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Jann Wenner

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first: 2017-07-10
most recent: 2017-07-10
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“Well, Ralph Gleason was a jazz columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, in addition to covering jazz, he would write about some rock and roll things, Dylan, Beatles, Stones, stuff like that. And he was one of the few voices around anywhere in the country and in San Francisco that was saying, hey, there's real merit to these artists, to Dylan and to the Beatles. And what they're doing is important, it's musically important, and it's culturally important. As a rock and roll fan, I would read that his three times a week column. So he was somebody you pay close attention to. And I met him at a rock and roll show in San Francisco, I think, once.”
2017-07-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Rolling Stone: Jann Wenner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh, yeah. I mean, because, you know, they're full of commitment and passion and sense of possibility and the post-war baby boom just starting to come of age, starting to become college students and sensing that it was their turn on stage and it was their right or responsibility to try and make America stand up for and behave in such a way as that we were taught in school America's ideals were about. Life, liberty, pursuit of happiness.”
2017-07-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Rolling Stone: Jann Wenner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think so. Yeah. I mean, Columbia came several years after. That was 1968. So I think it really started in the San Francisco Bay Area. It was accompanied by. Very early days as a civil rights movement, so a lot of students were going off on marches down south and participating in those kinds of things. So I think political activism among students really was generated in the San Francisco Bay Area.”
2017-07-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Rolling Stone: Jann Wenner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It had a thriving beatnick alternative lifestyle community. And so therefore was extremely tolerant of the rock and roll groups who were springing up, who were even weirder than the beatnicks and had a coffee house scene. And that was consistent with San Francisco's long history of being tolerant of different kinds of political movements and artistic movements.”
2017-07-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Rolling Stone: Jann Wenner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Simpson was a small, you know, a small town then not all I could say, and a little off the beat of mainstream America, yet at the same time was that beautiful picturesque town, which was very tolerant of Social behavior that was a little off the center and the arts community was a little off the center. So preceding the rock and roll scene and the hippies in San Francisco, there were the beatniks. It was the Air Valent Ginsburg and Kerouac and Ferlinghetti, and they all found a home in San Francisco, as did people like Lenny Bruce.”
2017-07-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Rolling Stone: Jann Wenner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We made a big mistake in our editorial process. I was sick about it. I mean, 50 years of great journalism and a reputation for integrity and for quality and all that stuff. And then there was a couple of really bad judgment calls that were made on a very sensitive story. And it blew up on our face.”
2017-07-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Rolling Stone: Jann Wenner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT