Bobert: After living here in New Orleans for at least a decade, John Sinclair was displaced in the aftermath of Katrina and has only been back for visits since August '05. I'm not sure where he's living now, but I'd guess he's back in Detroit. I do know that there has been at least one farily recent "reunion" event featuring John with members of the MC5.

I can't say that I know him well, but we moved in the same circles and had a passing acquaintance. Our respective wives became closer friends than John and I (but then that's true in way too many cases!). He's a tremendously interesting guy, put together several excellent blues bands to accompany his poetry readings, ran a great radio program on WWOZ. We miss him.

Like me and a whole lot of folks, John Sinclair has become "less political" in these latter years ~ less explicitly political, anyway ~ but in his daily and in his cultural/musical endeavors, he certainly exemplifies and advances the same values as always.