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Texas Tweezers

Texas Tweezers
1970
Wake up America!

The album Wake Up, America (Big Toe Records # 1) contained several references to Vietnam, such as the tracks "Our National Anthem", "Chicago", and "The Drug Company". On the track "Texas Tweezers" Hoffman took a phone call on a radio show. The caller attacked Hoffman for being ignorant, an exhibitionist, and for criticising the country, which, according to the caller, would have got him killed in Russia. Hoffman responded by arguing that the US "killed a million people in Vietnam" which damaged her reputation. He then rhetorically ask the caller "what do you think My Lai was, a god damn Connie Island trip".
Caller:
(Continues)
Contributed by dq82 2015/3/26 - 17:07
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Chicago (We Can Change The World)

Chicago (We Can Change The World)
[1971]
Da/From "Songs for Beginners" (1971)
Live version on "Four Way Street" (1971) by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

L'evento a cui si riferisce la canzone di Graham Nash è la convention democratica di fine agosto 1968, nella quale il partito democratico americano doveva decidere il candidato da opporre al repubblicano Richard Nixon, dopo la rinuncia a ricandidarsi da parte del presidente in carica Lyndon Johnson, travolto dalla opposizione alla guerra del Vietnam.

La partecipazione dei giovani, organizzata da David Dillinger (presidente del comitato contro la guerra), Abbie Hoffman e Jerry Rubin (capi del partito YIPPIES - Youth International Party), Tim Hayden e Rennie Davis, leader del movimento SDS (Students for a Democratic Society), Bobby Seale, leader del movimento anti-razzista radicale Black Panthers (pantere nere), aveva lo scopo di imporre una piattaforma pacifista al candidato... (Continues)
So your brother's bound and gagged
(Continues)
Contributed by Riccardo Venturi 2005/3/28 - 22:47




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