OPEN CITY No. 21, Sept. 21–27, 1967 — Bukowski Notes, Rolling Stones, The Doors, Bob Dylan, Dizzy Gillespie, Lightnin' Hopkins

A special music issue of the Los Angeles underground weekly, featuring Charles Bukowski's "Notes of a Dirty Old Man." Domestic life with a woman named Miriam gives way to a late-night encounter with Rennie, a dancer at a strip club on Western Avenue, the two of them trading whiskey and a running argument about art, class, and the body, closing with Bukowski alone on the bus home.

The Rolling Stones feature is the first interview granted to an American publication since Mick Jagger and Keith Richards' drug convictions in Britain, with Bill Wyman and Jagger speaking candidly about the charges and their future plans. A full-page interview with all four members of The Doors by Emmett Lake covers drugs, Maharishi, and the nature of the fully realized man. Paul Williams of Crawdaddy Magazine contributes a two-page critical essay on Bob Dylan. A photo spread covers jazz at the Monterey Festival, featuring Dizzy Gillespie, T-Bone Walker, and Big Brother and the Holding Company. The back cover listings include Donovan at the Hollywood Bowl and Lightnin' Hopkins at the Ash Grove. Large tabloid format, 17" x 11", black and white throughout.

Provenance: Mailing label on back cover addressed to John E. Bryan, 22420 Edgecliff Dr., Cleveland, Ohio — the editor's father at his home address.

This copy an uneven fold but the pages don’t stick out. There is a curl along the top. There is browning along spine and pages.