Category: John sinclair

  • Fly By Night with Steve The Fly 01

    Fly By Night with Steve The Fly 01

    Fly By Night with Steve The Fly 01

    DJ Fly Agaric 23 with music by Ras G & the Afrikan Space Program, Junior Wells, Otis Rush, Sonny Boy Williamson, The Larks, Lowell Fulson, Magic Sam, Shuggie Otis, Horace Andy, Lee Perry & Adrian Sherwood, The Mad Professor, Thelonious Monk, Tribe, James Brown, and The Meters

    The John Sinclair Foundation Presents
    FLY BY NIGHT WITH STEVE THE FLY 01
    Café Belgique, Amsterdam, January 20, 2012 [FA-0001]
    DJ Steve The Fly spinning at the Café Belgique in Amsterdam on the night of January 20, 2012…Part One.

    FLY BY NIGHT 01
    [01] Ras G & the Afrikan Space Program > Old Fashioned Disc Jockey
    [02] Junior Wells: Snatch It Back & Hold It
    [03] Otis Rush: Can’t Wait No Longer
    [04] Sonny Boy Williamson: Keep It To Yourself
    [05] The Larks: Fattening Frogs For Snakes
    [06] Lowell Fulson: You Got To Do Me Right
    [07] Magic Sam: Same Old Blues
    [08] Junior Wells: Somebody Done Hoodooed the Hoodoo Man
    [09] Sonny Boy Williamson: Don’t Lose Your Eye
    [10] Shuggie Otis: One Day At A Time
    [11] Horace Andy: Angel Dub
    [12] Lee Perry & Adrian Sherwood: Yellow Fever
    [13] Mad Professor:
    [14] Thelonious Monk Quartet: Rhythm-A-Ning
    [15] Tribe: Beneficient
    [16] James Brown: Man In The Mirror
    [17] Tribe: Space II
    [18] The Meters: Just Kissed My Baby
    [19] Closing Music: Tribe: Son Of Tribe

    A JOINT PRODUCTION
    Produced & recorded by Steve “Fly” Pratt for Radio Free Amsterdam
    Edited, assembled & annotated by John Sinclair
    Executive Producer: Sidney Daniels
    Sponsored by Ceres Seeds & The Hempshopper, Amsterdam
    © 2012 Steve Pratt. Used with oermission.

    http://www.radiofreeamsterdam.com/fly-by-night-with-steve-the-fly-01/

  • Nutty Logic with Steve Fly

    Nutty Logic with Steve Fly

    Nutty Logic with Steve Fly
    The John Sinclair Foundation Presents

    NUTTY LOGIC WITH STEVE FLY
    Cafe The Zen, Amsterdam, January 11, 2012 [SFNL-0001]

    Steve Fly created this salute to Robert Anton Wilson and put it together with John Sinclair at Cafe The Zen in Amsterdam Oost last night and we’re rushing it onto the Radio Free Amsterdam airwaves today, with musical selections from Alice Coltrane, John Sinclair & Beatnik Youth, Thelonious Monk & John Coltrane At Carnegie Hall, Dr. John & The Lower 911, Ed Sanders, the Miles Davis Sextet, Louis Armstrong, Eddie Jefferson, and John Coltrane & Duke Ellington, with several contributions from Robert Anton Wilson himself.

    NUTTY LOGIC PLAYLIST

    [01] Alice Coltrane: Journey to Satchidananda
    [02] Robert Anton Wilson: New Tsarism
    [03] John Sinclair & Beatnik Youth: Brilliant Corners
    [04] Thelonious Monk & John Coltrane: Nutty
    [05] Dr. John & The Lower 911: Black Gold
    [06] Robert Anton Wilson; Maybe Logic
    [07] Ed Sanders: What If William Blake Had Gone To New Orleans?
    [08] Miles Davis Sextet: So What
    [09] Louis Armstrong: Black and Blue
    [10] Robert Anton Wilson: TSOG Rising
    [11] Eddie Jefferson: Parker’s Mood
    [12] John Coltrane & Duke Ellington: In a Sentimental Mood

    A JOINT PRODUCTION
    Produced by Steve Fly
    Edited, assembled & annotated by John Sinclair
    Executive Producer: Leslie Lopez
    Sponsored by Ceres Seeds & The Hempshopper, Amsterdam
    (c) 2012 The John Sinclair Foundation
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  • Steve Fly’s Saturnalia

    Steve Fly’s Saturnalia

    Steve Fly’s Saturnalia

    The John Sinclair Foundation Presents
    VINTAGE RADIO VAULTS 61

    Steve Fly’s Saturnalia
    Fly Agaric Studio, Amsterdam, December 23, 2009 [VV-0061]
    The last few weeks I’ve witnessed John Sinclair programming spontaneous radio shows across the table from me. John made a number of shows that knocked me off my stool so I figured it was my duty as DJ Fly Agaric to respond with a festive selection of tunes. The tracks were selected from my LP collection, recorded Wednesday 22nd December 2009 on a H4 Zoom Recorder.

    PLAYLIST 61
    [00] Baba Israel > Detroit Life Radio ID
    [01] Darlene Love: Marshmallow World
    [02] Channel One Studio: Ballistic Affair version
    [03] Miles Davis: Round About Midnight
    [04] Bobby Lester & the Moonglows: Hey Santa Claus
    [05] Clark-Boland Big Band: Sakara
    [06] Fel Kuti: Trouble Sleep Yanga Wake Am
    [07] The Larks: I Ain’t Fattening No Frogs For Snakes
    [08] The Ronettes: Sleigh Ride
    [09] Jimmy Reed: Rockin’ with Reed
    [10] Marcus Belgrave: Glue Finger (Part 2)
    [11] James Brown: Don’t Tell a Lie about Me
    [12] Bob Marley: No Water
    [13] Rage Against the Machine: Killing In The Name
    [14] Baba Israel > Detroit Life Radio ID

    Produced, edited & assembled by DJ Fly Agaric 23
    Vinyl spun on two Vestax turntables & recorded on Zoom H4 recorder
    Post-production, editing & annotation by John Sinclair
    Executive Producer: Larry Hayden
    Special thanks to Steve “Fly” Agaric & a Merry Xmas to all.
    © 2009, 2011 The John Sinclair Foundation. All Rights Reserved.
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  • NAUGHTIES DECADE 2001-2011

    DECADE 2001-2011

     

    INTRODUCTION

    Hi I finally got around to posting this, it’s been hanging around for a while. I hope you’ll forgive my errors, any feedback will be well received.

    So friends…which events seem important to you? Which would you choose to define any given period of time? How do you make sense of them, what conditions nurtured them, which human interventions and which natural disasters led to the events you pick?

    If we are to make sense and meaning of history, and sanity–a risky endeavour in these times of global Internet but one which any poet worth the name might pursue–then a ‘poem including history‘ of the last decade seems a good place to start to me. (after writing this introduction I learned that Mark Zukenburg and facebook plan to release a ‘timeline’ application that allows for a similar chronological study of events. However History also moves in cycles, and non-chronological spirals, it is of my opinion.

    The launch of Wikipedia in February of 2001 has impacted this writing a great deal due to the simple list of some events deemed worthy of inclusion by the Wikipedia commons group, that are made available for all to see and make sense of at your own risk. The risk seems to me to be somewhat reduced when attention is paid to the subjective nature of perception, and to methods such as ‘operational language used by some-but-not-all scientists and ‘E-prime’ and its variants, used by some-but-not-all linguists.

    When put Into chronological order it becomes increasingly difficult for me to avoid drawing conclusions based on the ordering, one thing leads to another, or so it seems to a linear oriented mind set. The question remains: which ‘events’ should become pivotal ones and which shall be relegated to the footnotes or relegated all together? How did the author or protagonist come to choose such events based on which values and principle, what ordering system, what right knowledge? How many are justified by later events and how many need revision, considering, let’s say; the Wikileaks exposures of the period 2007-2010, or the News Corp. phone hacking racket?

    Silent But Dudley: Black Country Blues

    by Mr Steven James Pratt

    Link: http://a.co/7KhqHcL

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  • The tale of the ‘high’ tribe

    The tale of the tribe

    High Time and the Counter-cultural hall of fame.

    “A ganachakra (Sanskrit: gaṇacakra, or ‘gathering circle’; Tibetan: tshogs kyi ‘khor lo) is also known as tsog, ganapuja, chakrapuja or ganachakrapuja. It is a generic term for various tantric assemblies or feasts, in which practitioners meet to chant mantra, enact mudra, make votive offerings and practice various tantric rituals as part of a sadhana, or spiritual practice. The ganachakra often comprises a sacramental meal and festivities such as dancing; the feast generally consisting of materials that were considered forbidden or taboo in medieval India, where the tantric movement arose. As a tantric practice, forms of ganachakra are practiced today in both Hinduism, Bön and Vajrayana Buddhism. —TSOG

    I like the idea of the Counter-cultural Hall of Fame, as developed by High Times and Steven Hager, and I’m happy that the legendary characters from America’s exulted tradition of counter-cultural revolutionaries, artists, poets, musicians and humanitarian activists in the fullest sense of that term: revolutionary. High Times magazine seem to have developed a good selection process for the Hall Of Fame and the Celebrity Cup judges, besides all the weed, the poetry and scholar activism blooms.

    In his essay – T.A.Z – from the book TSOG: The thing that ate the constitution. Robert Anton Wilson writes about being picked to be a celebrity judge for the High Times Cannabis Cup in 1999 and his experiences in Amsterdam. I read this essay again recently and found all sorts of cross links and descriptions of the Cannabis Cup and Amsterdam that I find irresistible to share.

    1. T.A.Z or Temporary Autonomous Zone invokes Peter Lamorn Wilson, another brilliant bearded anarchist ‘scholar activist philosopher’ of the American tradition, who RAW often criss-crosses paths with when musing upon cultural revolution. Peter Lamborn Wilson’s TAZ seems to be used here as the title of Bob’s essay [see excerpt below] to help describe the unique red-light and coffeeshop Zones of Dutch tolerance here in Amsterdam, and some other parts of the Netherlands, and a generally intelligent and exemplary model.

    2. William S. Burroughs was inducted into the High Times Hall of Fame in 1999, and RAW participated in the induction ceremony by reading parts from NOVA EXPRESS, a small clip of this event can be found on you tune in a video compiled based on the induction of the Beat generation into the High Times Countercultural Hall Of Fame. It was Burroughs who turned Wilson onto the 23 enigma’ and Wilson compared WSB with James Joyce as the two greatest literary entities of the 20th century.

    3. The name Simon Vinkenoog was familiar to me by way of Dr. Robert Anton Wilson, like so many things; who noted Simon’s work in his books, such as the tale of the Sage of Dalkey in his last published work – email to the Universe. When I arrived in Amsterdam Simon was active and a strong part of the Dutch resistance to Bullshit, mediocrity and Tsarist Occupation Government. Simon passed onwards into outer-hyperspace July 12th, 2009. Simon was recently featured upon John’s 10 show holiday extravaganza, and for me this fact makes yet another loop between American and European counter-cultural anthropology, bound together by John’s choice of musical artefacts, that continue to delight the air-waves.

    Big Chief: Getting High With John Sinclair And The Fly

    by Steven James Pratt et al.

    Link: http://a.co/czUbrSA

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  • SUN RA Interviews & Essays. Editor: John Sinclair

    SUN RA
    Interviews & Essays

    Editor: John Sinclair
    Availability:

    Not Yet Available

    Format: Paperback
    Size: 216mm x 139mm
    Page Count: 256
    ISBN-13: 9781900486729
    Weight (g): 300
    Genre: Music
    RRP:

    Available exclusively from headpress.com in December 2009. If you would like to be notified of its release, click here to send us an email. Write “Sun Ra” as the subject header and we will get back to you.

    Composer, bandleader, pianist, poet and philosopher, Sun Ra is one of the most colourful and enduring of musical legacies, transcending time, place and cultural genres.

    From the mid 1950s until his death in 1993, Sun Ra led “The Arkestra”, an ensemble with an ever-changing line-up and name which sometimes numbered as many as thirty musicians living and playing together under the despotic tutelage of Sun Ra himself. Their music touched upon the entire history of jazz, from ragtime to swing, bebop to free jazz,while the band also pioneered the use of new forms, including electronic music, space music and free improvisation. But Sun Ra’s legendary status was earned as much for his eccentricities as for his unique artistic vision. Claiming to be from Saturn, he developed and propagated a mystifying sci-fi mythology which he weaved into both the music and Dadaist performances of The Arkestra (performances which inspired artists as diverse as George Clinton and MC5). His ideas are still the cause of much debate and controversy, the poetry and prose Sun Ra left behind only deepening the ambiguities around his work and ideas.

    This book collects together for the first time interviews with Sun Ra, the people that knew him, and his contemporaries, alongside illuminating essays and conversational pieces regarding his prolific musical output, mystique, philosophy, fans and much more.

    Contents:

    1. By way of an Introduction by Peter Dennett
    2. Sun Ra by Amiri Baraka
    3. Sun Ra Visits Planet Earth by John Sinclair
    4. It Knocks on Everybody’s Door by John Sinclair: Interview with Sun Ra, Detroit Sun, 1966
    5. Cosmic Catalyst by David Henderson: Sun Ra in New York City, Oakland & Philadelphia
    6. Word from Sun Ra by Amiri Baraka
    7. Their Space Was My Place by Ben Edmonds: Sun Ra & the MC-5 at the Grande Ballroom, Detroit, 2009
    8. Life Is Splendid by John Sinclair: Sun Ra at the Ann Arbor Blues & Jazz Festival, 1972
    9. Interview with Amiri Baraka by Lazaro Vega, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1999
    10. I Know Everything You Need to Know About Music by John Sinclair: A Conversation with Michael Ray
    11. Arkestra in Residence by Rick Steiger: Sun Ra & His Arkestra at the Detroit Jazz Center, 1980
    12. Sun Ra Memories by John Sinclair
    13. Twenty-first Century Music by Pete Gershon: The Sun Ra Arkestra under the direction of alto saxophonist Marshall Allen
    14. The Great and Wondrous Sun Ra by John Sinclair: In Conversation with Wayne Kramer, London, June 2008
    15. My Night as a Tone Scientist by Wayne Kramer
    16. Cosmic Engineering: Jerry Dammers & the Spatial aka Orchestra / Part 1: Interview with Jerry Dammers by John Sinclair & Dylan Harding, London, 2009 / Part 2: Concert reviews by Paul Bradshaw, John Mulvey, Ian Harrison & Jack Massarik
    17. Schwartzegeist by Sadiq Bey: Live from Berlin: The Sun Ra Tribute Project
    18. Sun Ra: Myth, Magic & Music by Steve Fly Agaric 23
    19. The Mystical Estate / Part 1: Standing in the Shadow of Sun Ra by Dylan Harding / Part 2: Interview with Haf-fa Rool by David Kerekes & Caleb Selah, London, 2002
    20. Sun Ra on Film by John Sinclair & David Kerekes: The Cry of Jazz & Space is the Place
    21. Sun Ra Obituary by John Sinclair: New Orleans Times-Picayune, 1993
    22. Photos & Comics / Part 1: Sonny’s Last Song by Mat Colegate & Dan White / Part 2: Scrapbook
    23. Contributor notes
    24. About this book

    EDITOR BIO: In 1969, the poet-provocateur, MC5 manager and White Panther John Sinclair found himself the victim of that decade’s draconian American drug laws, and facing a twenty-year jail sentence for the possession of two joints. The counterculture Sinclair helped create came to his rescue, however, when John Lennon, Stevie Wonder, Phil Ochs and others performed at a successful benefit gig to petition for his release. Since that epochal moment, Sinclair (whom Ben Edmonds calls the “hardest working poet in showbiz”) has travelled the globe with his beat verses and inimitable growl, performing with some of the world’s finest musicians. He interviewed Sun Ra in 1966.

  • DJ FLY AGARIC & JOHN SINCLAIR CELEBRATE JOHN COLTRANE EQUINOX 2009

    http://www.radiofreeamsterdam.com/john-sinclair-radio-show-282/

    Fly Agaric Studio > Bohemian National Home –
    Friday, September 18, 2009 @ 1:00-2:00 am [John Sinclair Radio Show #28220-0982]
    Amsterdam, NL. > Detroit, US.


    This episode is a birthday salute to John Coltrane and a bow to the Vernal Equinox with music by John Coltrane selected by Steve “Fly” Agaric 23 at his Oosterpark studio in Amsterdam and programmed by John Sinclair at the Bohemian National Home in Detroit. As Fly says, “Happy Vernal Equinox, or around about, please enjoy this good energy mix in celebration of the music and birth of John Coltrane. Thanks, John!”

    Playlist #282

    [01] John Sinclair & His Blues Scholars: Welcome
    [02] John Coltrane: Equinox
    [03]. John Coltrane: Blues Minor
    [04] John Coltrane: Crescent
    [05] John Coltrane: All or Nothing at All
    [06] Miles Davis: ‘Round About Midnight
    [07] John Coltrane: The Drum Thing
    [08] John Coltrane: Spiritual

    A JOINT PRODUCTION
    Hosted by John Sinclair for Radio Free Amsterdam
    Music selected in Amsterdam by Steve “Fly” Agaric 23
    Produced, recorded, edited & assembled by John Sinclair in Detroit
    Posted by Larry Hayden
    Executive Producer: Larry Hayden

    © 2009 John Sinclair. All Rights Reserved.

    http://www.radiofreeamsterdam.com/john-sinclair-radio-show-282/

  • BOBBY CAMPBELL of Buddhafart.

    Master-builder (Bobby of Buddhafart) built a beatiful stage, flyer’


  • JOHN SINCLAIR in Stourbridge: With Fly And Friends.

    An Evening with JOHN SINCLAIR & DJ Fly Agaric XX111 – 14th August 2009, Stourbridge, England.

    Flyer by Bobby Campbell:


    Big Chief of the River Stour presents:
    An Evening with JOHN SINCLAIR & DJ Fly Agaric XX111
    BEAT Poetry.
    The Bonded Warehouse Canal Street Stourbridge DY8 4LU
    Friday 14th July 2009.

    Performance Poet, Jazz and Blues Scholar, prolific writer, radio DJ, civil rights activist, street level philosopher; described as “The Angel of Detroit” by Allen Ginsberg, and “Last of the beatnik warrior poets” by Mick Farren, John Sinclair makes his first appearance in the Mid Westlands, U.K. 2009. From the intro to his book FATTENING FROGS FOR SNAKES – Amiri Baraka writes: “John has always , since I have known him, dug the music. From the way back to the way out.”

    Fly Agaric XX111, is a reader/poet, dj/writer, drummer who left Stourbridge for USA in 19 long time, where he did things. He then returned briefly to Stourbridge in 2005 and left again for Holland were he now fills balloons in a famous Amsterdam Coffee house, and blogs widely.

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    The Bonded Warehouse building, serves the community for a wide range of functions. The 3 storey Warehouse dating from 1799 is situated alongside the Stourbridge Town Arm Canal, a number of narrowboats are permanently moored there.

    http://www.radiofreeamsterdam.com/john-sinclair-radio-show-241/

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  • JOHN SINCLAIR & SHARING COUNTER-CULTURE

    The epic & encyclopedic – back catalogue – of music and writings from John Sinclair, will soon be available for – digital download – and SHARED’ availability. Many of his works have been tragically lost, to both personal and national disasters of one kind or another; other works have been miss-placed and kept in storage for a long long time, and, like any other great archeological anthropological discovery from the African heartlands – the opening of the JOHN SINCLAIR archives and vaults provides a rich resource of counter-cultural gems and treasures, useful feedback for all humanity to process.

    So, i thought i could contribute a little something in the way of a hyperlinked guide to John Sinclair in cyberspace, and the places and spaces you can find his footprints and fresh air. I will also begin the work on his recommended reading/listening list from the back of GUITAR ARMY.

    http://www.radiofreeamsterdam.com/

    http://johnsinclair.us/10for2/

    http://www.youtube.com/user/johnsinclairtv

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sinclair_(poet)

    http://www.luminist.org/archives/marijuana.htm

    http://arborwiki.org/city/John_Sinclair

    DETROIT LIFE: JOHN SINCLAIR AND HIS MOTOR CITY SCHOLARS.

    IT’S ALL GOOD: A JOHN SINCLAIR READER


    FATTENING FROGS FOR SNAKES: DELTA SOUND SUITE. (BOOK)

    DON’T START ME TO TALKIN’: FATTENING FROGS FOR SNAKES.

    F.F.F.S. REVIEW IN ROLLINGSTONE.

    recordings:
    Detroit Life with the Motor City Blues Scholars (No Cover Records, 2009)
    Tearing Down the Shrine of Truth & Beauty with the Pinkeye Orchestra (LocoGnossis Records, 2008)
    Fattening Frogs For Snakes, Volume 3: Don’t Start Me To Talking (Big Chief/Electric Catfish Records, 2008)
    crisscross with Mark Ritsema (Big Chief Records, 2006)
    Fattening Frogs For Snakes, Volume 2: Country Blues (No Cover Records, 2005)
    No Money Down: John Sinclair’s Greatest Hits, Volume 1 (Big Chief Records, 2004)
    Peyote Mind with Monster Island (Book Beat, 2003)
    Knock Out with Lange Frans & Baas B (420 Café, 2002)
    Fattening Frogs For Snakes, Volume 1: The Delta Sound (Okra-ToneRecords, 2002)
    It’s All Good with Fluxedo Junction (Fluxedo, 2000)
    Underground Issues (Spy Boy Records, 2000)
    White Buffalo Prayer with Wayne Kramer & the Blues Scholars (Spy Boy, 2000)
    Full Circle with Wayne Kramer & the Blues Scholars (Alive Records, 1997)
    thelonious:a book of monk—volume one (New Alliance Records, 1996)
    If I Could Be With You—John Sinclair & Ed Moss with the Society Jazz Orchestra (Schoolkids Records,1996)
    Full Moon Night—John Sinclair & His Blues Scholars (Total Energy Records, 1995)
    “flyright”—a monk suite,with pianist Ed Moss (1991, unissued)
    books & publicationsIT’S ALL GOOD: A John Sinclair Reader (Headpress, 2008)
    GUITAR ARMY (2nd Edition, Feral House/Process Books, 2007)
    GUITAR ARMY (Italian Translation, Stampa Alternativa, 2007)
    Va Tutto Bene / It’s All Good (Stampa Alternativa, 2006)i mean you: a book for penny (Palomar Press, 2005)
    Peyote Mind & After (Book Beat, 2003)
    Fattening Frogs For Snakes: Delta Sound Suite (Surregional Press, 2002)
    Full Circle (Minimal Press,1997)
    “flyright”—a monk suite (1991, unpublished)
    “We Just Change The Beat”: Selected Poems (Ridgeway Press, 1988)
    thelonious: a book of monk—volume one (1985, unpublished)
    GUITAR ARMY: Street Writings/Prison Writings, Douglas/World, 1972Music & Politics (with Robert Levin), Jazz & Pop/World, 1971
    Meditations: A Suite For John Coltrane (Artists Workshop Press, 1967)
    The Poem For Warner Stringfellow (Artists Workshop Press, 1966)
    FIRE MUSIC: a record (Artists Workshop Press, 1966)This Is Our Music (Artists Workshop Press, 1965)

    http://www.headpress.com/JohnSinclair.aspx

    “John Sinclair is a huge lover with masses of curly black hair flowing all over his head and shoulders. . . He and his White Panther brothers and sisters from Ann Arbor, Michigan are the most alive force in the whole Midwest. They turn on thousands of kids each week to their own beauty and build them into warriors and artists of the new Nation. . . For this some bald-headed judge named Columbo sentenced John Sinclair to nine-and-a-half to ten years in the penitentiary at Jackson, Michigan.”
    — Abbie Hoffman
    Woodstock Nation (1969)

    JAMS (FROM GUITAR ARMY BY John Sinclair)

    ROCK AND ROLL

    KICK OUT THE JAMS – MC5 (Elektra)
    CHEAP THRILLS – Big Brother and Holding Company (Columbia)
    ARE YOU EXPERIENCED? – Jimi Hendrix Experience (Reprise)
    SMASH HITS – Jimi Hendrix Experience (Reprise)
    FREAK OUT – The Mothers of Invension HIGH TIME – MC5 (Atlantic)
    DETROIT – Mitch Rider (Paramount)
    OZONE – Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen (Paramount)
    STOOGES – stooges (Elektra)
    FUN HOUSE – Stooges (Elekra)
    GRIS-GRIS – Doctor John (Atco)
    BABYLON – Dr. John (Atco)
    BRINGING IT ALL BACK HOME – Bob Dylan (Columbia)
    HIGHWAY 61 REVISITED – Bob Dylan (Columbia)
    BLONDE ON BLONDE – Bob Dylan (Columbia)
    JOHN WESLEY HARDING – Bob Dylan (Columbia)
    BEGGARS BANQUET – Rolling Stones (London)
    LET IT BLEED – Rolling Stones (London)
    STICKY FINGERS – Rolling Stones (Rolling Stones)
    REVOLVER – Beatles (Capitol)
    SERGENT PEPPER’S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND – Beatles (Capitol)
    BOOGIE WITH CANNED HEAT – Canned Heat (Liberty)
    SUNSHINE SUPERMAN – Donovan (Epic)
    MY GENERATION – Who (Decca)
    SAFE AS MILK – Captain Beefheart & his Magic Band (Buddha)
    THE FUGS (2nd Album) – Fugs (ESP-Disk’)
    WHITE HEAT WHITE LIGHT – Velvet Underground (MGM)
    JEFFERSON AIRPLANE TAKES OFF – Jefferson Airplane (RCA)
    VOLUNTEERS – Jefferson Airplane (RCA)
    THE GRATEFUL DEAD (1st Album) – Grateful Dead (Reprise)
    ELECRTIC MUSIC FOR THE MIND AND BODY – Country Joe & the Fish (Vanguard)
    LOVE (1st Album) – Love (Elektra)
    DA CAPO – Love (Elekra)
    THE DOORS (1st Album) – Doors (Elekra)
    FRESH CREAM – Cream (Atco)
    WHEELS OF FIRE – Cream (Atco)
    BLUESBREAKERS – John Mayall (London)
    VINCEBUS ERUPTUM – Blue Cheer (Phillips)
    SUNSET – The Rationals (Crewe)
    TRAVELLERS TALE – SRC (Capitol)
    MONGREL – Bob Seger (Capitol)
    SURVIVAL – Grand Funk Railroad (Capitol)
    E PLURIBUS FUNK – Grand Funk Railroad (Capitol)
    CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL – Creedence Clearwater Revival (Fantasy)
    BAYOU COUNTRY – Creedence Clearwater Revival (Fantasy)
    SANDERS’ TRUCK SHOP – Ed Sanders (Warner)
    SPIRITS KNOW AND UNKNOWN – Leon Thomas (Flying Dutchman)
    EDGAR WINTER’S WHITE TRASH – Edgar Winter (Epic)
    LIVE – Johnny Winter and (Columbia)
    JOHNNY WINTER (1st Album) – Johnny Winter (Columbia)
    SLY & THE FAMILY STONE’S GREATEST HITS – Sly & the Family Stone (Epic)

    RHYTHM & BLUES

    HISTORY OF RHYTHM & BLUES (Volumes 1-4) – (Atlantic)
    PAUL BUTTERFIELD BLUES BAND – (!st Album) – Paul Butterfield (Elekra)
    THE RESURRECTION OF PIGBOY CRABSHAW – Paul Butterfield (Elekra)
    J. GEILS BAND – (Elekra)
    ELMORE JAMES – Elmore James (Bell)
    CHUCK BERRY’S GOLDEN DECADE – Chuck Berry (Chess)
    16 GREATEST HITS – Bo Diddley (Chess)
    THE BEST OF MUDDY WATERS – Muddy Waters (Chess)
    ELECTRIC MUD – Muddy Waters (Chess)
    MOANIN’ IN THE MOONLIGHT – Howlin’ Wolf (Chess)
    THE LONDON SESSIONS – Howlin’ Wolf (Chess)
    16 GREATEST HITS – B.B King (Crown)
    JAMES BROWN LIVE AT THE APOLLO (Vol. 1) – James Brown (King)
    BOBBY BLUE BLAND’S GREATEST HITS – Bobby Blue Bland (Duke)
    HOUSE OF THE BLUES – John Lee Hooker (Checker)
    URBAN BLUES -John Lee Hooker (ABC)
    SERVE YOU RIGHT TO SUFFER -John Lee Hooker (Impulse)
    I’M JIMMY REED – Jimmy Reed (Veejay)
    THE JIMMY REED STORY -Jimmy Reed (Atlantic)
    OTIS READING IN EUROPE – Otis Reading (Atlantic)
    ARETHA’S GOLD – Aretha Franklin (Atlantic)
    CHICAGO/THE BLUES/TODAY – (3 vOLUMES) – (Vanguard)
    DETROIT BLUES – (BLUES CLASSICS)
    GOLDEN GOODIES (Volumes 2,3,6,7,12) – (Roulette)
    LIGHTIN’ IN NEW YORK – Lightning Hopkins (Candid/Barnaby)
    WEST SIDE SOUL – Magic Sam (Delmark)
    HOODOO MAN BLUES – Junior Wells (Delmark)
    OTIS SPAN IS THE BLUES – Otis Span (Candid/Barnaby)
    THE BEST OF SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON – Sonny Boy Williamson (Chess)
    GREATEST HITS – Little Richard (Speciality)
    GREAT JUKEBOX HITS – Hank Ballard and the Midnighters (King)
    ALL AROUND THE WORLD – Little Willie John (King)
    I PUT A SPELL ON YOU – Screamin’ Jay Hawkins (Okeh)
    THE BEST OF LITTLE WALTER – Little Walter (Chess)
    GREATEST HITS FROM THE BEGINNING – The Miracles (Motown)
    GREATEST HITS – The Temptations (Motown)
    GREATEST HITS – Martha and the Vandellas (Motown)
    GREATEST HITS – The Four Tops (Motown)
    GREATEST HITS – Elaine Brown (Vault)

    SPOKEN

    DIG -Eldridge Cleaver
    MESSAGE TO THE GRASS ROOTS – Malcolm X (Afro-American Broadcasting Co.)
    BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY – Malcolm X (Douglas)
    THIS IS MADNESS – The Last Poets (Douglas)
    THE SICK HUMOR OF LENNY BRUCE – Lenny Bruce (Fantasy)
    WHAT I WAS ARRESTED FOR – Lenny Bruce (Douglas)
    I AM NOT A NUT, ELECT ME – Lenny Bruce (Fantasy)
    LENNY BRUCE AMERCA – Lenny Bruce (Fantasy)

    BERKELEY CONCERT – Lenny Bruce (Straight)
    AIN’T NO AMBULANCES FOR NO NIGGUS TONIGHT – Stanley Crouch (Flying Dutchman)
    SOUL AND SOLEDAD – Angela Davis (Flying Dutchman)
    HOWL & OTHER POEMS -Allen Ginsberg (Fantasy)
    A NIGHT IN SANTA RITA – Robert Scheer (Flying Dutchman)
    MURDER AT KENT STATE – Pete Hamill (Flying Dutchman)
    LORD BUCKLEY’S HITS – Lord Buckley (Wolrd Pacific)
    MASSACRE AT MY LAI – Pete Hamill (Flying Dutchman)

    NEW BLACK MUSIC


    NOTHING IS – Sun Ra (ESP-Disk’)
    THE HELIOCENTRIC WORLDS OF SUN RA – Sun Ra (Saturn Research)
    THE MAGIC CITY – Sun Ra (Saturn Research)
    ATLANTIS – Sun Ra (Saturn Research)
    STRANGE STRINGS – Sun Ra (Saturn Research)
    A LOVE SUPREME – John Coltrane (Impulse)
    LIVE AT BIRDLAND – John Coltrane (Impulse)
    MEDITATIONS – John Coltrane (Impulse)
    SELFLESSNESS – John Coltrane (Impulse)
    KULU SE MAMA – John Coltrane (Impulse)
    COSMIC MUSIC – John Coltrane (Impulse)
    UNIT STRUCTURES – Cecil Taylor Unit (Blue Note)
    INTO THE HOT – Cecil Taylor & Gil Evans (Impulse)
    JAZZ COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA – Jazz Composers Orchestra (JCOA)
    TAUHID – Pharoah Sanders (Impulse)
    KARMA – Pharoah Sanders (Impulse)
    THEMBI – Pharoah Sanders (Impulse)
    FIRE MUSIC – Archie Shepp (Impulse)
    MAMA TOO TIGHT – Archie Shepp (Impulse)
    ORNETTE COLEMAN TOWN HALL CONCERT – Jazz Composers Orchestra (ESP-DISK)
    THIS IS OUR MUSIC – Ornette Coleman (Atlantic)
    ORNETTE ON TENOR – Ornette Coleman (Atlantic)
    FRIENDS AND NEIGHBOURS – Ornette Coleman (Flying Dutchman)
    BELLS – Albert Ayler (ESP-Disk)
    NEW GRASS – Albert Ayler ((Impulse)
    THE LACK SAINT & THE SINNER LADY – Charles Mingus (Impulse)
    MINGUS PRESENTS MINGUS – Charles Mingus (Candid/Barnaby)
    EVOLUTION – Grachan Moncur (Blue Note)
    LET FREEDOM RING – Jackie McLean (Blue Note)
    LIFE TIME – Tony Williams (Blue Note)
    OUT TO LUNCH – Eric Dolphy (Blue Note)
    OUT THERE – Eric Dolphy (Prestiege)
    IRON MAN – Eric Dolphy (Douglas)
    LIBERATION MUSIC ORCHESTRA – Charlie Haden (Impulse)
    THE THIRD WORLD – Gato Barbieri (Flying Dutchman)
    THE MARION BROWN QUINTET – Marion Brown (ESP-Disk)
    SONG FOR – Joseph Jarman (Delmark)
    AS IF IT WERE THE SEASONS – Joseph Jarman (Delmark)
    SOUND – Roscoe Mitchell (Delmark)
    LEVELS & DEGREES OF LIGHT – Richard Abrams (Delmark)
    HUMILITY IN THE LIGHT OF THE CREATOR – Maurice Mcintyre (Delmark)
    NUMBERS 1&2 – Lester Bowie (Nessa)
    CONGRIPTIOUS – Roscoe Mitchell (Nessa)
    COMPLETE COMMUNION – Don Cherry (Blue Note)
    SKETCHES OF SPAIN – Miles Davis (Columbia)
    KIND OF BLUE – Miles Davis (Columbia)
    MILESTONES – Miles Davis (Columbia)
    BITCHES BREW – Miles Davis (Columbia)
    MILES DAVIS AT THE FILMORE – Miles Davis (Columbia)
    “IS” – Chick Corea (Solid State)
    PATTI WATERS SINGS – Patti Waters (ESP-Disk’)
    BLACK WOMEN – Sonny Sharrock (Embryo)
    EVERYWHERE – Roswell Rudd (Impulse)
    COMPULSION – Andrew Hill (Blue Note)
    FRANK WRIGHT TRIO – Frank Wright (ESP-Disk)
    BURTON GREENE QUARTET – Burton Greene (ESP-Disk)
    WHY NOT – Marion Brown (ESP-Disk)
    THE GIANT IS AWAKENED – Horace Tapscott (Flying Dutchman)
    QUARTET – John Carter/Bobby Bradfoed (Flying Dutchman)
    MULTIDIRECTIONAL – Contemporary Jazz Quintet (Blue Note)

    BOOKS

    ITS ALL GOOD – John Sinclair (Headpress)
    FATTENING FROGS FOR SNAKES – John Sinclair (Headpress)
    GUITAR ARMY – JOHN SINCLAIR (Douglas Book Corporation)
    MUSIC AND POLITICS – John Sinclair and Robert Levin
    SHOTS – David Fenton
    TRIAL – Tom Hayden
    WEATHERMAN – edited by Harold Jacobs
    GETTING BUSTED – edited by Ross Firestone
    THE DRUG BUST – John Dominick
    FREE MARIUANA – Michael Aldrich
    FIRE! Writings from the Underground Press – Edited by Paul, jon & Carol
    THE CONSPIRACY – Chicago 8
    WE ARE EVERYWHERE – Jerry Rubin
    WOODSTOCK NATION – Abbie Hoffman
    REVOLUTION FOR THE HELL OF IT – Abbie Hoffman
    DO IT! – Jerry Rubin
    THE NEW LEFT: A Documentary History – edited by Massimo Teodori
    THE MOVEMENT TOWARD A NEW AMERICA – edited by Mitchell Goodman
    WHOLE EARTH CATALOGUE
    PSYCHEDELIC PRAYERS – Timothy Leary
    JAIL NOTES – Timothy Leary
    REVOLUTIONARY LETTERS – Diane Di Prima
    HOWL & OTHER POEMS – Allen Ginsberg
    PLANET NEWS – Allen Ginsberg
    NAKED LUNCH – William S. Burroughs
    THE SOFT MACHINE – William S. Burroughs
    NOVA EXPRESS – William S. Burroughs
    THE JOB – William S. Burroughs
    HUMAN UNIVERSE – Charles Olson
    MEAT SCIENCE ESSAYS – Michael Mclure
    DARK BROWN – Michael Mclure
    THE MAXIMUS POEMS – Charles Olson
    FOR LOVE – Robert Creely
    THE NEW AMERICAN POETRY 1945-1960 – Edited by Donald Allen
    PEACE EYE – Ed Sanders
    REBELLION & REPRESSION – Tom Hayden
    POT: A HANDBOOK OF MARIJUANA – John Rosevear
    ON THE ROAD – Jack Kerouac
    THE DHARMA BUMS – Jack Kerouac
    MOUNTAINS & RIVERS WITHOUT END – Gary Snyder
    EARTH HOUSE HOLD – Gary Snyder
    POISONED WHEAT – Michael Mclure
    BEEN DOWN SO LONG IT LOOKS LIKE UP TO ME – Richard Farina
    V. – Thomas Pynchon
    TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA – Richard Brautigan
    THE STRANGE ODYSSEY OF HOWARD POW! – Bill Hutton
    A HISTORY OF AMERIKA – Bill Hutton
    THE SUN – Jim Semark
    ONE FLEW OVER THE COOKOOS NEST – Ken Kessey
    ELECTRIC KOOL AID ACID TEST – Tom Wolfe
    REALLY THE BLUES – Mezz Mezzrow
    THE AIR-CONDITIONED NIGHTMARE – Henry Miller
    THE JOURNAL OF ALBION MOONLIGHT – Kenneth Patchen
    RED FLAG/BLACK FLAG – Patrick Seale & Maureen McConville
    SEIZE THE TIME – Bobby Seale
    THE GENIUS OF HUEY P. NEWTON
    ESSAYS FROM THE MINISTER OF DEFENCE – Huey P. Newton
    SOUL ON ICE – Eldridge Cleaver
    POST-PRISON WRITINGS AND SPEECHES – Eldridge Cleaver
    CONVERSATION WITH ELDRIDGE CLEAVER
    PALANTE – Michael Abramson and the Young Lords Party
    OUT THING IS DRUM – Kenny Cockrill & Mike Hamlin
    THE POLITICAL THOUGHT OF JAMES FOREMAN – James Foreman
    MALCOLM X SPEAKS
    THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X
    DIE NIGGER DIE – H. Rap Brown
    STOKELY CARMCIHAEL
    SOLEDAD BROTHER – George Jackson
    IF THEY COME IN THE MORNING – Angela Davis
    THE SPOOK WHO SAT BY THE DOOR – Sam Greenlee
    BLUES PEOPLE – LeRoi Jones
    BLACK MUSIC – LeRoi Jones
    FOUR LIVES IN BEBOP BUSINESS – A. B. Spellman
    SISTERHOOD IS POWERFUL – Edited By Robin Morgan
    THE FEMALE EUNUCH – Germaine Greer
    THE DIALECTIC OF SEX – Shulamith Firestone
    THE EMANCIPATION OF WOMEN – V.I Lenin
    DANCE THE EAGLE TO SLEEP – Marge Piery
    WOMEN IN SEXIST SOCIETY – Edited by Vivian Gornick & Barbara K. Moran
    THE WRETCHED OF THE EARTH – Frantz Fanon
    A DYING COLONIALISM – Frantz Fanon
    HANDBOOK OF REVOLUTIONARY WARFARE – Kwame Nkrumah
    QUOTATIONS FROM CHAIRMAN MAO TSE-TUNG
    LONG LIVE THE VICTORY OF PEOPLES WAR – Lin Piao
    SELECTED WORKS OF MAO TSE-TUNG (Vol. -4)
    ON PRACTICE – Mao Tse-Tung
    ON CONTRADICTION – Mao Tse-Tung
    MAO TSE-TUNG ON LITERATURE AND ART
    ESSENTIAL WORKS OF LENIN – edited by Henry M. Christman
    LEFT-WING COMMUNISM AN INFANTILE DISORDER – V.I Lenin
    THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO – Karl Marx & Frederick Engles.
    THE ORIGIN OF THE FAMILY, PRIVATE PROPERTY & THE STATE – Frederick Engles
    RED STAR OVER CHINA – Edgar Snow
    HO CHI MINH ON REVOLUTION – Edited by Bernard B. Fall