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THE NEW LEFT SCHOOL OF LOS ANGELES. An article announcing the launch of “a new-fangled notion about learning - and teaching”, coordinated by Pierre Mandel, including “courses in Watts and other Black communties and in the Spanish-speaking east side”, in LOS ANGELES FREE PRESS #166 (September 22, 1967) + one further issue.
Also: “Leary Turns on to Les Crane”; Synanon; Jefferson Airplane at the Hollywood Bowl (w. small photo); ads. for the Whisky, Beefheart at the Cheetah, Spirit at Middle Earth; Gene Youngblood on “New Cinema”, with photo of Nico in “Chelsea Girls”; Lenny Bruce; interview with Mike Bloomfield; Janis Joplin at the Monterey Jazz Festival; more.
Together with: LAFP #119 (October 28, 1966), with half-page ad. for The New Left School. The ad. lists a course run by Joseph Byrd, and one entitled “Psychedelics, Love Power, and the Honesty Revolution”. Also: full-page “Freak Out! The Official News of The Mothers of Invention” (in which Zappa complains about Zeidler & Zeidler and the freak-ins and freak-offs); ad. for Vito at the Hullabaloo; Jack Hirschman; ads. for Iron Butterfly at Bido Lito’s, Tim Buckley’s first album; full-page psych. ad. for “Monster Halloween Freak-Off” with The Seeds (+ photo); full-page Zeidler & Zeidler ad. headlined “The Muthuhs Can Flush It” (in which they lampoon Zappa); half-page ad. announcing Love’s short season at the Whisky A Go Go where they “will feature the preview sound of their new Elektra Album!” - incl. 4 photos and 33-line text.
John Baldessari’s typed mailing address to front cover. Old central horizontal folds; newsprint slightly age-toned; o/w Very Good.
(2 issues).