John Sinclair (live) - John & Yoko/Plastic Ono Band w David Peel & The Lower East Side, 10 Dec 1971. скачать в хорошем качестве

John Sinclair (live) - John & Yoko/Plastic Ono Band w David Peel & The Lower East Side, 10 Dec 1971.

POWER TO THE PEOPLE is Out Now! → https://bit.ly/JOLstore The new audio mixes for the entire John & Yoko performance at the John Sinclair Freedom Rally , Crisler Arena, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 10 Dec 1971 are OUT NOW in the POWER TO THE PEOPLE Deluxe Box Set. John: We came here not only to help John and to spotlight what’s going on but also to show and to say to all of you that apathy isn’t ‘it’. And that we can do something. OK, so flower power didn’t work. So what? We start again. This song I wrote for John Sinclair. Yoko: In those days we were doing all sorts of different concerts. In spurts, though. You know, somebody calls us and says, ‘Well, look, we’re having this problem here, do you want to come and do a concert?’ ‘Yes, we’ll do it.’ We were doing it for issues and statements, you know? And the money went all to the cause, or the needy, you know? And we never accepted any money from the concerts. John: John Sinclair was put away for ten years for possessing two marijuana joints. He spent two years of it in prison, virtually in isolation, in solitary, in case he infiltrated the other prisoners or something. He didn’t want any help for two years because he thought, ‘Why bother? Justice will let me out. My appeals will let me out.’ Gradually and gradually after two years, he began to worry and he asked for some help. We went down, had a rally with fifteen-thousand people. We weren’t the only people; Little Stevie Wonder and Phil Ochs and Allen Ginsberg. And it was a beautiful show, many people devoted their time to it, and we came along, sang the songs we sang to you, and this one, ‘John Sinclair’, this was the final one. By a stroke of good luck, he was released on Monday. Hee-hee! Yoko: Somebody getting ten years in jail for two marijuana joints was just totally outrageous. We were always up for helping people who were suffering from injustice and we did that a lot. We went there and we were waiting and waiting in a nice kind of apartment room, you know, and our turn didn’t come for the longest, longest time because all the people who were there were not just fans, but very famous political figures. They all made speeches and all that and the speeches were all going a bit longer than planned, so our time came very, very late and we went on the stage and it was great. We were very happy when John Sinclair was freed, two days later. We were very glad that there was some effect. We aren’t going to stop until all brothers and sisters are freed from the prisons, inside and outside the walls. Jerry Rubin: We just did an event in Ann Arbor where there were 15,000 people and John Sinclair was freed from jail and I hope the future holds just taking part in events like that and just staying alive and not dying. John: It was a non-violent musical with politics, a few speeches, a few songs, where 15,000 people really grooved and it had an end product of helping get our brother released and it was beautiful. Eddie Mottau: We had to go up this long ramp and there were so many photographers shooting cameras with flashbulbs, I couldn’t see. I said, ‘John, I can’t see, I can’t see!’ He said, ‘Hold on to the back of my coat!’ And it was good. Very powerful. We followed Stevie Wonder on stage. John Lennon: acoustic guitar, National guitar, vocals. Yoko Ono: percussion, vocals. Eddie Mottau: acoustic guitar, vocals. Chris Osborne: acoustic guitar, vocals. Jerry Rubin: percussion, vocals. David Peel: washtub bass, vocals. Tom Doyle: acoustic guitar, vocals. Billy Minelli: percussion, vocals. Frank Lanci: percussion, vocals. Toby Mamis: percussion, vocals. Leslie Bacon: percussion, vocals. Lennox Raphel: percussion, vocals. Written by John Lennon © Lenono Music, administered by Downtown Music Publishing. Film footage and soundtrack © Yoko Ono Lennon.