it started with people like paul robeson and pete seeger. and those guys faced tremendous oppression and censorship because of the message of the music. you had an experience with the byrds in eight miles high where it's just kind of insane reaction to the song. roger mcguinn tells the story about how you were sure it was going to be a big hit, and his story is that it was written about an airplane flight. it was written about an airplane flight, but it was enough double entendre in it to where the gavin report, you know, just nixed it. they said this is-- it came out at the same time-- and there's a little guilt by association-- it came out at the same time as dylan put out everybody must get stoned. and that was pretty unequivocal. [laughs] they definitely banned our song. (paulson) and there was a little bit of a wink in the writing of that song? let's set it straight once and for all. yeah. gavin later claims that they were simply providing it as a public service and in no way encouraging censorship, but that's what happened. stations we