it was actually the grave full dead, airplane, crosby stills and nash and santana s free concert to which the stones were invited to attend. they normally put shows on in the park. went to an alternative site that fell through. then the site i didn t see until the night before the show i was horrified, the worst possible place to ever put on a rock and roll show middle of the desert. yeah, it turned into a disaster. greta: before we get to the disaster. you knew the members of jefferson airplane? i did, nice people. all those people are great people. sometimes the sometimes the best people put she s on put shows on it doesn t work out i m not one to blame people. things go wrong. you try and do inks this, they go wrong, move on.
they didn t have a they wanted to know how to organize a band how it is done. they asked me to help them get out of hole their survive was at stake for them and their families that s what i did. when i joined them they were earning two, three thousand a night when i left $185,000 a night. i must have showed them something. greta: why were these two bands successful? interesting. they were wildly different. the rolling stones i tell people they are the competitive model versus the cooperative mod roll stones super competitive want to be number one, huge albums, want to be famous. have their pictures everywhere. grateful , cooperative, didn t really care about the media. i think the grateful dead
african-american kid pulled out a gun. people were yelling he has a gun. rolling stones were playing and he was stabbed and died. greta: what were the hell s angels doing there? were they providing security? not providing security, weird role there. they did have a weird role. free concerts in california hell s angels always been at them. got money together, bought them beer and basically that was to keep them cool. they would hang out by the generators and have a party and they would have fun. there was never a problem. there had never been a problem at a rock and roll show on the west coast prior to this one. this particular show, what happened was, it got so heff development it is difficult to describe this to people. it got so heavy and so many people were hurt land of the blind the in the land of
the senate potentially 7 to 9 seats there. if he doesn t change approaches after a stunning setback in november that i think is going to come. he runs the risk of jeopardizing his own reelection, even if the republicans at this point don t have a strong front-runner. jamie: doug shown, thank you. thank you so much. senator orrin hatch has news about his fight to get parts of the health care law repeal. he gives it to greta, the inside story for you, next. then greta takes you backstage. inside story about life on the road with the rolling stones. stay right where you are. i m gonna take allison jenkins to the senior prom in this. one day, i ll parkhis in a spot reserved for me. it s got 26,000 miles on it now,
we are not going to pull out of this recession the way we should. the employer mandate is a very, very bad approach towards health care. then you add the individual mandate. look if the government can impose upon an individual they have to buy an inch policy that they don t want to buy, based upon what they claim to be a governmental right under the commerce clause, article 1, section 8 of the constitution then the government could force to you buy something you don t want to buy, the can do anything to you. they might and say some day we want to save general motors you got buy chevy or this model. sounds bizarre but that s the type of thinking that goes into the individual mandate as well. greta: i guess the thing that is disheartening, if you take your colleagues, senator baucus was just quoteed and he s one of the chief authors of the health care bill. on tuesday a foreman in tan