What It Is, by Mark Knopfler
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What It Is, by Mark Knopfler
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Pat Boone from the 1966 "Wish You Were Hear" Just come on over and we will hold em till you get hear!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r343YRkQdss
Just a rumor here he is.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ksr2...eature=related
This one is so good I had to put it here to. 1956 The Cuff Links "Guided Missiles" Yes that is a record player, we used to play records in the old days.:D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ31FNp66Go
Here is something I believe we can all agree on.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIz3_3-8cN8
Mix tape time!
(Where's the little pink *heart* Smilie???)
Four year old thread and not a one of you gave a nod to the MOUT origins of this digital rag?
Music from the Billy Jack movie.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qswm7...eature=related
Slap,
No offense to Billy Jack, but I can't abide by "One Tin Soldier" being the them song for the SWJ. Advocates "Peace on Earth". Just like all those Christmas Cards I get. They are all trying to put me out of a job!
:D
I prefer "Life'll kill ya" by Warren Zevon.
I don't either and I debated long and hard about putting it up on this thread but I did it because it was the theme song from the movie which is about how PACIFISM sucks against a corrupt government and the only way that the Freedom School could survive was through the protection and wonderful violent methods of an ex-Green Beret named......BillyJack.
does "grow" on one, as one "digs" in.
Roland has two appealing images; one in black & white:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...mur/roland.jpg
and another in color:
http://behance.vo.llnwd.net/profiles...e2d2dac8ba.jpg
"He" even has "his own" video clip (besides the many Zevon performances), titled "African Bush Wars".
BTW: the scenes in the video clip have nothing to do with Roland, Biafra, the Congo or Mombasa (as its first 10 seconds graphically tell us).
Of course, Roland is an acoustic warrior deployed under artistic license. As such, the lyrics easily present their own mythology and version of history. I suspect that finding a common SWC mythology and version of history - which must underlay a "theme" song - would be as difficult as in 55 Days At Peking (at 03:30-05:45, battling anthems; and especially the clip of the relief column scene).
The realities of "small wars", to those actually involved in those conflicts, extend the conflict beyond military operations to very different perceptions of what happened and why. As an example, these four short clips present the partial viewpoint of one of the professional military units that fought on one side of one small war.
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I suppose if one wants to make a valid historical point about the story told in those four clips, one could fairly say that a butterfly flexed its wings in Lisbon in 1974; and the days of UDI became even more numbered than they had been - thus, end of story, or at least end of chapter, by 1980. But, human nature being involved, the story has more facets than a well-cut diamond, or an ill-cut diamond (and the arguments will continue as to which variant viewpoint should be accepted and which should be rejected).
And, so it has always gone ...
Refs:
For those Warren Zevon fans, go here (100s of clips, e.g., playlists of 9 concerts from 1980-2000, including the 1982 Passaic NJ concert - IMO the best renditions of Roland and Werewolves).
Regards
Mike