[bomp] Bomp book

[Blair Buscareno <blairb@xxxxxxx>]

I'm really enjoying the Bomp book.  I'm only up to page 86, a review of 
Monterey Pop by Mike Daly, but I'm really enjoying it.  I know that I 
have scans of the first 13 Mojo Navigators (found online a few years 
ago, probably thanks to this group), but for some reason I don't 
remember actually reading them, so seeing this stuff in print was extra 
cool.  Even though I've never been a Dead fan, I really enjoyed the 
interview from August, '66.  Put that together with other interviews 
from SF bands of the time and I get a sense of how the people on that 
scene felt about what was going on.

At one point, I think in an interview with Big Brother (and then in 
other interviews, as well as from things the Mojo crew says), you get 
the sense that in '66 many of the SF musicians (as well as those on the 
inside, like the Mojo Navigator staff) felt like they were miles ahead 
of any other scene in the country.  I only wish I could read the same 
sort of interviews from the time with bands from Texas, New York, LA, 
Boston, Michigan, and everywhere else.

It was also interesting to see the way (some) people talked.  Some of 
the remarks were just plane racist.  And I'm not talking about one 
member of one band, either. 

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