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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 82. necessarily true. They ’ re only doing what their brother
without any verbal or visual interference. musicians have done, through the ages. They give what they
The music b precise to its purposes - it works, just as Ra have to give bccauw they are interested in people and they
would have it - and its purposes are as heavy as can be. Sun come out and bring something people need •••
Ra and the Arkestra mean to turn people on to their own Sun Ra and the Arkestra will be appearing on the opening
possibilities for happiness and harmony, and they set their program Friday night, which will be their first performance in
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music out as a prime example of what they ' re talking about in this area since their historic month long stay of May-June
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the songs. But it ' s not just the music, it s the way they re 1969, when they were featured at the Detroit Rock and Roll
organized too, that would propose itself as a model for future Revival, at the Grande Ballroom with the MGS, and in various
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people: the hand has been living together as long as it s worked settinp around Ann Arbor. Prior to that round of concerts
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together, which goes back to 1952 or so in Chicago, and the the Arkestra had made the trip to Detroit in June 1967 for a
commitment of several of the musicians in the Arkestra truly historic gathering at Community Arts Auditorium on the
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John Gilmore, Marshall Allen. Pat Patrick for three - goes Wayne Stale University campus, where the MC 5 and the
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back twenty full years by now. That s twenty hard starving Magic Veil Light Show joined forces with Ra to turn
years, sustaining each other all that time through the music everybody in the place completely around.
and its indigenous social principles, playing anywhere people It ' s five years later now. and three years since the Arkestra
will let them in with their instruments to bring li ht and was last in town, but what Ra and his band of master
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purpose to people s lives, the supreme example of dedication musicians will do Friday night may just erase time altogether,
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and commitment to a common purpose that can be found in at least for as long as they ' re on stage, and that s always
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the whole muac world. something worth waiting for. Not many people can do it not
‘ 'Because you can go all the way back and see that the very many ever could - but Sun Ra and the Arketia can —take
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musicians used to be minstrels - troubadors - they weren t you right out into space if you ' re ready to go. and even if you
selfish - they were out there playing for people. Now a lot of aren t they might just move you a little closer to it, and you
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people are getting to say that some musicians are trying to be won ' t mind H at all.
politicians or trying to be religious and all that, but that s not John Sinclair
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