Doug Williams (5/19/08)

OK, well if it's old H/A days, I spent over a year working sound at the Straight Theater on Haight St. I left school to play music, but ended up doing sound since there was little interest in instrumental solo guitar. We had 5 bands a night, 6 days a week in '67 and '68. The Straight had a lot of good bands, but never the Jefferson Airplane (they were contracted to Bill Graham). Janis was fun-She always blew out one of our speakers. No one else did, but she had a lot of power in her voice.