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.