HeadPress Bunker –
Friday, June 27 > September 2, 2008 @ 11:00-12:00 pm[20-0841]
Ooze Charm Coffeeshop, Tokyo > HeadPress Bunker, London
This episode is the second program 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 second section of the conversation and punctuated with recordings by the Motor City Blues Scholars, Jack Kerouac & Steve Allen, Miles Davis & John Coltrane, the MC-5, P&J Review Band, Bobby Seale, the Watts Prophets, Mitch Ryder & Detroit, and John Sinclair & the Pinkeye Orchestra recorded “live” at the Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit in July 2008—sort of an aural biography of my youthful years (Part 2) produced in my little room at the HeadPress Bunker in London on the first and second days of September, 2008. Gaku’s interview has just appeared in print in the Japanese periodical Record Collectors’ Magazine (Volume 27, Number 9, 2008).
Playlist #216
[00] RFA Tag > Unabonger Opening Tokes
[01] Opening Music: John Sinclair & His Blues Scholars: The Screamers
[02] John Sinclair Conversation with Gaku Torii (Part 5)
[03] Jack Kerouac & Steve Allen: Reading from On The Road
[04] Miles Davis Sextet: Milestones
[05] John Sinclair Conversation with Gaku Torii (Part 6)
[06] MC5: Human Being Lawnmower
[07] John Sinclair Conversation with Gaku Torii (Part 7)
[08] P&J Review Band: Right On Brother! Right On!
[09] Bobby Seale: Prison Interview
[10] Watts Prophets: Dem Niggers Ain’t Playing
[11] John Sinclair Conversation with Gaku Torii (Part 
[12] Mitch Ryder & Detroit: Gimme Shelter
[13] John Sinclair Conversation with Gaku Torii (Part 9)
[14] John Sinclair & Pinkeye Orchestra: nutty:
[15] Baba Israel ID > RFA Tag
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Produced, recorded, edited & assembled by John Sinclair
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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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I was not aware of your radio station and love you for playing the Watts Prophets these men are still around and willing to talk about their new cd’s and books.
Alive and well here in northern CA. Educating the locals in the real music.
John,
I really enjoy the show it’s Sunday morning in Hamtramck 10/5/2008 what a refreshing respite from the mainstream.Even Satellite radio is an extension of all the corporate crap,sans the commercials.
They market music like it’s a fuckin’ cheeseburger music is meant to be more nourishing it’s not just a product. Glad you are alive and keepin’ the torch burnin’
Leo Beattie
Leo Beattie