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Post by Thetaloops on Jan 22, 2004 0:03:31 GMT -5
 A fantastic combination of Hip Hop, Rap and electonic music. Two member band Michael Frenti, singer and lyric writer and Oriental musician and composer. Much to short lived of a band, but they made their mark. |
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Post by boomerchick on Jan 22, 2004 17:36:40 GMT -5
Gawd! This pic looks like Michael Franti! Is it the same guy? Very similar in looks if Frenti is a different being than Franti! "Everyone Deserves Music!" Franti bc  |
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Post by Swamp Gas on Jan 22, 2004 17:43:33 GMT -5
Mis-spelling
Frenti and Franti is the same person.
Any comments on the music of DHOH, rather than Spearhead?
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Post by Thetaloops on Jan 22, 2004 23:47:58 GMT -5
So Sorry for such a careless error in spelling. For two fellows who have influenced my own writing to a tremendous degree. Michael Franti and Rono Tse were a powerful team. I miss Disposable Heros as a band, but, listen to their music and lyrics today, as closely as in 92'. Hypocrisy is the Greatest Luxury Life these days can be so complex We don't make the time to stop and reflect I know from first hand experience one can go delirious seriously it can be like that But before I put my foot in my mouth 'cause that's what I'm about to start talkin' about please let me confess before all the rest that i'm afflicted by this addicted, like most in the U.S. it's tough to make a living when you're an artist it's even tougher when you're socially conscious Careerism, opportunism can turn the politics into cartoonism Let's not patronize or criticize Let's open the door and look inside Pull the file on this state of denial. Hypocrisy is the Greatest Luxury Raise the Double Standard The bass, the treble Don't make a rebel Havin' your life together does AMERICA has an image of a young one fast livin' not give an expletive no respect for his or the lives of those around him Suicidal, homicidal or at very least extremely unbridled How convenient for those who would like to destroy him The problem has never been our political logic but the way we enact it We can imagine a perfect society but can't maintain a decent relationship The failure found in the luxuries not in the hardships Hypocrisy is the Greatest Luxury Raise the Double Standard  |
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Post by Swamp Gas on Jan 18, 2008 13:49:51 GMT -5
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Post by Mech on Jan 18, 2008 17:24:17 GMT -5
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Post by Thetaloops on Jan 29, 2008 21:18:25 GMT -5
I'm happy to see and hear that Michael Franti is still making music. That is ultimately the most important thing. I think though that Spearhead is very mild compared to Disposable Heros. I miss the radical nature of his lyrics and sound. We often wondered if he was threatened by some force that caused him to back off of the intensity of his message? I'm sure he must have touched a few nerves with TPTB.
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Post by Swamp Gas on Jan 29, 2008 21:27:10 GMT -5
He was in fact targeted by the FBI www.indybay.org/newsitems/2003/03/28/15923011.phpAmy Goodman, Democracy Now! Host: For nearly a decade hip-hop artist and activist Michael Franti has been a leading progressive voice in music. He grew out of the Bay area music and political scene of the 90’s and in 1986 he founded the drum and bass duo “The Beatniks” paving the way for his next musical endeavor “The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy”. His most recent musical project is the musical collective “Spearhead” begun in 1994 and he’s used his music to push social boundaries, speaks out against sexual violence, encourages his community to prevent the spread of HIV and has been very vocal in his opposition to war. And now it maybe the reason why the government is looking at him and his group Spearhead. Welcome to Democracy Now Michael. Michael Franti: Hi Amy. Amy Goodman: It’s good to have you with us. Can you talk about what’s been happening as you’ve been touring the country with songs like “Bomb da World.” Michael Franti: Well we’ve been touring for the last year and a half performing that song and everywhere we go it gets standing ovations, people begin to cry. People are just very grateful to hear any voice out there right now who are speaking in support of peace and human rights. Amy Goodman: What’s happened as you’ve been on this tour? Michael Franti: Well, what’s happened most recently is that we performed at a rally on March 15th in San Francisco and the next day on the 16th—that, that rally was out here—and on the 16th on the East Coast, a band member of mine who prefers to go unnamed, his mother received a visit from two plain clothes men from the military and this band member of mine has a sibling who is in the Gulf. And they came in and talked to her and said you have a child who’s in the gulf and you have a child who’s in this band Spearhead who’s part of the “resistance” in their words, and they had pictures of us performing the day before at the rally, they had pictures of us performing at some of our annual concerts that we put on that are in support of peace and human rights. They had his flight records for the past several months, they had the names of everybody who works in my office, our management office “Guerilla Management”. They had his checking account records. They asked his mother a lot of questions about where he was, what he was doing in this place, why he was going here. They confiscated his sibling’s CD collection that they had brought over to listen to while they were in the Gulf, and basically were intimidating—told her which members of the press she could talk to and which members of the press she should not speak to. And basically what this signals to me is that—I don’t feel like we’re being particulary singled out or under any investigation for any activity because all the activity that we do is very much above board and all the events where photos were taken out were all public things we were at. But what it does signal to me is that there’s a lot of us who are now making a blip on the radar, you know, whether we’re organizers at rallies, whether we’re musicians, whether we’re people who are speaking out, authors, writers, actors. And we’re beginning to make little blips on the radar. They’re starting to pay attention and collect information about what’s going on. You know , more important to me or more important than me you know, being a part of that is the fact that our civil rights are being eroded across the board for every person. And for musicians in particular it’s a really hard time. Last week our label received a letter, a mass e-mail from MTV instructing the fact that no videos could be shown that mentioned the word bombing or war. No videos could be shown that had protesters in it. Any footage from military—they gave a list of prior videos that could not be shown, yet MTV has aired videos that show troops saying goodbye to their loved ones and going off to war in a very heroic fashion and troops which are gonna be coming home traumatized, wounded and dead and then be treated and thrown onto the scrap heap of veterans, as we’ve seen veterans treated in this country. And at the Academy Awards, there were also letters and talk that went around saying not to speak out. Radio—mainstream radio, Clear Channel in particular, of course has put the word out not to air songs that are in opposition to the war and in support of peace. Meanwhile, our song “Bomb Da World” which we just put out is now in heavy rotation on a top youth radio station in Australia and in Denmark and it’s expected to get added to a lot of stations in other countries. Full transcript: www.democracynow.org/franti.htm |
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Post by Thetaloops on Jan 29, 2008 21:45:57 GMT -5
Yes, now I do remember reading about this. Roughing up a family member. Just like the mafia use to do. "Hey, you better be quiet or your goin' be swimmin' wit the fishes!" ;D  Funny but very unnerving at the same time! |
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Post by Swamp Gas on Jan 29, 2008 22:41:23 GMT -5
The FBI and CIA took over the Mafia, and now are the back end protection for the Globalists. The Asses if you will. The front end offices are the fundamentalists to keep the masses stupid.
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