Revivers Poisoned

Pig drugs plagued the highly touted "Return of the Rock and Roll Revival" held at the Michigan State Fairgrounds in Detroit last Sunday as almost half of the crowd of 30,000 who attended the event seemed to be in a stupor from either reds or phony THC/animal tranquilizer, or a combination of both along with the mostly low energy jams that emanated from the stage.

Eastown managers Gabe Glance and Bob Bagaris made an estimated $150,000 on the one-day concert, which everyone hoped would bring back the old days of 1969 when John Sinclair and TransLove Energies produced the original Revival for whopping $500 from the infamous rock tycoon Russ Gibb, and everybody GOT DOWN WITH THE MUSIC. But, at this years RRR downers and greed were the order of the day, and the mood of the Revival was more like a wake.

It was John Sinclair who brought Johnny Winter to Detroit for the first time back at the 69 Revival--along with such amazing musicians as Sun Ra and his band, David Peel and the Lower East Slde, and Chuck Berry, plus a host of killer local talent headed up by the then-cosmic MC5 - but John wasn't around to see the 1971 farce, as he is doing 91/2 - 10 for possession of some good weed. John's brother, Dave Sinclair, was on hand though, to talk to the people about the FREE JOHN NOW! campaign presently in full swing, along with a bunch of Rainbow People's Party members and friends who sold out their stock of original RRR posters and passed out all 8,000 of the FREE JOHN NOW! postcards they brought with them.

Even if nostalgia for the old Revival was high many of the Revivers were not, however, as the government/Mafia/CIA plan to wipe out grass and wipe out the youth colony on downers is clearly enjoying a temporary success. The bogus dope went perfectly with most of the bogus "jams" oozing from the stage area, as the promoters' total lack of taste revealed their sole ambition -- to get rich quick, no matter what the ruse.

Credit must be given to the local bands that turned pretty high-energy sets, especially Mitch Ryder's DETROIT. Coming at the end of the show, Johnny Winter's set was nice, too - but, along with the rest of the Revival, it fizzled to a halt as the power was shut off by the owners when it ran late.

Undoubtedly, these shuck affairs will continue until all of the people organize themselves to put on true people's concerts (like the Tribal Council's Park Program) and stop letting the owners of the rock business and the country push down music and down dope off on us at their ever-rising prices. ROCK AND ROLL FOR THE PEOPLE!