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“Gary Grimshaw was a great creative artist who
helped define the spirit and feeling of an entire
era with his brilliant posters for the Grande
Ballroom in Detroit, his artwork for under-
ground newspapers
like the Detroit Sun,
the Fifth Estate and
the San Francisco
Oracle,
and
his
posters and record
covers for the MC-5
and other bands."
“He was a music
lover first and fore-
most, best friends in
high school with Rob
Tyner of the MC5, a
beautiful cat and the
most tireless and
dedicated art worker I’ve ever known. We were
partners in crime at the Grande Ballroom and
the Detroit Artists Workshop, we founded
Trans-Love Energies and the White Panther
Party together, we worked side by side for sev-
eral years while he beautifully interpreted all
my ideas for cultural and social change into pub -
lic artwork that could make people want to do
things they’d never done before."
“After the movement ended in the mid-’70s we
went our separate ways but reunited in Detroit
in the 1980s in partnership with Frank & Peggy
Bach to serve the Motor City music community
for several years before Gary moved to the San
Francisco Bay area. He was one of my greatest
friends of all time, most valued co-worker and
constant inspiration.”
“The Revolution is totally committed to bring -
ing people out of their shells and into each oth-
ers arms. The music is the source and effect of
our spirit flesh and we demand a free music and
a free high energy source that will drive us wild
into the streets.....yelling and screaming and
tearing down everything that would keep peo-
ple slaves” – John Sinclair
John Sinclair is best known as the Sixties "mar-
ijuana" activist who was sentenced to 10 years
in prison for giving two joints to an undercov-
er policewoman. He was eventually freed
when John Lennon and Yoko Ono spoke out
on his behalf.
Less understood is his role as the founder and
chairman of the radical anti-war group, The
White Panther Party, an offshoot of the Black
Panthers. The Black Panther Party was a mili-
tant political organization formed after the
brutal murders of Martin Luther King,
Malcolm X and Robert Kennedy.
The Nixon Administration and the FBI
launched a secret program called COINTEL-
PRO to disrupt and ultimately destroy the
Black Panthers and the Anti-War movement.
As part of this program, John Sinclair was set
up and imprisoned on marijuana charges.
When the government could no longer justify
denying him a bond over two joints, they
falsely charged him with a Federal conspiracy
to blow up a CIA station, in order to make him
disappear.
John Sinclair - Mohawk CD
released on Iron Man Records 24th March 2014
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