Introducing Project 1965

Coyle & Sharpe’s street blitz, carried out in San Francisco between 1963 - 1965, known covertly as “Project 1965,” stands as an uncanny Kennedy-era precursor to today’s “Project 2025.” Coyle & Sharpe’s visions for upending American democratic norms (no more personal freedom) sound as relevant and innovative today as they did 60 years ago.

Seminal military strategies can be heard on Coyle & Sharpe’s debut album, “The Absurd Imposters,” originally released in 1963, in tracks like “Armored Attack” and “Transporting Captured People” which so presciently foreshadow current deportation and raid techniques, as well as other means of human trafficking and domination.

Though the duo failed to achieve fascist rule over San Francisco by 1965, it’s not hard to imagine why Field Marshals James P. Coyle and Mal Sharpe’s unique style of transactional authoritarianism is still considered required reading among today’s aspiring tyrants.

Coming Soon: “The Absurd Imposters” remastered and re-released, June 2025