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Michael Franti got his guitar, then headed to Iraq. Any requests for anti-war music?
San Francisco Chronicle ^
| 9/7/2006
| Aidin Vaziri
Posted on 09/07/2006 5:58:57 PM PDT by TFFKAMM
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posted on
09/07/2006 5:59:00 PM PDT
by
TFFKAMM
To: TFFKAMM
the songwriter also decided to stop by other Middle East hotspots in Israel and the Palestinian territories to see what was going on there....Let me guess--he somehow "became" a supporter of the Palestinians, though he "had no position" before he went over there?
I won't give them the hit to find out.
To: TFFKAMM
busking in the streets For anyone else who didn't know this word:
busk [busk] verb [ intrans. ] play music or otherwise perform for voluntary donations in the street or in subways .
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posted on
09/07/2006 6:02:38 PM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: TFFKAMM
"[Iraqis] told me afterward that they didn't want to hear songs protesting the war," Franti says. "They wanted to hear songs to make them laugh, dance and get on with their lives." It's no coincidence that Lionel Richie is the most popular pop star in Baghdad.
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posted on
09/07/2006 6:03:21 PM PDT
by
marron
To: Darkwolf377
For his sake, I hope he never comes face to face with the Nuge while he's over there.
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posted on
09/07/2006 6:03:30 PM PDT
by
ButThreeLeftsDo
(Fight Crime. Shoot Back.)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
If this guy has a pony tail I'm going to lash out in anger.
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posted on
09/07/2006 6:07:04 PM PDT
by
zarf
To: zarf
How about two??
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posted on
09/07/2006 6:10:22 PM PDT
by
ButThreeLeftsDo
(Fight Crime. Shoot Back.)
To: Darkwolf377
Actually, the article is pretty vague on specifics, not really worth a read since it doesn't expand on it's only real premise, that the guy has something important to say about his trip to Iraq.
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posted on
09/07/2006 6:11:21 PM PDT
by
saganite
(Billions and billions and billions-------and that's just the NASA budget!)
To: TFFKAMM
It sounds like this guy's lucky his head didn't end up rolling on the floor while his body was sitting upright. What a dumbass.
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posted on
09/07/2006 6:11:33 PM PDT
by
GnL
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Nuge would deal with him. This guy is wasting oxygen and needs to take a dirt bath!
LLS
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posted on
09/07/2006 6:12:35 PM PDT
by
LibLieSlayer
(Preserve America... kill terrorists... destroy dims!)
To: TFFKAMM
[..."We can bomb the world to pieces,
but we can't bomb it into peace."...]
Vapid sycophantic child!
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posted on
09/07/2006 6:13:35 PM PDT
by
Jo Nuvark
(Those who bless Israel will be blessed, those who curse Israel will be cursed. Gen 12:3)
To: saganite
My take was, that he was a typical Berkeley liberal, naive to the point of dangerous, and somehow ignorant enough to think that he could make the world peaceful by playing his sophomoric songs.
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posted on
09/07/2006 6:14:29 PM PDT
by
GnL
To: saganite
The article doesn't need to say anything.
Any musician worth his salt would pull a stunt like this for publicity; publicity intended to impress hot young chicks and getting them in the sack.
Pop music has and will always be a means of getting a BJ.
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posted on
09/07/2006 6:18:56 PM PDT
by
zarf
To: LibLieSlayer
"This guy is wasting oxygen and needs to take a dirt bath! "Make that "dirt nap!"
He looks like he already took a dirt bath . . .
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posted on
09/07/2006 6:29:48 PM PDT
by
guitar4jesus
(Black, Conservative . . . and I vote!)
To: TFFKAMM
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posted on
09/07/2006 6:35:29 PM PDT
by
rawcatslyentist
(I'd rather be carrying a shotgun with Dick, than riding shotgun with a Kennedyl! *-0(:~{>)
To: Darkwolf377
Hey! One of my favorite songs "way back when" was the FISH YELL! while I was in the USMC.
Haven't heard of it? Well it began ....
Gimme an F .....
Gimme a U ......
Gimme a C .....
.....
you get the idea - it came out after Alice's Restaurant (a lot better quality) Did it debut in Woodstock?
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posted on
09/07/2006 7:48:02 PM PDT
by
TimesDomain
(When a judge declares himself "MASTER", you become his "SLAVE")
To: TFFKAMM
Well, we had a great one in SF School, "Napalm Sticks to Kids." Somehow I don't think that's in his repertoire.
Still, props to him for having the nads (or lack of judgment, sometimes that's the same thing) to go there. And I hope it brings him the publicity -- and the Clintonian favors mentioned by other posters -- that he was gunning for (with an eight-man film crew, this wasn't exactly the spontaneous impulse that the damn-fool writer makes it seem).
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
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posted on
09/07/2006 8:13:51 PM PDT
by
Criminal Number 18F
(In which article of the Constitution is the Press assigned a role in government? Precisely.)
To: Darkwolf377
"It's not as if Franti is a stranger to shaking things up. Having moved to San Francisco in 1984, the towering Hunters Point resident first made his mark as a member of the Beatnigs and then later in the Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, the potent early '90s rap duo that updated Gil Scott-Heron's biting political indictments during the first Gulf War and toured the world with U2." I've seen a short indy film highlighting this guy. Believe me, he is definitely a lesser talent but very impressed with himself and apparently charismatic enough to influence immature minds.
Nobody - and I mean nobody - has ever heard of the Beatnigs or the Disposable Heroes of Hipopricy or Gil Scott-Heron outside of a few cellar dwellers and lefty moochers.
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posted on
09/07/2006 8:34:17 PM PDT
by
telebob
To: saganite
I think this is the Chronic's way of publicizing his "annual Peace-in" or whatever he calls it. It's being held this weekend.
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posted on
09/07/2006 8:54:03 PM PDT
by
hotshu
To: Jo Nuvark
"We can bomb the world to pieces,
but we can't bomb it into peace." "Those who start wars never fight them/
And those who fight wars never like them."
Wow, look out Shakespeare and all the great songwriters of the world.
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posted on
09/07/2006 9:52:09 PM PDT
by
Mind-numbed Robot
(Not all that needs to be done, needs to be done by the government.)
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