"Graham fought with the light show union. He fought with the Greatful Dead. He brought Otis Redding, Aretha Franklin, and B.B. King to white audiences and treated them the way no white man ever had. He managed the Jefferson Airplane. He stopped managing them, and fought with them. He fought with the Hells Angels, finally refusing them admission to his shows after a long and continuing series of incidents. For this he received the first of seven bullets, indicating he was a marked man. He began a record label for San Francisco-based talent and gave Lenny Bruce work in his last, sick, crazy, paranoid days. He fought with the Motherfuckers, New Yorks tough Lower East Side street gang. For his troubles, he was beaten with a chain outside the front door of the Fillmore East. He gave a lot of people a lot of music and made a lot of money. Finally he closed both Fillmores, allowed himself to be subject of a not-so-documentary documentary about it, and retired. Then he bought Winterland and went on promoting more shows than ever before."
A Journey Through America With The Rolling Stones
- Robert Greenfield
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