I’m from Ann Arbor and hung round the rock scene… I actually helped move equipment for the MC5 at a few concerts.
Category Archives: Music
1969 – I Was There
Sigh…
I actually worked at it. I used to have a pay stub from “Food for Love, Inc.” Don’t know what happened to it.
On This Day: Woodstock opens at New York farm,
On Aug.15, 1969, the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival, often described as a landmark counterculture event, opened on Max Yasgur’s farm near Bethel, N.Y., drawing an estimated 400,000 people for three days of music.
Wut? (Video)
The Doors and The Temptations – “Break on Through (to the Funky Side)”
Fascists Eat Donuts
In 2003 I asked if anyone knew a certain song…
I did get an answer but never posted it. So here it is:
Pop O Pies – Facists eat donuts
Have you been to jail for justice?
“A song by Anne Feeney dedicated to all activists who have been arrested while they were fighting for justice, and especially to: the Haymarket Martyrs, Dr. King, George Carlin, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Carlos from Genoa, all who have been arrested in the Battle of Seattle, Cindy Sheehan, the Belgrade 6, all who have been arrested in the Greek riots and many others.”
Check This Out (video)
REVENGE TOUR from Andrew Carter on Vimeo.
Would This Band Be Big Today?
Serious question, if you saw this band for the first time today would you think they were great?
I think so, but I can’t be objective.
Watch It Fall (Texas this week)
Billy Strings
Well, it’s not so easy now
Though it never was back then
We still can’t seem to work this out
But you can still pretend
And these tattered walls and burning bridges
Quickly start to fall
How long until there’s nothing left at all?
I’ve been to California, man
I’ve seen them city lights
Been stranded in the desert
Scorching days and freezing nights
And I’ll never understand
Why people try to walk so tall
How long until there’s nothing left at all?
Don’t you love what you got used to?
When we used to feel so free
Won’t you wait a while in silence, love
Watch it fall with me
Well, the old men said the great Big Apple’s
Rotten to the core
With Wall Street skimming from the till
While no one minds the store
And how could someone get so low
In a building so damn tall?
How long until there’s nothing left at all?
While chunks the size of Delaware
Are falling off the poles
Our heads are buried in the sand
Our leaders dug the hole
Like junkies hooked on fossil fuel
Headin’ for withdrawal
How long until there’s nothing left at all?
Don’t you love what you got used to?
When we used to feel so free
Come and wait a while in silence, love
And watch it fall with me
Now the answers in our heads
To the questions that were asked
It boils up from underground
And leads us to the past
To a place that’s long forgotten
When we had enough for all
How long until there’s nothing left at all?
Don’t you love what you got used to?
When we try to make our stand
The hourglass is growing empty now
Just to leave a pile of sand (watch it fall)
I Love This So Much
Krishna Das – Maa Durga
Covid Song
You’re Dead
Hear the unloved weeping like rain
Guard your sleep from the sound of their pain
1966, Norma Tanega – You’re Dead
Don’t sing if you want to live long
They have no use for your song
You’re dead, you’re dead, you’re dead
You’re dead and outta this world
You’ll never get a second chance
Plan all your moves in advance
Stay dead, stay dead, stay dead
Stay dead and outta this world
Run fast don’t stand in the sun
There’s too much work to be done
You’re down, you’re down, you’re down
Youre down and outta this world
Don’t ever talk with your eyes
Be sure that you compromise
You’re dead, you’re dead, you’re dead
You’re dead and outta this world
Hear the unloved weeping like rain
Guard your sleep from the sound of their pain
Long gone, long gone, long gone
Long gone and outta this…
Mask, Gloves, Soap, Scrubs