I Don't Wanna

VINYL FORMAT. Although native North Carolinian cum downtown New Yorker Henry Flynt maintained associations with celebrity artist Yoko Ono, performed with John Cale and LaMonte Young, sat in with the Velvet Underground and took part in numerous happenings throughout the 1960s, for some 30 years the violinist/guitarist/wild man vocalist feverishly produced and documented a perplexingly large body of work in relative obscurity. Save for an art ghetto style cassette release by a German gallery in 1981, Henry Flynt's many-headed musical vision went largely unpublished until the 21st century set in. Now it's time to make a place in your heart for I Don't Wanna! in which our man Flynt shatters the categories once again with this surprise collection of his short lived 1966 basement rock protest band, The Insurrections. Let there be no doubt in anyone's mind: Flynt's version of protest music isn't your cultural-commissar school of folk posturing. It's agro agro and Flynt is an unhinged showman on helium induced vox and electric guitar (his teacher was none other than Lou Reed).