Deep Politics Forum

I don't think we have a thread for our favorite music, but we should.

The Flamin' Groovies, San Francisco's first proto-punk/garage band, on French TV.




A 1976 demo of "Blank Generation" by the Heartbreakers, when Richard Hell was still in Johnny Thunders' band.




I was sayin let me out of here before I was
Even born--it's such a gamble when you get a face
It's fascinatin to observe what the mirror does
But when I dine it's for the wall that I set a place

I belong to the blank generation and
I can take it or leave it each time
I belong to the ______ generation but
I can take it or leave it each time

Triangles were fallin at the window as the doctor cursed
He was a cartoon long forsaken by the public eye
The nurse adjusted her garters as I breathed my first
The doctor grabbed my throat and yelled, "God's consolation prize!"

I belong to the blank generation and
I can take it or leave it each time
I belong to the ______ generation but
I can take it or leave it each time

To hold the T. V. To my lips, the air so packed with cash
Then carry it up flights of stairs and drop it in the vacant lot
To lose my train of thought and fall into your arms' tracks
And watch beneath the eyelids every passing dot

I belong to the blank generation and
I can take it or leave it each time
I belong to the ______ generation but
I can take it or leave it each time

Wow!

Here's John Cale in his geopolitical period:



The same song live, intense, psychotic, paranoid:



"Let's go to Moscow", indeed.

And, re: "Blank Generation":



(This is of course only for people who are familiar with the version on "Marquee Moon".)

Cool, never heard the John Cale song before.

Live, perhaps best heard on "Sabotage", Cale starts the song with a paraphrase of Machiavelli's take on mercenaries:

http://www.constitution.org/mac/prince12.htm

MC5're shithot; this isn't bad not neether, nyether



but it's a tough gig to better JJCale



or Warren Zevon



Can't resist this

Johnny Winter at Woodstock, still relatively unknown.



Proto-punk from Cleveland

Johnny Winter is one of my favorites. I used to play the song "Dallas" on a 1931 National Duolian #489P. Sold in 1997 to a local guy who still plays it.

I like this line in "Dallas":

"There's so much sh!t in Texas, you're bound to step in some"

Ralf Anders Wrote:Wow!

Here's John Cale in his geopolitical period:

I had not idea he had a geo-political period. Mostly just a drug using period. But good songs. Thanks Ralf.