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Related: About this forumJohn Sinclair, Detroit poet, cannabis activist and counterculture icon, dead at 82
Gleefully proclaiming the joys of rock n roll, drugs and sex in the streets, John Sinclair reigned as a nationally celebrated troubadour of youth rebellion during the psychedelic era, playing a lead role in making Detroit and Ann Arbor counterculture hot spots with the MC5 band, the White Panther Party, cutting-edge concerts and flamboyant rhetoric.
Sinclair, who lived in Detroit, died Tuesday after years of declining health. Sinclair had been hospitalized at DMC Detroit Receiving Hospital for two weeks before his death at 7:58 a.m., his longtime publicist told the Detroit Free Press. He was 82.
Sinclairs utopian dream of a post-industrial society based on leisure and marijuana never went beyond a small group of collaborators. But during the 1960s and early 70s, he made headlines as a cultural whirlwind and bold provocateur, infuriating the establishment while attempting to organize a guitar army of young revolutionaries to mount a total assault on the death culture of America.
https://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/music/2024/04/02/john-sinclair-detroit-poet-cannabis-activist-and-counterculture-icon-dead-at-82/73179306007/
bahboo
(16,953 posts)I hosted White Panther meetings in my garage for a brief while. And the Ann Arbor Jazz and Blues Fest was legendary...dude led quite a life...
Siwsan
(27,322 posts)Reading of his death has me doing a whole lot of reflecting.
IbogaProject
(3,712 posts)He performed once at the Yippie Cafe at least once in the 2000s, I don't recall which year. Cool guy.