A Candid Conversation With Beef The Chief: The Don Van Vliet Interview
Rick McGrath, Georgia Straight, The, 1971
This interview was found in the vaults by Harold Colson, an ace Librarian at the University of California at San Diego.
Harold is researching the Stones 1972 North American tour, and he's found a bunch of my lost stuff in some special collections of underground newspapers.
Thank you, Harold!
This interview begins with the original published introduction...
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