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One of Detroit’s most colorful and controversial characters now belongs to the ages.
An outstanding obituary written by former Free Press reporter Bill McGraw does great honor to this amazing person and friend of mine.
https://www.freep.com/story/entertai...2/73179306007/
I still have that album — uncensored.Quote:
The rebukes intensified when adults heard the four-syllable MF bomb in the first line of the MC5’s most popular song, “Kick Out the Jams.”
R.I.P. John
Awe... Sad to hear this.
I met/ live across the street from him when I lived in the Woodbridge area in the early eighties.
Know is former wife, award winning photographer, 2016 Kresge Eminent Artist Leni Sinclair.
R.I.P. John
I watched many of his shows over the years always a great time and a learning experience. Anyone have one of the great burgers named after John at the Butchers Inn @ the eastern market? They were great!!
I'm saving my appetite for Age of Aquarius Coney Dogs. In the meantime, Gary Busey's Buttered Sausage [singular] found a mogul to take it public:Quote:
Originally Posted by ddaydetroit
https://youtu.be/ho1triIgeUg
But do you still have your hearing?Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimaz
Attended the John Sinclair Freedom Rally in Crisler Arena on December 10, 1971. Headliners were John and Yoko. Stevie Wonder, Commander Cody and Bob Seger also performed and were great. Listening to Yoko was like hearing fingernails on a chalkboard.
It's why John turned to heroine.Quote:
Originally Posted by GPCharles
Heh, I'm starting to doubt it. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Henry WhalleyBut do you still have your hearing?Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimaz
Back in the 70s I was told that album had already become a scarce collector's item just because of that MF controversy.
Imagine if that kind of genuine grassroots defiance could be unleashed today how the world would change. Stop coddling the billionaires!
Are you youngsters hearing me out there?
Thanks, John!
Sorry to hear of his passing. This was in HOUR Detroit not too long ago.
https://www.hourdetroit.com/communit...sm-and-legacy/
The Sinclair House within the ICC North Campus co-op housing was probably named for John Sinclair. It did have the Sinclair gasoline green
dinosaur logo sign out front though. It's probably been renamed by now.
https://icc.coop/icc-community/icc-roots/
At 17:56 in the initial video is a shot of the front door of Sinclair House circa 1984, logo not included. It was the Reagan era, post Carter era inflation, and there was a general recession in Michigan around that time.
Pothead Johnny Sinclair, Detroit’s adopted son, what he leaves behind are millions of people with cannabis/marijuana use disorder and a massive increase in CO2 emissions.
“The carbon emissions to grow a pound of marijuana carries a higher carbon footprint than a roundtrip flight from San Francisco to Tokyo in economy class.” [[The Breakthrough Institute).
Thanks alot Johnny.........Attachment 43089
Inflation. But in another fifty years the album's price should adjust back down to what you initially paid for it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimaz
I own a few head-scratchers myself. Hearing them, future generations will ask "Am I missing something?" -- it's a good cognitive exercise.
"Yeah, you're missing $3.50, plus high-frequency hearing acuity.":confused:
P.S. People will scratch their heads over most Detroit poetry, too
That's pretty mean-spirited. Take a pill...Quote:
Originally Posted by CassTechGrad
Did John Sinclair have an opinion as to who assassinated his one-time business partner Henry Normile?Quote:
Originally Posted by Lowell
The DPD's smokescreens and the unwillingness of the Wayne County Prosecutor to pursue Henry's case aren't surprising, but what nags at me is the silence of the lambs on the part of Henry's comrades and associates who must have had clues and hunches.:confused:
Here's a previous thread:
50th Anniversary of Free John Sinclair Concert headlined by John Lennon and Yoko Ono
Is John Sinclair the guy on the left in this DetroitYES banner?:
Who's the other guy?
The guy on the left is John Sinclair. The guy on the right is unknown to me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimaz
Thanks! I smell a story coming on. Maybe? If we're lucky?
Lowell?
Hopefully, after 45 short years. Heaven knows, but to paraphrase Scripture [and Joni Mitchell] god's a boogie man and he's not talking.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimaz
Joni Mitchell – God Must Be a Boogie Man Lyrics | Genius Lyrics
Talk about "mean-spirited", how about this little euolgy you gave a few months ago........Attachment 43094
Knowing which graves to piss on is the soul of discernment.Quote:
Originally Posted by CassTechGrad
https://youtu.be/MUbzxGFZ0woQuote:
Originally Posted by Jimaz
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Originally Posted by CassTechGrad
https://youtu.be/7usNmfYt2Zs
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Originally Posted by Henry Whalley
John Gannon would have liked to see this. He used to work in this field.Quote:
Whether you have lousy TV speakers, are hard of hearing, are distracted by the kids, or are watching a film with actors who mumble, chances are you are using the captions option while watching TV, even if they're not translating a foreign language. Correspondent David Pogue talks with Oscar-winning sound mixer Tom Fleischman, who explains – despite technological advances in audio – why films may be getting harder to hear. Pogue also sits down with Jeff Tashige, whose closed-caption work for Netflix has gone viral.
My hearing is superb because I avoided loud music venues. Due to age my remaining body functions are useless, though I don't wear diapers or have dementia like Maralago Mussolini.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimaz
I use captions for porn because my junk doesn't work -- with or without video, and with or without sound. No big loss, since The Big Lebowski is the last great American work of cinema art IME.
P.S. With all due respect to John Sinclair, I prefer his verse without video, audio, or captions. IMHO Detroit only produced a few good poets. East Lansing produced more and better poets in the heyday of Dan Gerber's Sumac Anthology. I often wonder why poetry flowered in East Lansing and failed here. While Jeffrey Lebowski was occupied writing the Port Huron Statement who were the poetic role models or professors at MSU?
https://youtu.be/V0aDEvmf5u0