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Description Contents: The irV gin Sperm Dancer. 2p OZ graphic from an original by Thomas Bayrle. ‘The irV gin Sperm Dancer’ extracts and photos from The Virgin Sperm Dancer, An Ecstatic Journey by William Levy with photos by Ginger Gordon + review and reflections on sexuality by Colin MacInnes. 2p David Baird graphic. Photo/ cartoon montage. ‘The oP wer of Positive Thinking’ – social criticism and radical alternatives. ‘Kamikaze Kids’ – Duncan Campbell on Japan + Kamikaze graphic. ‘Bummer of ‘72’ – Dave Robins on Amsterdam & ‘Greeting From the Gate’ - Dick Pountain on London’s Notting Hill/Ladbroke Grove. OZ mail order. Leon Russell ad. ‘Rocks Off ithW Roxon’ – Louise Ferrier listens to journalist Lilian Roxon + illustrations by Roy Knipe. 2p photo of mummified bodies in Mexico – 2p of fun & fantasy sex ads “withdrawn at the last minute on the advice of our crack team of legal advisers”. 2p Oz mail order. ‘On Your Marx…’ – John Hoyland’s response to Joel Whitebrook’s discussion of Murray Bookchin’s ‘Post Scarcity Anarchism’ (“who needs the original...?”) ‘Love it to Death’ - Dr Jerry Rubenfield on alternative sexualities + photo of a sculpture by V. Neiman. Full page John & Yoko/Plastic Ono Band’s Some Time in New York City ad. ‘Hot Rats’ – Simon Morris on a restaurant’s rat dishes. ‘The vE e of Ratastrophe’ – rat facts + Alan Grimwood graphic. ‘Oztrology’ – Ambrose Hollingsworth on astrology. Man, Cheech & Chong, Arthur Lee and Billy Jack ads. Cozmic Comics ad. New English Library Underground Classics ad. Ad for Mick Farren & Edward Barker’s Watch Out Kids. Inside Story ad. Ad for Don Rodriguez: Chronicles of Shadow Valley by Lord Dunsany. Firesign Theatre ad. ‘It’s McGovern! Nudist Victory’ – Lanny Beckman on the presidential election + photomontage by Roy Knipe and Roger Perry. 2p Inner City Romance cartoon by Guy Colwell. ‘Red Sails in the Sunset’ – the dialectics of menstruation by Alison Fell + photo + Tampax ad. Spike: Walt Disney sues West Coast comic artists. Book reviews: Police, Power and Black People by Derek Humphry, To Deprave and Corrupt: Technical Reports of the US Commission on Obscenity and Pornography, The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart, Ringolevio by Emmett Grogan, Armed Love by Elia Katz. Film reviews: The Concert for Bangla Desh, Asylum, Fritz the Cat, Young Winston. LP reviews, Randy Newman, Roxy Music, Cheech & Chong, The eV lvet Underground, Van Morrison. Roxy lady painting by Marvin Rainbow. Help Yourself. Oz back issue bonanza. Ads for The Image and Gay News. Back cover ‘guru’ poster.

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‘The Virgin Sperm Dancer’ which Colin Maclnnes talks about over the page, is an erotic delight in words and pictures from Amsterdam. Here we give you an idea of the book with ^

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i # The Virgin Sperm Dancer, however distinct, are interchange­ and pornographic art, but not of and spirit all as one, and reaching erotic, which evokes, precisely, to rapture and delight in one 'An ecstatic jouney' able - become each other. So Joop doesn't merely turn into sexual love, and not just sex. another. It portrays the paradox is a book by William Levy Joopie: in becoming her, and This is my cue for a philosophical that the giver receives a gift: that with photographs by re-becoming himself at the bit, that anyone's welcom e to 'short times’ are hard ones, that Ginger Gordon. conclusion, he, (or she), reaches, skip, and turn rather to the sexual egotism is sexual frustra­ tion, and that where sex isn’t It’s a bit like a film-script with through sexual fulfilment, a illustrations, which w ill make my stills. The hero-heroine is Joop- total human unity. point much better. beautiful, it’s a mess. Most north-European erotic Joopie, a boy who’s a girl for a The pictures have much to Obscenity, then: the sardonic art is'pre-Reformation, or has day: not transvestite not recommend them. To begin with, bellow of self-mocking protest at doctored, but transformed, as in a Amsterdam itself is used as a the ludicrous contrast between been suppressed (John Ruskin legend. The story is told by 'character' — a lot o f the sex our fundamental animal selves, destroyed all the erotic paintings Joopie herself, by narrators o f scenes are shot in familiar urban and our intellectual and spiritual of Turner, whom he admired so much), or kept under the different sexual patterns she settings that heighten their reality. aspirations; the god-like creature encounters, by interior mono­ None o f the stills — as so often we long to be, admitting the counter in museums where you logues, and even by writer’s in hard porn books — gives the inevitable ape inside us. It’s the can get to see it only by dressing interjections. The pictures show impression of being phonily great safety-valve o f all societies, and looking as respectable as I what he-she and they all do posed: these seem to be real which authority seeks to suppress do. It’s more an art of the orient throughout a day in Amsterdam. people, really doing it all, and at its peril. The wry recognition o f — Arabian, Indian, Japanese No doubt about it, Amster­ however much, the stills may its existence is shared by Every­ whose religions didn’t deny the flesh so absolutely. dam's the Baghdad of the illustrate a fantasy, this never man and Woman, and such What cheers me about The western world. Much o f the seems to be a fake. For amateurs exalted souls as Chaucer, Shakespeare, or whoever. Virgin Sperm Dancer is that its Netherlands are Calvinistic, and of sexual variety, there's plenty Pornography. This is, alas, total effect is, for a welcome in the city itself the free-wheelers o f it; perhaps the group scenes a speciality of WASP cultures, change, erotic. It's rather self- are a minority, though an are a bit muddled (whose leg is from their puritan period round conscious and naive, the text is unusually tolerated, if not that?) but then, in real life they 1550 to, let's hope 1950, where­ often agreeable silly, but its accepted, one. It’s one of the few are as well, and anyway, everyone after, despite a decadent puritan general tone is healthy, so that places, anyway, where sex and possibly the photographer back-lash, we seem to be starting doesn’t have to be secretive, as well — seems to be a bit after reading it, you don’t feel to recover some o f our sexual like having a wank, but reaching professional or exhibitionistic. stoned. The themes do not sanity. Pornography is puritan- It’s also an extremely handsome repeat themselves, and build up for the phone to see if Joop, ism's arse: the rather smelly city, that attracts good-looking as a good film also would, to an or Joopie, are feeling like a meet. behind of the tight-lipped, Unlike porn pictures, which go people o f all sexual types and effective climax in all senses. moralistic (but not moral) nationalities, and more or less A lot o f them are also dead on you when you ’ve seen puritan front. It is saloon-bar lets them do their various things. beautiful. Scanning them, you them once, these ones linger and sex, furtive, leering, ‘dirty’ - as Let’s dispose of the text feel, ‘ Right! G ood! This is really flourish in your memory. indeed, it calls itself. It isn't first, but not too casually, for it!' And I beg anyone who hasn’t A final word to any who kinky, as we all are a bit, but though this is essentially a tried to photograph, film, or might feel I’ve been snooty, or bend; and it encourages, and is picture-book, and the story-line describe erotic happenings, to authoritarian, about porn. I meant to, not communal is picaresque and episodic, there believe that isn’t easy to achieve. realize full well that no judicial sensuality, but solitary reapers is an idea behind it. worth I think the reason for this is body can tell the difference pondering on: which is (if I ’ve simple. There are three human of sad seed. between porn, obscenity, and got it right) not just that bi­ experiences so absolute, that Erotic art. This is a celebration erotica, and would supress the sexuality is okay, but that in they almost defy artistic o f our sexual beings, body, mind, whole lot, and heaven knows real good sex jn an and woman, description: sexual love, mystical what else beside, if they thought states and death. they could. This being so, I Now as to the first, so many accept that, in our society, if thousands o f words and lines have you enjoy obscenity, and been written and drawn about delight in erotic art, y o u ’ve got sexual encounters, that it to put up with porn, and hope might seem this theme isn’t all that imaginative sensuality will that hard to describe. I think replace sexual titillation. And if this is true enough of obscene joy in sex is going to mean more to most o f us than just a snigger, we may hope this Dutch dance may herald, in course o f time, a burgeoning British ballet. Colin Maclnnes

Anyone wanting a copy of the Virgin Sperm Dancer write to: JOY PUBLICATIONS, Postbus 2080, Amsterdam C, Holland.

The Power Of Positive Thinking When social, systems fail the early warning has is a communications system and its no supposed to deal in politics either. signs are a breakdown in what has, in the last coincidence that the DPP has invented a But o f course judges are political creatures. few years, become known as ‘Law and Order'. new offence ‘political obscenity'! Nasty Judges are appointed from the ranks o f the The ‘order’ that the hard hats crave comes Tales is first on the list for the high jump most conservative lawyers. This is supposed to when the law is in harmony with the evolving when this autumn's prosecution season ensure they have no political views. Even the needs and rights o f the people. Law is there opens. labour government when in power goes along to serve the people not the other way round. with the myth and appoints conservative Qriminal trials are an indictment o f a society lawyers. The result is a strong political bench that makes them necessary. If the majority Prisons which claims to be apolitical. No wonder we of the people in gaol are in there for minor reel away from courts in disgust. Better to property offences (say stealing £13.50) what ‘A R obin Redbreast in a cage, have a court like the US Supreme Court where Puts all heaven in a rage' does that say about our relative attitudes to the importance of the judges political outlook property as against liberty. But over and Anon. is recognised. Better that than the sanctimon­ above the perennial obsession with protecting Gaol has never solved anything for anyone. ious hypocrisy that is practised here. the possessions and territorial demands o f the Hands up if you ever saw a man or a woman Lawyers as well must grow up and realise that middle and ruling classes , there are events who had benefited from a prison sentence. what they deal in is the very heart of politics. that mark a collapse o f the social myths that Hands up if you can think o f a w ay that keep the populations quiet. These events are anyone else benefits from someone being sent the political trials, the demonstrations and to prison. Do I see any hands. No. So w hy do Protest we go on using prisons? counter demonstrations that mark the rising 7 feel if I were a student / would willingly Prison was never intended to be used as consciousness o f the opressed and rightless. shout outside for an hour from 9 til 10 and Once it took at least three generations and a means o f punishment. It was a place where then get on with my studies' 100 years for new attitudes to become generally people could be kept in custody pending (Lord Widgery, Lord Chief Justice, Interview recognised. Lawyers thought then that the trial or pending being deported or hung or The Times, 8/8/72) laws lagged 10 years behind social change. put in the stocks or whatever. We eliminated Even if that were true then it is not true now. the other punishments and were left with If people had always kept their protest within The lag is more like lOOtyears. Conspiracy prison. N o one actually worked out that the limits reccomended by the Lord Chief laws, the blanket common law offence that prison was useful. It came to be the main Justice w e would still be working as the is being used against publications (IT etc) punishment by default and the myths about villeins or slaves o f a local baron. Nations only demonstrators (Peter Hain etc) lost its rele­ its efficacy grew up because it was there. The moved forward out of slavery, out of feudalism, vance in the 19th century when it could be bullshit about ‘society needs to be protected' out of industrial servitude, out o f tyrannical used against groups that challenged the ‘you must pay your debt to society' and exploitation and colonialism into some sort ruling classes right to rule in an absolute so on developed because judges had to justify of freedom by the citizens protesting and fashion. Change happens faster now. It the rather strange thing they were doing. putting their lives and liberty at stake. And happens so fast that anyone who tries to Crippling people mentally, making them unable you don’t do that by meekly protesting for maintain the status quo, who says 'this is to respond to their fellows. Doing it by one hour at a time so as not to inconvenience how we have always done it and must go on locking them up in tiny and disgusting cells authority. doing it’ is being repressive. To be conservative for fantastic periods of time. No wonder (with a small c) is to increasingly repress and prisoners strike. Why didn'; they do it before deny. is the only question to ask, and how can we Vote Freak For Democracy currently means a system in help them? which every adult has the right to vote in 'I find it hard to conceive of most routine BetterWeather reqular elections and to choose between at criminal cases not also being political cases. I 'Bad government brings bad weather' least tw o political parties. O f course a say that because so often the person accused Old Chinese Proverb government elected this way can be as o f a crime is poor or black or black and tyrannical as any junta of Greek colonels if poor. He has been subjected to an oppressive In Britain, anyone looking for alternatives and the alternatives don't match the political needs system, and the very crime of which he is changes has been savagely disoriented by the and consciousness of the people. We’re accused is probably a reaction to an oppressive civil war in Northern Ireland. This caused our dangerously close to this situation now where system. Obviously, if a man, black and poor loss o f creative political momentum. In the the electoral choice lies between a discredited disembowels his child or brutally murders a States, Vietnam, the Race issue, poverty and Labour party run by opportunists and con­ robbery victim, the instinctive reaction is that the ghettos and police violence, served to fused hacks and a Conservative party whose he should be punished. But if the system has coalesce and radicalise the flower power drop full remoteness and callousness is in the brutalised him, we have to take that into outs. At the end of one possible trail lay process o f being fully revealed. The present account. Q. Surely you’re not suggesting he Kennedy, McCarthy and McGovern. Reformists government has increased the wealth gap should go unpunished? A. The answer ought perhaps but worth working for in the interim. between the middle alasses and the workers and not to be punishment in the sense that you But the issues in Northern Ireland were not has accentuate^ class barriers by its treatment just put him away in a cell. We need to so clear. On one side o f the struggle there are o f workers as a natural enemy. create new institutions to treat someone like Protestants, the militants o f whom are This 'dem ocracy' is a very new flow er that. (William Kunstler, Attorney to Chicago probably the most bigoted and unpleasant indeed — scarcely more than forty years 7.) people in the world. Put there by the British old, dating from the moment that women Enough people who study the problem to divide the colony the Protestants ruled got the vote after W orld War I. As a system think that under present conditions, no and were backed by British military force. its a long way from being perfect and there more than 50% o f those in prison need to One's sympathies went instantly to the may be better alternatives around. Presently have their liberty taken away from them. other side, the Catholics at the bottom o f the there are many in power who claim that Some believe only 10% need be held. The class struggle and victims o f economic exploita­ the majority party have the consent of the latter figure is more like it. tion. They were represented by both versions people to bring in any law and that this law of the IRA. The IRA fought with destruction is the law and must be obeyed. because that was the only thing they knew how Governments have a duty to enact legisla­ Law& Politics to do. But anyone who remembers the Tammany tion that supports and extends the evolving Law, says the judge as he looks down his nose, Hall politicians of the US, the corrupt and consciousness and freedom o f the voters who Speaking clearly and most severely, expedient censorship o f Southern Ireland elected them. N o law is sacrosanct. Authority Law is as I'v e told you before, politicians, the shut-mind bigotry o f Irish must also choose which existing laws it is Law is as you know I suppose, Catholics who ruled NSW in Australia, thought going to enforce. And this choice betrays its Law is but let me explain it onoe more again whether the IR A and their people were attitude to the people Never before have so Law is the Law. going to build the sort of society we were many people come to consider themselves on interested in living in. But despite that the (W.H. Auden) the wrong side o f the police and the courts. The underground got involved in Northern Ireland industrial relations act, the use o f the conspir­ By maintaining that political matters are not locked for black and white and became lost acy laws, the obscenity laws bear no relation to be brought into trials courts are made the among the greys. to truth or the needs o f society. Our rulers supreme political tool. A government can There have been no choices for us in no longer have the right or the authority to pass a law such as the Industrial Relations Act conventional politics. Who can take Harold govern us the way they do. which is about the use o f legalised force to Wilson seriously? Or Wedgwood Benn? We This Oz, here and in other pages, contains achieve political ends. This law is brought in have to develop our own political alternatives. examples o f the current crisis. G e o ff Robert­ by a Tory government on behalf of the owners Presently ‘the alternative society’ consists of son’s review o f Police Power and Black o f the industrial process. It is slanted against about twenty people in London all talking People (see Book Reviews) is part of the the worker whom the government regards as an about each other in the media plus very small destruction of the myth of police impartiality enemy. Sheltering behind the ‘majesty’ of the provincial groups without any linking strength. and effectiveness. The articles on Amsterdam courts the government imposes its will. Using Lets start a party that will one day replace and Notting Hill Gate on following pages show the courts this way is no different to calling Heath and Wilson and the other Zombies. We the failure of the underground to maintain in the army to make a population behave in should get together and take power in any permanent alternative. All the underground a certain way. An d remember soldiers are not elections. Freaks unite. We’ve had enough. 11 K id i A Flash in Japan - Duncan Campbell

One o f the w orld ’s great chauvinist cliches Gakuyo, an anti-imperialism group a number at the port o f Kitakyushu; and that made all is that the Japanese can imitate anything. N ow of whose members are up on a triple-murder the front-pages. There's a Colorado lady in that they’ve gone beyond transistors and rap after an ambush of two hundred policemen Kyoto selling window-pane acid at a quarter watches and started producing violent rent-a- last September. a hit in K yo to and no one is buying it because guerillas, people are getting a little uptight. The majority o f students, however, are they don’t know what it is. In Tokyo, the Last week the Japanese United Red Arm y more concerned with music, pachinko, supply o f dope is so low that a lot o f glue- announced that they were planning a follow- bowling, and movies than getting it on for the smffing goes on, kids with polythene bags up to their spectacular kamikaze raid on Tel- Palestine Liberation Front. staggering round uncheerfully and getting Aviv airport; no Puerto Ricans this time, ;enly The average Japanese student is about the picked up by the police. One Danish head I ! Japanese cabinet ministers. This they hope to most dutiful in the world: from junior school met was reduced to getting off on the fo llo w with a series o f raids on international he’s been crammed with learning and pressure belladonna extract in his constipation pills. airports to 1 spread world revolution” . So here's to get into university. Once he's at University N ot that getting shit into Japan is too hard; a brief idea o f who they are and where they’re he’s got three or four years to case out the the Customs are so unused to it that they coming from so that you’ll be familiar with scene and dtcide whether he’ll go into business rarely bother to search — even people coming them when you have to leap behind the or government when he’s graduated. Once he’s from doperies like South Korea and Hong Kong, baggage counter at your local airport. qualified, he joins a company and you don't where smack is cheaper than grass, get in with In 1948 a student movement called see much o f him again until his Buddhist no trouble. One fairly freaky minor activity ‘Zengakuren’ was formed to provide concerted funeral. As for the campus radicals . . . well, o f T ok yo students is working for the govern­ action — this was not long after General personell chiefs from the big corporations make ment censor; they color over the naughty bits Macarthur had tactfully credited the average a point o f hiring radicals for their businesses in Playboy Magazine with a magic marker; 1 Japanese with a 12 year old ’s mentality. because "th ey organise w ell and have lots o f Hefner’s introduction o f pubic hair has meant From then on in, organisations have energy.” extra work fo r penniless students. Right on, j sprouted so that there are now more than Musically, the west is big. Recent acts that Hugh. A M J twenty, incorporating about 80,000 have pulled in packed houses in Japan include All this doesn’t explain how come Japanese members. The largest o f these is called Led Zeppelin, Ike and Tina Turner, Osibisa as students are providing manpower for overseas Chukaku, the Middle Core Faction, which well as the Carpenters and Sylvie Vartan. You barricades. Chief o f the investigations into claims 10,000 members. They’re into anti­ hear Grand Funk, CCR, Stones and Japanese student activism is a genial Superintendent imperialism, the American military presence imitators blasting from all the discos; 'though called Atsuyuki Sassa. He reckons that in Okinawa and the rise o f tuition fees. when I went to a coffee bar in the reputed "Japanese boys can be utilized easily . . .they Then there’s the United Red Army, the heart o f the Japanese radical movement in trust foreign people very easily." He feels that ones with the showbiz flair, who skyjacked Kyoto, the Berkeley of the Orient etc etc, they the URA is changing from Trotskyism to Japan Air Lines plane to North Korea in 1970 were playing old Connie Francis albums (I’m anarchism and says; "T h ey still believe before skyjacking was politically fashionable — going to be w-w-aaa-r-m this winter.) I think violence is the easiest way to achieve revolution.' and they used swords not gfcns or bombs. they were joking. ^ ^ Ah so? N ow there's a phrase book out for sale Last February, another branch of the URA Pachinko is big, too. Pachinko is like pinball, in Japanese bookstalls, called ‘Everyday kidnapped a woman in a remote resort villa only vertical and more difficult. Watch out for Expressions in Japanese’ by Hideichi Ono. On and starred live on their own TV show while the new hit ‘Tadashi the Pachinko Wizard’ on page 48, nestling amongst the ‘I want to see they shot tw o policemen and a puzzled your Nippon label. Mount Fuji’ and ‘where can I find a clean neighbour. And bowling. I got a lift with a Japanese hotel’ is a phrase that goes; ‘watashi wa kare o Finally, they tortured and executed fourteen head expecting him to sound o ff about the kenju de koroshimashita’ which means ‘ 1 shot o f their number in the snow country of the U R A or the students strike at Aoyama him with my revolver’. This is an ‘everyday’ Gunna prefecture for “ ideological differences” . University (which has been going on for two expression, ok? And there's a fey little song Some of the execution squad even sketched years) and he asked me my bowling average. you hear Japanese students singing at graduation] the torturings — they’re using the sketches as Even in Kagoshima, home of Kozo Okomoto, ceremonies to the tune of Auld Lang Syne. evidence against them in their trial. They're the sole survivor of the Tel-Aviv kamikaze The first verse goes: Trotskyites. they number about three hundred squad, the other students were more interested Students have, over the years, and they want a world revolution. in a current bowling competition than the Been diligently poring over books The other more militant student groups are; massacre. (Kamikaze, by the way, means By the light o f fireflies ‘ divine w in d ’.) And by the glow of white fallen snow T reaty", which is Maoist and very anti- As for dope . . . well, as far as most young Which comes through the windows. American; the Keihin A m oo K y o to (K A K ); Japanese are concerned, grass is for the golf Now the fireflies are swapped for firebombs the Kansai Partisan Corps which is a bunch o f chibs they aspire to join one day and the only and the only thing the snow does is bury the militant students in the Kobe-Osaka area; the needle they’re likely to get into in a big way is revisionist dead. KAumaru, a revolutionary Marxisf group the acupuqptur ist’s. The Japanese Customs just So next time you’re loitering around an currently charged with throwing molotov hag their biggest haul ever - three Americans international airport, just listen carefully for cocktail parties in government offices; Hantei with four and $ half kilos o f Korea grass caught the sound of someone breaking divine wind.

Even the finest arms are an instrument o f evil, A spread o f plague, A nd the way fo r a vital man to go is n ot the way o f a soldier. But in tim e o f war men civilised in peace Turn from their higher to their lower nature. Arm s are an instrument o f evil, No measure for thoughtful men Until there fail all other choice But sad acceptance o f it. Triurpph is not beautiful. He who thinks triumph beautiful Is one with a will to kill, And one with a will to kill Shall never prevail upon the world. Lao Tzu

ted population. eir point, lerantly with out wax. 'T o a n Freaks with less money in their f amilies f are more amenable to religious fashions than to political ones. (Elia Katz) They even tume< o fAmsterdam are proud as their otolerance f theyas are of £100,000) to for Youth Affairsder Velde, (sic) putsRudi it, van 'The people the hi their ringo fcanals and art the council 800,000 guili park into a hippie encampment, (‘It’s worth it to stop the return bad trip. The people I saw of the Provosand the SquareDam riots.’) or a as Dutch friend calls it, into concentrationcampingfor the hippies. Thereis a house, Sandvaart 5, near the park which has been guilders, into a sort o f freaks’first aid post. It a has flip-room suffering from the after effects converted, at costa o f 100,000 where you can cool out after a when I was shown around, weretw o 15 year old German boys o f

legal is legal ybody i like may be, seems they see effort- Square - Amsterdam’s Cot 1 it is possible to d d thr in places like the Vondel- what is phony or dishonest Kattebu ally around bars, alongwith idise. idise. As almost ws, do and i r, excellent Heineken 1. k and the famous Paradiso itre. itre. Joints are passed Glastonbury: 'The Consciousness III ] no matter how young to possess an extraordinary 'new in politics, or what is uglymeretricious or in architecture and city planning ’ (Charles Reich, 'The Greening o fAmerica’) Amsterdam must Right opposite a police station decks o f which are stacked high painted houseboat called t Lowlands...... Wheat Company, the the side. Asthe c ity Alderman ’s on the there'svery a colour: with ripening marijuana plants, with latest prices writ large on lly by that afl’ kids helped to along newchannels.’ ='■’ ='■’ ‘Arm ed L o v e ’) gentleme ich they wanted to disc W W uise, nol Vi 'Creating anarchic revolutionaries can effectivelymove, directingthe flow of Just Just before from got enough ately Amster Magic Centre that it was th trouble was that this influx Bijlmerme of growing tourism -highways, banks, newshops hotels, and luxury apartments were being to move out to theconcretevery unmagical suburbs such as coincided with a different type built in the old city oldcentre. working Many neighbourhoodswere demolished and thousands o f Amsterdammerswere forced has has disappeared. Many people to live a life which they can’t do and from Spokane Washington, visiting Amsterdam are still able freely at home. If you ’re young

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Photoi bv Dick Bi io i o f bad dope around this year,’ the squalor, apathy and general building boutiques. Dope is commented one of the staff. mindless inertia o f the foreign for the summer, but winter But as well as bad dope, freaks - in particular the more difficult and the Dutcl there's a lot of bad feeling from Germans and the Americans — government wants to take a some o f the local Inhabitants living in the park. It's true that share o f my profits.’ towards the foreign invaders. the air did stink o f dirty It's not surprising that in the T w o nubile young American laid out to dry on bushes prevailing malaise, people like girls were throwing frisbecs flow er beds, and the sound o f Antonio and the merchants of joyfu lly to one anol akwardly strummed guitars and religion, like the Hare Krishna trees and sunshine. monotonous tom tom s (the people, the Divine Light Mission — natives were restless that day) and the Unified Family flourish it difficult to hear the amongst the bewildered youth. anymore. The council, of course, indirectly : is uniquely and he freak armies subsidises their activities, includ­ deeply personal, allowing open mouthed and ing the pushers. There is a club, individuals and groups to express on this city can really Cosmos, in the Prins Hendrikkade their special vision o f the world you hate long hair, dope, where you can do a crash course to all their brothers and sisters.' and American accents, in Nirvana entirely at the (Charles Reich) Due to the pressuring activities expense o f the Dutch Govern­ of people like Wiliam de Ridder ment. These traders in souls, city and the Provadja group, the so- Even exiled poet and all­ administrators o f Youth Affairs, called alternative society has purpose crazy Mike Chapman and the dope dealers all have always been well-subsidised by seemed brought down by the something in common, although the municipality. But while the quality of youthful boredom. they would be the last to admit sleep-ins, Arts Lab centres, Standing on the steps o f the it. They are all purveyors o f hurry underground newspapers like Dam Square where some kids tolerant, apathetic boredom. As Aloha are all provided, the sit literally without moving for the Amsterdam Weekblad, a visitors do give absolutely days on end. Chapman small weekly journal published one o f them exclaimed, 'I can nothing in return. Why then do bemoaned the general malaise in the Nieuwmarkt neighbour­ only feel free in Amsterdam!' the Dutch underground people and said that ‘We have to try to hood put it; ‘The happy smoker This was met by snorts of on doing it? None of them find out what’s gone wrong over is no troublemaker.’ derision from two local commu the last five years." In Amsterdam Mention o f the Amsterdam ity activists who were watching this summer it is impossible to Weekblad brings me back to the nearby. They told me that in avoid the conclusion that the real story from Amsterdam. their opinion the whole much- bottbm has finally dropped out The Weekblad is a paper which publicised Vondelpark experi­ of the myth of the Alternative is part o f a lot o f actions spread ment was a waste o f money Culture, throughout the city which are especially at a time when there Back in the Vondelpark I fighting for more and better are so many homeless families met Antonio Cortiz, a respectable houses for everybody, and in the city. They remarked on community control of neighbour­ is o f cola cans hoods. This is a vital struggle at cruising police vans a time when good old houses are the Studio .7 Information being knocked down to make ‘If the dope business gets way for big hotels and highways. any worse, w e’U see white to Amsterdam in slavery coming up soon . . . I s and under the branched Out intonto dopei from smokesi their over- publicised < o le communities] ig destroyed and the old ( . is being turned into a tourist arcade. One squatter from Nieuwmarkt told me, 'the arrival o f the hippies is no more than the advanCr

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Been down Portobello Road In writing about Nottinghill the temptation is of the Grove, which for you is the Grove. constantly before you to deal in images . . . I've lived in Nottinghill for six years and lately ? Interzone A. Vietgrove, The Free Grove . . . have my own definite image of it. But for a You probably think It isn't wrong or dishonest in any way to change I'd like to try to step back, to put picture the Grove in those terms; in fact it's some distance between us and try to see things that it’s never been better - bigger almost impossible not to. Every report from that the images miss out; processes that are the Grove, from the earliest International Times invisible because we live inside them but and brighter freaks, the smell to the most recent Frendz, represents the view which are going to affect all Grove dwellers of dope thick in the air, music of a crowd of people involved in some way in pretty soon. the life of the area; different views from people Several separate communities are side by and dancing under the motor on different trips; dope dealers and rock side in Nottinghill. with images of it so way, street theatre of every kind, musicians. Claimants Unions and GLF. different that they belong to separate worlds. Black Defence groups and Dwarves, For a hard core freak Nottinghill is a very more stalls, more tourists, more Underground press and political militants . . . special place. Certainly not the Underground It isn’t possible to know everything at once ‘capital’ o f Britain, but more one focal point in tat at only slightly higher prices about a chunk of city as big as Nottinghill. a rather vague network. If you don't live there a warm anarchistic communal you can only grasp those aspects which then you pass through, on your v/ay to Spain. directly affect you, the bits you live in. the India or Cornwall or wherever, or crash there atmosphere...but the living places you hang out and the people you when you're down for a concert. You know carnival that is Portobello Road hang out with. And that adds up to an image someone, or someone who knows someone . . . The area's a scattering o f friends’ pads, in is only the Saturday reflection the privacy of which you smoke, fuck and play music, or maybe do a little dealing . . There of Nottinghill and Ladbroke are landmarks, like the Electric Cinema. The Grove, the areas that lie around Hole in the Wall. Ceres or Frendz market tied together by Portobello Road. And special it. These areas are dying and it hazards, busts and burns, clap and scabies, is probably too late to do shitty landlords and bum trips. For the tourists or well-off visitors, the anything about it. Grove is a kind of Bazaar: London’s Casbah. Antique shops at one end. boutiques at the In his article, Dick Pountain other, and Portobello Saturday in between. sings a slightly bitter So colourful and funky and you can pick up the weirdest things, dear, if you have an eye swansong for w’nai is being for a bargain. Unlike the Arabs they even speak encroached upon and destroyed, English o f sorts. For one o f the army o f Nottinghill social and analyses the underlying workers, or a political activist the landmarks and events are tenants meetings and rent causes. campaigns, the Metro and Mangrove trials. Anyone who has short or Playgroups and police harassment, the area appears as an underdeveloped colony of the long term answers to the j Borough of Kensington, the bad housing and questions he raises, start education facilities guaranteed by an indifferent J Tory Council. A complex of problems, blowing up tower blocks now, I campaigns and organizations. For a white working class family Nottinghill or let us know your I is much like a dozen other parts o f London. It views here at Oz. I centers mainly around their street or Council Flats, their neighbours and relations. Driving a van or maybe working a vegetable stall. Shopping in Tesco's. Trying to keep the kids in Photographs by Alan Marcuson w ith George S n o w to revert to its oriains, thouah those Victoria; those thouah read; oriains, seems its it to revert city) a to f o span life the interlude in an<(short bohemian hippies its for after not now and niggers, wealthy the for built were The Bohemian area which gave birth to the the to birth gave which area Bohemian The affectinc lives. deeply our while control, and awareness passing. relations and economic forms which escape o escape which forms social f economic and o relations pattern aninvisible also It's it. in grass. And f o bits and trees few a buildings, lifestyle weird f o kind any about just tolerate students beatnik and gays whores, and hoods it filled who know all we But explained. Underground is a stage which is rapidly is rapidly which stage ais Underground more than the various communities who live live who communities various the than more would who bed­ and and castles, flats their whose became fit, sitters didn’t who People transie the dropouts, the black, the poor, the easily isn’t vacuum that in to district times richman’s a Victorian from got it Bohemian a ow call H area. names, dumb with for gift sociologists, their what became Grove .). . . The please Sunday a on car garden your the wash in pissing no commun: a obligations: f hassuch o class antithesis middle aapparent the even suburb, (remember community with no ties, none o f the obligations o f a f o obligations the f o none ties, througf passing no just with were people most Grove, world again, a different sort o f community community f o sort different a again, world individual friendships and acquaintances but but acquaintances and friendships certain pubs, individual certain Portobello, places, difficult more the description, the convincing . .. pub particular your in going hippies the door, about next the grumbling on or List Getting Housing trouble. f o out and school significant events, and problems. But the further further the But problems. and events, different with significant space different a in living strong local strong accomodation rented of sort A did. you what much cared one no exciting an like seemed it and cheap were came they why people asked you If that. like at. ’m I get to which trying Grove invisible that precinct to one clue aisin exist can once. worlds disparate such them f o aii in live can one no key at overlap worlds These translation. the less the experience own my from get I o mr xiigs oe epe oe n . . . . in moved people more so exciting more got accidents. and histories personal black scene, there were musicians and poets and and poets and musicians were the on there scene, around black dope was there be; to place or Whitechapel Kensington? or South Penge not and Nottinghill but all the forces had the same origin. Cheap Cheap origin. same the had forces the all but it and in moved people up, built momentum f o catalogue a answers, thousand a get you'd A fter all, those big houses and wide street street wide and houses big those all, fter A The Invisible Grove is on the move again. move the on is Grove Invisible The Nottinghill is more than a collection of of collection a than more is Nottinghill There was a sort of social vacuum in the the in vacuum social of sort a was There Other forces brought the other communities, communities, other the brought forces Other questions answer can't you level one On another it’s population Black the For My own answer is that back in 1966 rooms rooms 1966 in back that is answer own My How did all these people get there? Why Why there? get people these all did How that fact mere The made. is point the But com munity who might have might who munity com and the absence o f f o absence the and resented invaders. resented any

out the sort o f rented accomodation which which accomodation rented f o wiping sort the rapidly are out prices house f o explosion makes a Bohemian area possible. Most land­ Most possible. area Bohemian a makes office or hotel odd the course f o (and blocks bet least. poor a the say to is looking industry since capital, on turn Investors part. its played has capitalism to city centre redevelopment for a high return return high a for redevelopment centre city to does?). (who landlords, little grubby ua apns, mind. of happiness, human pursuit the in all business, is big block) to rent paying f o hassle the need don't they does. Islington or Farm Chalk or Grove the out. but dropping 9 till 5 f o sort A leisure. f o new a etc.,1 way etc middle execs., ad liberal men, the f o (media class generation revealed has whole a to lifestyle head The part. a played Suburbia no longer holds much attraction attraction much holds longer no Suburbia has Culture’ ‘Alternative the f o flourishing B the how project to difficult; is pattern a into And they have power, power, have they And SOLD. a and SALE 1 restaurant' R or FO a there, boutique new a up here, — m tarted aso house-front more is unfold will pattern bits fragmented these fit o T affecting anyway. directly you not often events, isolated back. looking on A t the time they appear as appear they time the t A but only in hindsight, changes changes seen, hindsight, ey’ve in th changes only but the about you tell will f o approve or recognize hardly would gentry people w h o’ve-lived in an area all their lives lives their all area an in o’ve-lived h w people equivalents. modern their are only visible only are These combined effects and the resulting resulting the and effects combined These So demolishing slums and building council council building and slums demolishing So British f o plight economic present The Those changes are happening now. The The now. happening are changes Those Changes in a city happen slowly. Old Old slowly. happen city a in Changes spending power; spending

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The The people. more and more and planet and by built is v/hich system social awhole is culprit The asusual. business transactions, eptae, yay en eesr, such necessary, means any by perpetuates, and prices as except either, them f o aware who people individual the to point can you in. move to is nicer-sort-of-person a if increase defence The changes. these f o signs visible profit from such changes; but they don't don't they but changes; such from profit Sure, underneath. on grinding keep that forces inevitably must which repression against,Police up the standing are White and Black groups the symptoms, the effects, the fighting are cause them or control them; they are scarcely scarcely are they them; control or them cause economic the ff o fight you can how But Claimants, the Squatters, the Legal Aiders, Aiders, Legal the Squatters, the Claimants, ssol lsn . . .. closing slowly is escape another Yet tourists. the for aspic in down. tied isn't who rm h raml col ok f l J ^ ^ ^ ily m fa work, school, f o treadmill the from preserved Road Portobello like curios few a anyone away blowing are without one no good) any blow capital (which winds economic future. forseeable the in exist ’t on w groups’ who get pushed out o f London. 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handles David wants to put about 20 reporters at an afternoon Iggy in films. Iggy is beautiful. tea at the Dorchester. I was in I would do different things with terror it was going to be him. English audiences are just photographed, because she’s so stunned when he does nis things young and pretty and I was like prowling out into the looking a little tired. I said to audience. her, ‘I f you're really serious David’s thing is definitely you shouldn’t do that in public.’ show, like a ballet beautifully Lou R eed’s manager bit her on done. The most climactic moment the stomach so there was a lot is v&en David chases the guitarist o f biting going on. I don’t care. and pretends to go down on him. If she wants to introduce drama The guitarist’s back i^to the to a press conference that's fine. audience with David’s hands She didn’t bite very hard. Some­ holding his buttocks. V ery sexy. one suggested it was patronising I don’t know how it will go over and she was using me for a little in the States. I can’t imagine street theatre, but it was better any other performer making that than sitting round drinking tea. work. There’s a powerful element of homosexuality in rock now Women: that has never been before. I A London visitor in New York don’t mean private lives, I just said to me "T h e only men interes­ mean the acts. People w ho don’t ted in women in N ew York are like David Bowie say he’s a closet over 30 or black.” I laughed, but straight. there's an awful lot o f truth in it. His w ife’s very attractive. Nobody in New Y ork is having The hype would be if they were too good a time in the sexual both straight. I don’t know what area. A lot o f us like to visit they’re like alone. Whether Boston where it seems easier. Most they’re making it or not they people I know are into work are a walking demonstration of instead o f sex. I asked one o f the one o f the possible marriages of greatest looking women in New the future, completely bisexual York what she would rather have, on both sides. She comes on sex or power. She said, ‘ Power, strong to lots o f women so that any tim e.” Part o f the reason you tegin to think that maybe people used to make it with each she's faking it. The reporter in other was because that was the me checked it out, and she only way you could have a deep was apparently expelled from two conversation with an American. schools (Idon’t have the head­ Then I found out you could go mistress’ testimonials on it) for to bed with them and you still being found in bed with other couldn’t talk to them. That was girls, but at school that’s not the end of one motive for going unusual. She does come on strong, to bed with men. Another motive but that’s OK. I come on strong. was to get taken out but that’s Louise: Well, how did she gone too because women go out come on strong to you? alone or together now. They She bit my right tit, on the don’t have to do it for status. right unbared tit, in front o f They have vibrators if they want One last story about Elvis I don’t think Elvis likes being He talked about Elvis a lot. o fthose smileslike 'Bthirty oy wouldn’t million women where like I toam now.’be up at the two ofthem with one for Wallace, which is to his “ Look, I ’m an entertainer and I dignity with which he said that. Elvis. It would be dishonest.he doesn’t But go round stumping beach between himself and Elvis (not top and bottomside by side Ibut assume) and she was still enough of a fan to look credit. about his politics he — allegedlysupports Wallace and Elvis said politics.” I can't describe it, the He grew upin the South and he's I can't imagine radicalising married. He needs it less than alike than the Jaggers. I hear she and Elvis are splitting up. and T om Jones. Priscilla T om Presley said wasthat lying on the shouldn’t think Elvis was. hadElvis a press conference recentlyand he was really poised and don’t have to answer for my closely, Priscilla looks like Elvis entitled to feel that’s where it's at. marriage. Someone said he’d I have an unreal fantasy that andhe Elvis are deeply in love.really They like and understand eachother. Elviscopies him muchheas as copies Elvis. I suspect TomJones is quite well read but I gentlemanly. Someone asked Tom. If you study pictures in drag. They look even more available and he’s in the moodhe's going to take it, but he has anyday. clear indirectly that if sex was no notion o f ending his rather watch TV than make it Some people say he'svery I asked if it were true that Elvis olderis but in their fantasythey think o f him a as young man. Burton. I have difficulty taking familiar type. He talked about staring into this famousgroin Young people should go. difficult to talk to. I ’d been he’d been told he'd betterto me orspeak else. H e’svery and remindedrelaxed me a lot of Richard how important the stabilityhirmarriage ofwas. He made it someone had asked him if his “ Yes” and I found myself symbolises to American women is pretty attractive in a blowsyIt'snot way. fair, they’re probably car is going to make it with them. Vinnie or Angelo, they have tight extraction, theyas say in performance tohas be so vulgar. I don’t know iftheyfollow would through ifthe they chance. were Their given fan clubs are Tom Jones Fanzines. His concerts are great theatre. flow n in expressly to see him and either him or Burton seriously with an irresistible urge to itpoke with my pencil towere see if all it there, but I thinkthe it’scut o f his clothes. What he very is caged sexually. Theyget much don't opportunity around.to Andmess they are still fantasy is that the guy at thegarage who is delivering their These guys are always called curly hair like Tom Jonesthey and are usually o f Italian America. That'swhy his The Elvis thing is the same. incredible. You should see the crotch was padded and he said very important. That generation very sexy, nice women. Their .because they're such an over

book m ore her Yes, that’strue. I don’t think Louise: But said about the male versus the Tom Jones and Elvis Presley: but the point of the event was that to Mailer? She was prettynice to him, she kept pattinghis hand, and he kept patting hand.her Diana Trilling a is membero f an age group that reallyinterests me, the age group ourthat mothers are in like to have younger thinkpeople he's hip again. women, has gone to the ordinary female artist had a great effect Mailer at the Carneigie Hall event, that she really turned on Trilling.Diana They wentlike at eachpiranhas. otherWhy didn’t she do Tom loves all his ladies but he'd woman. for instance that anyone Kateread M illett’s book. When she than most womens' books on on me. She certainly defeated was on with Mailer, what she to get more to ordinary woman. your handbag,” even if it wasn’t menstruating now?" His a study. face That was shock confrontation. T V show. Maybe she too is a little academic for theAmerican Great Public. She should try true. It would have been a great outrageousness could be more directed Germaine could be and she turned to him on national retired in confusion. Of course I thananyone else in the States. T V and said ‘David (Susskind), The audience loved her. He would have said “ Yes,are becauseI knowI saw the you tampax in There was rumoura of her own line to followwith. If her would you know if I was valuable and more important

Greer: Louise: What did she do this She did some good things. The girls in Ms. are not the are frightened to offend her waiting for a machine that will anythingfrom her but would point so well. She’d she'ddo stripanything, on TV, she’d show her Germaine given them a chance. It’s thelike Lennons. She misses out onthe people who don’t want she's brave and outrageous, she does a kind of street theatrethat’s brilliant and puts over a because she can be useful to them. They like her for the things like that. I thought beit nicewould to end this conversation beautiful women theyseen, theyhave ever think she’s generous, are probably veryhelpful people to in real trouble. she is highly intelligent. They listen to my problems. like to reach her on verya level. simple ovaries if it were politic.blew Germaineit with lota of people who She was on TV and the talkingguy to her brought upsubject the of women being different could have loved her if she’d wrong reasons. N o one theappreciates great thing about her whichis her incredible courage. On TV with a big lie. People in New York warm, sweet, kind, no ego,devoted to the cause, all kinds o f think she’s one o f the most heavy ones in Womens Lib. verya I got hostile receptionWomens ta their Centre although they Americans adore her, they think tell me that it loves me and to get their rocks off. I’m when they were menstruating .time in New York (June 72)? Illustrations by Roy Knipe M:

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Joel W hitebook’s article is an im­ of a society devoted to private con­ their own class-interests (fo r exam­ society. This applies to me, too, and portant one. Like the book it is sumption, ancl how this kind of ple, by giving up production for I would be arrogant to think other­ based on, it is an attempt to justify society must be abolished if the profit and going over to production wise. True, everybody should have theoretically the position held by ecological crisis is to be solved. It for use). Only the working-class has more leisure, and w ork should cease Libertarian revolutionaries, in op­ is sensitive to the importance o f an interest, as a class, in ending the to be boring and alienated. That position to the one held by Marxist the experience and ideas o f the present system. That being so, will happen after the revolution, at Leninists. And the position held by women's liberation movement, im­ winning over the workers to revo­ which time everybody will also do Libertarians, dear Oz reader, (in plying that this movement is an in- lutionary politics remains the pri­ the amount of work necessary to case you didn’t know) may w ell be dispensible contributor to the ‘re­ mary strategic task for revolution­ predicate a universal increase in something rather like the position volutionary project' in the West. aries. leisure. you hold yourself. With all this, and more, I agree. The State: it’s not mentioned If there are what the article calls The basic argument o f the arti­ I agree that revolutionaries in in the article. But the revolution ‘futuristic elements' in the counter cle goes something like this: America, and here, must create the is not merely ‘workers control’ culture — and I think there are — Socialism (defined by Bookchin theory and strategy appropriate to (happening spontaneously?) and these elements can only avoid ir­ and Whitebook as hierarchical cen­ conditions in their own countries, the democratisation of social insti­ relevance, isolation and defeat if tralisation, forced industrialisation, rather than mechanically importing tutions. It is also the overthrow of they are able to link up with a strug­ party control of pretty well every­ theories from the past or abroad. I the capitalist state, which uses all gle of the working-class and its thing, etc.) may or may not have agree that Marxists cannot dodge its coercive force to prevent people friends to overcome the common been necessary in the underdevelop­ the problem of the excessive power democratising their work and lives. class-enemy. The notion that a ed countries where revolutions have of the state (its failure to ‘wither It also involves making sure that ‘futuristic’ life-style in itself consti­ taken place, in order to bring those away') in the Socialist countries. I the capitalist class doesn’t regain tutes a revolutionary practice is in countries up to an econom y o f ab­ agree that conditions in developed control of society again after the re­ my opinion wrong. The revolution undance where true Communism countries are quite different from volution. It is also reorganising in personal life is a necessary aspect would be possible. But America those in underdeveloped countries, society so that production takes o f revolutionary struggle — but it is already has an econom y o f abun­ posing quite new problems for re­ place for the good of society as a only one aspect o f that struggle. dance — so the U.S.A. can proceed volutionaries. And I agree that in whole, and not just one individual Finally, freedom : the article straight to Communism (defined these countries the need to attack sector. Will the workers at Fords talks a lot about freedom, meaning by B & W as a society devoted to ideological oppression and bourge­ stop producing cars (which may be­ freedom from external constraints, community, play, sensuousness, ois consciousness — and to promote come socially necessary) just be­ freedom to play, freedom to do what and the ending of alienation). None an alternative socialist ideology — cause th ey’ve got workers control? you want. But freedom is an abstrac­ of the nasties of the dictatorship of is much greater than it is in countries All of these problems require a tion, meaning different things to the proletariat w ill be necessary. where the main social problem is measure o f organisation, a measure different people. There are other A nd this is all the more inevitable, poverty; in other words, revolution­ of centralisation. We can dispute conceptions of freedom which in­ because the environmental crisis aries must focus much more on the h ow much, we can dispute what volve freedom to shape reality accor­ means that the U.S.A. has got to quality o f life under modern capita­ forms it should take, we can dis­ ding to the needs of humanity, free­ put the brakes on production any­ lism. cuss accountability and responsibi­ dom to control social processes way, and concentrate instead on These are all crucial questions lity and party-democracy. A b ove all rather than be controlled by them, creating a society where man lives that the Marxist left in Britain has we can discuss the relationship o f freedom from the frustrations that in harmony with himself and with failed pretty abysmally to grapple the party to the people and their occur when you don’t understand nature. with. own democratic organisations. But yourself and the world you live in. N ow if this argument is correct But most o f the people who read to suggest that the revolutionary These kinds o f freedom — as well (which I doubt) and if it applies this piece w on ’t be Marxists. They overthrow o f the capitalist state, and as freedom from exploitation, war, with equal force to Britain (which will probably be people who will the revolutionary reorganisation of oppression, economic instability I doubt even more, given the ricket- see it as confirmation o f what they society, can simply ‘happen’ from and pollution — can only be gained ty state of Britain’s economy) what already believe. To these people (to below, like an outbreak o f measles, by social organisation; by organi­ follows will be music to every you) I'd like to suggest that the fol­ seems pretty unconvincing to me. sing to end a system which makes freak's ears. Those sadly straight lowing points could be borne in H o w can the.consciousness o f man the victim o f his ow n history workers asking for more wages are mind. one struggle be transferred to the rather than the conscious creator just plain irrelevant. And the Marx­ The Working-Class: where are next without a party existing to o f it. ist organisations who are trying to they? They don’t figure in the arti­ enshrine that consciousness? How But the kind o f organisation and find ways of overthrowing the cle at all. Marxists believe that the are different struggles going to link struggle may well involve certain capitalist state and bringing the working-class are the only class who up in a strategic assault on the sys­ constraints, and will certainly in­ working-class to power, are just are forced to make the revolution tem without a party co-ordinating volve effort and work. So it depends plain wrong. The only people who because of their exploited position the attack? how you look at it. All we know are right are those who are devoting in society, and who are able to make Need such an organisation be for sure is that at the moment a themselves to ‘community, play and the revolution because o f the way hierarchical, rigid, boring, insensi­ minority have a relative amount of sensuousness', to a spontaneous re­ they are organised in production. tive to individual human needs? I freedom, while the majority don’t. volution from below — in other Nearly everybody may have good don’t think so. I think the revolu­ This is because we live in a class words, the freaks! Because these are reasons for wanting a revolution tion in personal life — the elimina­ society. So any talk of freedom the people who are already living (as the article clearly shows), and tion of bourgeois consciousness which does not include the means out the future society, who are what is more the working-class can’t within the revolutionary organisa­ o f ending class society is suspect. creating the example which every­ make the revolution on their own. tion — is a precondition for the Marxists and Libertarians share one else will follow. It’s conscious­ (Something the Marxist left, with success o f die ‘revolutionary pro­ the same vision — o f a w orld with­ ness that counts now, not .political its ‘workerism’, pays insufficient ject’. But that’s very different from out classes, without states, without economy. attention to.) 8ut the ending of saying that the organisation is super­ drudgery, without insecurity, with­ I don't actually agree w ith this. class-society can only be accom­ fluous. out alienation; a world where every­ But I still think Marxists ought to plished by the working-class and The Freaks: here I'think the ar­ one has. the opportunity to develop read this article, and not dismiss it those who eventually choose to ticle leads us up the garden path. themselves to the limit o f their out o f hand. For a kick o ff, it ’s got side with i t That is the classic Freaks can only live their supposed­ potential, and possibly (though this vision — a sense o f the immense Marxist position. If it is wrong, the ly exemplary existence because the is rather harder to predict) a world human possibilities of the revolu­ article>certainly doesn’t say why. surplus produced by workers gives where work, art, pleasure and play tion — which is sadly lacking in The notion that the environ­ them the leisure to do so. Their re­ have become virtually indistinguish­ most left-wing writing. It sees very mental crisis presents everyone with lative freedom depends on the un­ able. This article vibrates with the clearly how individual human- the historical inevitability o f revo­ freedom and toil of others. Ideolo­ urgency o f bringing such a world needs — and the needs of the com­ lution doesn’t help, because while gically they may in certain respects into being. Its urgency leads it to munity — are neglected by consu- everyone may have a long-term in­ anticipate the new society. Material­ suggest what appears to be a mar­ mer-capitalism. It sees h ow the eco­ terest in solving the ecological ly, their very existence derives from vellous short-cut. I don’t think that logical crisis is the direct product crisis, they w ill not do so against their priveleged position in the old short-cut exists.

The political directions signposted by Murray Bookchin’s Post Scarcity Anarchism’ are important fo r all o f us. In the last issue Joel Whitebook discussed the book and now John Hoyland puts the discussion into a UK perspective. Thanks to London's deadhead publishing scene the book is unavailable here. But who needs the original when we have Hoyland on Whitebook on Bookchin on Post Scarcity Anarchism . . . There is only one kind of love. There are many kinds o f sex. Heterosexuality, homosexuality, screwing, balling, and many other and sometimes delightful ways of making it with oneself, other people, animals, inanimate objects etc. Sometimes it is all very sad, though. Men strive to have good orgasms, women strive to have vaginal rather than clitoral orgasms, or to have orgasms at all. Studies have shown that there is N o Difference between a ‘vaginal’ and a ‘clitoral’ orgasm. But men know that there are many kinds o f orgasms. Some are much better than others. Some women have orgasms all over the place. They are usually flickers. Some women never have orgasms. They are lovers who have not found their love. Or they may be lovers who do not recognise their love because they are too afraid. They husband their love because they fear they may throw it away to the wrong person and then they will have nothing. Men fear other things. They are afraid of being destroyed by love. They are afraid they will have to choose between their world and a woman, that the price o f love is their life and the price o f living is loneliness. They fuck a lot or spend a lot o f time chasing it. Men, women. There is no singular pronoun in our language which means Person or Being independent o f which sex they are That is part o f the problem. You are supposed to use ‘he’ or ‘him’ when you mean a person o f either sex. We speak o f Man­ kind to include all people, but w e do not use Womankind to include all people. That is another way o f stating the problem. It’s a man’s world, though neither men nor women are free in it. They are especially free not to love. In this world men are shorn o f their hair and they are not permitted to be beautiful. It is especially forbidden for them to love each other, but that is only the beginning. They are even taught to believe they hate each other and that it is their hate that is denied them, not their love. It’s a topsy-turvy world. In this world women are the personification of love. They are beautiful because o f that. Their beauty, which is the promise of love, is unattainable. Men strive to hold it, but it eludes them forever, always seeming to be they relive and recall a different meet. You are not supposed to somewhere over the next hill. world they knew once, called make love to any o f the rest o f And when sometimes they do Childhood, in which there was the rest o f the people except for grasp it, it crumbles in their hands joy. It is a world of play and it one person who becomes your or flees, and is gone. Or some­ partakes o f love. spouse, though sometimes times they must throw it away or But it doesn’t last very long. exceptions are permitted under die. A t an early age children are certain circumstances, and then it For men must live in a world sent into the world to ‘school’ is only supposed to be fucking. that denies love. So must the where jo y and play are taken away You are not supposed to make women they desire. from them and they are taught to love to yourself even, because Dr Jerry Ri So the two strike a bargain, be part of the world of labour. that is shameful. Boy, talk about which is the marriage contract. So they become a family, hard times! ‘We’re fucking busy, and vi< (Or something equivalent, united by love, but existing in and But withal, generations have ‘Is you gettin’ y o women together am j Nowadays they have this thing for a w orld o f labour. It is not survived and kept the spark of where someone is your old lady easy for them to love even each love alive and always believed ______Inner City Ror or old man, which usually comes other, because the world extracts despite themselves. They lived Let me say, at the risk o f sounding ric to the same thing.) With this a heavy price and lays down very by the sweat of their brow'and contract they create a little place hard rules for them. spilled their life’s blood to keep is motivated by feelings of separate from the world, though The first rule is the one that that love alive, even though they ‘Those who have never known th within it, where ‘forsaking all says you cannot make love to degraded and divided it. They others’ they can know a little your father or your mother or tried to separate love’s body companionship o f happy mutual love. your sister or your brother, who from its spirit; they made the that life has to giv Out of that much of love as is are the people you love the most. body into sex and tried to permitted them under the terms You also cannot make love control it that way so it could ‘Two weeks ago he was dry humpi of this contract, they bear their to anyone o f the same sex you be part of the fortress they were lucky if he remembers my godd children. And in their children are, which is half the people you building against the elements and where we’re going. Couples splitting up. They want a better love. But the secret is to be able to love other people without leaving those whom you atready love, not the freedom to stop lovipg someone. Neverthe­ less, sometimes now it is necessary to give up someone because your love was tod distorted and there­ fore too difficult to maintain. And you tr^ay meet again someday. You can only leave, though, if you believe that there will be love elsewhere in the world for you. You cannot leave the place you are unless you have someplace else to go. And you cannot keep putting your love out into the world unless someone there responds to it. •People are afraid, so if you speak to the deepest thing inside them they may panic, because they fear there is really nothing there, down at the core. That is what they have been taught. They may also be afraid o f you because they do not trust you. That is also what they have been taught. So you cannot lay love on someone. But sometimes, by an act o f grace, it w ill happen. Do not ask m ore o f love than is there. It isn’t always necessary to have an orgasm, you know. Sometimes having an orgasm is a way of leaving the other person. Sometimes fucking is a w ay o f not being with someone, but only with their cunt or cock. In the world o f sex the size o f a penis and so forth may be important, but in the world o f love it’s not the meat and it’s not even the motion. It's your whole life. Your lovemaking is as good as your love, no more and no less. The limitations o f love are the limits of our bodies. We can love only that which touches us. We cannot love those whom we can only see but not touch; we can love only their images, since that is all o f them that reaches us. The possibilities o f love are the possibilities o f community. You can make it with more than one person if you can love more than one person — at the same time. You can share your lover with another, or bless their union if you love them both. We w ill share our lives with as many people as w e are able to love at one time together in one place. We shall be one family, all brothers and sisters, only there will be no incest taboo, for there will be no contradiction between love and innocence. Our children will be our little brothers and sisters, fo r we will be able to : their enemies. world as though for the first accept that they, too, are people The tool they build this timp, and they found it to be like us, only smaller and weaker fortress with is called the Reality beautiful. And it came upon therr and that they know a great deal t e n Principle. Some have called it that they were part o f it and also which we have once forgotten. W< Reason, but that is probably not beautiful. And so they could love will not have to fear their knowl­ a good name for it, since its basis each other, and it was all right. edge or their growing up anymore is fear. The fortress is called You know what happened for we shall have betrayed Civilization, but the real part o f i to them. neither them nor ourselves. eatfh is mainly Technology. Two hippies walking down There w ill be no rules, for abenfield Despite all the craziness and the street. Is it tw o girls, or a love knows no rules and no everything, they kept on building girl and a boy? Sometimes it’s responsibilities. Love acts :e versa.’ Dorothy Parker the fortress until one day there tw o boys. according to its own rules, which d keeping them in dope and dresses.’ was a generation, or part of a Just people being together. cannot be written down or generation, or a large bunch of kids The fact is we are more alike than codified. Love creates its own nance Comics or something, who grew up and we are different. But the real responsibilities, but you do not iiculous that every true revolutionary looked around and discovered differences are groovy because have to choose to meet them. that the fortress was so big and they make it possible for us to When it is necessary to act, to great love.’ Che Guevara. strong and protecting that they fit together. take risks, or to suffer pain to were safe, and they decided they e deep intimacy and the intense It’s not always easy to be preserve our love, we will do so, wouldn't have to spend all their together yet, let alone stay for the promise o f love is jo y and love have missed the best thing time working on it anymore. together; there’s so much not pain, and love is its own e.’ Bertrand Russell. You know about them. A fter difference instilled in us. The fulfillment. they took acid or before they took training of a lifetime. I do not know the future, but g me in the elevator! And now I’m acid, >ust sitting around with We've made a lot of mistakes I know how far I have come. I mn name.’ Young Lust Comics. nothing to do and thus being already. We’ll probably make a believe it is all happening and free for a moment, they saw the lot more because we get to that this is the Revolution. . Photograph. from a sculpture by V. Neiman from Drs P. & E. Kronhausen's 'Erotic Art' John Lennon/ Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band With Elephant's Memory ■'5’nuu’ em ir in ■Xi'iu IJnrk (L‘itt|

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Ring 01-247 6693 Simon Morris is the food and wine correspondent for one of London’s more irresponsible right-wing daily newspapers. His editor refused to print the feature which follows, so he brought it round to us . . .

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It’s an ordinary enough restaurant in Northern London. Maybe a dozen tables, good cutlery and glassware, bright table cloths, m m rather inviting pictures o f chateaux and provincial France on the walls. A menu offering® with the true determination of every British I restauranteur to dispel the reputation of J f T appalling cooking, the staples of French cuisine 1 Slut I at reasonable prices. It’s called The Gadabout, 1 and that’s also the name that Alec Starr, who I runs the business with his w ife Irene, is going to call the yacht he's hoping to buy when the cooking ‘brings home the bacon, as you might say’. Meanwhile, in the converted betting shop u i l i i that lost its custom as Islington gradually grew into a media sanctified paradise of the middle / If *1 \‘tiii \ \ l class, the Starrs seem to be into a good thing . . . An ordinary restaurant? On the surface, i I certainly. But another glance at the bilingual M t V \ \ 1 bill of fare and you’ll notice one particular ‘specialite de la maison’ that tops the lot for originality: ‘Cassoulet de Grand Souris' - or to i put it another way, Rat Stew. s m ‘It goes as well as anything else, I suppose,' I * \ said Mr Starr rather flatly in reply to my first incredulous questions, ‘but ask Irene about it, she's the culinary genius around here. I only do the books.’ Mrs Starr was a cheerful, earthy woman who had spent many years in the Languedoc area of France from where she derived most of the ‘ inspiration for her cooking. She saw nothing remarkable about this particular item on her menu and in fact pointed out that the Terrine de Campagne was made by herself from the same sources. ‘In Toulouse, years ago, just after the war, we often ate a kind of game pie one of the principal ingredients of which was water rats from a river just outside the town. I don't see much difference in the situation here. Islington is literally overrun with rats and mice ► and they’re a completely free source of good animal protein. Alec had a few uneducated objections at first, but the profit angle eventually won him over.’ ‘You don't use a poison to catch them I suppose’ i said, at which she burst into J laughter. 1 ‘Good Heavens no! You’re trying to make 1 me sound like something out of Arsenic and I Old Lace. Sometimes the local kids collect Mi a dozen or so for us and Alec gives them a few MS bob, but mostly we catch them ourselves out K| the back.’ t t j ‘W e’ appeared to mean a large tabby cat which lay peacefully on Mrs Starr's lap as we talked. I had already been shown the kitchen, which was spotless, and the back, which wasn't, presumably to keep the rats coming. The deep freeze contained a number of prepared carcasses, and in a corner o f the back yard was a sheltered cage with several live, remarkable well -fed specimens. Mrs Starr's recipe closely followed that of the traditional cassoulet although the rats (or mice depending on what ‘Well no, actually. It's only been on the rat dish. Maybe thay can’t read French. was available) were marinated in red wine menu since last October. I know o f no law that However, those who could seemed mostly to twenty four hours before use . . . I am breaking, but if I’m eventually told to just chuckle. I must say in fairness to the Had she received any complaints from stop these two items, of course I will. But until Starrs that I have suffered no ill effects whatso­ disatisfied, or even diseased customers? then . . . ’ ever and look forward to trying her excellent 'Not really. There’s always a few polite I did in fact, later that week taste both the cooking again in the near future. She deserves inquiries, but nobody has complained, nobody cassoulet and the terrine, drinking with my full marks for originality and verve. My certainly, has got sick. There was a hospital meal, as suggested by Mrs Starr, a light red original indignation and prejudice have both scare once from here, but it had nothing to do wine. The pate was rather ordinary I thought, been tempered by a satisfied stomach and a with my cassoulet or the terrine. Have you but the main dish was rich and spicy and not to o depleted pocket. Rats, after all, are tasted it? It’s absolutely delicious and one of certainly delicious. My bill for two, including far from being your plastic food. They are the best things on the menu.’ the wine came fe £3.50 not including service. at least organic, free range, and locally bred. I refused to be put o ff my questioning by The Gadabout was I remember listed in Time In their small way, the Starr’s are helping the Mrs Starr's offhand manner: 'But surely it's Out’s food guide some time ago as one of the local council to cope with the ever growing contrary to governmental regulations concerning restaurants where you could get good palatable menace to London of our rodent population. the running of restaurants. Tell me truthfully food at not too inflated prices. While my wife I would prefer an Islington rat to a Surrey has a Health Inspector certified that it’s OK?’ and I were there, several people ordered the battery chicken anyday. You enjoyed your meal at The Gadabout? Then go back for a second helping. Unless we each do our bit to reduce the rodent hordes, w e’ll find ourselves on . . . The Eve Of Ratastrophe

Rat Population: [ for painful relapses long after There are fifty million rats in j apparent recovery. this country. One rat for every Rats inflict vast amounts o f man, woman and child in damage on material objects. Food, Britain. Government statistics crops, buildings, sewers and even reveal that for each o f these rats lead pipes are prey for the there are as many as four mice. We're j revaging pests. In England alone currently in the grip o f a plague the rat is responsible for upwards j of rodents. o f £20 million losses every year. Gnawing everything within O rigins: 1 reach which has food potential Rats and mice have been pests for | is endemic to rat and mouse life. over seven centuries. Both species originate in the East: :he | What We Can D o To Them: rat from Central Asia and the in the first place effective control mouse from the borders o f the o f rats and mice is hampered by USSR and Persia. They have one simple and unavoidable fact: ' follow ed man in his gradual the public at large couldn't give movement westwards. Parasites a damn. Rats are repulsive and on humans, existing on scraps and the usual reaction to the rubbish, the rat and the mouse appearance o f this dangerous are inseparable from man. predator is one of horror but They spread implacably. mice, who outnumber rats four Thirty years ago rats were to one, arouse no such fears. All j unknown in Alberta. Canada and the cartoon conditioning of j the Aleutian Islands. Today they Disney and his anthropomorphic have thriving and rapacious successors has made the mouse { populations. Many Pacific Islands, into everyone's friendly little j hitherto untouched by rats,found chap. He is not. The arrival o f that the invading troops left the mice in your house, if you don't ! native population with an extra see the creatures themselves, look and unwelcome bonus. On the out for their spindly droppings, | Galapagos Islands the introduction can mean losses, the spoiling o f during the last war o f rats and furniture as well as food and a mice has totally altered the flora high liklihood o f disease. A and fauna o f the area. Rats and recent publication by the Working mice were chosen as the first Party of London Public Health travellers into space when Inspectors spoke of ‘many people unmanned rockets were launched (who) appear to have adopted a over a decade ago. policy o f non-violence to pests’ and the ‘apathy’ of the public at large What They Can Do T o Us: to deal with this fast increasing Rats were responsible for problem. England's two most terrifying Directly linked to the above, outbreaks o f disease, the Black is the fact that even if the mouse­ Death, which cut the population conscious member of the public by one third, in the 14th does call up his local council and Century and the Great Plague in get through to the Health Dept., the 17th, the devastation of which he’s more than likely to be told, in London was only checked by 'The Rodent Inspector is out the Great Fire. There are still today, he’ll be busy till this pockets o f plague all around the evening, you'll have to try again world, from South East Asia to later . . . ’ There are simply not Africa to South West America. enough men to deal with a W eil’s Disease (leptospiral fraction of the rodent problem, let jaundice) is common amongst alone make a serious and success­ those who work near wet rat- ful attack on a growing threat. infested areas. Farm workers, Public Health Inspectors, who sewer men, miners and fish are legally empowered to check cleaners are all prey to what can any premises, commercial or be a fatal disease. Trichinosis, domestic, for infestation, are the same encysted worm that is terrifyingly understaffed. In carried by bad pork, is a rat- Westminster, for instance, where borne disease. ‘Rat bite fever' there are over 6000 eating places which is common to both rats alone, has a mere five Public and mice, involves swelling of Health Inspectors. As one PHI i the lymph glands and muscular from another borough pointed 32 I pains. There is a high potential out: ‘The Government should appoint twenty times the number ! continue well fed. o f Inspectors and pay them The control of rodents is a according to their range of duties’: { problem that is as old as the duties that involve checking on air existence of the rodents them­ pollution, noise control, selves. Shakespeare mentions environmental health, housing rhyming rats to death and there and food standards. Once the PHI are traditional curses and incanta­ Has designated an area o f infesta­ tions supposed to deal with them. tion, the actual rodent inspector Cats are a time-honoured anti­ the rat catcher is overworked rodent force and in 930 one finds and the post is vastly under­ King Howell the Good o f Wales staffed. Rentokil, a leading pest regulated the price o f cats control agency, point out that a according to their ratcatching very large proportion of their talents. With all due respect to business is as contractors to the finest ratter, they may keep various local authorities. numbers down, but the most The local authorities are again tyrannical cat cannot really be hampered by gross inadequacies termed an effective agent o f con- in the law dealing with rodents. , trol. In the last two decades The Public Health A ct o f 1936, : control has been mainly in the Section 93, may well empower hands o f an anti coagulant poison PHI's to deal with virtually ‘Warfarin’. So called after the unlimited definition with what Wisconsin Alumni Research is termed a ‘statutory nuisance' Foundation, Warfarin suppresses but there are limits to the force the normal coagulant properties that can be em ployed in clearing o f blood vessels and thus cause rodents out, doing no more, after haemorrhages. Superior to the all, than helping people to help pre-1950 staple poisons acute themselves. In the case o f poisons which depended on domestic properties, especially one ingestion only to cause death rented ones where a landlord is Warfarin has made large inroads often loathe to carry out the on the rodent population. Warfarin degree o f structural improvements though successful, is by no means necessary to fight o ff invading infallible, and recently strains o f rodents, delaying tactics can keep superrats and supermice have been the rodents on the go indefinitely discovered resistant to the as the PHI and his men are kept poison. Only 5% o f Warfarin outside the premises. resistant cases come amongst rats, but 50% are mice. The main Eating Out: alternative to Warfarin is As far as catering premises, pubs, Alphakil so called by Rentokil's cafes, restaurants are concerned, laboratories in fact a poison which come under the provisions named Alpha-chloralose, a o f the Food and Drugs Act 1955 narcotic drug which causes death and the Food Hygiene (General) by lowering the internal body Regulations 1970 there is one temperature o f its consumer. glaring discrepancy: even if a So, if you see a rat or a cafe proprietor has a kitchen or family of mice in your tower even dining room crawling with block or com fy drop-out pad, rats and mice, there is no way don’t just jump on a chair and under which his premises can be scream. Your obscure shut down. All that can happen psychological fears that a rodent is that he is disqualified and the might run up your cunt or arse- average fine that such proprietors hole may be justified, but you have been awarded in the should immediately report their magistrates court is £11. He than appearance, and while you wait simply bypasses the law by for officialdom to do something signing the cafe over to his wife, about it, take such homely steps brother or whoever. Profits as buying a twelve-in-one mouse­ remain, customers still come in trap, some suitable poison or a and the rats make sure they cat

What it is Class: mammalia Order: rcdentia Family: muridae Genus: R A T T U S Species: R A T T U S (the black or plague rat) or NORVEGICUS (the brown rat). But the black rat can be brown and the brown rat black or even pink. Where it is - The black rat is confined to the coastal regions of Britain - mainly the ports where it transfers from ships. The brown rat lives throughout the country. Size - Average body length of black rat: 200 mm Average body length of brown rat: 245 mm. Average length of tail (black): 120 mm. Average length of tail (brown): 200 mm Weight - Maximum weight o f black rat: 215 gms. Maximum weight o f brown rat: 520 gms. Speed - Cruising: 60 cm per sec. Top 130 cm per sec. (Scale speed equal to a VC 10) Power - If rats were the size o f labrador dogs they would wipe= out most forms o f animal life (including humans) within 5 years. Unparalleled viciousness, energy, tenacity and strength make them the most advanced animal weapon of destruction yet created. Today's thought - If a rat does not put in an optimum amount of gnawing every day its incisor teeth grow unrestrained. Eventually they curl round and pierce the roof of the mouth penetrating into the brain eventually killing the rat. T o live a rat must chew. When desperate, rats gnaw the toes o f sleeping humans. Illustration Illustration by Alan G rim w o o d Leo is the Sign o f the King. He is the Sun, the central figure o f his situation. 'Behold, a virgin shall be with child and bring forth a son, and they shall call He is ruler by divine right, not by choice — his or anyone else's. The plan­ his name Emmanuel which means: God within us.' Matthew 1:23 ets o f a solar system do not elect their sun. N or does the sun cause the The above verse contains the entire meaning and purpose of the Sixth planets to do anything unnatural. It is natural for planets to revolve around Sign of the Zodiac. Virgo means virgin which means purity of the place. their sun. However we may love funk, it has no business in a womb. It is the prepara­ Leo is the only House o f the sun. It is a matter o f history that more tion of a body and mind so real and yet so refined that the Christ (true actual crowned kings have been born during the month o f Leo than at any love) can form within. other time. It is the knowledge that this is no fantasy but a here and now living Aquarius is the Sign opposite Leo. As we slowly enter the Aquarian Age possibility, in fact a dire need, which inspires the Virqo impulse. Birth can the whole idea o f bosses and authorities and rulers is being lumped together only follow conception. and thrown as far away as possible. But Leo is still there. All one can really The Sixth House is the house o f healing. Healing is an organic re-adjust­ throw away is his own attitude toward a Natural Law. We can say we are not ment of the body from disorder to order according to natural law. Law and going to think about that sort o f thing any more, but there's Leo, still there. order. We call this disorder; disease, pain, injury, defeat or ill-health. In the The star Regulus, called the Maker and Breaker of Kings, is also apply­ Spirit this may be said to be an illusion but in the body it is real. Cause and ing a certain pressure to the throne at this time. By the continual move­ effect is the first natural law. The disorder is only the effect from some pre­ ment o f the vernal equinox the stars move through the Signs as seen from vious cause. The causer always receives the final effect. A n y violation re­ the earth. In this way Regulus is slowly passing out o f L eo into Virgo the turns to the violator. That natural cycle insists on being resolved before a Virgin. healing re-adjustment can succeed. All of that together makes Leo feel on the spot today. At a time when Zeus took many forms to seduce the daughters o f men. Virgo meets the N ew Age mass thinks rulership o f men is obsolete, the Gypsies say the him halfway for the Christ conception to take place. Halfway between in­ time of the King has yet to be. The Gypsies, of course, are not referring to dividual (physical) love and Universal (Spiritual) Love. Selfless service the tyrant, incompetent, macho-conscious, insane or treacherous. The opens the way for selfless Love. Gypsies speak o f the King. Discrimination is the Virgo intelligence. Until man knows the differ­ "But the poor Gypsies are idealists. T oo bad they're so naive. They and ences nothing w ill ever be the same. Discrimination is recognizing the the American Indians and all who say the true ruler is the perfect servant. difference between this and that, a handy talent for life on Earth. How­ Most o f us think the true ruler serves the people. However, some say that ever singular the creator, the creation is diverse. The lesson o f diversity all people (including the king) are servants o f the one source and the king come before the lesson o f unity. And learning the differences is the is the one who does it best. This was the traditional attitude of Old King­ reason to be born in a Mutable Sign, especially Gemini and Virgo. dom Egypt which required the Pharaohs to be initiates of the Temple of Virgo is the K ing’s Caretaker. The test o f Kings would be up to his Truth and Service. These kings by divine right were called ‘Winged royal chin in loose ends without his careful servant. Who else would follow Pharaohs because their awareness was free from the restrictions of time and an act like Leo? Without Virgo things would never get back together. space. Virgo translates the Command o f true Kingship into the Service o f true Practical occultism says that a model o f the universe is the only success­ Caretakership just as L eo intends. The Earth-Signs, Capricorn, Taurus and ful structure. The king is the sun, the people are planets and the kingdom V irgo are the Stewards o f the King. is the solar system. NO warmth comes from the sun nor any light. Energy Organic ecology is a special work of the Sixth Sign. The King’s Care­ comes from a sun as the influence o f its own aliveness. This is turned to taker is actually responsible to Mother Nature first and then to the King. heat and light by the atmosphere (aura) o f the individual planet. And it’s all up to the King to understand that priority and to lend his King­ In the presence o f a true king men are inspired to be not the king but ly aid. Virgo is the green-thumb. A n essential key to organic ecology is the higher versions o f themselves. The more inspiring the king the less com­ group psychic intelligence of Nature. Virgo, the Mutable-Earth Sign is the mands he has to give, unless for other reasons the people see him through most psychic of the Twelve. a false image. This may be due to their own limitations, or by the king’s in­ Selfless service, in the terms o f the Sixth Sign, means to serve without tent. involving one’ s self except to serve. The Sixth T rite isn’t always doing it The top of Leo is no longer aware of the existence of pride or the atten­ that way either but they are always ready to. tion o f others. His aura is so coherent as to cause order in his environment. Virgo is conservation which involves having what you need when you The calmest place in battle is where the king's banner stands. need it because you haven’t used if for anything else. Conservation is not The love o f L eo is the warmest love o f all, shining without discrimina­ only of things but also of energy, interest, forces o f creation, etc. The tion. The loved one is usually aware mostly of the warmth which does not mystery o f true celibacy (not to be confused with a sex hangup) is carried bum, the example which does not ridicule. Nobility which is real is our re­ ■by Virgo. It’s being plugged in without shorting out, a connected hose with minder o f human excellence, not our goals but our standards. no leaks. The Tarot Trump represents Leo by the card entitled Strength of Simplicity is at the top of Virgo. Peace comes with simplicity after we Fortitude. This card illustrates the direct influence of mind over matter. In have thoroughly learned and loved the details. Peace. No more alternatives, reference to the star Regulus, the star also shows a fair-haired virgin over­ no different versions, just simple truth, beautiful and pure. powering a lion in his natural habitat. Obviously, the strength is not physi­ Bravery and steadiness under fire is a tradition o f the Sixth T rite o f cal. In the lower Arcana o f the Tarot it is the 5, 6, 7, and King o f Wands. Heaven. This is the cool courage which awes and finally terrifies an enemy Leo people usually have cleft chin, curly hair, broad shoulders, graceful when he sees his most terrible weapons have seemingly no effect. The Virgo or otherwise emphatic walk. brand of bravery can, without firing a shot, compel the enemy to retreat or Yellow , E-natural, Sunflower, Daisy, Marigold, Lion, all cats. Cat's-Eye, surrender. The origin o f this wierdly beautiful heroism is deeply personal, Gold, The Christ, The Nubean Lion o f Heracles, Creative o f the I Ching, unexplainable by anyone, incomprehensible to anyone else, a secret pearl, the Child, the King. something deep and intimate within every comrade of the Sixth Trite. Love is the Uniting Force o f Creation. The other o f the two basic forces is Weirdly beautiful, compelling, powerful and mysterious; the Eighth House that which separates. A t the beginning and at the end o f an Eternity all is of Heaven is the most occult, perhaps even by far the most important of one, but in the immeasurable meantime o f all time, there is that which the Twelve. For Scorpio is the secret of the Creation itself. Neither play­ pulls apart. Both are righteous, evil dwells in the extremes o f both. ground nor laboratory nor message center, the physical body is the livino Creation moves through a system of seven eternities, the Seven Days of temple of the Living Body. Scorpio represents the altar of the Holy Inner Brahma, o f the Judeo-Christian Genesis, etc. What we call 1970 A.D . is a Sanctum. Let those who enter, enter in spirit and truth. microcosmic speck just past ‘noon’ of the fourth day of creation. The Scorpio is the key to birth and death, each to be found in the other. memory o f orthodox history o f mankind is said to cover a little more than Birth and death are only interruptions of the life o f a human being. The a minute of an hour of a Day, or Eternity, of the Creation. same forces which generate a mortal body through the process o f repro­ The human spirit is a single spirit composed o f both masculine and duction can‘regenerate an immortal body through the processes of trans­ feminine principles. Through all seven eternities of the Creation, each indi­ mutation. The very same forces which most everyone carries. This transmu­ vidual experiences and expresses and lives as both together, as the single tation requires control, refinement and redirection of these forces. Those being that the human being is. There is one exception as taught in the who attempt such a thing prematurely or in ignorance are candidates for schools o f the Wise. The exception is the noon hour o f the fourth Day o f violent disorders o f the mind and body. Creation. So the real value o f Scorpio is seldom realized because we keep the For the purpose of total experience and expression through form or wrapping and abandon the gift within. I. Men who seek out Scorpio wom­ matter, temporarily, for a few million or billion years, the human spirits en (and vice versa) because of the anticipaed preoccupation with physical are living their incarnations not as whole beings but as only their masculine sex are doing them no favors, only contributing to the Earth-bindinq of a or femine half. For this temporary period only, Adam is divided into . soul. 2.3. Adamandeve; and the human form is temporarily not produced by the Intensity of purpose is the clue to the Scorpion presence. Children of individual human spirit but is re-produced by two individual bodies of fiery Mars, sprung from water and the red star s burning, from far away opposite other halves. For this was the Sign o f Libra created by the im­ they come streaming, in long glittering yet dark processions from incon­ mortals during the Lemurian period of the nearly out-of-reach past. Before ceivable homes into the great dangers; the incamational. Down through the that Virgo and Scorpio were one Sign and there was no Libra. under-depths o f Creation then twisting, turning up and faster and into the Libra is the Sign o f marriage and partnership and of the uniting oppo­ strange light o f Earth. Never fully incarnating, never quite here, Scorpio sites. Libra represents the fact that we are, each o f us, only half here, the like all Water Signs is often confused by seeing into tw o worlds at the same other half is in Heaven. Love is the unity o f spirit, marriage ( ideally) is the time and not having any standard by which to tell which is which. duplication o f Earth o f the same unity. To know a Scorpio (or a Capricorn) is possible but unlikely. However, Venus is the Ruling Planet o f Libra, Sign o f response. Sun, M oon or a Scorpio friend is usually all you need to accomplish evolution, the reunion Ascendent in the Seventh Sign responds directly to both their surround­ o f the Creator and the Creation. ings and circumstances as well as their Earth-mate or not. N ot only is Scorpio consciousness does not articulate its awareness the way most of Libra the Sign of Partnership, but Librans need the response o f an interes­ the rest o f us do. It's an awareness o f emotional impression rather than o f ted other person to stimulate them and inspire them in whatever they are actual circumstances or environment. Unless one is also a Scorpion or else doing. The regenerative power of a true partnership in the Light is inex­ is used to this, no practical inform ation passes. T o know a Scorpio is to haustible. That o f appropriate Earth-mates is the crown of the incarnation. know the way through secret lands at night when the shapes o f things seem One and one make three in every creative process. different, and sounds are deceiving, the eyes squint and find they see better Appropriate response is the K ey to military success. Libra is not only when they look to one side of things. From somewhere comes the muffled the Sign o f love but also o f war and the game o f chess. roar o f falling water. A shadow passes across the Moon. Y ou realize there Recovery of equilibrium or balance is the activity of justice. Libran in the darkness that you've lost the way. 4. But you never whimper or drop people are very concerned with the fairness o f things and many o f them your sword. For you have a secret which no one else knows which will save know a lot or at least have accurate instincts about what is just and fair. So you. 5. they weigh and they measure and sometimes they never decide. With no­ Scorpio is the secret weapon of the Light which is carried in the pouch thing strong enough to respond to they may let things hang in the balance. of the Fool of the Tarot. It’s also the secret weapon of the Shadow for all Refinement is also a major concern to Libra. The Seventh Sign is the weapons have two edges and only the means can ever justify the means. A ll expert in what’s crude or clumsy and what’s graceful. Harmony is the ob­ means are ends and all ends are means in themselves. ject in the Seventh House of Heaven. Not discord but harmony, sometimes Perhaps the next most obtrusive after Aries, whatever we may feel at all costs. Sometimes the laziness o f the Sign hides the basic interest in about the Scorpions among us, we cannot ignore them. Routine procedures, refinement and neatness. such as breathing or crossing a room become big attention-getting produc­ Beautiful may include the pretty but it’s also different. Venus, God­ tions because of the colossal and seemingly undue intensity which they dess o f Love and Beauty, shines twelve ways. In Libra is shown beauty o f bring to bear on anything worth paying attention to. The briefest of con­ line and form, not depending upon inner beauty. When we say ‘Beautiful versations can be exhausting when in the grip o f the Eighth Sign. It may be person' we usually are referring to the person inside the form. But what the wondered what they do between crises unless w e understand there is no be­ Seventh Sign tells us is that there is such a thing as beauty o f face and forir tween, no hanging out. If we want to help a lot we can provide a resting which can be seen regardless o f the Light shining from within or not. place. Among the lore of Libra is to be found; F-natural, green, aloe, myrtle, Blue-green, G-natural, Cactus, radish, hot spices, flying saucers, w olf, clover, rose, peacock, wheat, com, poplar, cypress, blue-eyed blonde, clas­ reptiles, scorpion, eagle, hawk, falcon, 13th Tarot Trump, five, six, seven, sical art, chemistry, cooking, emerald, green jade, moss agate, nectarine, o f Cups o f the Tarot, and on the Tree o f L ife o f the Hebrew Kabbalah, maple leaf. O f the Tarot; tne third trump, Daleth, the Empress, and the Scorpio is included on the 24th Path which connects the Spheres of Venus eleventh trump called Justice, and the two, three and four o f Swords. and the Sun. High and clear in the Southern Heavens, on the edge o f the Celestial Sea, 'Perfection is born in a humble obscurity.’ swing the stars o f Sagittarius, gatelights o f the central glory o f the M ilky -Confessions o f a Sea Goat. Born beneath the northern lights of the Way. Called the Illuminator of the Great City, Light of the White Face. Winter Solstice, the Tenth Sign is the Sign o f the Christ Child and, as was According to an old book, after the great flood subsided and everybody Jesus, is on Earth to demonstrate the Truth that mortal man can attain per­ was talking it over, God made a covenant with mankind in which He pro­ fection if he is willing to set no other goal before him. mised it would never happen by water again and also that the sons of Noah There is often about Capricorn the air o f divine mission, there is always would one day regain their lost place as the Kings of the Earth. As eternal the sense o f purpose, o f careful secret plans. And like Jesus o f Nazareth (the reminder of this double promise God placed the rainbow in the sky as the greatest of Capricorns) these people are able to accomplish their work with arc o f the covenant. The rainbow, promise of a clear clean sky and fresh the barest o f essentials, able to endure incredible hardship, able to climb air after the storm, is a traditional symbol o f Sagittarius, the fiery optimis­ far above pride and the need o f warmth. tic Sign following watery purging Scorpio. Also as was Jesus, Capricorn is familiar with misunderstanding, denial, All cycles come from the Ninth House of Heaven. Cause and Effect is even treachery from those he loves and serves and for whom he prepares the principle o f karma. The gambling halls o f the world are supported by his final sacrifice. Capricorn is acquainfed with loneliness and deep gloom the Sagittarian fascination for the turning o f the wheel. 'All things to their and has entered into the clawing darkness o f profound fear where awaits ■creator return.’ L ife is movement and all movement is in cycles. A cycle is The Adversary. made up o f departure, turning point and return. At the short end of the stick is that unfortunate Capricorn, and enemy Aries and the Mutable Signs (Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius and Pisces) of­ to humanity, who is here to ‘cream the scene’. His plug is in upside-down, ten suffer from a severe speech amphetamine. These are the Signs of articu­ he misses the point and employs his power and abilities for personal gain lation, of putting it into words. The larynx or voice box was once part of at the expense of his fellowman. The Tarot trump card for Capricorn is the creative organ along with the brain and the genital. The potency of called The Devil.'And therein lies a well hidden, disguised Key. speech is regulated by the econom y o f its use. Restraint builds power. Seldom, if ever, does the likelihood of failure occur to Capricorn al­ Speech handicaps and impediments are typical of the karma o f overtalk though they are quite aware o f its possibility. Where others may see a de­ while refusal to talk at all is like refusing to create, which was the sin o f ficiency, they see a stage o f growth. T o the Tenth Sign nothing is impossi­ fallen angels. ble but there is much which is impractical. Practical idealism is one o f the virtues o f the sons o f the warrior o f the Capricorn does not need contact with other people to assure him o f his rainbow. This often expresses itself through rhymes and rhythms. own existence nor to protect him from his fears. In fact his own company Running through the trees is an action symbolic of the Ninth Sign. Free­ usually gives him more satisfaction in this respect than the company of dom of movement is esoterically associated with the legs in general and others, whose chief influence is to disturb his thoughts. T o him most people the thighs in particular. The outdoor Olympics were a Sagittarian celebra­ spend far too much attention on non-essentials. Well accustomed to hard tion of these Truths. work himself, he knows from experience what to expect from others. Jupiter, Lord o f abundance and laughter, largest o f known planets, is the The Capricorn attitude is not to participate in anything unless ready to exoteric ruler of Sagittarius, the Sign of the big picture. The view from the give one's all without hesitation. His policy with those working under him. Ninth House o f Heaven is a sweeping view, hopeful and long ranging, un- is often ‘don’t tell me about it, just do it’. This can be very frustrating to 'obstructed and clear, not restricted to ‘now’, not caught in local details. those who enjoy telling how it happened. Planets in Sagittarius or the IX House o f an individual birth chart are The Cardinal Signs are the leaders and instigators, the Earth Signs are noticed to be much more refined than in any other place on the chart. The tangible and solid. Capricorn is the Cardinal Earth Sign. Being the Tenth VII House and the Sigh Libra are next in this respect. The very subject of Sign, Capricorn is the House o f the Mid-Heaven which is the top o f the refinement itself is extrem ely difficult to discuss or understand except Zodiac. Often found engaged in governmental duties, he walks the danger­ from a refined point of view. Refinement of food usually turns out to ous path of the potential dictator although there is no better leader in mean the removal of that which makes it digestable. The esoteric meaning times o f emergency of great stress. of refinement is the removal of the precious stone from its matrix, taking Because o f the overwhelming power o f the Tenth Sign, its characteris­ the diamond out of the rough. The refined includes the classical which tic vices are among the most dangerous: selfishness, cruelty, submission, means that which is always appropriate and graceful. fear, suspicion. However, when the Higher Self is in charge, Capricorn is In the great Ninth Mansion of Heaven in the Hall of the White Knights, the most devotional of all, fond of religious and inspirational music and mighty heroes o f the Light, mortal men whose life and being are dedicated literature, dependable, honest, the father image. to the extermination of organized evil on and about the planet Earth. These Womanhood and Manhood are most readily and fully expressed through are St Michael’s storm troopers, the specially trained elite o f the First Ray. the polar-opposite Signs o f Cancer and Capricorn. Just as Cancer is the For they so love their fellow-man that they willingly do whatever it takes most difficult incarnation for a male, so Capricorn is for the female. In its to protect him from those who would enslave or destroy him. highest place Capricorn stands as the model o f manhood. The upper Initiation of Sagittarius is represented by the Centaur of The Tenth Sign is wise in the use and necessity o f structure and form, in Thessaly; the galloping body o f a horse, from the shoulders o f which rise the value of uninterrupted process and the freedom available only through the upper torso, arms and head of a man shooting an arrow from a bow. discipline, the abundance that comes only after limitation. Man rises up out o f the animal (which is already running hard, i.e. doing Sorrow, loneliness, disappointment, betrayal, persecution, misunder­ its best) and yet there’s even more. There is the arrow. standing, pain, false accusation; all are but a part o f the tempering and test­ Blue, A-flat, Tin, Horse, large animals (the dog is not the favorite animal ing o f the spirit by the Tenth House o f Heaven. Jesus was approached by a o f Sagittarius although in folk tales are to be found men to hold nocturnal Nazgul and offered possession o f the Earth if He would stop taking it all so dog barks), iris, sapphire and star sapphire, tall trees, wide-winged birds, seriously. cathedrals, high-flying airplanes, long skirts, the Christmas season, large Saturn rules in the Tenth Sign o f the Zodiac, Saturn the Preserver, Sat-

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Wary o f politicians’ polished lies, Neglected as a result o f her husband’s hectic ‘move into a commune.’ She did not, however, the voter was eager for the tarnished truth. He schedule, Eleanor McGovern had begun an exude optimism abotit the relationship. ‘Life wanted leaders he could relate to — real people affair. The Senator, violent and uncontrollable is not easy for lesbians in Am erica,’ she said. with real lives. McGovern and Eagleton, the during his periodic drunking binges, reacted to Senator Eagleton is still in hospital under polls show, are those leaders. his w ife’s sexual adventures by ‘punching her psychiatric care. Through September and In a brilliant and unprecedented strategy around a bit’. October he remained extremely withdrawn. launched in mid-summer Vice Presidential All of these leaks were verified by the Despite countless approaches by the press, he candidate Eagleton frankly disclosed that he candidates in a series o f historic press confer­ refused to utter a word about his condition. had been hospitalized several times as a ences. In record numbers, the American By the time voting day arrived, the psychiatric patient. Making matters even populance stayed riveted to their T V sets. American people were addicted to the New better, he confessed to having had electro- Richard Nixon and his administration, Politics. They could not imagine four years shock treatmenst. sticking to traditional campaigning techniques, away from the public honesty which had ‘This is the kind o f openness and honesty faded into oblivion. The war escalated. Infla­ become the trademark of the new Democrats. you can expect from our administration,’ tion and unemployment soared. 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Asked how he felt about the people wanted the Missouri Senator back. plea for the nudist way of life. ‘If we would the election result, Mr Eagleton replied, ‘No They wanted a candidate with the guts to all remove our clothes and be truly naked to com m ent.’ admit he had been a mental patient. With each other,1 he said, ‘our social problems The Democrats have re-written the flawless timing, McGovern acquiesced, rein­ would disappear tomorrow.’ strategy manuals, They have shown that the stating Eagleton in mid-September. The He regretted that Senator Eagleton could ‘issues’, which were so pressing in the spring, ‘open politics’ had won its first decisive victory. not be present, but unfortunately his running need not be distorted nor lied about. They Appearing shortly thereafter on NBC news, mate had succumbed to the enormous pressures can simply be ignored. 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free — from —from free all o f the the f o this summer. But they are, after all, mostly very young, on holiday and cannot really be expected to contribute to the Amsterdam scene which has been built up with so much effort over the years by hard working and dedicated radicals like Dave. Amster­ dam, I hope, will blow their minds a little bit, and give them some idea of what they can achieve when they get back to their own communities. Even if these young heads Australia has never had any are uninspiring en masse, problems. It was large, most o f them rich or poor easy to live in, under popu­ do have a vagabond or lated and affluent. It was vagrant mentality, and to never invaded or threatened some extent therefore and always protected by they know what freedom great powers. Given this can do for them. unique advantage, it had One of the key ways those the time and the social in power have ground us space to create a civilisation down and atrophied our that was unique and impor­ thinking, is to keep us in tant for the rest o f the the one place. I notice world. What happened? that in the O xford Diction­ Nothing. English red­ ary there are two definitions neck values were given of vagrant, or vagabond. their head, and an intolerant Firstly: Vagrant: Wandering racist society has grown roving, strolling itinerant, up that is so terrified o f the as a vagrant musician, outside world that anyone indulging in vagrant not white is refused per­ speculations. A wanderer, The Stoke Newington Trial has been adjourned until September 15. Mr. Justice James is an idle rover. Sounds w hooping it up on the polluted Riviera, and the lucky 8 are pictured here taking it easy pretty aood, doesn't it. in the Tangier sun. Secondly, there is the definition in law. Vagrant: back. Rapidly a cirsis has forearms, and just the head Am sterfuck it all, you an idle and disorderly been reached. The aboriginal in their hands . .. people hippies, belt up. person o f any o f three symbol of protest, their were thrashed in their cells In Bummer of '72, else­ grades, liable to various embassy on the lawns o f . . . the smell o f death is in where in this issue, Dave terms of imprisonment. government house in the air. I am truly sick Robins is pretty rough on Immediately the word Canberra erected on 27th because the people have the young heads w ho have vagrant, or vagabond January, was on 20th July, no way in which to defend descended in their becomes undesireable, ripped down. Violence themselves.’ apparently mindless bored and vagrancy something to broke out between the You don't read much thousands on Amsterdam be punished. aborigines and police. 8 about all this in Australia - mission to live there. people were arrested. the issue is such a critical Within Australia, the people Tw ice since, attempts to one that the media whose land the settlers reinstate the embassy have automatically scale it had taken, the aboriginals, been brutally put down, down. ‘You wouldn’t read were treated as second class with many arrests. Bobbi about it} is a great animals and gradually Sykes, one of the black Australian expression of killed off. Those left were women charged writes: surprise, and it reflects the put on barren reserves, ‘The Government has Australian mentality per­ lumped in shanty settlements declared war on us virtually fectly. You wouldn't. you wouldn’t put your dog we were systematically Anyone wishing to help in and degraded by denial smashed into the ground by the Australian blacks with o f citizenship rights. The riot squads who were called their legal defences and aboriginals’ infant mortality in as reinforcements . .. organisational activities: rate is still one o f the the pigs were using electric contact: highest in the world. prodders to knock people ADJAB, Belatedly black power has out. They wear them con­ 19 Sandwell Mansions, come to Australia and the cealed in their sleeves, West End Lane,[ aborinines are fighting batteries strapped to their London NW6.

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Richard Neville, the well- known journalist, currently in the States, covering the Miami conventions, and dropping out on a commune in N ew M exico which he says is like Bali without the beaches plus real live Indians, reports that Ger­ maine Greer had a bad time at the Democratic Party Convention because she didn’t get laid. ‘I t ’s all tease here,’ she told close friends, ‘George McGovern prick teases the youth vote, and Warren Beatty does the same thing to me.' Julie Christie tried to get Beatty and Greer to come together for McGovern, and offered Beatty a one night stand with the Womens Lib champ, but the offer was respectfully declined. Germaine has taken revenge on everyone, including the Democratic bigwigs in her forthcoming article for Harpers Magazine, entitled tentatively, The Big Tease. The morning after the Democratic Convention’s last night, Jerry Rubin, Abbie Hoffman and the other Yippie leaders were When did-you last see Bob Weir o f The Dead with his forcibly retired from the Warren Hague, the prominent Gay Lib activist, who has shirt off? Movement. A. J. Weberman, recently taken to wearing toe nail varnish, is o f the opinion former garbage collector, that when straight men eventually get round to making it OZ Trial Echo forced at the heaviest now a leading zippie, with a guy its often because they want to suck a cock, or During the five o'clock stage, o f their addiction presented the yippie chiefs be fucked, two experiences not available to them, obviously rush hour last week, to economise on food, and with gold watches and enough, on their usual sexual rounds. To guys nervously irrepressible Oz man existed frugally on retirement certificates. contemplating their first homosexual outing, Bobby, Felix Dennis was travelling Nestles Milk and Ambrosia ‘You've been ripping the pictured above, offers in addition, the security o f a nice on the up escalator at Creamed Rice. As a supple­ Movement off with books pair o f tits. Since this photograph was taken, wanting again Leicester Square tube, when ment they had a brilliant and lolling in your pent­ to be just one o f the fellers, he has had them surgically he saw going down, idea. Every time a friend house hotel suite while removed. wearing a bright green came to jack up in their flat,- we've been in the park sweater, the woman mem­ they levied a toll o f a organising’ shouted A.J. ber o f the Oz trial jury we works-full of blood (2 mis) and other zippies outside all referred to as the brassy which was then emptied the Albion Hotel, while blonde. We have never into a large green TUpper- the yippies poured water been able to find out ware bowl in the kitchen. on them from their top which jury member stuck Come Sunday night, floor windows. A birthday out for not guilty on all their flat being something of cake was presented to counts, so Felix gave a shooting gallery, the Jerry Rubin, now 34, chase, intending to ask her. bowl would be full, and inscribed with the message, By the tim e he’s run up, the contents transferred ’Never trust anyone over changed escalators and to a double boiler saucepan. 30 — J. Rubin.’ Abbie reached the bottom, One chopped Spanish onion, H offm an answered allega­ she’d disappeared. Felix a pinch o f sage and thyme, tions of selloutism by had four choices — cinnamon and ground explaining that he single- Northern Line, north cloves salt and black pepper handedly ‘turned on ’ 70 and south, Picadilly Line, plus half an hour’s stirring delegates to the Convention. east and west. Dozens over boiling water produced Each night, he wandered the of people, their parcels, a very palatable black floor with a small powerful their umbrellas, were pudding, which was eaten phial of THC, synthetic knocked flying as Felix hot, in the best Northern cannabis, with which he took off for the Picadilly tradition between slices o f accosted delegates, Those Line and desperately Mothers Pride with a cut afraid of being unhip, roamed both crowded up raw onion. dutifully put out their platforms. Likely looking tongues for a dose of blondes had their papers counter culture. No news and jackets ruthlessly of immediate revolution ripped aside as he searched so far. for a green sweater. She was nowhere in sight. Up We missed out a few credits the stairs to the Northern last issue. The painting on Line — pandemonium as the cover was by Patrick he charged along the plat­ Woodruffe, and the boy form — there she was, at in the landscape on p.41 the farthest end! The was by Andy Asser. Both train stopped, ('Outta my artists can be contacted fucking way,’ shouted through Capricorn Graphics. Felix) the crowd surged T el: 637 1585. m forward, he yelled for her to stop, but as he panted up, the doors closed and the brassy The Walt Disney Productions 700,000 dollar civil action blonde was whisked away. against a group o f West Coast comic artists for copyright The chances of running and trademark infringements, unfair Competition, Trade into her again are about Disparagement, Intentional interference with Business, is a million to one. proceeding. Air Pirate Comics, Nos 2 and 3 which have been withdrawn from sale in the US feature, featured Minnie It’s All In The Blood - and Mickey Mouse, Bucky Bug (pictured above) Donald the vampire freaks. Duck and other Disney favourites such as the Three Little Some young gentlemen of Pigs and Zeke W olf. Instead o f suing, they should give our acquaintance, having thanks for the image brush up, bring out Disney fuck a heavy needle habit, were comics and make even more money. 47 erous vanity of the robes and the defendant is proved beyond journalist, but long overdue. wigs in which judges and a reasonable doubt, decide Pusillanimous press coverage barristers parade both in and out instead whom they would least o f trials, and the generally o f court and which strike awe wish to harm - the prisoner, or servile attitude o f editors into simple poeple, must all soon his police accusers. False ‘verbals' towards the judiciary and the be swept aside if the profession is will only cease when tape legal profession, has contributed to do a worthwhile job . . . recorders are mandatory at all much to the myth that British barristers, for a political trial police stations for recording justice is unassailable. Humphry at least, are not indispensable confessions. Another timely pays tribute to the work o f and much court procedure is suggestion is that judges should underground and community mere dogma, unnecessary good not sum up the facts o f cases newspapers in publicising and manners or a naked blocking at all - the jury should be left, evaluating important trials, and device.’ as it is in America, with its calls for a higher calibre o f Humphry details many of the own impression of the evidence, Court reporter and a more ways in which an accused can untainted by the inevitable critical coverage of Court cases. be oppressed by a judiciary and judicial bias o f emphasis and The advent of black people in magistracy drawn overwhelmingly omission. British society has highlighted from an alien soical class. He ‘Police Pow er' demonstrates that the defects in our system o f justice - defects which operate BOOKZ harshly against all categories o f defendant, be they black, drug- ‘A racist cab-driver or bartender takers, homosexuals, students, is a m inor irritant. A racist professional criminals, or policeman is a m ajor social whatever. Thus ‘Police Power and danger.' Dipak Nandy. Black-People’ is an important book ‘Police Power And Black - essential reading for anyone concerned with the quality of People’ law enforcement in Britain Derek Humphry today. It presents a much more Panther Books, 40p. realistic picture o f the operation Derek Humphry is a Sunday of the criminal law and an Times reporter who specialises in infinitely more promising set race relations and civil liberties. o f reform suggestions than is to Having just collected the Martin be found in the recently released Luther King Prize for the book report of the Criminal Law most likely to contribute to Revision Committee. racial harmony ( “ Because T h ey’re G eoff Robertson. Black” ) he now offers a scathing indictment of the way in which British police and lawyers T o Deprave And Corrupt' manage to distort the ideals o f Technical reports of the US equal justice. Humphry will win Commission on Obscenity no prizes for harmony this and Pornography, edited time, although “ Police Power and Black People” merits some by Alan Burns. sort of accolade for its construc­ (Davis-Poytner) tive suggestions for reform of In 1970 the American Presidential antiquated trial procedures and Commission on Obscenity and unethical police practices. Pornography reported, after Humphry marshals weighty spending over a million dollars evidence of failures in police on research, that the studies training and leadership in they had contracted ‘failed to matters touching community establish a meaningful correlation relations. Even the much- between exposure to erotica and vaunted "Community Relations immediate or delayed anti­ O fficer' experiment has been social behaviour among adults’. jeopardized by the low status o f In consequence the Commission the job within the force, and its majority recommended that all lack of promotion prospects etc. legislation prohibiting the But blacks do not suffer distribution of sexual material exclusively, or even mainly, from to adults should be repealed. Both the pernicious police practices majority and minority reports, examined in this book: what analysing data gathered by the citizen is safe from the ruthless { Commission, with an exellent ambitions o f an officer whose introduction by Clive Barnes, promotion potential is judged ! were published last year by on the number o f arrests he Bantam Books. has made, or from the indiscrim­ This new British rip-off from inate use o f the serious charge the Commission's archives o f “ assaulting a police officer” consists o f a handful o f the where no harm was done to the technical reports, mostly officer “ assaulted” (which was describing aspects o f the porno­ the case in 1,615 such convictions graphy trade in the US. The in London last year)? editorial selection is difficult to The author has some fathom — there is no attempt to sympathy with policemen catch the flavour of the bitter working under strain imposed debate within the Commission, by the shortcomings o f their and the really important research employment, but offers no , reports are omitted. excuse for the legal profession: One glaring omission, for ‘Due to its traditionally example, is the Davis and prestigious position in our Braucht study which indicated society, its relentless presence that exposure to pornography in the Corridors o f Power and at an early age may be related because nobody ‘outside’ to subsequent precocious behav­ properly understands it, the iour. This was the only evidence legal profession escapes the argues that the most common justice is often not done in against in both majority and searching criticisms o f its cause o f justice miscarrying is British courts. But ironically it minority reports. It even quality and methods which it the practice whereby police is seen to be done, because surfaced in the O Z trial, by way urgently merits. A young lawyer, officers rehearse identical ‘The press — and local monopoly of a clipping from the ‘Daily like a young policeman, usually versions of ‘verbals’ — confes­ papers in particular — too often Express’ the only scientific becomes loyal to his institution sions purportedly made at the conspire with the police to evidence Inspector Luff could before he is able to be objectively time o f arrest) and swear to maintain silence or give scanty find to justify the prosecution. analytical from experience. Such them in evidence. When reports about incidents which The selection also excludes things as the antique language prosecuter and judge sum up show the police up in a bad reports of great relevance for which is not understood by the they warn the jury that disbelief light .. . editors and senior British obscenity laws — reports common people, the hypocritical o f the police will have serious journalists identify with the which deny that pornography etiquettes mostly designed to consequences for the officer's Establishment and seek to go can change a readers moral increase monetary earnings or careers, so that the jury, far hand in glove with the elite.’ outlook, ie. that exposure to make more work, the prepost­ from deciding the case against Harsh words from a senior erotic stimuli does not increase Illustration by Isaac Hunt. your life ’ as the blurb suggests; blurb as the ’ life ‘change your will it doubt I book, though big, big, It's a be soon. to very going ill w probably you so ripped he later stirred the stirred later was he he ripped so ittedly (adm eat to what saw I Person. 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reading. is time right the at place right reality, cut occasionally may ego indeniable, and makes exquisite exquisite makes and indeniable, to ought leanings vaguest counter-cultural the with anybody that autobiography an written has he but claims; he things the done all have even not may he and hypnotically and pompous, brash, is story His choice. by Grogan, first given by Adolph Hitler in in Hitler Adolph by given first lecture a verbatim, delivered, scornfully away died applause arousing, with feet it's to the crowd brought that one the 19o8. was He Roundhouse, the at the ence to back think have you but his capacity for being in the the in being for capacity his but angular somewhat His on. focus saint, a isn’t Grogan interesting. book's His Hoffman. with Abbie insults exchanging to the Mafia with shoulders rubbing from revolutionary; self-made the f o that pointed out that he’d just just he’d that out pointed asthe and speech, powerful Confer­ Liberation f o Dialectics street thief to Digger supremo; supremo; Digger to thief street 1938. Quite an unpopular guy, guy, unpopular an Quite 1938. n o a’, ste u it, put asthey can’t, you And The series o f events that that events f o series The Y o u ’ve heard o f Grogan. Sure Sure Grogan. f o heard ’ve u o Y fo mrcnlf, and life, American from Hutchinson — the conditions in Bangla Desh. the scenario's are taken from from Omdurman to Dresden. One But there is more to it than that: Crumb. But there the resemb­ remembers with horror the lines the manner, the w hole style o f lance stops. The intentions and of E.M. Forster's upon the the performance is vintage Dylan, plot o f Crumb’s strip have been passing o f his own younger pre-dating even the ‘Don t Look distorted and bowdlerised in brother at Gallipoli: ‘Oh Back' period. This is Dylan circa numerous ways; tne general Churchill clouds of dead heroes 1963, before manner became a effect being to draw most o f its attend you’, and one understands performance, when he still had to satirical teeth and shift its that in the attic near the be introduced as ‘the man who political implications several nursery as the young Winston wrote ‘Blowin1 in the Wind' ’. Less yards to the right. If you know played with his legions, as the nervous now, perhaps, but the Crumbs’ work it w on ’ surprise galumping and glamour proceeded, same intensity. An d the same you to know that he’s disowned there stood among the cobwebs voice. He sings every w ord as this portrait o f Dorian Grey, though he means it! And if you the stereotype the world now don’t understand what I mean knows as Churchill's true image, b y that, just try comparing ‘Just the very personification of all Like a Woman’ in ‘Bangla Desh' modem atrocity. Because the to the version on ‘Blonde on young Winston is the old Winston. FILMZ Blonde.’ After half a decade of So w ho cares about the lonely hiding behind Johnny Cash, little dullard in the attic, who Dylan re-emerges as a giant. lost every battle save Alamein, 'The Concert F or Bangla Desh’ And George Harrison? He’ll and finally lost an empire as well, Director; Saul Swimmer never have the same impact on just to save his ego. A t last! The film o f the Lp. o f the same number o f people as Y et there is a story there, a the concert. The concert is now Dylan, but somehow, here, he family tale. There’s Anne history, if not legend, and most emerges as Dylan’s equal. He Bancroft as Jenny, and Robert o f us are by now familiar with means it, too. Every word. Shaw as Lord Randolph, the the Lp. So what does the film There are a lot o f better films syphilitic father, playing have to offer? As a film, not than this around. ‘The Concert brilliantly, like a figure from much: it’s about as visually For Bangla Desh' is worth any Strindberg. And its our own inspired as 'L et It Be.’ The number o f better films. dear Dickie Attenborough again, quality o f the images is uneven Clive Hodgson the film completely. It a rip-off, still sniffing the wind for his, probably due to the film being but a rather subtle and competent knighthood, which one day he shot on 16mm and blown-up to rip-off which will fool a lot of must surely get. He is a kind o f 35mm.( British audiences have at people. idealised theatrical William least been spared the 70mm For instance, Crumb loves to Whitelaw, all things at all times version that was shown in take the piss out o f po-faced to all men, they should send him America, which can only have doctrinaire politicos, and their to Ulster. For all his professional­ been a disaster). A t an indoor wilder excesses, but in a friendly ism he manages as a film maker stage concert such as this, there spirit (seen ‘Motor City Comix’ never to be a true director, but was no real reason for not or ‘Pro-junior’ or ‘Fritz’ itself?) an operator o f styles (Jean Luc filming in 35mm in the first place. The vicious portrayal of the Godard, Orson Welles, anybody The sound recording is also ‘revolutionaries’ as mindless you care to name). His work is uneven, marginally inferior to sadists, worse than the cops who eclectic and never his own. Carl the Lp., although the audience are merely lovable idiots, is a Foreman's script is quite good, hysteria is less bothersome (was long long way from Crumb. scratching largely from Churchill’s this Phil Spector's contribution This could have been a ‘My Early Life’, with some to the recording production?). % great film. Some people will attention to what was to be the Nor is there any apparent attempt like it anyway, and Walt Disney later career o f the young Winston, to capture the feeling o f the w ill chuckle from the grave. added to an attempt (not a very concert as an event, as Permebaher Dick Pountain. satisfying one) at establishing a traditional link between the ‘Asylum ’ political attitudes o f father and Directed by’Roy Wood Baker son. An d then o f course (halha!) 'Fritz The Cat’ the amusing revelation never Directed by Ralph Bakshi made by Winston, young old or T w o films, 3 good bad film and a middleaged, of pox in the family. bad good one. There is this strangeness in ‘Asylum’ is a rollicking fun the Churchill menage. They’re a piece about a secluded mental Transatlantic family not a hospital full o f incurable psycho- British one, and the film is a tics and homicidal maniacs. None curiously American tragedy of o f your pinko, bleeding heart, family life. Ronnie Laing nonsense. A film No, it was not the ‘Winston from the good old days when warts and all job’ that many a a nutter was a nutter and you cut critic would have us believe it their lobes out and locked them to be, because after all, didn’t up (not that anything’s changed). you notice how at the Premiere You get the feeling it might be a the entire remnants of that Hammer film except that it’s ‘Young Winston’ did successfully tn ‘M onterey too good; it has the right blend Pop and Wadleigh did with o f camp and callousness but Directed by Dicky Atten­ intermittent success in ‘Wood- some o f the horror scenes borough. stock’. With ‘The Concert For actually work which they never The really awkward thing about Bangla Desh’, one gets a greater do with Hammer. It uses the writing about this film is that the sense of ‘being there' from the well tried formula o f a series o f central figure and the subject Lp. than from the film. flashbacks, films within a film matter is so utterly distasteful to What the film does capture is with different actors, each most people that one doesn’t the performers, and here it can’t illustrating an inmate’s fantasy wish to be artistically just to it, go wrong. Beginning (where about how he got into the but propagandist against it in 'Monterey Pop’ ended) with Asylum. Some o f them are the extreme. Ravi Shankar, who o f all the hilarious and quite scary, However, that kind of attitude artists in the film gains most particularly the Jewish tailor is not very honest and film is from being seen as w ell as heard. whose dummy turns into a not too bad anyway, and up to a Visually, it is a hypnotic Golem. In short, brutal, tasteless point you could argue, as much performance, all the more so for fun for all the family. o f the national press has being totally at one with the ‘Fritz The Cat’ is a different argued, that it does de- music. Y ou have to wait a while kettle of catfood altogether. As mythologise the ugly Monument grotesque family showed up for any real surprises after that: the first ever X-cert underground In the Park, and wipes o ff some happily dabbing their noses and Billy Preston does his thing (the cartoon film with fucking, o f the bird shit. T o date, that’s eyes? way he planned it), Ringo does doping and violence it can’t fail all the shit that’s been thrown. Certainly they didn’t behave his nice guy imitation, Eric to grab your attention. In fact In fact what is wrong and like that at Hochuth’s ‘The Clapton plays super-session man, it’s a reasonably entertaining 78 immoral in this film is that it Soldiers’. They didn’t turn up Leon Russell maintains his image. minutes worth, with a few short attempts a resurrection o f the at all, just sued for thousands. Go Then along come o l’ Bob Dylan, sequences which are really legend. And any attempt at such a and see it, if the last piece o f bringing it all back home with "A classic. resurrection at a tim e like this pride as to truth has died within Hard Rain's Gonna Fall” — The unpalatable fact is that has to be very subtle indeed, you. It’s a good yam , all virtually every word of the the film is based on Bob Crumb's because even to those who don’t glamour, colour, drama and decade-old song recalling the strip cartoon o f some years back. care whether he lived or died, his cover-up. images we have seen earlier o f A ll the characters and some o f name stinks across the w orld John Gravelle. Mike M oore SOUNDZ rules, (Van Morrison is one), but but one), is Morrison (Van rules, product the is image so involved, product is the music, recorded any asmusic, Just packaging. jigsaw, but are often incapable incapable often are but jigsaw, on relies which one than is paper), on words casting, any f o creation the with here. those with ourselves concern needn’t we all to exceptions are rule, the asthere prove that exceptions are There it. that preceded has exposure and otion prom packaging, cumulative the f o technicians and musicians the f o experiences collective the f o (Reprise) Si way’ Aw 'Sail underground, I ’ll cite the the cite ’ll I underground, London’s on travel who final the are analysis, last the in their f o tools the f o use the in advertising an f o side creative the puzzle, own their creating f o any f o can pieces the They assemble image. f o projectors reason, this For expertise. rather inherent is that ability extent, certain a to and, learned be can that something broad­ mime, theatre, (dance, f o victim is a Newman Randy Newman Randy thoroughly practical company company practical thoroughly the sloppiest advertisements in advertisements sloppiest the activity. promotional given any f o arbiters who, public, general the to tree’ might Slick asGrace But trade. craftsman a f o pride) (and the skill have they and have They technique, testify. ill w agency on worked has ho w asanyone poor very often are ‘designers' an is it often, But measured. device, communicative intangible hideously printed and often often and printed hideously designed, Poorly back. years and freak average the move fingers it’s reassuring and ‘right’. ‘right’. and reassuring it’s fingers boots his on dirt with farmer a As an example for those o f you you f o those for example an effective. 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T o whom it may concern: hype this man immediately. man this hype concern: may it whom o T Often, expecially in the music music the in expecially Often, sure, am I Zappa, Frank There are those w ho will will ho w those are There always be reliant on exposure, exposure, on reliant be always record companies who-rip our our who-rip companies record was and is a product o f the the f o product is a and was roll, and rock on influence corrupting and alien representing some from Far and image. otion prom media packaging, roll stars (and superstars) who who superstars) (and stars roll could who artist an be, ill never w probably and been never on dependant are exception, the from control f o artistic degrees varying able wrest been to fortunately have Dead who the like Beatles, the like those to mainly due is This we years, recent in extent, especially ited a lim o T industry. birth, ’s cultural rock f o roots the ill w and been always has business rock the But right. are part In us. they to back it sell finally, re­ source, its from ff o music talent. 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Where is the the is Where country? this Randy managing is be Who ever ’t enough. n o w It enough. it But isn’t detail. minute they in lyrics printed ey’ve th and a poster, contains even It sleeve. fold right the in step a That’s the on front. fihotograph his with first the is album sadly This The image. lacking promotion. poor The C; top hit can’t Taylor James C, C, top hit can’t olf W Howling with C top hit can’t Newman you. on grows style. a f o camel’s-gait loping, A They depth. emotional and sadness irony, have they guts, have songs His phenomenon. that satire savage easy that not Newman? Who is his agency in _ in agency his is Who Newman? double first ’s the t I direction. top hit can’t Zimmerman Robert it deceptive; very simple, Very hear­ repeated f o test the stand advertising? Who is responsible? responsible? is Who advertising? T o whoever is responsible, is whoever o T I don’t care if Randy Randy if care don’t I here is a message: Jackie. I suppose someone has the Belfast cow boy come up G E T U P O F F Y O U R ought to enlighten them, but with this time? COLLECTIVE ARSES AND now let us turn our eyes to the Well, it's a strange mixture HYPE THIS MAN. NOT silent figures n ow appearing on o f genius and carelessness. Street BECAUSE YOU LOVE HIS the stage. Choir was a songs album, looser MUSIC, BUT BECAUSE YOU ‘Who are they ’ I hear you ask. than Moondance, but colourful W IL L M A K E M O N EY. IF Why, m y dear, do you not and danceable. Tupelo Honey RANDY NEWMAN DIES OF recognize that fine young man was better, a fine blend o f UNDER-EXPOSURE HIS with his oh-so butch hairstyle rockers and love songs. He ARTISTIC BLOOD WILL BE ablaze under the garish red sounded happier, though cynics ON YOUR HANDS. lighting. It could only be Lou mocked and said he should put In the words o f the Last Reed, leader of 42nd Street's himself back on the rack to get Poets: “Wake up Niggers, or very own teen combo — the bar- the tortured quality back into we're all through’. The music band of the Twilight Zone — the his writing and singing. was never enough. Ever. Velvet Underground. The first side suffers from Felix Dennis. Listen, Lou is introducing ‘I’m repetitiously rhythmic saxa- waiting for the Man’. How phone rave-ups and a nightclub ‘Big Bambu' killer, how absolutely killer. And jazz song worthy of Mel Torme, ‘Roxy Music' Cheech & Chong tw o new songs. ‘Lonesome complete with cocktail piano (Island) (A and M/ Od e) Cowboy Bill’? What a coincidence and silky tenor. It's very ‘The next time’s the best time, ‘The band can’t play tonight, Why only the other night I amusing but I ’m relieved when we all know, man,’ says Laid-Back Lenny overheard Louis talking and just it gives way to the more But if there’s no next time . . . ’ the hip dee jay from ‘Unamerican before he threw up all over familiar territory of ‘Listen To The next time would certainly Bandstand’. ‘1116 singer just Dolores he said h ow he had The Lion ’. have to be a great deal better poked himself in the eye with always wanted to be a cowboy. For all his lapses and loss o f than this apalling first attempt his coke spoon and he can't get The twists and turns o f fate are focus, Van Morrison remains by R ox y Music, and if there s no his eye closed. It's frozen open.' so strange, eh m on ami? the guv’nor rock singer. He next time I doubt if many tears That’s right, you guessed Why, now they are playing kicks off ‘Almost Independence will be shed. right, the secret word for tonight Unfortunately, given the is . . . would you believe a new current state o f British rock, Cheech and Chong album? Just and the disproportionate like the last one, it’s good clean quantities o f hype and image stoned fun for good clean bullshit we have to wade through hippies everywhere, but unlike before we get to any music at the other one, it’s only inter­ all, I ’m afraid R ox y Music's mittently funny. There’s a synthesized riffs and rip-offs fantastically unfunny six- will be assaulting our ears for minute segment at the end o f some time to come. the first side which contains The packaging and production ‘Cruisin’ With Pedro De Pacas' of this album are brilliant. The from the first album, and much cover photos, both inside and o f the other stuff is a bit lacking. out, pitch perfectly for the Still, there are indeed a lot o f current frivolous, ambiguous good solid tracks which still gets divinely decadent mood of which laughs after repeated playings. Lou Reed (currently), Dave The futuristic panel game ‘Let’s Bowie and Alice Cooper are the Make a Dope Deal’ and the main exponents, and Jagger the suicide commercial are minor honorary president. masterpieces, and the return However, once unwrapped o f Ashley Roachclip in ‘The and on the spot, with critical Rebuttal’ is a delight. ears glued, R ox y Music's Cheech and Chong have ‘ R oxy Music’ album is a waste no pretentions of being anything of time. Imagine Curved Air more than a hippies’ Rowan and exposing us to a w hole side o f Martin. Happily for all concerned, their pretentious ‘Conservatoire th ey’re a fuck o f a lot funnier Trained’ meanderings, with than Rowan and Martin. But ‘I'll Be Your M irror’ with Day’ scat-humming against an occasional attempts to ‘Let It ‘Cheech and Chong' remains the fragile, young Doug Yule singing. acoustic guitar, and develops it R ock’ by throwing in a few Cheech and Chong record, and What sweet nostalgia. Oh, and with tasteful M oog (yes!) lines Doors riffs now and then, the ‘Big Bambu’ is merely another look at that unpleasant man into a stunning ten-minute whole cut at random with Cheech and Chong record. Quite crawling around the floor tour de force. He is still the bursts o f ill-considered synthe­ funny, quite amusing, basically looking for a lost tuinol. And master o f rich-but-simple textures, sized trifles. ‘Notes’ the lyrics okay. I t ’ll do. But if Cheech and now he's attacking one o f the still able to make those startling tell us, ‘could not spell out Chong start repeating themselves bar-boys! Don’t worry, my impressionistic images lift and the score’ ; despite their attempts this early in their recotding dear, one gets used to these bugle with his daring vocal to cover up the sterile banalities career, then the sooner some little incidents in time. Now Lou excursions. The atmosphere he o f their music with the ramblings British head com edy comes is singing ‘Afterhours’ from their generates is colossal: the fire­ o f a self confessed musical together the better. By the way third album and the set is works echoing up and down San illiterate twiddling the knobs, anybody know someone who does finished. Francisco Bay, the cool cool Roxy Music’s musically a good Steve Took impression? Why they tell me that night breeze, the lights way out cretinous. Their delivery is about Footnote. The sleeve, wittily Brigid Polk is recording all these in the harbour, he takes you as evil and menacing as the local gimmicked to look like a book o f performances at Max’s for a there. It ain’t rock and roll, it’s youth club's answer to C liff rolling papers, contains the possible album. Maybe the cinema for the blind. Richard, and the only time I biggest skin in the world. As the essence o f the Velvets w ill be Best o f all is ‘ Redwood Tree’ tapped my feet was to the last sketch suggests, it might be finally caught on wax for all which falls into an effortless Johnny and the Hurricanes good to use for smoking your to hear. I certainly hope so, for liberating groove, an exhilirating style sax on ‘Would You old socks in. I keep hearing such strange sequel to ‘And It Stoned Me’, Believe’; seventy five percent of Charles Shaar Murray reports about Lou — how he’s all majestic precision and flow: the album, however, is taken up throwing these moods and Boy and dog went out lookin’ for the rainbow with tediously slow romantic ‘The Velvet Underground Live actually attacking people with a posturing with pianos, oboes flick-knife. But, never mind — You know what they did learn and a singer whose agonies A t Max's Kansas C ity' I have all the words o f ‘Sister Since that very day, walkin' by should be ended summarily. The Velvet Underground R ay’ neatly written out on this the river Make no mistake, this is (Atlantic) piece o f paper. Would you like And runnin’ like blue streak no hastily assembled mish-mash Ah, hello my dear friend, so to read them? Through the fields and streams thrown on the market to grab pleased you could join us as we N ick Kent and meadows a few pennies. From the exquisite while away the bewitching hours Laughin' all the way. Guitars sparkling, piano layout on the cover, through languishing with the hallowed 'St. Dominic's Preview' to the superb engineering on the precincts o f Max's Kansas City. liquid and rippling, rhythm record itself, and not forgetting My comrades and I would never Van Morrison team cooking happily, chick the up-to-the-minute nostalgia be seen anywhere else in N ew (Warner Bros) chorus just gorgeous. This is o f that chrome-plated name, York — I mean, you meet such Whenever he’s stuck for a the Van Morrison w e know and R ox y music’s first album is a interesting people. subject, Rolling Stone columnist love, the music that rocks your well prepared, carefully designed Why, isn’t that Gerald Ralph Gleason falls back on his gypsy soul, lifts you up high, attempt to grab more than a Malanga meditating in silent favourite and undeniable credo: puts a twinkle in ycrtir eye, lets few pennies. So you poor, image union with the celestial beings things are pretty bad but we’ve your laughter fill the room. It hungry mothers — beware. Look over on that bar-stool. My, how still got Van Morrison. Like ranks with Bob Weir’s ‘Cassidy’ twice at Karri Anne, doesn’t exquisitely he oils his torso. And all smart cats, Ralphie knows as the best track to come out the look just a little constipated? those oh-so innocent young when he’s on safe ground. o f California this year. Howard Frazer. sailor-boys talking to Rita and So, cheeky asides aside, what Myles Palmer. * ri>'* ,

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