Band: Emerson-Lake & Palmer
Song: A Time and a Place
I was just reading an interview with Keith Emerson about his new Piano Concerto and the interview asked him why he and Greg Lake never wrote any war protest songs..? Keith says: "Yeah we wrote one in 1971 called A Time and a Place, it was pretty obscure and most people didn't put it together, we never felt our job was to protest anything, we usually just wrote about our feelings"
Most obscure War Protest song: 1971 A Time and a Place
Some lyrics:
Save me from this shallow land, take me out of temper's hand
Drag me from the burning sand, show me those that understand.
Save me from this shallow land, take me out of temper's hand
Drag me from the burning sand, show me those that understand.
Rest in shade, no sound his made,
Where silence is played, sound of silence played.
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Re: Best Obscure Anti-War Song from the 7o's
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 5:40 pm
by Cap'n Cat
"Search and Destroy", Iggy Pop and the Stooges.
Re: Best Obscure Anti-War Song from the 7o's
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 5:57 pm
by houndawg
The Fish Cheer, Country Joe and the Fish
Re: Best Obscure Anti-War Song from the 7o's
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 6:52 pm
by ToTheLeft
They had music in the 70's? Fall Out Boy wasn't born yet, they couldn't have had music.
Re: Best Obscure Anti-War Song from the 7o's
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 7:11 pm
by houndawg
20th Century Man, The Kinks
Re: Best Obscure Anti-War Song from the 7o's
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 7:24 pm
by Gil Dobie
I actually think it was "That Dang Bomb" by the Mutants of Omaha
Used to have the 45rpm, but it left me during one of my relocations.
Re: Best Obscure Anti-War Song from the 7o's
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 7:31 pm
by Chizzang
Gil Dobie wrote:I actually think it was "That Dang Bomb" by the Mutants of Omaha
Used to have the 45rpm, but it left me during one of my relocations.
Awesome..!! I'll check that out...
Re: Best Obscure Anti-War Song from the 7o's
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 10:18 pm
by 93henfan
Nice ELP find. Great fucking band. I'm a prog rock whore, so that's porn to me.
Hardly obscure here, but this performance was before the song was released and many of the lyrics are transposed and/or are different from the studio version. Worth watching once anyway:
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Re: Best Obscure Anti-War Song from the 7o's
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 11:13 pm
by AZGrizFan
Toby Keith: American Soldier.
Re: Best Obscure Anti-War Song from the 7o's
Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 5:31 am
by houndawg
AZGrizFan wrote:Toby Keith: American Soldier.
Toby Keith wasn't yet inflicting his insipid drivel on the music scene in the 70s. Sadly, that has changed.
Re: Best Obscure Anti-War Song from the 7o's
Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 5:33 am
by houndawg
Masters of War, Bob Dylan
Re: Best Obscure Anti-War Song from the 7o's
Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 8:28 am
by Gil Dobie
Chizzang wrote:
Gil Dobie wrote:I actually think it was "That Dang Bomb" by the Mutants of Omaha
Used to have the 45rpm, but it left me during one of my relocations.
Awesome..!! I'll check that out...
Well, I messed up on this one, it's by Frankie and the Mutations. It had a Mutants of Omaha, Mutant Kingdom brochure or something with it. And it belongs in the 1980's anti-war thread.
Re: Best Obscure Anti-War Song from the 7o's
Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 8:59 am
by houndawg
Hey, Fredrick - Jefferson Airplane
Re: Best Obscure Anti-War Song from the 7o's
Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2009 9:31 am
by Skjellyfetti
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Re: Best Obscure Anti-War Song from the 7o's
Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2009 1:07 pm
by Grizo406
houndawg wrote:Masters of War, Bob Dylan
True 'dat!
Probably the best version of the song that I've ever heard was done by Eddie Vedder & Mike McCreedy at the Bob Dylan Anniversary Concert, which I think happened in 1991.
It's on You Tube, and I would have posted it, but the YT site said they were down for maintenance.
It's worth a listen if you're Dylan, Vedder, anti-war song fan.
Awesome..!! I'll check that out...