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Date:         Thu, 27 Aug 1992 10:38:37 EDT
From:         "Michael H. Bloom" <MHB@MITVMA.BITNET>
Subject:      You say you want a revolution

From:         Rick <MMLRICK@UBVM.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Nugent/Patriotism

>Of course not. It was the usual grab-bag of "let's become walking pharmacies"
>or "I have the right to engage in promiscuous behavior with as many pre-age-of-
>consent young women as I want at any time" and "look at me folks my development
>is arrested"  time and time again. Not too many peaks and valleys in his CAT
>scan readouts, if you know what I mean.

I confess to still finding it a bit weird that somebody who stands foursquare
for the pharmaceuticals and the promiscuity also endorses the Republican style
of kneejerk patriotism, "My Country Right or Wrong." It seems like simple self-
preservation would encourage him to separate himself from drug warriors :-)

But then, there's the writings of P.J. O'Rourke...

From:         Walter Keller <WK7@CORNELLC.BITNET>
Subject:      Nugent/Patriotism

>Still on the subject of patriotics, did anyone notice that B.B. King played
>at the republican convention? For Shame, B.B. !! If some of his fellow blues
>contemporaries, white or black, don't give him shit for this I will be
>seriously disappointed. Or maybe he's too big to have them old down home blues
>anymore? Forgot where he came from and where poor people are likely to stay
>from now on under republican rule ??

There's precedent for this too: James Brown campaigned for Nixon; apparently he
thought the Republican program would encourage more self-reliance in the black
community, haul themselves up by their own bootstraps etc. As history showed,
it worked perfectly :-), and Brown himself was repeatedly busted for cocaine
and wife beating. (Sammy Davis Jr. was also photographed embracing Nixon, but
I always figured it was something Frank Sinatra told him to do.)

I hear next month MCA's gonna release Lee Atwater live at Folsom Prison,
another blues legend :-)

From:         "Michael Jackson" <Tinkerbell@Sony.com>
Subject:      who said it

>People ask me how i make music, i tell them i just step into it.
>like stepping into a river and joining the flow . Every moment in the
>river has its song. So i stay in the moment and listen.
>What i hear is never the same. A walk through the woods brings a light,
>crackling song: Leaves rustle in the wind, birds chatter and squirrels
>scold, twigs crunch underfoot, and the beat of my heart holds it all together.
>When you join the flow, the music is inside and outside, and both are the
>same. As long as i can listen to the moment, I'll always have music.

Right. This is the guy that lives in a hyperbaric oxygen tank. When has he
*ever* taken a walk through the woods, other than in Disneyland? Besides, the
beat of his heart is the beat of cash registers all over America. He's also
the one who licenced John Lennon to sell athletic shoes.

The Ted Nugent version:
People ask me how i make music, i tell them i just blow it away.
Like marching in an army and joining the flow . Every moment in the
carnage has its song. So i stay in the foxhole and listen.
What i shoot is never the same. An assault through the woods brings a light,
crackling song: snipers fire in the wind, machine guns chatter and grenades
scold, mines crunch underfoot, and the beat of my heart holds it all together.
When you join the war, the music is inside and outside, and both are dead
meat. As long as i can listen to the combat, I'll always have music.
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