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Posted By: barrysloate

Chris- I've seen David Crosby with Springfield on youtube, but what is even better is the Grateful Dead material that didn't make the movie. They hated their performance and didn't want it included in the finished film, but if you watch it today it is terrific. I have a friend who wrote two books on the Dead, and he showed me the tape years ago, but it now exists, at least in part, on youtube.

Edited to add I was actually in Haight Ashbury in the summer of 1967, but it was one of the more embarrassing moments in my life. I was 15 years old, and that summer I took a cross country trip with a group of other teenagers. When we got into S.F., one of our day trips was taking a Greyhound Bus through Haight Ashbury. This was exactly the touristy thing that killed the area for the residents. I remember people on the street cursing us out and giving us the finger. Our tour guide thought it was amusing, but I found it humiliating.