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I'm writing from the front table in the window at The Dolphins where Henk Botwinik and I are setting up to do a new episode of our radio show tonight that we can post at RadioFreeAmsterdam.com on Monday. This will be program #82. Maybe Henk will have it on-line by the time I finish this post, and if so I'll put it up here.
Terrible news came in from New Orleans: Bo Dollis, Big Chief of the Wild Magnolias, is hospitalized with kidney failure and congestive heart disease and is struggling for his life. Our thoughts and prayers are with the Big Chief in this dreadful time. He has been through hell on earth in the past year but appeared in full dress at Mardi Gras with his pretty Big Queen at his side, leading the Wild Magnolias through the streets of the 3rd Ward.
Our pal Gus McIlhenny has left Amsterdam for Maine but pledges to be back soon, His parting shot was the delivery of a brand-new Macintosh iBook G4 for my exclusive use, the cost of which he claims was underwritten by a group of Monday Night Jam Session members in New Orleans. Thanks a million, fellas! I've been banished from Apple World for almost a year, since my iBook broke down the day I got back to Amsterdam and I haven't been able to replace it. My producers, Larry Hayden and Henk Botwinik, advanced me a Compaq laptop on my birthday last fall and I've been struggling with Windows ever since. Buit now the long nightmare is over and I've got the machine of my dreams under hand.
My old-time comrade and rap partner Pun Plamondon responded to my perpetual fund-raising plea with the donation of 4 copies of his great memoir, Lost from the Ottawa: The Story of the Way Back, to sell or trade for goods & services. I gave the first one to Gus and the second to Radouane, the proprietor of The Dolphins and a brother in the struggle, "in lieu of rent." (That phrase is adapted from the brilliant scene in Blazing Saddles where Governor LePetomaine is handing out paddle-ball sets to his staff "in lieu of pay.")
I can assure you that you would enjoy reading Pun's book. It's beautifully designed and well written, and it's a story no one else could possibly tell. You can order it on-line from the publisher @ Trafford.com and from other on-line booksellers as well.
Monday evening Will Dawson and I will be going over to Rotterdam for a Blues Scholars rehearsal at Mark Ritsema's so we can prepare our material for the concert in Rome April 24th. Here's the full program for the BEAT HIPPY AUTONOMI PUNK exhibition we're part of:
BEAT HIPPY AUTONOMI PUNK
Forte Prenestino, Roma
April 21-27, 2006
friday 21 aprile
ore 20.00 openin exhibition with aperitif
openin speech by Philopat, Duka, Giancarlo Mattia
ore 21.00 movie: Chappaqua di Conrad Rooks (1966)
ore 22.30 Concert:
VARUKERS (UK)
DYS (Punk Hardcore da Roma)
PLAKKAGGIO HC (Punk Hardcore da Colleferro)
saturday 22 aprile
ore 18.30 openin exhibition with aperitif
ore 19.30 discussion LUMI DI PUNK (punk's light)
Speakers: Philopat, Bostik Contropotere - Benzo - Fall Out -
Helena Velena; Roberto Perciballi
Ore 22.00 movie:
"Virus - tra ribellione e repressione" Shake
"La Comune di Berlino" (12° anno post muro) di Adriano Casale Cavecanen -
ore 23.00 concert
BOLD (Usa)
PAYBACK (Hardcore da Roma)
THE DIFFERENCE (Hardcore da Roma)
sunday 23 aprile
ore 10.00 Bio-equonomy market
ore 16.00 open exibhition
ore 20.00 bio-dinner
ore 21.30 movie:
Cosa fare in caso di incendio? di Gregor Schnitzler
monday 24 aprile
ore 19.00 openin exhibition with aperitif
ore 19.30 NASCITA DELLE CONTROCULTURE DAGLI HIPSTERS AGLI HIPPY (born of counterculture from hipsters to hippy)
speech about the book: "Gioco, magia, anarchia. Amsterdam negli anni
sessanta" (game, magic, anarchy. The 60's in Amsterdam)
di Matteo Guarnaccia, partecipano lâ autore e il collettivo editoriale
COX 18 Books
incontro con Antonio Bertoli di City Lights
Maudit: Campana e Caravaggio
speech "I FREAKS SONO RIVOLUZIONARI E I RIVOLUZIONARI SONO FREAKS" (freaks are revolutionaries, revolutionaries are freaks)
with: Giancarlo Mattia, Duka e John Sinclair (founder of
White Panthers e MC5)
ore 22.00 movie
My Generation di Thomas Haneke e Barbara Kopple
ore 23.00 concert
JOHN SINCLAIR & HIS BLUES SCHOLARS
gioveda 27 aprile
dalla (A) alla Zedd
Ore 19.00 openin exhibition with aperitif
Ore 20.00 Frammenti in movimento/ Visioni e suoni dell'Italia '77 (clips from italy's 77 movements)
Il festival del proletariato giovanile al Parco Lambro 1976 (estratto)
di Alberto Grifi (youth proletariat festival at Parco Lambro 1976)
clips by Alfio Di Bella
Immaginario nichilista del Punk newyorkese (new york punk's nichilism)
Video installation by Nick Zedd
Ore 21.00 meeting with Nick Zedd
Ore 23.00 WAR IS MENSTRUAL ENVY
with WHOREGASM & SMILING FACES TELL LIES
multi display show by di Nick Zedd
+ clips from his last devastating work:
"The adventures of Electra Elf & Fluffer"
http://www.electraelf.com/
Coming up: An Evening with John Sinclair at the Cannabis College, Wednesday, May 17, with a talk on the early days of the marijuana legalization movement and a free screening of the Steve Gebhardt film 20 TO LIFE: The Life & Times of John Sinclair. We'll also do a radio show from the College as part of the evening. We're planning a monthly series of events at the Cannabis College to follow, with the June event projected as an evening of poetry with Andrew Jones and myself, date TBA. We're also looking forward to doing a radio show from the Legalize! Benefit Party at Pakhuis Wilhelmina on Friday, May 5th. The Legalize! Parade is set for June 10th, and we're looking to broadcast from the lead float if we can get away with it.
Our pal James Millard is scheduled to return to Amsterdam tomorrow from a harrowing trip to the French Alps that landed him in jail for several days for possession of about 15 grams of weed and a couple tads of hashish. Dimitri writes: Free James Millard! Finally he was allowed to pay the 20 euro fine and go back to his ski vacation. We should hear all about it tomorrow, and Adam Brook even sent me an audio file of James' call to his place in Detroit from jail in France. I'll post that if I can figure out how. I'd also like to send a shout out to Beth and Laura in suburban Detroit and urge you to come back to Amsterdam soon.
Anthony Murrell of EPISODES has posted ImageMakers #18 at www.RadioFreeAmsterdam.com, an interview with Terri Anderson of AMP and Amsterdam artist Mavis Klaverweide. You can listen to it here:
ImageMakers #18 with Anthony Murrell (.mp3)
Our new RFA series Vintage Radio Vaults will soon be posting its second program, David Kunian's classic radio documentary from WWOZ in New Orleans titled Meet All Your Fine Friends at the Dew Drop Inn. I'll try to get you an advance listen to it as soon as Henk puts it up. Speaking of which, let's end this post with the new episode of my radio show. If it's not up there when you get this, it'll be ready by tomorrow.
The John Sinclair Radio Show #82
The Dolphins, Amsterdam
Saturday, April 15, 2006 @ 9:30-10:30 pm [20-0612]
Beaming out from The Dolphins front window on a wet Saturday night in the early spring and feeling kinda like one of the deejays of my youth when they used to broadcast from the window of People's Furniture in Flint, Michigan. Riding shotgun tonight is Radouane, or Rado 1, the popular proprietor of The Dolphins, talking about the history of the local marijuana industry and digging some fine fine music by Thelonious Monk, the Swan Silvertones, Bob Dylan, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, Buddy Guy, Hound Dog Taylor & the Houserockers, John Sinclair & His Clarksdale Blues Scholars, Bessie Smith and Julia Lee.
John Sinclair Show #82 (.mp3)
Playlist #82
[1] Opening Music: Thelonious Monk: Let's Call This with Intro & Opening Tokes with Radouane of The Dolphins
[2] Swan Silvertones: Trouble In My Way
[3] Bob Dylan: I Pity the Poor Immigrant
[4] Comments & Conversation with Radouane
[5] Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown: She Winked Her Eye
[6] Buddy Guy: Are You Losing Your Mind?
[7] Hound Dog Taylor & the Houserockers: She's Gone
[8] Comments & Conversation with Radouane
[9] John Sinclair & His Blues Scholars: I Can't Be Satisfied > Hoochie Coochie Man
[10] Comments & Conversation with Radouane
[11] Bessie Smith: I Need A Little Sugar In My Bowl
[12] Comments & Conversation with Radouane
[13] Closing Music; Julia Lee: King Size Papa
Hosted by John Sinclair for Radio Free Amsterdam
Produced & Engineered by Henk Botwinik
Executive Producers: Henk Botwinik & John Sinclair
Special thanks to Radouane
Sponsored by The Dolphins
©(P) 2006 John Sinclair. All Rights Reserved.
Podcast @ April 17, 2006
Thanks for listening....
Latest Comments (1)
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Pun's book (reply)
Apr 17, 2006 10:25 EST by semarkj
You forgot to tell 'em to go online to www.punplamondon.com to get a preview of the book, check out Pun's calendar, and -- order the book.
(I spent a year working on that website and there's
probably more changes to come.)
James
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