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Post by Don Smith on Apr 22, 2007 21:32:16 GMT -5
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Post by Swamp Gas on Apr 22, 2007 21:36:08 GMT -5
My favorite Country Joe Album. I Remember WNEW-FM well, playing this with bleep-bleep and Alsion Steele, Zacherle, and Rosko.  |
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Post by Swamp Gas on Apr 22, 2007 22:34:59 GMT -5
Speaking of The Fugs...Part of "CIA Man"
"Who can squash republics like bananas because they don't like their social manners? The CIA can"
From 1963 no less
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Post by Don Smith on Apr 22, 2007 23:36:17 GMT -5
The Fugs were right out of the free speech movement, Mario Savio and all the commies down in the Bezerkly area, I was still in High school and , man, I was Impressed!
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Post by Swamp Gas on Apr 23, 2007 6:06:47 GMT -5
I first heard of them in 1965, when I was in 9th grade. The elders kept referring to them as "dirty". Then The Mothers of Invention around the same time, especially We're Only in it for the money and Absolutely Free. This is when I played in my first band, although I had been playing accordion and Tape Recorders since 1956.
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Post by Don Smith on Apr 23, 2007 9:03:34 GMT -5
The guy that typifies the era for me is Lenny Bruce, (George Carlin was a pal of his), flawed as he was, the things he had to say about art and society real eye openers, especially if one were from a small town in the hinterlands of western Washington, as Iwas.
He went to jail for using the word "toilet" for crisake!
The movie hollywierd made about him later was a sad and disappointing piece of tripe, I am sure the producers did not want to touch the substantive criticisms Bruce had of the warfare puritanism which held,(holds?) the country by the balls.
The standards seem more relaxed now, but this is an illusion, the MSM will not touch real dangerous issues, like the corporate control of the media and of the State.
Let the mob have their "sexual freedom" so long as it is treated like another consumer item, and the nature of love and the human spirit are not included.
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Post by Swamp Gas on Apr 23, 2007 10:38:36 GMT -5
Sure, every person ahead of their time is ridiculed, jailed, poisoned, and burned, from Socrates to Jesus to Copernicus to Galileo to Bruno to Edward R Murrow to Lenny Bruce to Carlin to Leary to Einstein to Imus. The only time I can think of Love and Peace being a commercial viability was briefly in the 40s with some torch singers, in the 50s with a lot of the doo-wop and excellent singers, the 60s with many of the bands like Moody Blues and Beatles, and in the 80s with New Wave music. The 40s and the 50s were safe because the concept of Peace was not included in the equation. When that happened, then the media moved in and replaced the message with disco. Now, the 80s New Wave had a lot of Love songs and Anti-War, so I would have to included that. Of course, that was attacked as "effeminate" because gays and women were a large part of it. Now, Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan are the role models for females, and Rappers have replaced The Beatles, Dean Martin, and Emerson/Lake/Palmer as musical aspirations. I could be mistaken, but there seems to be a "de-feminization" and ",militarization" of our society. A lot of the Right-Wingers like Henry Makow keep saying that woman should be in traditional mother and cook roles. I believe this actually makes females more subservient, rather than equal to men. Then militarization makes males more important. Yes, it is all brainwashing, and Lenny Bruce would have something to say about it I'm sure.
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Post by DannyRock on Apr 24, 2007 22:52:16 GMT -5
Two of my friends ,who now have their own band, used to sing background for Counry Joe in the 70's They even sang with him on his Leisure Suite Album in 1979. I just found a copy of it on EBAY and I'm gonna give it to their oldest daughter...  Of course I'll have to burn it to CD since I'm not sure if she knows what a record is...  |
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Of course I'll have to burn it to CD since I'm not sure if she knows what a record is... 