Posted on 07/06/2023 3:13:52 PM PDT by Be Careful
Bobby Kennedy Jr and Trump are correct....what has happened to the 60's Progressive Anti-War Movement now, 55 years later?...please listen to this again....and forward to all of the young people in your life.
Over and over again
Pair this song with Eric Burdon’s Sky Pilot. 8 min version.
You don’t believe in war, but what’s that gun you’re totin’?
I tote a gun in an attempt to avoid war.
Went on to become a born-again Christian and a ‘Jesus music’ performer.
One can only wish that we on the eve of BiXiden Destruction.
Stop hey what’s that sound, everybody look what’s going’ down
The song was written by P. F. Sloan, one of the better songwriters of the mid-Sixties. He died some years ago. It was Phil Sloan who played the opening guitar riff on “California Dreaming” by the Mamas and the Papas.
Didn’t know that
I think one should also listen to the original, by PF Sloan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcfE9jt8MqU
And now 87 years old
The New Christy Minstrels. Wonder how they divide up the proceeds. Too Mano of them including Denver.
From what I read years ago, he played it at the end of a recording session, but never intended for it to be released. When he discovered the hard way that it had been released (hearing it on the radio while in an L.A. diner), he blew a gasket—he thought his career was done.
You don’t believe in war, but what’s that gun you’re totin’?
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I tote a gun in an attempt to avoid war.
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I do believe in war, but not against the wrong enemy. And I tote a gun for protection against domestic thugs.
I found an old cassette of a Steppenwolf album that I’ve been playing recently.
Their song “Monster” is as timely today as it was 50 years ago:
The spirit was freedom and justice
And its keepers seemed generous and kind
Its leaders were supposed to serve the country
But now they won’t pay it no mind
Cause the people grew fat and got lazy
Now their vote is a meaningless joke
They babble about law and order
But it’s all just an echo of what they’ve been told
Yeah, there’s a monster on the loose
It’s got our heads into the noose
And it just sits there watchin’
The cities have turned into jungles
And corruption is stranglin’ the land
The police force is watching the people
And the people just can’t understand
We first heard it from Radio Luxemburg, a pirate AM station, while I was attending London Central High School (American DoD school) in the mid '60s.
Very timely. I have posted that before.
Hitler once said that for the good of the German people, there should be a war every 20 years.
What a repulsive and disgusting comment! But our neocon/Deep Staters are advocating the very same thing. They just use more polite language.
And now a word from some guy who was definitively not a 60’s hippie:
“In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Stop hey what’s that sound, everybody look what’s going’ down”
“For What It’s Worth” by Buffalo Springfield.
Everyone thinks that was an antiwar anthem but the song actually was inspired by “the Sunset Strip curfew riot” of 1966.
Hollywood businesses were fed up with SoCal teenagers (I was one) loitering and creating a nuisance and driving away business. So they imposed a 10pm curfew with the predictable result of teenagers and idiot Hollywood celebrities protesting and getting arrested.
Mamas and Papas did backing vocals on Barry McGuire’s album before they recorded their first M&P album.
IIRC, McGuire introduced M&P to Lou Adler (Dunhill Records). Later, Adler would marry a rising young star...Shelly Fabares
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