Search and Destroy
They’ve got a bomb (Loved the Dubya/Blair as Laurel & Hardy)
Talking WWIII blues
And for the Apocolyptic Fundamentalists out there…Jesus hits like an atom bomb
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We will all go together.
At the end of Black History Month, a peaceful counterpoint for this week.
Benny Goodman, Teddy Wilson and Gene Krupa recorded live
at the Manhattan Room, 1937, with mellow audience participation
“Where or When”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1xXvuGAoXU
Teddy Wilson’s 1936 concert debut with the Benny Goodman Trio was a landmark in civil rights history.
As the Merry Minuet has it, “Man’s been endowed with a mushroom shaped cloud . . .someone will set the sparks off and we will all be blown away.”
Given how messed up everything is, let’s drop the big one and see what happens.
On the other hand, today everyone’s not a Captain Kirk; we’re all Spocks.
Loved Raw Power by The Stooges! We used to listen to it when my friends and I were about 14 or 15 and just starting to smoke cigarettes, swear, masturbate, etc. That album was like audio pornography and it always felt like a subversive act to listen to it.
Speaking of subversive acts, does anyone remember when musical acts could actually make witty and insightful comments about the state of the world? What happened to that, anyway?
Here are the ever-subversive Clash performing Rock the Casbah:
http://youtu.be/bJ9r8LMU9bQ
Well…, It’s Been A While…,
since Jackson Browne has spoken up…, but he comes through loud and clear on his new release “Standing in the Breach”.
Here’s a cut called Which Side? and the lyrics below.
You might be a young man with the mountain in his step
In search of El Dorado, but you haven’t found it yet
Or you might be an old man with his whole life at his back
And you can hear eternity whispering down the track
Or maybe you’re a woman, or just about to be
And you can feel the generations swimming in your sea
But you know that it’s coming, as surely as the dawn
The battle for the future, baby, which side are you on?
Come on come on come on if you’re coming
Come on come on come on
Come on come on come on if you’re coming
Which side are you on?
Come on come on come on if you’re coming
Battle lines are drawn
Come on come on come on if you’re coming
Which side – which side are you on?
Which side?
The corporations attacking
The natural world – drilling and fracking
All done with the backing of the craven and corrupt
Or the ones who fight
For the Earth with all their might
And in the name of all that’s right
Confront and disrupt
There’s a restlessness out in the street there’s a question in the air
How long if this theft goes on will our country still be here?
People know the game is rigged even as they play
They see their expectations slowly slip away
They’ve got subsidies for billionaires, there’s a bailout for the banks
A monopoly on medicine, and a sale on armored tanks
The whole damned country’s being sold – out that revolving door
Between Washington and Wall Street like it’s one big Dollar Store
Come on come on come on if you’re coming
Come on come on come on
Come on come on come on if you’re coming
Which side are you on?
Come on come on come on if you’re coming
Battle lines are drawn
Come on come on come on if you’re coming
Which side – which side are you on?
Which side?
The bankers and their special friends
Who rob you time and again
Who like to pretend they’re the only game in town
Or the people who
Hope with everything they do
They can build something new
And turn this world around
Who owns the elections? Who profits either way?
Who ends up with all that money politicians pay?
To be the fearless leader, to put themselves across
To be the one entrusted with the profit and the loss
You try hard to believe that when you cast your vote it counts
But elections are won with money in ever larger amounts
Take the money out of politics and maybe we might see
This country turn back into something more like democracy
Come on come on come on if you’re coming
Come on come on come on
Come on come on come on if you’re coming
Which side are you on?
Come on come on come on if you’re coming
Battle lines are drawn
Come on come on come on if you’re coming
Which side – which side are you on?
This week’s Pete: Hard rain’s a-gonna fall
Particularly note the audience. If ever people needed to hear this message…
Off-topic but appropriate: Snow
Listening closer, I realized it’s not really off-topic.
You OK Partner? Where’s…
the Pete Seeger?
Here’s one from that new guy I keep pluggin’…, formerly from Idaho…, and now living over in your neighborhood I believe.
Josh Ritter with, Temptation of Adam
If this was the Cold War we could keep each other warm
I said on the first occasion that I met Marie
We were crawling through the hatch that was the missile silo door
And I don’t think that she really thought that much of me
I never had to learn to love her like I learned to love the Bomb
She just came along and started to ignore me
But as we waited for the Big One I started singing her my songs
And I think she started feeling something for me