Item #39154 THE ORGAN #1-9 (all published; titled ORGAN from issue #4 on). Berkeley, CA: Himalayan Watershed Properties, Inc., July 1970-July 1971.
THE ORGAN #1-9 (all published; titled ORGAN from issue #4 on). Berkeley, CA: Himalayan Watershed Properties, Inc., July 1970-July 1971.
THE ORGAN #1-9 (all published; titled ORGAN from issue #4 on). Berkeley, CA: Himalayan Watershed Properties, Inc., July 1970-July 1971.
THE ORGAN #1-9 (all published; titled ORGAN from issue #4 on). Berkeley, CA: Himalayan Watershed Properties, Inc., July 1970-July 1971.
THE ORGAN #1-9 (all published; titled ORGAN from issue #4 on). Berkeley, CA: Himalayan Watershed Properties, Inc., July 1970-July 1971.
THE ORGAN #1-9 (all published; titled ORGAN from issue #4 on). Berkeley, CA: Himalayan Watershed Properties, Inc., July 1970-July 1971.
THE ORGAN #1-9 (all published; titled ORGAN from issue #4 on). Berkeley, CA: Himalayan Watershed Properties, Inc., July 1970-July 1971.
THE ORGAN #1-9 (all published; titled ORGAN from issue #4 on). Berkeley, CA: Himalayan Watershed Properties, Inc., July 1970-July 1971.
THE ORGAN #1-9 (all published; titled ORGAN from issue #4 on). Berkeley, CA: Himalayan Watershed Properties, Inc., July 1970-July 1971.
THE ORGAN #1-9 (all published; titled ORGAN from issue #4 on). Berkeley, CA: Himalayan Watershed Properties, Inc., July 1970-July 1971.
THE ORGAN #1-9 (all published; titled ORGAN from issue #4 on). Berkeley, CA: Himalayan Watershed Properties, Inc., July 1970-July 1971.
THE ORGAN #1-9 (all published; titled ORGAN from issue #4 on). Berkeley, CA: Himalayan Watershed Properties, Inc., July 1970-July 1971.
THE ORGAN #1-9 (all published; titled ORGAN from issue #4 on). Berkeley, CA: Himalayan Watershed Properties, Inc., July 1970-July 1971.
THE ORGAN #1-9 (all published; titled ORGAN from issue #4 on). Berkeley, CA: Himalayan Watershed Properties, Inc., July 1970-July 1971.
THE ORGAN #1-9 (all published; titled ORGAN from issue #4 on). Berkeley, CA: Himalayan Watershed Properties, Inc., July 1970-July 1971.
THE ORGAN #1-9 (all published; titled ORGAN from issue #4 on). Berkeley, CA: Himalayan Watershed Properties, Inc., July 1970-July 1971.
THE ORGAN #1-9 (all published; titled ORGAN from issue #4 on). Berkeley, CA: Himalayan Watershed Properties, Inc., July 1970-July 1971.
THE ORGAN #1-9 (all published; titled ORGAN from issue #4 on). Berkeley, CA: Himalayan Watershed Properties, Inc., July 1970-July 1971.
THE ORGAN #1-9 (all published; titled ORGAN from issue #4 on). Berkeley, CA: Himalayan Watershed Properties, Inc., July 1970-July 1971.
THE ORGAN #1-9 (all published; titled ORGAN from issue #4 on). Berkeley, CA: Himalayan Watershed Properties, Inc., July 1970-July 1971.
THE ORGAN #1-9 (all published; titled ORGAN from issue #4 on). Berkeley, CA: Himalayan Watershed Properties, Inc., July 1970-July 1971.
THE ORGAN #1-9 (all published; titled ORGAN from issue #4 on). Berkeley, CA: Himalayan Watershed Properties, Inc., July 1970-July 1971.
THE ORGAN #1-9 (all published; titled ORGAN from issue #4 on). Berkeley, CA: Himalayan Watershed Properties, Inc., July 1970-July 1971.
THE ORGAN #1-9 (all published; titled ORGAN from issue #4 on). Berkeley, CA: Himalayan Watershed Properties, Inc., July 1970-July 1971.
THE ORGAN #1-9 (all published; titled ORGAN from issue #4 on). Berkeley, CA: Himalayan Watershed Properties, Inc., July 1970-July 1971.
THE ORGAN #1-9 (all published; titled ORGAN from issue #4 on). Berkeley, CA: Himalayan Watershed Properties, Inc., July 1970-July 1971.
THE ORGAN #1-9 (all published; titled ORGAN from issue #4 on). Berkeley, CA: Himalayan Watershed Properties, Inc., July 1970-July 1971.

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THE ORGAN #1-9 (all published; titled ORGAN from issue #4 on). Berkeley, CA: Himalayan Watershed Properties, Inc., July 1970-July 1971.

Ed. Gerard van der Leun. Tabloid format, folded, as issued. Quality stock covers printed in two colours, pages newsprint. First issue 32pp., all others 36pp. Illustrated.

The second issue includes "Truckin' Toward Taos with Tootsie" by associate editor Jon Stewart, a 6pp. article based on his road trip to visit various communes in Taos (New Buffalo, Morningstar East, Lila, Lorien, and the Lama Foundation). In it, he reports on their communal activities and lifestyles, as well as the "three cultures of Taos" (hippies, Indians and Chicanos) and the local "hostility between the longhairs and the Chicanos".

Also in the set: interviews with Allen Ginsberg (+ "Police State Blues"); BB King; Paul Morrissey; Commander Cody (George Frayne); "militant transsexual" Angela Keyes Douglas (guitarist in LA band Euphoria in the late '60s under the name Doug Delain); Jerry Garcia; artist William T. Wiley (photographed by Linda Eastman); Melvin Peebles; Jerry Lee Lewis; Country Joe McDonald; and Divine.

Comic strips by S. Clay Wilson, Robert Crumb and Dave Sheridan + "The Unreal History of Snatch Comix" by Gerard van der Leun (7pp.), incorporating an interview with Wilson and Crumb (and a photograph of Rory Hayes). Artwork by Sätty, Greg Irons, and David Singer (including the latter's logo design from issue #4 on).

Feature articles include "The Cockettes Play the Palace", a 4pp. cover/centrespread feature based around The Cockettes' 'Hollywood Babylon' show at the Palace Theatre in North Beach, illustrated with photographs by Ingeborg Gerdes (The Organ's editor later gave them permission to rehearse in its large office space, a former poultry-processing plant near Telegraph Hill in San Francisco) + issue #5 prints a 4pp. feature on The Cockettes, including photos of Hibiscus and Sylvester; "Notes of a Smutmonger" by Don Donahue; The Macumba, a religious cult in Brazil; a 3pp. Kenneth Anger feature; the Big Sur Folk Festival; the videotape revolution (7pp.), including texts by Marco Vassi and Alex Gross reprinted from Radical Software #1; natural childbirth; the Kathmandu scene; the First International Erotic Film Festival; The Berkeley Ecology Action Group; a report on the rise of the New Right (a subject suggested by Alice Molloy, founder of Woman's Place Bookstore, the first feminist bookshop in California) - Scientology, The Process, Krishna Consciousness, Synanon, and Ayn Rand; DC Comics; Tom Veitch on Mick Jagger; John Lennon and Primal Scream by Roland Jacopetti (2pp.); tales of dope dealing; the JFK assassination; "The Stripper", a photo-essay by Robert Foothorap; the evolution of the chopper motorcycle, including a section on "Bike Art" by Robert Williams; HP Lovecraft; the narcotics scene in Vietnam; and more.

Contributors include Tom Clark; Susan Lydon (on the female orgasm); Stephen Schneck; Ed Sanders ("The Hairy Table"); Gary Snyder ("Spel Against Demons" and "Control Burn"); Robert Anton Wilson and Robert J. Shea on LBJ; William Burroughs ("Who is the third that walks beside you?"); and Howard Pearlstein on "The Last Whole Earth Catalog - Demise Party" (with photo). Film reviews include 'Trash', 'Performance', and 'Gimme Shelter' + ads., classifieds, etc.

Contributing editor Dick Lupoff later wrote that "The Organ was launched with a mixture of warped libido, in-your-face outrageousness, and Sixties-style revolutionary fervor." According to associate editor Howard Pearlstein, it had "no discernible editorial policy, neither Left nor Right", but that "It existed in an interesting reality that hung between the traditional Berkeley leftist point of view of publisher Christopher Weills and the Eisenhower Republican perspective of editor Gerard van der Leun." In a crowded marketplace its confusing, or at least unclear identity - sex paper, music or political journal? - probably doomed it from the beginning (the usual financial difficulties did for it in the end).

First three issues show some signs of wear; issues #4-#9 Near Fine. Complete runs are scarce, especially since the first issue was banned in several cities across America, including Los Angeles, Seattle, Chicago, and New York, and the entire final issue's New York distribution (most of the print run) was dumped by someone in the East River.

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