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A John Sinclair column. John Sinclair spent three years in prison for marijuana offenses, overthrew the Michigan marijuana laws, helped institute Ann Arbor’s historic $5 fine for possession of weed, founded the Ann Arbor Hash Bash and served as High Priest of the Cannabis Cup in Amsterdam. John writes monthly 4:20 report from somewhere in the US or Europe. Highest greetings from John Sinclair!
Sinclair produces a new episode of the John Sinclair Radio Show every Monday from locations all over the world, with home base in Amsterdam. Reefer-packed shows, with the finest blues and jazz, brought to you from from Amsterdam, London, Paris, Rome, Genoa, Florence, Barcelona, Antwerp, Tokyo, Santiago, New York City, Los Angeles, Detroit, New Orleans, Chicago, Seattle, New England and points in between. Mondays on Radio Free Amsterdam. (Radio Free Amsterdam)
John Sinclair It’s All Good collects 25 of Sinclair’s poems and 25 prose writings into one handy compendium of selections from his books of poetry Fattening Frogs for Snakes- Delta Blues suite, always know: a book of monk, and Song of Praise- Homage to John Coltrane, plus excerpts from underground classic Guitar Army and features on Jack Kerouac, Dr. John, the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Sun Ra, Walter “Wolfman” Washington, Irma Thomas, and the Wild Indians of Mardi Gras.
John Sinclair's first musical project was If I Could Be With You, featuring the Ed Moss Society Jazz Orchestra, from a performance in Cincinnati. Sinclair's discography on CD Bay includes the albums Mobile Homeland, It's All Good, Mohawk, Beatnik Youth, Always Know: A Book of Monk, If I Could Be With You, Underground Issues,Viperism, Full Circle (feat. Wayne Kramer), Conspiracy Theory and The Delta Sound (Fattening Frogs for Snakes). (CD Baby)
In the early day of the war on drugs, John Sinclair was sentenced to ten years for possession of two marijuana joints. Written in prison, Guitar Army is the iconographic book that proclaimed “Rock and Roll is a Weapon of Cultural Revolution” for young, revved-up readers in 1972. Its author was released just three days after 15,000 people came to see John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Archie Shepp, Allen Ginsberg, and other musicians and leaders demand his freedom.
”Won't you care for John Sinclair. In the stir for breathing air. Let him be, set him free. Let him be like you and me”
- John Lennon
The John Sinclair Freedom Rally, held in Crisler Arena on December 10, 1971, is one of the most significant concerts in the history of Rock and Roll, due in large part to John Lennon's decision to appear in support John Sinclair, who was currently serving 8 1/2 to 10 years in prison for the possession of two marijuana cigarettes.
(Freeing John Sinclair)
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