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65-675: Emmett Grogan (born Eugene Leo Grogan , November 28, 1942 – April 6, 1978) was a founder of the Diggers , a radical community-action group of Improvisational actors in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco. The Diggers took their name from the English Diggers (1649–1650), a radical movement opposed to feudalism , the Church of England and the British Crown . Grogan's distrust of

130-514: A happening called "The Death of Money" in which they dressed in animal masks and carried a large coffin full of fake money down Haight Street, singing "Get out my life, why don’t you babe?" to the tune of Chopin 's "Funeral March" (or "Death March"). This was a precursor to the happening "The Death of Hippie," staged in October 1967, in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood. Masked participants carried

195-540: A 1% tithe from merchants, but that was not the case. The poster was a challenge, implicitly suggesting that "free" people were the minority, and inciting others to step up. Writers Chester Anderson and Claude and Helene Hayward helped found the publishing arm of the Diggers, known as the Communications Company (ComCo). Using "two 'beautiful' Gestetner mimeograph machines that had been nefariously obtained through

260-660: A band. He quickly contacted several musicians, including former Rolling Thunder Revue members Steve Soles, David Mansfield , Rob Stoner, and Howie Wyeth . Stoner recalls, "I thought the Hard Rain thing was the last I'd ever hear from Bob   ... Then suddenly I get this call - I think Bob called me up personally   ... and asked me to bring Howie, and a couple of other people, to L.A. to 'just try some things out.'" Soles, Mansfield, Stoner, Wyeth, pianist Walter Davis, Jr. , and percussionist Otis Smith arrived in late November and early December. His players were assembled, yet Dylan

325-530: A beat like a cop," recalls Stoner), time had run out as the tour was almost upon them. The Danish/American guitarist Billy Cross was also brought in and eventually Dylan's touring band was solidified with Cross, Wallace, keyboardist Alan Pasqua , percussionist Bobbye Hall , and saxophonist Steve Douglas , Mansfield, Stoner, Soles, and the back-up singers. In the final two weeks of rehearsal Dylan began settling on new tour arrangements for his classic, earlier recordings. Rob Stoner recalls, "a telegram arrived from

390-540: A coffin with the words "Hippie—Son of Media" on the side. This event was meant to mark the end of the hippie era of Haight-Ashbury. The event was staged so as to make any media outlet that simply described the happening to unintentionally transmit the Diggers' message that Hippies were a media invention. This was called "creating the condition you describe". The Diggers skillfully used this technique for media relations. The Diggers opened numerous free stores in Haight-Ashbury which offered discarded but usable items, free for

455-501: A grander vision on whatever sound the Revue veterans had initially conceived. With his love of fatback R&B, it should have come as no surprise that he hankered after a band with a saxophone player and female singers   ... The band he assembled in the two months before the 1978 world tour shares many similarities with the big band he had attempted to impose on Desire . The girl singers/sax/keyboards combination also reflected elements of

520-430: A heroin addiction at the time, recalling, "I knew I couldn't get high once we'd left [for tour]   ... I realized I was either gonna get busted or I'd end up being tortured to death. So I literally had to just tell Bob one night, 'I can't do it.' That was terrible. He had his own problems. He felt bad that I wasn't gonna do it, and he called me up when I got home to New York and said, 'Are you sure?'" After auditioning

585-442: A leader of the anarchist group known as the Diggers. The Diggers, devoted to street theater, direct action, and distributing free food, were in the thick of the legendary Summer of Love, and soon Grogan is struggling with the naive narcissism of the hippies, the marketing of revolution as a brand, dogmatic radicals, and false prophets like tripster Timothy Leary. Diggers (theater) The Diggers were closely associated and shared

650-520: A new bass player, Jerry Scheff . Scheff was best known for his work with Elvis Presley in the 1970s as a member of his TCB Band, and on The Doors' final recordings. With Scheff replacing Stoner, Dylan began recording his new material with his touring band. Sessions were held at Rundown, with Dylan renting a mobile truck to record the proceedings. (The mobile truck was equipped with 24-track capabilities, something his studio didn't have.) "I didn't want to do it there," Dylan later recalled. "[I] couldn't find

715-643: A number of drummers ("maybe ten or a dozen" by Bernstein's estimates), Dylan replaced Wyeth with Denny Seiwell , who briefly played with Paul McCartney and Wings . When rehearsal was held on December 30, the band now included Stoner, Mansfield, Soles, guitarist Jesse Ed Davis , and singers Katey Sagal , Debbie Dye Gibson, and Frannie Eisenberg. This rehearsal was mostly dedicated to rearrangements of classic Dylan compositions, drawing on adult contemporary pop. ( Wayne Newton , Barry Manilow , Marvin Hamlisch ). As biographer Clinton Heylin writes, "[Dylan] began to impose

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780-512: A number of members with the guerrilla theater group San Francisco Mime Troupe . They were formed out of after-hours Mime Troupe discussions between Emmett Grogan , Peter Coyote , Peter Berg , and Billy Landout. The Diggers fostered and inspired later groups like the Yippies . The Diggers took their name from the original English Diggers (1649–1650) who had promulgated a vision of society free from buying, selling, and private property. During

845-543: A part that was not in our range," Sagal recalls, "and we were too terrified to say anything.") In the meantime, Seiwell was let go; during his brief stint with Wings, he and the rest of Wings were busted for drug possession in Sweden, prompting Japanese officials to deny him an entry visa. A number of auditions were quickly arranged, and according to Stoner, they "settled" on former King Crimson drummer Ian Wallace . Although Wallace's drumming would become problematic ("The man had

910-483: A picture of a megaphone , and a second printing had an image of people working on a large computer, rotated to run vertically beside the poem, with simple line drawings of animals all over the page. In April of the same year, the Communication Company published it again as the title poem in the collection by the same name . It included 36 typewritten yellow pages measuring 8.75-by-7-inch (222 by 178 mm), in

975-735: A print run of 1,500, all of which were given away for free. Brautigan then gave permission to The Diggers to include the poem in the final edition of The Digger Papers , published in August 1968. Also in March 1967, ComCo distributed Willard S. Bain 's Informed Sources: Day East Received , a satirical allegory of the assassination of John F. Kennedy in the form of fictional news wire bulletins, in an edition of about 500 mimeographed copies. The Communications Company also published Harry Driggs ' pioneering underground comic The Life and Loves of Cleopatra (June 1967), an obscene 28-page narrative inspired by

1040-472: A reference to the "Mad Bomber" George Metesky . (After some HIP members tried to find out who the Diggers were, Grogan and Landout responded with a telegram: "REGARDING INQUIRIES CONCERNED WITH THE IDENTITY AND WHEREABOUTS OF THE DIGGERS; HAPPY TO REPORT THE DIGGERS ARE NOT THAT.") The 1% Free poster, showing two Chinese Tong assassins under the Chinese character for "revolution," was thought to be demanding

1105-405: A series of Free Stores (where everything in stock was without a price tag). The Diggers coined various slogans that became part of the counterculture and even the larger society, such as, "Do your own thing," and "Today is the first day of the rest of your life." Grogan's 1972 autobiography Ringolevio, a Life Played for Keeps , is regarded by some as the best and only authentic book written about

1170-539: Is The Essential Bob Dylan ). When Street-Legal was released, it was dismissed by the American press. Crawdaddy! critic Jon Pareles remarked that "Dylan still needs a producer," but others found fault with both the songs and the performances. Greil Marcus criticized the singing as "simply impossible to pay attention to for more than a couple of minutes at a time" and accused "Is Your Love in Vain?" of sexism, claiming Dylan

1235-406: Is the eighteenth studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan , released on June 15, 1978, by Columbia Records . The album was a departure for Dylan, who assembled a large pop-rock band with female backing vocalists for its recording. After receiving positive reviews on his previous album, Desire , Dylan was met with a more lukewarm critical reception for Street-Legal , though the album

1300-556: Is the first day of the rest of your life." They often included statements that mocked the prevailing attitude of the counterculture promoted by less-radical figures like the Haight-Independent Proprietors (HIP), Timothy Leary , and Richard Alpert . The first paper mocked the acid community, saying "Time to forget because flowers are beautiful and the sun's not yellow, it's chicken!" They rarely included authors' names, though some had pseudonyms like "George Metevsky,"

1365-581: Is why he opened way out of town. I mean, we didn't go any place close to Europe or England or America [for] forever, man   ... and I don't blame him. I think he knew, subconsciously, he was making a big mistake." The tour ended on April 1 at the Sydney Sportsground in Australia. When it was over, Stoner informed Dylan that he was leaving the band. Dylan was planning to record his next album upon returning to Los Angeles, but with Stoner gone, Dylan hired

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1430-458: The Elizabeth Taylor film Cleopatra , and which featured artwork that today would be seen as child pornography . The Diggers gave away the comic in their free store at the corner of Cole and Carl in Haight-Ashbury. Joan Didion described the role Chester Anderson and ComCo played in Haight-Ashbury in her 1967 essay for The Saturday Evening Post , "Slouching Towards Bethlehem", which

1495-467: The Haight Ashbury Switchboard at 1830 Fell Street, they arranged free "crashpad" housing for homeless youth drawn to the Haight-Ashbury area. The Diggers' division of labor between men and women has been criticized as sexist, with male members primarily forming ideas while female members were tasked with most of the practical work to realize these ideas. For instance, in providing free food,

1560-762: The UK Singles Chart with the album peaking at number 2 on the album chart. In the US, however, the single failed to crack the top 100 and the album itself peaked at number 11, ending Dylan's string of number 1 albums in America until 2006's Modern Times . When Dylan continued his tour in America, it was derided by the American press as the Alimony Tour and later the Vegas Tour, much to Dylan's chagrin. Many years later, even Street-Legal' s most ardent admirers would admit some flaws in

1625-748: The Up Against the Wall Motherfuckers , and the Gypsy Truckers — creating The Free Family. That larger group still exists informally, and many of the Diggers' children and grandchildren remain in contact with one another, and many are still involved with progressive causes. Various alternative communities like those of the Diggers were covered in a feature-length documentary film by Will Vinton , later known for his ClayMation studio in Portland, Oregon. This early-1970s documentary (1974 according to one source)

1690-456: The underground culture of the 1960s. In the book, Grogan refers to himself by the alias Kenny Wisdom. Peter Coyote, in the 1990 introduction to Ringolevio states that Grogan's choice of that alias is "no accident" but without elaborating. Grogan was also the author of Final Score, a crime novel published in 1976. Grogan shunned media attention and became increasingly suspicious of those who sought publicity. In Ringolevio , Grogan discussed

1755-531: The 1967 Human Be-In , criticizing counterculture luminaries Timothy Leary , Jerry Rubin , and especially Abbie Hoffman . Grogan thought the HIP (Haight Independent Proprietors) merchants, led by Ron and Jay Thelin, who had sponsored events like the Human Be-In, were the primary beneficiaries of the events: "The HIP merchants were astounded by their own triumph by promoting such a large market for their wares. They became

1820-577: The Bay Area in the mid-1960s: the bohemian/underground art/theater scene, and the New Left / civil rights / peace movement . The Diggers combined street theatre , direct action , and art happenings in their social agenda of creating a Free City. Their most famous activities revolved around distributing free food ("Free because it's yours!") every day in Golden Gate Park , and distributing "surplus energy" at

1885-526: The Haight, including, in April 1967, "Uncle Tim'$ Children," with its infamous, often-quoted line, "Rape is as common as bullshit on Haight Street." Richard Brautigan 's poem " All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace " was first published, in March 1967, by the Communication Company on an 8.5-by-11-inch (216 by 279 mm) mimeographed broadside with both the title and imprint handwritten. The first run included

1950-598: The Heart," "Walk Out in the Rain," "Stop Now"), there is no indication that these songs were ever serious contenders for the album. Though the sessions lasted only four days, they were plagued with issues stemming from recording in a makeshift rehearsal space instead of a studio. "The biggest problem   ... was how it was recorded," recalls Mansfield, "with Bob getting impatient with the engineering assistants   ... baffling and checking levels and getting sounds in sync   ... and

2015-498: The Japanese promoter, and in it he had a manifest of the songs he expected Bob to do on this tour. In other words he was a jukebox, he was playing requests. "We don't want you coming here and doing like your new experimental material, or getting up there and jamming." As Heylin writes, "though the idea of a big band had always appealed to Dylan, the reality was a whole series of new arrangements, to make each song different and to highlight

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2080-483: The Western world's taste makers overnight..." He objected to the " Summer of Love " enticing of young people to the Haight-Ashbury to experience hippie life, noting that an influx of residents would cause an "immigration crisis" and the kids who came expecting an already-formed Utopia would end up living a desperate hand-to-mouth existence on the streets. He also decried the HIP merchants' "HIP Job Co-Op," revealing that much of

2145-408: The album was produced by Don DeVito. In 1999, DeVito revisited Street-Legal and remixed the album with modern, digital techniques in an attempt to improve the mix and produce a richer overall sound. The remix was also used in a 2003 SACD reissue of Street-Legal . However, in 2013, when Street-Legal was remastered as part of The Complete Album Collection Vol. 1 , the original 1978 Kalina mix

2210-642: The album, finding most fault with the production. " Street-Legal was the first in a long line of song collections whose failure to be realized in the studio would lay a 'dust of rumors' over Dylan as an abidingly creative artist that he has never been able to fully shake," writes Heylin. This LP was pressed at the same time as a Pink Floyd, "Wish You Were Here" 1978 repress was being prepared, so many (exact quantity unknown, possibly 300 per stamper) of LP's marked Pink Floyd "WYWH" actually contain side one of Street-Legal by Bob Dylan. The original 1978 LP sleeve credits mastering to Stan Kalina at CBS Recording Studios NY;

2275-449: The album, of which none have seen release. There are two takes of "Stop Now", sounding very much like an additional Street-Legal song, in circulation. The Searchers recorded "Coming From The Heart (The Road Is Long)" and Eric Clapton released "Walk Out In the Rain" on his album Backless , which also included another song written at this time, "If I Don't Be There By Morning". Other songs written during this time include: Following

2340-489: The band wasn't "picking up where the Rolling Thunder Revue left off," as Mansfield recalled. "I brought my steel guitar and I had it in rehearsal and every time I'd go to start unpacking it, Bob would go, 'We don't need that.' All of a sudden the instrument that I played all over the place in the previous band, he didn't want to see it, let alone hear it." Howie Wyeth soon left the band. Wyeth had been struggling with

2405-439: The band's demonstrable versatility   ..." Often the arrangement ideas came from the band. As Stoner observed, when they put these arrangements to Dylan, "Sometimes he'd like it and he'd use it, and other times he'd say, 'Forget it'." The band flew to Japan on February 16, 1978, and the tour drew considerable praise from the audience and press, in both Japan and Australia. Later documented on Bob Dylan At Budokan , this tour

2470-658: The court to move to Hawaii with their children. The proceedings took Dylan's focus away from the world tour he had been planning, his first in twelve years. He had signed a five-year lease on an old three-story building on the corner of Ocean and Main in Santa Monica, California. Dubbed 'Rundown', the building was soon converted into a rehearsal space and studio. By September, the building was staffed by Joel Bernstein and Arthur Rosato, two engineers who had been in Dylan's road crew in 1976. Before rehearsals could begin, Dylan had to assemble

2535-533: The extravagantly presented shows Presley had been playing in the 1970's." By mid-January 1978, Dylan was still unsatisfied with some aspects of the band. With the first leg of his world tour set for February in Japan, he quickly made some last-minute changes, removing Sagal and Eisenberg and replacing them with novice singer Helena Springs and seasoned professional Jo Ann Harris. (Sagal was not surprised by her dismissal. "I remember   ... he'd have three girls all sing

2600-523: The fall of 1975 on the first leg of his Rolling Thunder Revue tour. With the summer approaching, Dylan took a break from the film and returned to his farm in Minnesota, where he was accompanied by his children and Faridi McFree, with whom Dylan had started a relationship. There he began writing a new set of songs, including " Changing of the Guards ," "No Time to Think," and "Where Are You Tonight?". At least six of

2665-447: The habit and winning a scholarship to a swanky Manhattan private school, pursuing a highly profitable sideline as a Park Avenue burglar, then skipping town to enjoy the dolce vita in Italy." After high school, he attended Duke University for one year before moving to San Francisco. The San Francisco Diggers were a legendary group that evolved out of two radical traditions that thrived in

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2730-601: The hill from the neighborhood. The free food and medical clinics were immediate responses to conditions caused by the enormous influx of young people during the heyday of the hippie scene, conditions that the San Francisco government was ignoring. The Diggers also popularized whole wheat bread : their Digger Bread was baked in coffee cans at the Free Bakery in the basement of Episcopal All Saints Church on 1350 Waller Street. In cooperation with All Saints Church and later via

2795-494: The local Students for a Democratic Society office and using their Gestetner printer. The leaflets were eventually called The Digger Papers , and soon morphed into small pamphlets with poetry, psychedelic art, and essays. The first issue of The Digger Papers was published in Fall 1965. Peter Berg was one of the regular contributors to the publication. The Digger Papers originated such phrases as "Do your own thing" and "Today

2860-456: The mainstream media made it difficult for reporters to acquire more than a few details of his life. He was born on November 28, 1942, as Eugene Leo Grogan into an Irish-American family in the Bay Ridge neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. According to his publisher, New York Review Books , "Grogan grew up on New York City’s mean streets, getting hooked on heroin before he was in his teens, kicking

2925-420: The men socialized and promoted the events, while the women did most of the collecting, cooking and serving. Decision-making in the organization was controlled by male Diggers, who either came up with or took credit for new ideas, while female Diggers, who provided much of the organization's income via welfare checks and social assistance, were sidelined. This stratification "typifies prefeminist-era radicalism in

2990-572: The mid- and late 1960s, the San Francisco Diggers organized free music concerts and works of political art, provided free food, medical care, transport, and temporary housing and opened stores that gave away stock. Some of their events included the Death of Money Parade, Intersection Game, Invisible Circus, and Death of Hippie/Birth of Free. One of the first Digger activities was the publishing of various broadsides, which were printed by sneaking into

3055-492: The nine songs ultimately included on Street-Legal were written during this time. His work was disrupted on August 16, 1977, when news broke that Elvis Presley had died at 3:30 p.m. at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. "I went over my whole life," recalled Dylan. "I went over my whole childhood. I didn't talk to anyone for a week." Later that fall, another custody battle arose when Sara sought permission from

3120-560: The offices of Ramparts magazine," the Communications Company distributed daily (and sometimes hourly) broadsides on the streets of the Haight-Ashbury district during the early part of 1967 and the Summer of Love . ComCo was a member of the Underground Press Syndicate , a network of countercultural newspapers and magazines. Through the Communications Company, Anderson circulated a number of his own bitter broadside polemics in

3185-416: The original muddiness of the production was part of the reason the record has so long been critically overlooked. When Dylan embarked on his European tour, he would be greeted by a generally warm audience reception, and his single, " Baby, Stop Crying " (the lyrics of which were allegedly inspired by Robert Johnson 's "Stop Breaking Down"), charted in the top ten throughout Europe , and reached number 13 on

3250-455: The recording crew just having to scramble to get mikes into place and get something on tape, while we were playing the thing the few times we were gonna play it. It really was sort of like Bob Dylan meets Phil Spector in the best way   ... as if it had [just] been recorded so the instruments sounded full and well-blended." Unlike previous albums, the outtakes for Street-Legal are few in number. Only three additional songs were recorded for

3315-610: The right producer, but it was necessary to do it. So we just brought in the remote truck and cut it, [and] went for a live sound." Dylan would ultimately settle on Don DeVito as his producer, even though he had been dissatisfied with DeVito's work on Desire . Dylan already had a European tour scheduled for June, but he still had enough time to record his album; over the course of just four days, Dylan would record nine of his own compositions. Dylan knew exactly which songs he wanted to record, and though three songs written by Helena Springs were also recorded during these sessions ("Coming from

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3380-510: The sixties." Running soup kitchens and medical clinics, however, was not the authentic, long-term concern of the Diggers' founders. After passing those institutions on to a local church and David E. Smith to continue, the Diggers moved out of the city, creating various land bases in California, including Forest Knolls , Olema , Covelo , Salmon River , Trinidad , and Black Bear Ranch . There they integrated with other groups — The Free Bakery,

3445-504: The taking or giving. The first free store was in a six-car garage on Page Street that they found filled with empty picture frames; they tacked these up outside the building and called it the Free Frame of Reference. The Diggers provided free food service in the Panhandle of Golden Gate Park every day at four o'clock, feeding about 100 people with a stew from donated meat and vegetables that

3510-543: The twin successes of Blood on the Tracks and Desire , Street-Legal was another gold record for Dylan, peaking at No. 11 on the U.S. Billboard charts , making it his first studio album to miss the U.S. Top 10 since 1964. However, it became his best-selling studio album in the UK, reaching No. 2 on the charts (his highest position in eight years) and achieving platinum status with 300,000 copies sold (the only other Dylan album to do this

3575-507: The work they offered was sweatshop labor. He pointed out that unskilled and clerical jobs would be taken away from poor residents who depended on such work to survive. On April 6, 1978, 35-year-old Grogan was found dead on a New York City Subway train on the F train in Coney Island; he had suffered a heart attack. Close friend and Digger co-founder Peter Coyote stated in his foreword to Grogan's autobiography Ringolevio that his death

3640-461: Was "speak[ing] to the woman like a sultan checking out a promising servant girl for VD." In the UK, reviews were positive, with Michael Watts of Melody Maker proclaiming it Dylan's "best album since John Wesley Harding ". NME ' s Angus MacKinnon hailed it as Dylan's "second major album of the 70s." In contrast to the record's still mixed reputation, Q Magazine has given the album a 5 star rating on re-release on two occasions, pointing out that

3705-430: Was always bummed out. He was chain-smoking and he was really in a bad mood. He was short with people. It just wasn't working out." A settlement in his custody battle was reached in late December, decreeing that his children would remain in California, with Dylan retaining partial custody. Fallout from the custody battle would keep Dylan and Sara from reaching amicable terms for several years. Meanwhile, Renaldo and Clara

3770-515: Was due to a heroin overdose. Bob Dylan dedicated his 1978 album Street Legal to Grogan. Richard Brautigan dedicated his poem "Death Is a Beautiful Car Parked Only" to Grogan. Grogan was married to the French-Canadian actress Louise Latraverse; they had one son. [ Ringolevio ] is a hard-boiled, sometimes hard-to-believe, wildly entertaining tale that takes a totally unexpected turn when Grogan washes up in sixties San Francisco and becomes

3835-527: Was later included in the book of the same name . The Diggers threw free parties with music provided by the Grateful Dead , Janis Joplin , Jefferson Airplane and other bands. They also staged street theater events, such as driving a truck of semi-naked belly dancers through the Financial District , inviting brokers to climb on board and forget their work. On December 17, 1966, the Diggers held

3900-428: Was marked by bold new arrangements of classic Dylan recordings. During the course of these two-hour-plus shows, Dylan often recast familiar songs in more contemporary guise. However, some of the band members, including Stoner, were not entirely satisfied with Dylan's new sound. "He had in mind to do something like Elvis Presley," recalls Stoner. "That size band and the uniforms   ... he wasn't very sure about it, which

3965-527: Was released to widespread negative reviews. Though disappointed with the critical reaction, with the film released and his legal matters settled, Dylan was finally ready to rehearse. Sessions soon began in earnest. On December 26, Dylan followed the day's rehearsals with a preview of his next album. Accompanying himself on piano, Dylan played his new batch of songs for Stoner, Soles, and Bernstein. Many of these songs had been written that summer at his farm in Minnesota. As rehearsals progressed, it soon became clear

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4030-532: Was served from behind a giant yellow picture frame, also called the Free Frame of Reference, which people were required to step through before being served. This was superseded by the Trip Without a Ticket on Frederick Street. It was unclear how the stores were funded. The Diggers also opened a free medical clinic, initially by inviting volunteers from the University of California, San Francisco medical school up

4095-405: Was still commercially successful, being certified as Gold in the US and Platinum in the UK. Many critics gave the album a more positive re-appraisal following its release in a remixed and remastered edition in 1999. Dylan spent the first half of 1977 engaged in divorce proceedings and a custody battle with his first wife, Sara , while editing Renaldo and Clara , an ill-fated film shot during

4160-406: Was still not ready to rehearse, with the custody battle over his children and the imminent release of Renaldo and Clara occupying most of his attention, making edits on Renaldo and Clara up to the last minute. "Bob kept us sitting around for a week or two," recalls Stoner. "He just never showed up   ... and [when he finally] drops in, he's distracted   ... He was really [stressed out]. He

4225-501: Was titled Gone for a Better Deal , but it has never been released in any video format. Haight-Ashbury Golden-Gate park poet Ashleigh Brilliant , later known for his pot-Shots epigrams, released a CD of his songs and parodies about "life in the Haight," including two songs about the Diggers. A fictionalized version of the Diggers was featured in Haleh Roshan's play Free Free Free Free . Street Legal (album) Street-Legal

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