OFF: John Sinclair's Guitar Army

[Jason M. Scruton]

Given the MC5ness on Some Enchanted evening,

Check out www.thebookbeat.com to order this jams-kicking tome and CD.

Guitar Army: Rock & Revolution With the MC5 and the White Panther Party

Author/Artist: John Sinclair


Publisher: Process



?Guitar Army was our manual for revolt. It?s a rainbow-colored Howl,  
still resonating today with the singular value of idealism.??Michael  
Simmons

John Sinclair, manager of the notorious Detroit band MC5 and leader of  
the leftist revolutionary vanguard White Panther Party, is the  
still-charging embodiment of a dazzlingly optimistic time in which  
change felt necessary and possible.

Sinclair was the martyr of the original war on drugs, sentenced to ten  
years in prison for possession of two marijuana joints. Guitar Army is  
the iconographic book that proclaimed ?Rock and Roll is a Weapon of  
Cultural Revolution? for young, revved-up readers in 1972. Its author  
was released from prison just three days after 15,000 people came to  
see John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Archie Shepp, Allen Ginsberg, and other  
musicians and leaders demand his freedom.

The updated Guitar Army includes two dozen previously unpublished  
period photographs, recent writings from John Sinclair, and an  
introduction from Michael Simmons that leads the reader through the  
revolutionary times to Sinclair?s life today.

A bonus CD contains rare music recordings of MC5 band members, the  
revolutionary rock group UP!, Black Panther Bobby Seale on the White  
Panthers, and original White Panther Party rallies.
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John Sinclair will be signing books on May 3rd and we will be able to  
fill orders for autographed books if placed before the end of April,  
2007

$22.95