Steve The Fly is featuring plenty weirdness this week from William Levy, Michael Viner’s Incredible Bongo Band, Miles Davis, King Sunny Ade, The Heliocentrics & Melvin Van Peebles, Sun Ra: Sleeping Beauty, and the Kenny Clarke-Percy Boland Big Band.
The John Sinclair Foundation Presents DARK SUMMER WAX UNITED FLY BY NIGHT 320 Steve The Fly, Fly Agaric 23 Studio, Amsterdam, June 29, 2019 [19406]
William Levy: William Burroughs Birthday Party Michael Viner’s Incredible Bongo Rock Band: Apache Miles Davis: Wili King Sunny Ade: E Falabe Lewe The Heliocentrics & Melvin Van Peebles: Infinite List (Toss The Dice) Sun Ra: Sleeping Beauty Clarke Boland Big Band: Tween Dusk And Dawn In Yia Urbana
A JOINT PRODUCTION Produced by Steve “The Fly” Pratt for Radio Free Amsterdam Post-production, editing & annotation by John Sinclair Executive Producer: Steve Pratt
Episode 817 is coming from Radio Free Amsterdam headquarters at 55 Peterboro in Detroit’s Cass Corridor with the seventh hour in our elongated homage to the late great Mac Rebennack, better known as Dr. John, with material selected from the recording I made from the audience on my little digital recorder at the Orpheum Theater in downtown New Orleans on Saturday, June 22, edited down from the two-hour event produced and hosted by Quint Davis in Mac’s honor to a full house of invited mourners, including my granddaughter Beyonce and myself.
The John Sinclair Foundation Presents DR. JOHN MEMORIAL JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 817 Cass Corrdidor, Detroit, July 11, 2019 [19419]
Yusef Lateef: Happyology Wild Indian Chiefs: Tu-Way-Pak-E-Way Mac’s Cousin Robert Hubbard from Baton Rouge: Speech Papa John Groh with the Dr. John All Star Band: Speech > Qualified Jon Cleary with the Dr. John All Star Band: Let’s Make A Better World Davell Crawford: My Buddy Davell Crawford with the Dr. John All Star Band: Such A Night Mayor LaToya Cantrell: Speech Deacon John: Speech > I Shall Be Released Irma Thomas with the Dr. John All Star Band: Speech > Never Fooled Nobody But Me > All Star Jam All Star Brass Band: Second Line Charlie Parker: They Can’t Take That Away From Me
A JOINT PRODUCTION Hosted by John Sinclair for Radio Free Amsterdam Live audience recording by John Sinclair at the Orpheum Theater, New Orleans, June 22, 2019 Produced, edited, assembled & annotated by John Sinclair Executive Producer: Steve Pratt Special thanks to Beyonce Sinclair
