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In The Forest...

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September
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1967
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In the Forest...

The Dope Dealer returned to town from a western vacation in San Francisco and the mountains of the northwest, talking of STP and moving to Hamtramick. We hope his column for the SUN will return next issue. Jerry Younkins, Cari Lundgren and Skip Cooper split for SF during the riots after they were pulled out of their house in the middle of the night and lined up against the expressway fence in front of the Casfcie. Jerry was back in town last week to get Anarchy and the light equipment, and the Magic Veil has now officially moved to San Francisco. Jerry is working in the Psychedelic Shop on Haight Street.... While in town the Grateful Dead played a free concert in West Park, Ann Arbor, and grooved everyone for miles around. There was a strange flag incident at the park and as a result the permit was denied for the following two weeks. The concerts resume this Sunday (Sept. 3) with Frank Bach's group, the UP. Concerts will continue until it,'s too cold and will feature MC -5 and the Spikedrivers among others.... another neighborhood band, the GOLD (formerly the Electric Flower), made its first appearance at the Trans - Love Benefit at the Grande last Sunday and sounded good.... the Artists' Workshop building at 4857 John Lodge was given up by Trans-Love for lack money and has been taken over by some other people who plan to rename it the Anarchists' Workshop. Mike and Rick are planning to publish a magazine from the premises and have other plans too. Stop by and help them out.... the Trans-Love Benefit netted the organization over $400. Many outstanding bills were paid though we are still far behind due to the summer doldrums. Another benefit will be held Sunday, September 24, the money going to produce a tabloid issue of the SUN. Watch the FIFTH ESTATE for details. Keven is back in town.... Mixed Media receiving some static from its landlord about some head shop items and the "hippie sign" in front. That's mighty white of them.... Trans-Love folks also forced to leave town during the insurrection after ten armed police and national guardsmen knocked down the door above the Workshop "looking for snipers". Both locks were smashed and much hollering and screaming went on. Fifteen minutes later we were on our way out of town in the bus.... Michael Davis and Fred Smith of the MC-5 went up to Port Austin, Michigan, for a vacation and ran into trouble. Nine high school football players attacked Mike Davis and held him down and cut his hair. What a drag. Then the two were arrested in Sandusky Michigan on their way home. Davis was released but Fred Smith was held on counts of forgery and fugitive from justice. When the police discovered they had the wrong Fred Smith he was charged with vagrancy. He pled not guilty and was released on $50 bond. When he returned for trial the following week the judge told him he was late, revoked his bail and dismissed the case! Nice way to pay $50 for a cop's mistake.... WDET-FM, WSU radio, did two shows with neighborhood people last month: Sinclair and Grimshaw talked with Orin Hood of WDTM about the underground press revolution, and two weeks later Sinclar, Frank Bach, Wayne Kramer (MC-5), and Marsnal Rubinoff talked with Bud Spangler and Bernard Cadoo about the new music. WDTM is over on Woodward and Warren.... Bud Spangler, who is the hippest jazz disc jockey in the world as well as an outstanding drummer form the Lansing scene, has moved to Detroit to work for channel 56 as a program producer. He will be producing live jazz shows this fall and will do a one-hour jazz radio show on WDTM-FM Saturday evenings. Dig it.... Robin Eichele, one of the founders of the Artists' Workshop three years ago and a moving force in the workshop until leaving for London a year ago returned to Detroit virtually unnoticed this summer and will stay a while. He is forming a film-production company and will be filming groups for TV shots. He's been working with the Spikedrivers already and will expand as he gets the bread. He was attending the London School of Film.... the big Sweep-In planned for a couple weeks ago never came off -- when 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon came around, three people showed up to sweep. Pun said fuck it and disappeared. There are still all the brooms action line got us and if any-one has any eyes to organize the Sweep-In at any time please stop by Trans-Love and talk to Pun. This neighborhood is awfully fucking dirty and the city obviously won't do anything about it. But we don't feel like cleaning up the neighborhood unless some of you other people want to do that too. When enough people get pissed off enough about the filth, then maybe it'll get cleaned. No telling when that'll be though -- so many people around here seem to think that being a hippie means being and living like a pig. Try being beautiful, people -- it spreads more light!