This brought back forgotten times from the early 70s, when I was just back from Vietnam, just moved to NYC, working in Queens and hearing Roy C played on WWRL and WLIB. I thought that late 60s early 70s time period would be the worst of my lifetime. Turns out I might be wrong about that. Thanks for the memories…I think!
You’re right. It is a bit raw, but the message is raw truth. And how I would have preferred seeing James Brown in the Oval Office on the Resolute desk signing and dancing Presidential Proclamations.
Super stuff, Dan! Great to hear this one again. And yes, since November we knew this was coming, that it would be awful, and that the mix of incompetence, insanity, illegality, and self-interest were going to be harmful to say the least. I don't have a punchline. :( Gotta keep fighting the good fight I guess!
That's all we can do, my man — stick together and push back against the swarming evil as if our lives depend upon it, which they do. (Also, I finally got to and answered your email; let me know if you didn't get it and I'll send again.)
Great stuff, Dan! My James Brown-related pick would be “You Can Have Your Watergate, Just Give Me Some Bucks And I’ll Be Straight” by Fred Wesley & The JB’s.
That's a great jam, to be sure — but I've always interpreted those lyrics as saying "I don't care what's going on in Washington as long as *I'm* doing okay," which is not a POV I ever jibed with...
This brought back forgotten times from the early 70s, when I was just back from Vietnam, just moved to NYC, working in Queens and hearing Roy C played on WWRL and WLIB. I thought that late 60s early 70s time period would be the worst of my lifetime. Turns out I might be wrong about that. Thanks for the memories…I think!
I BELIEVE IN DANNY!! YES LAWD, I DO!!!
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You’re right. It is a bit raw, but the message is raw truth. And how I would have preferred seeing James Brown in the Oval Office on the Resolute desk signing and dancing Presidential Proclamations.
Apropos.
Awesome, Dan! Thanks!
Thanks Dan, all sweetly stated. Great history lesson, too.
Super stuff, Dan! Great to hear this one again. And yes, since November we knew this was coming, that it would be awful, and that the mix of incompetence, insanity, illegality, and self-interest were going to be harmful to say the least. I don't have a punchline. :( Gotta keep fighting the good fight I guess!
That's all we can do, my man — stick together and push back against the swarming evil as if our lives depend upon it, which they do. (Also, I finally got to and answered your email; let me know if you didn't get it and I'll send again.)
Great stuff, Dan! My James Brown-related pick would be “You Can Have Your Watergate, Just Give Me Some Bucks And I’ll Be Straight” by Fred Wesley & The JB’s.
That's a great jam, to be sure — but I've always interpreted those lyrics as saying "I don't care what's going on in Washington as long as *I'm* doing okay," which is not a POV I ever jibed with...
True, but I think it also represented a general sense of disenfranchisement that comes from being Black in America.
Which, you know, fair enough!