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  Amsterdam, Netherlands
Wednesday, March 15, 2006

Since November 2004 I've been doing an internet radio program called the John Sinclair Radio Show. We stage the shows in coffeeshops, bars and other venues, record them to disc, make one-hour shows out of the recordings, and post them on-line at www.johnsinclairradio.com.

At the beginning of 2005 we expanded the project to become Radio Free Amsterdam, with the goal of building a 24-hour-a-day, seven-days-a-week streaming radio station with independent program productions gathered from all across the USA and the world. The non-profit arts organization named EPISODES signed on to sponsor Radio Free Amsterdam as a communicating arts project, and soon afterward we signed up with the new podcasting technology to podcast our programs as they were posted.

I created an archive site for my program at my personal website, www.johnsinclair.us, and now have 77 programs stored there, each with its own page, program description and playlist. The shows combine great musical selections with interviews of all sorts and free-form commentary by the host and his cast of characters. While I'm touring in the U.S. I make programs called "joint productions" with people all over the country. When my website returns to cyberspace you can check these out for yourselves.

We also have a fine arts interview show called ImageMakers hosted by Anthony Murrell of Stichting EPISODES, with 16 episodes posted to date; 22 episodes of Tom Morgan's Jazz Roots show from WWOZ, New Orleans; 6 episodes of the Amsterdam-based original production called Cosmic Paradigm Shift with Marx Marvelous; 2 episodes of the Global Open Mike Show with Amanda, also an RFA original production; 2 episodes of the Yaw Show, an RFA production directed at listeners in Ghana; a special production from Amsterdam called Senor Juan Bots Culture Shock Roller Derby; and our first of what we hope to be many episodes of Live from the Red Rooster Lounge with Cary Wolfson of Boulder, Colorado.

This week our producer, engineer and web operator Henk Botwinik has posted several new episodes:

[1] John Sinclair Show #77
[2] Global Open Mike #2 with Amanda
[3] Cosmic Paradigm Shift #6 with Marx Marvelous
[4] Accidental Monday #2 Live at the Sugar Factory.

Other current podcasts are [1] Tom Morgan's Jazz Roots #22 and [2] ImageMakers #16 Live at Hortus Gallery.

Last night (Tuesday) I was with Henk and Sascha when they recorded a long series of interviews with participants at the New Beatnix Generantion gathering at de Kring over the Palladium club on the Leidseplein. This will be part of a new RFA series called ALTERNATIVE AMSTERDAM produced by Henk Botwinik and hosted by Sascha.

We call RFA "guerrilla radio" because we're like a clandestine squadron striking quick and deep, doing the show and getting out with the recording intact. Our initial team of Henk, Larry Hayden and myself would appear at a coffeeshop, set up our laptop and 2-channel mike mixer on a tabletop, hook up our two mikes and two sets of headphones, load in the tunes for the show from the hard drive to the playback program and line them up and fire for an hour until we had a program.

If my website were up right now I could direct you to the radio show archives, but here's a list:


INDEX TO JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW
Radio Free Amsterdam

Amsterdam-Cannabis Cup 2004

#1 Coffeeshop Amnesia November 22, 2004 [CC-0403]
#2 Homegrown Fantasy November 22, 2004 [CC-0401]
#3 420 Café November 23, 2004 [CC-0405]
#4 Sensi Museum Coffeeshop November 24, 2004 [CC-0407]
#5 Cannabis College November 24, 2004 [CC-0409]
#6 Homegrown Fantasy November 22, 2004 [CC-0402]
#7 Coffeeshop Amnesia November 22, 2004 [CC-0404]
#8 PRE Café November 25, 2004 [CC-0411]
#9 PRE Café November 25, 2004 [CC-0412]
#10 Barney's Brasserie November 26, 2004 [CC-0413]
#11 Barney's Brasserie November 26, 2004 [CC-0414]
#12 Cannabis College November 27, 2004 [CC-0415]
#13 Cannabis College November 27, 2004 [CC-0416]
#14 420 Café November 23, 2004 [CC-0406]
#15 Cannabis College November 24, 2004 [CC-0410]
#16 Sensi Museum Coffeeshop November 24, 2004 [CC-0408]

Amsterdam-Winter 2004-2005

#17 Coffeeshop Amnesia December 13, 2004 [20-0417]
#18 Coffeeshop Amnesia December 20, 2004 [20-0418]
#19 Winston Hotel December 27, 2004 [20-0419]
#20 Paradiso Balloon Party December 28, 2004 [20-0420]
#21 Café Aroma January 5, 2005 [20-0503]
#22 Schipol Airport January 12, 2005 [20-0505]
#23 What Is Happening Here January 4, 2005 [20-0501]
#24 Galeria Tongue in Groove January 29, 2005 [20-0507]
#26 What Is Happening Here January 4, 2005 [20-0502]
#27 Coffeeshop Amnesia January 10, 2005 [20-0504]

US Tour-Spring 2005

#25 New Dodge Lounge, Hamtramck, MI February 4, 2005 [20-0508]
#28 Armstrong Park, New Orleans February 15, 2005 [20-0509]
#29 Armstrong Park, New Orleans February 15, 2005 [20-0510]
#30 Pumpkin Hollow, TN March 10, 2005 [20-0514]
#31 Republic Coffee, Memphis March 8, 2005 [20-0512]
#32 Republic Coffee, Memphis March 8, 2005 [20-0513]
#33 KXLU-FM, Los Angeles March 17, 2005 [20-0516]
#34 Ann Arbor Alive Radio March 31, 2005 [20-0520]
#35 Berkeley Liberation Radio March 27, 2005 [20-0518]
#36 Ann Arbor Alive Radio April 3, 2005 [20-0521]
#37 Berkeley Liberation Radio March 27, 2005 [20-0519]

Amsterdam-Spring 2005

#38 Vurige Tongen @ Ruigoord May 15, 2005 [20-0522]
#39 Coffeeshop Amnesia May 23, 2005 [20-0525]
#40 Coffeeshop Amnesia May 23, 2005 [20-0526]
#41 CS Post-Radio Free Amsterdam June 6, 2005 [20-0527]
#42 What Is Happening Here June 13, 2005 [20-0528]
#43 Vurige Tongen @ Ruigoord May 15, 2005 [20-0523]
#44 Vurige Tongen @ Ruigoord May 15, 2005 [20-0524]
#45 Victory & Duck July 4, 2005 [20-0529]


US Tour-Summer 2005

#46 Two Stick, Oxford MS July 21, 2005 [20-0530]
#47 Rebel Radio, Ole Miss, Oxford July 21, 2005 [20-0531]
#48 Voyagers Rest, Oxford MS July 22, 2005 [20-0532]
#49 WDET Radio, Detroit July 31, 2005 [20-0533]
#50 Ann Arbor Alive Radio August 23, 2005 [20-0534]
#51 Ann Arbor Alive Radio August 23, 2005 [20-0535]

Amsterdam-Fall 2005

#52 CS Post-Radio Free Amsterdam Studio September 19, 2005 [20-0536]
#53 Pigeon Poetry Boat Canal Cruise September 25, 2005 [20-0537]
#54 420 Café, Amsterdam October 2, 2005 [20-0538]
#55 Rock-It Coffeeshop, Amsterdam October 10, 2005 [20-0539]
#56 Cannabis College, Amsterdam October 17, 2005 [20-0540]
#57 Café La Bettola, Amsterdam October 24, 2005 [20-0541]
#58 Rock-It Coffeeshop, Amsterdam October 31, 2005 [20-0542]
#59 BEAT HIPPY AUTONOMI PUNK, Milan, Italy November 6, 2005 [20-0543]
#60 Blues Bunker, Amsterdam November 14, 2005 [20-0546]
#61 Giant Record Show, Jaarbeurs Utrecht November 19, 2005 [20-0547]
#72 Easter Hill Studios, Amsterdam Zuid-oost November 11, 2005 [20-0545]

Amsterdam-Cannabis Cup 2005

#62 Club Bitterzoet, Amsterdam November 21, 2005 [CC-0501]
#63 Amsterdam Dreams, Amsterdam November 21, 2005 [CC-0502]
#64 Sensi Museum Coffeeshop, Amsterdam November 22, 2005 [CC-0503]
#65 Sensi Museum Coffeeshop, Amsterdam November 22, 2005 [CC-0504]
#66 Sensi Museum Coffeeshop, Amsterdam November 22, 2005 [CC-0505]
#67 Club More, Amsterdam November 22, 2005 [CC-0506]
#68 Funky Farmers Seed Shop, Amsterdam November 23, 2005 [CC-0507]
#69 Fat City Coffeeshop, Amsterdam November 23, 2005 [CC-0508]
#70 Smoking Bull Café, Amsterdam November 23, 2005 [CC-0509]
#71 420 Café, Amsterdam November 24, 2005 [CC-0510]

US Tour-Winter 2005-2006

#73 An Honest Tune, Oxford MS February 7, 2006 [20-0603]
#74 Ann Arbor Alive Radio December 13, 2005 [20-0548]
#75 WWOZ Radio, New Orleans December 27, 2005 [20-0549]
#76 WWOZ Radio, New Orleans February 21, 2006 [20-0605]
#77 WWOZ Radio, New Orleans February 21, 2006 [20-0606]


Any programs (except #1-16) you may wish to hear are also posted at www.johnsinclairradio.com and can be accessed through www.RadioFreeAmsterdam.com

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