What happened to the Airplanes proposed idea with Abbie Hoffman to tour Vietnam during the war?
GS: “I’d love to play the Far East. It was an idea to play for both sides but they won’t let us out of the country. The only place I think they’ll let us play is Japan. I’d like to play Communist China too but I don’t know if it is possible. I think a couple of people have played Communist China. I don’t know if we could make it or not. I’d sure like to try though. ” ZZ: Why did Spencer Dryden originally leave the Airplane? GS: “At the time we were playing sets that were four hours long and the guys who play guitar don’t have to work that hard compared to a drummer. Spencer’s very small. He’s a good drummer, he’s a real good drummer, but it was just so damn hard on him to play for four hours and they’d go into these jams and the guitar players would turn around and start stamping their feet on the floor at him saying “faster”, “faster, louder, faster” and the guy was just falling apart by the end of it. So he had to stop and play with a group that wasn’t quite into playing four hour se
