> Urgent: Woodstock 2005 Bands Needed NOW- Crawford, Texas- Drop your sched and GO
7 August 2005, 19:17
Music, yes.
Big-Name bands and electricity and speakers that will blast the Texas White House and Crawford neighbors day and night, no. Let people gather for a purpose, make their presence and posture known, make music, and skip the rock concert. That’s not about political protest, it’s about narcissistic posturing and world-wide publicity for a lot of freaky-deakies, about overflowing Porta-Potties and bad drug trips and meth busts and all kinda shit you don’t even want to deal with. If you crank it up, so will the Secret Service, no matter how righteous your rocking. They run the local power station. And the gas station. And the local lighting companies and sound companies and all the other stuff you’d have to pay for to put on The Concert To End All Wars. Go acoustic and nothing and no one can shut you down. And it costs much less—why go out on a financial limb that far if you don’t have to?
Take a tip from the Rainbow Gatherings. Avoid the "get baked with Willie Nelson while we bust the President and listen to some kick-ass music" crowd you’ll inevitably attract with big names and security details and buffet tables and power generators the size of Greyhound buses. Get tribal, not Geldof. The sound of five, ten, twenty thousand united human voices mingled with some ferocious percussion: now THAT would scare a President.
Music, yes.
Big-Name bands and electricity and speakers that will blast the Texas White House and Crawford neighbors day and night, no. Let people gather for a purpose, make their presence and posture known, make music, and skip the rock concert. That’s not about political protest, it’s about narcissistic posturing and world-wide publicity for a lot of freaky-deakies, about overflowing Porta-Potties and bad drug trips and meth busts and all kinda shit you don’t even want to deal with. If you crank it up, so will the Secret Service, no matter how righteous your rocking. They run the local power station. And the gas station. And the local lighting companies and sound companies and all the other stuff you’d have to pay for to put on The Concert To End All Wars. Go acoustic and nothing and no one can shut you down. And it costs much less—why go out on a financial limb that far if you don’t have to?
Take a tip from the Rainbow Gatherings. Avoid the "get baked with Willie Nelson while we bust the President and listen to some kick-ass music" crowd you’ll inevitably attract with big names and security details and buffet tables and power generators the size of Greyhound buses. Get tribal, not Geldof. The sound of five, ten, twenty thousand united human voices mingled with some ferocious percussion: now THAT would scare a President.
Willie might even come.