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This footage was shot using old, analog 8mm video media, so it’s a bit low-res. The audio is ok.
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Tell me why on the corner
all the kids that used to come to run here,
load their guns here
And tell me why it’s okay
to kill in the name of the gods we pray
Tell me who said it’s okay
to die in the name of the lies we say
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Jesse Colin Young’s Ridgetop thrilled me each time I would hear it during my KQRS-listening high school/college days, the 70’s.
Last week, I was greatly blessed to hear spiritual depth in some of his recently recorded Christmas music on Pandora. Then I found this! Jesse is still a peacemaker!!!
Jesse Colin Young plays and talks about Get Together, and his new song, Bring ‘Em Home. His wife, Connie, plays violin.
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJho6iWhnQ0]Jesse Colin Young – Get Together
Jesse Colin Young performs “Get Together” at WNRN in Charlottesville, Virginia on June 4, 2009 before his show at Bel Rio. Song appears The Youngbloods’ 1967 eponymous album.
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The classic Youngbloods version. Jesse sings lead.
1967: The Youngbloods (RCA) – re-released as Get Together in 1971
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4GjhuzMNEY]In this short, Get Together interview, Jesse says,
“It’s about love.”
And conversely,
it’s been too much about ‘fear‘:
Love is but a song to sing
Fear‘s the way we die
You can make the mountains ring
Or make the angels cry …
Come on people now
Smile on your brother
Everybody get together
Try to love one another
Right now
You hold the key to love and fear
All in your trembling hand
Just one key unlocks them both
Its there at your command
Loving everyone perfectly is the key to lock out fear, because only “perfect love casts out fear.” We have to turn the key all the way to the right! Then our hands will no longer tremble.
America heard this truth in the ’60s. May we realize it 40 years later. Let’s make the mountains ring!
Some songs go sideways. Many pull people down. But this rockets straight up — it’s so clean and pure — and infinite as to how high we can go!
[youtube=http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=vAd1QOk80bw]A 1-minute tribute from the stupendous middle section
[youtube=http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ktUqHjXmk2Q]The March of the Clouds
A few of the YouTube comments:
“playing with the finger and the plectrum of God, he could calm an army of sauls.”
“This is the song that God plays at the cloud factory :)”
“If I had to define Phil Keaggy musically, I’d say this: His greatest talent and gift, I believe, isn’t just that he plays so well – its that he also knows exactly where and how to hang each note – as if he’s decorating with the music. He’s an artist more than a guitar player. He just paints with music.”
Apparently, these are from the VHS tape, called “Phil Keaggy Acoustic Guitar Style,” put out by Music Source International.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0Ri3Y8XUJk]Fare Thee Well
Apparently, these are from the VHS tape, called “Phil Keaggy Acoustic Guitar Style,” put out by Music Source International.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3iSiij98VY]The Wind and the Wheat
GORGEOUS song, AMAZING types of craft — but “BEST BEANS, BEST BLEND, BEST TASTE” — yeah, SURE.
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Most of this is excellent. But the Z stuff??
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David Dees’ political satire illustrations set to the tune of Don Henley’s [The Eagles] “Inside Job.”
“Neil is in charge. And that’s not because he demands it. It’s cause he thinks about all this stuff all the time.” – David Crosby
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Since their debut in the late ‘sixties, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young have functioned as the “town criers” of their generation. With songs like “Ohio” and “Find the Cost of Freedom”, CSNY were in the forefront of Vietnam-era protest and anti-war sentiment. Though fondly remembered for their harmonies and love songs, the band has never lost their political edge.
“CSNY: Deja Vu” finds the band heading out on their “Freedom of Speech 2006” of North America, featuring music from Neil Young’s controversial “Living With War” CD. With “Embedded” reporter Mike Cerre aboard, the film documents audience reactions to the music and the band’s ongoing connection with its fans, all against the backdrop of the Iraq/Afghanistan War.
The film also examines events surrounding the Tour in the crucial election season of 2006. Songs from the Tour are woven together with archival material, news footage, and audience reaction and observations, as the film examines the issues surrounding the integration of politics and art.
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Lookin’ for a Leader
To bring our country home
Re-unite the red white and blue
Before it turns to stone
Lookin’ for somebody
Young enough to take it on
Clean up the corruption
And make the country strong
Walkin’ among our people
There’s someone who’s straight and strong
To lead us from desolation
And a broken world gone wrong …
America has a leader
But he’s not in the house
He’s waling here among us
And we’ve got to seek him out …
America is beautiful
But she has an ugly side …
We’re lookin’ for a leader
With The Great Spirit on his side
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If Jah is by my side
I won’t tired
No, I won’t tired …
Your best you try to harm I and I*
Aiming to kill
But I love you still
Cause you are here to make
Prophecy fulfill** (Its Jah will)
No weapon that form against me
Desire shall not be
Divine protection
Shall set my soul free (Talk to me)
If Jah is standing by my side
Then why should I be afraid
Of the pestilence that crawleth by night
* I: replaces “me”, “you”, “my”; replaces the first syllable of seleted words I and I, I&I: I, me, you and me, we Rastafari speech eliminates you, me we, they, etc., as divisive and replaces same with communal I and I. I and I embraces the congregation in unity with the Most I (high) in an endless circle of inity (unity). source
** John 15:20, perhaps? — “Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his lord.’ If they persecuted me [Jesus], they will also persecute you.”
Forgiveness lets life flow again.
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Very touching oldies but goodies that I just now discovered and will never grow old.
Freedom!
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clhO-qPTZ1g]Ron Paul Speaks for Me
Music: Michael Franti & Spearhead, “I Know I’m Not Alone”
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbV_K-augxs]Ron Paul Shares My Values
Music: Michael Franti & Spearhead, “It’s Never Too Late”
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1brJ8tuN8w]The rEVOLution Has Begun
Music: Michael Franti & Spearhead, “Yell Fire!”
“We should be a role model for the world,
not its policemen.”
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So if you’re walking down the street sometime
And spot some hollow ancient eyes,
Please don’t just pass ’em by and stare
As if you didn’t care, say, “Hello in there, hello.”
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Nd6fgL-jv0]Red Rocks, 6 June 2008
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A tribute to the employees of Northwest Airlines. Many of the pictures are courtesy of Airliners.net, song sung by Sarah Brightman and Andrea Bocelli.
“This is a song of reconciliation between children and their parents—between friends. And it’s even a song of reconciliation for nations.”
– Michael Franti introducing Never Too Late in the Live in Sydney DVD
If some of you find the way he phrases his lyric about not fearing our fathers a bit peculiar, please consider that Michael’s step-father was an alcoholic. And now Michael is overcoming that and the other junk, trying to lead all of us into reconciliation! This is a beautiful, incredible human being, y’all—even if we’re not all on the same page spiritually, yet. We’re heading there : )
At the end of the Sydney concert, Spearhead’s bass player, Carl Young, says this to the audience about Michael.
“You know, you got to give it up to this big man who stands about 6-foot-6 above sea-level. And you know he grabs this microphone to take us to another mental level. The big man that always takes a big stand. From San Francisco, California, give it up for Mr. Michael Franti!”
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A252wpIn7J4]Live from the TLA 10/3/07 Philadelphia, PA
Don’t fear your best friends,
because a best friend will
never try to do you wrong.
And don’t fear your worst friends,
because a worst friend is just a best friend
that has done you wrong. …
And it’s never too late to start the day over
It’s never too late to pick up the phone
(pick up the phone and call me)
It’s never too late to lay your
head down on my shoulders
It’s never too late to come on home,
come on home
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Related: Shawn Phillips: ‘L’ Ballade (From the album, Contribution, 1970)
You never ever ever make a deal with the Devil!
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They tellin’ you to never worry about the future
They tellin’ you to never worry about the torture
They tellin’ you that you’ll never see the horror
Spend it all today and we will bill you tomorra’
Three piece suits and bank accounts in Bahamas
Wall street crime will never send you to the slammer
Tell all the children in the arms of their mommas
The F-15 is a homicide bomber
Sean Penn’s intro: “The Who never did sell out. Unlike certain music channels.” [This was broacast on VH1, which certainly has.]
Related: THE WHO: Love Reign O’er Me!!!
[youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=2vwq4fdugU4]Pukkelpop-Festival Hasselt in Belgium, 18 Aug 2006
Related: Michael Franti & Spearhead | Children: “Hello Bonjour”
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“My goal has not ever been to change minds.
My goal is to open minds.
So when people see my film or come to a show,
I want them to say: “Well, that’s a different way of looking at things,
and I’m maybe going to find out more.
I also want people to feel inspired,
so I try to make art that is uplifting.”
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“After 9/11,
when we were in our moment of greatest sadness as a nation,
when we were mourning those deaths,
and all of us were in pain,
this small group of neoconservatives used our pain
in order to set their agenda on its course.”
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‘Til I let go of a broken heart
I let go to an open heart
I let go of my broken dreams
I let go to the mystery
And I believe in the miracle
I believe in the spiritual
I believe in the One above
I believe in the one I love
Even when I’ve fallen down
My heart says follow through
I take one step closer to you
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Everyone deserves music, sweet music
Everyone deserves music, sweet music
Even our worst enemies, Lord, they deserves music, sweet music
Even the quiet ones in our family, they deserve music
So I pray for them and I’ll play for them
So I pray for them and I’ll play for them
Related:
Michael Franti: Bomb the World (”Power to the Peaceful!”)
Michael Franti: Light Up Ya Lighter
Michael Franti & Spearhead | Children: Hello Bonjour
Greg Boyd: In the kingdom of God, we are not allowed to have any enemies
Greg Boyd’s Prayer: Teach us to be free, forgiving even our worst enemy
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People all over the world (Sisters and brothers)
Join hands (join, come on)
Start a love train (ride this train, y’all)
love train (Come on)
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I was going to add “Banished From the USA” to the title, but apparently The Peace Train has been thankfully, at least partially unbanished.
[youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=WlHOV5DOI80]Peace Train Tribute
Oh I’ve been smiling lately,
dreaming about the world as one …
And I believe it could be,
something good has begun
Oh peace train sounding louder
Glide on the peace train
Come on now peace train
Yes, peace train holy roller
Everyone jump upon the peace train
Come on now peace train
[youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=Q7iLPnDCQ1g]Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo, Norway – 11 december 2006
Now I’ve been crying lately,
thinking about the world as it is
Why must we go on hating,
why can’t we live in bliss
Cause out on the edge of darkness,
there rides a peace train
Oh peace train take this country,
come take me home again
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Come take me home, again