Interplanetary Interlude #9: Independence Day

They told you in school about freedom, but when you try to be free, they never let you.

Playlist

1. The Pledge- The Holy Modal Rounders
2. The Star-Spangled Banner- Jimi Hendrix
3. The American Metaphysical Circus- The United States of America
4. The 4th of July- Charles Ives
5. Hungry Freaks, Daddy- Frank Zappa
6. American Ruse- MC5
7. American Waste- Black Flag
8. War Song- The Fugs
9. Exorcising Evil Spirits from the Pentagon October 21, 1967- The Fugs
10. Freedom- Charles Mingus
11. Stop Look and Listen- Ricardo Ray
12. Freedom Voice of My Soul- Art Boys Collection
13. Freedom is a Hammer- Vera Vanderlaan
14. Revolution- Spacemen 3

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Robert Harrison on Jimi Hendrix

Looks like Jimi Hendrix is on the charts again. This is only interesting because, uh, I guess charts are still a thing in music. But it's really a pretext for me to turn you on to the show Entitled Opinions, if you've never heard it. This is an intellectual talk show based at Stanford University, and broadcast on KZSU. It's been a big inspiration to me in doing both the Interpletary Music and Anarchy & Culture podcasts. Here's a monologue on Jimi Hendrix by host Robert Harrison. There's also been great shows on Heidegger, Wallace Stevens, Nietzsche, Dante (Harrison is a Dante scholar), Kurt Weill, Freud, the Unabomber, Jesus, and a shit-ton more.