There were plenty of times when it took work, sometimes years of interviews, to get certain artists really talking.
“You have to say in your heart what’s the most important thing to you and the most important thing to me was my obligation to the role as a journalist,” Wenner said about the Altamont coverage. “The most important thing was our credibility. And with Mick, I had no choice but to do what was right to me and while Mick was angry at the time, he quickly got over it and you can read in the rest of the book, we became very good friends.
Wenner said it felt good to revisit his days with the late gonzo journalist Thompson. Thompson had been a prolific, high-profile contributor to Rolling Stone, including “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,” which first appeared as a two-part series in the magazine before becoming a book and later a feature film starring Johnny Depp and Benicio del Toro.
“It wasn’t difficult for me when I decided to be open about it,” he said. “At that time, it was much more accepted. I mean, ‘Will & Grace’ was on TV and the subject was so much more open. I grew up in a time when they used to throw people in jail for homosexual acts and it was considered a sickness.”
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