the very talented janice joplin gave him credits. >> i get sick and tired of people saying, the worldre's too many drugs, the wars, what else do you do? do you fetch? what else do you do? if you have the ability to do something, do it. if not, shut up. >> reporter: rock groups such as the grateful dead owed their fame to bill graham who discovered and promoted them. but they also experienced the darker side of this hot tempered backstage perfectionist who micromanaged everything from the lighting to the soap in the washrooms. bob weer remembers seeing graham pacing the lobby as a young musician showed up late for a concert. >> it was just like in anology fashioned movie. grabs his hat and throws it on the ground and starts stomping on it. i didn't know i would see that for real. >> graham wanted perfection and it was chaos. there were a million incidents where bill would just be so frustrated his eyes would bulge out but there was nothing he could do. because he loved it so much and we knew. >> reporter: he grew on to new york and los angeles. but he never let on on his pace. he took

she follows in the footsteps of elvis, janice joplin, michael jackson and scores of other entertainmentruth is that some people will always want to destroy themselves. there is nothing society can do about it. what the government can do is design programs that make it difficult to sell and use hard narcotics there are countries in the world like singapore where drug abuse if rare. is the singapore authorities find a citizen using drugs that person goes into a facility. it's mandated and stays there for quite some time. of course, the aclu would go nuts if that were imposed in america but there should be some middle ground. check is disgusted by people who say that selling narcotics is not a violent crime. ron paul has insinuated that and he is he desperately wrong. the doctor who prescribed those drugs for whitney houston had to know she was a drug addict. everybody knew that. yet, an m.d., apparently gave her powerful legal narcotics the same thing happened to michael jackson. estimated that 75% of all the child abuse and neglect in this country is caused by adults who are substance ab

public, you know, you don't want to be like whitney houston, don't be like elvis, don't be like janice joplin? when is the last time you saw that? we don't exist. we wink willie nelson it they are stoned. that's fine. what message does that send? it's okay. it's not okay. >> i think it's apples and oranges you are comparing. >> bill: of course i disagree. it's not apples and oranges. to make my analysis even sharmer, i went on "fox & friends" shortly after "the today show." >> why aren't we telling the truth to young people in america? is there one public service announcement? by any movie star by any singer that says to children don't use drugs? >> but she was. >> bill: wait? is there one? i want to see one. there isn't any. here is what we see. snoop dogg, willie nelson, all of these creeps and i mean they are creeps, all right? celebrated and it's wink wink, oh, let's party, let's get high. there is nobody in the media saying you know what? this could lead to death and if it doesn't lead to death, 7 a% of all child abuse and neglect is done by substance abusers. let's tell the truth. not o

. >> -- janice joplin. and steve mcqueen. >> there is no euphoria like last february. they still packed the at&t park for the annual fanfest. >> one of the themes will be buster posey's recovery. another story line to watch. he wasn't on the opening day roster last year and went 13-7 after replacing barry zito. spring training is coming up and pitchers and catchers report in two weeks. >>> kickoff is still hours away from the new york giants and the new england patriots facing off in super bowl 46. but yesterday, the giants were super bowl champions for a few minutes. according to the team's website. this is what it looked like at giant's.com. the nfl said it is a common practice to create web pages in advance. the hidden url is made available while it is being positioned on the server for a post later today. americans are spending bigful and it shows the average super bowl watcher will shell out $64 on game-related items including snacks. >> that is up 59 from last year. they found 5.1 million people will buy a new tv to watch the game that is up from people from last

don't be like elvis, don't be like janice joplin. you know what we do in the media? we wink-wink it, we willie nelson that. they're stoned, that's fine. what message does that send? it's okay. >> i think it's apples and oranges you're comparing. i think on the one hand, her media did detail her troubles. >> at the same time, i would agree that they also celebrated her talent and her stardom. >> name me one media commentator outside of myself who said, hey, whitney, you better knock it o f offer you're going to be in the ground. give me one. >> maybe people don't come out and say it like you do, because that's the style of your show. but by covering her behavior -- >> they exploited it. >> and detailing her actions over the years -- in a way that's shining a very bright light on it. >> if everybody in the show business community had said to whitney houston, hey, you're going to kill yourself. >> but that's different than journalists say -- are journalists supposed to be in the position of conducting interventions? >> they're supposed to be in the business of telling t