On November 29, the Stones played their second concert in Boston. The first, over three years ago, had been played in Manning Bowl in Lynn. Then the press referred to the Stones as the GROUP SECOND TO THE BEATLES, but to the bikies, high school kids and college rock freaks who packed the Bowl, sat […] Continue reading →

Madison (WI) has seen a rash of bootleg records-most sold at super high prices-and the gigantic profits going to who knows who. Now, however, some of us who feel that freak-rock belongs to the people from where it came, have liberated Dylan and Beatles tapes and returned the music to the people. Here’s the story, […] Continue reading →

Stop Look, what’s that sound. Everybody look what’s goin’ down. by Bonny Cohen (with a little help from Keith Maillard) The sound is rock music. What’s going down is money. Columbia records nets billions from sales. On album jackets recording artists are called revolutionaries, but CBS, which owns Columbia, has defense contracts to help murder […] Continue reading →

The Democratic National Convention ended for me in December, with a 20-day stretch in the Chicago House of Correction. I was the only political prisoner in a dormitory of about fifty men-some of them criminals, some outlaws, some there entirely by mistake. In the evenings we would drag out our mattresses and blankets and lay […] Continue reading →