The exhibit included the rarest of the rare involving not just Sinclair and his rather laughable White Panther Party, but the MC5, the beginnings of the Ann Arbor Food Co-Op, lots and lots of photos and posters featuring places that no longer exist; Ann Arbor history, Michigan history, Ann Arbor and Michigan music history, and the history of rock and roll in general.
Here are some highlights:
I'd never even seen a copy of this before. The only reason I'd even heard it was because of the Up Anthology put out 15 or so years ago.
That's the Up in the basement of 1520 Hill Street. I once took a few English literature classes with the vocalist Frank Bach (Diedenbach) at Wayne State University. This was in 2001 or 2002, not 1968, and Frank was wearing a Mackinac Island emboidered sweatshirt with, I think, a collared shirt underneath. He is a very nice, calm man.
There's also a photo of Frank holding his baby next to a tall pot plant. And there are a lot of interesting newspaper articles, notes, even a strange telegram stating: Dear John, Congratulations to you, Bob Tyner and the MC5 for making time. The rest of the country deserves the opportunity to dig the MC5-Zenta-Experience. If in any way I can help you, please count me in. Stand firm of the three pillars. Jerry Campbell
Somewhere I read that Frank is a master chef, the house chef of 1520 Hill Street (post-MC5), a master of microbiotics.
Another rare 45.
From early 1966 posters for some long-gone Ann Arbor club...
...to 1971 Hill Auditorium line-up featuring Pink Floyd, Parliament Funkadelic.
Then there's Leni Sinclair's photo of the Grateful Dead playing in the West Park bandshell, August 13 1967.
I left the library thinking of all the energy it took it create all that stuff, all the funny ideas, the in-your-face ness of it, no matter what it really amounted to. The action, that's what impresses me most.
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