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This serial is available at Research Online: https://ro.uow.edu.au/livingdaylights/6 Breaking bodies at Long Bays Blissed out at the Astrodome mBugging kids at Blacktownn Boredom at the polling booth iTHE ARMY OF THE ONTINUING THE SAGE COF THE LIVING LEG­ THE END IN HIS OWN LIFETIME: Prime minister Gough Whitlam entered an action packed week, KENNEDY involving drunks, insults and ap­ pointments by clamping into the medium of steam radio to tell CURSE grateful listeners that some of his ministers talked too much and found it gratifying to be given headlines for their re­ marks. Not surprisingly, not On November 22nd 1963, John only did his remarks about his Fitzgerald Kennedy, President of ministers make headlines, but he the United States was assassinated at Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was got his picture in the paper as both the most-loved and most- well. hated man in American politics. * * * Nation Review In this week THE OY THROUGH PAIN: KENNEDY CURSE, which has continued since that fatal day ten JHaving watched the New years ago, is examined. South Wales branch of the Aus­ tralian Labor party go down like a sack of potatoes in that state’s election, political commentators said the result represented a very strong psychological booster for the Labor party. Everyone with­ in the movement expected Labor to lose by far more votes. NATION REVIEW at Pat Hills, the leader of the luck­ your newsagents, 40c. less group, said petulantly it was all the fault o f his federal col­ he sexual revolu­ less a fool, Patterson said that leagues, but a smiling Sir Robert Ttion IS AT LAST AT rum, sugar and onion juice was Askin said it was all the fault of HAND: Unmarried mothers good for one, the Queensland the workers. Now that he has should be allowed to enter the state Labor party said that it won, one hopes that Sir Robert Miss Australia quest, the present didnt want to know the man for will resist the further temptation holder of this wondrous fat cat­ attacking the life blood of the to goad the workers into a series tle award, one Ms Randy Baker, state. In the midst of all this of annoyance strikes and that said. But she added that the uproar the fact that Dr Evering­ ordinary New South Welshmen unmarried mums who were ham was right about sugar was can get on with the business of thinking of entering should entirely overlooked by those uninterrupted living fot a while. make sure that their children who defended it. * * * didnt suffer because of their * * * strolls along the catwalk. 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Page 2 — THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, November 20-26, 1973 sequently our minds are directly respon­ sible for Watergate, the Middle East, for / " V \ ' November 8, 9,10, in between the Melbourne Cup and the What is Guru Maharaj Ji doing at war, for human suffering, for misery. royal wedding, the Divine Light Mission held a festival.. Millennium? He says that in order for there to be Millennium 73, in Houston, Texas, as a platform fo r Guru Maharaj He’s offering the greatest scoop in the peace in the world we have to understand Ji’s plans for world peace. Five hundred devotees turned up. The world and there’s not a single newspaper that we need a solution that basically comes to grips with what is causing war event was virtually ignored by the press. that has caught on. and misery and difficulty in the world. Rennie Davis, field marshal fo r the 60s peace m ovem ent and Where's the breakdown? The human mind cannot comprehend The actual solution is to create minds defendant at the Chicago Seven trial, where youth, the Left, and the unthinkable. It’s interesting to me that are peaceful, and if everyone had the dreams of the new world stood before an inflexible and because reporters have a professional peace inside you would discover that it is incorrigible order. Davis’ speech to the bench, an impassioned plea ethic about objectivity. There’s a claim a law of nature that there would be peace to stop the Vietnam war, still rang in the ears o f the thousands being made here, the authenticity of outside and that everyone would actually following the ’68 Chicago riots of demonstrators who massed which can be observed objectively. Re­ discover that on this planet something together in Washington in 1971 under his guidance in a concerted porters go by the direct evidence of his or like the kingdom o f heaven on earth is and successful effort to close down the nation. her experience. You go out and you see it the reality. Last year on a visit to Paris to m eet madame Binh, Paris Peace with your own eyes, then you make your What we must do is take our minds Talks negotiator, he met with devotees o f the Guru Maharaj Ji and statement of fact And we’re making a big out of the ego, out of the arrogant idea statement, the Lord is on the planet and that we are the masters, and plug it subsequently acquired the Knowledge. instead into our souls - which is actually On the second day at the Astrodome (where rain falls when the Guru Maharaj Ji has brought with him the tools for altering human consciousness, to who we are, which is actually what air conditioning is turned off) Rennie sauntered into the press bring about a physiological as well as created this mind and this body, what we boxes. He was very relaxed, his face often lit by a beatific smile or spiritual transformation. Anyone who were before we were bom and what we broad grin. Gone were all the hassles o f the Chicago trial, the trips would like to come and find out can will be after we die. Gum Maharaj Ji says to Vietnam and the peace demonstrations. We sat down and by easily come and find out. this Knowledge is the missing link for the the time I had my tape rolling, about 30 reporters and A professional newsman goes into an human being to reach a stage of evol­ photographers had gathered. He laughed. He was obviously interview. He is not Democrat, Republi­ ution, to discover what a human being enjoying himself. He answered all the questions slowly and can or Protestant. He doesnt have a really is. The external world gives the impress­ carefully. family, he has nothing. He is totally empty and void, waiting to receive. ion of conflict but what Gum Maharaj Ji But no, you have come in with your is saying is that you will discover there a hat pulled quarter down. If you came in peace where there is no competition, no empty, open like a human being, you conflict, where there is a consistency that would go away with the greatest gift is permanent and literally perfect. The personally and the greatest piece of news external world which is always changing ever. is, in a sense in conflict, in motion. But • • • He has to personally invest his emo­ inside there is something permanent, and tions and his mind. the search through life and all the changes AND You invest your experience. A claim is and trips we go through in that search is being made here. The only way to know at its roots the search for this truth, and is by the evidence, that is, what is Guru whether you are a reporter, whether you Maharaj Ji saying? Guru Maharaj Ji is are a revolutionary or interested in pol­ saying that the reason we have a crazy, itical change, whether a businessman or crazy world is that they have no answer militarist engaged in game plans o f war­ to “ What is God?” If people knew God is fare, whether interested in wealth or omniscient, omnipotent, there would be fame. Religion, whatever it is, is the THEN HE search to know what is fundamentally no need for sheriffs and policemen, be­ cause people would mind each other, but unchanging, what is fundamentally true. they only believe, they dont know. So we To say, I want satisfaction, is to say go around in our confusion, saying I do you really want to know this thing that is this and the idea that there’s a force inside. The only reason that the human behind every action is hidden. But Guru being has been brought on this planet is Maharaj Ji says, would anybody like to to realise this Knowledge. In fact, Gum BLISSED ME know if God exists? and everybody’s Maharaj Ji says you have no idea what it immediate reaction is oh, it’s another means to be on this planet Earth, and MICHAEL MCDONALD talks to religion talking about God and we all that in this age you are going to become know about religions; they’re just leaps of conscious of the fact that this earth is Rennie Davis in Houston faith. part of a much larger living organism. Guru Maharaj Ji says, no I havent How do your colleagues in the Chicago come to establish a religion, my theory is Seven trial feel about this? that you shouldnt believe without proof. We're the Chicago Nine first o f all, my And that’s right in line with a reporter. two lawyers have been added to the Guru Maharaj Ji says, I’ve got the proof, defendants. Well their reaction is pretty it’s right inside. All I do is show you how much like my own when I first heard to see it. I say, Mr Newsman I’ve got a about Gum Maharaj Ji. They seem to be box here and there’s a hole in the box. If treating me a little more warmly, bro­ you take a look in there you can see God. therly, than I might have treated a similar And you say, come along man, dont give co-defendant if he instead o f I had me that, that’s crazy. But eight million returned from India saying, the Lord is people came up, took a look and said, I on the planet. I think that we’re all going saw God, and they include every creed, to be pretty naturally sceptical and cyn­ every nation, nationality, they include ical. The Nine pretty much mn the gamut every religion, the anti-religious as well as of being very open and interested to the religious, and why dont you take a being somewhat hostile and pretty closed look? And tliat is precisely what is to the thing. being said here: that God is in a human Looking back from this perspective, body. how do you view the trial and what led to Guru Maharaj Ji is basically saying, I it? can give you peace and we can bring I have a view now of the 60s, and I peace to the world, and this is an op­ also have a view o f American history that portunity for the press to help out. Any I think we will all come to share together. enterprising reporter can easily put to­ My view of the 60s is that there was a gether from the satsang of Guru Maharaj vision, a hope that was articulated some­ Ji or the publications o f the DLM a little times from communes, from the streets synopsis of this century. The trouble with of this country, through searches into reporters is that we basically have our drugs. preconceptions and we are basically lazy. - We got labelled by the media as a What we do is put people in categories generation of peace but the vision that -and the category here is Guru, religion, a was proclaimed from the streets of this kind of interesting one because he rents country in the 60s we will actually carry the Astrodome, he has a rock band, drives out in the decades of the 70s and 80s. a Rolls Royce and he gets an ulcer and More than that, the generation of the 60s he’s supposed to be perfect. These things will be that generation that will carry it make interesting newscopy. out — and I think that we are actually He says we're not here to discuss the going to come to recognise that we are an problems o f Watergate, we’re here to find incredibly priviliged generation, and the solutions. Now what does that mean? real search that was going on in the Guru Maharaj Ji is basically speaking decade of the 60s was the search for this about a law of nature that in this century truth, a search for, if you will, Guru we are going to discover to be true. That Maharaj Ji. law o f nature says that everything in this There has been a lot o f scepticism outside world is the direct product of our from the press today and other times. minds, and now science is beginning to Guru Maharaj Ji is offering so much for suggest that mind over matter is a law of so little. cosmology. Guru Maharaj Ji says that our You could say that about life itself. minds are actually connected and we, by The mind has a lot o f resistances. He our minds, create this planet, this en­ vironment that we live in, and con- THE LIV IN G DAYLIGHTS, November 20-26, 1973 - Page End of the Satsang with Premie Rennie continued... world is due comes on last night — I’m trying to think largest numbers o f people are, they’re basically made up o f peasants and work­ from the point o f view o f an outsider, I’m ing people. It seems in South America soon. just blown out by the whole thing. Here many young people are coming, but is the Lord of the Universe speaking on interestingly, many men, heads of fami­ top o f a stage in the Houston Astrodome lies over 40, are the first to come to Be prepared and saying it is time we brought peace to receive Knowledge. the world, let’s get it on, and I’ve got a ROM November 1973 through Jan­ When he travelled to Africa, did he way to do it. And then my mind is uary 1974 a great comet will be give segregated satsang? tripping on what do people think of him visibleF in the skies. Called Comet Kohou- He was the first public person to speak who are not on the inside, who have not tek, after Herr Lubos Kohoutek of Ham­ everywhere throughout the country to been let in on the secret yet. burg Observatory who discovered the integrated audiences, and he also did it And you see the flashing lights, this approaching celestial body on March 7, without total repression coming down on huge mammoth stage, this kid, he’s not 1973, it may well be the most spectacular like Jesus, he doesnt speak the way you Divine Light Mission, though at times it natural phenomenon any of us will wit­ know we saw that play yesterday with has been a little touch and go with the ness in our life-times. the sermon on the Mount, and we have Government there. The Sept/Oct issue of the Occult Ga­ this image that whenever Jesus opened his Where does Guru Maharaj Ji get the zette reports that the approaching comet mouth, the sentences were perfectly bal­ information to exploit issues like Water­ can be accounted for by the Virgin Solar anced and they were tremendously poet­ gate and the economic crisis? Helium Fire which is at present feeding ic. And Guru Maharaj Ji, he mixes his I dont think he is exploiting these the world. The Comet heralds the Pure language up with aints, parables about issues. Guru Maharaj Ji is saying that Nucleus of the Fire, where the true automobiles instead of fishermen and these are the consequences o f our mis­ Godhead is going to be made known to their nets, he’s like, he’s too real. If you management with the creation that Guru one and all. found Mr Average man on the world, if Maharaj Ji has offered us. He said once, if Comet Kohoutek is now the prime you drew a computer picture, you'd a father is sitting watching his own child scientific objective of Skylab 4. Other find Guru Maharaj Ji would fit Mr Average crawl into the fire, and he says, supposing spacecraft will also observe the comet: a man perfectly, absolutely perfectly, and I am a father and the child is getting Mariner vehicle through TV cameras; Pio­ because he’s so like Mr Average, he can't closer and closer to the fire, would the neer 8 by transmitting radio signals possibly be the one who can save this father sit back and do nothing at all while through the comet’s tail; Copernicus world. the child crawled into the fire? Obviously satellite with spectroscopy to study the How can someone from India have this not, he would stop the child. He said, temperature and motion of the hydrogen lingo? He seems to me very unreal, very people think that God is a father, and isnt surrounding the cometary coma; and programmed. Even to the aints. it true that the whole human race is satellite OSO 7 with ultraviolet measure­ As someone who’s spent a lot of time crawling into this fire, and no one has any ments. Two aircraft equipped with infra­ with Guru Maharaj Ji personally, I havent regard for human life anymore? Do you red telescopes, several Aerobee rockets been able to find someone who gives him think, if God is a father he would sit back launched by NASA, and radar signals direction. and do nothing about the situation right aimed to bounce off the cometary nuc­ You are looking at God now? He said if he did he wouldnt be a Doesn't the Holy Family talk amongst leus will also be pursuing the phenome­ father. He might be something else, but themselves? nature, and everyone coming to the city non. definitely not a father. Then he goes on Whenever the Holy Family are around will agree: this is the most fantastic place Best observation periods for casual to say: But no, God is a father, and that’s observers will be late November/early Guru Maharaj Ji, they lay their foreheads I’ve ever seen in my life. I think it will be why God has manifested Himself. If I had December, and most of January. The at his feet. a combination of building examples of come one year later, it would have been Dont they have family conferences to how the world can be as well as doing naked eye will perceive the comet at too late. Now I invite you to listen to figure out what to do next? work in the world through feeding people night as the second brightest object after what is being said. Guru Maharaj Ji gives direction to the and providing clothing and building the moon, and it will probably be visible family as well as to everyone in Divine houses, hospitals and schools that will Is the Guru predestined to lead a in daytime simply by blocking the sun Light Mission. Guru Maharaj Ji clearly is begin to show people that we’re sincere, celibate life? out with your hand. the one giving direction. Guru Maharaj Ji we're practical. My opinion to that is no. I think Guru Velikovsky believes that a comet may is making his own decisions. We’re out in the world, we’re not a Maharaj Ji is going to completely blow have been one cause of the vast cata­ In the 1960s, you were concerned contemplative withdrawal type of soc­ our minds about everything. Nothing clysms which he claims have shaken the with social class and race. How do you iety. We’re trying to deal with the prob­ would surprise me about what he might planet in the not too distance past. feel about issues like that now? lems of the world in as direct a way as we do. His father, after all, married and gave Regular astronomers scoff at such I feel very deeply about them all. can. They’ll on the one hand see this as birth to four incarnations of God. ideas. If the average poor person found peace evolution and on the other hand they’ll Why do members o f ashrams lead The earth passed through a comet’s in poverty, would that be satisfactory? see their cities as impossible to live in. celibate lives? tail in the 19th century. No undue effects No. I dont think Guru Maharaj Ji is in In the Movement we had the idea of I think we have grown very out of were noticed. But you never know. After any way suggesting that everybody get counter-institutions and tried to build touch in this age with what is a natural all, how does one know what kind of blissed out and live in squalor or rat- examples: our examples were always a human being; what it means to be a man, effects a comet might have. Maybe it infested apartments. He’s trying to say little screwed up, they never quite came what it means to be a woman, among caused the First World War. Maybe it that the rat-infested apartments, the pov­ off as divinely as we had hoped. The other things. Sex is one o f those areas inspired Einstein. Or Freud. Why have stock exchange prices erty of this country and o f the world, is reason that the political left came to where we are very much out o f touch, again a direct cause of human conscious­ reject the idea of counter-institutions as a and the ashram is basically a place where always risen and fallen once every 11 ness, and the whole human race needs a political strategy was it didnt come to we try to create the best kind o f environ­ years; following exactly the same rhythm mind overhaul, needs to be plugged into a grips with the fundamental problem of ment for the realisation o f this Know­ as sunspots? Why do wheat prices, admis­ whole new understanding to bring about power in the society. You could provide a ledge. The ashram is really the spiritual sions to lunatic asylums, and accidents in the change we all want to see. beautiful city out here where everyone centre for Divine Light Mission. Chicago also follow the same 11 year What is the correct analysis of what could be in peace and joy. But what I believe the reason why there is pattern? Are comets rhythmical? causes suffering and what is the correct about the Pentagon, what about the celibacy in the ashram is so that we can In all the world’s mythologies comets strategy for dealing with that suffering? military, what about the people who set aside certain things we are very herald disaster and the fall of kings. The What is the correct organisation and maintained their livelihood off the main­ confused aboflt right now, in order to appearance of Hailey’s Comet 1066 was leadership for carrying out that strategy. tenance of war. How are you going to focus on the main thing, and as we come thus seen to have presaged Harold’s fall. And by correct I dont mean any leftwing deal with them? This rather makes essen­ to realise the Knowledge then we will Maybe Comet Kohoutek will achieve term, but correct in a scientific or ob­ tial the question WHO IS GURU investigate what is the relationship of something similar for Richard Nixon. jective way. We’re trying to suggest that MAHARAJ JI? men and women. All rubbish, the astonomers say, com­ Guru Maharaj Ji is putting forward a Because my perspective of the thing is Why do you give up dope? ets are quite simple. correct strategy and is offering a correct that there is no coincidence at all, no Most people give up dope not because There’s a big hole in the middle of and perfect leadership. accident at all that Guru Maharaj Ji is on Guru Maharaj Ji says, simply because Siberia. It happened around 1908. Or Are you the political arm o f Divine the planet and Watergate is happening, when we take this Knowledge and medi­ 1911. All the trees were flattened for Light Mission? the Middle East is happening, famine is tate on it many of the things we did miles around. Was it a vast explosion, and No, I’m a devotee. breaking out in north Africa and vast before drop away, quite naturally. if so, of what? Or was it, as one Soviet Is there a political arm? sections of India. Everyone, housewives, For example after I received Know­ scientist suggested, caused by a giant I think I’m speculating some, I have a talk about the crisis of inflation, the crisis ledge, after a couple of weeks back in the atpmic-powered spaceship from outer view that the way things will proceed out of war, crisis of energy and all these United States, I was in a room and a pipe space? Or should we accept the theory of of this festival is: the main message up to crises. The world is going to become was going round, and I thought, well I two Americans as reported in Nature now has been to realise this Knowledge, unlivable. Guru Maharaj Ji puts it rather shouldnt. Then it passed a second time magazine only a few weeks ago, that it to receive this gift, to understand that the nicely. He says, life is like a chess game, and so I just tried a little bit and it was due to the passage of a microscopic first step is to have peace within; now and very soon the whole world will be brought me crashing down. It was the black hole through the earth? Why was there are many millions of people who checkmated. - first time that it had ever happened to me no meteoric debris found there, or any have had this Knowledge, and are begin­ The main thing is you can come and and the reason I wouldnt smoke dope other clue as to the cause? Was it a ning to have some glimpse of what its find out if this is true, or you can sit on now is just because this is a higher place comet? practical consequences could be. While the sideline and watch the whole thing to be and it’s a better trip. Really it’s the Many things are possible. The world is the Knowledge will continue to be given, unfold. It doesnt really matter. Everyone ultimate trip and people give up drugs full o f amazing facts, some of them real. I think we will begin to show concretely is going to find out. because they’re all downers, compared to One primitive tribe believes that com­ in the world, how people can live through Could you talk about the followers of this Knowledge. ets are thunderbolts thrown by angry the experience o f this Knowledge. Guru Maharaj Ji? I mean, sociologically? gods who are fortunately so drunk that The first project will be to build a city. The general view is that it tends to be TLD has sent Mike their aim is rarely accurate, whilst Mr I rather suspect it will be in America and young, white, middle class, under 25, but O’Rourke in search of Horace Burrows o f 13 Railway Villas, I think this city will really blow people’s actually that’s not the case at all. If you Swindon, believes them to be messages heads. It will show a large city where look at the Divine Light Mission on a Knowledge. His perfect from extra-galactic civilisations. world order, I would say it tends to be MICHAEL MARTEN people live on a level of material and report will appear next — Spare Rib spiritual community and efficiency that predominantly over 40, working class seems to defy all known laws of human men. It you look at India where the week [U see centre spread Page 4 — THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, Nov >er 20-26, 1973 P / < -K T J E '

T TOOK the dynamic per­ The BLF’s green bans, the Iformance o f Harry Jago (a recent power strike and train warm hand), permanent smile, Feeding time at the strikes are taken by Sir Robin to Rotary luncheon speaker extra­ mean industrial lawlessness and to ordinaire) to let the voting public help prevent any such repeats he know that it was indeed election is promising laws to jail unionists time in NSW. Macquarie St pig pen on strike on what he wfll deter­ Harry forgot to nominate for mine to be disputes concerning his seat - the safest Liberal seat in essential services. the state. "Harry never forgets a There arent any big demonstra­ face or a name,” his admirers used TYRONE FOYLE fears for NSW tions Chipping away at the corner­ to say. stones and tearing away at fabrics about in the premier state. More odds against them of having a standing ovation for the sterling Harry’s forgetfulness means he (so passe in establishment circles than any other state there is an chance o f winning. Gambler Bob performance of Pat Hills. The is out of parliament and as health to worry about long-haired stu­ awareness in NSW that it matters ordered a change in the electoral cheering sounded like a groan minister he rated about number dents anymore) so its got to be fuck all who is in, what politicians boundaries and surprise surprise played at fast speed and didnt four or five in the Askin lineup of the unions and resident action like to think, in a position of the odds of the ALP winning take long to fade from the voice henchmen. Harry, who looks like groups. The last time Sir Robin power. became harder. boxes o f the 400 party faithful a would-be “ progressive” Method­ pulled on law and order he began So for all those at all vaguely But still, nobody’s really inter­ who, along with a few TV cam­ ist lay preacher, represented the losing votes and he seems to have interested it became widely ested in the elections so there’s eras, had turned up to watch the low Anglican-Presbyterian, rose forgotten once again that law and known that there was an election got to be a bit o f a floor show: dullest show in town. But the garden area of Gordon - enough order to most people means not coming up. You couldnt miss out razzamatazz Lizzy, Phil and the ritual had been seen to have been miles up into Sydney’s north getting bashed by the cops, on knowing that Harry had gang- at the Opera House and done. shore that when money speaks robbed by the cops and not seeing ballsed something up and that $30,000 worth o f fireworks to So it was back to the games at they still criticise its accent. them around when you get bashed something was his failure to get win the hearts and eyes o f those branch meetings, pretending they Just like most people in NSW, and robbed by other people. into the election rave. So there’s who like that sort of thing. were a real voice in a real party where the reactionary conser­ He seems unaware that a lot of an election on. This awareness The elections werent due until trying to form a real government vatism of the main political people know of what really goes lasted a couple of days, then May next year but everyone knew having and wanting real power. parties is only marginally differ­ on, or are willing to believe it does everybody went back to making a they’d come soon after Lizzy’s Pretty abstract stuff. But even the ent, Harry forgot about the — from freaks dealing with the quid, getting pissed or blowing visit. The fireworks were ok but games werent being played much, elections. NSW drug squad to the prop­ dough in the illegal gambling the Askin Opera House Show with nearly all the party resigned Harry found out about his rietors o f strip clubs and gambling clubs. bored just about everybody ex­ to losing and no spending money memory block while having lunch, clubs. The gambling clubs bring in the cept the newspapers who wanted for the largely token effort. an official lunch, representing the The industrial lawlessness was ALP (remember? there is an to make a mint out o f photo sales. Pat couldnt stir the lads to vic­ NSW government, sitting next to perhaps just an appeal to the opposition), which really doesnt The pace is reaching that of a tory the ALP says (they still Syd Einfeld who was representing already converted, tempered with the opposition. Syd and Harry give much of a stuff about them tram setting out for Essendon on havent learnt), but the game had except that it knows that certain Sunday and attracting as about as to be seen to be played even hope a few added votes might were talking shop and Syd men­ join in. people are getting a rake-off and much interest. The official elec­ though in their own terms he tioned that he himself was being But the Big Issue to both the that it might win a vote or two if tion campaign begins with the mouthed aggressive fighting words opposed in his seat of Waverley by Askin government and the ALP is four people (including the only they played things right. ALP campaign delivery by Pat with all the impact of Richard Hills. Neville talking to Bob Rogers. the price of land and the cost of Gay Lib candidate. Martin Smith). Pat Hills, almost unanimously buying a house. Syd Einfeld, his deputy leader, However, just in case someone Harry asked Syd how he knew all declared by his own party to be a Things havent changed — pri­ sits on the platform of Randwick might have been watching the that and Syd replied that nomina­ loser and who will be dropped vately or publicly - between the Town Hall with his usual and Randwick town hall performance, tions to stand for election had from his leadership o f the ALP for two parties. The individual can unfortunate resemblance to a Sir Frank Packer o f the Channel 9 closed that very day, just before losing the election, started to still make it, get married, settle large frog. As Pat Hills droned the tv network, knowing the ALP to lunch. stretch himself a little earlier this down and buy a house. cliches about what the ALP will be broke, decided to charge all Harry’s mouth dropped, reveal­ year and with other ALP members No, there’s no thinking at the do if it came to office there parties to have their election ing a piece of meat only half started mumblings about Mafia state level of the political ma­ were hopes Syd would protrude speech spiel on the box. chewed. A quick gulp and he influences in legal clubs - who chines about there just not being a long silvery tongue and zap a Poor tired old Sir Frank. Most rushed to the nearest phone, rang got the take from the illegal clubs private ownership of land. Its still fly from the ceiling. of the powers that be have learnt his local electoral office and the - and about general corruption in the same blurb to the young Syd ("Mr Prices Campaigner” ) to be slick and subtle in getting fact was confirmed. But true to government and of police com­ home-seekers: Get trapped in the heavy. Things havent changed in the end, Harry remained a politi­ plicity. instead sat like most o f the others, western - plains of Sydney sub­ the behind doors power games, cian, returned to his luncheon seat Even though the whole brutal­ his puffed eyes as lifeless as the urbia, 30 miles from the Bex but you must have a nicer front and nodded confidently to Syd: ity, bashings, standover tactics stale tongue rhetoric of the soon- factory. Rip-off real estate con­ these days. Would Bolte be able to “ It’s all ok now.” Which o f course and the rest go on and the law is to-be-disposed Hills. Further on tinues to smile, knowing it is still start out all over again or would it wasnt and for the next couple blatantly ignored, there was some from leader Pat and Deputy Syd in control. he have to put on a Hamer face to of days he could barely speak, shift against Askin among the sits Mr Machine, straight from While those seeking houses are achieve the same things? keeping away from the usual voting populace. the backroom boys, Last Hurrah being given “ we will do better numbers fixing John Ducker, politician’s ego lifeblood o f pub­ Sir Robin began losing out Packer's heavy-handedness gave than the other party and get you a adding the final touch of grey. A licity. among the believers o f the system the ALP lots of free publicity cheaper land price” line, Sir But Harry set the theme (Askin so he ordered a Royal Commis­ former Englishman who looks as if elsewhere and next to Harry Jago Robin has meantime got on to the he could be running an electrical provides the plot) and he will be sion to investigate “ alleged crime it was probably the second most real big problems o f people goods store in Yorkshire but who missed most by the press gallery in NSW clubs” . The Royal Com­ important thing in letting people already living in houses with is instead trying his best to of NSW parliament who, like the mission is still going and most know there was an election going families and who have young pets forward the policies of State Greek chorus o f Euripides, got people have forgotten about it. on. as well as young children. Modified Corporate Capitalism, onto the theme o f Harry’s view of Get the idea? Of course it’s not entirely true He offered a reward for a wielding power from the ninth his own stylish presence in open­ Now Robin (who changed his to say that nobody knew about vicious pet killer haunting the floor of the NSW trades hall’s ing new hospital wings and speak­ name to the more manly Bob the elections or there wouldnt northern suburbs. People were re­ contribution to blocking out the ing to Rotary. They used to gather when he gave himself a knight­ have been "issues” - things that minded again it was election time around the press dining room hood) is known as a bit of a sunlight. affect a few people some o f the when that happened. table and sing to the Hallelujah gambler and as a fan of the turf When Pat finished his speech time which are bloated up to scare And there was the rush to the chorus: "Har-ee Jago, Harry Ja­ (just like Henry Bolte) still likes there was some mild applause so shit out o f everybody else and polls to avoid the $10 fine for not go” . to weigh the odds. He thought up jumped John Ducker and gasp, which bear little relation to the voting, returning the same old The singing was for Harry’s he’d keep the ALP excited about gasp, the whole audience was on basic needs o f the people concern­ mob. It makes no real difference epitomising just what politics are the elections by increasing the its feet giving what is known as a ed in the issues. anyway. . .

THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, November 20-26, 1973 — Page 5 this malfunction in the bureauc­ *T»HE WESTERN suburbs of racy and painted a slogan on one X Sydney is the place where The Blacktown of the school buildings - “ Lower people who get ripped off go to class teachers for lower class Uve. schools” - adding the nicknames Nothing much happens in this of the particular lower class huge flat monotonous area, and teachers. when something big doe* happen Schoolof Bureaucracy to restrain the it’s an exception and passes by excesses o f public employees unnoticed because this area is so doesnt seem to be working at far away from the interests and Blacktown. Let’s suppose it does. movements of the people who In this case the discretionary make and write the news. heard o fHard by people who are tactical errorKnocks to describe it be­ the teeth which is consistent with actions attributed to Jack Kelly At Blacktown, on the western usually told to take the easy way cause other kids enemies, like their everyday lives. are not his own, but innovations fringe, the "exceptional" did out and plead guilty) was offered education and welfare authorities, Getting ripped off at school is in the practice o f discipline by the happen when the “ usual” was and one o f the kids expulsions may get word o f it and use it. If the preparation that the kids get NSW Education Department head­ brought to the attention of the was contested in a Supreme Court the editors o f The Living Day­ for factory and heavy work jobs ed by none other than the author inner-city newsmakers. case on school powers. lights feel my fear justified then I where you get up at five or six in of the Summary Offences Act, At the beginning of 1972 some The case was lost because the hope they censor it out the morning, get shit all wages and that other well-known disciplinary kids o f Blacktown Boys High kid’s evidence was thought by the “ Kelly’s own” involves a situa­ the sack at someone else’s will. innovator, Mr Eric Willis. asked their headmaster, Mr Jack judge to be suspect, while the tion where two kids or more have Just like factory workers who The same can be said for the Kelly, if they could have a school evidence presented by the school been sprung and the consistencies throw banana peels and bolts into authorities was taken as the truth instalment o f the bugs and burglar paper and a students qouncil - of their stories is the key to the works o f car assembly lines, systems. These may have been reasonable requests which any even though their information was discovering the victimising info. the kids get theirs back by paid for and authorised by the “ progressive” school in the NSW extracted by some o f the heaviest One o f the kids involved is called smashing chairs and windows in Education Department who have education department would be interrogation techniques you will into the room and told to give his class, and hitting Kelly’s car at been keeping a very close watch proud to encourage. hear of anywhere. side of the story which is taped. night. Some kids busted into Blacktown Boys High, the first on the school since last year’s The kids got straight out The other kid is then called in. Kelly’s office once and pissed on school to be the scene o f a events. If they’re not involved refusals because Blacktown is not Both kids are forced together his overbearing big chair. Supreme Court test case, might then there are only two possible "any” school. back to back touching each other. Kelly’s latest contribution to yet be the scene o f another case, sources: Kelly’s own pocket or So the kids did it themselves, The kid just called in is then told modern education practice is the this time over the interrogation the Parents and Citizens Associ­ underground, with a little help to recite his side o f the story, instalment o f a “ seeing eye” techniques used at the school by ation of the school. The P&C from their friends. The school while the kid whose story is on camera to detect movements in its head, Jack Kelly. doesnt seem a likely source be­ authorities o f Blacktown freaked, tape is told to raise his hand when the corridor outside his office, cause they are not too fond of For some time now Kelly has the situation polarised and the the kid talking says something and a super loud burglar siren (its Kelly’s spending habits after he been tape recording interrogation kids became unreasonable. They wrong. no bell) to spring the night busted the school’s finances on got the usual heavy misdemeanor sessions he has with kids. He uses The kid who told me about it raiders. things like his “ big chair” . treatment: interrogations, cops, the tapes. . . to being used on him and his mates There’s nothing wrong about So it looks like it may be Jack ring up the parents, the old “ put replay later when the kids parents did not make a big deal out o f it. what Kelly and his cohorts do as Kelly who is the big spender. the kids statements into envelopes or mates are ordered in. Maybe he He reckoned it only works on far as most of the Blacktown kids Investing private money in a until after the exams” trick, and, keeps them for personal records, “ softies” (sensitive kids), and that are concerned. What’s wrong is the public job is not the done thing in finally, expulsions. to play back to remind him o f his he and his mates are too tough to a bureaucracy, and if the bureauc­ These events got the ear of power. fact that the Education Depart­ racy is the culprit, then investing some of the inner-city radicals; Kelly does other things than be broken down. ment is supposed to be a state public money into a private people like the Council for Civil simple bugging. He’s got one Kelly’s interrogations dont bureaucracy, with rules which preoccupation with counter-kid Liberties who were shocked by technique which I havent heard of scare the shit out o f most make it a uniform system of espionage is not the done thing the way the kids were being before and would like to call Blacktown kids because they have administration and practice in­ either. treated out west. “ Kelly’s own". been toughened to handle and dependent o f class, race or creed. Free legal aid (something un­ In fact, I fear it may be a accept it as just another kick in One o f the night raiders sensed Except in Blacktown that is. Dropping in at the Drop In Centre

resigning, transferring or being warn off those who dont look 18. too. We might know a few kids forced to transfer to other Brian doesnt want alcohol at the and some o f the oldies, but what schools. (Needless to say, the centre lest it give the council an the fuck are we doing here any­ headmaster and the deputy re­ excuse to close it down. Kids way? - this is Blacktown kids mained, so one might expect a drink out the back. Someone put territory. We dont even dress repeat performance any time.) a bottle through the front window right. Thu energy for establishing the the week before we dropped in. “ Whatcha wearin’ sneakers centre was largely provided by , * Helen makes coffee, five cents for?” Brian andjplelea WjUde. Brian was a CHp, in the kitchen. Hook shows “ They’re cheap.” <©ne o f the staff transferred out o f movie*. That night the movies “ Thongs are cheaper.” Blacktown Boys High last year, w |re collages o f scraps off Mick An empty milk cartog whistles and unlike most staff posted to Glasheen’s cutting room floor: A pa*fc my ear.' 1^ might mean. Blacktown, he was a local.! In fact nJmber o f kids arrived expecting* “ You’re being stirred’^ ftr it might he is a favorite son o f the local Woodstock, but the - distributor mean "Riss o ff!” Labor party (progressive Wing). had lost the only 16 mm print. The kids here have been, sold The project needed the support Glasheen's leftovers were hardly out so often they are rightfully of the local council, firmly in the compensation, but Joe Cocker suspicious o f their elders and hands o f the Labor party J£jch- was promised for sometime soon* “ betters". “ This centre is run,by conservative wing) — ajitgup of adults for adults” Jan reads in the politicians who could teach Askin A girl hitched over from Liver­ ’ shithouse. The door bursts open a thing orj.three, if he could be% pool with some records and a - “ Can I piss between your legs? bothered to travel the 30 miles blonde wig. A door shut and a Go on, can I piss between you^, west, f f - £ " room soon filled with dope snrol^e legs?” A friendly arm enforces a and Deep Pulple. A young guy fits retreat. JOHN GEAKE • As predicted, the eeurfpil wasnt too keen about the project, but in the half light o f the front “ Sorry mils, we thought you n pH E BLACKTOWN Drop In one day reach literally to their the suggestion o f an empty house porch, reading Hopkins, tucked were do-gooders.” Jl Centre in the western sub­ doorstep. Its neighbors gone, the under demolition order Could inside Dylan’s Tarantula. “ Why “ No, we’re just "interested in urbs of Sydney will 1JI bulldozed house perches precariously at the hardly be refused, so the Drop In dont you go inside where it’s light seeing the centre.” flat in Deceiver, the Black­ intersection of two busy motor­ Centre found a home. enough to read?" “ The others "That’s OK then, we hate do- town shopping complex expands ways, awaiting its inevitable fate Home consists o f six- empty wopld mqcjt me if they caught me gooders out here.” steadily outwards. at the hands of a bulldozer driver. reading this stuff.” “ Do you dig rooms, painted in foot high letters By now, the guitar has been A theatre might be built on the The idea o f a Drop In Centre at Hopkins?” “ Yeah, very much." — names' *- BILLj LINDA, joined by another, plus bongos! ate. A theatre on that site couldnt. Blacktown arose out of a series of SCROUNGE, B.M.L.K.S. and It’s after 10 pm and there’s, African drums, a didgeridoo and accommodate the 300 or so kids meetings between teachers, par­ some doqgj^ but mostly names —^ maybe 100 people bustling in and harmonica. Strong music for a who drop in o f a Friday or Satur­ ents and students over the battles a testament to Cooper’s: “ Impulse out o f the centre. Someone plays strong feeling. They’d make it day night, but then, nor does the at Blacktown Boys High last year. actually in people . . . to shout a guitar which attracts a better together here if they had an even present building - the skeleton of These battles resulted m two out their names to the world.” feeling than the thousandth foot break. a suburban bungalow whose orig­ students being expelled, a number (Death Of The Family.) The older of Mick Glasheen’s leftovers. Pro­ The Blacktown Drop In Centre inal occupants probably never; of students leaving the school, and kids go to the pub first, but spective pick-ups start eyeing each will be bulldozed flat in De­ dreamed that the “ shops" would a majority o f the staff either there’s usually a cop on duty to other off. People are eyeing us off cember.

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WENDY BACON and LIZ FELL

E REMEMBER being rather stun­ W ned two years ago when, at the heignt of the demand for an inquiry into the Bathurst jail batterings, the Sydney Sun, at the request of NSW justice minister Maddison, published a series o f photos MADE IN JAIL - DEADLY ARSENAL - these pictures show some o f the weapons made in NSW jails. Only in tiny print was the informa­ tion that all the weapons had in fact been made by one con who died in Maitland jail some time before. A crude public relations trick. Green, one o f the Bathurst cons who had been battered (used to be a member of the Penal Reform Council but is now president of PAG - the Prisoners Action Group), was also stunned. “ I actually thought he was playing fair - but then I saw that there’s just as much deceit up there as there is in any jail. It’s not just a matter of reform - it’s a matter of getting rid o f Maddison, McGeechan - the whole system.” By a series of manoeuvres progressing from outright denial (“ The declarations . . . contain nothing other than lies and misrepresentations . . . ” ) to phony ex­ planations ("Mr Maddison said he was satisfied force had been used against some prisoners after a riot at the jail in Oct­ ober, but this force had been necessary to disarm them of dangerous weapons” ), Maddison avoided an inquiry. Such was the extent of deceit that a Royal Com­ mission could have brought not only the governor o f Bathurst undone, but also commissioner McGeechan and minister Maddison himself. No one, by the end of the campaign, doubted that in October 1970 two hundred cons in Bathurst jail had been spread-eagled naked against their cell walls and beaten senseless. f ^No one ,by the end of the campaign,doubted that in October Minister Maddison’s one concession was to set up a Corrective Services Ad­ 1970 two hundred cons in Bathurst jail had been spread-eagled visory Council: "It will not conduct a witch hunt into what has happened in the naked against their cell walls and beaten senseless. 9 5 past but will look to the future in the hope o f a better system being provided.” (Hansard, September 7, 1971). Headed by justice Hope, the council the Builders Laborers Federation has an­ included sociology professor Encel, a barrister, was appointed to assist Lewer. of your remarks in the media about me nounced that it will probably ban further personal friend of McGeechan’s, law pro­ Jack Graham, a penal reform lawyer, and am not minded to give you leave to construction. (It is fortuitous that the fessor Shatwell, English professor dared to suggest that by appointing appear.” Kramer, a token woman, churchmen rev­ BLF were called in to build this block — Lewer, a public servant, to inquire into a Lewer then asked assistant Cassidy usually the work is done by cons on slave erend Hulme-Moir, monsignor McCosker public service department, justice might what his attitude was. Well prepared, rates o f pay.) and magistrate Berman. not appear to be done. At the same time, Cassidy produced a police file on Graham A year later, in its first report, this Of course, this “ S” block is just that Graham expressly added that no criticism and referred to an incident which alleged band o f respectables recommended, bit closer to the builders laborer than it is of Lewer’s fairness or professional com­ that Graham was connected with an amongst other things, a segregation unit to Maddison, justice Hope or professor petence was intended. escaped con last year. - or "S” block - in NSW jails. "The Encel. If the ban goes on, Maddison might Graham, in the company o f Staples, a Furthermore, Cassidy added, Graham sub-committee recognises the need for a be forced to take up the Council for Civil barrister, visited Parramatta jail to see had been seen consorting in the precincts small special total security prison for Liberties’ recommendation that the com­ Gary Riley, one of the cons who had of the court with "wellknown prisoner” hardcore intractibles . . . designed archi­ pleted block be used as a visiting area. been bashed. Riley’s relatives had been in Tony Green (president o f PAG). He was, tecturally to provide (as humanely as In the light o f all this, interstate touch with penal reform when they read therefore, Cassidy concluded, “ not a fit possible) maximum security for prisoners readers may be surprised to learn that Gary’s name in a newspaper report. and proper person to participate in an whose custodial behavior is such as to Maddison, minister for justice and the When, on november 5, Graham ar­ inquiry into the Corrective Services De­ seriously disrupt normal institutional police is, of all our NSW Liberal poli­ rived at the inquiry to ask leave to appear partment” . Leave was refused and when, routines.” ticians, a "humanist, a progressive and a for Riley, Lewer replied: “ I dont think I later in the day, barrister Staples asked, as Elsewhere in the report, the council reformer” and as a result o f his efforts we want you in this inquiry. I’ve taken note a matter of courtesy, for a copy o f the. identified highrisk prisoners as “ escapees, have “ the best penal system in the morning’s proceedings, he too was knock­ violent aggressives, troublemakers and world” . (NSW readers will know this ed back. At this point, Lewer added that persons resistant to normal routine” . already since the daily newspapers treat he doubted whether the prisoners had Through this report the council gave this as accepted fact). “ any substantial and direct interest in the its explicit approval to a million dollar In recent weeks, however, Maddison’s inquiry” , thus suggesting that perhaps project o f Maddison’s, already under con­ public relations machine has been over­ they had no right at all to their own legal struction at Long Bay - a concrete “ S” worked. No sooner had the furore over representation. block, with cells devoid of natural light, the “ S” block died down when we heard Graham and Staples have asked the cut off from all sound, with electronically o f a sit down strike at Bathurst jail and Law Society and the Bar Council to take controlled doors, where 40 inmates for dissatisfaction amongst his own parole action against barrister Cassidy, and the 18 hours a day will be isolated in their officers. inquiry proceeds without them. Four cells never knowing when a screw is Finally, the bashing o f four cons in days later, Lewer offered the cons either peering thru’ one o f the possible peep­ Long Bay (following an abortive escape Perryman (a criminal solicitor said to holes. attempt) became public. This time, Mad­ have police connections) or the public So keen was the mastermind o f this dison, presumably having learnt a lesson defender. The cons preferred Perryman project to prevent human contact, that he from the Pentridge inquiry in Victoria — who then handed them over to one o f his went to the added expense of providing a where, despite a large amount o f evidence employees, solicitor Donovan. From all separate sewerage line for each cell, thus of violence against cons, no one was that Donovan has said so far, it seems he cutting off the traditional avenue of brought undone — quickly announced an has minimal experience in cross- communication between cons - via the inquiry in Sydney. To head this inquiry examination. toilet bowl. Does the council really con­ he appointed a friend - magistrate Lewer This inquiry into the "bashings” fas the cons say) or the “ incident” (as sider this to be a “ humane" structure? Or — knowing full well that after seven days perhaps it didnt bother to look at the of hearing, Lewer was off to the country plans? for a hospital inquiry, thus cutting pro­ The block is not yet completed, and ceedings short until December. Cassidy, a THE L IV IN G DAYLIGHTS, November 20-26, 1973 - Page 7 The day the screws turned loose

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pursue this issue any further, and nor did any o f the other lawyers. Whether Brown­ lee was present or not, he certainly must have known what was going on. Intended as systematic punishment, the bashings began shortly after 4pm, a time when all cons have been locked up for the night. In the past week, debaters and univer­ sity people who go into Long Bay each weekend, have been shut ou t A couple of them chose to tell the cons o f the plans for the “ S” block and publicly criticised the bashings. Visits have been denied - parliamentarian Peterson was not even allowed to receive complaints from one ex-Bathurst con he visited in the Bay, and censorship has tightened up. This includes Nation Review and presumably The Liv­ ing Daylights after this article. While PAG members dash out to the Bay and paint STOP MADDISON’S MONSTER on the walls and plan to f*They ripped my clothes off... I was he pulled my head up . . . Taylor said' invite parliamentarians and academics to face down on the floor . . . they were he’s a foxy fucking cunt. I felt my legs spend their lunch hour in a sensory- kicking me in the head ... I blacked being pulled apart. I was being kicked deprivation box, parole officers are com­ out . . . water was thrown in my face in the testicles. I was shocked it was plaining about lack o f staff and funds, . . . Pettit started whacking me in the that painful. I have never felt pain like face . . . batons were cutting through that before. I thought I was going to and some prison officers are asking for a my buttocks for about two minutes. I die . . . I can’t remember what happen­ broader inquiry. But minister Maddison was just conscious. I crashed down on ed after that.)) (Emmanual, at the has more in store for the cons. A govern­ the floor and went out to it again . . . inquiry). ment architect told us that the treasury has set aside two million dollars for yet another maximum security jail at Emu Plains . . . a safe place, since there’s already a prison farm here, so the neigh­ bors won’t be too upset. When Maddison is pushed to defend his administration his tactic is to divert attention to his “ reforms” — work re­ lease, parole and activities programs. Work release is mainly for “ silvertails” ; as one con has written “ work release is like a bank loan. You first have to prove that you dont need it before you can get it” . Not only are parole and activities Orbach ran up and punched me on understaffed - with all the money going the jaw that was already poking out into the construction o f new jails - but . . . I was put in overalls and a big some o f the cons actually would like to leather belt was put around me and I was handcuffed to the belt . . . on the return to the old licence system where a way out through the door I got a few con had some control over when his punches in the back.” application for a licence came up and ^T w o prison officers came in to ask Cassidy: “ Did you recognise the could present the facts for him or herself. me if I had made a statement about officer who did that?” the escape .. . I refused . . . They said “ N o.” During the Bathurst bashings contro­ you’d better or we’U bash you again. I “ Didnt you turn around to look?” versy, the prisoners statutory declara­ refused again so I was bashed for three “ No, I wanted to get out of there as tions stated that governor Pallet not only or four minutes with batons and fists quickly as possible . . . there was a encouraged his screws, but he got in for (this procedure, according to green car, a Valiant . . . the fat officer Riley’s evidence occurred 3 or 4 was standing near the door . . . I his share too. This time there is an times).. . . When I was being transfer couldnt lift my legs up . . . then he inquiry, but it is unlikely to disturb the red from Long Bay to Parramatta, I banged my head against the top o f the chain of authority, and at this stage it was just told that I’d spend the next car, then I collapsed again . . . I was looks as though Maddison will get away eight years at Grafton jail and in the put in the car and from there I was new block house . . . they’d bash me taken from the state penitentiary to with it again. that much that I’ d hang myself to Parramatta.)) (Emmanual, at the in­ We seem to have worked ourselves into escape.)) (Riley, at the inquiry). quiry). a depression. But for anyone who has been in contact with cons or spent even a everyone else in the court says) is a ramatta jail because he knew there was no few days locked up, what’ s going on now “ who-dun-it” exercise with predetermin­ need for this. Riley, another con, said in NSW jails is chilling - only the ed answers. Names o f several screws have that he didnt know who bashed him Maddisons, the Lovibonds and the Encels emerged . . . Taylor (in charge o f OBS - because at Grafton jail he had learnt that can really afford to cut themselves off. the jail observation block); Pettit (once at if you look at a screw who is bashing you, Trying to change prisons is a difficult the notorious Grafton jail); and Kersley you get bashed even more. business at the best o f times. Reforms (an Activities screw) . . . so probably a The beginnings o f an investigation are achieved are really only icing on a system few screws will go. However, the tour there, and a vigorous barrister could that remains basically the same, and even cons, out from their solitary confinement pursue them further. Not so solicitor some o f the reforms themselves may only for the day, seem less concerned with Donovan, a polite and pliant little man. be paper ones - flogging, for instance was who bashed them than do the eight Witnesses such as Father Meecham, abolished but still goes on. But it’s a besuited men who disbelievingly confront who at one stage was within 20 yards of tragedy when you’ve got someone up them. the bashings, said he didnt call out there whose main concern is appearances One o f the attempted escapees, Em­ because “ it was not his job” , and parole and who uses academics and churchmen manual, was accused by barrister Cassidy officer Nash, who encouraged Emmanual to back him up. of having a grudge against screw Pettit, A politician like Maddison is especial­ and replied: to give evidence, did not inquire into the details himself because “ that should only ly dangerous because he lulls people into "Pettit was the one . . . he hates my be done by an appropriate inquiry.” thinking he’s “ keeping up with the times” guts, but I have no grudges against prison and that he’s really doing something. A officers and I have no favorites. . . if they Early departmental witnesses gave evi­ dence that the governor o f the central few minor improvements for an elite have come up and talk to you, you’ve got to been implemented, but life for the recid­ industrial prison at Long Bay, Brownlee, talk back . . . they’re all equal to me, ivist — and that’s what most prisoners was not a witness to the "incident” . they’re just warders." are - goes on the same. But because the cons come from an­ Emmanual, however, stated that Brown­ other world where these things are part of lee was present when they were told to To Emmanual and Riley, already serv­ living, some o f the truth (however much undress prior to the bashings, and Riley ing long sentences, charged with attempt­ the inquirers and the Murdock press want said that "the superintendent” (who ed escape and assault and no doubt prime to avoid it) is beinq revealed. could be either Brownlee or Stewart, candidates for the “ S” block, the inquiry Emmanual, for instance, told the court head o f the whole Bay complex) was will mean little. For Brownlee and Mc- that bashing is a routine punishment for standing at the doorway o f his cell at the Geechan it is a chance to cover up. For attempted escapees. He didnt report the time he was bashed. Maddison, it is one more peg in the ladder bashing to the superintendent at Par- Of course, Donovan chose not to to premiership. .

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piss in places where discovery world was again wet, I was get­ would cause greatest surprise ting out more, away from home and discomfort. I preferred my bladder bulged, I was back unmade beds, clean sheets or to my best. toilet seats, the pockets of My years in limbo had left raincoats or filling my fathers an uncommon dryness around the gumboots. I loved to line my once marshy squelch that was my mothers rubber gloves and I al­ parents home. The area around S A child I never spoke, ways added a drop or two to the the house grew dry and dangerous A I was able but unwilling. dishwashing detergent. and not unexpectedly took to I was to the world both bland When not topping off the dogs bursting spontaneously into and solemn, a silent boy whose dinnerplate I would make the flame. It was during my urin- face never cracked under the pegs on the clothes line spin naissance, returning home strain o f emotion. Though with deadly accurate bursts of fatigued from flooding the town vocally unobtrusive I had in my own inexhaustible water that one of these sporadic out­ no small dose the child’s de­ pistol. I was both weapon and bursts occurred. sire for parental attention, toy, my own monsoon. Unchecked it reached the this satisfied by surrender to As the years passed my now tinder dry house, it quickly my insatiable urge to piss. mother, tired, wet and no longer burned to the ground. I watched Being a small child who caring, discouraged by my capa­ as my parents, at one moment never spoke enabled me to pass city to cop a beating, reach­ asleep in their rooms, now invisibly between talking ed a grim acceptance of the crawled across the blazing yard adults. My mother, who always inevitable me, she gave up the to my feet. As their clothes forgot I was the one o f her 29 struggle to contain my water. burned and the skin on their sons that pissed, always ignor­ Saddened by her indiffer­ bodies blistered and cracked, ed me as I glided silently to ence I took to inexplicably they beseeched me in unison. my point of operation, 15 inches drying up, not paying enough "Piss on us son! Piss on from the heel, on the line attention to my fluid intake. us please!” through the toe o f the person More and more I resorted to Quickly I whipped out my to whom she spoke. orthodox outlets. Though I prick and pointed it to the Pointing my prick at the still took to the clothes in flames engulfing my parents. pants leg, here I would piddle my parents wardrobe there was Lining up the fire at the point until my target, warned by the no enthusiasm. of greatest intensity I smiled grip o f sodden trousers, or my Throughout my early teens at the thought of again winning mother, usually the first to my form was at best erratic. their attention. But suddenly sense my urine, said “ Peter! Not until age 15, encouraged my bladder tensed, as mum and Stop that!” and took to me by beatings and abuse from my dad burnt to a frazzle. I put with her fists, beating me kfirst girlfriend who my penis back in my pants. I around the body where it would . disliked the little turned determined and not show. that I still did, with new resolve. My father, a jovial old did I rediscover “ I must stop doing soul who regarded all pissing my peak. My that,” I thought. as sport, invariably spoke out: “ For a boy my age it's such a "Dont punish Peter, Pauline, he’ll grow out o f it.” It was dirty habit!” ~w times like this, as they both discussed me, that I felt wanted G. DAVIS and loved, encouraged by their attention I would fly, laughing, from the room in an orgy of water, wetting from wall to wall of our white, panelled weather­ board. It was my secret game to

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THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, November 20-26, 1973 — Page 9 was discovered a few years after the book was written, who better to play the Steppenwolf? By the summer o f 1972, Leary was more Steppenwolf than doc­ tor of psychology. Although the Swiss were not particularly inter­ ested in allowing such a corrupter of children to contaminate their own, their reputation as a tradi­ tional place o f asylum for the rich and famous was at stake so they would not throw him out either. Being neither in nor out, Leary was everywhere, with houses or at least access to them all over the sinister little playground, racing a yellow Porsche unpredictably from Canton to Canton awaiting one to welcome him officially. He had some official support. The Basel daily National Zeitung car­ ried a piece: "... Leary has highly restrain­ ed himself from making propa­ ganda for drugs. From the begin­ ning of his provisional release from prison he has strictly re­ spected the terms of his release and has not openly spoken out against the USA, about Vietnam, or for drugs... I therefore ask the council to extend to Leary the permit of residence ...” Fishman flashed it would be Basel. LSD was discovered in Basel. What karma! A x l in the The vision went like this. Basel would grant asylum and Dr Leary would arrive by train one misty morning carrying his bags just as Hermann Hesse and Harry Haller Magic Theatre had arrived in Basel, and the cameras would be at the station to meet him and the film would 'T'HE MOVIE so far: after two years of begin. torment, with director Fred Haines buried in This was not to be. Leary was prime source material in Basel, Switzerland, and uneasy in even a golden jail. With glorious insanity he walked with producer Mad Mel Fishman global rock through the Magic Theatre door hopping for finance, shooting has finally begun on reading: Escape/You can’t always get what you want and flew from the film, the impossible film - Hermann Hesse’s purgatory which he had come to Steppenwolf. see was killing him despite its MICHAEL ZWERIN, himself deeply involved in appearance of paradise. To be glommed immediately at Kabul Joanna and Leary on the run the “process”, records the story about the film of airport, gateway to the dope cap­ ital of the world, by the long arm man who moreover has walked gress in New York’s “ silk stock­ the story in journals, when he is not working for through Magic Theatre doors hun­ Steppenwolf’s of what the people it belongs to ing” district as a liberal Republi­ promotion. call the law. dreds of times. To match its pro­ can against liberal Democrat Ed Here we continue from Part One (TLD 4). The genius o f Leary, like that ducer and director, Fishman and Koch. He lost, almost going bank­ Michael made notes in the journal on the casting of Fishman — what sets them Haines, Steppenwolf may need rupt in the process. apart from others of their style — more than professionalism to Playing the game spectacularly, for the role of Hesse’s hero, Harry Heller; about is the ability to take care of meet its potential. he has since become chairman o f how they wanted Timothy Leary to play the lead, business when they feel like it. Later I came to see that he National Semiconducter ($40 Yet the fact that they only chose would not have had the staying pocket calculators), on the Big but how after some trouble in the Alps the task to feel like it on their own terms, power over an eight week sched­ Board, among others. His 60,000. finally went to Max Von Sydow. while infuriating sometimes, sets ule, ten or twelve hours a day six odd shares went up from 30 them apart from another style. days a week. Von Sydow on the something to 80 something (you AM a still photographer that was no publicity stunt. I saw They are apart. other hand seemed to grow figure it out) during the shooting without a camera. These are 1 I was, in fact, no parasite, being Fishman can put on a suit and stronger. Von Sydow was to carry of Steppenwolf and Fishman was my proofsheets. Into the second genuinely moved by what I was a tie for the bank and will show the whole production on his back fond o f saying: “ We can’t spend it week of filming Steppenwolf, I promoting. I saw Fishman’s genius up on time. Leary arrived in Basel almost alone, although that too as fast as Mr Big is making it.” He got a cold which was still there in bringing someone genuinely with his lines learned — more than can be misunderstood. calls him “ Mr Big” to his face. into the third week. Sunday after­ moved by the project, no matter learned, imprinted so that one one noon I tried to blow my head * * * Hip enough to appreciate the how miscast otherwise, to pro­ viewed was not the High Priest o f clear with a little acid, just a mote it HERE are many divisions bizarre, smart enough to see the LSD playing at acting but a trans­ business potential, with energy triplet, say. Another illustration o f Fish­ between human beings. Man mogrification to the Steppenwolf T enough to push through the mass I stayed in bed and read Step­ man’s genius was casting Dr and woman, old and young, rich itself. of paper Herland and Fishman penwolf and there are worse ways Timothy Leary as Harry. This was and poor, right and left. But the Facing the prospect of prison had accumulated living three years to pass a triplet. I underlined the a year before shooting was to biggest division - and it is getting for life, Leary knew about un­ following passage, Harry Haller, bigger all the time - is between on the pot, Sprague was the per­ begin and at the time there was funny jokes. Like Harry, Leary the Steppenwolf, in a tavern: country and city. Time is differ­ fect angei to turn Fishman’s fan­ something less than the certainty was living with humorless humor "It is remarkable, all that men ent between country and city, and tasy into reality. it ever would. and like Hesse awareness had been can swallow. For a good ten min­ space. Thus I viewed him im ost Peter Sprague is perfectly Fishman was grasping at last sharpened by pain and drugs. utes I read a newspaper. I allowed as a creature from another planet aware o f the fact that there comes straws and what straw better than There was a moment there in the spirit o f an irresponsible man when Peter J. Sprague emerged a time of life when people who a fugitive from almost every civil­ the second week when I wished who chews and munches another’s from a maze o f international air­ have made fortunes manufactur­ ised country, plus a few not so Leary not Von Sydow was playing words in his mouth, and gives civilised, you can name. Tim ports and stock quotations to take ing widgets find this need to make Harry. This is easy to misunder­ them out again undigested, to Leary, wanted for leading the up temporary residence in Basel as movies or finance race horses. He stand because Von Sydow is one wasnt old enough to be desperate enter into me through my eyes. I townie children towards the Executive Producer o f Steppen­ strong screen actor and he seems for creative ways to lose money. absorbed a whole column of it. dumps, a heavy count in any wolf. smart and subtle and into this role His conscience is good, he is not And then I devoured a large piece language. A hounded wolf Thirtyfour, with a full brown particularly, but still he is only an guilty about his fortune. He is not cut from the liver of a slaughtered scrounging right there at home beard and tinted aviation glasses, actor whereas Leary would have bored handling it. The movie busi­ calf. Odd indeed!. . . ” not on the steppes but in the pipe puffing, Peter had a head been the Magic Theatre itself. The When I finished the passage gaudy mountains of Switzerland start with General Electric shares ness did not attract him, or at object of an international man­ there were tears in my eyes and - moreover right where LSD itself and a talent for monopoly. Sutton hunt playing a Steppenwolf, a Square Sprague ran for US Con­ Page 10—THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, November 20-26, 1973 ularly about acting, he was moved But then he couldnt stop won­ by the performance. Mr and Ms dering why all those people were Sprague took up an invitation to around and why nobody was with fly to Switzerland to meet Heiner him. He started testing them, Hesse, the author’s son, and they standing a foot or two from the drove together to Lugano where curb to see if anyone would come the Hesse’s have a home by the over and save him. Nobody did. lake. Leary was there. He was getting worried. It got Leary was charming, he took stronger and stronger. There was Ms Sprague for a long walk, he less and less control. He thought was the type of hippy you could he might go over the edge. take home. Harvard and all that He threw up and he could see . . . reasonable, modulated, on he was throwing up blood. At the good behavior. After all those same time he knew he wasnt grotesque stories, finding Leary so throwing up blood. He never lost reasonable made him even more that much control. He kept telling fascinating. Sprague came back himself there was no reason to and tried raising partners for Step- throw up blood, there was noth­ least he maintained the bargaining penwcif on the basis of Leary. ing physiologically happening, it fiction it didnt. Sprague has a People who had met Fishman just looks like blood. He thought weakness, however. He loves prob­ freaked even more with the addi­ of checking into a hospital. When lems. tion of Leary. Nobody who had he began to read a copy of For­ enough money - particularly if tune magazine he knew he was in If you really want to do any­ they’d made it themselves - was control again. thing, you either have to start it Leary called the next morning yourself or find something with interested. to see how Sprague had enjoyed enough problems so that you can Leary was ready to leave Switz­ the trip. Leary had dropped twice enter into a genuine decision­ erland unless he could get a com­ as much acid as Sprague. He said mitment for Steppenwolf. making role. For example: Design what a fantastic drive it had been, Research is a large retailing chain Sprague decided to go back for he had made passionate love with and the first thing Sprague did another look to see if he wanted Joanna five o’clock in the morn­ after stepping into the situation to become more personally involv­ ing in the Porsche as the sun came was spend four or five days a ed than he’d previously consider­ up over the Alps. week in Cambridge learning the ed. He flew directly from Florida Anatomically interesting as retailing business. Now, still chair­ where he is Chairman of a com­ that may be, Mr Big had lost man, he’ s got a bunch of people pany raising shrimp in the gulf. whatever interest he ever had in running it better than he ever He met Leary in Gstad and they financing Timothy Leary as the could. But he knows enough to went up the mountain to ski Steppenwolf. know how well they are running together with Joanna, Leary’s lat­ Enter the ultimate professional it. He knows enough not to be est lady. They started early, there Max V on Sydow. surprised. had just been time for a cup o f When he took over National coffee. On the way up Joanna Semiconducter it was in receiver­ passed him a cookie from the ship in Connecticut. When he back seat. It tasted a little funny merged it with a company in and it had green goop on it but it Chapter Eleven in California, was too late when he learned it there were 60 shareholders. Now was a hash cookie. Eleven thou­ there are 9000. During real sand feet on top of that moun­ trouble, he had to decide whether tain, with so little oxygen, or not to sell ten percent of the Sprague got even higher. He was company for some eight and a losing control, something he does half million dollars. He decided to not like. Anyway, he gets a natur­ tough it on through and now ten al high from skiing. percent is worth thirty million The glacier grew less fuzzy dollars. when they started down, when When Fishman and co-pro­ the rush o f air started to work the ducer Herland found Sprague they dope out of his system, he began had an immediate hit. Here was to see that Leary was afraid o f the their ticket away from the land of mountain, afraid of falling down, the tax loss. Promoting the impos­ afraid to lean out into the slope. sible, the jump from financiers Leary was finally doing something who expect to lose on their invest­ Sprague could judge him on and ment to those who expect to win he had expected more courage is an important one. from Timothy Leary. Fred Haines was more, Sprague That evening they discussed saw that immediately. He got a somebody we’ll call Margaret. feeling of considerable strength Sprague had known Margaret for a from Fred, o f quiet determina­ year and a half, he knew a lot tion. Fred is centred, regardless of about her. They had been close. what happens around him. Fred is She was a Jewish Sarah Lawrence always Fred. He projects a great girl with two doctors for parents deal o f patience and sureness. He’s and a mathematician husband, a balanced. Not dull, just under jazz musician on the side, who control. Sprague read Fred’s had split for a kibbutz leaving her screenplay but he did not have the with two children. She had moved experience to evaluate one. It to the south of France with all her came down to making an a priori problems and the children to live personal judgment. He was used in a stone house without elec­ to that kind o f thing. tricity or running water. So it came down to making an Later she lived some months instinctive judgment about Fred with Leary in Switzerland but Haines. He made it when Fred when he talked about her, beat him at chess. Peter Sprague Sprague realised Leary had never respects people who can beat him really taken the trouble to know at chess. Margaret. "M y attitude towards this He talked about her in terms of movie was that it was bankrupt. how he had to keep her o ff hard They had all the pieces but they drugs, it was all a sort o f manipu­ were never going to get o ff the lative pharmacology. He saw that ground. They had almost killed it. Leary didnt really know who she No major studio would have taken was because he didnt really care. the risk o f buying the rights from Leary laughingly related how he Fishman and Herland because title had passed her on to some Aus­ to them was too clouded by all trian kid who had a lot o f prob­ these financiers who had come in lems and a castle. He got the the middle, they wouldnt have feeling Leary was more concerned believed Fishman and Herland with drugs than people. could deliver the rights clean. God Then Sprague had a reasonably knows what paper there is out traumatic experience. Joanna gave there in the woodwork. It was an him some acid before taking off incredible challenge. I couldnt re­ with Leary over the mountains in sist.” the Porsche. Alone, a virgin, Timothy Leary sucked Sprague Sprague suffered a fair amount of further in. Fishman screened the paranoia the first three hours. But test for Sprague. Leary had a there was also incredible energy ravaged late-forties face you could and Sprague has a healthy respect easily associate with Harry Haller. for his own mind. Several times Although he knew nothing partic­ there he figured he had it licked. The reconstruction of the world of the Steppenwolf THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, November 20-26, 1973 — Page 11 Would someone please direct me to the war ROM time to time, as evening water going down, it has been something draws in on Phnom Penh and the When JAMES FENTON went in search of the of a cat-and-mouse game. The road to F sound of the mortars is carried through Kompong Som, for instance, which is the the dusk, like interference on a radio, one Cambodian war he found a country of happy, important supply route from the sea, has comes across men who are afraid to go peaceful people.But then been shut, opened, shut and opened home. again. In some areas the army has regain­ The army, they explain, is looking for the war found him and things became different... ed ground, and they are quite optimistic. them. “ So you do not wish to fight for The Khymer Rouge seem to have a real your country?” “I do not wish to die, shortage of ammunition, although they age against the Thai businessmen nipping hollow space under the very statue of the monsieur.” And where yesterday they, use what they have well. When things across the borders, who nowadays smug­ Buddha. would refer to the enemy as the VC, become hot, they simply up and leave. It gle out nearly all the gems. The loss of Because there is a war on, you go up today the war is a question of Khmer is very difficult to catch a glimpse of revenue to the Cambodian government to the front with a herd of duck inside fighting Khmer, where yesterday the them. One journalist, a seasoned Vietnam may be computed in millions o f dollars. your armored personnel carrier, or a live patriotic phrases fell easily from their veteran, told me that in the three months (Incidentally, not far away the Khmer chicken in your rucksack. The shrines of lips, today they are philosophical. he had been here he had seen just one Rouge have their own mine, said to be faith are destroyed, the mores o f village Suppose, I asked one man who was dead one. ten times larger than Pailin’s. Here the life suspended, and discipline is very expressing contempt for such faint hearts, On Highway Three I was driving out Thai traders come as well, trading guns much an empirical affair. I am not saying suppose it was not a question of fighting with a photographer when we met a for rubies.) that the soldiers do not obey orders — pour la patrie but for Lon Nol and the crowd o f panic-stricken civilians retreat­ On October 9, Mr In Tam gave a merely that it is a far cry from here to the generals - would you still be prepared to ing from the front. I stopped one man on reception in honor of the third anniver­ Combined Cadet Force. die? That, he replied, is a question I have a motorbike who told me that the enemy sary of the republic, and the Palais du Once, in the past month, I met a truly been asking myself very often recently, had crossed the river with a large cannon Gouvemement was filled with politicians, conscientious type. It was on a quite and I have not yet found the answer. and that a VC girl with hair down to her diplomats and journalists. A double cor­ deserted road, in an area where there had A common expression for draft eva­ waist, whom he had seen, had been don o f soldiers from the prime-ministerial been no serious fighting for weeks. I sion is "going into the forest for a few shooting at them. We asked him, since bodyguard provided our protection in the stepped off the Honda, paused tactfully days” . Unfortunately in the vicinity of our driver would go no further, to take us vast opensided building, and as the drink while he donned his helmet, gun, gren­ the capital there are not many forests up to the front. He assented happily and flowed the level o f conversation reached ades and all, and received his salute in the available: it lies in a plain of rice fields when we got there we found a scene of an abyss. manner of a kindly field marshal on a and is at present surrounded by enemy utter calm. The password for this month Tiring of this, I wandered out on to flying visit. troops and water. But there are still a has been “ Aucun incident significatif” . the balcony, thinking naively that I might But where was the war? For weeks I couple of provinces in Cambodia where a Which is why, perhaps, some curious be able to offer one of the soldiers a had searched for it with a diligence man may go to forget. local developments have been reported. drink. Naively, I say, because when I got stopping short only of the suicidal. The This summer’s siege of Phnom Penh On the same road, for instance, there was there I found that most o f the troops had artillery looked magnificent, as it gave the turned Battambang into a resort for the a small ceasefire. According to UPI and a triple Scotch at their elbows; but covering fire which used to be supplied families of the powerful and rich. Fifty AP reporters who arrived there before the cigarettes and refills were welcome and by the B52s. And the armored personnel miles away, on the Thai border and in the we began to talk. front line was sealed off by the high foothills o f the Cardamom mountains, carriers would set off across the beautiful Below us, on the grass, a group of command, it happened like this. lies Pailin. Both towns were annexed by fields and disappear into the under­ children had penetrated the outer cordon The Khymer Rouge seem to have a real Siam under the Japanese occupation, and growth. And then . .. nothing. “ Alors, and were stretching out their hands for radio to his opposite number (not an both are rich - Battambang lies in the mon general” , I said, returning to the food. Across the Mekong “ my friendly uncommon practice, even during earnest most fertile agricultural area in the coun­ field HQ after a morning o f such waiting, artillery” was pursuing an energetic cam­ fighting) and asked whether there were try, Pailin has sapphires and rubies. It is “ il n’y a pas des ennemis". He gave a paign against “ the enemy” . We discussed many Americans on the other side. It was the latter town which exerts the more shrug and invited me to lunch. at length whether London was a finer city explained that the Americans had gone powerful influence on the imaginations of An awning had been set up beside the than Phnom Penh, and I found it impos­ home (not entirely true). Then, he said, the poor. ruined house, and a clean tablecloth, sible to make up my mind. he didnt want to kill more Khmers. Getting there is like going on a pil­ napkins and cutlery laid out. There were For the first weeks it was scenes of grimage. Somebody in Battambang has 20 dishes to choose from, snails, chicken, On either side, one soldier was sent that kind which typified the war for me. amassed a fleet of 40 white Peugeot beef all freshly cooked, and the only out to the river’s edge, and each, to prove When later I commented sternly upon the station wagons, which set out each morn­ drink was brandy and soda. The soldiers he was unarmed, stripped naked. After­ behavior of the bodyguard, one Cam­ ing in a convoy of lorries, buses and stood around, bringing more ice as it wards both units emerged unarmed and bodian replied: “ They behave like that assorted curious vehicles, all under army became necessary, and twirling napkins lined the river bank. The Khmer Rouge supervision. because there is a war on. In peacetime all the time to ward off the flies. It was had a drum. They began dancing and For the first part of the journey the they would never get away with it.” like dining among a group of morris singing humorous songs. The ceasefire cars — 11 passengers in each - make good This is true. Because there is a war on, dancers, excepting that they didnt kick. lasted more than a week. progress along a reasonable road. Then it you do not take off your shoes on My difficulties in finding the war were On only one occasion have I felt panic entering the Pagoda - you sling your is time to eat. Cambodians, particularly not exceptional. For the past month, coming on. It was during a boxing match hammock there and eat your rice in the the soldiers, do not like going into danger while the rain has been sporadic and the in Phnom Penh’s large covered stadium on an empty stomach. (one of the prestige buildings dating from Afterwards the road is slow and the days of Sihanouk). The place was potholed. I had been told that the sol­ packed beyond capacity but the contest­ diers extort protection money from the ants were not very good. They seem more passengers along the way, but what I saw interested in avoiding each other than was rather a system o f tipping. One threw attacking, and my attention wandered to down a loaf or a handful of fish for one’s a little scene taking place a few yards protectors, and the average tip was five from me. riel, that is to say about a cent on the One soldier had somehow managed to official exchange rate. upset another’s chair, and a space was Shots are heard from the forest as the being cleared around the argument. Sud­ hills begin. Shots are fired in return, but denly I looked up and saw the whole into the air with a shrug, as if to call a crowd running towards the exit. My first bluff. We stop again for oranges and thought was that they were getting out coconut water. The road is not mined, before the national anthem, my second, but the enemy have dug two trenches as the rush came upon me, that the across it — trenches of an archeological building was falling down, my third, as I precision which delay our progress for began to run, that there was a bomb hours. Eight hours after setting out we scare. It was indeed a bomb scare. arrived in Pailin. The crowd, attentive to this small “ Things” , said an army captain who scene, was terrified that one o f the came up to my table in Pailin’s one soldiers would throw a grenade at the restaurant, “ are not very well organised other. Incidents of this kind, I was told, here.” And bringing a plastic wallet out were fairly common, and if you saw an of his pocket he selected two fair-sized angry soldier you should take to your rubies from a large collection and pressed heels. During August, when things were them into my hand. “ When you get back admittedly a little tense, a soldier threw a to England, please send me a postcard,” grenade at a taxi which failed to stop for he said, leaving. him - a trick I must remember to try He was right about the organisation. when I get back to London. Before 1970 the wealth of Pailin was nationalised to the extent that all gems Apart from such mishaps, Phnom Penh had to be exported through the state is a comparatively safe place. Terrorist monopoly firm Sonexpieror. activity runs at a rate o f about one But the Lon Nol government is con­ incident a week. Mostly the targets are sistent in its attitude to business. Instead market stalls and cinema crowds - very of keeping a tighter grip on this useful bloody but not much publicised. So dollar earner, they relaxed all restraints. during the first part of my stay I lived in Sonexpieror became a trading company a state of lunatic happiness, loving the like any other, competing at a disadvant- Page 12 - THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, November 20-26, 1973 . Basis people, the place and the novelty o f this '. - w* is: r. elusive war. I cannot claim that I found it unreal - I knew what it was, and I liked it. I never found the war, but in the end it found me, and now I feel slightly differently - blooded, you might say, although I have only a strained muscle to show for it, and not enough to justify an attractive limp. Towards the end of the month the Khmer Rouge moved across the Tonle Sap River and occupied a stretch of road about 20 kilometres to the north o f the capital. I was curious about this man­ oeuvre, since I knew that the river was wide and the road, with villages on either side, afforded a space of dry land about 100 yards wide most o f the way. Since the government has a monopoly o f naval vessels, there would be no eastward escape by daylight across the river. To the west indeed there lay Khmer Rouge territory, but to reach it you would have to cross several kilometres of flooded terrain. It must have been a very quiet infiltra­ tion. Two days later, going with the troops along the previously occupied ter­ ritory, we came across a motorbike with the swollen bodies of two government officers lying beside it, hideously destroy­ ed. They had probably set out on the The Mekong River before the West went East morning after the operation had begun, managed to leave the enemy position? I am not afraid. Prudent, but keeping my merit attention, and this worried me. and had become the victims of the first Then quite suddenly it appeared that head. We began to retreat, ducking through shot fired - a B40. the undergrowth and wading through the all was over, and a group o f soldiers and I noticed my heartbeat - how at the Further on we reached the army posi­ shallows, and I began to feel my legs give civilians set out to go into the village. I beginning o f each burst of gunfire it tion which had been isolated during the way with fear. On the path, which we went with them, and was shown the would go fast, and then regulate itself. It operation, and beyond were able to see were studiously avoiding, a wounded sol­ civilian dead. An old man lay on his bed. was exactly what I had learned in psy­ the enemy who were still left on the road. dier came limping by. He had taken off He must have been shot while sitting in chology — the whole organism, brain and First, across the river, a sampan tried to his trousers to apply a camouflaged com­ the lotus position, and had simply top­ reflexes, was coping admirably. It would put out to come and evacuate the remain­ pression bandage to the back o f his leg, pled backwards, his legs still entwined anticipate heavy fire, something in the ing men, but a gunboat made it turn and as he passed me he fired an angry and a polythene bag full o f cigarettes at brain would attenuate the signal, and yet back. Next, on the west side, another Parthian shot, a volley of automatic fire his side. at the same time the slightest unfamiliar sampan with about four men visible on from his M16, into the water. I jumped. The soldiers moved from house to sound would be seized upon. I would board was making for the hills, and was Had the whim taken him otherwise, or his house, tying up the pigs and looting turn my head as a hen ran past, or a frog immediately fired on from our positioa aim failed, he might have directed the whatever they fancied. My first looting, I slithered down the bank beside me. I was It was then that I was told of our bullets at me. That was the third stage - thought, and what a genteel phenomenon coping. I was quite pleased. danger. The pagoda in which we were a real, if momentary fright. it is. When you loot your countryman’s But there is a time factor to fear. It based was well within the range of enemy The pain was driving him wild and he wine, you do not swig it from the bottle. infiltrates the mind in the shape o f a mortar, and as soon as we fired on the was beginning to wander and stagger. So I You take out his small glasses, set out his strong desire for something else. I wanted escapers they would attempt to put us did what under the circumstances was table and chair on his veranda and drink a shower (normally I hate showers). My out of action. We lay flat, and shortly probably the least advisable thing for it at a decent pace. shirt was filthy (something that rarely afterwards a mortar landed, seriously both of us - I hitched him up and carried We passed the freshly dug position of worries me). I would have to get back wounding a pregnant woman who had him from the field o f battle. He had given the enemy front line, with the remains of before the curfew (not true - and besides been sitting in the infirmary. The mortar me the perfect opportunity to make my their meals laid out as in the Mary it was only three o’clock). I had run out had been aimed slightly wide of the excuses and leave. Celeste. Then, as I was wandering ahead a of cigarettes and I wondered whether my position of our gun, but this could easily In the first advanced position I saw little, the captain restrained me and said driver was afraid. This was the first stage. be rectified. here, a transistor radio was playing Han­ that beyond a certain fence things were A decorative young man, in a white, Shortly afterwards we heard another del’s Music for the Royal Fireworks. The not too safe. Wait ten minutes and we broadbrimmed polystyrene hat came launched, and hid in a different area. soldiers were snoozing in hammocks or would proceed. down the path in a state of some com­ Something fell, but there was no ex­ tucking into large meals. I thought - how Ten minutes later the soldiers began to motion. Then a soldier tapped me on the plosion. We heard shouting and looked relaxed and unafraid. Now I shall inter­ move past the fence where I had been back, saying “ Vietcong arrivent” . ou t Behind the hut in which we were pret things differently, having learnt that standing, and immediately the firing be­ hiding, under a tree, a young joker was People were a sharp appetite may be a prelude to gan. We hid behind trees, with weak pulling up his trousers and gesticulating pointing to the other terror. smiles. Then we crouched on the ground, wildly. Six feet away from him the side o f the river, On the day after the initiation I have looking s,erious. Then as the armored mortar had landed, buried itself in the but I could see described, examining the enemy positions personrel carriers on the road began earth up to its fins and failed to go off. nothing there to which had been vacated the night before, firing and the noise o f the shooting began He had been having a shit at the time. I came upon an enamel plate with the Enough, as someone said later, to give to fill every space around us, we made for the river bank and lay very low. remains of a meal neatly set upon an you constipation for a week. improvised tripod of twigs. Such fastidi­ But this was not the blooding to which I felt a fool, not being able to tell what direction the shots were coming from andg ousness, in the front line! "But I do not I have referred. The day before, further what the different noises were. wish to die, monsieur.” j— |. back down the road, I had witnessed the Besides the heavier sounds, which beginning of the enemy retreat. Since I reckoned (wrongly) must be New Statesman coming to Cambodia I had been expect­ ours, what was the sudden ing something to happen which I would sharp sound which recognise and say “ So that is what war is like” , but nothing had, and after a while I seemed to take place gave up expecting it. Either I was in the above one’s head, all around, like wrong country or there was no such thing. fireworks at a Here, however, from the start each regatta? At least, element had a familiar quality - perhaps I thought, something I had read cr dreamt o f had prepared me. A few yards ahead of us, a burning building marked the enemy front line. Firing was sporadic, but the wind was blowing in our direction and it occurred to me that we might simply be forced by fire back down the road. Along the river came two boats filled with women and children, and as they got nearer a low sound, a sort of moaning in chorus, reached the bank. 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DO IT YOURSELF RUNG FU 5 Continuing our exhausting introductory guide to the martial art of Kung Fu.

(1) Begin the advancing movement (1) In the retreating movement just FOOTWORK by assuming a right stance. (2) reverse the direction of the ad­ Without changing the position of vance. From the right stance (2) your arms, take a full stride for­ slide your left foot backward, and ward with your right foot, and (3) (3) then bring your right foot back Advance follow halfway with your left foot. Retreat halfway.

(1) Assume a right stance. (2) Slide (1) Assume the right stance. (2) your left foot toward the left on a Slide your right foot toward the Step to the Left straight line, and (3) follow halfway Step to the Right right on a straight line, and (3) with your right foot. follow halfway with your left.

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Side Step Side Step Left Right into Remaining in Right stance a Left Stance m sS "S,. w

(1) Assume a right stance. (2) Move your left (1) In this maneuver you begin in a right foot forward and toward the left until it is stance but end in a left stance. (2) Slide your on line with the right foot. right foot forward and toward the right.

(3) Stop the right foot and follow with your left foot. (4) Without stopping (3) Bring your right foot over to the left foot, and (4) then slide the right the movement, slide your left foot up to the right foot and (5) then forward foot forward and toward the right. (5) Follow halfway with your left foot. and toward the left. This foot movement is used mainly for attacking to both the inside and outside gate.

Shift Horse 2 3 (1) First, assume the square stance w ith your right hand forward. (2) S hift to a right sitting horse by twisting your body to the right and putting most of your weight on the rear (right) foot. Drop your right hand, palm down, in front of your groin. (3) To attain the left sitting horse stance, shift your weight to your left foot and twist your body to the left. The positions in Photo Nos. 2 and 3 are used to block kicks to the groin area. (4) From the left sitting horse stance slide your right foot to the left foot and (5) then move it backward. Stop the right foot when you are in a left stance. (6) Slide the right foot up to the left foot again and (7) continue to move it forward into a right stance. (8) Bring your right foot back to the left foot, and (9) slide your right fo o t toward the right into a square stance. Place your left hand forward. The entire sequence of positions, 1 through 9, can be executed in a continuous m otion as an exercise.

Page 16 —THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, November 20-26, 1973 DO IT YOURSELF RUNG FU 6 SIL LIM TAO Sil lim tao, the first form of o f chi sao (sticking hands). Sil wing chun, teaches correct el­ lim tao is also applied effec­ bow position, protection of tively in a combat situation. centerline, and economy of Sil lim tao plays such an movements in attack and de­ im portant part in wing chun fense. training that you should start Since sil lim tao is a station­ each practice session with this ary form, you will practice all form before going on to more of your defensive blocks and advanced techniques. offensive attacking tools with­ out taking a single step. The (1) Stand at attention with your hand movements will later be feet together and hands at your put to good use in the practice sides.

(8) Bring your hands downward, opening them as you turn the palms toward you. Cross your arms (left over right) at the wrists, ip front of your groin, pointing your fingers toward the floor. (9) Without moving your upper arms, raise your hands.

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(2) Keeping your body erect, raise your hands. Clench your fists as you turn your palms upward. (3) Stop the fists, palms facing upward, at the pectoral muscles (chest).

(10) Point your fingers toward the ceiling, and begin to move your hands outward. (11) Again make a fist, bringing your hands to shoulder level. Your palms are still facing you.

(4) Drop into a half-squat position with your knees together. (5) Simul­ taneously move the toes of your feet outward without changing the heel position.

(12) Bring your hands straight down to chest level, and turn your palms toward the ceiling. This position is identical to figure No. 7. (13) Begin a left vertical punch toward an imaginary target at nose level. Turn your fist clockwise so the palm is facing to your right. Keep your wrist straight and your elbow in. Intersect the centerline with the punch.

(6) Transfer your weight to the toes and simultaneously move your outward. (7) You are now in the bent-knee, pigeon-toe stance [yee jee kim yang mah). Maintain this stance throughout sil lim tao.

(14) At the conclusion of the punch, your arm should be fully extended and directly in front of your nose. (15) Keeping your arm straight, open your fist and turn your palm toward the ceiling to form a palm-up block [tan sao).

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(16) Without moving your arm, turn your palm toward your chest, and rotate (24) Keeping your arm straight, open your fist and turn your palm toward your hand clockwise to form the circling block (hieung sao). (17) Continue to the ceiling to form a palm-up block (tan sao). (25) Without moving your arm, rotate your hand clockwise until your palm faces the floor. turn your palm toward your chest, and rotate your hand counterclockwise.

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26 (18) Turn your palm back toward your right and begin to make a fist. (19) As you retract your fist to your chest, turn the palm toward the ceiling. (26) Continue to rotate your hand until the fingers point toward the floor. (27) Keep your palm facing the floor as you straighten your fingers.

(20) Continue to retract your fist. (21) With both fists now at your chest, you are in the same position as in figure No. 7. (28) Begin to form your hand into a fist. (29) Turn your palm toward the ceiling as you retract your fist to your chest.

(22) Start to make a right vertical punch to an imaginary target at nose level. Turn your fist so the palm is facing toward your left. Keep your wrist straight and your elbow in. Intersect the centerline with the punch. (23) At the end of the punch, your arm should be fully extended and directly in front of your (30) Continue to retract your fist to your chest. (31) With both fists at your nose {jik chung). chest, you are again in the basic sil lim tao position shown in figure No. 7.

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(40) At the end of the rotating movement, your thumb should be toward your chest. Face your palm to the right. (41) Retract your left arm until your (32) Open your left hand with the palm facing up to form the palm-up block. elbow is about three inches from your body. Begin moving your hand outward from the center of your chest. (33) Extend your arm only three quarters. Do not straighten it.

(42) Relax your wrist, pointing your fingers toward your chest. In order to develop fook sao (the “elbow in” bent block), movements 38 through 42 should be repeated three times before going on to 43. (43) Stop the movement of your wrist when the thumb faces toward you and the palm faces toward the right. (34) Turn your palm toward you with your fingers pointing toward your chest. (35) Begin to rotate your hand clockwise.

(44) To execute the pak sao (left slap block), move your hand to the right—but not past the right shoulder—, with your thumb toward you and your palm facing right. (45) Return your hand to the middle of your chest.

(36) Stop the rotating movement when the thumb is pointing toward you and the palm is facing to the right. (37) Pull your hand toward you, but don’t touch your body with the left elbow.

(46) Push your le ft hand outward to an area directly in fro n t of your nose (yun jeong). Extend your arm completely, and turn your palm away from your chest, (47) rotating it toward the ceiling to form tan sao (palm-up block).

(38) Relax your wrist and point your fingers toward your chest. Keeping NEXT WEEK: Sil Lim Tao continued your elbow tucked in during the forward motion, extend your left arm. (39) THIS supplement is extracted from the book Wing Chun Kung Fu by J. Yimm Lee, Rotate your hand clockwise. Ohara Publications, Los Angeles, California. The book is available in some city bookshops.

THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, November 20-26, 1973 — Page 19 A good time for the Youngsters

tects himself with lawyers. Yet, at guitar style which was searing and drug overdose Crazy Horse ceased they should not be treated as the same time he aspires to be a intensely rhythmic, created the to be Young’s back up band. He poetry. The trick is to listen, and star, in the sense that the star is compelling illusion o f totality. His put together an entirely new then if in doubt to consult the the living symbol of the con­ songs could be delicate and inno­ group, which he called the Stray sheet. sciousness o f a mass audience. cent, or fierce and bitter. Some­ Gators. This was the band with The themes will be familiar to In Don’t Be Denied, he reflects times he would weave these con­ which he recorded Harvest, and, those who know his earlier work. on his schooldays in Canada, on tradictory textures into the one with a change of drummer, it is Above all else there is the search being rejected and even beaten up sonfj as in Cowgirl in the Sand. the band which plays on Time for identity, and as in earlier songs by the other kids, and on search­ It is hardly surprising that he Fades Away. - I am a Child, Helpless - this ing for a way out: Well pretty should have developed a cult. The sound they achieve is not involves a re-examination of the soon I met a friend, he played When he teamed up with Crosby, greatly different to that which he past, o f parental warnings, broken guitar/ We used to sit on the steps Stills and Nash he was accorded developed with Crazy Horse. The family and lost love. There are at school and dream o f being the superstar status which was hip most significant change is the re­ several references to Canada, and stars. at the time, but like Dylan he was placement o f a second lead guitar the emergence of something like a Stardom of a sort was achieved much happier working within the by a steel guitar played by Ben sense of guilt towards the country, when he joined up with Steve framework o f a cult and he main­ Keith. he deserted: Oh Canada, we play­ Stills in California to form Buffalo tained his reserve. However, few buy Young’s ed all night/ I really hate to leave Springfield. It was a rough experi­ He continued to work with his albums just to listen to the music. you now/ but to stay just wouldnt ence, and the band went through own band, Crazy Horse, and Rather, it is for the direct person­ be right. almost every kind of trauma a recorded with them the very suc­ al communication, to be with Like a number o f other artists band can go through — busts, cessful After the Goldrush. It was Young’s fragile but involving who rose to prominence in the TIME FADES AWAY: Neil broken engagements and personal around this time that he establish­ states o f mind. And although this post Beatle boom, and survived Young (Reprise 54010). feuding - before they finally split ed what has become his definitive is a live album, it is carefully the fall, Young’s work has a self- up in 1968. sound, a fundamental, almost culled material from seven con­ indulgent quality to it. It is as if ESPITE a reasonably pro­ But it was the era of star boogie style rhythm section over certs, arranged and presented like their very survival in the face of D lific output o f material, Neil bands, and Young had a taste o f which is interwoven multiple a studio album with the aim of commercial attempts to control Young has remained a somewhat stardom. He responded with char­ guitars and piano. He works with creating the full range and and ultimately destroy their work, enigmatic figure. He leads a with­ acteristic uncertainty: Well hello a set o f simple, but tuneful mel­ ambiguity of Young’s being. All gives them the right, perhaps even drawn existence, writing intro­ Mr Soul/ I dropped by to pick up odies and this basic sound. He the songs are previously unrecord­ the duty, to be prophets for the spective songs, and engaging in a reason/ For the thought that I does not hesitate to rework songs ed, and most are short and terse. rest. The star is an adolescent non musical projects, such as his caught that my head was the with new lyrics and minor varia­ There is only one piece which figure, the prophet is a weightier recently released film. event o f the season/ Why in tions in melody. He has foregone could be termed a “jam” and even being. His shyness seems at times cul­ crowds just a trace o f my face the grandiose aspirations o f songs that is kept under a tight rein. Young is as ambivalent in the tivated, and his relationship with should seem so pleasing . . . (Buf­ like Broken Arrow and Country A large lyric sheet accompanies role o f prophet as he was in the his public is ambivalent. He wants falo Springfield again). Girl, which he recorded with Buf­ the record, a reminder to those role o f star. In the end he can see to give, but he is always aware of His insecurity and inward falo Springfield and C.S.N.&Y. who do not already know that his own life, and his survival only the danger that he will become a reflection, counterbalanced by When Danny Whitten, Crazy Young intends his words to be as a series o f resolved and un­ tool o f his audience. He is seldom music which was often strident Horse’s guitarist to whom Young taken seriously. Yet they are writ­ resolved dilemmas. prepared to face a camera and and brash, his voice which was refers in The Needle and the ten out in almost illegible scrawl. when he feels threatened he pro­ tremulous and strained and his Damage Done (Harvest), died o f a Young is equally insistent that ROB KING The pub with no beard RAHRAN’S Station Hotel, Potherwise known as Stan­ O’Rourkes ley’s Stomp Station, one of Melbourne’s freest rock pubs and scene of many legendary good times, will soon close its doors to rock freaks. Living Songbo Reason? New publican, Mr Albert O D E S T Y precludes Francazio, ex bootmaker, does O’Rourke from writing his When the land is qu ie t we s it under M hills not care for “ longhairs and own introduction for his song, And stones as cold as the river drugs". Mr Francazio wishes to The Birds. Music is a Daphne Du When the world is empty of all but establish a “ decent joint” with the just drank a lot of Southern Maurier and a song is its Alfred the winds usual humdrum bistro bar and Comfort and cider. It was real Hitchcock. We huddle and shiver wood panelling that’s supposedly good. I got rid of 40 dozen bottles By the flickering fire the harper an irresistible magnet to the in one afternoon.” THE BIRDS breathes ice from his strings businessman. Mr Francazio's move to turn A n d he sings o f the warm swell o f the OR. EVOLUTION ISA HARD Cultural differences are not the the pub into a bourgeois paradise ROAD TO TRA VEL southern ocean. only reason for this move - will be delayed for a few months Francazio is pretty sure that while he amasses the necessary Anchored in fear to the earth, in our finance. When the year in its turning brings in shame businessmen drink more. In the meantime, Stanley the cold winds We dig our dark tunnels deeper Albert's low attitude towards A n d the yellow leaves falling. Where the cry of the birds as they his rock patrons was made evident freaks will have a brief reprieve - With our mind's country bare as the beat on the wind Send songs and other curiosities such by his behavior during the recent although ironically, they’ll only branches we listen W ill n o t wake the sleeper as old Gibson mandolins to Mike be financing the money machine And hear the birds calling beer strike: To conserve supplies A n d we sleep w ith o u r faces b itte r O ’Rourke, c/- Living Daylights, P.O. that will soon spit them out. Then we stand in the wind on the for those who really appreciate fo r fear o f their wings Box 5312 BB, GPO Melbourne, Vic Maybe someone should have a hills and long for their wings the brew, he cut off beer to the A n d o u r eyes fixed on the shores o f 3001. Manuscript preferred but send And our hearts go with the great rock bar. long chat to Mr Francazio. Summer. in a tape or a cassette if you can’t m igrations “ It didnt worry them. 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Neolett (Blacktown) hearts go with the great mi- gra - “ THE POWER OF ROCK MELLOWED BY THE GENTLENESS A SENSITIVITY OF COUNTRY CONSCIOUSNESS” Page 20 - THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, November 20-26, 1973 hits Australia

MARGARET MACINTYRE O YOU remember School­ Ddays'? Johnny B. Goode, Maybellene? Well, here he is, the king o f rock and foil himself — the great Mr Chuck Berry! An adequate introduction. Chuck Berry strode on stage to a band he had never seen before, to an angry impatient audience, and he made a night o f it. To many rock and roll fans, seeing Berry in itself was enough. He could have simply stood still, but he didnt -and he whipped through favorite after favorite, leaving many still unplayed for the next night’s show. Chuck Berry is unique in rock and roll. Unlike many o f the rock pioneers, Berry’s career has kept on going. It’s had lapses, sure, but he has never had to depend on sheer nostalgia to move a crowd, in the way Bill Haley does. The magic o f Berry is more than in the times, or the place, it is in his talent Simplicity is the key to Berry’s songs. According to him, rock and roll’s appeal lies basically in its musical simplicity and in the lyrics which are used to draw a response from the audience. They certainly did in Melbourne. Ring ring goes the bell, The cook in the lunchroom's ready to sell. .. The minute Berry sang those words, every person in that aud­ ience was immediately 15 years old again. Berry himself adopts a person na on stage quite con­ sciously, becoming everybody of that pre-fucking age, when: She says she dont, but I know she do delivered with a cocky wink, is the coolest thing a boy could say. Berry's appeal spans many years and many cults: at the Melbourne concerts hippies of 30 sat alongside skinheads of 15 and they all dug Berry for the same reason . . . Because for some it was Schooldays released in 1957 that had them first tapping their feet in frantic agreement, while for others it was Ding a Ling, from the London Sessions LP of 1972. The age is irrelevant — Berry hits the spot each time. On Tuesday night, Berry, fed up with the technical problems which had marred the evening, decided to give the audience whatever they wished. “ You name it, we play it,” and they did, the local band practical­ ly fainting with fear as they stumbled from tune to tune. They need not have worried. As Berry says: “ You only have to be able to travel a few feet musically to be able to play Chuck Berry,” and by the end of the night they were fine. My Ding a Ling was the most requested number for the evening and the line: “ I got some on my finger, so I wiped it on the wall” , practically brought the house down with applause. In 1964 it was No Particular Place To Go with the huffy THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, November 20-26, 1973 — Page 21 means to retire, but “ performing From Page 21 keeps me alive” and this was clear from his act. He couples a wry Music Can you imagine just how I self knowledge with sendup, en­ felt tertaining himself as well as the I couldnt unfasten her safety audience, laughing at times at Rock around belt, certain responses, but never shit­ which made you glad that at least ting on the fans, respecting them someone knew there was more to as much as they loved him. life than Teen Angel. For 45 minutes or so he was the cock STEVEN PHILLIPS Chuck Berry has been a myth there, duck walking across the in rock and roll circles for years — stage, urging the bass player on, the Beatles and the Stones alone lifting the audience out o f Festi­ YDNEY media has finally could do the job and left for made sure o f that. And his Mel­ val Hall with every song. Then Scome to take a stand on swinging London with a list o f bourne performances proved that suddenly, Johnny B. Goode and what it sees as the demise of hoped for music scoops unrivalled every bit o f idolation is justified. he handed his guitar to a roadie wholesome rock and roll. On in daily newspaper history. At No hype was necessary, no tech­ and was gone. Why say goodbye? November 7 in the Sydney Sun, that time, Marc Bolan was emerg­ niques or gimmicks, because Chuck Berry is so much a part o f commuting newspaper readers ing from the legendary woodland Chuck Berry just has to be Chuck rock and roll that he will always were treated to a full-length photo retreats of elfin mysteryland to Berry. At 47 he certainly has the be here. of rock vamp Bowie and the launch his glamorous surprise snarling blond head o f the singing attack in glitter, and Channell sexual enigma, Wayne County. knew the time was right to tell the This was the beginning of world. another special supplement by But Bolan knew all about Thanks a lot Mr Bony thon Sydney’s daily press, aimed at tongue in cheek daily newspaper keeping the straights hip to the reporters and refused to let pop scene, man. And groovy baby Channell interview him. N THE way down in the lift handful of disinterested journal­ Bonython then had the aud­ do you want to fug? “ I got as far as actually setting Ofrom the 12th floor of the ists from the dailies and radio acity to stand on stage and put in The acid decadence of 1973 an appointment with Bolan’s Koala Motor Inn after Chuck 3XY who had managed to find a word for some of hjs coming rock has been exposed for all its private secretary but at the last Berry’s press conference: their own way out there, having attractions. Luckily, due to great devilish intentions. The media will minute they pulled out saying Reporter: “ Hope there's not heard from the promoter. Certain­ foresight from Stan Rofe who put never keep up with a continually that Bolan was sick and would be too many in this thing and we ly it’s nice to get coverage from his mike through a guitar amp, it evolving space age culture so it taking a long and private rest. dont go through the floor.” the dailies, but what o f Go-Set, was a very quiet word. But you attempts to knock it down. Now That was it, the door was closed.” Bonython: “ These rock and Digger or Music Week — the rock could still make out a few names: music lovers and children of So as far as the rest of the roll people. I wish I’d stuck to press. They had received no noti­ Gary Burten, Yehudi Menuhin — parents be warned: the Man is on world was concerned, no threat to jazz - they’re no trouble. The fication o f arrival or interview just who the hell did he think he to you. He knows Alice Cooper cherished democratic decency way I feel it would be better for times. You see, I dont think was talking to. sucks cobras and gets it on with even existed. Let alone actually me if it fell.” Bonython has heard of them. By introducing myself to his headless chooks. And what’s plottings its trail o f brazen sexual Had I not been in the lift too, I The concert on Tuesday night hired help, publicist Jo Spencer, at more, He'll be damned if He’ll let surrealism across the face of the would have agreed with him. was a disgrace and as usual it the airport, I managed, along with anyone treat this dramatised urge planet’s youth. Bonython is a man I used to rubbed off on everybody but the 3XY and invited guests - Truth, for blood as serious or entertain­ But now the scheme has been view with a certain amount of promoter. The equipment had Age, Sun, Melbourne Herald and ing or otherwise. uncovered. About three years too respect and a degree of gratitude. been delayed in customs after its Australian, — to get permission to And He is probably attacking late. Kids have already grown He is the man responsible for flight from New Zealand, and it attend the press conference the the best educational value for tired of Bolan, Bowie and Cooper. bringing many jazz greats to Aus­ was 10.00pm before the first following morning. On entering around five bucks that a kid can They’ve got it on barefoot in the tralia and he seemed to be a man band began. Meanwhile a running she stopped me: “ Who are you? buy today. moonlight, worn spikey crewcuts whose financial hunger was tem­ battle broke out between the Oh, thats right. You’re the little The Sun series, called Shocker and flaunted their bi-sexuality, pered by an amount o f musical bouncers and some o f the aud­ girl from whatever its called. You Rock, was prepared by rock critic even if they were not bisexual. taste. An altruistic promoter? I ience which resulted in at least sit over there in that (far) corner, and columnist Mike Channell in Plastic dolls with rip-offable should have known better. one kid ending up in hospital. and be very quiet won’t you?” Sydney from dispatches sent by human heads can be bought in writers in London and New York. any Waltons toy department. The sweet smell o f a new Had not DJ Stan Rofe been pres­ Yes Mam. Bolan has officially denounced audience (patchouli oil and dope) ent, and had the guts to stand up An obviously shat off Berry This was the paragraph design­ ed to lead the parents in, tingling the glitter routine, though he must have got the better of in front of a very angry audience upset poor Kim by claiming he their own lust for horror: “ It’s continues to give a glamorous Bonython during his amazingly and take their shit while he spoke had only been notified of the ugly. Grotesque. Degrading. But stage performance. Bowie has successful tour o f Buddy Guy and to calm them down, there would conference 40 minutes previously. it’s making money and it's coming given up on his impossible space- Junior Wells earlier this year. The have been more casualties and “ He really put me in. Of age Che dream. A nationwide dollar signs flashed, and suddenly whether it suits his image or not, course, I told him, it just wasnt here." Cleancut typical average poultry shortage could hamper we have Chuck Berry arriving in Bonython is responsible true.” cricket playing college kids be­ ware. Lock up your daughters and Cooper’s developments here. Australia to practically no ad­ It is up to the promoter to Rumor has it that in his haste leave the set on Homicide tonight. Moms and dads — your sacred vance publicity. No matter to ensure that such obvious things as to grab the Australian rights to the The Sun has always been cover-any thing-and-everything Bonython - the concerts would equipment are there on time. Berry tour, Bonython all too hast­ somewhat partial to, if not bla­ (eventually) advertising smudgy have sold out by word of mouth Never mind if the NZ promoter ily skimmed through the New tantly proud of, Mike Channell’s tabloid dailies have not saved alone. has used Jands equipment the Zealand promoter’s contract, and ability to interpret the culturally your children from anything. Unfortunately, Bonython has previous night. An agreement like missed some fine print. Which isolated genre o f rock music to They were captured long ago and no idea o f how to promote a rock that should never have been said that Bonython was to pay the dimensionally isolated nine to your money helped finance the and roll concert. Berry was greet­ made, with so little time between Berry’s tax while he was here. I fivers in the street. whole operation. ed at the airport on Tuesday by a concerts. hope to God that it's true. — M. M. About two years ago they sent Liberace, Gary Glitter and A1 him, all expenses paid, to Lon­ Jolson are still definitely on if you don's Fleet Street — violent want them. But flaunted theatrics, It was around Chi- Chuck Berry last toured The trade leqends and rumors pumping heart of west Europe’s subversive and overtly intra-sex­ cago 1955 when Australia in 1959, and incurred that he has fostered are endless. press world - to capture and uality, are definitely out. No one Muddy Waters intro- the slurs o f a racist 50s white As was common o f the black bring back the international pop would question Liberace on that. troduced Chuck Berry to Len Australia. He left vowing never to artists who hit the fame spots action, whatever it may have Get the message? Your media told and Phil Chess, (owners of the return, and wrote Back to the from the 50s until a decade later, been. you so. j—-j Chess record label), and he began USA on his plane home . . . an they were ripped off from every Channell was confident he a long, famous, if only recently acid comment on his visit to these quarter with little recourse. Such lucrative association, with his first fair shores. He marked his return well founded concern was smash” single Maybellene. concerts by repeatedly feigning generated and still remains, that mock astonishment, and asking EUPHORIA KECWWS In the years that followed he Berry reportedly receives all his Shop 8, Princes Gate Arcade, HEAD OFFICE AT: turned out “ hit after hit” , all the crowd . . . is this really money in cash before he will go 171 Flinders Street, Melbourne 3000. 83 Bourke Street, Melbourne 3000. Phone: 63.5819. Phone: 63.9009., more or less within the same Melbourne? My you have got on. He refuses to play encores, ELTON JOHN — Goodbye Yellow Brick Road — $10.50; JACKSON rhythm and blues framework groovy in the last few years. The unless a set cash fee is paid, and BROWNE - For Everyman - $5.95; FULL SAIL - Loggins and Messina - adoration he received second time then he will return to the stage. $5.95; GRATEFUL DEAD - Wake of the Flood - $5.95; JOHN LENNON - that eventually spawned the Mind Games - $5.95; THE BAND - Moondog Matinee - $5.95; NEW Beatles, Stones, Animals and a around must have been some He does not rehearse with his RIDERS — Adventures of Panama Red — $5.95; STEVE MILLER — The compensation, but there were backing band before he performs. Joker — $5.95. generation of others. Not only did AND AT REDUCED PRICES; the english bands of the mid 60s signs he still remembered the The musicians who backed him in FAUST — Faust IV — $4.95; FOCUS - At the Rainbow - $4.95; LOU REED soak up his style, they covered “ nigger” taunts, and that it had Melbourne hadnt spoken to him — Berlin — $5.00. almost all his hits of the previous hurt deeply. until just before they went on. decade. Berry produced in that But the songs he chose, or the The Beatles with Roll Over restrictive era that banned Bobby requests he played from the Beethoven, Rock 'n Roll Music, Darin’s Multiplication from radio audience, were as close as you The Stones with Carol, and Little airplay, and subsequently a lot o f could ever get to a one hour Queenie. -his lyrics fall into that category collection of favorite rock Too Much Monkee Business from that may be termed “ euphemistic standards. the Yardbirds with Clapton, and rock” . It has taken two audience His music has an extremely R E U B E N T i c e . the Dave Clark Five’s greatest hit, generations for the Stones to basic simplistic feel, that might keJlock oancL w is Reelin and Rockin. The Beach record, release and have accepted even be termed universal for most Boys set their first success Surf in their Starfucker number. Numbers rock musicians o f this date. His USA to the tune of Sweet Little like Reelin and Rockin and his audience appeal can be seen in the S H A R K S - Q C / H O O K . S Sixteen. It is impossible to so-called alma mater Ding-a-Ling, same terms. Very few at the GRAH AM UX0NOE.S., evaluate the influence he has are excellent examples o f that concert were of an age to have & V < b G U E £ t t - y c s y * B A U D exerted on the evolution of rock “ nudge nudge sly wink” style. His heard the originals, but have and roll today, needless to say it is songs are perfect reflections o f the grown up with musical progeny £ * 0 0 - 1 7 /0 0 vast. I doubt if any other ruling social/moral/linguistics of .. . maybe they’re at last catching songwriter has produced such a the repressive sexual climate in up. CXMONDHALU^g;^ collection o f standards. which he wrote. STUHAWK Page 22 —THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, November 20-26, 1973 V

A guide to what’s on LIVING DELIGHTS

MELBOURNE MELBOURNE MONITOR: Chris & Eva 51.9563 or 51.8214, write Flat 8, No 7 Irving Ave, Windsor, 3181.

Carnival, Hot City Bump Streets, Richmond. Carnival in Edinburgh Gar­ Marg Roadknight, Jim Bu- Hill HoteL i Wednesday Band: Croxton Park. Friday A Bunch of Ratbags: Via­ dens. channan: Outpost Inn. ROCK Abel Lodge, Band of ROCK duct Theatre. Drama Fun For Kids: Low­ Danny Spooner, Gordon FILMS Light: Whitehorse HoteL FILMS er Town Hall, 2 pm. MacIntyre: Frank Tray- PUpp: Whitehorse Hotel. T he Gathering, Kush: Upp: St Patrick’s, Men­ All Nations Bail: Town noris. Hamlet (Russian Version): Kush: Croxton Park. Waltzing Matilda HoteL tone. Five Fingers o f Death, HalL Melbourne Uni W ild Honey: Stardust Ariel: Matthew Flinders. Tank: Station Hotel, Prah­ Billy Jack: Footscray Lost in the Bush, etc: 124 FITZROY FESTIVAL Five Fingers o f Death, Bil­ j Room , Palais, St Kilda. Mississippi Tank: Pent­ ran. Grand. Napier Street. ly Jack: Footscray Grand. Skylight: Prospect Hill h ou se H o te l, Broad- The Gathering, Kush and The Spider’s Strategy: Mel­ Soccer, films, picnic, carni­ Hotel, Kew. meadows. Band of Light: Internation­ bourne U ni THEATRE val, dance, Edinburgh Gai> RADIO Guests: Joannas, cnr Elgin al HoteL dens and Fitzroy Cricket JAZZ and Canning Streets, Carl­ Kush: Matthew Flinders Happy Birthday Wanda Ground, noon. Room to Move: 3LO, 8 ton. HoteL Saturday June: Actors Theatre. THEATRE pm. Frank Tray nor: Beaumaris Ariel, Teasers Mighty ROCK My Sister Eileen: Malvem HoteL FOLK etc Kong: Exchange Hotel, Theatre Co. Happy Birthday Wanda Tuesday Cheltenham. Fat Alroy: Chelsea City A Bunch of Ratbags: Via­ June: Actors Theatre. FITZROY Melbourne New Music En­ Wild Honey: Penthouse Hall duct Theatre. ROCK FESTIVAL Hotel, Broadmeadows. semble: Commune, N. Mel­ Threshold, Ayres Rock, MEETINGS Mississippi, Ariel: St Kilda bourne. Blerta, Matt Taylor: Prah­ Mackenzie Theory, Teas­ FILMS Town HalL I Kids Concert: Town Hall, ran Tech. Dave Rankin Jazz Band: ers, Atlas, Madder Lake, Deadly Fallacies and Vital Hot City Bump Band: f 1.30. Alma HoteL Reuben Tice, Captain Ariel: St Peters, 244 Five Fingers of Death and Truths o f the Transitional Discussion on ethnic Prospect Hill HoteL Kew. Owen Yeatman: Prospect Rock and Cosmic John: Centre Road, East Bent- Billy Jack: Footscray Age: Furze-Morrish Theo- groups, Tow n Hall. Hill HoteL O Id Eltham N orth H all leigh. Grand. Blood of the Condor, 124 sophical Soc, 2nd floor, FITZROY FESTIVAL Danny Spooner and Rich­ Myriad: Doveton Public The Spider’s Strategy: Mel­ 188 Collins Street, 7 pm. Napier Street, 8.00. FOLK etc ard Leitch: Tankerville Hall bourne Uni. K olobok o f Australia: C ol­ Arms HoteL Ray Brown’s One Tea 2001, Flash, the Sheepdog: FILMS THEATRE Red Onions Jazz Band, orful national dances, Gypsy: Council Club Ho­ Latrobe Uni. Town HalL 8 pm. FITZROY Prospect Hill H otel tel Cramer Street, Preston. Ben Hur, Day at the races 1 All in the Family: Power- Philip Day: Outpost Inn, Films on Turkey, Sri FESTIVAL Sid Rumpo: Station Hotel, RADIO (Marx Bros): Dendy, Lanka, etc: 124 Napier I house. Lakeside Drive, Al- 52 Collins Street, City. Prahran. Jbert Park. Brighton, 6 pm. Street, Fitzroy, 8 pm. Night in Europe: Kids Con­ Mike O ’Rourke and Pals: Upp: Southside, South Pearl by the Lake, play: Five Fingers o f Death, 1A Bunch o f Ratbags: Via- Commune, North Mel­ cert, slides & supper at Road, Moorabbin. 3AR, 8.30. Footscray Grand. FILMS I duct Theatre. Church o f Christ Hal1, cnr. bourne. Upp, Tank, Band of Light: |St Celicia’s Day: Victorian Brunswick and Reid Blaises, Ormond Hall RADIO The Spider’s Strategy Ipera Company, National Streets. FITZROY Abel Lodge, Matt Taylor, Sunday |Gallery, Great Hall (Bertolucci): Melb. Uni, Display of national cos­ FESTIVAL Canapas Q: Kew Town ROCK Progressive Music Albums. Union. tumes, music, dance: Town Hall 3XY, 7 pm. MEETINGS Carnival in Edinburgh Gar­ H all, 8 pm. Band of Light, Matthew Fat Elroy, Madder Lake: Observations o f a Testing TV Comp an eras y Compan- dens. Flinders, afternoon. Matthew Flinders HoteL Man, play: 3LO, 8 pm. |Link-up orientation night: Poor Tom ’ s Poetry Band in eros, Cuban film: 124 Canapas Q: Kew Town Mississippi, Teasers, Tank, Miss Goodall and the Wild ■ 59 St John Street, Prahran, Napier Street, 8 pm. evening on Town Hall Hall (night). Billy Thorpe, Upp: Corio |8.30. Chimpanzees: ATVO, 7.30 steps. Mackenzie Theory, Mat­ Civic Centre. Monday pm. THEATRE Organ, piano, soloists, Ser^ Band of Light: Dendy, FILMS thew Flinders, Chadstone. bian music, St Mark’s Wild Honey: Penthouse Brighton. ROCK My Sister Eileen: Malvern Church. Hotel, Broadmeadows. Unfound Funk — Mel­ I The Spider’s Strategy, Mel- Theatre Co, 29 Bourke Films on Greece and Italy, bourne Artists Workshop — 1 bourne Uni. Skylight: Prospect Hill Road, East Malvem. 124 Napier Street Hotel, afternoon. really good atmosphere al­ N IAGGRA: La Mama, Carl­ | Paris N’ Existe Pas and A Bunch of Ratbags: Via­ though groups, not famous ton. lOrphee, surrealist film ser- duct Theatre. THEATRE FOLK etc — Sharks, Skyhooks, Jerry Listings are free. lies: Dental Theatre. and the Reboppers, Reu­ POETRY AND MUSIC FILMS All in the Family: Power­ Yarra Yarra Jazz Band: ben Tice, Graham Lown­ Copy closes house. Prospect Hill Hotel, night. des, Biggies Fly Boys, Poor Tom ’s Poetry Band, Thursday 5 Fingers o f Death + Billy My Sister Eileen: Malvem Films, lights, food : Os­ Commune. Thursday before ROCK Glen Tomasetti etc: Out Jack: Footscray Grand. Theatre Co. post Inn. mond Halt, Moubray The Spider’s Strategy: Mel­ Happy Birthday, Wanda Street, Prahran, 6 pm. JAZZ publication. Madder Lake: St Albans bourne Uni June: Actors Theatre, cnr. FITZROY FESTIVAL HoteL C h u rch and Cameron FOLK etc. Ted Vining Trio: Prospect SYDNEY SYDNEY MONITOR: Stephen Wall 698.2652, P. 0. Box 23, Surry Hills.

Influences — International Opera House Music Room, Irish rebellion-type folk: The Ice People: Channel 7, THEATRE THEATRE Tuesday art influences on the 11.15pm. 7.30pm. Century HoteL Open theatre workshop: Damper and Tea: Pocket ROCK domestic variety: Channel Open End — Hot politics, Eclipse Alley Five: Vanity Children’s Theatre: see 2. Old Church, 7.30pm. Theatre, 8.00pm. discussion, raves: Channel Fair Hotel, 4.00pm. Saturday. Sebastian Hardy: Stage­ Hidden World — Docu­ 2, 9.55pm. Writer’ s Workshop: Old FILMS G eoff Bull’s Olympia Jazz coach. mentary on the insect The Giant Claw: Channel Church, 8.00pm, See Fri­ Band: Unity Hall Hotel, FILMS world: Channel 10, 9, 11.40pm. day. Satan Met a Lady (1936), 6.00pm. FOLK, etc 7.30pm Blessed Event (1932): Bom to Dance (1936) OTHERS FILMS AMP Theatre, 7.30pm. THEATRE Dames (1934): NFT 30s New Mother Earth with OTHERS Keep On Rocking: See musical series. Renee Geyer: Rocks Push. Victoria Street Squatters The Third Man: two hours Thursday. King Richard III: see Fri­ Grand Hotel (1932), San Don Silver: Old Push. Folk Chib: Embryo, 217 Open Meeting: 190 Vic­ of an old movie Orson Performance, 2001: See day. Francisco (1936): Union Adrian Ford Jazz Piano: C om m onw ealth Street, toria Street, Kings Cross, Welles makes it worth­ Tuesday. Damper and Tea: see Fri­ Theatre, Sydney Univer­ French’ s Tavern. Surry Hills, open 24 hours 6.30pm. while, Channel 9, Filmmakers Co-op: See day. sity, 7.00pm. Eclipse Ally Five: Vanity — free. Puppet making workshop 10.15pm. Thursday. My Aunt the Unicom: Keep On Rockin: see Fair HoteL Old Church, 6.30pm, Trash: New Art Cinema. (John Hepworth): Studio Saturday. Ross Collins: Northbridge Wednesday 316.270. Friday 228, 578.3358. Performance, 2001: see HoteL Poetry workshop: Old TV, RADIO You Should Have Seen Us Tuesday. ROCK Church, 8.00pm. ROCK on Venus: Children’s The­ Special showing every Sun­ CLASSICAL Stagecoach Restaurant. Jazz with Eric Child: ABC atre. day: Filmmakers Coop, Brighton Hotel Resident Billy Thorpe and the Az­ call 31.3237. tecs: Opera House. Radio 2BL: 7.15pm. FILMS J Haydn, Britten, Leonnine Band. Thursday World of Beachcomber: Trash: see Saturday. I Singers, Sydney Conserva- Millers Oceanic Resident ROCK La De Das, Flake: Rock­ Channel 2, 11.30pm. I torium Chamber Orches- Band. dale Police Boys Club. TV 1 tra: Opera House Concert Brighton Hotel Resident Omnibus: Glebe Point Keep On Rockin: Padding­ Road, Glebe. OTHERS ton, 3.30pm, 6.00pm. I HalL FOLK, etc. Band. Dope debate, repeat with Hush: Liverpool Town Performance, 2001: see I War and Peace (Prokofiev Miller’ s Oceanic Resident Teahouse and Library: Old Frost, Moss Cass and call I in English): Opera House A - Z E n sem ble, David Band. HalL Tuesday. me back in the morning: Ahern, “ Cinemusic”: Church, Tues—Fri. Sacrifice and Private Col­ F Theatre. Hush: Cabramatta Ukrain­ 31.6270. Channel 7, 10.30pm. Opera House Music Room. FOLK, etc. ian HalL lection: Filmmakers Co-op. Traditional folk: Elizabeth Paddy’ s Market: 11am to Trash: New Arts Cinema. THEATRE Francis Butler's 69ers: 5.30pm. HoteL Blue grass and traditional Camden Council HalL Monday Jeff Bull: Old Push. What If You Died Tomor­ folk: Red Line HoteL Brighton HoteL TV ROCK row (David Williamson): Merv Acheson Trio — Jazz: Unity Jazz Band: Old Miller’s Oceanic. Saturday Bellevue Hotel. T he Summer House, Flake: Chequers. Opera House Theatre. Push. ROCK Superstar and Godspell: New Mother Earth with FOLK, etc. Creatures of the Canyon: Buddy Rich: Hordern Capitol and Richbrooke. CLASSICAL Renee Geyer: Rocks Push. Channel 7, 9.30 and Pavilion. Hush, La De Das: Curl Curl 10.30pm. Kaspar: Nimrod Theatre. Australian country music, Youth Club, 8.00pm. O Lucky Man: Barclay. Nabucco, Verdi: Opera CLASSICAL Brumby, Mike McClellan, FOLK, etc. House Theatre. Omnibus: Glebe Point OTHERS Jim Jarvis, Dingoes, Road, Glebe. 8.00pm. Appassionata sonata, Bee­ Smaug: Paddo Town Hall, Rock’ s Push: see Tuesday FILM Nabucco, Verdi: Opera Hush: Greenacre YMCA. thoven, transcription for House Theatre. 7.45pm—12.30am. Bar-B-Que opening of (drinks half price 6—8pm.) violin, Jasche Heifetz: Con- Miller’ s Brighton Hotel: see Cronulla Community Con­ NFT surrealism in the thea­ Sydney Folk Song Club: Wednesday. tre series, Viridiana servatorium of Music, free THEATRE Elizabeth HoteL tact info centre, call THEATRE in lunch hour. Oceanic Hotel: see Wednes­ (Bunuel ’61), Tristana: Lee Williams, Alan Ward, day. 523.9181 for details. Australian Government What If You Died Tom or­ Don Fletcher, Judy Small: King Richard III: see Fri­ THEATRE row: Opera House Theatre. Buddy Rich, Kerry Biddell, day. Centre Theatrette. Cellar Folk Club, Liverpool Rim D. Paul: Horde m Sunday Performance: Village Twin, Street. Pavilion. ROCK MEETINGS Double Bay. What If You Died Tomor­ FILMS Rocks Push: see Tuesday. 2001: Village Twin, row: Opera House Theatre. Unity Jazz Band: Old Keep On Rocking: Pad­ FOLK, etc. C ontemporary/folk/rock: Drug Referral Centre, 43 Double Bay. Push. Kirk Gallery. Craig End Street, Kings < FILMS dington 6.00pm, 8.40pm, G eoff Bull’s Olympia Jazz Trash: New Art Cinema. John Cage, David Ahem, Omnibus: Glebe Point Cross: training meeting, all Performance: Village Twin, Oxford Street, 5.00pm. Band: Unity Hall HoteL Performance: Village Twin, contempo rary/experi­ Road, Glebe. welcome. TV Double Bay. mental/classical: Cell Block Nina Simone: State The­ 2001: Village Twin, Double Bay. CLASSICAL 2001: Village Twin, Theatre. 8.15pm. 31.5203. atre. The Slow Guillotine: NBC Double Bay. Pact Folk Club: YWCA, Double Bay. War and Peace: See Tues­ special on pollution, Trash: New Art Cinema. 8.00 pm. CLASSICAL i Emmy Award Winner. Be- A Day In The Life of Joe Sacrifice and Private Col­ day. lection: Filmmakers Co-op. Traditional Folk: Edin­ K-vare repressive tolerance. Egg: Academy Twin. burgh Castle HoteL 31.3237. THEATRE General classical music: Trash: New Art Cinema. Sydney Folk Song Club: Opera House Recording TV Elizabeth Hotel, 8.00pm. King Richard III: Sydney HalL 10am— 3.00pm hour­ Lana Cantrell Special: R ock’s Push: see Tuesday. ly. Channel 7. 7.30pm. Opera House Drama Thea­ tre, 8.00pm. Operation Parachute:

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lap. When the destination is reached, Abstractions and the doors are opened, out streaks The saga continues! Leonard Amos Bozo with Junior in pursuit. Yelling (TLD 5) pins the merit badge on our commences in earnest, brakes squeal, good friend Josef. Indeed! As Frans altercations are exchanged between Timmerman so aptly points out, the drivers and father. B ozo snatches food suggestion that Josef was anything like from a neighboring picnicker, or pees a “ marxist” is mere capitalist slander — on one o f their children — more Marx would turn over in his grave if he arguments. This kind o f thing con­ knew. And I would ask Leonard how tinues all day until the whole tribe co-operative Josef was with comrade finally stagger home. Mao — one o f the few true revolu­ “ Hope you’ve enjoyed yourself, Old tionaries. In his pathetic defence of Thing,” says father as you gather your Stalin, he uses the word “ bulwark” — things, and prepare to dink away. shades o f John Foster Dulles? Or “ You must com e again some time.” doesnt he know who he is. You grimace and mutter inaudibly, Although I must agree that perhaps “ Never a-bloody-gain.” people like Richard Neville are a bit too comfortable in the “ capitalist” E. GALE, system, this business of how really Swifts Creek, Vic revolutionary one can be if born, bred, and dependent on a capitalist society is Get your a complex affair, and so far I havent com e across anyone with the intel­ lectual capacity to deal with this — knickers off least o f all Leonard. No, the revolution MONILIA is a disease which, like lice, does not need the ignorant hatred o f has always been associated with the de­ Leonard Amos — that is exactly what cadence of a culture. Madame Pompa­ we’re fighting against. dour and her associates wore their And if Leonard and Frans would elaborate powdered wigs to hide bald­ cast their minds back, they would ness. Paris was nitty with lice at the recall that the whole idea was that this time and everyone who could afford it paper be shaped by those people elo­ kept a shiny pate. quent and motivated enough to con­ But the onslaught of monilia that is tribute to it. Because these people are currently flourishing amongst under-30 few and far between, the paper might females has been aggravated by certain tend to lean in a certain direction, but technical “ advancements” that have whose fault is that? not been present in any other cultures And once again everyone falls into except the present western. the trap of putting everything into neat The pill, to 'begin with, has prolong­ little categories. Either one is a blissed- ed many a monilia case. The bacteria out mystic o f a materialist scientist. I are stimulated by the presence o f wish that people would stop using oestrogen in the body. Secondly, the pigeon-holing words like socialist, constant use of tampons instead o f scientist, mystic, etc., because they’re sanitary napkins ensures that the men­ making an unreal abstraction o f what’s S strual flow does not complete one of really going on — they simply dont its functions; that of cleaning out correspond in any way to actual con­ excess bacteria, mucus and other junk. cepts and events. Socialist, communist, WE commissioned a 3000 word inside report on the royal wedding Instead, the tampon creates a dam o f fascist, etc., are defunct words that can from Jim Anderson, an editor of London Oz. Copy was cabled via the clotted blood. no longer be used in assessing reality — Also, the action of insertion may things are a lot more complex. London office of Overseas Telecommunications, due to arrive at our sweep some bacteria further up the office Sunday afternoon. Come Monday the story had not arrived, but ROBERT van KRIEKEN vagina. Tampons have only become the mystery was quickly solved by the following telex: “ANNE popular with women in the past ten ARTICLE REFUSED TRANSMISSION OBSCENE SORRY JIM." years; it is not possible to say whether Ism of the week women of other cultures in history parents think how nice it would be for IN REPLY to R. G., G. E., and S. S. Graeme writes very well bout what he space was scarce his article told only used different variations o f the same Letters & Things, October 30, please sees. half the story. Junior to have a dog. Junior, o f course theme, though. But it is certain they is all for it A dog'is procured usually explain why in “ capitalist” Australia JIM TRYHEART, Today there is special training for did not wear nylon underpants, which “ workers” are exploited because o f the Nimbin, NSW parents before baby arrives; during one which will grow big, and be able to is the third factor. demands o f “ capitalism” ? In my in­ pregnancy Mother receives prenatal do much more excreta than a small Nylon, bri-nylon, dacron, acrylic —■ nocence I’ve always thought people treatment. From the time baby is bom one, all over the yard and in the street none o f these fibres are very absorbent. worked to provide for themselves Old Iron Bones it is bathed daily. This continues until too when opportunity allows. For They create a warm, damp climate in and/or family. It appears to me people YET Another Boot Into the Natural the child reaches adolescence when, good measure the dog will urinate on which monilia bacteria thrive. I am such as R. G. & Co no matter what Health Boys. judging by the appearance o f teenagers everything it can reach; and nothing sure the wearing of underwear results their political belief, think they or I dont know about germs and medi­ today, the formality is dispensed with. can quite urinate like a dog? from sexual repression. their leader have the elusive answer to eval plagues and that. After baby has been bathed and Bozo, o f course adores his small The healthiest thing to do is pos­ mistress/master and caresses with his other peoples problems, whether real I lead a natural healthy life. My powdered, put into fresh clothes, it is sibly wear no underpants and a long tongue whenever he can, usually right or supposed. body manufactures a natural healthy then placed in a clean well aired bed, skirt, or, if you must, cotton under­ It’s about time people started to bone-additive, which prevents me from covered with a net to prevent it getting after licking his genitals. But hygien- pants. - ‘“ CURED” . germs from disease carrying flies or ically minded parents don’ t seem to think for themselves in this country becoming a little old bent-up man. notice this, and think it sweet, that the and lived accordingly because I believe Women manufacture it too, until mosquitoes. two love each other so. True, they are Screwed silly with some initiative any person is as the menopause, when a lot o f things A t an early age baby has injections Dear Daylights, free to do so as they ever will be. shut down — including this bone- for all infant diseases. Their nails are not enamored when Bozo attempts to bitten o ff for cleanliness, until they are sexually assault Junior, that usually Whilst reading your paper this week Immediately a group o f people think additive. That is why they become (TLD 5), I discovered yeti inether ar­ they have the answer and start to little old bent-up ladies. old enough to have them cut As soon produces a shriek, but nothing more. Junior now shares most o f his food ticle on sex by my old friend Sasha force, cajole, persuade others you’re Or used to, until medical science as practicable the child is taught to Soldatow which I read with some back to zero. The leaders and the led, started to give them an artificial bone- brush its teeth with one o f the hun­ with the pet, taking bites turn about. dreds o f tooth pastes, which are all the If this is not enough, some parents amusement until I realised that there the divine light and its followers, the additive, instead. master and the slave. best for stopping tooth decay. It is also get Junior a cat “ Children do love was some possibility of his being seri­ A M. BOWHAM, ous. Just on the remote chance that I believe it’s entirely correct for a taken to a baby Health centre regularly pets, and cats are so clean.” ‘ Yes I Epping, NSW person to be non committal on any — in fact baby is looked after by the know they lick their arses as well as this is indeed the case here is my reply to his article, for what it’ s worth. subject unless they know all the facts, best modern scientific methods avail­ their coats, but they do their 'business’ and I mean the total. Shit in able. in the garden and cover it up.” These Alla Marshall. The hypocrisy o f socialists is easily When baby is about two years old parents do not consider the highly Dearest old friend Sasha, illustrated when they dont hesitate to the shit contagious diseases these animals carry. Obviously Sydney hasnt changed buy and use the product of their fellow There have been many rumors circula­ As Junior grows up the time comes for you as much as I thought. You are still “ workers" and so perpetuate “ worker ting regards the spiking o f grass by MAGAZINES picnics and outings. No excursion is the biggest bullshit artist and verbal exploitation” . With the ransom power persons as unnamed with various complete without Bozo; so into the car NOW BANNED exhibitionist I know. I refer, of course, trade unions wield and regularly use it’s poisons, among them Ratsac. get mother, father, friends, Junior, and LmI week'* M*ue of on Austrolron to your article last week in Dayligh ts — hard to believe that “ workers” are Does anyone have any information iM jaiiiw — Tfie Living Daylights — was dog, which pants its putrid breath all bonned on Wednesdoy, ond 2 1 copies removed over the passengers, who can count The Carnal curiosity of the pre-teen. really slaves o f capitalism” . Perhaps the on exactly what shit is in the shit, and from news stands by Customs ogents will not themselves lucky if he has not recently Most o f us have been aware o f infant reverse is more believable? This is what effect it has (aside from a weirder be returned. But new s agencies Applications fo r a lit- rolled in some evil smelling muck. sexuality since father Freud (bless his assuming o f course that unions are run stone) on the smoker? Perhaps TLD s&Ice staff reported 154 erary romniitte for fii- eopie* were sold in the (tiry rulings will be ad Bozo loves to ride with his head soul) spilled the beans. And most o f us for the “ workers” benefit, their re­ could “ conduct an investigation” ? city belore agents made vertised starting Friday. have been equally aware o f the endless cruiting methods seemingly smack o f Ihtir move he said. out the window so as soon as one is “ THC ONLY’’, Only the Oclober 30- opened he and Junior fight for posi­ attempts to deny its existence. Terrible tactics “ capitalists” are said to use. N o v e m b e r 5 Issue ol ,he St Kilda, Vic ‘ A — Hi?, magazine seas banned tions; parents commence to scream, stories o f good Catholic teaching prac­ RICH GREENUP, ifXbiSne' * *hlC” The decision whether The decision came af- while friends surreptitiously push dogs tices especially with regard to the evils Melbourne, Vic ic place books or mitg- ter a consumer com- feet o ff their aching legs, only to find o f masturbation, have been bandied Kids stuff arinee on sale in Papua plaint drew Custom*' at- New Guinea rested with tenlion to the maga- around for years. hiir. temporarily. zinc. themselves confronted with its arse. S MO would have said, “ I con­ Bozo sees another dog and practically Similarly all o f us can recite endless P.NG. Not up to blow jobs yet. For­ cur” , with Harry Gumboot’s ar- goes berserk, so do the friends. Bozo sexual fantasy experiences o f our Nimbin Stir A tunately I was one of the 154. youth and the feelings o f guilt and ™ . tide in TLD about parents and their wants to get into the back seat, and GRAEME DUNSTIN S article caused a children Yours externally, does so with a superb leap — so cosy to inhibition that inevitably accompanied JOHN PROCTOR. bit o f a stir here, however we agree C wh® * er beCause he is a bachelor or have a full sized Labrador land in your them because of our ‘upbringing’. Your Page 26 - THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS. November 20-26, 1973 experiences are not in any way unique. premiere o f the film Who is Guru someones keeping women; anyway his­ articles like Albie's continue to be blown the doors of perception wide We’ve heard it all before. ‘ Sexual lib­ Maharaj Ji? (TLD 5). tory has shown us that nothing has printed, Christians are going to freak open. The spectrum of creation is in out, freaks are going to ‘freak in', but front; we are the rainbows o f creation. eration movements’ as you put it, have If Albie had remained longer after worked so far on a long term basis. whatever happens all bombs will turn We are truth, consciousness, bliss. We altered our way o f thinking. We are the film he would have witnessed Finally the world is about to see it into flowers. The Knowledge WILL are not mind or body; we are pure light now aware of the ignorance with which something pretty incredible. The thea­ happen. The Kingdom of Heaven, for spread. Everything is just fantastic with energy. The energy that is revealed in kids sexual curiosity has been treated. tre got so high that several hundred want o f a better word, is just starting a capital F. the “ Knowledge” session. You see a And in this context sex education is people were weaving in and out o f the to manifest itself. Souls all over the CHRIS DAY pure light within you (similar to not irrelevant as you maintain, for it aisles dancing to the music o f Satband, planet are getting tired o f limiting serves to satisfy, to some extent at Chakras, Jordan Belson’s Third Eye so blissed out and filled with real joy themselves to a body. There comes a movie), but with much more of an all least, this curiosity, rather than deny it that comes through realisation o f Guru point where our senses can no longer Bliss, Bliss, Bliss knowing, a recognition o f your true altogether or treat it as some terrible Maharaj Ji’s “ Knowledge” . be satisfied by external pleasure, we Dear Sir, country. You hear celestial harmonies unmentionable thing. What Albie saw in the film can’t be long for some genuine and lasting In reply to Albie Thoms’ article A within you, you are shown how to You accuse adults of ‘not facing comprehended by someone who hasnt internal experience. Flicker of Doubt about the Little taste nectar that flows freely, and the relationship situations with kids-deny- let himself experience that place inside The film is only the beginning of Fella. Albie, you experienced bliss that fourth technique revealed is the ing experiences’, presumably because everyone that can transform the entire what is to come, incidentally, Guru night at the film program and your ‘Word’, or the primordial vibration — they have ‘ fears about fucking with London Trafalgar Square into a sea of Maharaj Ji fine-cut it himself. Fifteen mind has refused to recognise it. the thing that was, is and always will children’ which you treat with so much smiles and swaying bodies linked to­ year old Guru Maharaj Ji is the direc­ On first contact with Guru Maharaj be. Truth. disdain, or because they, unlike your gether by arms. All o f them celebrating tion for the Golden Age which has Ji we all experience that internal know­ friend, do not care to screw in front of something more common than the been prophesised and which is mani­ ing, at the deepest level o f intuition. As an artist, the universe now stands their kids. What a load o f bombastic, usual bottle o f wine and spitty chilum. festing itself right now. Talk to those Immediately our mind reacts to this unveiled. The game has just begun and sensationalist bullshit! The Knowledge o f Guru Maharaj Ji who have received the Knowledge and internal knowing and so begins the now to play. To bring peace to this You would probably accuse me of is here to stay, and Divine Light are practising what Guru Maharaj Ji has battle written about in all the scrip­ planet whilst singing the praises o f the being unliberated because I for one Mission can only expand. It is under­ shown them. Every single one o f them tures especially the Bhagavad Gita. Our One. I am one o f the “ fresh faced” prefer not to screw, masturbate or standable to see the power o f Guru will describe the same experience, all soul wants this freedom that we have young filmmakers who has given my whatever in front of any audience — Maharaj Ji’ s Knowledge and put it into of them have been revealed something recognised, but our mind cannot un­ life to Guru Maharaj Ji. For he is kids or adults. By all means do not a ‘Hitler Analogy’ or ‘Red Square’ so secret and subtle that everyone who derstand this peace. This experience is resurrecting mankind, lifting him from deny kids the sight o f the human body category. In the past we have seen all comes in contact with it and is foolish beyond comprehension. the murky depths of his mind to a and encourage them to ask questions large scale attempts to bring it together enough to allow their minds to brand it Guru Maharaj Ji reveals our soul. He thousand years o f heaven on earth. and become aware o f the functions of turn rotten. Always they go rotten, as some weird ‘Guru Trip’ can’t under­ practically reveals the oneness in all Your brother in love, their bodies. But the decision to fuck someone, or someone's got a stash, or stand it. They just can’t understand it. humans. In fact we are all one. He has C. STARRS in private and not put on ‘ demonstra­ someone's keeping womenjanyway his- Without receiving the Knowledge com e to show us how to love; he has (for Greg Dee) tions’ for one’s children is a personal one and cannot be rationally inter­ preted as deliberately denying them experience.' Four years ago I was teach­ ing 11 and 12 year olds in an inner suburban school. Many o f these kids, it could be safely said, had never been denied any kind of what you would call ‘experience’. Whether it involved being screwed by ‘uncle Bill’ or the sight o f mum in bed with a different boyfriend every night. THINGS By the time these kids had reached puberty they had seen the lot. I still blocks and instruments being used see and talk with many o f them. You Living as a matter o f routine in com­ would no doubt admire many o f the plicated deliveries. As it turned girls as they have, in your words, been Bookshelf out she had taken a great risk and ‘resourceful about sex, playing around owes the success o f the delivery to with it in any way that interested THE LAZY MAN'S GUIDE TO them’. In other words they have screw­ ENLIGHTENMENT. (Available at a remarkable succession o f “ good ed themselves silly over the past few Source bookshop. $1.75.) luck” . years and strangely enough you’ll find So as the birth came closer we here are few books that many o f them just arent terribly made all the preparations which interested anymore. Indeed they are Taround that simply, gen­ our researching made us feel was quite surprised to learn that there is uinely, and, yes folks, lovingly necessary. some pleasure to be had from sex and seed the mind. With all the The first signs o f labor started that it is not just the simplest way of amount of concern for medita­ off an organised pattern. When keeping a steady boyfriend. What is far tion, yoga, and transcending the the contractions became more worse, however, is that for all their material plane, few writers emit ‘experience’ most o f them have no idea regular we began to contact our the warmth of actually having arranged helpers. It was upsetting how their bodies function. made it there. The book I want to A couple have managed to get them­ to be refused a switchboard con­ rave about . . . only because no selves pregnant and are now com­ nection to our most experienced fortably ensconced in marriages that one seems to have taken much friend. But Lin was confident, have no hope o f surviving. No doubt notice of i t . . . was written, as the though busy, and we called a with them and their children the whole writer says . . . to save him the nurse friend. She and I assisted bitter circle will begin again. So much hassle of having to talk about with the labor until we knew that for your unlimited experience with no what he has discovered in his own the presentation was breach. ‘irrelevant sex education’ thrown in. personal search for enlightenment. Your experience with the ‘Green We sent fairly urgent envoys to It’s called The Lazy Man's Guide find professional assistance. The Park pull-off gang’ reminded me of to Enlightenment and it is just these kids. What hope have they got situation became more and more that. Short (86 pages), honestly for any relationship when they equate problematic and was beginning to and beautifully written, I came sex with sucking o ff some queen in the SHARP get out o f our control, although park to raise pocket money? across it while tripping and had we knew from our researches one of the most powerful spiritual Honestly Sasha you must be joking. what to expect and how to pro­ experiences of my life due, in part, But...You know who I am ceed. to its influence. So she returned to the GP — It was only luck that when Bliss The author, Thaddeus Golas, Home ignoring Paddo Clinic because of Peter called at the home o f a believes enlightenment is a process Having read your last Living Daylights the needlessly animal atmosphere nearby obstetrician he found him article on Guru Maharaj Ji and Divine of getting out of our mass-bound delivery — who confirmed her pregnancy awake and able to come quickly. I Light Mission, I feel obliged to reply. selves: and he describes quite spe­ OR THOSE who are con­ and referred her to a gyno for fear to think what would have Although I was interested that Albie cifically how to do it. Further­ sidering delivering their pre-natal care. His news was mid happened had he been slower or Thoms came to the program, I was more, the states of consciousness F even more impressed by the novel baby in their home, I ask you also December and Lin progressed in unavailable or less experienced. he describes and why they origin­ content o f his article. to consider this story: Lin was good health although a count on By the time he arrived I had ate I have found true in my own It is very seldom that Divine Light expecting to become pregnant her fingers suggested early Novem­ helped to deliver the baby’s body experience. I dont have the book Mission gets written up for being ama­ early this year and was not sur­ ber (it was the first). and limbs but was very hesitant to with me as, like all good books, it teurish, austere and simple. In fact the prised when familiar signs were So having little confidence in act as confidently as he did by normal media policy is to refer to our is in the hands of friends. He felt. his judgment she began to seek quickly cutting the opening and efforts to communicate as being slick, offers no ‘technique’ method, no She had had one child previ­ more helpful confidants. We both working the head free. It was still professional and expensive. mantras, special diet; you dont ously. It wasnt until a persistent read much o f the published advice no easy job to revive the baby, If you have been unable to see the have to give up tobacco or dope nausea plagued her that she felt at to mothers and found out as initiate her breathing and to en­ truth hidden beneath the clouds o f . . . maybe you dont need this rumors, misquotes and other sundries, all uncomfortable. She was six much as we could from friends sure the clearance of the placenta book, but it’ll make you feel here it is. Guru Maharaj Ji can show weeks pregnant by her own calcu­ including a final year medical which threatened the mother’s better, and slowly, imperceptibly, anyone brave enough to venture along lation when a sudden hemor­ student, several nurses and mid­ safety. you’ll find it has had an effect on to the Divine Light Mission an experi­ rhage occurred. She visited St wives and people who had had Both were taken immediately you . . . you’re a bit more open, ence o f that primordial creative energy Vincents Casualty in Sydney the experiences related to home to hospital where, except for the that is called God, pure energy, cosmic questioning your actions in the same night and was told she had births. baby’s separation from her moth­ consciousness etc. I’ll repeat that for past and finding out ‘ what went had a “ nervous blockage” and was As a result Lin decided to rely er, they were well received and any who missed it the first time. Guru wrong’, watching yourself, and OK, but definitely not pregnant. on her own judgment and the help helped enormously for a week. Maharaj Ji can show you God! smiling. For Golas, enlightenment She was recommended to a GP of willing, experienced friends on It is important to realise that I So I’m sorry that Albie missed the isnt a cataclysmic tap on the point the other night, but I was there who found that she was blocked the condition that her progress can only write this with confi­ forehead and pow you’re there for and didnt. All the film, the music and tubally and would probably was as good as it had been. We dence because my daughter and all eternity. Instead there are speakers said was that Guru Maharaj Ji require surgery. Please go to Pad- have since considered the idea her mother are both safe and well. short flights into the astral regions can give you an experience that is well do Clinic. that the decision should not Had it been any other way I starting with acid perhaps, devel­ worth having. Nothing more nothing Here a resident gyno said she necessarily be her own and that a cannot think what we would have less. Why dont you try it? oping into controlled excursions was pregnant, normally, but there willing professional should be to say. Dont take too long, without dope, with return trips to was a "danger of miscarriage” , entrusted. This delivery was a one percent DEREK HARPER more or less check out the scene and prescribed 20mgs valium per But at the time the issue was to chance and was successful only by and help friends on their way. consider the one percent o f com­ extreme good fortune. I urge any­ (The only way to know is experi­ day. This left Lin fairly confused plications and the risk of her one considering home delivery to Bliss, Bliss ence.) More copies of The Lazy, — nobody seemed to be able to baby’s life. Her willingness to de­ ensure that they have competent Dear Sir, Man's Guide should be floating help and her own clarity was cide was due largely to fear of professional assistance and ap­ Please accept my letter in reply to around. disturbed until she stopped taking Albie Thoms’ article on the Sydney - A N A S OARES the valium. such things as pethedine spinal proval - David. THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, November 20-26, 1973 - Page 27 “ NO HOUSEHOLP CAN AFFORD ID BE ^WITHOUT ONE OR MORE OF THESE ^ EVERY LIGHT IN THE LOVELY ELECTRIC CAN OPENERS , HOUSE WENT OUT / 1 BRDU6HTTO YOU BY THE MAKERS O F .'

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