The Impolitic (Free subscription) | 09/21/2008
Happy Equinox everyone. Here's the song in my head . One of my favorites by Country Joe and the Fish. Seems to fit my mood today as I contemplate the end of civilization as we know it. I'm unpacking the financial sector breakdown at Detroit News today. I expect to be the only one posting so you can probably just start at the top instead of messing around with the archives. Meanwhile here's some reading...
Dohiyi Mir (Free subscription) | 09/19/2008
In which NTodd joins Milgram and submits his demands to the vanquished in installments. (20:36) Features: The Rolling Stones, Country Joe and the Fish, The Beatles, Buffalo Springfield, Gordon Lightfoot. Subscribe, vote and donate! And don't forget PaxLive TOMORROW at...
Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | 09/14/2008
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prefixmag.com (Free subscription) | 09/08/2008
1. Just because the show’s free, don’t confuse it with Woodstock. Despite the fact that admission to the SoCo Music Experience was free (and the near ubiquity of white dudes ...
LP Cover Lover (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008
“Salty Songs for Underwater Listening” Sung by Ruth Wallis Arranged and conducted by Jimmy Carroll.
Truemors (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
“Woodstock” the DVD: Four hours of peace and music, along with a promising stash of extra features. Warner plans Blu-ray and DVD editions of the hippie classic for next summer, in honor of the mudfest’s 40th anniversary. “Newly discovered” performances icome from the Who, Joe Cocker, Canned Heat, Joan Baez and Country Joe and the [...]
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
BURBANK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--On August 15, it will be thirty-nine years ago to the day that some half-million people gathered in upstate New York for a three-day festival featuring some
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 07/13/2008
For a full list of community events, and to submit your event, go online to tulsaworld.com/calendar THURSDAY Woody Guthrie festival Every year, musicians and fans gather in Okemah to celebrate American (and Oklahoma) music legend Woody Guthrie.
New York Post (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
YOU half expect to hear Jimi Hendrix singing "All Along the Watchtower" in this Iraq War miniseries that takes pains to equate the current war with the quagmire of Vietnam. The producers - David Simon and Ed Burns, who made "The Wire" for HBO -...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin We didn't do many supports other than on our first US tour in 1969 when we opened for Country Joe and the Fish. When we got to the East Coast, we were scheduled to open for Iron Butterfly, but we only played one show with them because the crowd were still shouting for Zeppelin when they started their set. Iron Butterfly bottled out after that and Peter (Grant, Led Zeppelin's...
Hugo Zoom (Free subscription) | 06/29/2008
All the little household gods Have started crying, but say Good-bye now, and put to sea. -- W.H. Auden It was the heyday of the Haight Ashbury in San Francisco with bands like Quicksilver Messenger Service, the Youngbloods, the Moody Blues, A Beautiful Day, Country Joe and the Fish, Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, just to name a few making a great impression on me, actually much more than
Democratic Underground (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
Source: [b]The Guardian UK[/b] In the spluttering, bloody, dog days of America's last unprovoked imperialist war, Jane Fonda - arguably the greatest living American - organised huge anti-war rock'n'roll concerts for US troops stationed all over the world. The troops duly attended in their "fuck-the...
Civil War Memory (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
My students are relieved that the AP exam is over and overall are confident that they did extremely well. While I am not a fan of the AP curriculum I do respect my students' commitment to doing well on the...
Wilson's Blogmanac (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
1820 Florence Nightingale ('The Lady with the Lamp'; d. August 13, 1910), English nurse during the Crimean War. A pioneer of modern nursing, she was also a writer ( Cassandra ; Notes on Nursing: What Nursing Is, What Nursing is Not ; Suggestions for Thought (to Searchers after Religious Truth) ; Mysticism and Eastern Religions ) and noted statistician. A Christian universalist, she played an active...
Dohiyi Mir (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
In which NTodd marks an important day and the lessons therein. (17:07) Features: Yes, CSNY, Country Joe and the Fish, Pete Seeger. Bonus links: Kent State shootings, Tangled Morning and Dismal Twilight. Subscribe, vote and donate! ntodd (x-posted at Pax...
