June 1, 1969: John and Yoko Record "Give Peace a Chance"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yU0JuE1jTk

A Narc at the MayDay 1971 Protests

The last week of April 1971 and the first week of May that year saw the streets of Washington, DC filled with antiwar protesters.  From antiwar Democrats like Bella Abzug to Vietnam Veterans Against the War and the Mayday Tribe, tens of thousands of protesters kept the heat on the Nixon administration and its apparatchiks.  Cops, narcs and undercover agents from various federal agencies were part of the mix.  This is the story of a former military interrogator/torturer who went undercover for the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs (the DEA's predecessor).  He thinks he's some kind of hero. He's also wrong about the success of the direct action part of the protest that took place May 4th.  It was not considered a bust.  It may not have succeeded in shutting down the government, but it certainly caused a lot of disruption.  Otherwise, why would the Nixon administration have arrested over 12,000 demonstrators after declaring what was essentially martial law in the District?
https://www.historynet.com/operation-bent-penny-working-undercover-at-the-1971-may-day-protest.htm

Free John Sinclair Rally--December 10, 1971

And now, marijuana is legal in Michigan, where John Sinclair was sentenced to ten years for two joints.  He did more than two years.  This concert kicked ass. Watch the video.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqbHsUcuN6I

John has been doing a radio show from Amsterdam for many years....check it out...
http://radiofreeamsterdam.org/shows/the-john-sinclair-radio-show/

At the beginning....

An excerpt from the beginning of my book Daydream Sunset...

https://www.counterpunch.org/2013/07/26/stones-hendrix-and-altamont/

October 21, 1977--Keith Moon's Last Show.....

This clip is not from Keith's last show, but it shows The Who at the peak of their power....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgubG-MOPT4

Welcome to Hollywood--Leon Russell Live 1970

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bwMqliLXZQ

Enjoy!!

Letting it Bleed: Joel Selvin Takes on Altamont

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/09/09/letting-it-bleed-2/

Some nice words from a brother out west...

Somebody sent me this link the other day.  It's a post from a blog by a fellow traveler who lives in the American West....

http://scottrthequillayutecowboy.blogspot.com/2016/07/those-good-ole-days.html

Chicano Moratorium August 29, 1970

The protest against the war in Vietnam and La Raza in Los Angeles on August 29, 1970 was broken up by armed police who attacked the crowd and then just kinda' went crazy.  A popular liberal Chicano journalist named Ruben Salazar was murdered by police.  Hunter S. Thompson, who was hanging with his friend and attorney Oscar Zeta Acosta (later known as Dr. Gonzo), wrote a great piece about the protest that appeared in Rolling Stone in 1971....here is a link (there's a pdf you need to click on to read the piece)
http://www.eastofborneo.org/archives/strange-rumblings-in-aztlan

Oscar Zeta Acosta wrote an entire book about the protest and the movement.  That book is titled The Revolt of the Cockroach People.  
http://nationalbrownberets.com/files/PDF-Revolt_Cockroach_People.pdf

August 23, 1972: Last Official US Combat Troops Leave Vietnam

Although the combat troops had left, there were still several tens of thousands of troops in country, not to mention CIA mercenaries, Special Forces, and others.  In addition, the bombing would go on for years, including the Christmas bombings at the end of 1972--some of the heaviest bombing raids in the history of bombing raids.  I thought I would link to this pamphlet written by Overseas Weekly writer Richard Boyle describing GI resistance to the war....Overseas Weekly was an unofficial newspaper written for GIs and sold in the PX alongside the official Stars & Stripes.....The resistance Boyle writes about is part of the reason the war was Vietnamized and US troops were slowly removed from in country....while the killing dragged on....

https://libcom.org/history/gi-revolts-breakdown-us-army-vietnam

Feats Don't Fail Me Now--released August 1974

This album, from the Van Dyke Parks cover to its last track, is a masterwork.  Recorded in early 1974 at a studio in Hunt Valley, MD.  Little Feat were quite popular in the Baltimore-DC region, thanks in part to the fact WHFS-FM in Bethesda played their music a lot.  I saw them for what would be the first of many times at George Washington University's Lisner Auditorium in June of 1974.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3LNhZ7msI4&list=PL8v2U0Ce53KD1tHAxxL2qMO40Ejf_EbD9

The Story of the Late and Great Washington Free Press

Authorities took the challenge represented by the underground media seriously.  This article from the Spark website composed and maintained by Craig Simpson tells the story of a campaign of police and judicial harassment in the Washington DC area.

https://washingtonspark.wordpress.com/2012/11/07/washington-free-press-battles-suppression-1969-70/#comment-1679

Daydream Sunset and 1970s Radical Politics...

In some of the reviews of Daydream Sunset, there has been mention that I minimize some of the politics of the 1970s.

For those desiring a more complete understanding of the alternative perceptions and the people that held them in that period, let me recommend reading The Way the Wind Blew and/or Max Elbaum's Revolution in the Air and/or Aaron Leonard's Heavy Radicals.  I think the combination of these texts provide a fairly comprehensive look at the trends of the Sixties New Left and counterculture movements in the 1970s.