Ralph Gleason
3 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jul 10, 2017 by Jann Wenner · across every show →
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Jul 10, 2017
Wenner: Rolling Stone started with $7,500 in pooled capital
“He had some cash to put in, and I got some
2000 dollars for my mother, and for my mother-in-law to be, and some money from a college friend of mine, and also from my stepmother.
And that assembled together was 7500 dollars, and that was what we started with.”
Jul 10, 2017 positive
Wenner: Ralph Gleason was among few early critics taking rock seriously
“Ralph Gleason was a jazz columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle. In addition to covering jazz, he would write about Some rock and roll things, Dylan, Beatles, Stones, stuff like that, and he was one of the few voices around anywhere in the country, and in S…”
Jul 10, 2017
Wenner: Rolling Stone was named after Dylan's song and Gleason's essay
“The one that kept sticking was Rolling Stone the Dylan song, Like a Rolling Stone, and it was the title of an essay that Ralph had written for a small publication called The American Scholar, in which he laid out his thinking about the meaning of rock and roll…”