The reflex action exhibited by a lot of Detroiters when Time magazine made the decision to camp out in our front yard and begin filing stories on our demise was shock, rage, horror, dismay. Etc. And while I do understand that reflex, because like most Detroiters I have grown bitterly accustomed to the onslaught of [...]
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The John Sinclair Foundation Presents DETROIT LIFE RADIO 07 420 Café, Amsterdam > MOCAD, Detroit Tuesday, March 17, 2009 @ 10:00-11:00 pm > Thursday, April 16, 2009 @ 9:00-10:00 pm [DL9-0416] Detroit Life Radio w/ John Sinclair 07 This episode completes my interview with Monika Berenyi and Cecilia Costa for their Detroit City Poetry project, [...]
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The John Sinclair Foundation Presents DETROIT LIFE RADIO 06 420 Café, Amsterdam Tuesday, March 17, 2009 @ 10:00-11:00 pm [DL9-0317] Detroit Life Radio with John Sinclair 06 I arrived at the 420 Café in Amsterdam by train from London on St. Patrick’s Day night just in time to meet a pair of brilliant young women [...]
Over the years I’ve composed any number of poems that commemorate and pay homage to different aspects of this Detroit life of ours, and I’ve performed them (and many others) with scores of Detroit musicians since I started setting my verses to music in the summer of 1964. Now, 44 years later, I wanted to put them all together and record them with the musicians I know and love and work with in the Motor City, and this album is the result.
No, you’re right. Losing the 3-time WNBA championship woman’s basketball team the Detroit Shock to Tulsa, Oklahoma isn’t like we’re losing a real team. I mean hell, it’s only women’s basketball, right? Since when were women ever considered to be real athletes worth paying for or crying over? But hey, if we’d lost the Detroit [...]
By Andrew Jones When John Sinclair was 10 years old he convinced his father to take him to their local radio station. Thinking all the R&B bands he listened to on Saturday mornings were there playing live, he was shocked to find “a square white guy playing records.” But by then his love of music [...]
(No Cover Records) As ‘daffy as a motherfuckin’ duck’ By W. Kim Heron Detroit Metro Times September 30, 2009 Music critic, convict, manifesto writer,journalist, music fest impresario, pot propagandist, radio host, editor, municipal employee, rock ‘n’ roll manager, poet, bandleader — John Sinclair’s traveled a long way from his 21st year (1962), when, having moved [...]
Reviewed by Kirpal Gordon American Book Review, October 2009 Published by Headpress, www.headpress.com, Suite 306, The Colourworks, 2a Abbot Street, London, E8 3DP, UK / second printing, April, 2009 / 298 pages / ISBN: 9781900486682; US $19.95/12.99 UK with free music-spoken word CD download Don’t sweat the tautology in the title—It’s All Good: A John [...]
In Japanese is a saying that means “advantages and disadvantages” and for your humble narrator (who is a “hamidashimono” or misfit in Nipponese) life is one constant struggle for balance, a negotiated settlement. And being in the music business for nearly a third of a century, I must constantly seek that balance by always trying [...]
You had to be there. Words are not available fully to convey the impact of John Coltrane, his fearless musical creations and exemplary persona on the generation of musicians, artists, poets and cultural warriors that came of age in the 1960s….You had to be there. I was there. I had to be there. That was exactly where it was at, and I wouldn’t have missed it for the world.
