.
39. Steve Waksman, Instruments of Desire: The Electric Guitar and the Shaping of Musical Experience (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001), p. 167.
40. “Singers: Passionate and Sloppy,” Time, August 9, 1968.
41. Laura Joplin, Love, Janis (New York: Villard, 1992), p. 220.
42. Karl Dallas, “Janis Joplin: Lock Up Your Sons,” Melody Maker, August 17, 1968.
43. Nona Willis Aronowitz, ed., Out of the Vinyl Deeps: Ellen Willis on Rock Music (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011), p. 125.
44. Michael Lydon: Eyewitness Accounts of the Rock Revolution (New York: Psychology Press, 2003), Flashbacks, pp. 80–81.
45. Myra Friedman, Buried Alive: The Biography of Janis Joplin (New York: Bantam, 1974), p. 75.
46. Deborah Landau, Janis Joplin: Her Life and Times (New York: Coronet Paperback Library, 1971), p. 40.
47. Landau, Janis Joplin, p. 46.
48. Joplin, Love, Janis, p. 307.
49. Richard Goldstein, “Next Year in San Francisco,” Village Voice, January 1, 1968.
50. Joe Whitaker, in Alice Echols, ed., Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplin (New York: Macmillan, 2000), p. 78.
51. “Do I Ball?”: Echols, Scars of Sweet Paradise, p. 180; Miss America, http://www.redstockings.org/index.php/themissamericaprotest.
52. Joplin, Love, Janis, p. 247.
53. Draft for Hullabaloo quiz, Doors press clippings file, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Archive and Library.
54. “A real vengeance”: Murray, Crosstown Traffic, p. 91; “I wrote the part”: Joplin, Love, Janis, p. 289.
55. “Lament”: recording released on the Doors, An American Prayer, 1995 remastered edition, Rhino Records, track 15.
56. Richard Goldstein, Another Little Piece of My Heart: My Life of Rock and Revolution in the ’60s (New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015), p. 88.
57. Jazz & Pop, vols. 7–8, 1968, p. 40.
58. Mad magazine: Stephen Davis, Jim Morrison: Life, Death, Legend (New York: Penguin, 2005), p. 12; “seriousness of intent”: Greil Marcus, The Doors: A Lifetime of Listening to Five Mean Years (New York: Public Affairs Press, 2011), p. 62; “like a bird’s wing”: Hopkins, No One, p. 70.
59. “Plumage and punch”: Howard Smith, “Scenes,” Village Voice, February 22, 1968; Nadya Zimmerman, Countercultural Kaleidoscope: Musical and Cultural Perspectives on Late Sixties San Francisco (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2008), p. 140.
60. David Allyn, Make Love Not War: The Sexual Revolution: An Unfettered History (New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2000), p. 159.
61. Goldstein, Piece of My Heart, p. 127.
62. Echols, Scars, p. 307.
63. “The Doors Open Up,” Freakout, no. 2, February 1967.
64. Pamela Des Barres, I’m with the Band: Confessions of a Groupie (New York: William Morrow/Jove, 1988), p. 57.
65. Bernard Wolfe, “The Real-Life Death of Jim Morrison,” Esquire, June 1972, pp. 106–10.
66. Various articles, Doors press clips file, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Library and Archive.
67. Jerry Hopkins, “The Rolling Stone Interview: Jim Morrison,” Rolling Stone, July 26, 1969; “little revolution”: reporter’s notes, Doors press clips file, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Library and Archive.
68. Bob Chorush, Los Angeles Free Press interview manuscript, 1971; Doors press clips file, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Library and Archive.
CHAPTER 6: HARD AND SOFT REALITIES
1. Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk (New York: Grove Press, 1996), p. 95.
2. Angela Bowie with Patrick Carr, Backstage Passes: Life on the Wild Side with David Bowie (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1993), p. 152.
3. Dave Thompson, Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell: The Dangerous Glitter of David Bowie, Iggy Pop, and Lou Reed (Milwaukee: Backbeat Books, 2009), p. 113.
4. Robert Hilburn, “David Bowie Arrives with a Burst of Stardust,” Los Angeles Times, November 5, 1972.
5. “Consciousness-raising”: Jessica Grogan, Encountering America: Humanistic Psychology, Sixties Culture & the Shaping of the Modern Self (New York: Harper Perennial, 2013), p. 262; “Vietnam vets”: Andreas Killen, 1973 Nervous Breakdown: Watergate, Warhol, and the Birth of Post-Sixties America (New York: Bloomsbury, 2006), p. 84.
6. “Gay Woodstock”: “Parade,” The New Yorker, July 11, 1970, p. 19.
7. Laurence O’Toole, Pornocopia: Porn, Sex, Technology and Desire, expanded edition (London: Serpent’s Tail, 1999), p. 73.
8. Lisa Robinson, “Looking for a Kiss in Parking Lot Babylon,” Creem, December 1973, p. 42.
9. Lori Mattix as told to Michael Kaplan, “I Lost My Virginity to David Bowie,” Thrillist, November 3, 2015; Paul Trynka, David Bowie: Starman (New York: Little Brown, 2011), p. 209.
10. “High at the Hyatt,” Time, Septembe
r 3, 1973, p. 66.
11. “The Rock and Roll Sexindex,” Circus, June 1974, p. 40.
12. Lisa Rhodes, Electric Ladyland: Women and Rock Culture (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005), p. 247.
13. “Bands are power”: Michael Walker, What You Want Is in the Limo: On the Road with Led Zeppelin, Alice Cooper, and the Who in 1973, the Year the Sixties Died and the Modern Rock Star Was Born (New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2013), p. 143; David Johansen: Ben Edmonds, “The New York Dolls Greatest Hits Vol. 1,” Creem, October 1973, p. 41.
14. Rick Perlstein, The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2014), p. 103; Robinson, “Looking for a Kiss,” p. 44.
15. Linda Williams, Hard Core: Power, Pleasure and the “Frenzy of the Visible” (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), p. 120.
16. Porn as musical: Williams, Hard Core, pp. 120–26; Lovelace: Carolyn See, Blue Money (New York: Pocket Books, 1976), p. 135.
17. For more on Led Zeppelin’s Apollonian/Dionysian split, see Erik Davis, Led Zeppelin’s Led Zeppelin IV (New York: Continuum, 2005); “below-the-belt”: Charles Shaar Murray, “Led Zeppelin: Robert Plant—and That Below-the-Belt Surge,” New Musical Express, June 1973.
18. Donna Gaines, “The Ascension of Led Zeppelin,” Rolling Stone: The ’70s (New York: Little Brown, 1998), p. 14; Pamela Des Barres, Let’s Spend the Night Together: Backstage Secrets of Rock Muses and Groupies (Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2007), p. 142; Brad Tolinski, in Barney Hoskyns, ed., Trampled Under Foot: The Power and Excess of Led Zeppelin (New York: Faber & Faber, 2012); Susan Fast, In the Houses of the Holy: Led Zeppelin and the Power of Rock Music (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), p. 177.
19. This author traced the commonalities between Robert Plant and Janis Joplin in a presentation as part of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame American Masters Program Kozmic Blues: The Life and Music of Janis Joplin at Case Western Reserve University, November 24, 2009. Independently, Tracy McMullen wrote of the connection in “Bring It On Home: Robert Plant, Janis Joplin and the Myth of Origin,” Journal of Popular Music Studies, vol. 26, no. 2–3, June–September 2014, pp. 368–96.
20. Robert Plant interview with Terry Gross, Fresh Air, WHYY, January 22, 2004.
21. John Mendelsohn, “Led Zeppelin,” Rolling Stone, March 15, 1969.
22. Des Barres, I’m with the Band, p. 262.
23. Kid Congo Powers, “How I Came Out of the Closet and into the Streets,” Huffington Post, May 3, 2014.
24. Evelyn McDonnell, Queens of Noise: The Real Story of the Runaways (New York: Da Capo Press, 2013), p. 135.
25. Various issues, Creem and Circus, 1970–1976.
26. Lester Bangs, “Deep Throat,” Creem, March 1973, p. 48.
27. Chaste groupie: Walker, p. 92; Uriah Heep: undated photo caption, Circus.
28. Oneida Bell, “How to Meet Rock Stars,” Circus, December 1973, p. 45.
29. Robin Maltz, “The Perfect Groupie,” Anderbo; Alice Cooper: Walker, In the Limo, p. 145; Des Barres: Barney Hoskyns, Waiting for the Sun: A Rock ’n’ Roll History of Los Angeles (Milwaukee, WI: Backbeat Books, 2009), p. 270.
30. Carol Pickel, “Sunset Strip Groupies,” Star, June 1973.
31. Cooper was never part of a gay drag scene, but always used the band name, which derived from a character on the television show Mayberry R.F.D., as his own.
32. Dennis Dunaway and Chris Hodenfield, SNAKES! GUILLOTINES! ELECTRIC CHAIRS!: My Adventures in the Alice Cooper Group (New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2015); Alice Cooper, Alice Cooper, Golf Monster (New York: Crown Publishers, 2007), p. 57.
33. Joshua Gamson, The Fabulous Sylvester: The Legend, the Music, the Seventies in San Francisco (New York: MacMillan, 2005), pp. 53–54; Rex Reed, “The Cockettes: Better a Tinsel Queen Than a Golden Toad,” Chicago Tribune, September 19, 1971.
34. Ibid., p. 92.
35. “Androgyny: A Short Introduction” and “Androgyny Hall of Fame,” Creem, August 1973.
36. “Ungay gay”: Simon Frith, “What’s the Ugliest Part of YOUR Body?,” Creem, May 1974; “Alice Is a Liar”: Ben Edmonds, “Alice Cooper Blows His Wad,” Creem, June 1973.
37. “Terminal confusion”: Steve Waksman, This Ain’t the Summer of Love: Conflict and Crossover in Heavy Metal and Punk (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009), p. 84.
38. Tom Wolfe, “The ‘Me’ Decade and the Third Great Awakening,” New York, August 23, 1976.
39. Mike Jahn, “Watch the Freak: Iggy Pop,” New York Times, April 3, 1970; “Punched him”: Lester Bangs and Esther Korinsky-Woodward, “‘Honey, Come & Be My Enemy, I Can Love You Too’: Iggy and the Stooges Take America by the Spleen,” Creem, April 1974.
40. Robinson, “Looking for a Kiss”; Ronson: Peter Doggett, The Man Who Sold the World: David Bowie and the 1970s (New York: HarperCollins, 2012), p. 156.
41. Jim Farber, “The Androgynous Mirror,” Rolling Stone: The ’70s, p. 142; Vince Aletti, “Tighten Up,” Creem, May 1972.
42. Edmonds, “The New York Dolls Greatest Hits Volume 1.”
43. Stuard Werrin, “Jobriath Breaks All the Rules,” Rolling Stone, December 6, 1973; Bob Weiner, “Jobriath,” Interview, October 1973; Ben Windham, “Album of the Late Glam-Rock Great Reissued,” Tuscaloosa News, February 25, 2005.
44. Tuscaloosa: Leigh W. Rutledge, The Gay Decades: From Stonewall to the Present, the People and Events That Shaped Gay Lives (New York: Plume, 1992), p. 64; Freddie Mercury: Farber, Androgynous Mirror, p. 145.
45. Miss America: Alice Echols, Daring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America, 1967–1975 (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1989), p. 92; Dance-ins: Benjamin Shepard, Queer Political Performance and Protest (New York: Routledge, 2009), p. 46; Aquarius Day: Gamson, Fabulous Sylvester, p. 58.
46. Ann Powers, “Labelle Was Always More Than a ‘Lady,’” Los Angeles Times, October 12, 2008.
47. Jean Williams, “Trio Labelle: Patti, Sarah and Nona Favor Revolutionary Songs, Attitude,” Billboard, March 29, 1975.
48. John Rockwell, “Labelle at the Met: Sequins, Regions and Acoustics,” New York Times, October 11, 1974; Vince Aletti, “Labelle: Flowing over the Met,” Village Voice, October 17, 1974; John Crittendon, “Black Trio’s Historic Night at the Met,” undated clip from file, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum and Archive.
49. Jane DeLynn, “I Flunked Masturbation Class,” in Peter Knobler and Greg Mitchell, eds., Very Seventies: A Cultural History of the 1970s, from the Pages of Crawdaddy (New York: Fireside, 1995), p. 282.
50. Jared Johnson, “Hard Rock vs. Soft Rock,” Atlanta Constitution, May 23, 1970.
51. Jared Johnson, “‘Soft Rock’ Back Again,” Atlanta Constitution, August 21, 1971.
52. Redbook article quoted in Bruce Schulman, The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics (New York: Da Capo, 2002), p. 178.
53. Alex Comfort, The Joy of Sex: A Gourmet Guide to Lovemaking (New York: Fireside, 1972); Ariel Levy, “Doing It,” The New Yorker, January 5, 2009; Douglas Martin, “Alex Comfort Dies; a Multifaceted Man Best Known for Writing ‘The Joy of Sex,’” New York Times, March 29, 2000; Cordelia Hebblethwaite, “How The Joy of Sex Was Illustrated,” BBC News, October 26, 2011.
54. Rutledge, Gay Decades, p. 69.
55. Abraham I. Friedman, How Sex Can Keep You Slim (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1972).
56. Tom Shales, “Trying to Like ‘Love!’,” Washington Post, February 9, 1972.
57. Near: Gillian G. Gaar, She’s a Rebel: The History of Women in Rock & Roll (New York: Seal Press, 1992), p. 139.
58. Gary Deeb, “For Sheer Sensuality, It’s Country Music,” Chicago Tribune, September 17, 1973.
59. Nelson George, “Fools, Suckas, and Baadasssss Brothers,” Rolling Stone: The ’70s, p. 59.
60. Les Bridges, “What Sort of Man Runs Down Playboy?: A Former Marketing Director for Playboy,” Chicago Tribune, May 21, 1972; James Auer, “The
Nabokov of Epoxy Resin,” Milwaukee Journal, September 27, 1981.
61. Bowie, Backstage Passes, pp. 131–34.
62. Tim Lawrence, Love Saves the Day: A History of American Dance Music Culture, 1970–1979 (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004), p. 25.
63. Gay Talese, Thy Neighbor’s Wife (New York: Harper Perennial updated edition, 2009), p. 272; Barbara Williamson and Nancy Bacon, An Extraordinary Life (San Francisco: Balboa Press, 2014), p. 83.
64. Patrick Pacheco, “Before Out Was In,” Rolling Stone: The ’70s, p. 221.
65. Alice Echols, Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture (New York: Norton, 2010), pp. 101–10; Summer quote: “There’s Sex in Them Lyrics, But the Point Is Not to Beat Us over the Head with It,” Atlanta Journal Constitution, January 22, 1977.
66. Elana Levine, Wallowing in Sex: The New Sexual Culture of 1970s American Television (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007), p. 156.
67. Davitt Sigerson, “Sylvester,” Sounds, August 26, 1978.
68. Apollo: Trynka, Starman, p. 257; Bobby Bland: David Bowie Fan Club bulletin, April 4, 1975.
69. Peter Doggett, The Man Who Sold the World: David Bowie and the 1970s (New York: HarperCollins, 2012), p. 260.
CHAPTER 7: OH NO, IT HURTS: AIDS, REAGAN, AND THE BACKLASH
1. “A question mark”: Lynn Norment, “The Outrageous Grace Jones,” Ebony, July 1979; “alienation”: Simon Reynolds and Joy Press, The Sex Revolts: Gender, Rebellion, and Rock ’n’ Roll (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996), p. 294.
2. Grace Jones and Paul Morley, I’ll Never Write My Memoirs (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2015); “Grace Jones Has Baby Shower in Gay Disco,” Jet, October 18, 1979.
3. Howell Raines, “Reagan Vows US Will Press Effort to Build Defenses,” New York Times, May 28, 1981.
4. Dudley Clendinen and Adam Nagourney, Out for Good: The Struggle to Build a Gay Rights Movement in America (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2013), p. 468.
5. John Mintz, “Growing Number of Area Cases,” Washington Post, June 28, 1983.
6. Hemphill: Martin Duberman, Hold Tight Gently: Michael Callen, Essex Hemphill, and the Battlefield of AIDS (New York: The New Press, 2014), p. 123.
7. Jones and Morley, I’ll Never Write.