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HeadPress Bunker -
Friday, June 27 > Sunday, August 31, 2008 @ 5:30-6:30 pm[20-0840]
Ooze Charm Coffeeshop, Tokyo > HeadPress Bunker, London

This episode is centered on a long conversation I had with the Japanese writer, musician, & punk rock legend Gaku Torii at a place called the Ooze Charm Coffeeshop in Tokyo in the evening of Friday, June 27, 2008. The excerpts in this episode are taken from the first section of the conversation and punctuated with music by Big Joe Turner, Chuck Berry, Billy Ward & the Dominos, Ray Charles, Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, Sun Ra & His Arkestra, John Sinclair & His Blues Scholars with Wayne Kramer, and the MC-5 from the Grande Ballroom in 1968—sort of an aural biography of my youthful years (Part 1) produced in my little room at the HeadPress Bunker in London on the last day of August, 2008. Gaku’s interview has just appeared in print in the Japanese periodical Record Collectors’ Magazine (Volume 27, Number 9, 2008).

Playlist #215

[00] RFA Tag > Unabonger Opening Tokes
[01] Opening Music: Big Joe Turner: Shake, Rattle & Roll
[02] John Sinclair Conversation with Gaku Torii (Part 1)
[03] Chuck Berry: School Day
[04] Billy Ward & the Dominos: Sixty Minute Man
[05] Ray Charles: I Got a Woman
[06] John Sinclair Conversation with Gaku Torii (Part 2)
[07] Miles Davis: Airegin
[08] Ornette Coleman: Blues Connotation
[09] Sun Ra: Between Two Worlds
[10] John Sinclair Conversation with Gaku Torii (Part 3)
[11] MC-5: I Believe to My Soul
[12] MC-5: I’m Mad Like Eldridge Cleaver
[13] John Sinclair Conversation with Gaku Torii (Part 4)
[14] John Sinclair & His Blues Scholars: blues to you
[15] Baba Israel ID > RFA Tag

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Produced, recorded, edited & assembled by John Sinclair
Posted by Larry Hayden
Executive Producer: Larry Hayden
Special thanks to Dylan Harding & Nick Smith in London and to Gaku Torii, Maki Fujimoto, Yukiko Akagawa and everybody in Tokyo

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