Bill Graham and the Rock and Roll Revolution

Bill Graham at home, 1970. (Photo by Baron Wolman)

May 18, 1968. During my first visit to the East Village, my father drives the car down St. Marks’s Place where colorful beings in perpetual motion pack both sides of the street. We see nomads and angels, souls on the fringe, the newly awakened, and a few aliens. The Electric Circus gives off a purple glow, and on a stoop a few doors down, young people are drumming energetically on metal garbage can lids. At the…