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John Sinclair: Guitar Army (Douglas)

Dave Marsh, Creem, March 1973

TO MOST people, John Sinclair looks like just another mutant dinosaur relic of the First Golden Age of Psychedelic Apocalypse. But that's not any more accurate than the idea shared by a smaller, if more vehement, gang who claim that this whale-bellied "cigar-chomping psychedelic gangster" is Chairman Mao with rock'n'roll moxie.

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