Deep Politics Forum

Keith Millea Wrote:

Quote: but ultimately people are suckers for a rocking good melody and backbeat that makes you want to dance.

Well I hope so,but right now what makes people want to dance is the absolutley mind numbing 4/4 disco beat electronica musical void.I hate it,and my youngest(a DJ)serves it up.

I know what you mean. Rap came out when my daughter, now 39, was 12. I had to study for the bar exam with that horrible crap blaring from her room. I thought it was a fad and it would go away. Alas....

And CD my favorite music for dance - by far- is swing; 8 to the bar...

Cool man!

Dawn

We began 1969 going to the Nixon Counterinnaugural in Washington January 19.


Mark Rudd and his redarmbanded Maoists running down the sidewalk chanting:
Ho Ho Ho Chi Minh
The NLF is gonna win


One peeled off to bang the iron knocker on Justice and the shirtsleeved lawyers on the second floor smirked and birded.


Summer we were at the Electric Theater in Chicago for the Stones. Mick Jagger in black leosuit, gold Leo symbol, red scarf six feet, jumping around as the others stood still.


When Street Fighting Man capped the set the audience stood on their chairs.


Later Rudd came to Purdue where we followed him for seven hours as he cajoled audiences from 5,000 out in the commons to a few on the rug of the professor where he told me in the manner of an amiable speed freak that his people didn't like him talking to us as they thought we were cops.


And all the Daley police army in Chicago for the SDS Days of Rage October 8-11 as the two hundred rallied round the broken police barricades smoldering in the leafless park.


Up pull the fleet of unmarked cars disgorging twenty-five to thirty-year-old plainclothes in windbreakers ready for a little ultraviolence.


Pigeons-egg-blue helmeted platoons and knots of Dick Tracy types clustered round walkie talkies and the black metro meshed bus vomiting the black leather boys of the Chicago Tactical Police Unit with their sticks.


Pursuing the army-surplus-clad bandana-masked boots down the streets of shattered plate glass soon boarded up by the 24-Hour Emergency Board-Up Service trucks with headache racks groaning from stacks of plywood sheets and generator-driven circular saws whining.


In the restaurants the Chicagoans told us "whatta I think! I think they should be in JAILTHAT's what I think!"


Ayers would build bombs, they say, and tell a police informant, they say, it might be necessary to eliminate 25 million who would resist the revolution.


If the revolution were put to music what would it sound like. Could "they" allow that, or would the undercurrent continue in the yin-yang marathon jam The Polis or Veni Vidi Whacky.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8AlaHlTM90

There has been plenty of good rock and roll just the music industry is controlled by business men not by actual musicians. I have to admit our friends across the pond are starting to lag behind...the last American I spoke to thought Wonderwall was Oasis' only good song and Arctic Monkeys were some sort of animal that lived with polar bears. Oh well! :curtain:

Yep, it's dead. But then there's all that jazz...

Danny Jarman Wrote:...the last American I spoke to thought Wonderwall was Oasis' only good song and Arctic Monkeys were some sort of animal that lived with polar bears. Oh well! :curtain:

On rare but telling occasion, an individual's cultural sophistication may be measured in direct proportion to the efficacy and refinement of his or her natural filters.

Rock lives!

Back around about a thousand years ago, the band I was a Roadie with fronted for these guys.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTmNf_a6xAM

And then dial up the volume to near full, sit back and thrum with this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYN74ZW4k_E

Rock lives! :rockandroll::rockandroll::rockandroll:

AND drummers never die.

Their sticks just grow brittle...

This is one of the very few newer bands that I really like alot.

Tool-"Lateralus"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hP1zyjlbRQ

Live:The Pot

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGzMUn6Gz14

David Guyatt Wrote:Rock lives!

Back around about a thousand years ago, the band I was a Roadie with fronted for these guys.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTmNf_a6xAM

And then dial up the volume to near full, sit back and thrum with this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYN74ZW4k_E

Rock lives! :rockandroll::rockandroll::rockandroll:

AND drummers never die.

Their sticks just grow brittle...

Before or AFTER Eric Clapton? Did a gig with CREAM many moons ago, Philadelphia, I think... LMAO :peace:

I was just informed we did THAT gig at Winterland, San Francisco ('68 or '69) -- it was a Bill Graham show.... me bad!

Charles Drago Wrote:Semper ubi sub ubi.

No fan of The Skids, I take it.

David Healy Wrote:

David Guyatt Wrote:Rock lives!

Back around about a thousand years ago, the band I was a Roadie with fronted for these guys.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTmNf_a6xAM

And then dial up the volume to near full, sit back and thrum with this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYN74ZW4k_E

Rock lives! :rockandroll::rockandroll::rockandroll:

AND drummers never die.

Their sticks just grow brittle...

Before or AFTER Eric Clapton? Did a gig with CREAM many moons ago, Philadelphia, I think... LMAO :peace:

Oh yes, Clapton was there alright, in the dressing room playing a silent guitar (unplugged in), Ginger Baker was throwing up in a corner from his (I suspected anyway) heroin intake, and Jack Bruce was just quiet.