John Giorno’s first album, self-released in an edition of 700 copies in 1967, features a dozen or so fellow luminaries from the New York avant-garde. Among these are Robert Rauschenberg, Trisha Brown, Yvonne Rainer and the poet and singer Patty Mucha, who had been a member of the pre-Velvet Underground art-rock band The Druds along with Andy Warhol, on occasional vocals, and La Monte Young, on saxophone. When the disc was released, Mucha was married to sculptor Claes Oldenburg and is billed as Patti Oldenberg. The guest readers share the mic with Giorno on two side-long poems including ‘Pornographic Poem,’ a 19-minute description of group-sex parties told in the most graphic language imaginable. How Giorno and the other readers managed to avoid prosecution is remarkable but, presumably, nobody from the police or the District Attorney’s office heard the disc.