"Ian Rankin once explained to an interviewer (the head of the Indian Communist Party!) that crime fiction is a way of talking about social inequality. Ron Jacobs applies that same maxim to the Sixties... in his wonderfully noir trilogy of those exhilarating and troubled times. And what Rankin does for Edinburgh, Jacobs amply illuminates for the Movement. Much much more than ripping yarns (though they are that too), from a master who's been there, done that, and lived to tell a tale or two."
Wednesday, September 30, 2015
Saturday, September 19, 2015
Saturday, September 12, 2015
Wednesday, September 9, 2015
Friday, September 4, 2015
Wednesday, September 2, 2015
Thursday, August 27, 2015
If Daydream Sunset:60s Counterculture in the '70s had a playlist, this would be it
“I’m
Free”----The Who from Tommy
“Good
Times, Bad Times”----Led Zeppelin
“The
Israelites”---Desmond Dekker and the Aces
“Gimme
Shelter”----Rolling Stones from Let
It Bleed
“Okie
From Muskogee”---Merle Haggard
“New
Speedway Boogie”---Grateful Dead from Workingman’s
Dead
“Luv
& Haight”---Sly and the Family Stone from There’s a Riot Goin’ On
“For
Everyman”---Jackson Browne from For
Everyman
“I
Threw It All Away”---Bob Dylan from Nashville
Skyline
“God”---John
Lennon from John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
“Them
Changes”---Jimi Hendrix from Band of
Gypsys
“Ohio”---Crosby,
Stills, Nash & Young
“Out of Gas”---Prairie Fire
“Here’s
to the State of Richard Nixon”---Phil Ochs
“H₂0
Gate Blues”----Gil Scott Heron/Brian Jackson from Winter in America
“Hurricane”---Bob
Dylan and Rolling Thunder Revue from Live
1975
“Break
It Up”---Patti Smith Group from Horses
“Before
the Deluge”---Jackson Browne from Late
For the Sky
“Rebel,
Rebel”---David Bowie from Diamond Dogs
“Backstreets”----Bruce
Springsteen and the E Street Band from Born
to Run
“Simple
Man”---Lynyrd Skynyrd from (Pronounced
'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd)
“Red
Headed Stranger”---Willie Nelson from Red
Headed Stranger
“Sitting
In Limbo”---Jimmy Cliff from The
Harder They Come
“White
Riot”---The Clash
“Rebel
Music”---Bob Marley and the Wailers from Natty Dread
“Long
Hot Summer”---Tom Robinson Band from Power
in the Darkness
“God
Save the Queen”---The Sex Pistols
“Less
Than Zero”---Elvis Costello and the Attractions from My Aim is True
“What
About Me?”---Quicksilver Messenger Service from What About Me?
“Estimated Prophet”---Grateful Dead from Dick’s
Picks Volume 15/Live Englishtown, NJ 9/3/1977
“Respectable”---Rolling
Stones from Some Girls
“Vicious”---Lou
Reed from Transformer
“The
Pretender”---Jackson Browne from The
Pretender
“Factory”---Bruce
Springsteen and the E Street Band from Darkness
On the Edge of Town
“Jimmy Jazz”---The Clash
from London Calling
“California
Über Alles”---Dead Kennedys
“You
Gotta’ Serve Somebody”---Bob
Dylan from Slow Train Coming
“Comfortably
Numb”---Pink Floyd from The Wall
“US
Blues”---Grateful Dead live 1/15/1980 Cambodian Refugees Benefit, Oakland,
CA.
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Saturday, August 22, 2015
Tuesday, August 18, 2015
Friday, August 7, 2015
Friday, July 31, 2015
Wednesday, July 22, 2015
Friday, July 17, 2015
Monday, July 13, 2015
Tuesday, July 7, 2015
The Ship of the Sun Bids Farewell
The line I said is from the Tibetan Book of the Dead is really from the Egyptian Book of the Dead---
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/07/07/the-grateful-dead-the-ship-of-the-sun-bids-farewell/
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/07/07/the-grateful-dead-the-ship-of-the-sun-bids-farewell/
Saturday, July 4, 2015
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