It's an after work Friday Happy Hour at the Scratching Post!  2 for 1 specials on well drinks and a FREE Long Island Iced Teas for everyone in honor of Universal PUMA High Priestess Supreme, Ms. Harriet Christian, a true Working Class Hero.  If you can, please buy a Pink PUMA for Hillary so she doesn't have to be clean up janitor lady for the Obama Campaign mess here, and can concentrate her time in helping Down Tickets Democrats and fulfill her honorable role s a Senator of NY.

Harriet appeared on Neil Cavuto's show from the Republican National Convention.  O-bot troll prophylactic: some of us PUMAs aren't following the Republican ticket as Harriet has freely chosen to do, but because the 2008 DNC decided to commit voter fraud and ruthless sexist propaganda to oust the popular vote winner, this is what happens:

Remember Harriet, lifelong Democrat and diner waitress who campaigned tirelessly for Hillary Clinton?  here's a reminder:

As a proud feminist Latina with Afro-Carribean roots, I do not feel that what Harriet Christan said was in any way r*cist.  She told the truth as she lived it and saw it in person at the RBC meeting.  Our Infantry Co-Commanders and PUMAmobile Denver trekkers GaryChapelHill and Mawm also witnessed the hijack and voter fraud on May 31st 2008.  Our PUMA Delegates witnessed firsthand reports from the "Hotel Roll Call vote" from the 2008 DNC and how 18 million votes were thrown under the proverbial Obama bus.  No more.

So Harriet, even though I probably won't vote for either of the major parties this November, I salute you today for being that Working Class Hero, like John Lennon sang of in this song.  Raise those killer Long Islands for Harriet and to all those Working Class Heros that aren't down with their vote being thrown in the trash for the sake of "party unity."

¡Que viva los PUMAs! (Long Live PUMAs!)

The other day I was thumbing through a rack of old LPs at a kiosk on the St. Vital Mall in Winnipeg, and I found a stack of Beatles records that for some reason nobody had snatched up yet. I didn't waste a moment in deciding to buy the LP version of "Magical Mystery Tour", "Beatles Live at the Hollywood Bowl" and "Yesterday...and Today."

As if this wasn't enough for a Beatles fanatic like me, I found out after the fact that all proceeds from purchases made at this kiosk were to go to the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation. A little piece of cosmic serendipity, possibly. I wish I could say I bought the records because I wanted to make a benevolent contribution to the Reeve cause, but that is simply not true. But I am glad I bought them.

I am in a wheelchair with a spinal chord related disorder myself so I had a pretty good idea what the Reeve Foundation was about, but I looked into it a little more last night. I am not going to go into the issue of Spinal Cord Injury research too much, but regardless of your opinion on the controversial issue, what they are doing at the Reeve Foundation can only lead to some good coming to those whose lives have been changed to an indefinite degree by their injury.

Take a look at the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation by clicking HERE. I'll be adding it to my blog roll soon.

'Happiness is a Warm Gun’ es una tema compuesto por John Lennon y acreditado a Lennon/McCartney (como muchas canciones de los Beatles). Es el tema favorito de Paul McCarteney de los muchos que se encuentran en el ‘White Album’ (1968), La importancia de la canción es el cambio frecuente de ritmo. Además, es uno de los pocos ejemplos de la poliritmia de los Beatles.

Originalmente se iba titular 'Happiness is a Warm Gun in Your Hand' (frase que había leído Lennon en una revista). Existe la creencia que la canción hace referencia a la necesidad de inyectarse heroína. Lennon lo ha negado.

Pese a que dura menos de tres minutos, tiene cinco secciones diferentes. La canción empieza con una breve sección acústica. Después, empiezan a sonar tambores, bajo y una guitarra distorsionada. Luego empieza el fragmento llamado ‘I Need a Fix’, en la que dice: Necesito una dosis, porque voy de bajada (ahí está la referencia a la heroína). El coro (que dice: Mother Superior jumped the gun) da paso a la siguiente fase. La última parte sigue el típico ‘du duá’ de los años 50 (con el coro: Bang bang, shoot shoot).

The Beatles – Happiness is a Warm Gun

HOW'D YOU GET STARTED PLAYING MUSIC?  6^th grade talent show we had a rap act that included me playing Iron Man and Peter Gunn on guitar.  We got signed by a rep from Atlantic and the rest is history.  (Just kidding about that last part.)

FAVORITE LOCAL MUSICIAN BESIDES YOURSELF (AND WHY):  Right now I really like Memphis Pencils because they successfully blend a lot of stuff that I like and they are pretty down to earth fellas as far as I know.

WHAT'S IN YOUR POCKET RIGHT NOW?  Nada, I like to keep 'em light.

YOUR FAVORITE VENUE IN LITTLE ROCK (AND WHY)?  I like most of the venues in Little Rock.  We have played White Water, Vino's, Sticky Fingerz, and Juanita's.  No complaints here.  I don't love seeing shows at Vino's, but it's a good hang out.  White Water is my favorite.  It just feels right, and nowadays they are actually trying to get it to sound right.  Its nice to play in clubs with big sound systems, because they might make you sound great, but at least at the WW, if you sound bad you can really only blame yourself. 

TELL ME ABOUT THE FIRST "REAL" CONCERT YOU EVER ATTENDED.  Cool & the Gang in 6^th grade.  It was bittersweet, because I didn't get to sit next to the girl I was "going with".

HOW ABOUT THE FIRST SHOW YOU EVER DID YOURSELF?  I think it was a coffee shop called Java Strait in a strip mall in Fayetteville.  It was a couple acoustic guitars jangling around on indie rock and surf rock sounding stuff.  It was scary.  It took years for me to get comfortable on stage, but I finally realized that no matter what you do, if you put yourself in front of people, some of them will like it and some wont.  You can never stop those who don't like it from talking shit.  Somehow that realization was liberating for me, but I can't seem to relate it to other people very well.    

BEST SOURCE FOR MUSICAL INFO? (MAG, WEBSITE, ETC)  Dunno, friends I guess.

WHAT DOES THIS TOWN NEED?  Continued organization efforts.  I'd say we're doing pretty well all things considered.  Fayetteville needs some help though.

YOUR THREE FAVORITE ALBUMS, ALL-TIME:  John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band, Canyon/Empty Rooms, Zombies/Odyssey & Oracle

RE YOUR MUSIC: DOES YOUR MOM LIKE IT OR NOT?  Yeah.

FUNNIEST THING THAT'S EVER HAPPENED AT ONE OF YOUR SHOWS:  We were playing at North 6^th in Brooklyn.  It's a pretty big stage and there was a decent sized crowd.  I launched into this big guitar solo intro without realizing that the drummer was lighting a cigarette or something, so I basically went from soloing at the front of the stage to slinking to the back of the stage hoping nobody would notice that no other instruments had started playing when I thought they were going to.  Everybody accused me of having taken mushrooms before the show.  

AS A KID, WHAT'D YOU WANT TO GROW UP TO BE?  A soccer player.  I don't think I even knew professional soccer players existed. 

DID YOU KNOW THESE FACTS? - I SURE DIDNT TILL NOW
Death is certain but the Bible speaks about untimely death!
Make a personal reflection about this.....
Very interesting, read until the end.....

It is written in the Bible (Galatians 6:7): 'Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man sow, that shall he also reap

Here are some men and women who mocked God :

1) John Lennon (Singer):
Some years before, during his interview with an American Magazine, he said: "Christianity will end, it will disappear. I do not have to argue about that. I am certain. Jesus was ok, but his subjects were too simple, today we are more famous than Him" (1966). Lennon, after saying that the Beatles were more famous than Jesus Christ, was shot six times.

2) Tancredo Neves (President of Brazil ): During the Presidential campaign, he said if he got 500,000 votes from his party, not even God would remove him from Presidency. Sure he got the votes, but he got sick a day before being made President, then he died.

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3) Cazuza (Bi-sexual Brazilian composer, singer and poet): During A show in Canecio ( Rio de Janeiro ), while smoking his cigarette, he puffed out some smoke into the air and said:'God, that's for you.' He died at the age of 32 of LUNG CANCER in a horrible manner.

4) The man who built the Titanic (Harland and Wolff): After the construction of Titanic, a reporter asked him how safe the Titanic would be. With an ironic tone he said: 'Not even God can sink it' The result: I think you all know what happened to the Titanic.

5) Marilyn Monroe (Actress): She was visited by Billy Graham during a presentation of a show. He said the Spirit of God had sent him to preach to her. After hearing what the Preacher had to say, she said: 'I don't need your Jesus'. A week later, she was found dead in her apartment

6) Bon Scott (Singer): The ex-vocalist of the AC/DC. On one of his 1979 songs he sang: 'Don't stop me; I'm going down all the way, down the highway to hell'. On the 19th of February 1980, Bon Scott was found dead, he had been choked by his own vomit.

7) Campinas (IN 2005):In Campinas , Brazil a group of friends, drunk, went to pick up a friend...The mother accompanied her to the car and was so worried about the drunkenness of her friends and she said to the daughter holding her hand, who was already seated in the car: 'My Daughter, Go With God And May He Protect You.' She responded: 'Only If He (God) Travels In The Trunk, Cause Inside Here.....It's Already Full' Hours later, news came by that they had been involved in a fatal accident, everyone had died, the car could not be recognized what type of car it had been, but surprisingly, the trunk was intact. The police said there was no way the trunk could have remained intact. To their surprise, inside the trunk was a crate of eggs, none was broken.

8) Christine Hewitt (Jamaican Journalist and entertainer): said the Bible (Word of God) was the worst book ever written. In June 2006 she was found burnt beyond recognition in her motor vehicle.

Elvis Presley'in parmak izleri, The Fame Bureau Müzayede Evi tarafından Idea Generation Galerisi'nde 4 Eylül tarihinde gerçekleştirilecek "Rock'n Roll'dan Fazlası" adındaki açık artırma etkinliğinde satışa sunulacak.

Efsane şarkıcının ayrıca 1958-1960 tarihleri arası askerlik döneminde kullandığı ünlü kırmızı gitarı ve meşhur "Easy Come, Easy Go" adlı filmi açık artırmaya çıkacak. Presley'in sürücü belgesi, sosyal güvenlik numarası ve ikametgah kayıtlarının da dahil olacağı satışlardan yaklaşık 75 bin pound (162 bin YTL) hasılat bekleniyor.

Şarkıcının her zaman yanında bir silah taşıdığı ve iki elinin tüm parmak izlerinin Colt Revolver 38 ve otomatik Beretta 7.6 silahlarının taşıma iznini alma başvurusu sırasında alındığı belirtildi.

The Fame Bureau Müzayede Evi yöneticisi Ted Owen, Elvis Presley'in ciddi bir silah koleksiyoncusu olduğunu, ABD'nin 40 eyaletinden alınmış silah taşıma ruhsatına sahip olduğunu ve Richard Nixon döneminde Beyaz Saray'a silahla girebilen ilk sivil olduğunu belirtti.

Müzayedede ayrıca Marlyn Monroe'un "Some Like It Hot" filminde giydiği büstiyeri, Jim Morrison'un şarkı sözleri ve şiirlerinin yazılı olduğu 20 sayfalık not defteri, Jimi Hendrix ve The Rolling Stones'un gitaristi Ronnie Wood'ın tabloları ve John Lennon'ın "Sexy Sadie" parçasının orijinal sözleri satışa çıkacak.

in today's trouser press:

- surprise new album from Ane Brun
- surprise new album from The Baird Sisters
- Neko Case names upcoming album
- Q Awards nominees announced
- Sia to release new single in October
- hear new Dido!
- Britney will be at the VMAs after all
- new live album on the way from Rodrigo Y Gabriela
- the yolk's on Dandi Wind
- is Jessica Lea Mayfield America's answer to Laura Marling?
- Love Is All reveal new album details
- Jessica Simpson owes it all to Dolly Parton
- fan letters keep Pink in the game
- Kate Winslet to play John Lennon's mother

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Don't you just love it when your favourite artists suddenly announce a new album and then, *whoosh*, before you've even finished reading the press release, there it is, giving the eye to your credit card. Without so much as a whisper of a warning, luminous Norwegian singer-songwriter Ane Brun this week brought us a lovely surprise with the release of Sketches, a collection of demos of all the songs from her recent album Changing Of The Seasons (which still hasn't had a proper physical release in the UK - come on people!), plus two new songs.

Performed mostly with just voice and guitar or voice and piano, Sketches brings the breathless intimacy of an Ane Brun concert to your living room. The two new songs, ‘Miss Moaning' and ‘My Baby's Arms' were originally recorded for inclusion on Changing Of The Seasons but didn't really fit with that album's overall themes and so were discarded. Until now. Sketches is exclusively available through www.klicktrack.com and through Ane's website.

A best-selling, award-winning artist in Scandinavia, Ane Brun plans to follow this year's two album releases with a new concert DVD, due to be filmed at Stockholm's Konserthus on October 3rd with a view to getting it out by the end of the year.

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Also pulling a surprise release out of their hat is Espers vocalist and solo sensation Meg Baird. Teaming up with her sister Laura for the follow-up to 2006's The Baird Sisters At Home, Meg brings us the traditional and contemporary folk sounds of Lonely Town, available from iTunes and eMusic now. The album was recorded less than a month ago by Jeff Zeigler, live off the floor at Uniform Recording in The Baird Sisters' native Philadelphia. Meg and Laura sing and play guitar, banjo, mandolin and mountain dulcimer.

Lonely Town
01 Sugar Baby [traditional]
02 Silver Raven [Gene Clark cover]
03 Lavender Gray
04 Spinning Wheel / Rocket
05 The Three Babes [traditional]
06 Over The Waterfall [traditional]
07 Little Maggie [traditional]
08 Flowers For Your Hair
09 Lonely Town
10 In The Morning

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Neko Case will release her fifth solo studio album next March, almost exactly three years since the critically revered Fox Confessor Brings The Flood hit the shops. Like its predecessor, Middle Cyclone will be released through the Anti- label. Performing at the Bumbershoot festival in Seattle last weekend, Neko played three new songs and a cover of Harry Nilsson's ‘Don't Forget Me' rumoured to be included on the upcoming album. You can watch an audience taping by festivalgoer Katie Parker here. Neko sounds amazing.

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Even though Wears The Trousers writer Rod Thomas is featured in their current issue (his single Same Old Lines is out later this month [video]), it has to be said that Q Magazine is hardly a reliable bastion of taste these days. And so they have proved yet again with the unveiling of the shortlist for their annual awards. Female artists are well represented in the minor categories, with Duffy, Adele, Santogold, Gabriella Cilmi, The Ting Tings, Goldfrapp and, er, Katy Perry, all getting nods. The Ting Tings are the biggest contenders, up for three awards including Best New Act, Best Track and Best Video (both for ‘That's Not My Name').

Fans can vote for their favourite bands on the shortlist and the winners will be announced at a ceremony on October 6th at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London. Go here for the full list of nominees.

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Eccentric Australian singer Sia releases new single ‘Soon We'll Be Found', the latest track to be lifted from her recent album Some People Have Real Problems, as a digital download on October 13th. A video directed by Claire Carré (Rainer Maria, The Spill Canvas) features Sia and friends using sign language to tell the story behind the lyrics. "I've always been obsessed with the beauty of sign language," says Sia. "The movement and expression just appears, to ignorant-hearing-me, as a dance...a beautiful, emotive dance. But the real beauty is that, hidden in these perfect shapes, is communication." The video is expected to premiere soon.

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After a long absence from coffee tables across the nation, Dido is due to make a comeback in November with the release of her third album Safe Trip Home - not the most inspiring title for someone who is, perhaps, the very definition of ‘safe'. But wait! She's co-produced the album with unconventional studio whizz Jon Brion - the man behind that version of Fiona Apple's Extraordinary Machine - and her brother Rollo Armstrong. This could be interesting after all. Listen to the new single ‘Don't Believe In Love' and judge for yourself. You can also download a free MP3 of another album track, ‘Look No Further', courtesy of AOL. Safe Trip Home is released on November 4th.

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Few things over the last few weeks have been less interesting than the will-she-won't-she saga surrounding Britney Spears and this year's MTV VMAs, due to be held on Sunday at Paramount Studios in Hollywood. Thankfully the whole issue has been put to rest with official confirmation that, yes, Britney will be there but, no, she won't be singing. In a statement Spears said: "MTV has long played an important role in my career. How can I not be there to kick off their 25th VMAs? I'm excited to open the entire show, to say hi to my fans and to be nominated."

Quite what opening the show will entail remains a mystery, but given that the star has three nominations (for Best Female Video, Best Pop Video and Video of the Year for ‘Piece Of Me') and has never won before, it's bound to get people talking whatever happens. I mean, they already are, right?

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With the huge success of their 2004 concert album, Live In Manchester & Dublin, behind them, Mexican ex-pats Rodrigo Sánchez and Gabriela Quintero follow 2006's frenetic, eponymous, instrumental studio album with a second live document. Live In Japan (nothing like telling it how it is!) is a 2CD+DVD set recorded on the eve of their first ever Japanese gig at Tokyo's Duo Club at the end of March. It hits the shops on October 20th.

Live In Japan (audio)
01 OK Tokyo
02 Juan Loco
03 Orion
04 Foc
05 Satori
06 Ixtapa
07 Vikingman
08 Take Five
09 One
10 Gabriela Solo
11 Rodrigo Solo
12 Stairway To Heaven
13 Tamacun
14 Diablo Rojo

Live In Japan (video)
01 Sartori
02 Ixtapa
03 Vikingman
04 Tamacun
05 Diablo Rojo

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If you name your child Dandilion Wind Opaine you'd better hope that she (or he, I suppose) has the creative nous to make it worthwhile. Canadian multimedia artist Dandi Wind has already proven her creative chops over the course of several singles, EPs and the excellent Concrete Igloo. Expect her new album Yolk Of The Golden Egg (out September 23rd in Canada) to go even further. Listen to four new songs and watch the accompanying short animated film by photographer John Londono on her Myspace.

Yolk Of The Golden Egg
01 Battle Of Verdun
02 A Lifetime
03 Adolescent
04 Powerball
05 Cocoon
06 Baying Of The Hounds
07 Silver Lying
08 Midget Palace
09 Yo Pinok
10 Johatsu
11 The Foundling Circle
12 Dance Of The Paralytic

Wind Opaine. Ha ha. I just got that.

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Is Jessica Lea Mayfield America's answer to our very own Laura Marling? The 18-year-old singer-songwriter has a similar wise-beyond-her-years outlook, with a country twist. Her debut album, With Blasphemy So Heartfelt, which Pitchfork describes as "bootgazer country tunes about young love and deep scars", was produced by Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys and is out in the States on September 16th.

With Blasphemy So Heartfelt
01 Kiss Me Again
02 For Today
03 I Can't Lie To You, Love
04 We've Never Lied
05 I'm Not Lonely Anymore
06 Hold You Close
07 Call Me
08 Greater Heights
09 The One That I Love Best
10 Bible Days
11 Is This Love?
12 You've Won Me Over

Download ‘Kiss Me Again' for free, courtesy of Pitchfork.

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Nine songs that sound the same, or nine songs about the same thing? That question surrounded Love Is All's noisy pop debut Nine Times That Same Song but was soon forgotten in the shuffle of our own feet. Three years down the line they're challenging us to come up with a century of plausible reasons for insomniac behaviour. The Swedes' new album, A Hundred Things Keep Me Up At Night, was produced by former Aislers Set guitarist Wyatt Cusick and is out November 10th. A brief European tour is in the offing from next week but they're giving the UK a wide berth for now. Expect them back soon though.

A Hundred Things Keep Me Up At Night
01 New Beginnings
02 Give It Back
03 Movie Romance
04 Last Choice
05 Sea Sick
06 Wishing Well
07 When Giants Fall
08 Rumors
09 Big Bangs, Black Holes, Meteorites
10 A More Uncertain Future
11 19 Floors

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Dolly Parton's involvement in Jessica Simpson's transition to country ‘star' has been well documented, but in a new interview Jessica revealed that she owes more than just the title track of her new album, Do You Know, to Dolly. Simpson says she nearly gave up singing altogether after a particularly damning incident in which the CBS TV network edited out her performance of ‘9 To 5' from a ceremony to honour Dolly's lifetime achievements, deeming it too bad to be aired, but Dolly saved the day. Damn! So close.

"Dolly totally took me under her wing and helped me up and over the cares of the world," Simpson told E! Online. "She told me she's never been more proud of anything in her whole life. And I have it written down in her handwriting! I do owe a lot of my confidence to her."

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Jessica isn't the only one who considered quitting music. Pink recently told The Sun newspaper that a letter she received about a 13-year-old fan's sexual abuse at the hands of her grandfather stopped her from throwing in the towel. In the letter the girl urged Pink to "never stop" making music because it gave her a reason to live. "I get chills even talking about it," said Pink. "I have 50 of the most insanely awful letters that remind me that this job isn't about me."

"It's crazy. Some people may say the new songs are heartache bullshit, but somebody out there is going to get through their pain a little easier, and that makes me feel better," she added. Her new album, Funhouse, is out October 27th.

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Finally, something that's not strictly within the Wears The Trousers remit but we kinda like her (despite that ‘What If' song) so here goes...Kate Winslet is set to play John Lennon's mother Julia in an upcoming biopic directed by filmmaker, artist and celebrity photographer Sam Taylor-Wood. Julia's love of music was a strong influence on Lennon in his teenage years, and the film follows him through that time to the formation of proto-Beatles, The Quarrymen, with Paul McCartney and George Harrison. BAFTA-winning writer Matt Greenhalgh who recently worked on the Joy Division film, ‘Control', penned the screenplay that the major studios will be bidding over later today at the Toronto Film Festival.

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Alan Pedder

Just Like Starting Over es una canción que por si sola tiene un feel muy especial, pero junto con este video (y tomando en cuenta mi grado de cursilería) es conmovedor y mucho.

Y hay una pregunta que me hago y es ¿Por qué las cosas terminan así? y la razón que he aprendido es que sencilla y fríamente las cosas así tenían que ser (mas no aceptado), aunque la mayoría de lo que nos pasa quisiéramos que fuera diferente.

Obviamente, a lo que me refiero es precisamente a la muerte, eso que es lo único seguro en esta vida y que a mi corta edad aun es difícil de entender pero sobre todo de aceptarla.

Number 543

art by Latuff2

Some songs are timeless and some are just as important today. "Eve of Destruction" sounds Dylanesque to the core, but where this song differs is it's not as all "self important" as Dylan is, rather the "Eve of Destruction" song is honest ... "world importance".
I can imagine every Dylan fan wants to grab their AK47's in disgust of such a comment, but then that is the contradiction between the two artists.
Another interesting aspect about this song is that even though it's about the Vietnam War it does not have that sensation of Hippynism, as one would imagine flowers and Tie-Dye exploding. This song is rockier, edgier, almost a "Lennon" like chant as "Give Peace a Chance". If desired, this song would need only a few tweaks and guitar modulations and it would be a number 1 hit in 2007, just in time for the (sponsered by)"i-Pod War aka Iraq Police Action" or even the "Iran WW III Conflict"

The eastern world, it is exploding

Violence flarin’, bullets loadin’

You’re old enough to kill, but not for votin’

You don’t believe in war, but what’s that gun you’re totin’

And even the Jordan River has bodies floatin’

Yeah, my blood’s so mad feels like coagulatin’

I’m sitting here just contemplatin’

I can’t twist the truth, it knows no regulation.

Handful of senators don’t pass legislation

And marches alone can’t bring integration

When human respect is disintegratin’

This whole crazy world is just too frustratin’

A real lost artifact, Barry McGuire's second album actually has quite a bit of historical significance. After his mega-hit "Eve of Destruction," McGuire was set to do a follow-up album, complete with some excellent P.F. Sloan songs. During the early sessions, the Mamas & the Papas had just come into town. Being old friends of McGuire's from the folkie days (Barry was the lead voice on "Green, Green," by the New Christy Minstrels), he invited the group to audition for producer Lou Adler. The rest is history, and this record is essentially the Mamas audition, as they sing backgrounds on virtually all of the record. It's magnificent, too. Current hits such as "Do You Believe In Magic," "Yesterday," and others work perfectly with McGuire's gravely lead voice and the Mamas & Papas sweet harmonies. McGuire even cut "California Dreamin'," and it's the exact same track as the famous Mamas version, sans Doherty's lead vocal and Bud Shank's flute solo. If you're looking to find the real roots of the Mamas & the Papas, here it is. Unfortunately, Dunhill apparently wanted little to do with Barry McGuire after the backlash of "Eve of Destruction," and his career and this record presided in ignominy. Too bad, because there is a lot of excellent music here. ~ [Matthew Greenwald, All Music Guide]

And you tell me

Over and over and over again, my friend

Ah, you don’t believe

We’re on the eve of destruction

Think of all the hate there is in Red China

Then take a look around to Selma, Alabama

You may leave here for 4 days in space

But when you return, it’s the same old place

The poundin’ of the drums, the pride and disgrace

You can bury your dead, but don’t leave a trace

Hate your next-door neighbor, but don’t forget to say grace

And… tell me over and over and over and over again, my friend

You don’t believe

We’re on the eve

Of destruction

Mm, no no, you don’t believe

We’re on the eve of destruction.

Eve of Destruction

Barry in NZ '79

"Eve of Destruction" is a protest song written by P.F. Sloan in 1965. Several artists have recorded it, but the best-known recording was by Barry McGuire. This recording was made between July 12 and July 15, 1965 and released by Dunhill Records. The accompanying musicians were top-tier LA session men: P.F. Sloan on guitar, Hal Blaine (of Phil Spector's "Wrecking Crew") on drums, and Larry Knechtel on bass. The vocal track was thrown on as a rough mix and was not intended to be the final version, but a copy of the recording "leaked" out to a DJ, who began playing it. The song was an instant hit and as a result the more polished vocal track that was at first envisioned was never recorded. In the first week of its release, the single was at number thirty on the Cash Box charts, and number 103 on the Billboard charts. By August 12, Dunhill released the LP, Barry McGuire Featuring Eve of Destruction. The LP reached its peak of number thirty-seven on the Billboard album chart during the week ending September 25. That same day the single went to number one on both charts. McGuire was never again to break into the top forty of the Billboard Hot 100.

papa Barry

The song had initially been presented to The Byrds as a Dylanesque potential single, but they rejected it. The Turtles, another LA group who often recorded The Byrds' discarded or rejected material, recorded a version instead. Their version was issued as an album track shortly before McGuire's version was cut. It eventually hit number 100 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1970. The song is a grave warning of imminent apocalypse, and considered by some to be the epitome of a protest song. It expressed the frustrations and fears of young people in the age of the Cold War, Vietnam, the nuclear arms race, and the civil rights movement.

The song was banned by some radio stations in the USA as well as by the BBC and Radio Scotland. The American media helped popularize the song by using it as an example of everything that was wrong with the youth of that time.[citation needed] The song also drew flak from conservatives. On the conservative right, a group called The Spokesmen released an answer record entitled "The Dawn of Correction". A few months later, Green Beret medic Sgt. Barry Sadler released the patriotic "Ballad of the Green Berets". Johnny Sea's spoken word recording, "Day For Decision", was also a response to the song. The Temptations' song "Ball of Confusion (That's What the World Is Today)" mentions the song title.

In the 1980s, McGuire left the music industry, and settled for a time in New Zealand with his New Zealander wife, Mari (former secretary of McGuire's Agape Force associate, Winkie Pratney). He returned to the United States in the 1990s, teaming up with Terry Talbot and recording as Talbot McGuire. The duo released four albums between 1996 and 2000.
As of 2006, he takes engagements which include a few songs and talks on a mixture of topics, by both McGuire and his wife. The McGuires currently reside in Fresno, California. ~ [Source:Wiki]

For Bob Dylan see Number 929 & Number 841

For John Lennon see Number 639

For Temptations see Number 819 & Number 601

For The Turtles see Number 541

Rolling Stone Top 500 Songs ranked this song at Number (You know we @ Rolling Stone voted for Bush) and the Album ranked at (we love you Bob)

This song has a crowbarred rating of 73.8 out of 108 pts

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Elvis Presley's fingerprints memorabilia:

Fans of Elvis Presley are to get a once in a lifetime opportunity to own his fingerprints at auction in London this week. The unusual piece of rock'n'roll memorabilia will go under the hammer at the Idea Generation Gallery. The prints are the only surviving set from The King in existence, according to reports, although it is unclear how much money they will fetch.

Appearing on Presley's application for a concealed gun permit, the prints are thought to be the only set from the icon in existence.

The memorabilia auction, entitled 'It's More Than Rock and Roll', will take place September 4 at the Idea Generation Gallery, London. Other items up for grabs include a hand-carved 1968 artwork version of John Lennon's lyrics for 'Sexy Sadie', named 'The Private Mind Of John Lennon', Marilyn Monroe's bustier from the movie 'Some Like It Hot' and a painting of legend Jimi Hendrix by The Rolling Stones' guitarist Ronnie Wood.

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]]> http://beatpatrol.wordpress.com/?p=5196 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:06:30 +0000 jmucci http://beatpatrol.wordpress.com/?p=5196 This is probably one of the earliest video clips...

'Twas the night before Birthday, when all through Sesame Street

Cardboard cutouts were stirring, particularly Judge Marian Milian;

Charlotte Rae was hung by the chimney with care,

In hopes that Rick Astley soon would be there (again and again and again);

The Gosselins were nestled all snug in their bitch,

While visions of Biz Markie beat-boxed in their heads;

And Judge Judy in her 'kerchief, and Tyra Banks in her weave,

Had just settled down for some 'Tom Bergeron on the Spelling Bee',

When out on the lawn there arose 'rare pictures of Judge Alex Ferrer',

Oprah sprang from Mrs. Dranklesworth to see what was the matter.

Away to the window Oprah flew like a New Kid on the Block,

Tore open the shutters and threw up the delicious food.

The Clockwork Orange on the breast of the new-fallen snow

Gave the lustre of the Lennon Family to objects below,

OMG, what to Oprah's wondering eyebrows should appear,

But a miniature sleigh, and 'Mrs. Garrett and Natalie doing it',

With Jackie Wilson, so lively and quick,

Oprah knew in a moment it must be Gomez Addams.

More crazy than the March Hare his coursers they came,

And he whistled, and peed, and called them by name;

"Now, Judge David Young! now, Dancer! now, 'Cassie Steele from Degrassi' and Vixen!

On, Comet! on Cupid! on, Mad Hatter and Blitzen!

To the top of the porch! to the top of the MAXIglide!

Now Scasm Flasm! Scasm Flasm! Scasm Flasm away all!"

Four decades ago, Israel banned The Beatles fearing their revolutionary message of love and peace would corrupt their youth.

On September 25, 2008, Sir Paul McCartney will perform his 'Friendship First' concert in Tel Aviv for $4.3 million and is being promoted as one of "music's most revered stars" and a holder of "the key principals of friendship – loyalty and respect."

As I wondered what Lennon might have said to his old mate in regards to making money from an apartheid state, I reminisced to REVOLUTION

The Beatles - Revolution

You say you want a revolution? Well, you know we all want to change the world, but when you talk about destruction, don't you know that you can count me out; when you [take] money [from] people with minds that hate, all I can tell you brother is:

No Way! Haven't you seen The Wall of Hate?

Haven't you heard The Word from The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel/PACBI that urged you to just say no to Israel, because its creation 60 years ago dispossessed and uprooted over 700,000 indigenous Palestinians from their homes and lands, condemning them to live like a refugee in exile and destitution.

Israel at 60 is still denying Palestinian refugees their inalienable human rights and UN-sanctioned rights, because they are "non-Jews."

The world allows Israel to illegally occupy Palestinian and other Arab lands, in violation of numerous UN resolutions. Israel persistently defies international law and denies fundamental human rights with impunity! US and European economic, diplomatic and political support collude and treat Palestinian citizens with institutionalized discrimination.

Israel has been "committing horrific war crimes in the occupied Gaza Strip, where its illegal and immoral policy of collective punishment -- through a hermetic military siege and an almost complete blockage of fuel, electric power, and even food and medicine -- is pushing 1.5 million Palestinian civilians to the brink of starvation. Without electricity, incubators are shutting down; hospitals are fast coming to a standstill; water is not being properly purified nor separated from raw sewage; whatever is left from the local economy is undergoing a meltdown; and the most vulnerable sectors of the population, the children, the elderly, and the acutely ill, are languishing under unspeakable hardships." [1]

Israel's wanton killings of civilians, demolition of homes and property, uprooting of more than a million fruit bearing trees, incessant theft of land and water resources, denial of freedom of movement to millions, dividing indigenous Palestinian's into Bantustans caged by walls, fences and hundreds of roadblocks, is not to be celebrated, but condemned and changed.

In 1985 Bono joined forces with a group of artists concerned about Apartheid in South Africa. I IMAGINE, if Lennon were with us today, he would be among a group of artists concerned about Apartheid in Israel Palestine.

I also hope that Paul just doesn't yet know that Apartheid can be summed up as a structured process of gross human rights violations perpetrated against a conquered ethnic majority by a state and society mainly controlled by an invading ethnic minority and its descendants, mainly immigrants that have been deemed part of the ethnic elite.

The following nine categories make up the necessary, sufficient, and defining characteristics of apartheid regimes:

1. Violence: Apartheid is a state of war initiated by a de facto invading ethnic minority, which at least in the short term originates from a non-neighboring locality. In all main instances of apartheid most if not all members of the invading group originate from a different continent. The invading ethnic minority and its self-defined descendants then continue to dominate the indigenous majority by means of their military superiority and by their continuous threats and uses of violence.

2. Repopulation: Apartheid is also a continuation of depopulation and population transfer. One example is seen in the obliteration of the indigenous Bedouins that Israel denies free movement to graze their herds and are silently transferring the Bedouins to new locales, such as atop of garbage dumps.

3. Citizenship: The indigenous people are often denied citizenship in their own country by the apartheid state authorities, which are ironically and irrationally, run and staffed by the recent arrivals to the country.

4. Land: Apartheid entails land confiscation, land redistribution and forced removals, almost without exception to the benefit of the invading ethnic minority. Usually, members of the ethnic majority are forced on to barren and unfertile soils, where they must also try to survive under impoverished and overcrowded conditions.

5. Work: Apartheid displays systematic exploitation of the indigenous class in the production process and different pay or taxation for the same work.

6. Access: There is ethnically differentiated access to employment, food, water, health care, emergency services, clean air, and other needs, including the need for leisure activities, in each case ensuring superior access for the favored ethnic community.

7. Education: There are also different kinds of education offered and forced upon the different ethnic groups.

8. Language: A basic apartheid characteristic is the fact that only very few of the invaders and their descendants ever learn the language(s) of the indigenous victims.

9. Thought: Finally, apartheid contains ideologies or 'necessary illusions' in order to convince the privileged minorities that they are inherently superior and the indigenous majorities that they are inherently inferior. Much of apartheid thought is shaped by typical war propaganda. The enemy is dehumanized by both sides' ideologies, words and other symbols are used to incite or provoke people to violence, but mostly so by the invaders and their descendants. [2]

After recently returning from Palestine's West Bank and Gaza Strip, Ronnie Kasrils, Minister of Intelligence in South African Government wrote how it was "like a surreal trip back into an apartheid state of emergency. It is chilling to pass through the myriad checkpoints -- more than 500 in the West Bank. They are controlled by heavily armed soldiers, youthful but grim, tensely watching every movement, fingers on the trigger…A journey from one West Bank town to another that could take 20 minutes by car now takes seven hours for Palestinians, with manifold indignities at the hands of teenage soldiers…The monstrous apartheid wall cuts off East Jerusalem…Bethlehem too is totally enclosed by the wall, with two gated entry points. The Israelis have added insult to injury by plastering the entrances with giant scenic posters welcoming tourists to Christ's birthplace." [3]

Upon The Wall next to the checkpoint that leads from Jerusalem to her sister city, Bethlehem that enormous Orwellian sign Karlis refers to hangs and in Orwellian speak proclaims:

"PEACE BE WITH YOU"

The Wall is spun as a 'security barrier' but it "is designed to crush the human spirit as much as to enclose the Palestinians in ghettos. Like a reptile, it transforms its shape and cuts across agricultural lands as a steel-and-wire barrier, with watchtowers, ditches, patrol roads and alarm systems. It will be 700km long and, at a height of 8m to 9m in places, dwarfs the Berlin Wall. The purpose of the barrier becomes clearest in open country. Its route cuts huge swathes into the West Bank to incorporate into Israel the illegal Jewish settlements -- some of which are huge towns -- and annexes more and more Palestinian territory." [Ibid]

"It has become abundantly clear that the wall and checkpoints are principally aimed at advancing the safety, convenience and comfort of settlers."- Minister in the Presidency Essop Pahad. [Ibid]

"The West Bank, once 22% of historic Palestine, has shrunk to perhaps 10% to 12% of living space for its inhabitants, and is split into several fragments, including the fertile Jordan Valley, which is a security preserve for Jewish settlers and the Israeli Defence Force. Like the Gaza Strip, the West Bank is effectively a hermetically sealed prison...roads are barred to Palestinians and reserved for Jewish settlers. I try in vain to recall anything quite as obscene in apartheid South Africa." [Ibid]

John Lennon did say that "Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends...I believe that as soon as people want peace in the world they can have it. The only trouble is they are not aware they can get it. …All we are saying is give peace a chance…All you need is love…Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one."

On December 20, 2006, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who received a Nobel Peace Prize for his relentless work confronting and challenging South Africa's Apartheid regime spoke to The Guardian: "I've been deeply distressed in my visit to the Holy Land. I have seen the humiliation at the checkpoints and roadblocks, suffering like us when young white police officers prevented us from moving about…Israel will never get true security and safety through oppressing another people. A true peace can ultimately be built only on justice…If peace could come to South Africa, surely it can come to the Holy Land."

Justice requires equal human rights, liberty and self-determination for all people. Justice requires honoring International Law and the Declaration of Human Rights. There can be no peace without justice; and that will take require either a Revolution of love-or BDS: Boycott, Divest and Sanction.

LEARN MORE:

Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel

Open Letter to Artists Against Apartheid 

1. Press Release: Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel

2. Paraphrased from pages 71-73, Apartheid Ancient, Past, and Present Systematic and Gross Human Rights Violations in Graeco-Roman Egypt, South Africa, and Israel/Palestine, By Anthony Löwstedt. Page 77.. 

3. Mail & Guardian, Israel 2007: Worse than Apartheid, by Ronnie Kasrils. 

Other Sources:
Paul McCartney

McCartney will be paid on performance eve

*Eileen Fleming, Reporter and Editor WAWA, Author "Keep Hope Alive" and "Memoirs of a Nice Irish American 'Girl's' Life in Occupied Territory" Producer "30 Minutes With Vanunu" and "13 Minutes with Vanunu"

A memory of Lex's favorite Beatles album

Somewhere back in time it's summer 1977, and I'm getting the hell scared out of me by a strange noise entitled "Tomorrow Never Knows." Although at that point in my life I was familiar with a lot of Beatles songs, nothing prepared me for the aural assault that was Revolver.

It sounded different from all of the previous Beatles records I had acquired.  The sound had a different texture, and not every song dealt with romantic love.  Where my previous Beatles records were charming and innocent, Revolver painted a psychedelic rainbow all over their earlier work.  It was at once harmonic and dissonant, whimsical and melancholy, wry and acerbic.  I didn't know it at the time, but it was destined to be my favorite Beatles record of all time.

It took years to be able to sit and listen to the vinyl without lifting the needle to skip a track.  Granted, most 8 year old kids probably wouldn't sit through George Harrison's Indian-flavored "Love You To."  Maybe Paul's "Eleanor Rigby" was a bit too arty and poetic.  And "Yellow Submarine?"  Come on; that's a kid's song.  I may have been 8, but I was way past singing to the cartoon.  I would learn to love these songs in time, but I fell in love with the obvious songs first.  George's "Taxman" was my first favorite, followed by Paul's "Good Day Sunshine," "For No One" and "Here, There, and Everywhere," and John Lennon's "She Said She Said."

Somewhere back in time it's summer 1987, and the entire Beatles catalog is now available on these new-fangled compact discs.  I buy them all, one at a time.  Revolver is now in it's original British format, with songs I originally found on another Capitol "money-making" compilation called Yesterday . . . and Today.  Suddenly, everything came into focus.  The sound textures all collided and it made sense.  The Beatles experienced a giant growth spurt, and it is most evident on Revolver.

At 18, I could sit still for George's Indian-flavored song, along with his wonderfully dissonant "I Want To Tell You."  John's "Tomorrow Never Knows" far out-stripped any of the "psychedelic" pop that I'd been collecting up till that point.  Add his "Dr. Robert" and "And Your Bird Can Sing," and you get an album that is not only entertaining, but educational.  Released in 1966, it was further evidence that rock music was heading past the point of being "disposable noise."  Revolver, along with Dylan's Blonde on Blonde, the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds and the Stones' Aftermath, proved that pop music was now maturing past "bubblegum."  It graduated to "rock music."

It's summer 2008, and at 39 I'm up (after working a miserable swing-into-graveyard shift) thinking and writing about my favorite band and my favorite album by that band.  I won't bore you with talk about a time when every track on an album had to be an honest reflection of an artist.  Time has changed that.  Maybe it will change again before I'm gone.  One thing that doesn't change is the fact that somewhere, out there, some band is playing Revolver and creating their own masterpiece.

If music is indeed the greatest part of the human spirit, then Revolver will survive the test of time.  It has survived 42 years this August.  Now, if you will excuse me while I turn off my "mind, relax and float downstream . . . "

Currently listening : Revolver By The Beatles

“HAVE YOU SEEN THE STARS TONITE” has landed and

the 2 CD Special set Have You Seen The Circus Tent Tonite

with over 900 rock and roll photos and the Cathy Richardson 70 minute interview, has landed too!

http://www.takemetoacircustent.net

http://www.amazon.com (The books are proudly featured here)

JEFFERSON AIRPLANE- JEFFERSON STARSHIP-

Great Society- Take Me To A Circus Tent

Have You Seen The Stars Tonite

Have You Seen The Circus Tent Tonite

Quality Rock & Roll

Airplane style.

Welcome to the Jefferson CSNY flight:

Thanks for sharing part of the holiday with me. I have a couple of gems from the Rock Tent Vaults. We fly back to 1970 and go to the great United Kingdom. It's David Crosby and Graham Nash performing:

Simple Man

There will be pictures of the show for you as well as the audio. There is a great arrangement of the song by Graham. He is solo at the piano for almost the entire tune and at the very end David walks over to help. Cool stuff from a great rock and roll year. The links as always are below.

Enjoy the show and the photos too! We have over 500 on the ship. From Allman Brothers to Beatles, CSNY to Cream, and Doors to Jefferson Airplane, you can see the past and make it a memory for the future. There are many more artists as well.

A large thank you to Eric and Mark for posting 5 Star Reviews for my new Jefferson Starship book "Have You Seen The Stars Tonite." It is such a great feeling when the people you write for appreciate the end results. It is nice of anyone to take part of a day or night to think enough of me to post a review. The books are proudly featured at Amazon! The Jefferson Starship and the Jefferson Airplane "Take Me to A Circus Tent." THANK YOU all for your support!

Explore and have fun.

Please spread the

word:

The 2 new Jefferson projects have arrived!

Thanks as always!

Relax and have fun!

JEFFERSON AIRPLANE-

JEFFERSON STARSHIP- Great Society-

Take Me To A Circus Tent

I look forward to hearing you later!

The book is Take Me To A Circus Tent (The Jefferson Airplane Flight Manual) W/93 photos, 32 interviews, 543 pages, and a myriad of 5 star reviews!

Please remember at any moment on an Aircast it can be a rare memory from the Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, KBC, Wooden Ships, Marty Balin, Paul Kantner to name several. Maybe another picture previously unseen from the Rock Tent Vault sees daylight from Herb Greene or Don Aters.

For the Crosby and Nash audio and photo flights you can fly here:

http://www.takemetoacircustent.net/media/JeffersonAirplaneTakeMeToACircusTentAircast64candnaresimple.mp3

http://www.takemetoacircustent.net/index.php?pr=J.Airshow_Photos_15_Crosby_Stills_Nash__Sometimes_Young

Please be safe on the roads!

Wishing you a great day,

craig

War Neils Cover-Version von Imagine auf dem Tribute To Heroes Konzerts wegen der Änderung von einer der dekadentesten Textzeilen überhaupt in "Imagine no possessions. I wonder if I can" noch originell, so kann diese erneute Würdigung von Lennon und Co. als durchaus gewagt eingestuft werden.

Darüber wer der beste Pilzkopf war und warum Paul McCartney die öffentliche musikalische Wahrnehmung der Fab Four stärker als John Lennon geprägt hat, habe ich mich bereits an anderer Stelle ausgelassen. Was die besten Beatles-Stücke sind, ist im Gegensatz dazu jedoch weitaus schwieriger zu bestimmen.

Auch wenn Bestenlisten generell eher wenig Sinn machen; sie sind doch manchmal trotzdem notwendig. Gerade in einem umfangreichen Werk können Hitmarkierungen Orientierung bieten. Deshalb habe ich hier die Top 20 mit meinen liebsten Beatles-Songs aufgeführt.

Ich bitte um Beachtung: Obwohl John Lennon in meiner Fab-Four-Sympathie-Rangliste nur kurz vor George Harrison das Schlusslicht mit bildet, wird diese Aufzählung ausschließlich von Jahrhundertsongs dominiert, bei denen Lennon überwiegend die Lead-Vocals gesungen hat. Ob sein Gesang auch ein Indiz für die Haupturheberschaft der Stücke ist, wird nicht mehr genau zu bestimmen sein und war bereits in der Vergangenheit immer wieder Gegenstand von Kontroversen.

Es handelt sich bei dieser Liste auch um eine durchaus subjektive, wertende und zeitlich abhängige Reihenfolge. Die Hauptargumente für die Auswahl, neben den großartigen Kompositionen an sich, sind in den Klammern mit angegeben.

1. Across The Universe (WWF Version)
(Text, Akkordwechsel, Gitarrenpickung, Atmosphäre, Chöre der Apple Scruffs)

2. Happiness Is A Warm Gun
(Titel, Struktur, Gitarrensound, Gesänge am Ende, Atmosphäre)

3. Strawbe