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(1964)The Beatles’ first film, A Hard Day’s Night, came out. I could barely understand their accent. Pursued everywhere by screaming fans, the Beatles never stopped running. In the United States in 1965 The Beatles released four LPs. Fifty-seven songs. (The albums are The Early Beatles, March; Beatles VI, June; Help, August; and Rubber Soul, December.) By the time you were familiar with one record another had been released. The Beatles toured Britain, Europe, and America. Eight days a week, indeed. From England now came word of Carnaby Street, swinging London. Ferry Cross the Mersey, The Dave Clark Five, op art, miniskirts, The Yardbirds, and, of course, more on The Rolling Stones.*
Hair started to sprout on people’s heads like mushrooms after a rain. In Davis, we were all making stuff. Make a painting, make a photo. Make each other. It’s all stuff. Make stuff. People were talking about Wylie. Someone came up with the phrase “funk art.” Dan Welch made Zen paintings. Huge canvas chairs.
We were artists in a cow town, the California sun beating down on us. Welch drifted off to a Zen monastery. Miles Forst, a gentle, rambling madman artist from the Bowery in New York where people slept on fire escapes in the winter, told us, eyes bulging, “Look at all you beautiful people out here, whew!” People painted with meticulous craftsmanship, people painted with cans of Day-Glo. People painted each other. Every weekend there was a party where the new music was played. Dance. Smoke a little marijuana. Dance. “Love, love me, do.” Beautiful, beautiful college women. John Lennon howling. Mick Jagger singing, “Time, time, time is on my side… Yes it is.” (From ETHAN RUSSELL:AN AMERICAN STORY )
… *and of the Rolling Stones’ songs PLAY WITH FIRE was heard constantly…
