Life:The Rolling Stones: 50 Years of Rock 'n' Roll

But once they perceive a threat, they keep looking for the enemy within, without realizing that half the time, they're it! It was an assault upon society. We had to assault the entertainment business, and then later the government took us seriously, after "Street Fighting Man." A flavor of the period is contained in The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones, by our friend Stanley Booth--our writer in residence on the early tours. He picked up a flyer in Oakland, back in the late '60s or early '70s, that proclaimed: "The Bastards hear us playing you on our little transistor radios and know that they will not escape the blood and fire of the Anarchist revolution. We will play your music, dear Rolling Stones, in rock and roll marching bands as we tear down the jails and free the prisoners and arm the poor. Tattoo Burn, Baby, Burn on the asses of the wardens and generals." Taking "Street Fighting Man" to the extremes, or "Gimme Shelter." But without a doubt it was a strange generation. The weird thing is that I grew up with it, but suddenly I'm an observer instead of a participant ...»