Rock Clip of the Week - Grateful Dead, Hippies, LSD

I've been re-reading an old book I own called "Beneath the Diamond Sky: Haight-Ashbury 1965-1970" - it's a slim, easy read, chronicling the growth of the mostly San Francisco hippies and LSD scene, brought about by Ken Kesey's LSD experiments with the Merry Pranksters.

It's fun to read how utopian the hippies wanted to be (as emphasized by the Grateful Dead members in the clip below). Too bad inter-scene tensions, bad dope in the Haight and scary folks like Manson and his ilk killed those dreams. Hey the punk scene fell apart for mostly the same reasons too, right?

In the clip below, CBS newsman Harry Reasoner meets the Dead and pontificates about drugs, wisdom, free love and more. The last minute of this clip is stone cold Harry.