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    Default SWC Theme Song

    Does SWC need a theme song? Of course! here is my first nomination. Anybody join in with suggestions.

    http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=...3&FORM=VIVR13#
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    Default Vanishing Point rules!

    Vanishing Point is a great film! I wrote a bit about Kowalsky and the America he was riding through (away from) here, way back in February. . .

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    Yep, Kowolsky rules! Saw it about 25 times at the Drive In.

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    Default Take the Power Back

    Some of the ole timers will have to turn down their hearing aids, but RATM voice speaks to the greater issues of revolution, grievances, and small wars.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ou0wIUUZ_I

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    Quote Originally Posted by MikeF View Post
    Some of the ole timers will have to turn down their hearing aids, but RATM voice speaks to the greater issues of revolution, grievances, and small wars.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ou0wIUUZ_I
    Quite so! You could throw Children of the Sun in there as well.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Steve Blair View Post
    Quite so! You could throw Children of the Sun in there as well.
    Damn Steve. Just listened to Vietnow. I'm all fired up and ready to mobilize. Problem is that I don't have a grievance or ideology. Maybe we should just stick with something a bit more subtle.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kennethkbryant View Post
    Even with just these few reactions its fairly obvious that the wide variety of opinions on the panel doesn't offer itself to choice of only one associate "theme song".
    Yea, but we are working on that!

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    Here is something I believe we can all agree on.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIz3_3-8cN8
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kennethkbryant View Post
    Even with just these few reactions its fairly obvious that the wide variety of opinions on the panel doesn't offer itself to choice of only one associate "theme song".
    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?
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    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!

    "I can change almost anything ... but I can't change human nature."

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    Quote Originally Posted by TheCurmudgeon View Post
    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!

    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.

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    Default Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner

    does "grow" on one, as one "digs" in.

    Roland has two appealing images; one in black & white:



    and another in color:



    "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.

    Youtube1

    Youtube2

    Youtube3

    Youtube4

    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
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