RE: Two questions

Ron Jacobs (rjacobs@THYME.UVM.EDU)
Mon, 20 Oct 1997 08:37:23 EDT

The Grateful Dead, on the other hand, wanted to call the album
popularly known as "Skull and Roses" (a series of live recordings
from 3 shows in NY in 1970 I think) SkullFuck and Warner Bros.
refused. The Dead, in a marathon meeting of their family, eventually
concurred although some members wanted to take their business
elsewhere.

Ron J.

> plenty of trouble with RCA Rcords because among the many revolutions
> it brought home was the right to free speech. Curously RCA made
> little attempt to censor content (not even when the
> Airplane-Starship eulogized Weatherman Diana Oughton in New York in
> 1970). Censorship meant no diry words. Perhaps as everyone
> suspected, the real revolution was in language and dress; everything
> else was mere window dressing."
>
> Apparently RCA let the recording stand after it was determined that
> the musical "Hair", also on RCA, had the word "motherfucker" in it.
> The Airplane did the song word for word on the Dick Cavett show
> instead of using the phrase "Up against the wall Fred" which was how
> the original album showed the words.