{"product_id":"book-guitar-army-by-john-sinclair-mc5","title":"BOOK - GUITAR ARMY BY JOHN SINCLAIR (MC5)","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"qsc-html-content\"\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBOOK - \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eGuitar Army\u003c\/em\u003e was our manual for revolt. It’s a rainbow-colored \u003cem\u003eHowl,\u003c\/em\u003e still resonating today with the singular value of idealism.”—Michael Simmons\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJohn Sinclair, manager of the notorious Detroit band MC5 and leader of the leftist revolutionary vanguard White Panther Party, is the still-charging embodiment of a dazzlingly optimistic time in which change felt necessary and possible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSinclair was the martyr of the original war on drugs, sentenced to ten years in prison for possession of two marijuana joints. \u003cem\u003eGuitar Army\u003c\/em\u003e is the iconographic book that proclaimed “Rock and Roll is a Weapon of Cultural Revolution” for young, revved-up readers in 1972. Its author was released from prison just three days after 15,000 people came to see John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Archie Shepp, Allen Ginsberg, and other musicians and leaders demand his freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe updated \u003cem\u003eGuitar Army\u003c\/em\u003e includes two dozen previously unpublished period photographs, recent writings from John Sinclair, and an introduction from Michael Simmons that leads the reader through the revolutionary times to Sinclair’s life today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA bonus CD contains rare music recordings of MC5 band members, the revolutionary rock group UP!, Black Panther Bobby Seale on the White Panthers, and original White Panther Party rallies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"BOOK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45481720348982,"sku":"9781934170007","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0772\/0016\/3126\/products\/GUITARARMY.jpg?v=1738207001","url":"https:\/\/headlinerecords.com\/products\/book-guitar-army-by-john-sinclair-mc5","provider":"Headline Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}