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Description Content: The aD y the Earth was Out to Lunch cover by Peter Brookes. Ad for John Lennon’s Imagine. The Scotland Road Free School IT underground history+ logo. Charges against STYNG. Chit Chat on Dress C18th enema graphic. Souvenir OZ obscenity trial programme ad. ‘Silly Sympathies’ cartoon. ‘Survival?’ ecology + flower graphic/Mick Farren on utopian alternatives. ‘Kisses: The wS eetest Kiss of All’ – Chris Rowley on the OZ trial and others. ‘It’s Just a Shot Away’ – from a drug treatment center in Vietnam. Demented Waving Brothers cartoon by Edward. Mike Harrison ad. OZ mail order. PC 49: The asC e of the Spotted Toad cartoon and poem by Alan Stranks & John Worsley. ‘Tough Shit in Bangkok’. Ad for Eddison’s The Worm Ouroboros. Centrefold Stewart MacKinnon graphic. ‘Abbie: An Das a Fact’ – Hoffman attempts to refute charges made in OZ 36 that he stole most of the material for Steal This Book. LP reviews: Grateful Dead, New Riders of the Puple Sage, Jerry Garcia, Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna, Traffic,o H wlin’ Wolf, Larry Coryell, Country Joe and the Fish, Daevid Allen, John Lennon. Film ad for Danish Blue. Ad for Nottingham alternative mag Third Eye. Robert Crumb strip cartoon featuring ad for IT. Full page William Stok cartoon. Full page ad for Hawkwind. ‘Fans’ – condemnatory letters from the mother of a 16 year old OZ reader and (slightly less so) two American women. ‘Penguinpower’ ad. Ad for Roger Zelazny’s Damnation Alley. Oxfam petition/ad. Dr J advice. ‘Captain Video’ From Larry Menkin, Free Video America, Seize the Media. ‘Poor Paranoids’: Rock by John Coleman. ‘Letter to the Lumpen’ from Eldridge Cleaver in Algiers, Minister of Information, Black Panther Party. Velvet Underground LPs/tour ad. 4p Robert Crumb ‘Honeybunch Kaminski the Drug-Crazed Runaway’ cartoon. Lone Ranger & Tonto “I think they’re all bozos in this OZ” graphic. Back cover Bop Diddley Wah Wah Clang Honk graphic.
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And now OZ 38 This issue of OZ has been brought We thank all those who've lent a Nothing in OZ is copyright. Just to you by the tender ministrations hand, especially the magnificent check our sources before reprinting. of that same band of pornfiends Barney Bubbles....and all other Printed and published by OZ as last time. our benefactors. Publications Ink Ltd..
joying themselves in a manner still Maintaining that this society "is the acceptance the people a ih ith e r 0 t of ® l only appreciated by themselves, and most chemically oriented, pill- area. It conscious one in history." Dr William larger figggjrrjj- - it is w ith these scenes s till fresh in your mind that you should all Abruzzi, the top medical man at osedj For everyone who might have been thank the Isle of Wight County Woodstock and subsequent festivals, o f & e \ missing the annual beano down at Council for their judgement tnat charges that the advertising and com the Isle o f Wight, and who weren't in insisting that no pop festival should munications media have contributed as I satisfied with Ricki Farr's perfor■> be held here this year. to a feeling that to suffer even mild mance a t the Oval last m onth, be This decision, it w ould seem, was discomfort is a sign of weakness or rev« glad o f one thing: absence has taken becuase o f the reluctance o f ignorance or both. "The self-deceptive theli schools. 1 certainly not saddened the IOW res the promoter to provide the council illusion that these ills may be softened asjcma/ m ilj idents any. with suffieciently adequate informat or postponed by drug wage may be ffirmissivetl 'Even if the sun failed to shine, ion o f his intentions in time for the one of the chief unconscious motiva ijw em pjt even i f you found others at your necessary detailed preparations to be tions for the widespread use of eartsjrfimL favourite cafe table or picnic spot, made to safeguard the health and wel- dangerous chemicals," he write in even if the w ind blew too keenly far o f the Island, its population and "Win”. for sunbathing or too boisterously visitors. As experience has shown, fo r an enjoyable sail, even i f you pop festivals can only be made tenable did lose money on the fruit mach for those attending them, and, equal ines or grandm other on the front, ly important, although sometimes overlooked by their promotor, for no-one can deny that this bank ► ; xV.Vs^' holiday was decidedly more peace those not attending them, if they ful and enjoyable for the family are intensively organised with than those which have immediately proper attention being paid to each and every detail. preceded it. Do we really have a marihuana You can remember o n ly too well The Island's leaders are n o t men problem in America, he asks, or is it the problems which confronted you and women lacking in courage, and if their sustenancedepends on your something that is a result of excessive at the same time last year in conn concern over our youth — a furthering ection with the pop festival at Fresh support then you must be prepared of our own puritanical and hysterical water, when your transport, medical to ensure that they have it. Such legislation of people's individual and local services were stretched to issues are n o t decided by fa int hearts habits and excesses? breaking point, when your police o r dithering and tw ittering syco But there is truly an epidemic of force was quadrupled, and all be phants you can do well ” :thout. hard drug usage, the doctor says, and cause o f an 'invasion' o f people who, the way to deal with that is not with as events proved, came to enjoy themselves at your expense. That it ,ore policemen and more more policemen and more punish was an exercise by some to make ments but with programs of educa money need n o t be dw elt upon. tion, therapy and rehabilitation. B ut what a welcome cha nge "I submit to you that the kind this holiday has been! No fields of litte r to depress one, no nudery or of disillusionments that exist with what our society represents is a scenes o f copulation before the factor in drug abuse as we see it fam ily to depress one, no need o f financial assistance for the horizon today. Maybe not a conscious factor but at least an unconscious one. If tally inclined workshy, and no special indeed the human spirit is supposed cleaning o f the ferries. Nothing to be looking for meaningful inter but peace and contentment for you personal values, it isn't going to find a ll and another year's grace in which any in a society which is as detached to restore the damage wrought and alienated as this one is." upon your tourist industry. You Other Scenes. have ju s t seen what happened to the unfortunate village o f Weeley, A moving plea by a Navaho woman tionai when its people and local authority for the strip-mine operators to stop i\ 'm t children be t int l\th e The Scotland Road Free School: i Even have experienced their first ruining her land in the American ’i>9i and sixteen ye a southwest is reprinted in 'Conserva The school w ill be a com m unity ; > n> is to lower toe taste o f a pop festival. You saw school totally involved with its once again the dregs o f society en- tion News'. The plea, in the form of I 9 r end the scbmml an Arizona court affidavit by Kee environment. I tw ill n o t seek Shelton's mother, declares, when to impose its omtoalues, but translated: w ill have as its premise a total "The coal mine is destroying oui graz ing lands because the grass is being put under the earth and our sheep are getting thin and not having many lambs. The mine also destroys our springs and water holes . . . the explosions scare our horses. \aving school at 15. "The whites have neglected and \activity for thejiti misused the Earth .. . our mother. 'hoof yriH b lf to.sim The whiteman is ruining our mother. I don't know the white man's ways but to us the Mesa, the air, the water are Holy Elements. We pray to Thel these Holy Elements in order for our needs suppi support people to flourish and perpetuate the o f all those i ! ideas well-being of each generation. and principle ost o f all "How can we give something of it needs mon value to Mother Earth to repay the Please w ill fW 4erestAd contact damages that the mining has done to The Scotland Roe nmumty Trust, her. We still ask for her blessings and 149a,Lfmekiln I healing even when she is hurt." Livprpoo/5. SPEED, fast reading is a moderate Dear Friends, 8 . Have a newsletter o f all our ly innovative magazine that aims / would like info from the follow activities. to explore and expand the counter ing people on the following subjects: 9. Demand lower prices for rock culrture with a view to the re Anyone who has had either visual, concerts. constitution of society itself oral or audeo contact w ith UFOs. 10. Have fo lk and rock workshops. along the lines/tf that culture. Any one who is interested in the ley 11. Audience participation with Formally loosf, but conceptually system o f the British Isles o r the rest music artists. heavy, we hope to encourage the o f the world. Reports o f leys, stone 12. Free services and help from all After the news of Jim Morrison's level of free thought equal to circles, burial grounds, psycic contact phases of professional rock. death was announced, a Washington our experience. We're tired of with unexplainable people events and 13. Free music be-ins — locally, Post reporter called up his mother hacks whose pne-way McLuhan- places. Also contact with the follow nationally, and internationally. in Arl her comments, ism has let tf waffle along Easy ing people who / have lost contact 14. Learn how to record, publish, 'Is my she asked him. Street for y< s: our message and with, Rick Meller last seen in Quetta, write perform, prepare yourself in As the pared for an cout- medium will iffer substantially Tony Lam bert last heard o f in France, the rock field. pouring rs Morrison’s from the syc hantic scrawl of the Lindos, Tiger and M ur last seen at 15. Own a real peoples music com IthMutfarised rock press ar the equally mechan yennas in Istanbul. pany — controlled by the people. him: ical drool of ic formerly under Thanks and love, 16. Eventually having a 'International 'As far ann- ground pres^J1! The underground's Barry Fitton, Arts and Culture Center' for all. ounced, when gone deeperj I To generate genuine 57 Bellshill Cresent, 17. Helping the 'Movement' through he took penetrativjjfflEDJh of analysis, and Belfield, Rochdale, culture. the to stimula®5j0mroversy, prophecy, Lancs. 18. Helping people who are really in art itslfe 3BdMe*ierallv making radic need for help. al waves o tW ^ j^ g g i nation; to 19. Keeping aware of the crooks in Because crema build the uns r people, tribes Fillmore founder Bill Graham, who the rock profession and in the rock torium, citij and outlaws, ict syntheses once taped a shoe polish commercial movement. relative**?! urns of of our culture fig as our hopes to resume his long-interrupted 20. Celebrate our own rock holidays, ashes community,1 funct- acting career via a cameo role in the 21. Internation rock cultural ex governmi ioning as our, thought ® per cent movie version of 'The Godfather'. change throughout the world. tax on defining as our life, rt. . . . Rumours abound in Michigan 22. Finally — any suggestions that them as "mitJri»||PBKS6d by a And we'll doT that John Sinclair, jailed for 10 years you come up with — let us know! foreign firm and reimported as a Specifically •eading in 1969 for giving two joints to an Free rock 'n ' roll — join the R LF / finished product." will: undercover police agent, may be RCMI! Analyze strai ree released before the end of the year . . . For the people who want to join societies, ei bntial Mrs Pat Nixon, one of Washington’s | The whole idea of doing an opera the rock Liberation Front, write to: and means nsform most public spirited citizens, is busy I the squack. on a new civic project — turning Explore alti ■ and her girlhood home into a museum. art-forms, cj| fitical The house, in Cerritos, Calif, is perspectivi Indant being developed into a museum by affirmation las a the local Chamber of Commerce. people. Mrs N, who dedicated the house Review ternative and adjoining 'Pat Nixon Park' in cultute bo; s, press, 1970, is taking 'an active role' in medi il ripoffs the project. to obi The museum is supposed to Publisl b, cart- tell the story of Mrs Nixon's life oons. ar Ikraking through the years that led her to assaults oj the White House and the place as Serve to iom ro the US's FAtaLady. She has also unicati ad sis- made It knWWjBfct Boy Scouts ationters, er>B0y ationters, and Campfireufffli^are very wel fronts Ahrou come tc^s&thespl»B. (UPS)
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Just the other day we wuz sittin cheerful belligerence, odd humour > round an talkin an someone said that and solid street politics. Good stuff IT was 5 years old this October. We Yas O Yas. Its sort of the official thought about that fer a while. Things 'underground paper’ a little bit of an like 'the psychedelic revolution is 5 institution and a lot different now years old' an 'wow, wasn't it different than it was in October 1966. Those then' seemed to float through minds. early issues now seem quite unremark Yeah Five Years ago the London able but at the Time! BUT after 5 Free School was flourishing along fucking years what else have we with weekly raves at All Saints Hall access to apart from the Underground in Powis Square. UFO was germinat Press. We seem to be back where we ing, the whole Frak Thing was about started to a certain extent. There are to explode into (to quote Anne several Charity Organisations, great- Charges against STYNG, Yorkshire's Sharpley Evening Standard at the Communication between the needy. tance of the outlaw role, to be con number one (and only) alternative rag, time) a 'L o it Psychedelic Weekend'. Rock music which once seemed to stantly harrassed by the law, to be brought last summer by Leeds City Hippies were starting to spring up all hold such hope as a social tool, the subject of dislike and hatred from police, have been dropped. AH Hail. Over the place and everywhere a belongs solidly to record companies, the majority, to be some kind of One o f the contributory factors may tremendous surge of enthusiasm and promoters and richer than thou instantly identifiable alien — a long well have been the story that appeared hope seemed to hang in the air. The musicians. No social change there. haired nigger, an thas a fact! in STYNG 5 — referring to the Pink Floyd were starting to play an Every rock hall in London is straight So to survive we have got to be a activities o f one Barnsley cop, whose 50 were the Soft Machine. The owned or straight controlled (what lot more together and prepared to idea o f a fun time was to pick up Roundhouse was acquired for the has happened to Implosion and the get down to a number of things that hitching girls, take them up onto the opening launch and out of nowhere a Roundhouse?) busily making money require effort. For instance raising moors and rape them. STYNG's horde of wierdos appeared to well fer straight enterprise. No money fer money, visiting charities, organising story was enough to get an o fficia l and truly launch the International underground purposes there unless food buying groups, getting a Rock investigation into the uniformed perve Times. 'Hip people take the Times' you're on trial and desperate to pay Hall together that puts the money and it looks like one good turn has was the comment from Printing House lawyers. Are there any Cinemas? back to the community rather than created another. Thanx to 'Suck' Square. Rats abounded in the Round Hmm, yes, the Electric. Any coffee to a board of Directors and share reader Superintendent Storey, boss o f house then, along with incense, houses, restaurants. Psychedelic Shax? holders. It's strange but it seems Barnsley law. Of course enough is marijuana and LSD. No. almost the same as it did in 1966 enough — and STYNG s till face IT has been sort of bi-weekly ever There is consequently no econ except that there are more of us charges fo r allowing two minors to since and it comes into the house omic basis for most freaks to survive and perhaps we're a little wiser now. street-sell for them. The saga lurches these days quite regularly filled with on no jobs, no money. So whaddya We won't get fooled again? on. Reg K ing—A Voice in a M illion. Monster Album available now- "Reg King" UAS 29157 See him "live" with B.B. Blunder. i n uwrownsis reams
The OZ Obscenity Trial at the Old Bailey was the longest and most expensive trial of its kind in legal history. It encompassed more than a million spoken and recorded words and cost the British taxpayer in excess of £75,000. This gigantic eighty page, glossy souvenir programme, 8%" x 11%" represents a chronological diary of events leading up to the trial with edited highlights from the court transcript and an enormous selection of photographs, press coverage and comment. Published by Ink Publishers in association with two of the (ex-) editors of OZ, James Anderson and Felix Dennis, here is the inside story of what one newspaper called *... a declaration of war on the alternative culture...’, and what Judge Michael Argyle impassively described as ‘. .. just another trial, ladies and gentlemen...’. OUT SOON at your local newsagent, all branches of New Scotland Yard, or mail order direct from INK and OZ. Price: 50p. Percentage of profits to the OZ Appeal Fund. l suggest that in our culture today about their luture, anu the oia there is a notable absence o f light, People who just 'drop-in' on com about the w orld they w ill leave munes without warning have been and a ominous preocupation with behind them. Above all how causing a lot of problems. Britain's what St Paul, in his Letter to the Christians are concerned about the best-known commune, Selene, has Ephesians , calls the unfruitful erosion of their faith. had numerous crashers about whom works o f darkness. I share this concern myself as I co-ordinator Tonky Kelly writes: I have worked in the Media — see the shadow of the dope-peddlar press radio and television — for "Oddly few of them seem aware that and the pornographer fall across they are one of many or that it costs C v t t s m fo rty years past. As I well know, my grandchildren and grieve over l n/uie in «w
i. i ms rianet is uying — i-ast quantities. As legislation tightens up on land, production are the great strides made in medic In the last three decades man has changed the more poison will end up in the sea. There’s ine. Thanks to the wonders of science and delicate patterns of life on this planet in ways enough arsenic in one single Baltic dump to technology a middle-aged western man (figures which would have taken millions o f years to kill the entire human population of the world don't exist for anyone else - just as well) can occur naturally (not that most of them three times over. Back in 1966 the Russian expect to live a wonderful three years more would ever occur naturally). These changes have biologist Polykarpov, the only man alive to than his counterpart in 1841. When he dies been executed bit bymindlessbit with absolutely have made a comprehensive survey of'the effects there is a whole new range of diseases to choose no consideration for life. It is hardly surprising of radiation on sea-life, stated flatly that ‘further from : coronary heart disease, peptic ulcer, lung that already life on this planet is on the way out: radioactive contamination of the seas is cancer, any other cancer or diabetes. These evolution has been thrown into reverse. Popula inadmissable'. It has of course increased a lot diseases are known as the diseases of civilisation tions of most organisms (other than man and since then. Lead used to be one of the rarest or, more aptly, as the degenerative diseases. pesticide-resistant insects) are crashing. Whole metals in the sea. There-are now hundreds of Doctors reckon you can mess your body around species are becoming extinct at an absurd rate. millions of tons of it in the sea. for twenty years before the effects catch up — The variety of living things is being reduced: a Some seas are at death's door right now. this usually causes degeneration to set in round marine biologist estimates a general reduction Vast areas of the Baltic Sea contain nothing about the age of 45. Expectations are that of 20% in the number of species in the oceans longer than an inch - they used to be rich in degenerative diseases w ill increase and that the (some areas are far worse o ff). Diseased organ- fish. The Baltic is expected to collapse com life expectancy of over-45s will fall. isrm (especially fish and humansl are on the pletely and go the way of the Great Lakes in a Expectations for the future of food produc increase. Biological productivity is slumping (by mere two or three years. Cousteau predicts tion are equally bleak. The total annual world an estimated 30% in the oceans). that within three years the Mediterranean will (ish catch is actually declining. Food productibn Biologists who bother to consider the be dead for 15 miles out from the shore — all lags population increases in most of the third problem, and few do, expect man to become one the way round its perimeter. The oceans of world. More of the world's protein is being of the next species to become extinct. One the Northern hemisphere are in serious decline: wasted on cats, dogs, pigs and other animate gives us a 2 to 3 per cent chance of making it fish catches are falling (despite all the techno appurtenances of the rich-man — who clearly to 2000, another gives us a 50-50 chance of maniac efforts to pull more and more fish out). rates them higher than his fellow man. Under making it to 1980. Both are pissing around (they The phytoplankton, minute sea-plants which are lying this terrible physical deprivation are the don't have anything like the knowledge to be so thought to supply 60% of the oxygen we breathe physical threats of conventional man-to-heli precise - nor does anyone else) but their are far less numerous than they were and their copter imperialist warfare, chemical and bio message is clear. Meanwhile the conservationists productivity has been reduced by the fact that logical warfare and good ole thermonuclear are worrying about d irt, Lord Longford and his they are finding it increasingly difficult to warfare. If a small country like Denmark could cronies are whining about moral pollution and obtain their vital fixes of solar energy (thanks (and did) cheaply develop enough biological somewhere in Amazonia various blissful tribes to the increasing turbidity of the atmosphere weapons to destroy the entire human race you who have never met the goddam white black and of sea-water). can imagine how much of the stuff is stashed mauve yellow man are truckin' on regardless. The Air. The entire atmosphere is fucked. in America and Russia. Nuclear scientists con The news gets worse and worse every day. It’s far more serious than local spectacularly, sider that recent changes in nuclear weapons Because our slide to extinction is reported in visually obvious messes (such as the photo technology are such that the risk of accidental such a piecemeal uncomprehending fashion it chemical smog of Los Angeles) might indicate. or deliberate, war are greater than they have is difficult to realise just how far up against the A 1968 UNESCO conference concluded that ever been. Couple this w ith the proliferation of wall we have pushed ourselves. The media are man had only 20 years to go (three have already nuclear weapons and the fact th a t some interested in local rather than global catas gone) before the world became uninhabitable scientists feel that it is now technically possible trophes, cute, furry animals rather than the for man — due to air pollution alone. Experi for private individuals to build their very own more critically important phytoplankton, dirty ments have shown that in the middle and atomic bombs. Might as well remember, whilst beaches rather than devastated oceans. Here's temperate latitudes it only takes 1 5-25 days for we're at it, that annual expenditure by world •.some of the news they have missed. airial pollutants to circumnavigate the globe. If governments on military crap increased once The Seas. What goes up must come down. you run away to the country don't expect to again last year (both absolutely and relative to On this planet down usually means the oceans avoid poisonous air — there's jsut as much expenditure on everything else) and that one and seas — consequently most of the crap man strontium-90 and lead in the sea air of the fifth of the world's scientists are employed by has dumped has ended up there. The seas not Shetlands as in London.” the military. If the planet doesn't die before only cover most of the surface of the planet, The Land. Russian estimates indicate that hand, the pressures induced by the widening they also contain the majority of its living man has removed two thirds of the planet's void between the increasingly undernourished, matter. It is, therefore, depressing to hear forest cover. Together with the phytoplankton increasingly diseased third worlders and the angry marine biologists tell us that all the seas these are the planet's main source of oxygen . . . overfed first worlders could easily cause the have slipped a long way into decline and that outbreak of a disastrous lunatic war of revenge. that decline could well be irreversible — ie. 2. The People Aren't Any Better Off Than Meanwhile the competition between different there may be nothing we can do except, possi Their Planet. factions of the greedy rich is sufficient to kill a bly, slow things down. It is appropriate that in addition to wrecking good few people every year. Press reports of isolated instances of pol our planet we should fill our bodies with shit. On top of this obvious physical deprivation lution 'accidents'give us the mistaken feeling Most people on this planet are underfed. The and the dangers of war it is necessary to con that compared to the vastness of the planet minority who do eat, eat shit. sider the escalating mental oppression of man. only small amounts of shit are being chucked The Indian has at his disposal today less than More of us wig out and commit sui-ide every about. This is a tragic misconception. Take oil. half the food which his ancestors had a century year. No wonder. Swezey, in 'Monopoly Capit Oil is basically ’natural' inasmuch as it con ago. This great trium ph of imperialism and alism', does a good job of describing the sterility sists of the products of millions and millions of progress over the prim itive forces of darkness is of monopoly capitalist societies. State capitalist ancient organisms compressed by geological only surpassed by the knowledge that whilst societies such as Russia are no better off. The processes. The composition of oil is, as one most people starve a minority is worried by the slide towards '1984' is amazing to behold - would expect, similar to that of existing living 'problem' of agricultural over-production and is even the minutest predictions turn out to be organisms. After water, hydorcarbons are the busy dumping and destroying its extra food accurate (the American spacefreaks and war major component of most life forms — and of (see 'Food Explosion' by David Ramsay Steele strategists have developed Newspeak to a rem oil. It is therefore alarming to read that there in OZ 19). arkable extent and the Russians have been is much, much more hydorcarbon in the world's The people who are eating are eating strange editing undesirables out of photographs for some seas in the form of oil than in the form of food. However organic, natural or whole, every years: Dubcek has disappeared from many living matter — and there's plenty more being thing we eat has some unintended additive: photographs and been replaced by carefully added every day. Oil can be found at any time, radiationacti^e substances, lead and pesticides touched up scenery). in the form of tar particles, droplets and slicks, brought down from the skies by the rain and so right across the North A tlantic Ocean. As a on. Processed food has anything added to it 3. The Common Cause result life is being decimated right out to mid which the pharmaceutical companies can get It is no coincidence that the collapse in the life ocean (the oil deprives living organisms of away w ith — ie. just about anything they feel support systems of this planet and the decline oxygen, smothers them reduces the amount of like. Analysis of the tissue of Americans shows in the mental and physical condition of the sunlight reaching them, poisons them and them to have more DDT in them than is people who inhabit it should occur simultan generally wrecks them). permitted in meat sold at butchers. Mora): don't eously. Both are caused by one thing. That one In addition to oil the seas are being dosed eat Americans. thing is an exponentially expanding, increas w ith a ludicrous range of chemicals in vast Equally as impressive as the progress in food ingly centralist, increasingly authoritarian. increasingly inflexible, increasingly unrespon exhaust-tubes to boost an ailing platinum industry company that supplies most of New York's sive dinosaur of a system which feeds on greed and to make car pollution less visible (out of power needs has had to disband its sales prom o and mentally and physically enslaves everyone sight, out of mind: the emissions of after-burners tion department because they have insufficient caught within it whilst tearing up and poisoning are in fact more noxious than those of straight power shortages and all forms of life outside it, exhaust tubes). power stations to cope with existing demand. Barry Commoner has shown, using the dino You w ill be pleased to hear that the 'Readers Severe power shortages and major breakdowns saur's own statistics, how the rapid decline of the Digest' response to the death of man is a special are now commonplace and customers are being environment is directly linked to the post-war insert entitled 'Pollution Control 1971 'full of told to conserve power (meanwhile the electrical technological boom - particularly the auto- obil fascinating fairy stories about industry's wonder appliances industry is spending a fortune attemp mobile, petrochemical and agribusiness indus ful attempts to clean itself up. It is a common ting to con people into buying power-consuming tries. These have caused a massive switch from fallacy that all we need is a b it more of the same devices of little practical use). Water supplies ere natural to synthetic products. More power is and we will be alright. A ll we have to do is tie up likely to be inadequate in the very near future in needed to produce synthetics, they are d iffic lu t billions of tons of rapidly diminishing metals and densely populated zones - particularly southern for natural processes to break up and their b y tie millions more people to deadly production England and water engineers warn that purity of products can be equally difficult. It is traditional lines to manufacture devices to clean up crap the supply cannot be maintained for long. Mid to blame the third world population explosion — which could easily not have been produced in the city transport systems are gumming up. The air of rather than our saviour technology — for the first place and everything will be alright. Bullshit. smog-ridden cities is fast becoming unbreathable. ills of the world. This is little better than an The death of the planet has been made taboo A ir has been killing people for years but we excuse for genocide abroad and class warfare (naughty to be a prophet of doom), consumerised haven't seen a thing yet: Kenneth Watt predicts at home (the workers, as well as those nasty (Buy Coke In Special Recycle Can), voterised a spectacular wave of mass deaths in California - foreigners, breed like rabbits). As it takes fifty (Vote IMader For A Clean America) and frag perhaps beginning in Long Beach - starting in Indians to get through as much crap as one mented (so that massive birdkills and fishkills 1975. Food production is becoming increasingly American gets through in his or her life this look as if they have nothing to do with industry). eratic as the structure and fertility of the soil seems a trifle unfair. It also neglects to mention All the dinosaur can do is ignore the problem or that the effective way to stop population pretty it up (like Coke) or attack anyone who deteriorates and pesticide-resistant pests p ro lif erate. Overfed people are going to fin d it d iffi explosions is not to sterilise people (in return persists in spreading the word. cult to cope with a starvation diet. People who for a free transistor radio) but to cease exploi Rachel Carson came under ridiculous attack flip at the thought of the slightest disruption of ting them and to cease to remove the products from the insecticide industry for publishing of their labour. If the third world received the 'Silent Spring’: their routine w ill find the mental stress of the coming catastrophes hard to take. They will find fruits of its labour the various motivations to 'Unfortunately . . . members of the chemical it hard to survive without continuously working breed would be removed. industry in this country and in Western Europe card, TVs, fridges, cookers, pill-dispensing The sick joke of the dinosaur system is that must deal w ith sinister influences, whose attacks doctors and other knickknacks. They may also it enslaves everyone involved in it. The apparent on the chemical industry have a dual purpose: (1) have difficulties coping with the violence direc bosses are mindless old farts w ith no real power to create the false impression that all business is ted at them by the desparately dispossessed. and a semi-total inability to enjoy any 'benefits' grasping and immoral, and (2) to reduce the use They seem to be worried enough by the mild accruing to their immoral positions (make a of agricultural chemicals in this country and in start to the recession that we are seeing now. million bucks and realise your greatest dream: countries of western Europe, so that our supply Should anyone survive the coming mess, it have your im potent prick teased by a bunny). of food will be reduced to east-curtain parity. would be totally absurd if they merely repeated Itys however difficult to feel compassion for Many innocent groups are financed and led into the current cycle and continued the 'progress' the bastards when one examines the enormous attacks on the chemical industry by these habit only to produce yet another dinosaur hell greed involved. America contains 5.7% of the sinister parties.' Louis Maclean of the Velsicol bent for oblivion. The only way to survive is to worlds total population and accounts for 40% Chemical Corporation. start immediately to cease to be enslaved to the (this is a low estimate, some say 70%) of annual More recently we have seen how the dinosaur. Those least enslaved tend to be: total world consumption of resources. Of course American Atomic Energy Commission zapped rural populations (subsistance farmers); popula only a minority of the American population Goffman and Tamplin for daring to suggest that tions of countries such as Tanzania and China, gets its hands on the goodies — so that in the far too much radiation was being leaked by the which have decentralised production, reduced end it's probably far less than one per cent of AEC into the environment. We have seen Mobii the scale of much of their industrial plant and the population of the world which is ripping Oil's pathetic attempts to cover up a report that instigated the beginnings of peoples' control of off the majority of its resources. This inequity lead gdditives to petrol cause dangerous air production (China has just ordered the of distribution is mirrored by the inequity of pollution. We have watched Shell's unsuccessful Concorde, is playing with nuclear weapons and responsibility for the destruction of the environ attempts to stop 'Environment' and 'New still clings to similar dinosaur idiocies so she ment. Whilst the effects are global the causes are Scientist' from printing the truth about the still has plenty to worry about); isolated predominantly local: the industrial nations are potential hazards of Vapona fly-strips. We have hunter-gatherer societies; one or two commun busy finishing this planet off for everybody. haard Dr Frank Mellanby warn the British Assos- ities of freaks, religious non-conformists; para The dinosaur maintains its grip by stamping ciation that scientists employed by British troopers and one o r^w o other bits and pieces out concern and care for fellow humans and government ministries had been muzzled when of the military. God knows how that lot would they made embarrassing environmental discoveries. living things and by replacing it with greed, co-operate to off the dinosaur. competition and a feeling of insecurity. The What have we not been told? Whilst an increased awareness o f the global Another frightening response is the Paul Elrich latter is linked to a carefully contrived depen environment would have to be part of any dino dence on the system brought about by division [ brand of Big Brotherism. He will calmly say that saur substitute, a more im portant part would of labour, specialisation, expertisation and pro the last few American presidents have all been be a very loose decentralist society with a fessionalism (this is even carried to the extent idiots and that America must stop stealing all the correspondingly dispersed man-size production of passing on the unpleasant task of feeling to world's resources but in the same breath tells us system. Ludditism and reversion to old techno specialists, artists, who have unfortunately that the only solution lies w ith some 'big business logies is unnecessary - not to mention forgotten how to do the job). Each of us is men' friends of his who have an o u tfit known as impossible. It w ill be necessary to ensure that reduced to a dumb motherfucker who needs the Club Of Rome which is trying very hard to any new techniques, machines or artefacts are someone else to feed him, clothe him, house save the planet. Once again all we have to do is comprehensible to everybody in society — ie. him, transport him, tell him how to pass his sit back whilst our every need is attended to by that they are small, simple and effective. People alloted leisure time. The fact that these needs someone else. Of course some people w ill have to should clothe, shelter, transport, think and feel are rarely satisfied and that when they are be coerced by the world government (for some for themselves. As soon as responsibility is someone somewhere suffers terribly as a con reason, bigger and better than national govern divided and the division is reinforced by habit, sequence is politely explained away by yet more ment) not to breed. Otherwise everything doctrine or ritual the stage is set fo r the return will be fine — particularly for the big businessmen. specialists - the media liars. of the dinosaur. Most non-renewablc resources This physical fragmentation, contrived Ehrlich has almost as big a following as Ralph will have been exhausted, or virtually exhausted, Nader. The two of them could do strange things dependence and increasing control is all echoed by existing technology so a switch w ill have to together. mentally by our bizarre attitudes (see Erich be made to renewable sources such as solar It seems that the dinosaur would do anything Fromm 'The Fear Of Freedom'). Even if some energy. An integral part of this change w ill be a rather than die quickly and quietly. It will drag friendly Venusians landed tomorrow and kid change in mental attitudes. Just as m onolithic napped every single director and major execu on slowly messily and stupidly until we get artefacts (enslaving production lines, monstrous tive of the major international corporations and something better together. earth-fucking dams, enormous machines of all the governments of the world we would be destruction) will get the chop so monolithic lost and simply recreate the old mess. We need 5. Survival concepts w ill have to.go: goodbye God, Progress, something far more drastic. Something which It seems inevitable that most, if not all, of us will Man The Master Of Nature, Country Competi will shock us into thinking, feeling and acting be wiped out fairly soon. The northern hemi - tion, Helmsman Mao, Sailor Heath and Bob as one. Some people expect 25 m illion refugees sphere is more vulnerable than the south as it Dylan. It w ill be necessary to be flexible: the from Bangla Desh to die this winter. Even if contains all the major industrial nations and the environment w ill be in a diseased, unpredictable this terrible forecast is exceeded we will probably major imperialist states. Fortunately for the state for millenia. It w ill be necessary to co try and explain it away. Maybe most of us are southern hemisphere the air and sea currents of operate w ith, and love, not just each other but too far gone. the two hemispheres are largely separate - everything else that creeps, crawls, and fucks although ultimately a fraction of the crap float on this planet. All this is a basically easy step to ing about the north would penetrate to the south. take — it merely involves throwing away chains 4. Business As Usual The most vulnerable regions of the northern and simplifying and enjoying life. Right now, The dinosaur plods on regardless of its pending hemisphere are the densely populated urban looking from the arsehole of the dying dinosaur doom. Bits of it mutter about dirt, filth, poor zones. The populations of these zones are made it all seems remote. However, the collapse of salmon fishing, blue whales, the cost of cleaning vulnerable because of their total dependence on the Mediterranean, the Baltic, the Atlantic, the up pollution and so on but it seems to have no the dinosaur for everything. The dinosaur is Pacific and all other oceans and seas, the complete conception of the gravity of the situa already overloaded, unable to provide the services collapse of the economies of all western nations, tion or any plans for remedial action. In its slow intended but quite capable of producing poisons world famine, massive civil unrest, drastic stupid uncoordinated way it makes the occasional in food, air and water with the greatest of ease. shortage of water, pt and other resources — pathetic token gestures. Vague threats are made The New York power cut of Nov 1965 which all w ithin a decade or two — might change our that in the distant future cars w ill have to pollute paralysed 80,000 square miles of America was a perspective. These events are o f course more less. Too late. After-burners are shoved on foretaste of things to come. Since then the power likely to kill us.
This 'comprehension gap' is the key to a couple of books that have been published over the last month. Both of them the record of trials; the edited, but still 700 long 'Transcript of the Chicaqo Con spiracy Trial', which took place over the Winter of 1969-70, and 'The Trials of OZ', by Tony Palmer, *a rush job, the preface of which is dated merely a fortnight after the trial ground to a halt. Chicago 1968, the onstrations at the ic Convention held in that city, and the publication of OZ 28 Schoolkids Issue have little in common, but for their position as the exter nal manifestation of what is known the 'alter native lifestyle' and. less accurately, as 'the Under ground'. Many thousand people went to Chicago to protest the Vietnam war, the external and internal problems of Amerika, to participate originally in a festival of Life.!The only festival there was may have been for the Chicago Police Department who smashed heads and bodies, hippies, newsmen and the occasional bystander all included, with a will, and 'Seig Heil-ed' their bosses at a 'party' afterwards. About a similar number of people bought OZ 28, though they didn't have to suffer physically We do understand one another, do we or mentally, for their 4/- expenditure. not?', Brian Leary, QC. Their similarity is in their eventual con 'You can't honestly expect me to say yes', If law 'n' order is impossible without frontations with the Establishment at close Caroline Coon. mutual, albeit unloved and grudging toler quarters — the courtroom. A neon oven in ance, then the agents of law, the courts, the States, the slightly musty, almost sur Law 'n' order, 'justice', the social system, and their attendant servants, are worthless, real - if that means no basis whatsoever in and all the other guiding principles of or certainly lose their credibility and force reality — surroundings of the Old Bailey in 'civilised society' exist, though noone ever without the acceptance of another abstract England. The pigs were questioning the seems to remember, on tolerance. The — trust. One group of people (the prosecu Yippies, the straights were analysing the tolerance of the people, the members of tion) are pitted against another group (the alternative press. The form of the two that society. A simple theory, but for defence) andthe whole issue is in the hands trials has disturbing parallels; perhaps all class stratification, authoritarian repression of twelve individuals (the jury of 'good ideological conflicts take this form — blank and the varying evils that are also such men and true') and refereed by a single incomprehension of the necessity for the integral parts o f that same society. Lenny person (the judge). Everyone, so' it is charges by the one side, total inability to Bruce's world theory had it right: Life assumed, or certainly hoped, is hip to the appreciate the nuances of another lifestyle divides into three basic functions — eat, case in hand,.not just to the evidence — for by the other. Expert witnesses are trundled sleep and crap. If of course one of the the most binding of oaths isn't any deter out: Mailer, Ginsberg, Phil Ochs, Country crappers doesn't bother to get over to the rent to self-interest or self preservation — Joe, Saroyan, and Anne Kerr, MP; in right place when he has to go, then some but to theJife styles, the ways of life of all England the liberal establishment likewise one, some poor fall guy, has to do the participants. Obviously the trust which did its duty: George Melly, Feliks Topolski, dirty work of putting him in the right should underlie the judicial process is use Professor Eysenck, Michael Duane and, place. And you get the police force, laws, less if one side can't or w on't understand with all due respect to the unmentioned, rules and regulations. the other. so on. The prosecutions in both cases were similar - the Chicago police department justice, makes no bones about where his tens of thousands of people plus an ever said their pieces, backed by the occasional feelings lie. On roughly the same lines as attendant media, or sell 40 ,000 copies and reporter and four informers (undercover those of the leader writers in the Sun and gain a possibly 1% of the nation as a reader men), the Obscenity Squad trooped into Mirror who deplored the sentences in the ship then their grip will be all the more the Old Bailey and paid their dues, Dl Luff OZ trial, but applauded the verdict. 'The intense. These two trials will be repeated, to his fulminating fore. Trials of O Z' is of course one man’s book, as they have been preceded by similar And in both trials the experts were dum- and his opinions are, mercifully, his own. versions on the same theme — the Establish founded at their treatment, the police had He feels, and attempts to prove that it is ment good guys make damn sure that the a beanfeast, and when it really came down not OZ that is on trial, that the prosecution Alternative bad guys stay right where they to it, all the verbiage, the six months in is not a political one, in fact that OZ and are. There are of course ways of making Judge Hoffman's courtroom and the five the three defendants are pretty irrelevant. them change, but that, dear reader, is weeks in Judge Argyll's were hardly worth The Obscene Publications Act, the Law another story . . , the time and certainly not the money. itself is what Palmer has decided was up Jonathon Green There are, inevitably, the subtle differ for trial at the Old Bailey for 5 long weeks ences: In Amerika where the practice is to and at a cost of £100,000. He also seems beat you up on the streets as well as to conclude that it was found guilty. If he down in the cells. Judge Hoffm an never believes that sentences totalling three years bothered to disguise his sympathies. A t the in jail are a proof of the Act's guilt, then Old Bailey, Argyle, ever the English gentle his logic is interesting. Among other things man, kept relatively quiet until his sum the Act w on't have its hair cut off. ming up, which effectively destroyed the Opinions are one thing — inaccuracies defence case, and in his post-verdict com are less tolerable. For instance in describ ment to the jury: 'I am very pleased with ing the pre-trial march to the Old Bailey the verdict, though of course it had nothing he dismisses it for its lack of numbers and to do with me.' The sterility / tradition of contemptuously observes that the elephant the Old Bailey, conspired, if there was any scheduled to lead the march wasn't there. conspiratorial activity at all, to quash any He fails to mention that the Bow Street ideas of dramatising the trial — only the police, under whose jurisdiction the march Friends of OZ kept that end of things up came, refused to permit the march to front. become a circus, even if the Judge was Both cases have been given enough happy enough to ring-master his own show space already. So what about the books. in Court no 2. And again, the reference to Not too much to say on a Transcript, the demo after the sentences. Almost in William Kunstler and Leonard Weinglass parenthesis, he mentions that an effigy of introductions notwithstanding. Most inter Argyle was burnt. Of course for a man so the Fantasy I esting hilites are cast on the two participant intent on proving his own point he failed ' have cur Hoffmans: Abbie and Julius. Whatever the to note that the OZ trial, this apolitical this country i outcome of the 'Steal This Book' debate and essentially abstract event, inspired one including a trilogy wherever Abbie is considered to stand in of the few demonstrations in this country with the 'Worm' an the Movement status role, the record of that were not merely shadows of similar fantasy work such; his appearance at the Conspiracy Trial can events in Am erika, and for causes that are World's End'. It's interestir only enhance his reputation. As he has ours only as sympathetic bystanders. in the states Ballantine i said elsewhere, his preference is for 'Court His hero is Brian Leary, who had already back rights to Lord of the Rings and room dramas' and at Chicago he was able rushed off to his Mexican hols before the having made a fortune with that < to overindulge. But more than his clown sentencing. One can see the attraction: assume they are lookin ing is the realisation as there is with the Palmer and Leary both enjoy the half cesses in the same field. Mind you if y evidence of the other defendants, that the truth, the snide crack, perhaps even the like fantasy on the epic scale of Lord o Judge, the Prosecutors and, by inference, blatant inaccuracy the Rings and prose like . . . "and s the Jury just were not orientated to the But Palmer's book fits in ideally to one the King pronounced terribly the word ideas, ideals and attitudes .of the eight, and facet of this trial; like Luff and Leary,(who Voarchadumia. Thereafter for the : subsequently seven men they were trying. can at Least be excused as 'doing his job') ten heartbeats silence hung like a Kestrel Every page underlines this fundamental Palmer doesn't really have the first idea of poised in the listening night. Then went a side of the trial; five months of missing what's going on. There's this gap which has crash through heaven and earth, and a each other's points. nothing to do with age, or generations. It's blinding wildfire through the chamber as Naked bias lacks charm, and the courts a division of values of attitudes and of it had been a thunderbolt". . . then zip c in England are more careful o f showing beliefs. Noone expected OZ to be acquitted, and add this one to Lord of the R their hand. So too should the self-appointed the Chicago Conspirators were never in Hobbits, Conan and whatever else \ analysts of the affairs of such ,courts. Tony line for a Not G uilty verdict. The haves are got cluttering up your bookcase's, i Palmer, whose characterisation elsewhere never overinclined to give everything up to escapist stuff, oh yes. as 'the Weasle’ does him no more than the have nots. If the have nots can summon Chris Rowley j The follow ing is a transcription o f a Most junkies in the Stales don't loose this new type of vial filled with ness for when the boys come march I tape recording by a First Lieutenant want to quit, they love the drug too heroin in a matter o f a week all across ing home. You know, when Johnny \serving as Director of an Army much and the problems that they the country. We know it's not a come marching home w e'll have his ",Amnesty Program" drug treatment have in their lives are too overbearing, small operation. It's not a bunch of 25 cents bag and his fix waiting .for I center in Vietnam. His identity must they can't deal w ith them and the independent small-time dealers just him we'll sell him a set of works and I remain suppressed for obvious ' heroin is a lot nicer to them than smuggling it a kilo at a time across the business will keep booming. There is I reasons. reality. But this is a different popula Cambodian border, although I am evidence for this theory too. Some tion over here, this is the All Ameri sure that after the initial big boys G l’S’who have come back from V iet I My new thing is junkies. Let me can Boy. This is not the middle city, moved in there’s a lot of small-time nam have reported to their local [explain my job. The Army, of course, ghetto person, not the hard-core operators doing a lot of business. But authorities that people have approa 1 is a pig outfit with a police mentality. poverty type who's suffering from essentially it’s a large operation. ched them upon' their arrival at home. jT o their minds possession of drugs is racism and a fucked up economic Now the two major theories that You know, a guy does his year in |a legal problem, but the overwhelm system and living with rats and all exist over here are the Communist Vietnam, goes home to wherever, he's in g number o f strung o u t Gl's have this kind of shit. This is the boy next Plot theory, which at any other time home for two days and some dude [begun to make them realize that door, the blond-haired, blue-eyed boy of my life would have seemed lud i comes knocking on the door, says [something has to be done, so they've next door. He's not even the draftee. crous beyond words but now seems "H i, my name's George. I understand [begun what they call an 'amnesty A lot o f these guys are enlisted, go in completely plausible . . . and that's you just got back from Vietnam and [program '. "A m n esty" means that if the Army, rah, rah, the whole thing. that the Communists are unable to you were strung out on skag and we [y o u are using drugs you can go to Some of them even think of the Army defeat us militarily so they've turned could work out a deal for regular [y o u r commanding officer and say " I in terms of a career. It’s not the to psychological warfare and propag supply." This kind of thing. The talk |am using heroin” which constitutes typical image of the junkie. anda, like the United States. It's that goes on about this is endless. [an admission of guilt. And his com- A lo t of studies have been done become a public relations war being No body really knows but those are [m ander w ill say "That's great, I grant on the amount of addiction, but they fought in the newspapers. Nixon with the two major theories with evidence [you amnesty. I will not bust you for haven't been published or publicised — his POW's and Hanoi saying "R ight behind them and they are probably [admitting to me you use heroin. How- they've been done by independent o n" to the peace marchers. both true. [ever, tomorrow if we find you with dudes like myself who have just been People believe that the Com Heroin is a very seductive drug. To | heroin we'll put you in jail." working with the problem and deci munists are disseminating the heroin make an analogy — it's like women. The people down at the grass ded to get down and do a study. The to destroy American troops, not with In your barely post-pubic years when [roots realize this is just a sham, a averages show that between 10% and bullets but w ith drugs, and at some you've never tasted of the woman's [jo ke , unless you can offer the guy 40% of any given unit is strung out given point the supply will be cut off flesh, you really don't get horny, you [some way to stop using the drug. So on smack. I would say a realistic and large numbers of American G l’s d o n 't really long fo r women beside [we've been opening up centers where average fo r all enlisted men, rank E-5 will be incapacitated and unable to you because you really d o n 't know | what they actually do is go cold and below, (E-5 is buck sergeant — fight or do anything and the Com what it is. You have these faint feel [turkey. We give them some tranquil three stripes), is approximately 20— munists w ill have a chance to move ings in your crotch, but when you've lizers and medicine for cramps, shit 25% using heroin. Now that's horren in and do some heavy-duty killing. made love to a woman then you know [like that, and try and help them out, dous; that is phenomenal in itself. I Either that, or on a large scale send there is nothing like it in the whole [help them through their withdrawal, don't think that's an exaggeration at ing thousands and thousands of junk world. It's that simple. And you’ve [and we have group therapy sessions all. Even if it were just 10% — now ies to the United States and further always got to have more. Y ou 'll be [and individual therapy sessions. You that's the m inim um estimate based on adding to the decay of the fiber of horny for the rest of your life. And j know, try and work it out so the cat highly scientific studies — that's a lot our society. it's the same thing w ith heroin. It's | won't go back on scag. of junkies. And that's not a static So these are tw o ideas of why the a very seductive drug. Once you've Nobody knows how to cure junk- number because they're always going Communists would want to push tasted it it's very hard to stay away ] ies, nobody knows how to cure home and there are new ones coming drugs in on the Americans. They've from it, even though you know that [alcoholics, so nobody's got any hard in and getting strung out all the time. found VC carrying kilos of heroin and if you continue to use it you'll pro [figures on success rates but probably Last year if you remember all the they know that the Laotians are heavy bably have a five-year life expectancy [th e average halfway house in Viet- guys coming back from Vietnam, all into manufacturing heroin. Possession or you'll OD or you'll get some of it |nam is about 10—20%, which is much the talk was about the dynamite of opium is legal ip Laos if you have in your lungs by sniffing it or snort j higher than the ones in the States. grass — Thai flow er grass and Cam a license, and the name of the game ing it or smoking it and you'll get The reason fo r that is the guys bodian red and MeKong Delta green up there is corruption. All you have this chemical phenomena that will J who use heroin here smoke it and and all this real dynamite grass. All to do to get a license if have enough kill you in a few days, and there's no [their habits aren't as bad as the that's true; the local grass is about money and then you can carry heroin treatm ent for it, and that yo u 'll lose [people back in the United States, the heaviest in the yvorld. But there make heroin, grow opium, do any 40, 50, 60 pounds and become a [cause they aren't shooting it and a was no heroin. A ll of a sudden last thing you want. It's that simple. As a walking skeleton and yo u 'll have to [lo t of people back in the United year, during the summer, large quan matter of fact the US just launched a dedicate the rest of your life to [States have been using it fo r years tities of heroin started appearing out protest with the Laotian government hustling for smack, You know all [and years and years. The average guy of nowhere, literally out of nowhere. because this A ir America, which is a those things in your jnind but you [over here has been using it fo r just a Like magic, over night heroin was "private company.'! but actually CIA can’t help yourself. And that's what [fe w months. So it all adds up to a everywhere. It wasn't a chance hap operated, is a mojor means of trans these guys are up against. [not as bad a habit and therefore an pening, it wasn't something that portation around South East Asia. Guys think that if they smoke |easier time getting off and staying happened like a natural process of any Everybody flies Air America and heroin they won't get busted bec [o ff. kind. It was well planned — logistics these Laotian dudes were using A ir ause the officers can't smell it. A cat Anyway, the heroin over here and everything. I'm sure of it. It's America to transport their heroin so w ill stand out there in fro n t of his [runs about 20 times the concentra- not the military paranoid mind hard there was some bitching and moaning Captain smoking heroin right in his [tion and about 1/20th the price of at work — it's just so obvious that about that. Anyway, there is good face and the guy'll never know it [heroin in "the world". Heroin in "the when there's no heroin in Vietnam evidence that the Communists are cause it has no odor, especially if it's [w orld" is about 5—10% pure, and fo r years and years and years and all shipping it into the country. It comes mixed with tobacco. It just smells [here it's 90—100% pure. A 5 dollar of a sudden, in a month's time, it's in several ways, ou t of Hong Kong on like a cigarette and so it’s the easiest [cap of heroin here would cost about everywhere, that somebody made airplanes, smuggled in by ariline thing in the w orld. It's as easy to get ] 100 dollars is the States, comparable plans to deliver it in large quantities stewardesses, Vietnamese government as air really. [purity and all, so that a guy who's on and at cheap prices. officials, civilians, etc. It comes down Back to my job. I'm director of a |a 10 dollar habit here would be on a Other things have happened since the MeKong River out of Laos and progratn here near the hospital. I [200 dollar habit in the States. And to that time . . . they noticed that in a Cambocia into the MeKong Delta, and started out being a part time helper. lle t you know how big it is, some week's time this one type of vial, (the it's brought in by VC. Our doctor, the psychiatrist, got ' [guys here are on 50 dollar a day heroin comes in little plastic vials — The second paranoid theory transferred up north to some kind of [habits, so when you multiply that some of them have brrtnd names on about where the drugs are coming roadbuilding unit to be their battalion [by 20 you begin to understand the them), showed up everywhere from from is the "International Crime surgeon and I got stuck witkrunning [quantity of pure heroin that's being the Delta to the DMZ in a week's Theory". The Mafia and "them” the whole fucking show. So. I'm in_ [smoked around this place. tim e. Some large supplier had turned boys, trying to drum up a lot of charge of 100 Vietnamese'amputees sV:t*
and who knows how many American way to end it is to get everybody junkies. It's really heavy man, let me back where they belong, where they tell you. These dudes run down some should have been all the time, back heavy raps about how fucked-up home. But anyway, there it is. I don't their heads are, how fucked-up their know what else to say about. A lives are in Vietnam and why they quarter of the people in Vietnam are started on heroin and they all say junkies. Think about that, super they’re going to stay off it, and then heavy. when they leave the program a week reprinted from ORGAN. later most of them are back smoking scag. So I d o n 't know where it's all going to end. I really d o n 't, it's such a heavy problem. I think the only
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When very busy ’cause the trial had ended and we Haber showed up in New York months had just been released from prison so I later he had a wad of typed sheets. I said, really didn't have the time. It was a hectic "W ow, I'll just rewrite a few things and period and I was running around doing 3— we'll get it out." OK, the terms varied. 4 speeches a week raising money for our First he said, "You take it all." Then I said appeal. About a month later when we took "No, 70—30 (in favor of him)." Then 50— off to California I decided to get into the 50, then . . . well we never agreed. See, I book. After an hour of reading I was aware write very fast; almost all of 'Revolution of what had happened. Haber had ripped for the Hell of It' was written in three days, off underground newspaper articles word and 'Woodstock Nation' in five days. That's for word and had his girlfriend type them so fast not many folks believe it but it's up and arranged them in order (not so true. Besides I'm not decent order I might add). I immediately a professional writer, called him and screamed that we couldn't preferring courtroom cheat the underground press. There was dramas instead. I no attem pt to disguise it I might add. Each had no agent, my chapter had a different style. It was strictly lawyer was, at the plagiarism and I refused to participate. I same time, involved said, "Look I want out. All you did was in the Panther trial some research." He said, "Look Abbie, I in New York love you, finish the book, keep it, etc etc ." I was all hung up. Already Random Hojse my publisher, was showing the jitters and the thought of making the people there squirm a little wetted my appetite. Besides, I had been constructing the book in my head as well as asking people for sugges tions, so believing Haber's word, I plunged ahead on the book. I worked day and So I figure on 'Steal night for six months. I made hundreds of This 3ook' I'll work for phone calls and interviewed numerous a week — how much mor people. Finally something began to take ally should I get for a week's shape. This was to be the first of 21 re labor? At this point I should add that writings of the book, about 10 of which S25.000 from 'Revolution for the hell were done long after Haber had left the J a of It' (almost the entire royalties) country; the last of which occurred in r went to the bail fund of the black December of 1970 in Cook County Jail, Panthers who had absolutely nothing Chicago. N aturally / have almost the to do with the book, and money from entire first manuscript in my handwriting 'Woodstock Nation' went to the if you care to see it. John Sinclair Defense Fund, ESSO, Taking the book step by step I'll go over (Lower East Side Organisation), the it with you to show how it happened. This Movement Speakers Bureau, and the will be a little rough but the error will be .Conspiracy Trial. in favor of the researchers, not me. I have The 'Penthouse' which Haber describes written p ro o f in the form of handwritten in detail is in reality a three room artist's notes, checks paid out, statements to back loft that Anita, I, and our new baby up everything I now write. 'america' live in. We used to pay $130 a month rent but now it's $1 50 'cause the landlord doesn't like me. That's cheap for New York. It's on one of the worst blocks but we love it 'cause it's heaven to us. Much of the fancy furniture we built or found on the streets. The 'exotic' art paintings are all by my oldest friend and all given to us free. We both water all the plants on the roof and have painted the place very pretty. It is heavily fortified because on .three occasions neanderthal types have tried to "even the score" in the down home way that has made Amerika great. Anita's 'flowing nightgown' she psobably made Again it should be repeated that I, ■herself although I wouldn't really call her Abbie Hoffman penned every single word the domestic type. She has written a novel in the fucking book. Haber at best was the that's been published (under a pseudonym) top researcher in what really consisted of a a number of articles and is an excellent team of researchers. I have numerous .. ihotographer. She's been arrested about articles and pamphlets that he had his-girl five times for everything ranging from friend retype and try to claim were origi ' ising obscene language to felonious assault nal. After my insistence he labeled each in Ion a policeman. She, as I, had thrown away his own handwriting "Taken word for 'a Masters Degree when she dropped out, word from ILS pamphlet" or "This origi long before we were 'known'. She was a nally appeared in total in the 'Chicago huge obstacle to Haber's desire to 'possess' Seed'," etc. They have nothing to do with the contents of 'Steal This Book'. Much of Furthermore, dear Richard, if I ever risk of bail revocation, for them not to give the book was w ritten in the months after see you in New York, I plan personally to you a fair shake is incredible. Haber left the country, as was all the lay kick your la-de-da ass. This whole affair is not to be believed. out, editing, indexing, typesetting, etc. Abbie. OZ has given birth to the biggest put-on When we quarreled it was about September since Paul Krassner published the "parts as I recall. He then left the US and I worked PS. Anyone from OZ or anyplace else is left out of the Manchester book". At least continually on the rewriting and arranging free to examine my handwritten drafts of Paul later admitted it was a hoax. Perhaps of the book until the end of December. the book, talk to me, my lawyers, I suggest after sending someone over here to examine Haber is receiving 19%, Lynn 1% and also Haber's lawyer, also the people at the evidence, O Z too would have some Haber's lawyer 21/i% as I recall the contract. Random House who foster no love for me second thoughts on the im m orality of back That amounts to 22%%. My lawyer Lef- since I've said a lot of nasty stuff about stabbing. courtgets 10% leaving me 67% of the them for refusing to publish the book, or Response to Haber article in OZ 36. Sent royalties. All the researchers, photogra anyone else. I'm sure they will dismiss August 27, 1971 by Abbie Hoffman. No phers, cartoonists, etc. were paid hand Haber's claims as so much hogwash. I editing allowed without prior permission. somely by me and all this was done before you or Haber to furnish any proo t x , anyone had even agreed to publish the book. Haber's lawyer is a very honest ACLU lawyer named Jerome Gutman — he would never have allowed Haber or him self to sign a contract that did not adequa tely represent their interests. I should say here that Bert Cohen listed as the "acces sory after the face" on the title page had more to do with the entire book than Haber. Finally the long hard task of publishing it myself began. The borrowing of money (for a percentage), distributors (for a percentage), more lawyers and office space (for a percentage). Right now I'm still out of money on the book and the distributor, the charges in the article in Grove Press, is in a financial bind so money is slow coming. There is scarcely a publi the way of witnesses, notes etc. Haber, as sher in America that will handle me since I burned a lot of bridges. Try turning down well as all researchers were a 840,000 offer just 'cause you refuse to thanked for their change the title or deliberately stealing contribution in the from stores that refuse to carry the book. Introduction to But enough. I've been obsessed w ith this Steal This Book. book too long although making it a success Everyone connected! m almost single-handedly was definitely a with this book * feat I'm proud of. I hope other radical has been writers get out of their ivory towers and given a percen experiment with different forms of self or tage of the profits collective publishing. 'Steal This Book' has or a flat fee paved the way for a movement in that and there have y direction. been no com I just want to say a word about your plaints by anyone that I concept of fair play in publishing an article know of (with the which is 90% lies written by a cheap hust exception of Tom ler whose hero would not let him continue Forcade, who interestingly in a sick image love that wasn't real and enough, also claims to refused to plagiarize articles from the ' have written the book). In fact underground press. Don't you think even I have many letters written an establishment rag would have asked me from folks saying-how sur for a comment or two before foaming off prised they were to get bread at the mouth? As you know, Richard, I since the practice in the counter can no longer return to England. Remem culture seems to be not to pay ber the last time you asked me to come writers or cartoonists, ie, OZ has there from Paris to help you publicize the never,-to my knowledge, paid any OZ trial? You know I entered at great risk US writer, including myself, for and later went to Belfast and was ordered articles excerpted from books or out. My lawyers assure me I cannot return . any other publications. to England until the political climate There has never been any attem pt changes, perhaps never. It doesn't matter on my part to conceal that a number because since then I was jumped by police of people particpated in the in the streets of Washington, received two project. Haber is listed on the title page _ serious injuries (a broken nose and slipped as co-conspirator. The introduction reads 'M disc) and 20 stitches in my head. (I was as follows: smuggled out of jail only to be grabbed by "Obviously such a project as 'Steal This the FBI four days later). I face ten years in Book’ could not have been carried out prison on top of the five years already in alone. Izak Haber shared the vision from Chicago and need special court permission the biginning. He did months of valuable to even go to New Jersey. I am forbidden research and contributed many of the from leaving the country. Only the worst survival techniques." gossip sheets in this country and yours I then proceed to acknowledge the con would run such a piece w ithout even ask tributions of others. Your article makes it ing the person involved whether or not the appear that I try to hide all this. Fuck, I charges were in any way true or seeking even thank the typesetters by name. Can some proof of the allegations. My only you name another writer that ever did that! regret is that you'll use my name again to I can excuse a very sick in the head cat feather you own nest as you did on your but people that you tried to help at the book. Grateful Dead MM4 years more fo r the tim e when we years now. (Do you remember Dimpi :ide the to New Riders o f the Purple Sage CBS capture the first starship. Simple really. No doubt about. Winwood's genius, h Hooteroll? Howard Wales and Yet his techno-lyrical songs (three of music shines but Traffic is definitely ; Yellow Submarine cartoons of Wo Jerry Garcia Douglas 5 them hare) are letting him down a vehicle for a contributed sound not a and friends, many goodies await. Takes Off Jefferson Airplane RCA (little. 'War Movie' is as strong as any showcase for individual talents. God The first thing you hear is Eric opi First Pull Up Then Pull Down Hot thing he's written but the opening cut knows what this bunch will do next Tuna RCA 'When The Earth Moves Again' has none year but maybe he's waiting too. cisely funky in tr Bark Jefferson Airplane Grunt of the thunderous flow of the Starship Chris Rowley sound < songs. It palls in comparison, dragging ittin' On Top Of The H ow lin' W olf: The London Sessions Time for all west-coast rock fans to its metaphorical pheet, Grace has her World" licks sound just as good with Wolf up front, though Watts and Wyman I cream. (I do believe there are a few). bizarre childbirth/carcrash/Kurt Weil Cunning timing and promotion from song and her triple Scorpio 'Crazy lay down a very different groove from 1 This album is a delight, especially whei .good ol' Jack and Ginger. There's a various very big record complexes have Miranda', and Joey Covington's 'Thunk' coming to it from the arid territories o resulted in a deluge of material from is a shiny little pastiche, but the ones "Dust My Broom" sound-alike ("High- | John Lee Hooker's aptly-titled "End way 49", why not revisited?) and a the Dead and Airplane families in that come through are Grace Slick's less Boogie", which also attempted to couple of minutes of rehearsal tim e, ] recent weeks. defiant 'Law Man' and ah the material team one of the titans of the blues in which Wolf shows Eric where the First though, one album, not at all provided by Jorma Kaukonen: 'Feel with a group of well-meaning young changes are on "R ooster". 1 available here yet and a US bootleg, of So Good' has more power than all superstars. As w ith Muddy's "Fathers In the final analysis, an album of the Dead in concert: Sugar Magnolia, Kantner's sci-fi didacticism, 'Third and Sons", the fusion succeeds b ril fine, gentle funk from a bunch of Casey Jones, Uncle John's Band, Good Week' is a wistful delight, recognisable liantly. It's almost enough to restore people who really know how it shoul£f**.* Covin' etc, all played at their best. to us all, 'Pretty As You Feel' (written your faith in white blues. be done. And no one who hears it.wifi; ',*• Watch out for it hitting London, not w ith Casady and Covington) is just Howlin' Wolf has never captured lose much sleep over the fact th a t *; forgetting that a double set (also live) highly refined music, and 'Wild my imagination to the extent that nothing on here is as pow e rfulrasWoffijj* is soon to be unleashed by Warner Bros Turkey' is a Hot Tuna instrumental, Muddy, Hooker, BB King or Terry anc o r 1 (| i n a I, eI even -y ear -oIchVS (the parking meter people). with Papa John now a fulltime Air McGhee have, but here he effortlessly Li gh th in ' On Columbia the New Riders have plane member. With 'Bark' the Airplane remains in control of a session that Charles Shear Murray. *•:*•.: finally got their first set down, includ sufqe forward once again. They have could so easily have gotten top-heavy. ing some songs first heard on tape over no peers in the whole spectrum of rock 'Barefoot Boy' LtkVyXp,,V(0ll Flying a year ago. It's been w orth the wait for music, and they are beginning to owe Dutchman FD 1 the finished article. Garcia called this that to the growing prominence of From H^^yAsKbaiflito Woodstock stuff 'snappy electric country rock’ Kaukonen as a writer, quite apart from and Ringo all crop up for their customary cameo roles, but here the Cou crtry; i sh. Vanguard and there's no reason to doubt it. his extraordinary instrumental work . . . all playing Wolf's music rather than Marmaduke has laid down ten crisp ail these albums in their own ways are V 8 their own. It's a HOWLIN' WOLF .Dae.vfii^Vlien 'Banana M oon' Bvg songs, w ith the fam ily members back some kind of essential. They do come album, a fact which may disconcert ing him up: Garcia on huge sweeping from the best rock musicians anywhere. 'Ar^u|M 529345. anybody who buys it for these four pedal-steel runs, Mickey Hart (no Dick Lawson [gin©' John Lennon Apple SW legendary names across the bottom < longer with the Dead) on a coupla 'Welcome to the Canteen' Traffic the cover. Even at its liveliest, it's tracks and Spencer Dryden on the rest, (Island ILPS 9166) mellow, thoroughly laid back, and — and the soon-to-be-famous-and-much- irst, Larry Coryell and a positively what else — it's the blues. .v .■/,■ admired-Commander Cody on piano amazing album that d efinitely comes Well folks it's all live stuff from this Most of the material is famiiljijy * in that essential category. Called fo r 'D irty Business'. Remember, year's model of Traffic otherwise even though I'm more used*t&:f:i#X'>itj remember the Lost Planet Airmen). A 'Barefoot Boy' its the best example of known as Winwood, Grech, Mason, " I A in 't Superstitious" frorj^SSpf Bgck Coryell's impossibly flu id , space jazz- sharp delightful set that slides away Capaldi, Gordon, Wood and 'Reebop' and Rod Stewart, "Siltin'*. OorTop Of the time in much the same way as rock I've ever heard, including some Kwaku Baah. Recorded at the Fair The W orld" by Terry and*,js/|~Ghet breathtaking sax blowing from Steve 'American Beauty’. field Hall and the OZ Obscenity Cream, "Little Red Roqs-ct* (blush) Marcus and Roy Hayne's perfectly Garcia's album with organist Benefit at Central Poly this summer. I by the Stones,/'.W ^bij Howard Wales may come as some geared drums. If you can just forget understand that due to electronic DoodIt\;. f e / , ; To hear the title of side two the twenty surprise: he surges along in the wake devilry the first part of the OZ concert ne^/jAj^^fiyh^'ns n g s by of Wales' keyboards, containing himself was beset w ith problems so it may well.’ -, \[>jjiimanwho originally cut mem , in tight, jazzy arrangements, backed by be that side one is Fairfield Hall and imh a backup by the men who made brass on most tracks. Good strong t'oth er is from the benefit. It's a great*-;:/ hem famous, causes a weird feeling of music, all instrumental, revealing a very album, yes, well w orth having. It's...*.:: time-warp, and musical doubling-back. fine organist, a Larry Coryell streak in always amazing that T raffic, a ba.iid'jbft^ This may just be the best white Garcia, whose solos are a treat at every seeming chaotic personnel alteratt **'J’ ^ blues band ever gathered together in note, in particular in the spatial 'One should get such sm oothly measi one studio since the original Butter AM Approach', a stow chessboard rolling music pouring out. The-’.tj’flj field Blues Band, and W olf is just the piece of classical/madrigular/Elizabe- man percussion team of Capatf man to lead them. With a vocal style than evocations. A hugely warm album. Gordon and Baah give the tajgfcan tlm Immed ;iu;.iiasi^ lor The Airplane and their offshoots exhilarating strength and thief- have been putting in tim e too, as we congas just hum w ith dynamismV.Tt and-fesserrtFoH'ars; ’thtj* Wolf ■bV’mgsr out’ know. RCA have fina lly put out 'Takes really rocks the best in his illustrious sidemen. It's a Off' to rake back as much as they can Side one chugs along very smoothly shock to be reminded what a fantastic from theAirplane's expiredcontract. in somewhat restrained fashion thru guitarist Eric Clapton really is, after all Not before time, though it is still 'Medicated Goo', '40,000 Headmen' those records which convinced us.that energetic music, it sounds a tittle lean and 'S houldn't have took more than he wasn’t as good as we always said he through the years. With the release of you gave'. Chris Wood's flute floats was. He is. And if anyone ever tells you Hot Tuna II and a possible tour with across 'Headmen' as o f old and it really that Richie can't play drums, just play the everlovin Stoneground to come off is the most enjoyable track this side. them "I Ain't Superstitious". Despite soon, it looks like the good times are Side two consists of long extended Klaus' customary dullness, Ringo is .7 -'N here again. Tuna must be the most versions of 'Dear Mr Fantasy' and outrageously funky. exciting 'new' working outfit anywhere, 'Gimme Some Lovin', a tremendous & & if only because Kaukonen and Casady blast from the past. The drums and have worked together so long and so congas roar and pulse while Winwood completely. Joey Covington introduced md Mason flash out with organ and Papa John Creach's violin to the group, guitars and it works as a live album. and with 'drummer extraordinaire’ They seem so obviously comfortable Sammy Piazza plus a little more harp and relaxed about their playing that from wily Will Scarlett this album may they throw out a feeling similar to that be the most satisfying music I've yet • *. ; : » v* produced by other long established */ <•*’: .'*• * heard; for me anyway. 'Bark' is the bands such as the Dead or the Band; -. first Airplane album for longer than I they could play anywhere in any state, can remember (discounting Paul K even in their sleep. Kantner's solo effort last December). The best thing here is to my mind While Marty Balin apparently flounders the last track 'Gimme Some Lovin' w ith Grootna, his proteges are acheiv- (some 8 V2 minutqs of it) where Win ing more than he ever could. Kantner wood's organ creeps Stealthily into the has most of his fantasie together: he centre over galloping drums and congas./- just has to wait in preparation for 1975 and then he rips into the song with..thja.fe when 'A ll the people rose (sic) from incredible high wailing voice whteffljtJ & jf the countryside' and then fourteen has turned on Winwood fans r, M l f e j minutes of music beyond are a totally tow. The ingredients of Daevid Soldier Mama, I dont Wanna Die' aud mind-bending excursion through the Allen's music are his roots in jazz, his it's So Hard' as well as three or four mind of a lightning fast, superb impossible and hilarious mythology sensitive, and extremely moving love musician. about Pot head Pixies, Bananas, Oc songs, ’Imagine', 'Oh My Love' and Country Joe and the Fish are one tave Doctors, luminous Hashish from ’How'. Lennon has produced an of those bands that mean something the moon and electronic rock music. album that equals and surpasses any to many of us because they were as If that doesn't whet your appetite thing that the Beatles ever did and much a part of our growth as we look out for Gong in England soon as we m ight easily suppose that George were part of theirs and if nostalgia is they are finally about to to u r. . . Harrison, Klaus Voorman, Alan White something you dig then ‘From Haight total amazement is sure to be your Nicky Hopkins and John and Yoko Ashbury to Woodstock' is a double reaction. might soon be a permanent band. album you ought to have. Six of the Finally John Lennon. It probably Its a stimulating thought, the music nineteen tracks were recorded live at w on't be too long before 'Imagine' they make is finally catching up with both the Filmores and also at Wood- is released over here by Apple, but in Lennon's intelligence and it's so very stock and have never been released the meantime the impatient amongst very good to hear. Listen to Lennon's tojfore. w bijst’ the .others span the you can rush out and buy the biting sad song fo r Paul McCartney American version of this, his answer 'H ow Can You Sleep’ and hear and aftv.i\v:vn. <\ .1 965 version to the people who found his first old mate saying a few things he had p?.» f ^ o Hag* album self-indulgent and too personal. to; not easy, just he was too much of i need I wouldn't presume in so few words a friend to say nothing. Music fine \ll the tracks ha»y’/ ;ixed to review the record, there are eager enough fo r me to want to say thank- #■&.<| ii ry Melton's a thousands just waiting to get their you. Thankyou. >ss obtr ii:>ive t *;; and teeth into it but I would like to say John Coleman the magic of 'Bass String\\(Vfe.- that it's a fine and occasionally stun original acid hymn) 'Gractti:/.^6o. Am ning collection with some of the P. 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Me pay hot responsible enough for leadership yet; and Agnews (I can so gag all of you, because I Tom Mix and Jack Armstrong and the Columbia the Second) Mitchell, Mrs Marie Antoinett Workshop, and even on the Bible of showbiz. Them Be Killed Mitchell, ALL IN THE FA Variety, I swear Charley, by all the times you •type racial satire programs (Johnny Carson: have been censored, edited, cut, destroyed, de the producer is a nice guy for a heeb!) For p feated, by every news show that has, by com testing stereotypes going back to pre-Hitler d mission and omission, censored itself, lied, I got fired a half dozen times; for protesting u deliberately broadcast falsehoods; by every of kikes, spicks, heebs, beloved bigots, the neol damn fool news director who is so brainwashed, gisms of prejudice, bigotry, hatred, niggerism. I he kisses ass and doesn't have to be told what to got fired from local and network stations; for cut or leave out, I swear by AL Alexander and protesting pandering to the lowest kind of hostil Good Will Court and John J Anthony and What's ities, for ALL IN THE FA M ILY type crimes I «your problem, Charley I swear by the millions of was beaten up, hit cockalized, struck in the face, hours of radio and TV broadcasts and over the called names, fired, kept out, left out, ignored, graves of Irving Reiss, of Columbia Workshop kicked, lied to, deceived, cheated, robbed, for Days, and We, The People and the lies spread by protesting the caricature-stereotypes glorifying I LED THREE LIVES, THAT PHONEY LYING and making a nice, acceptable guy out of a sonof- THING, I swear by that damn fool Dr Dumont a bitch who would be first in line in the pogroms, who wouldn't pay Jackie Gleason another S 2.50 the lynch mobs, the gas chambers; to see this a week on Dumont, so Jackie went to CBS, I racist guy, phonily put down, and supposedly swear by Canada Lee, the immortal black star taught a lesson while we accept him as"after alt of Native Son, who couldn't get on the WMCA he is a nice guy" is to make a mockery out of all Barry Grey show to tell the world he was not a the bigotry, racist freedom fighters in the space fink, I swear by all the finks, gnti-commies, time continuum of our fight against oppression, birchers, hatelers, I swear by all the phoney free our odyssey toward freedom. We will have our dom fighters. The Green Hornet, Dragnet, Jack own home T V and ignore this stimulation of Webb, Highway Patrol, Rocky King, and all that intolerance, hatred, racism. Ugh! shit you and I wrote for years and years, I swear, I hate it like it hates me. I fear it like the Charley, YOUR SON HAS A CHANCE today! monster it is. And what it does to people. So Information is a gun. Information is the new more than ever, we need the educational tools of revolution. Be your own boss. Share. In a collec video cassettes. How To Love, Not Hate. How tive, a commune, a co-op. Build your own video, Fuck. How Do I love thee? Let me count the cassette network and forget the establishment ways. Sex education. For newlyweds. For young networks. Stop turning and tossing in your grave, and middle and old. Charley and listen. Produce a simple narrator, illustrations, with Repeat loud and clear: Video collectives. a few actors in scenes on YOU'RE W HAT YOU Video Combines. Video Co-Ops. 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ACTOR, no sets, few props, telling, acting out a story. Award winning 1953 Dumont series, and let them speak for themselves through the accoladed by 'Variety' 'New York Times, etc. superimpositions of actors . . . Integrate . . . LIVING HISTORY, I MADE HISTORY. I am. stories for children. Show people pf different I was I am Here. Right in your own living room. faces, creeds, nationalities, colors, working, On your own TV set. In your home. Like: I AM playing, living together, get more involvement KARL M ARX. I have come here to tell you my and participation into children's programs: do a Story. I have come here to read from my works EXERCISES W ITH CHILDREN. A physical and discuss my ideas with you, I have come here instructor, a few children with him, and ask the fe>r the transition in the space time continuum of .children to go along and participate in the yesterday, today to tomorrow, for you, the exercises. video generation, the information generation. SCREAMIES, SCREAM ALONG WITH ME. ONE ACTION. In limbo spotlight. Choose A one man show. Set: A door. I'm going to open' your own music. Slides. Photos. Newsclips. Two. this door, says the narrator. I invite you to actors. Three. Question, answer. A monologue enter with me, into the World of Imagination and with questions, answers, groups, panels. FRED Screamies. Scream along with me. For fifteen ERICK DOUGLAS. NAT TURNER, I CHING, minutes, scream along and let go of your primal MAO, Ho Chi Minh. FDR Engels. Hegel. Soc screams, conflicts, tensions. You'll feel better. rates. Plato. Spinoza. Einstein. Name it. Call Okay. Let's enter the world of imagination and them bring them to life. Let them speak and tell screamies. their story with folk song background, rock THE CREATIVES . . . tape your local blues background, classic, moog synthesizer, creative people. Artists, craftsman, writers, poets, electronic, jazz, whatever. teachers; do talent scout shows for poets, play Everywhere, in your local community, pro wrights; tape your local high school, college duce aSEIZE THE M ED IA , a VID E O FREE newspaper, radio, T V , campus people; their M AGAZINE (that's what I'm planning) Digest vjews; comments. Plays, Special events. Do your the underground press, in audio visual, video own CONSUMER REPORTS on your local tape-film cartridge cassettes. shopping centers. Tape your Council Meetings, Use high school and college paper editors. 0 > members, let your community share in what is our thing. Film it. Video tape it. Running tirnu? happening. If an hour. Or hour. Weekly. Bi weekly, How do your get all this information? How p o documentaries on people like ANGELA do you make duplicates, how do you mass pro LIS, Political Prisoner. Innocent until proven duce cassettes, they wrote and asked. 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What together in peace. will be the impact on the designer's work? How, MONTAGE-COLLAGE - Free Video in the light of these changes, can today's designer Information Exchange: direct his talent and energies toward shaping a For people's media films: John Downey, new society?" American Documentary Films. 379 Bay Street, Explore these issues in a new participative San Francisco, Ca. New York. 336 W 84th Street. conference format with design scientist Bucky Trade magazine: 'Videorecord World', (get the Fuller, Esalen founder Michael Murphy, Femin first 3 issues) Urbanus Square, Box A-Z, Irvine, ist writer Caroline Bird, media critic Gene Young California. 92664. Att. Michael McFadden, blood, civil rights leader Andrew Young, psycho Editor at Large. 'Videorecord World' is a general logist James Fadiman, FCC Commissioner establishment — hopes to be the Broadcasting Nicholas Johnson, happenings inventor Allan Trade journal of the new video world. Contents Kaprow, video artist Nam June Paik, social plan include lots of useful information for you, the ner Jivan Tabibian, designer/filmmaker Saul Bass, video generation. (No, I don't work or sell for organization theorist Warren Bennis, environ any of those people; they wrote to me; sent me mentalist Hans Proppe, and others. their books magazines, thoughts, questions.) Freeze frame, Charley, my collaborator of . . . idea: present local rock and roll shows on yesterday, is calling again. Okay Charley, yes you video cassettes. Ask youth to talent search and can come along in spirit. Oh . . . hey, man, that's bring in new groups. Tape them. Play them back cool. You're going to bring along your new to youth audiences. friends, spirits of thinkers, creators, artists, 'Videorecord' says: "Everyone is choosing up inventors, dissenters, protestors, revolutionaries, sides in a game where there are still no rules. teachers, changers, great minds from the space There are the big guys and the little guys, the time continuum history of this spaceship Earth . . hippies and the establishment, and the pros and . . great . . . you mean, minds like Einstein, the amateurs. Who will win? Who will lose? The Shakespears, Ibsen, Odets, Lawson, Plato, Soc answer to both questions is the same: maybe rates, Aristotle, Jesus, Moses, Mainmonedes, everybody.' Tesla, Edison, Spinoza, Lenin, Hegel, Marx, The answer Mr Videorecord, is something is Jefferson, Tom Paine, Du Bois, Malxolm X, happening, changing, and youth will make out in Adam Smith, Newton, Descartes, Buddha, the future if they seize the media, some chance, Martin Luther King, Oppenheimer, Spartacus, some part of it, and if therefore, there is a Bolivar, Debs, and the unknown soldiers. future ideas: Interviews with blacks. Present Larry Menkin, Los Angeles Free Press. and past. Past? Call up the ghosts of yesterday.
Somehow London has yet to find the hour. She has a loud shout and a sang 'See me, Fee-eel me. Touch me . . .then they're guaranteed to rock yer cohesion and brotherhood amongst persuasive manner. Around sill-mid- a guy sharing our Member's Enclosure legs o ff. it’s musicians that is currently promis off an hermaphroditic young man or status with a smile and a fat joint Jo Mama are the band who ing yet another deluge of foxy music lady was taken away strapped to a gave a loud, involuntary gasp, rolled backed James Taylor on most of his from the stalwarts of San Francisco. stretcher by a painfully embarrassed his spaced out eyes in ecstacy and last tw o albums and they have a new They are together.and despite the ambulance crew . . . Fellini by the slid off the wooden bench, happily album in their own right just out in carping of purists claiming that the Gasworks end; he was peaking commending his buzzing head to the the States. A five piece with a lady West Coast sound lacks balls and that strongly on some psychedelic, (' . . . under-seat gloom and ice-cream singer, Abigale Haness, they make musicians like the Airplane and ('. . , this is serious and I want you all wrappings. The Who . . . where next some superb noises in that same Crosby anr self indulgent super stars, to listen,' said Ricki Farr at one I wonder? country funk tradition that Taylor the end result is invariably special, point, 'the acid is BAD, I'll repeat does so well. Not the most exciting high quality music. Of course they th a t. . .') and as he rolled over point Import Albums*either a luxury or a music on the planet but tight and make bread, they happen to be ing his cock and proud nipples at the necessity, it depends on how eclectic slick with some especially fine guitar shrewd and soulful professional sky a blushing St John's medic is your listening ear. Still unavailable licks. musicians with both feet firm ly in quickly turned him back over with a on any British label are hours of The James Gang are certainly one what looks like being the beginnings gentle, trembling, prodding toe. excellent music that need little more of the few really fine out and out of an alternative society . . . and do A ll but the keenest bopper missed than mentioning. The following is a rock bands that America has found in we need that. the immaculate Grease Band who selection from the albums currently recent years and if you, like me, were If you search around fo r such an were first on the programme for abailable from the import stocks at disappointed by their only average embryo culture in London you'll get some obscure reason and the rest of 'Virgin Records' and, whether or not 'Thirds' then there is now a sample nearest to the feeling bV watching the afternoon saw us treated to an you appreciate paying the extra on record of the power of their live the progress o f a bundle o f 'Grove average set from M ott the Hoople pence they assure jne they must performances. Recorded at The Groovers' including the remainder of and an unforgivably sloppy set from charge in order to cover costs, the Carneigie Hall it succeeds in capturing Pink Fairies, Hawkwind, Mighty Baby Rod Stewart and the Faces who seem music is almost all extremely good the Zeppelin-like frenzy that they and various emergent bands that too often inclined to leave the soul and sometimes darn right essential. manage to create on stage and the pretty soon look like being handled for the last three numbers and fuck (See reviews pages for John Coleman few patches of slightly messy record by a new management/agency set-up around for the rest of the set. Ricki on Coryell, Country Joe and Cong ing are barely noticeable. Joe Walsh called 'Fun and Games Inc.' that may Farr proudly announced an Irish and Lennon.) wields a mean guitar and his creamy well take over where the regrettably singer called Eugene Wallace who . . . Brewer and Shipley have made technique is almost enough to make defunct 'Clearwater' left off. The had 'never sung in front of more than three albums' 'Weeds' and 'Tarkio you do just that. Its called rock and difference between the 'straight' twenty people in his life' and who Road' have been released over here roll end James Gang'Live' is great agency and management that groups thrashed his way through about five but their first, 'Down in L.A.', is stutf. get tied up w ith and small outfits protest songs, delivered in an unlikely to appear on any British jh e Great Society were one of like 'Fun and Games' is down to one anguished roaring voice. I imagine his label, and that, for those that like the original San Francisco Bands, or two maior differences . . . friendli- hernia was impossibly strangulated. their dulcet toned, lyrically excellent along with The Charlatans and The
ness and an understanding of music He finished w ith a song that I could harmonies, is a shame. Brewer and Warlocks they were there right at the not business. 'Fun and Games^lnc.' make little sense of but seemed a Shipley are Aquarian minstrels and very beginning of the music scene will be promoting concerts sometime classic example of universal paranoia, the quality of this album is surprising that has snowballed to it's present, in the near future featuring their 'Tell me who those bastards are who for a first recorded outing. America er . . . interesting state. The backbone bands and probably others, so look hide the truth away' he exortefd the has produced a number of duo of The Great Society was the Slick out for them. crowd for about ten minutes, finally musicians like Seals and Crofts and, Family, Jerry, Darby and the star, culminating with an embarrassing of course, Simon and Garfunkel, but Gracie. Available on import is a live Tempted by the thought of a blast bellow, 'The CIA’. I was totally the combination of wit and wisdom album called 'Somebody To Love' from the sheer guts and power of mystified by his enthusiasm for the that earmarks Brewer and Shipley and although the information on the Townshend and the Who I found subject. Farr made a few ill-chosen easily gives them the edge. Try 'An album is minimal we can probably myself at the. Kennington Oval, in the comments about the money that Incredible State Of Affairs' or assume that it was recorded around Member's Enclosure yet, on a hot various un-named American bands 'Keeper of the Keys' from 'Down in 1965 at somewhere like The Carousel September Saturday, sharing the uni had demanded for the gig to justify L.A.' and you'll see. in San Francisco. Grace Slick is an sex loo w ith hordes of freaks and his protege's inclusion. It fooled very Listening to 'Seigel Schwall 70' astonishing singer and her confidence ladies, listening to all kinds of medi few. first flashes me on the sound that a and maturity show through clearly on ocre music and watching in amaze Then, slightly late, the Who hit the hundred bands were making back in these tracks, she belts her way ment the crowd of thirty one thou stage. Townshend doesn't introduce the early and mid-sixties over here in through every song and the applause, sand. My sticky eyes were refusing to songs anymore, he shouts, exploding England. It’s that metallic frenzied which is scattered at first, gets focus on the seated hordes and only with white, incendiary force and more rattle that cries out fo r maraccas and stronger w ith each song until the the moving figures were clear, the and more shading out Roger Daltrey's a hoarse singer . . . The Pretty Things final flute-ridden rave-up 'Father' faceless masses became a technicolour slick histrionics with the energy of were good at it, so were the Yard- when everything is shuddering and blur with super-imposed, crystal rock that he contains and releases at birds and even the Mojos. Seigel soaring along with her knife-edged sharp images of bog or hot-dog bound will. It's impossible to watch the Who Schwall are a Chicago band that make voice. This is a classic album but hippies tripping and floating across and not be aware of how much effort no concessions to progress, their unlike many it has a freshness and the foreground to the somewhat has gone into the shaping o f their music is brash, energetic and com strength that clicks through as well constipated strains of Atomic Rooster, assault on the senses, their perfor pletely un-self conscious. There were right now as it did back in the days who were incidentally, immensely mance was the highest, most power three previous albums to this one, when Grace was wearing a suede m ini Popular. ful statement of entertainment we've none of which is available in the skirt and black stockings. Some of the The entire staff of 'Frendz' could seen in London since The Band ordinary racks at your local store but songs sound slightly dated, rhythm be seen stumbling happily amongst rocked everybody’s ass off at the if you strike lucky you may .find 'Say sections weren't quite sp tight back the gathering selling their paper with Albert Hall back in June. That bril Siegel Schwall' or 'Shake' in ’the then, but it was the start of some understandable zeal w hilst Pat, the liant white forest of adulatory waving im port section. 'Siegel Schwall 70' thing important and it shows in every paper's Ad lady stood amongst the hands at a Who finale is a sight I could has two live tracks 'Angel Food Cake' note. entrance chaos and sold three hun see many times. As the spotlight hit and 'Sunshine Day In My Mind' and dred copies of OZ in just over an Daltrey in high melodrama and he it joyous, frenetic rock is your trip John Coleman
Officer the Pig Prisons m ilitary skills. He half regrets that he did try to destroy us, every move that they If the Afro-American people are the not join the Army and master all the guns. make w ill only hasten the destruction of most oppressed as a group inside Babylon, But he also knows that if he had gone into their machine. Each time that they then Afro-American prisoners, who a": the the Arm y he w o u ld n 't see things as he breathe, they reveal even more to the most oppressed class inside Af-o-Am erica now does. He treasures his vision above all, people their contours of evil. And after the know what it means to be a slave. The it becomes his most precious and perhaps great victory, ain't nobody going to mess stark naked reality of chains and dark only possession. The Lumpen also knows with us. When the pie of Babylon is sliced dungeons, the cruel and brutal methods of that it is this, his vision, the way things up again, not only w ill the Lumpen get its , the guards, the total exposure of the lies look to him, that the pigs want to blot share, but standing there with guns in of society, and the fact that the pig cops out. Why? Because they cannot deal w ith their hands the Lumpen w ill see to it that bust you on the streets and drag you it-. everybody else gets theirs. before another pig in court: the pig in Each day becomes a torturous struggle If Mayor Lindsay of New York, dip court turns you over to the pigs who hold to keep from grabbing a pig and slitting ping his fingers into blood that hated him, down the prisons. From top to bottom, his flabby throat. He wants all these pigs finds it to his political advantage, this from beginning to end, it's a no-go pig dead, but with his present limited means year, to attack Nelson Rockefeller as the show. h does not seem worth it. Or is it? The ■ Butcher of Attica, and not as one of the The Lumpen, trapped within walls of Lumpen confesses that he really doesn't chief exploiters of the oppressed people steel and stone, sees very clearly w hat is know. His convictions on this point swing of South Africa through his Chase Man going on. He understands himself to be a back and forth. Some times the tem pta hattan Bank, it means only that we have victim of a flam that the pigs have put tion Overwhelms him. He moves, but not the pigs fighting amongst themselves. down. It's not funny anymore. Before, all the way. His prison term is extended. Now, while the world situation permits the Lumpen laughed at it. Dreaming of The shit becomes crystal clear. What the it, we must make our move for the free- trips from rags to riches, the Lumpen had Lumpen does next.is his secret. He has ■ spent some time dreaming the -'II become a revolutionary. ing that nobody and nothing can stop us. American dream of the shoeshine boy To be successful, all we need to do is growing up to be President. Now that they Offing all the Pigs become fulltime revolutionaries. We have had been convicted of a felony, that It is a fact that at this very moment nothing better to do. No more of their dream was dead. The Lumpen had to inside the United States there are people programs for us. Let us enact a Lumpen dream up new dreams. The dreams who have reserved especially fo r them program for them. No more investigations inspired by the situation were dim. The selves the best of everything. For them, and inquiries, no more nothing, not even reality was brighter. 400 years of oppres reality unfolds over the lip of a silver elections. When the forces of fascism find sion were distilled into steel, stone, and spoon. The best food, clothing and it necessary to kill Mayor Lindsay, it will slaved'ivers calledwardens and guards. shelter; and even the air that they breathe not mean that we have been defeated. It The Lumpen draws the unshakable con- is cleaner. If they get sick, then they have will only show us even more clearlv the
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elusion: these pigs should be killed and the best doctors standing there waiting rigor mortis setting in on the corpse of these walls razed to the ground. with golden instruments that fit neatly Babylon. From this point on, the Lumpen gives under their tongues. It is clear that they Our guns are turned on them. Let us up everything, including all alleigance to think that because we rejected their fire at will. When they scream for law, the living. From now on, he makes all his diplomas and pissed in the faces of their order, they are asking us to stop. Our deals w ith the dead. The Lumpen at that teachers that we are stupid. But we are answer to them m ust be the bark o f guns, moment discovers a newylife. The future, the architects of their doom. And we are bigger, better, and louder bombs, better which under the regime erf the pigs was not all in their prisons. We are everywhere: placed and no phone calls warning them. closed, is now suddenly open. It's not in their buildings, in their streets, in their The only open forum now is the barrel o f that the Lumpen has been born again, but air, in their water, we are in their Arm y, a gun. Let the pigs debate with our bullets that now he understands! The wisdom and we are even under their skins. Let and talk back to our razor blades. The that had been hidden is now his. Before that pompous punk, Spiro the skunk, that whole earth will tremble as Babylon falls, he came to prison, the Lumpen's reality who talks like he's studied every cheerios but we must not be afraid. No tyranny is was the pig on the corner, in the squad and wheaties ad ever composed, continue eternal and no oppressive system can car, on the beat, a certain distance away. to sell his wolf tickets. There are those of endure the armed wrath o f the people. Now it is a pig in your face, armed with a us who w :ll buy every one of them. We do And time runs out onevery pig. Over and rifle, just there on the catwalk. not have to be as fat as they are in order over again, the oppressed people, through The Lumpen takes an oath. To kill, to to kick their asses. When the Lumpen • out history, have risen up and killed their destroy — in order to make the necessary moves, the entire society has to move, masters. Time has run o u t fo r Babylon. room in which to build. Nothing that the because the Lumpen is on the bottom and A n d everything we do speeds up what time pigs have to say at this point could matter the only way he can go is up. As the is left. If Babylon fell today, it wouldn't less. bottom starts to move towards the top, be too soon. B ut soon, the pigs w ill re The oath o f the Lumpen is to reject the everything between the bottom and the treat to military bases and forts and try to pigs totally, to condemn all their works, top has to move — if nothing else at least negotiate a deal, while we, like Indians, to hate them forever, and dedicate one's out of the way. with some real Indians amongs t us, w ill life to destroying them and their system. We shall storm the walls o f their castles tighten the circle around them in a dance A t this point, the Lumpen has lost even in our lifetimes. We are living in the day of death for them and a new life for us. the fear of death, which he first had to that it has become possible for us to conquer before he could kill. He does not snatch a final victory from fiends who have ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! feel himself to be a member of a minority oppressed and tortured us fo r 400 years. DEATH TO THE FASCIST IMPERIALIST group. He knows that he is invincible, Millions of Lumpen, armed and on the PIGS! that he is equal to the world. He spends no ground, persuing the enemy with a passion time debating these points w ith himself. and implacable determination to defeat Eldridge Cleaver He becomes more and more interested in him, are an invincible force. When they On lour Now ALBUMS Loaded Velvet Underground Also on musicassette &Nico The Velvet Underground White Light/ W hite Heat
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