The Long Seventies Podcast

We continue our discussion with author and Robert Anton Wilson biographer Gabriel Kennedy, this time focusing specifically on the Long Seventies period of Wilson's life. 

We interview music journalist and writer John Stevenson about two of the Long 70s most interesting musical genres -- Barbadian Spouge and Afrobeat. 

We interview Gabriel Kennedy, author of the deeply researched and definitive #RAW biography "Chapel Perilous: The Life & Thought Crimes of Robert Anton Wilson."  Gabriel Kennedy's Website Buy the book on Lulu Buy the book on Amazon Gabriel Kennedy AKA Prop Anon's Substack

We discuss (in a short episode) the 1984 movie Fear City, starring Tom Berenger at his scowling best. 

We interview editor and author Andrew Nette about his new book, co-edited with Samm Deighan, “Revolution in 35mm: Political Violence and Resistance in Cinema from the Arthouse to the Grindhouse, 1960–1990” You can buy the book at PM Press: https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1656 Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Revolution-35mm-Political-Resistance-Grindhouse-ebook/dp/B0CRNHVK68 Andrew's Substack newsletter: https://andrewnette.substack.com/ X: @Pulpcurry Bluesky: @pulpcurry.bsky.social Instagram: @pulpcurry Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/AndrewNette/

We discuss Psychotronic Films, a wild genre blend of low-budget exploitation films almost universally panned by critics but loved by fans. 

We talk about the phoenix program some more. 

We discuss Dolemite (1975), the first of blaxploitation auteur and stand-up comedian Rudy Ray Moore's brilliant two year, four film run of seventies classics. 

We start a planned trilogy of episodes on the secret Vietnam-era Phoenix Program, nominally a joint Military and Intelligence pacification and assassination program aimed at the Vietcong, but in reality a sweeping nation-building enterprise. 

We discuss John Boorman's 1974 magnum opus Zardoz, starring Sean Connery and Charlotte Rampling. It's a whirlwind of ideas and visual delights. Connery is the chosen one, a Mega-Connery in a post-apocalyptic world waiting for him to arrive and tear the place down.