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 He was the Indian of the group, he'd say, quoting Jimmy Carl Black of the Mothers. I remember when we saw J.Geils, who were opening for Ten Years After at Madison Coliseum. After Geils played and Ten Years was on, and We were standing up front and Jim sneaks his long-haired head from just behind the stage curtain. Points to mime come stage left and I will get you inside. Looked very Injun. A scout. And we hung out with the J.Geils Band. Getting arrested by Officer "Hash" Halverson at Cambridge Castle apartment near Brady St. We had the speakers (each as big as a washingmachine and one pointed out the open apt door) listening to Voodoo Child when the Squid arrived. In his wood shop by a turn in the Root River - right in the city but very rural. A strange overgrown patch off Memorial Dr. Showing incredible turned wood working. I think his company was called Dovetail. Discussing fending off varmints with shotgun. Singing deeply 6 Days on the Road, It’s Dark as a Dungeon Way...

I got hearts, ah, in my looney tunes I got dreams and you do, too I got ten-wheel drive To pick you up, up to your ears, oh I got refined carbon in my eyelids cleared I've got no one to love and no one to fear You better walk it And talk it less you lose that beat You better lose yourself mama And knock yourself right off of your feet. -Lou Reed HEY SHERMAN LET'S GO BACK TO APRIL 2024!  

  Acme Oyster House - Circa 1996 [APRIL 4, 2024] - White Panther Party Activist, jazz writer, MC5 band manager and poet John Sinclair, famously and unfairly imprisoned in 1969 for marijuana use, died Tuesday in Detroit. He was 82. His cause, as potently sung in John Lennon’s It Aint Fair John Sinclair [in the stir for breathing air] became an important rally point in the fight to legalize pot. His influence was also important in helping to create a politically radical school of high-powered rock n roll. That notwithstanding, he also diligently promoted a school of writing known as Jazz Poetry. The school could also be called Blues Poetry. In the '80s Sinclair moved to New Orleans, started doing a radio show, and started writing and performing poetry, mostly about blues.  His masterwork Fattening Frogs for Snakes - Delta Sound Suite," took the lives of the 20th Century American blues artists and applied a precisely descriptive and musical poetical form to its representation. Si...

In 1967 my parents took a monthlong tour of Europe, leaving me, my brother and sister with my aunt and uncle in Milton Mass in some pseudo farm and horse country outside of Boston. This was a serious dislocation from my high school friends who I was sure we're having the most wonderful summer ever at North Beach In the day and the Point at night. All I had was records I’d brung along [Happy Jack, Electric Music for the Mind and Body, The Grateful Dead, Moby Grape and Sgt. Peppers(5a)] and a little turntable. That is like: background. One night on tv there was a show about ‘hippies’. They had these guys on, and I would bet they were from the commune that John identified: The True Light Beavers. The joke was one of them had a basketball uniform top on saying “True Light Beavers”. I knew it was a put on. And I liked it. They took their name from the shirt they found at a Goodwill. Are you religious? The moderator asked. Yes, they said. Our religion is called the True Light Bea...