“The Man Can’t Bust Our Music” ad appeared in underground papers and music magazines late in 1968. It was commercially clever, but soon proved embarrassing. Then-Columbia president Clive Davis worried that it identified the General Motors of rock “much too closely with the counterculture.” Rolling Stone lampooned CBS’s “identity crisis.” Underground papers pointed out that cool records did not deter the police from their appointed rounds.” — Abe Peck, Uncovering the Sixties: The Life and Times of the Underground Press
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Vaughn Bode ad for Douglas Records.














