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Monday, September 04, 2006

Love is but a Song We Sing

posted by Anjha @ 12:49 PM  

19 Comments:

  • At 12:58 PM, September 04, 2006, Blogger Anjha said…

    So, my intent was to rant about the lack of protest music and art right now. I am wondering where the artists are. Where is the music? What can people gather around? What can give the masses a dose of peace, love, resistance? What can make them hear what I am seeing?

    The post changed quickly and although I did find some current artists who are protesting in their works...it was not enough.

    So, what is your favorite protest song?

    Give me an F
    Give me a U
    Give me a C
    Give me a K

    What's that spell?!

    Yeah, come on all of you, big strong men,
    Uncle Sam needs your help again.
    He's got himself in a terrible jam
    Way down yonder in Vietnam
    So put down your books and pick up a gun,
    We're gonna have a whole lotta fun.
    And it's one, two, three,
    What are we fighting for ?
    Don't ask me, I don't give a damn,
    Next stop is Vietnam;

     

  • At 1:08 PM, September 04, 2006, Blogger mainsailset said…

    Link tv this morning had a re-run of an interview with Pete Seeger. He's 97 now. Did you see it? Wears headphones cause he's deaf as a post, memory cells he's saved up for songs and protest memories but not so much of the short term stuff. What a life he has led.

     

  • At 1:16 PM, September 04, 2006, Blogger Anjha said…

    Damn, I did not see that. I was lost in a world of protest music.

     

  • At 1:17 PM, September 04, 2006, Blogger Anjha said…

    where I should have ran across that...duh.

    Lost in a world of blog posting, I should say.

     

  • At 2:27 PM, September 04, 2006, Blogger Anjha said…

    This is another great site.

    This is husband's favorite Pete Seeger song.

     

  • At 4:00 PM, September 04, 2006, Blogger mainsailset said…

    What's up with blogger? Keep trying to make nice but it's spaaazing

     

  • At 4:02 PM, September 04, 2006, Blogger mainsailset said…

    oh, so now it's talking to me. Your husband has great taste, I'm listening to Neil Young's Living with War, long story.

     

  • At 4:42 PM, September 04, 2006, Blogger Anjha said…

    I haven't had problems with blogger (today).

    The Freedom of Speech tour is a big deal. CSNY seems to be one of the only groups who are out there attempting to bring into the consciousness of the people the dangers of what our Country is doing.

    Besides...I am an enormous fan.

    I was able to see David Crosby in a small acoustic show several years back. That was amazing.

    I wish I would have been able to see them on the FoS tour.

     

  • At 7:49 PM, September 04, 2006, Blogger mainsailset said…

    They've always been at the forefront. Neil Young was great on Stephen Colbert "I hate this stinkin' war" what a great moment/line. I had posted earlier that I was listening to Living with War because "Bow" season started this weekend and my neighbor had forgotten to put signs up and had left for the weekend so I've been inundated with strange men in strange suits with sharp objects driving up my driveway. I have 9 bucks that live around the house and they've been hiding behind the house munching on my garden. Thus the music has worked well.

     

  • At 7:50 PM, September 04, 2006, Blogger mainsailset said…

    have you seen this http://kidoaklandblog.blogspot.com/

     

  • At 1:01 AM, September 05, 2006, Anonymous Anonymous said…

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  • At 7:21 AM, September 05, 2006, Blogger mainsailset said…

    oh no, a new form of spam.

     

  • At 7:38 AM, September 05, 2006, Blogger Anjha said…

    oooh - let me delete that.

     

  • At 9:45 AM, September 05, 2006, Blogger Anjha said…

    That was a stupid spam. If I start getting a lot of it I will turn on word verification.

    That site is awfully cool Main. It is a lot of work to offer a rundown on all of the local blogs. Very cool. I will have to check it often.

    Got a new post coming...

     

  • At 1:23 PM, September 06, 2006, Blogger jaiellojr said…

    The Youngbloods were formed by Jesse Colin Young (b, Perry Miller, November 11, 1944, New York City)and this was one of the best songs to come out of the war torn sixties. It was first released in 1967 when I was a high school freshman and most of my friends big brothers were coming back home from Vietnam in body bags. It could have been written yesterday!

     

  • At 1:34 PM, September 06, 2006, Blogger jaiellojr said…

    The strongest antiwar statement for me came out in 1966 when Stephen Stills was in the Buffalo Springfield with Neil Young. CSNY are doing it on tour this summer, 40 years later.

    "For What It's Worth"
    -Stephen Stills, 1966


    There's something happening here
    What it is ain't exactly clear
    There's a man with a gun over there
    Telling me I got to beware

    I think it's time we stop, children, what's that sound
    Everybody look what's going down

    There's battle lines being drawn
    Nobody's right if everybody's wrong
    Young people speaking their minds
    Getting so much resistance from behind

    I think it's time we stop, hey, what's that sound
    Everybody look what's going down

    What a field-day for the heat
    A thousand people in the street
    Singing songs and carrying signs
    Mostly say, hooray for our side

    It's time we stop, hey, what's that sound
    Everybody look what's going down

    Paranoia strikes deep
    Into your life it will creep
    It starts when you're always afraid
    You step out of line, the man come and take you away

    We better stop, hey, what's that sound
    Everybody look what's going down
    Stop, hey, what's that sound
    Everybody look what's going down
    Stop, now, what's that sound
    Everybody look what's going down
    Stop, children, what's that sound
    Everybody look what's going down

     

  • At 2:06 PM, September 06, 2006, Blogger Anjha said…

    Joe - so nice of you to post!

    Did I send you this video created by my nephew?

    I thought I did.

    I didn't mention "For What its Worth" because I had already posted so much about this.

     

  • At 2:41 PM, September 06, 2006, Blogger jaiellojr said…

    Thank you Anjha. The fact that your 16 year old nephew has seen and been affected by this video enough to post it on You Tube makes me think "...we won't get fooled again", to borrow a lyric from Pete Townsend. A lot of people brought their kids to the CSNY show. The most anti-war and anti-administration show I've ever seen!

     

  • At 6:04 PM, September 06, 2006, Blogger Anjha said…

    Joe - He Created it. My nephew made that video.

    Even more cool, huh?!

     

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