| T O P I C R E V I E W |
| lemonade kid |
Posted - 01/09/2010 : 18:03:13
At least for 100's of thousands of US soldiers and soldiers world wide, it is...mostly...in Iraq.
Thank you Mr President for keeping your promise.
Christmas in August! Happy Xmas (War IS Over)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8jw-ifqwkM
Your feelings? What are the reactions from other members' countries...your media's take on it?
Peace!
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| captain america and billy |
Posted - 31/03/2011 : 19:27:10
How about a concert for peace to raise funds for vets with little or no benefits and as a matter of peaceful protest to be organized by who else but Yoko and Olivia Harrison in tribute to their departed peace warrior husbands? The concert for George on the first anniversary of his death at Royal Albert Hall was a blast. So wasn't the Lennon themed Darfur show. Imagine(pardon the coy reference)an evening filled with music and memories and special guests honoring the philanthropical efforts of both immortals! |
| markk |
Posted - 26/03/2011 : 18:36:21
I couldn't agree with you more rocker about John. |
| ALLANAGAIN |
Posted - 26/03/2011 : 08:59:10
and now we have ..LIBYA...Will it never end? |
| rocker |
Posted - 25/03/2011 : 19:32:48
You know I miss Lennon. He was taken from everybody too early.
I think he wojld've been our conscience and he certianly would not keep his mouth shut if we're talking about injustice in this world. |
| captain america and billy |
Posted - 25/03/2011 : 18:48:51
A spine tingling moment I'll never forget. One day back in 2001, in the immediate wake of 9/11, the concert for Darfur was getting ready to rock featuring the love and peace message music of John Lennon. The Boston Herald featured a photo of John on the front page with a piece urging readers to get the full details of the concert inside. Just a couple inches beneath him, none other than Osama Bin Laden! Made me think what it would have been like if their had been some kind off summit of good and evil between the two. Eerily some time later,a jockey on a local classic rock station made the exact same pontification! Of course, this is all sheer fantasy, but certainly if he were alive today he's be out there in all his Lennonesque glory in protest of all the political upheavals I watch nightly on t.v. Probably would have vehemently protested the entire Bush Jr. presidency! Despite the fact that his leftist attitudes nearly earned him deportation back in the '70's, I can't see John would have kept quiet with all the injustices going on around him. Might have been another "Give Peace a Chance" or "Power to the People". Or just maybe in 2001, the Fabs (minus an ill George Harrison) would ahve reunited for the Concert for New York. What a showstopper!! |
| lemonade kid |
Posted - 14/10/2010 : 19:15:17
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Originally posted by rocker
You kknow i think most of you recall that guy PF Sloan who wrote alot of those "protest" songs back when. We're fed up and we're not gonna take it!!! It's funny but I can't recall naybody now who fits that mold. Am I missing anything in music or something?
Here's what Imean. Aftr the financial collapse which i think is one of the nost reprehensible, foolish and greedy acts in US economic and social history, I'd think there'd be alot of stuff going on in music circles ala 60's. I mean we're talking here about people's livelihoods and work and jobs etc. Like car54, hey you PF Sloan's where are you?????? Must be the music biz i think. It's a different world out there now my friends..... .
James McMurtry (yeah, son of the famous author of the Lonesome Dove saga), does some pretty heavy socially conscious music...and is Stephen King's favorite on his online Maine alt rock radio station...
Here is one from an album that was voted best alt roots rock album of that year.
Check out the various albums from McMurtry...brilliant stuff. His band is called The Heartless Bastards, if that doesn't get you.....! He strums a nice 12 string too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOWrqR_QFfg ...We Can't Make it Here Anymore...still current even though it was recorded during Bush's debacle.
And a great song (in a storyteller style, guess he gets it from his father)
Rachel's Song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ISt-IuoTgY&feature=related
And the title track from "Too Long In the Wasteland"- his first LP...a great one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ7NbFAPdcc&feature=related
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| bob f. |
Posted - 10/09/2010 : 23:55:24
Yesiree, rocker! these war-monger Corporate whores would be out on the streets begging for more money to fund the wars, even against their own interests! (Tea-Bagger Faux News Zombies)
...what the world needs now... |
| rocker |
Posted - 10/09/2010 : 14:13:55
Thx rw..whoa what a song...the lyrics are just so powerful and apt..I'm sure bobf would love the line that if Jesus was around the "moneychangers would be out on the street!". |
| SignedRW |
Posted - 09/09/2010 : 20:49:39
Hey Rocker, P.F. Sloan is still around, with some strong fairly recent live shows and and a highly recommended CD from just a couple of years ago. Jimmy Webb pretty much immortalized him by writing a song that bears his name, on which Jimmy and Jackson Browne do a cool duet version on the current Jimmy Webb release. As for who today is still writing powerful social commentary in songs, in particular regarding U.S. military involvement in the middle east, check You-Tube or an on-line audio source for "Man of God," by the very talented Eliza Gilkyson. |
| rocker |
Posted - 09/09/2010 : 14:21:31
and man Barry's a hit it again!.and I think he's one of the few who is socially conscious!!...
john.. is the song available for download or on cd? |
| rocker |
Posted - 09/09/2010 : 14:16:14
You kknow i think most of you recall that guy PF Sloan who wrote alot of those "protest" songs back when. We're fed up and we're not gonna take it!!! It's funny but I can't recall naybody now who fits that mold. Am I missing anything in music or something?
Here's what Imean. Aftr the financial collapse which i think is one of the nost reprehensible, foolish and greedy acts in US economic and social history, I'd think there'd be alot of stuff going on in music circles ala 60's. I mean we're talking here about people's livelihoods and work and jobs etc. Like car54, hey you PF Sloan's where are you?????? Must be the music biz i think. It's a different world out there now my friends...... |
| ALLANAGAIN |
Posted - 05/09/2010 : 15:15:05
Well put Bob, War will never be over as long as greed, hating your brother, and religious fanatisicm exist.
What really sckens me is that while this multi million industry roll,s on and on, families and baby,s who no nothing about the issues will get blown to peices, people like me and you.
Reaaly depressing, but WAR is allways going to be with us, i cannot remember a time in my life when there wasn,t a war
Northen ireland, middle east , wherever it,s allways been there...Satans playground for sure.
LOVE ONE ANOTHER.
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| bob f. |
Posted - 05/09/2010 : 05:30:40
War is over if you want it.....
but.....THEY don't want it over.
War is a very profitable business and a fanatical religious fundamentalist disease....
It's just business. And insanity.
...what the world needs now... |
| Joe Morris |
Posted - 04/09/2010 : 01:16:59
I always love when Dylans asked about Barry in Eat The Document and then starts going off on Johnny Cash. Pretty fun stuff
then he pukes on John Lennon! upROARIOUS!! |
| lemonade kid |
Posted - 03/09/2010 : 02:47:25
As powerful as ever. Thanks Barry.
Thanks for posting, John....
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Everything you do returns at last to you,
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