Intersting story,
I would like to hear about daugthers of the sea, it's
one of my favorite DB songs.
Regards.
Carlos
--- Rick Santangelo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> To get the series rolling, (pun intended! ;) Tommy
> talks about getting
> busted. Some of the younger members may have
> difficulties with some of
> the terminology in this interview so be sure and
> email some of the elder
> members like Steve Adams and Gina Dorman with your
> questions. They're
> both pretty OLD and should be familiar with the
> slang of the seventies.
> Ha Ha Ha!!! (Sorry you guys...)
>
> "Disciple" was playing in the background during this
> interview so be
> sure to play it as you read. It really helps set the
> tone of the
> interview. Remember, this is from 1974. Enjoy!
>
>
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> TOM JOHNSTON:
> "Well I got busted with a half a joint in my
> cigarette pack is what
> happened. And uh, initially for trespassing. It was
> really a whole dumb
> thing to begin with. I didn't want to go in the
> place in the first
> place. I didn't even want to have anything to do
> with it, but this cat
> was hot to do it. And I didn't know the dude at all,
> but I gave him a
> ride. And he had on him some you know, dope and he
> had..."
>
> JIM LADD:
> "Wait a minute, what kind of dope?"
>
> TOM JOHNSTON:
> "He had some junk on him."
>
> JIM LADD:
> "O.K."
>
> TOM JOHNSTON:
> "I really wasn't aware of it at the time and he
> said he wanted to go
> to this little abandoned church on the north side of
> Visalia which is
> where I'm from. And this was the day before
> Christmas, Christmas Eve.
> And he wanted to get down. And I said, well that's
> fine... but I really
> don't think this will be a very good place to stop."
>
> "Anyway, to make a long story short, I let him
> talk me into going
> back in there and wait cause he said if anyone is
> waiting in the car we
> might get in trouble. And I just bought this Lotus
> Europa which I was
> driving at the time. And it was over in this really
> dumpy part of town,
> and here's this Lotus sitting out in front of this
> abandoned church,
> right? So finally like an idiot, I let myself get
> talked into it. And
> went in and I waited until he got finished, and I
> opened the door and
> got a gun in my face."
>
> JIM LADD:
> "How was the man?"
>
> TOM JOHNSTON:
> "He was all right, it was a little jive at first.
> And then some hot
> rod reporter got a hold of the story and blew it
> completely out of
> proportion, just to put a feather in his hat. He
> used me to get him
> where he wanted to go."
>
> JIM LADD:
> "That really disturbs me."
>
> TOM JOHNSTON:
> "Which is very common in the press. You know,
> they do that all the
> time. Exaggeration of the facts and complete
> falsehood of the facts for
> that matter. But it makes good press and good
> reading. Another star goes
> down the drain or another pop star gets busted or
> whatever you want to
> call it. You know and it gives them a chance to do
> their thing. He might
> have got a promotion out of it for all I know."
>
> "I think sensationalism has always been
> hand-in-hand with the media
> as far as I can remember. I mean, the biggest
> downfall of it all was
> sensationalism. The fact that they would let
> themselves slip into
> non-objective stories about things that happened, or
> make something that
> was really no big deal at all look like really some
> "hot rod" thing. And
> it's all just to sell papers, it's just like show
> biz, you know the idea
> is to sell your product. And your product is a
> newspaper or your product
> is a television or radio show and I think there's
> very few TV stations
> or magazines that actually come out and give the
> true facts about things
> and how they happened and what goes on, right down
> to the "hip"
> newspapers, you know they sensationalize even."
>
> JIM LADD:
> "I think that makes me madder than when a
> straight, so called
> "straight" newspaper does it because you come to
> expect it from them. Or
> they are what we can hold up and say well that's,
> that's what's wrong.
> But when you find you're own people doin' it, it
> comes back to the same
> exact riff."
>
> Tomorrow: Pat Simmons talks about how he wrote
> "Daughters of the Sea".
>
> Have a "hot rod" day everybody! ;)
>
> Rick
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