>>We are suffering from much more oppressive “partisan ‘tolerance’ “ (some freedom of expression more “equal” than others) absolutely forbidding any dissent, than people were in Marvin’s time, exhausted by successive tsunamis of violence and disillusionment, JFK, MLK, RFK, Chicago 1968, Viet Nam, Watergate brewing in 1971. So Marvin asked them for self-reflection, What’s Goin’ On?
They called our troops “baby killers” and spit on them at airports, praised the North Vietnamese at “anti-war” (ha ha) rallies, called police pigs and fascists, called politicians opposed to Communism “fascists”, began a bombing campaign of buildings in the US that reached the thousands by the late 1970s, robbed banks to fuel their “revolution”, praised the Manson family,... they weren’t so much different than the yute of today.
They certainly weren’t more restrained in their actions.
The link just takes me back here?
I always loved that song. That kind of echoey sound always struck me as he was trying to capture the inner city, the buildings do echo sounds.
But, sad as this is, Marvin Gaye died from black on black murder.
That’s actually a pretty simple bass line. I could play that in my sleep.
Thanks for the link. The raw and amazing version. No strings to sweeten it up for white people.
RAW RAW RAW!