We have nothing but shit going on these days with the war and politics and everything.......... It really pisses me off to see that back in the 60's and 70's rock had meaning, not that it doesn't now but we're not doing shit. Conserts are just concerts and there are not more sit in's, or silent protests. It seems like nothing we do really has meaning or true substance. Were on the opposite end of pissed off, in fact we all seem mellow. What's it gonna take for us to build up some spunk and start rioting to get heard........the draft? We need bands like the Beatles and Jefferson Airplaine to build up our momentum. With the way things look now, we're just going to sit back until we don't even have the numbers we need to protest, everyone will be in Iraq, or maybe in another country we shouldn't be invading. I want a band with the energy and momentum the bands of the 60's and 70's had. I can be the only one asking for that?
I heartily disagree with you. I see bands that create a new reality every time they hit the stage. Even the DJs are getting into message music, some political. Plenty of music is speaking to power with the power of numbers. Maybe it is what you listen to? look in the GD/ Phish and folk boards and seek the new discoveries threads.
I know there are bands out their that do stand for something but they're not causing world wide movements like the beatles did in the 60's. I know phish and other bands do stands for causes but nothing huge is happening. We need leaders like John Lennon.
It's a totally different time now, move on. Besides, how do you know what you're talking about, you're seventeen, I don't really think you have any idea what you're saying. Grow up. No country is perfect and we all have our problems, be lucky you have what you do and quite bitching
Hmmmm lets see, exactly how much do you know about polictics? Obviously not much or else you'd be outraged like most people are but choose not to do anything. You really don't know what you're talking about and I refuse to keep quiet and simply accept what I have and not strive for more like you're suggesting I do. I think you need to do more research before you speak, and yes I know this is a different time period but a lot of things haven't changed.
it's BEATLES. with an A. and you are 17, so? seems to me you'd know 600 odd days less, so don't throw age around (I've got you by many years, including years protesting everything from nukes to counter protesting abortion protestors to war to arrests of protestors.) The anti-warmovement IS alive.And it's more mainstream. In 1967,we had no instant computer messaging, or cell phones, or much of the music tech that would come to mark the time. Now, it is easier to pull people together (and for other folks' eyes to get the info) at the last minute, or change a location if problems arise. We are doing "shit" as you say. David Rovics has a powerful voice against our policies around the world. Ian Campbell Smith makes note of American over involvement in his concerts. Speaking of Aussie spheres of influence, he notes, deadpan, that the Solomon island fall in Australia's sphere, while teh US's sphere appears to be Guam to Afghanistan. Garaj Mahal mocks racism and the "reason" for the war in Iraq. Hell, look at the flack the Dixie Chicks caused! Ellis Paul wrote a song off of emails he traded with a soldier in Iraq called Kiss the Sun: Kiss The Sun (A Song for Pat Tillman) When I was nineteen, I joined up with the reserves And I fought on weekends paid my college tuition But out in the killing fields, you come to question all you learn is peace the truth a universal truth or some man made superstition (chorus) I dreamt I ran through Kansas wheatfields slept in the shadows, where the Rockies kiss the sun, they kiss the sun I dreamt I could hear freedom's sweep in Martin Luther King's speeches (Lenny Bruce, Woody Guthrie) Wasn't he reaching for the promise of America? I heard Pat Tillman died in the hills of Afghanistan He came for justice not for greed, not for ego His truth came through the fog like the hometeam's marching band Are you a warrior, or a savior, or the great American hero? (chorus) My wife, she's writing the war's on CNN "It looks pretty bad from here..." "You should see it from my end -" I'm just a sentinel Just a sentinel Fighting an oilman's war And I need to know, I need to know Is that what Pat Tillman died for? (chorus) Copyright Ellis Paul Publishing SESAC Check out Alabama3 http://www.peace-not-war.org/Festival/Thursday12th/index.html How about what Michael Franti is spreading? Or Ani D? or Keb Mo? I haven't been to a concert with vocals in YEARS without hearing a songsmith get a crowd vocal about war with their songs.
It's not the rockers that aren't pulling their wieght, it's the apathetic public that will jump on something like Live 8, wave a sign for one day and then go back to their lives and do nothing more. Blame them.
Say what? Of course I'm not happy with politics right now, but I take pleasure in knowing that the Republicans got more than just an ass raping and that Bush will be in grid-lock for his last few years as president. So, how do you suggest people solve these issues now? sit-downs? Oh, yes! Then we can run around in flowers and sing Aquarius and dance and have fun! Yeah! hardcore protesting doesn't...really...work. It's called mace. And a lot of police. I just want to you to be aware how naive you sound, that's all.
