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Peter Tosh Live 'Equal Rights" & DownPressor Man 1983 ... Edited by John Dolva
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Cover of a Fugs classic which speaks for itself

Why settle for a cover when you can listen to the brilliant original?

Here’s a live version presumably recorded in or after the 1980s because the updated lyrics mention “min[ing] the harbors a' Nicaragua”

Ism’s I Think I Love You EP has a few candidates for this thread besides there great cover of CIA Man there’s John Hinckley Jr. (What Has Jodie Done to You?) and Nixon Now More Than Ever but the former doesn’t seem to be available on the net.

Cliff Varnell wrote:

Len, as you know, with punk rock the offensiveness can always go up a notch.

What Punk Rock offensive yur $#!tt!ng me :ice:rolleyes::P

GG Allin - ANTiSEEN - Violence Now - Assassinate The President

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFof0PvmHts

It a bit of a stretch but here’s Reagan Youth’s eponymous theme song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IOrM9P_FUU

Lest I be accused of posting a neo-Nazi song, the lead singer/lyricist was the son of Holocaust survivors, the drummer was Jewish as well.

RIP "Tuli" Kupferberg, GG Allin, Dave Youth

This post is dedicated to Terry Mauro and Jim Phillips!!

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VIDEO: Alex Crawford interviews Libyan rebel with stolen Gadhafi hat - World - Video - 3 News

LIBYA: 'Gaddafi's Hat' remix set to go viral - latimes.com

Tell me now you got the hat.

It was only a matter of time.

Noy Alooshe, the

Israeli journalist and musician who brought the world the now famous
of Moammar Kadafi's defiant Feb. 22 speech cursing rebel forces, has just posted a new video.

is crafted from Sky News video that Babyblon posted yesterday showing Alex Crawford interviewing a rebel fighter who identified himself as "Mr. Al Windi" and claimed to have seized Kadafi's iconic military hat (along with a few other items) from a bedroom of his sprawling Bab Azizia complex in Tripoli.

Alooshe was first inspired by Kadafi's rambling speech, and began using auto-tune programming on his computer to set the beat of Kadafi's words to the music of rapper Pitbull's "Hey Baby" (also featuring rapper T-Pain).

(And yes, the original video features clips from Kadafi's speech overlaid with images of go-go dancers, although there were many knock-offs).

Alooshe titled the new song "Zanqa Zanqa" based on Kadafi's repetition of the word zanqa, Libyan Arabic for alleyway.

"House to house, room to room, alley to alley, person to person we will disinfect the whole country from filth," Kadafi says.

The title morphed into "Zenga Zenga" as the video went viral within days via

Facebook and Twitter, becoming a favorite of Conan O'Brien and apparently Kadafi's own family and supporters.

Now the "Zenga Zenga" video has more than a million hits and has been viewed more than 4 million times, according to YouTube (and that's just counting the orginal, clean version).

The new video had fewer than 300 views at last count (far less than Alooshe's 2008

, which mocked a guy obsessed with Israeli Kadima Party leader Tzipi Livni) but had started to catch on with the Twitter crowd.

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Herbert Kretzmer, was asked to write a song about the assassination of John Kennedy within hours of it taking place, for a BBC news programme. The result was "In the Summer of His Years". It was originally performed by Millicent Martin. This is a version by Mahalia Jackson.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVwHPzuK294

The following year Kretzmer wrote the lyrics for that great song, Yesterday, When I was Young. Maybe he was thinking about JFK when he wrote that song. Here is Glen Campbell’s version. I have chosen this one because it also includes the lyrics.

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From the under-appreciated Canadian band SPIRIT OF THE WEST, a song called "The 6th Floor," dating back the better part of 20 years or so:

At the corner of Elm and Northeast Houston

Staring up at the Southeast window

Someone circled allegedly

I refuse to pay six bucks to see

People posing on the grassy knoll

How many was that just him and Lincoln?

I was squinting through the sun, do they count the bottom floor as 'one'?

And I phoned home from the bottom of the building with the '6th floor'

You seem unimpressed at best that I phoned home

From the bottom of the building with the '6th floor' aah-ho

Suitable for family viewing, cracked a joke about who he was screwing

Stood in the centre of a concrete square

(Human nature took me there)

Debbie did Dallas yah, so did I

Found myself taking pictures of a brown stone against a blue sky

blue sky, oh-ho, oh-ho, oh-ho, oh-ho

oh-ho,oh-ho

And I phoned home from the bottom of the building with the '6th floor'

You seem unimpressed at best that I phoned home

From the bottom of the building with the '6th floor'

And I phoned home from the bottom of the building with the '6th floor'

You seem unimpressed at best that I phoned home

From the bottom of the building with the '6th floor' aah-ho, oh-ho

oh-ho, oh-ho, oh-ho, oh-ho

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I’m surprised no one mentioned “Abraham, Martin and John” by Dion. And yes it’s the same Dion who sang hits like “The Wanderer” and "A Teenager in Love" in the late 50s and early 60s.

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I’m surprised no one mentioned “Abraham, Martin and John” by Dion. And yes it’s the same Dion who sang hits like “The Wanderer” and "A Teenager in Love" in the late 50s and early 60s.

Maybe because this was songs FOR JFK RESEARCHERS -- not songs ABOUT JFK?

Here's one for the masses too caught up in the rat race to care...

(but dedicated to John Dolva - it's by the Postal Service blink.gif )

http://committeeforopenarchives.webs.com/apps/podcast/

And Len, my brother... why don't you make a donation while you're there... I know you're rolling in it!)

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Thank you, Greg.

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I feel it comin' on again

just like it did before.

They feed your pride with boredom

and they lead you on to war...

A pox upon the media

and everything you read

They tell you your opinions

and they're very good indeed.

The Soft Boys' "I Wanna Destroy You" -- 12-string guitar wall-of-sound-o-rama!

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I’m surprised no one mentioned “Abraham, Martin and John” by Dion. And yes it’s the same Dion who sang hits like “The Wanderer” and "A Teenager in Love" in the late 50s and early 60s.

Maybe because this was songs FOR JFK RESEARCHERS -- not songs ABOUT JFK?

So you don't think JFK's legacy is important? There must more books about and discussion about his assassination than all other assassination and attempted assassinations put together, why do you suppose that is?

For Cliff:

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