i'd been working -- i'd finally gotten the band coherent and we're driving and come up over the laurel canyon i'm driving down and they was having a funeral for a bar which was like called pandora's box and it was where you would start walking the sunset strip if you weren't cruising in a car. and it was gonna close because this traffic island where it was built was gonna, you know, be turned into an enormous shopping center or something. tavis: so a funeral for the bar? >> there was a funeral for a bar, which having spent time in new orleans, i knew all about this. tavis: yeah, yeah! >> since they were closing bars and opening new ones all the time through the french quarter, so it was a funeral for a bar. this is not an extraordinary event. but somehow in his wisdom, the mayor of los angeles at the time, mr. sam yorty, decided that it was a riot and he sent down about 200 policemen in full macedonian battle array with the helmet and the shields and the night sticks. this little place was like a bungalow and probably fit its maximum about 200 people and there were about 3,000. so where did t