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Saturday, May 07, 2022

RAVING UPON THAMES: AN UNTOLD MUSICAL HISTORY

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The Generalist has a great interest in the history of British music and a belief that the true story has not been told or not told properly....
Thursday, May 05, 2022

FLAMIN' GROOVIES by NICK KENT

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This is the Flamin' Groovies playing their first gig in Britain for many years at the Pattern Club in Brighton on May 1st. They played...
Sunday, April 24, 2022

The Return of An African in Greenland

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Back in April1983, I travelled to Paris to spend three days with Tété-Michel Kpomassie and his family who made me most welcome. The Sunday T...
Monday, April 18, 2022

MIDLIFE: HUMANITY'S SECRET WEAPON

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This intense book by psychotherapist Andrew Jamieson arrived in the post unexpectedly, which was handy as I was speaking to several friends ...
Friday, April 08, 2022

ENDEAVOUR TO RISE

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  My dear friend Lindsay Rudland has written a wonderful book on her life with another volume to come. She was a nurse for 46 years mainly ...
Tuesday, February 23, 2021

TRIBUTE TO LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI

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  Just heard that Lawrence Ferlinghetti has died at the age of 101. One of the greatest of the Beat poets, creator  and custodian of the Cit...
Sunday, December 13, 2020

THE HARRY SMITH B SIDES / DUST TO DIGITAL

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                                                                                                Harry Smith is haunting me. A figure of huge...
Sunday, November 29, 2020

LIVING WITH TREES: COMMON GROUND and LITTLE TOLLER BOOKS

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  The Generalist has been aware of and a fan of the work put out by Common Ground since its foundation in 1983. Founded by Sue Clifford, wi...
Sunday, September 20, 2020

WILLIAM S.BURROUGHS INFLUENCE ON COUNTER CULTURE MUSIC

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  It's been a long time since there was something to get excited about in the publishing world but the launch of the new  White  Rabbit ...
Saturday, September 05, 2020

ALTERNATIVE PUBLISHING: BEAT SCENE / BILL BUTLER / STEVE PEREGRINE TOOK

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The Generalist blog is riddled with stories about the Beats, who have been an inspiration to me since I was a teenager. I have accrued a s...
Tuesday, August 18, 2020

HAWKWIND RULES

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Who would have thought at the time that such a book would exist.  An encyclopaedic multilevel 500 page volume on the history of Hawkwind w...
Wednesday, June 03, 2020

10 ALBUM SERIES:GREAT MUSIC FOR GRIM TIMES

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It has passed on now but, for a while, back in the early day of the virus, many of us were encouraged to choose some of our most memorable a...