Won't You Try / Saturday Afternoon -- Jefferson Airplane  "The Be-In was a great long stare in the mirror for the psychedelic community, both at the event and in the awed coverage given it by the news media -- everybody was impressed by the fact that the notorious Hell's Angels had stood guard over the generator for the PA system. The temptation to admire the image was too great."   -- Charles Perry, Rolling Stone  #207  26 February 1976 The above Ralph J. Gleason column published 55 years ago today in the San Francisco Chronicle, reports on the Gathering of the Tribes / Human Be-In on the Polo Field at Golden Gate Park, Saturday 14 January 1967. The hyperbolic, if good-natured, review of the event reflected the view of many in the new-generation Hip community (derisively named "Hippies" by the previous paragons of Hip, the "Beat" generation) who saw this event as the heralding of a new utopian era. But it marked instead the high-water mark of a...