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T: The problem is that rock and roll and
politics don't mix because you reach a point where you have to give up one for
the other. I just think they're all going to reach that point and it'll be interesting
to see which side they go for; especially the Dils, because they really do
believe in that bullshit . . . it may be bullshit but they really do believe in
it .
NO: What do you think they would do if they
started making a lot of money, if they started getting really famous?
T: Well, that's what I mean . Their Politics
become hearsay ... it doesn't mean anything after a while. They 're rock and
roll. It's entertainment.
C: The point was made clear to me when I went
to see the Dils at Base's hall and there were posters on the wall saying "Welcome
to the workers paradise" and it cost $4 to get in.
Paul Morrissey: I like fantasy &
entertainment but it seems nobody puts real life into films. There was a friend
of mine who was manager at a porno theatre in New York & they were just
showing porno. It was the first early full porno they were having in Manhattan &
he had some friend of his who was sort of a poet or something, who was the
ticket-taker. Somehow this guy who had no business running a porno theater got
the job. So he was the manager, and his friend the poet didn't come in one day
to sell the tickets & he said 'Where'd you go yesterday, you didn't come in,'
& he said, 'Oh, I had to go to that new film that just opened EASY RIDER.'
And I was there and I said 'You went to see what? Why did you go to see that?' …
He said 'Oh, I wanted to see my generation on screen,' and I thought that was
preposterous, because that film really had nothing to do with even the ten year
period within it was made … maybe 10 or 15 years earlier … the beatniks or
something. But it just dawned on me. I said 'If you want to see your generation
on screen, go inside the theater, in that porno up there, that's your
generation.'
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