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(The Dolphins, June 20)-It's Tuesday afternoon and I've got one more day and a get-up (as we used to say under incarceration) before flying back to the States to begin my summer work there. My first three months here were terrific, but the last three weeks have been a gruesome stretch to be negotiated without funds or resources except one's own battered wits and the life-saving contributions of friends like Larry Hayden, Super Dude, the staff of Cafe La Bettola and KeyPoint Laundry, the management of the 420 Cafe and the brilliant owners and staff of The Dolphins who have given me my home here this spring.
While it started off with a great bang, my Spring Fund Drive turned into a big dud and my readers and listeners left me to fend strictly for myself. It wasn't nothing nice, like they say in the 6th Ward, but it's almost over now and soon I'll begin paying my own way across the USA as the Hardest Working Poet in Show Business. Think about it, though: When a friend writes or calls to say he or she desperately needs a little money to keep going, for godsake have a heart and send them a few bucks.
It's not like we're asking for a fortune. I've been squeaking along for three weeks on about 20-25 bucks a day, realized through loans from my pals and timely product sales in the coffeeshops, so what is that? 400 or 500 euros in all? I'm living in a world where I've given and given of my creative energies and time and effort for almost 50 years as a poet, writer, music and events producer and community broadcaster, but I don't know where dinner is coming from. They're paying people unspeakable millions of dollars to play professional (or college) sports and make horrible recordings and performances, but my work isn't worth enough to buy me dinner.
This is some sick shit. One tries and tries to ignore the context of modern life and simply keep on with the work, but goddammit this is discouraging. Well, soon I'll be seeing and talking to and getting high and making music with my friends all across America, and that'll bring my spirits back up. That, and the little bit of money they pay me to do what I do. I know, I know, what am I beefing about, nobody forced me to do this, I chose this path in life against all advice and now I'm reaping the bitter rewards. But it sure is some sick shit.
CALENDAR: CONFIRMED DATES
@ June 20, 2006
Friday, June 23 Columbus OH: ComFest
Saturday, June 24 Columbus OH: ComFest
Sunday, June 25 Columbus OH: ComFest
Monday, June 26 Columbus OH: Recording Session
Tuesday, June 27 Brooklyn: Union Pool w/ Ryan Sawyer, Daniel Carter, Dorothy Goodman, Arturo Pfister
Wednesday, June 28 New York City: Bowery Poets Cafe w/Dorothy Goodman, Arturo Pfister (7 pm)
Thursday, June 29 Brooklyn: Frankie's in Red Hook with Daniel Carter & Dorothy Goodman (8 pm)
Monday, July 3 Westminster MD: Common Ground on the Hill
Tuesday, July 4 Westminster MD: Common Ground on the Hill: Blues Night
Wednesday, July 5 Westminster MD: Common Ground on the Hill
Thursday, July 6 Westminster MD: Common Ground on the Hill
Friday, July 7 Westminster MD: Common Ground on the Hill
Saturday, July 8 Westminster MD: American Music Festival with Dorothy Goodman
Sunday, July 9 Westminster MD: American Music Festival
Wednesday, July 12 Oxford MS: (T) Voyagers Rest Mastering Session
(T) Two Stick with Blues Scholars
Thursday, July 13 Oxford MS: (T) Voyagers Rest Mixing Session
Wednesday, July 19 Los Angeles: Blues Hotel on KXLU-FM
Thursday, July 20 Los Angeles: Fais Do Do with Sarah Kramer
Friday, July 21 Venice: Beyond Baroque with Gerry Fialka
Saturday, July 22 Los Angeles: Rae's Lounge
Sunday, July 23 Los Angeles: Synergy Lounge with Michael Simmons
Thursday, July 27-August 3 San Francisco Bay Area TBA
Friday, August 4 Davison MI: Eagles Hall with Marc Adams & Blues Scholars
Saturday, August 5 Davison MI: Blues Festival with Marc Adams & Blues Scholars
Sunday, August 6 Ann Arbor: Sunward Concert Barn w/Blue Stone Project
Tuesday, August 8 Lansing: Creole Gallery with RJ Spangler & Blues Scholars
Thursday, August 10 Big Rapids MI: Two Sisters with Michael Erlewine
Friday, August 11 Detroit: Buzz Club with R.J. Spangler & Blues Scholars
Saturday, August 12 Flint: Churchill's with Glowb
Sunday, August 13 Detroit: Your Place Lounge with RJ Spangler & Blues Scholars
Tuesday, August 15 San Francisco > Seattle with Jim Epstein by car
Thursday, August 17 Seattle: Hempery Party
Friday, August 18 Seattle: Hemporium Stage @ HempFest
Saturday, August 19 Seattle: Hemporium Stage @ HempFest
Sunday, August 20 Seattle: Casbah Stage @ HempFest (6 pm)
with Chris Morda & Blues Scholars
Saturday, August 26 Boonville CA: Lauren's w/Blues Scholars
Sunday, August 27 Graton CA: Ace Cider Pub w/ Blues Scholars
Friday, September 1 Detroit: International Jazz Festival
Saturday, September 2 Detroit: International Jazz Festival
Sunday, September 3 Detroit: International Jazz Festival
Monday, September 4 Detroit: International Jazz Festival
Wednesday, September 6 Ann Arbor: Learning in Retirement Breakfast @ Best Western Hotel (11 am)
UM Taping @ Kellogg Auditorium (2:30)
Ann Arbor District Library Concert (7:00 pm)
Thursday, September 7 Ann Arbor > Detroit > Roma
Friday, September 8 Milano: Stampa Alternativa Festival
Saturday, September 9 Milano: Stampa Alternativa Festival
Sunday, September 10 Milano: Stampa Alternativa Festival
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JOHN SINCLAIR SHOW 90
Legalize! Parade, Amsterdam
Saturday, June 10, 2006 @ 8:00-9:00 pm [20-0619]
Henk Botwinik and I climbed on board the lead wagon in the Legalize! Parade 2006 while the crowd gathered on Dam Square to wait for the show to roll. We set up our broadcast table in the back corner and got ready to start our show when the entertainment started and drowned us out completely. So we spun records while the parade rolled west toward the Sloterdijk, and when we pulled up to park there was Doc Rosen standing by the back gate, so we finally got our Dr Dr Doc interview and everything turned out okay. The recorded music wasn't identified but featured Professor Longhair at the front and back, plus Big Chief Smiley Ricks, Kermit Ruffins, the Black Eagles, the Forgotten Souls Brass Band, James Andrews, Eluard & Co., the Flaming Arrows, and the Pin Stripe Brass Band, all direct from New Orleans.
John Sinclair Show #90
PLAYLIST #90
[01] Opening Music: Professor Longhair: Big Chief
[02] Chief Smiley Ricks: Down in New Orleans
[03] Kermit Ruffins: Drop Me Off in New Orleans
[04] Black Eagles: Early That Morning
[05] Forgotten Souls Brass Band: Funky Nuts
[06] James Andrews: New Love Thing
[07] Eluard & Co.: Gumbolia
[08] Flaming Arrows: Here Come the Indians Now
[09] Pin Stripe Brass Band: Higher and Higher
[10] Comments & Conversation with Doc Rosen & Outro
[11] Closing Music: Professor Longhair: In the Wee Wee Hours
Hosted by John Sinclair for Radio Free Amsterdam
Produced, Engineered & Recorded by Henk Botwinik
Executive Producers: Henk Botwinik & John Sinclair
Special thanks to Rev. Ferre, Has, D.C. Lama and Legalize!
Sponsored by The Dolphins
(c)(p)2006 John Sinclair. All Rights Reserved.
Podcasted @ June 12, 2006
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JOHN SINCLAIR SHOW #91
Easter Hill Studios, Amsterdam Zuid-Oost
Tuesday, May 23, 2006 @ 10:15 - 11:15 pm [20-0618]
Returning to action after a period of convalescence from surgery and a long winter's work in the mountains of Colorado, our Executive Producer, Dr. Larry Hayden, pulled together tonight's show from the most disparate of elements: New Orleans guitarist/producer Clay Windham and his Easter Hill Studios in Amsterdam Zuid-Oost, blues harp man Harmonica George, expatriate cello star Ilene Spain, Dutch blues bandleader/guitarist Little Steve van der Nat, Amsterdam bluesmen Danny deVijlder on guitar, Dan Joyce on bass and the Heavyweight Champion of the Drums, Jack Dempsey, plus Cajun vocalist and harmonica star Roy Lindsay and your host on text and vocals. We did an all-live program of music except for two cuts from the forthcoming Harmonica George CD, and Will Dawson captured the whole thing on multi-track digital. Clay Windham put the remix on it, and now it's Radio Show #91.
John Sinclair Show #91
PLAYLIST #91
[1] Radio Free Amsterdam All Stars: Opening Theme with Intro & Opening Tokes with Larry Hayden & Will Dawson
[2] Comments & RFA All Stars featuring Harmonica George: I Got a Bone for You
[3] Comments & Conversation with Harmonica George & Little Steven
[4] Harmonica George: Shame Shame Shame (CD)
[5] Harmonica George: Start from Scratch (CD)
[6] RFA All Stars featuring Harmonica George: Little By Little
[7] Comments & RFA All Stars featuring John Sinclair: Just One Big Heart
[8] Comments & Conversations with Ilene Spain & Roy Lindsay
[9] RFA All Stars featuring Roy Lindsay: Hey! What's Cookin' Down in Louisiana
[10] RFA All Stars featuring Roy Lindsay: Diggy Liggy Lo
[11] Comments with Larry Hayden & Clay Windham
[12] RFA All Stars featuring Clay Windham: Killing Floor with Outro
Hosted by John Sinclair for Radio Free Amsterdam
Produced by Larry Hayden & John Sinclair
Engineered & recorded by Will Dawson at Easter Hill Studios, Amsterdam
Remixed by Clay Windham at Easter Hill
Executive Producer: Larry Hayden
Sponsored by The Dolphins & Easter Hill Studios, Amsterdam
RADIO FREE AMSTERDAM ALL STARS
Clay Windham, guitar & lead vocal
Harmonica George, harmonica & lead vocals
Roy Lindsay, harmonica & lead vocals
Danny deVijlder, guitar
Little Steve van der Nat, guitar
Ilene Spain, cello
Dan Joyce, bass
Jack Dempsey, drums
(c)(p) 2006 John Sinclair. All Rights Reserved
Podcasted @ June 19, 2006
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From : daniel mcnaughton
Sent : Sunday, June 18, 2006 11:08 AM
To : johnsinclair001@hotmail.com
Subject : R.I.P. Richard Theodore Vogt
John-
Richard passed away this weekend from pneumonia. He had been
treated for cancer in the last year or so and was in a nursing
home. I will pass along any more info I get.
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From : Joe Bryak
Sent : Sunday, June 18, 2006 12:53 PM
sending computers to Bolivian hospital network
?
Loaded 500 computers, monitors, etc. to ship to Bolivia. Amazing how the group scrounged em up, got donations, checked em out, repaired em, etc. (I just drove forklift.) The work of over a year. The brainpower in this group! But that ain't the key. What did it was a clear vision motivated by a focused study on what needed to be done to complete the task, all driven by just plain good will. They did it on Saturdays, living their regular workaday lives during week, keeping marriages and social lives going. It's not either/or, as one guy said, recounting his romantic adventures in the 60s, side by side with solid political work, with dancing and drinking and studying and everything else thrown in. Do it all, he said: there's time.
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From: Andy Cornett
Sent : Thursday, June 15, 2006 11:18 AM
Henry Gray Awarded National Heritage Fellowship
Thought you would like to know- andy
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Latest Comments (2)
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richard theodore dies (reply)
Jun 20, 2006 14:15 EST by wleming
john\
richard theodore, the great sax ballad player
whose spirit took him to the ends of the earth
and put others there.. for he took many along for the ride
has passed on to that place where all harmony, blues, diatonic scales and cosmic invention waits. richard died this past saturday of cancer.
warren leming, chicago
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richard theodore (reply)
Jun 20, 2006 14:13 EST by wleming
John, Richard Theodore, a member with me of the World Beatnik Ensemble,biblophile, bon vivant, and sax man extraodinnaire---, world spirit, and great soul has passed on.
He will be joining the Astral Arkestra and the other greats who wait for him-there where Sun Ra too now resides.
He was a member of the blues scholars. Richard picked up his sax and departed this past
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