John Sinclair

Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin

Rick Rubin

Society & Culture, Arts, Philosophy

4.6 • 908 Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2024

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

This interview with John Sinclair was recorded a few months before he passed away on April 4, 2024. John was an icon of the counterculture movement. In the late 1960s, he was sentenced to 10 years in prison for marijuana possession, sparking protests and rallies like the John Sinclair Freedom Rally, which featured performances by John Lennon and Stevie Wonder, among others. After a high-profile legal battle that challenged and ultimately reformed harsh marijuana laws, Sinclair was released after two years in prison. Before and after his protested prison sentence, John was a renowned poet, writer, and political activist. He founded the White Panther Party in support of the Black Panthers, produced music festivals, managed the influential rock band MC5, and published and recorded prolifically, including John Sinclair: The Collected Poems and the music-in-verse collection Thelonious: a Book of Monk. ------ Thank you to the sponsors that fuel our podcast and our team: Squarespace https://squarespace.com/tetra ------ Lucy https://lucy.co/tetra ------ LMNT Electrolytes https://drinklmnt.com/tetra ------ House of Macadamias https://www.houseofmacadamias.com/tetra

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0:00.0	Tetragrammaton
0:02.0	Tetracket
0:05.0	Tetracket
0:10.0	Tremat
0:11.0	Tremat
0:15.0	Tremat
0:18.0	Rettlement
0:19.0	I'm surrounded by music at all times.
0:26.2	Right now, I'm talking to you, so I turned off my radio, but I got my own radio station.
0:32.3	Great.
0:33.1	I'm lying.
0:34.0	I got 12 disc jackeys.
0:36.2	I put up two hours of new music every day for 20 years.
0:41.6	How do I find it online? Radio Free Amsterdam.org. We started in 2004 in Amsterdam.
0:51.8	Great. My 38 program was podcast. I've been a radio freak since I was a little kid.
0:59.8	I'm now 81. Tell me your first memories of radio. What first got you? Well, I grew up on radio in the
1:07.6	40s, you see, before television.
1:11.5	Was it even in the car then, or was it just the wooden box in the house?
1:15.8	Well, yeah, the little one.
1:16.8	My dad got me one for my seventh's birthday and he made from a kid, a radio.
1:23.0	Then when I was 14, he bought me a 45 place.
1:26.0	You could plug into the back of the radio. I remember the first 45 I was 14, he bought me a 45 place. You could plug into the back of the radio.
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