Best Obscure Anti-War Song from the 7o's

Chizzang · Post by **Chizzang** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 5:25 pm

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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Post by **Cap'n Cat** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 5:40 pm

"Search and Destroy", Iggy Pop and the Stooges.

houndawg · Post by **houndawg** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 5:57 pm

The Fish Cheer, Country Joe and the Fish

Post by **ToTheLeft** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 6:52 pm

They had music in the 70's? Fall Out Boy wasn't born yet, they couldn't have had music.

houndawg · Post by **houndawg** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 7:11 pm

20th Century Man, The Kinks

Gil Dobie · Post by **Gil Dobie** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 7:24 pm

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.

Chizzang · Post by **Chizzang** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 7:31 pm

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...

Post by **93henfan** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 10:18 pm

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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Post by **AZGrizFan** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 11:13 pm

Toby Keith: American Soldier.

houndawg · Post by **houndawg** » Sat Oct 31, 2009 5:31 am

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.

houndawg · Post by **houndawg** » Sat Oct 31, 2009 5:33 am

Masters of War, Bob Dylan

Gil Dobie · Post by **Gil Dobie** » Sat Oct 31, 2009 8:28 am

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.

houndawg · Post by **houndawg** » Sat Oct 31, 2009 8:59 am

Hey, Fredrick - Jefferson Airplane

Skjellyfetti · Post by **Skjellyfetti** » Sun Nov 01, 2009 9:31 am

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Post by **Grizo406** » Sun Nov 01, 2009 1:07 pm

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.

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