From Happening in Hollywood by Groovy Duke Lewis, Tiger Beat January 1970
This month groovy Duke Lewis clues you in on the ins and outs of meeting your fave stars! Find out how, who, where, when and why below:
Meeting and making friendlies with your all-rave high-fave music stars when they visit your hometown on concert tours may require all the energy, endurance, true grit and female cunning you can generate!
Easy it is if you “know somebody,” like maybe your daddy’s chief security fuzz at the concert, or your boyfriend Teddy’s head usher, or local promoter Tommy Tucker is trying to make a big impression on your big sister Susie, or the star cats and road managers remember and dig you from previous encounters in your town.
The basic problem is to achieve your ends without getting into trouble and having to pacify your parent or probation officer. Let’s check out various techniques that have proven somewhat successful so far.
Many of the sly schemes, far out maneuvers and deep laid plots and plans dating way back to the first Beatle invasion of the USA in 1964, still work well today for dedicated disciples of the godlike Bobby Sherman, Elvis Presley, Jimi Hendrix, Tom Jones, or the Raiders, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Brooklyn Bridge, 1910 Fruit Gum Company or Blind Faith.
Shy maidens who can’t make it alone should team up with a brash or brazen chum who possess the nerve and gall to wear down or outsmart the security guards hired to “protect” the hairy idols from their public. Don’t blame the guys for all those police and guards, they didn’t asked to be isolated. “Too much protection keeps the kids away from us and also keeps us away from the kids, our friends,” complains John Kay, the Steppenwolf vocalizer. “We resent being quarantined as if we have some horrible disease the public might catch.”
Though you have to be tricky, sneaky or bold in staking out your prey in overcoming the obstacles, you should also be clean, neat, attractive, intelligent and have a good sense of humor if you hope to hold the interest of your quarry once you have him cornered. Guys are scared off by roaming packs of predatory females so go on your expedition with no more than one or two companion huntresses.
The worst that can happen is getting involved with a shrieking mass of stupid bubble-gummers whose maniacal mauling’s are resented not only by the stars but sincere pop music lovers as well. Dennis Wilson has been knocked cold five times by wild scream-agers. Every music topper has been hurt or had frightening experiences with female fanatics.
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