his affinity for warren hinkle. i don't think warren's politics were really worked out cleanly, i think he was also a kind of rebel and iconic classes. i mean would you put them both and in a similar category in that way? i think warren is more productive san francisco. he grew up here. i think he kind of along with the water. he drank drank in the kind of ethos the liberal progressive ethos of san francisco. so i would put him to the left politically of a hunter thompson. i think consciously left but they are both mavericks and they both like their drink and they both like to have a good time and that was very much a part of the spirit of the 60s and 70s when they were operating at their best. there was something that linked the two i think the kind of journalism the key out of the bay area in those years ramparts the early days rolling stone before it moved to new york and even my salon back in the, you know, during the.com era. we're all examples of a beer journalism that i couldn't exist anywhere else, and i'm pr

ramparts under warren hinkle. jann wenner really inherited gonzo journalism and hunter thompson from warren hinkle at rolling stone. >> that's true and jann wenner ended up getting a lot of the credit andwarren was very aware of that . that the conception of gonzo journalism was really scanlon's thing. but he really didn't , nobody hadchoices here . it wasn't obvious that thompson was going to be a great master at rolling stone which was still a fledgling rock magazine. thompson was older thanmost of the people who wrote for rolling stone . he was an air force veteran. he didn't quite fit the mold at rolling stone ngnebut jann really saw that his stuff might click with rolling stones readers and he encouraged him. the first concept came when hunter wrote to jann after the altamonte coverage came out and said. >> was the concert that some people say was the death of the 1960s where the hells angels pounced on an african-american concert door and stabbed him to death. >> right, and of course the hells angels were th

warren hinkle takes over as editor and brings the magazine to san francisco.it becomes a legendary san francisco muckraker that we know today. >> hunter could've really developed the way he did as a journalist anywhere else in the country or was there something something in particular in the 1960s it was more open to his style of writing? >> i do not think there's any doubt i don't think he could have done in new york he certainly could not have done it in louisville or aspen or chicago or boston. not only that i don't think he could have done in san francisco ten years before or ten years later. i think he needed to be in san francisco right when he was in san francisco. he acknowledged that too. much later in life here in las vegas he talks about san francisco. as a peak era. and then later on in life of course he comes back and works in san francisco in the 1980s. even much later than that looking back he said those are my people. mid- 1960s in san francisco, those really formative for him. that is one of the arguments i want to make in theve book is tt eve