Rolling Stone

“Nothing like that.”

“But the general report on rape on campus was quite accurate. The Illustrated main story of the rape victim that was made up by that rape victim. And we print that without adequately checking it.”

“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.”

“And he wrote back saying, geez, he'd been really reading Rolling Stone. It was terrific and great, but he'd love to write, but he couldn't write now because he was busy involved in running for sheriff of Aspen, Colorado. So, I wrote him back and said, well, wh…”

“No, there was no truth to that. We were right on the punk movement and right on disco, and people hated disco. They hated us for covering disco, and other people hated us for covering punk.”

“The big thing was we did a investigation to what had happened to the money that had been earned at the Monterey Pop Festival. Had it been given to charity or not? So we looked into that in a long report, and kind of established right then and there that we wer…”

“You know, it was just, we paid what we could pay for the money we had on hand, and that would be as far as we'd go, and since we weren't paying salaries, weren't paying rent, our only cost really was printing the paper, and The cost of distributions, which I w…”

“Well, the first time we got a lot of attention was on the first year anniversary. We printed the cover, the band Two Virgins cover of the album that John Yoko, John Lennon and Yoko Ono did together. One that shot them in backsides and then a picture of them co…”

“It was also one of the key things that really finally put Rolling Stone on the map in a big way. You know, everybody in the press corps was reading, everyone in the campaign was reading, and people around the country were riveted by what he had to say.”

“Hired our first employee who received 25 dollars a week, and by the end of the first year, we were a viable business with three or four people being paid, getting it out regularly, selling 30 or 40,000 copies of an issue.”

“It didn't matter to me, but it's just that the general society just didn't produce great women journalists at that time. There are a few who wrote for the times, but not many who wrote in our area.”

“At the same time, I started a new publication called Outside, and left that in San Francisco. And there came a point where it was just too much to be carrying both magazines, so I sold Outside magazines. ... I sold it for about what I put into it, but I couldn…”

“Music was the kind of tribal telegraph, the drums that were beating for young people around the world, where they could kind of communicate with each other and see what other people People like them around the world we're doing. And so, this is the way young p…”

“And then San Francisco wasn't so much a cultural backwater. It was just provincial. You know, it was out on the coast. It was off of the mainstream. It wasn't putting out this big, unique culture thing and music anymore.”

“When you're involved in something like, in that stage or something, that when things are growing all the time and getting better and more and more money is coming in, you don't have to be too tough to manage that. You know, you're the victim of success from ou…”

“Well, after about three years, we went through a real brush with running out of money, which lasted a couple of months, because we had moved offices in San Francisco from rent-free loft in a printer's place to a big, you know, expensive new, too expansive offi…”

“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…”

“Sports Illustrated was the dominant sports magazine. And Sports Illustrated missed it. Like, they completely effed up the internet. A little like how Rolling Stone missed with MTV in the eighties. Sports Illustrated missed with sports in the late nineties, ear…”