Love, Peace and War songs, 1960's/1970's

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• DrVenture

  January 12 edited January 12

  Alway appreciate FWIW.
  
  I'll see you, and raise you one Fortunate Son. Of course, a cover.
  
  
  
• DrVenture

  January 12 edited January 12

  Colonel Kurtz certainly is reminiscent of a certain someone. So, as heard in Apocalypse Now, arguably an anti-war story:
  
  Let us hope that The End is near for someone.
• DrVenture

  January 12 edited January 12

  OHIO
  
  Live. This one hits hard right now.
• Crash

  January 12

  Ohio. Indeed!
  How about the... "Feel Like I'm Fixin' To Die Rag." Country Joe & The Fish.
  
  
• DrVenture

  January 13

  War Pigs
  
  
• DrVenture

  January 13 edited January 13

  This hits all the buttons - Love, Peace and War
  
  Nothing has changed.
  
  
• DrVenture

  January 13 edited January 13

  Well we're dropping our bombs
  In the southern hemisphere
  And people are starving
  That live right here
  And they're tearing down walls
  In the name of peace
  And they're killing each other
  In the middle east
  But love and happiness
  Have forgotten our names
  And there's no value left
  In love and happiness
  They raise the price of oil
  And they censor our mouths
  If you are a young couple today
  Forget buying a house
  And we wage our wars
  In the neighborhoods
  We kill the young to feed the old
  And men that ain't no good
  Yeah, but love and happiness
  Have forgotten our names
  And there's no value left
  In love and happiness
  So if you sell arms
  Or if you run dope
  You got respect
  And you got hope
  But the rest of us die
  On your battle fields
  With wounds that fester and bleed
  But never heal
  Yeah love and happiness
  Have forgotten our names
  And there's no value left
  In love and happiness
  And love and happiness
  Yeah love and happiness
  Have forgotten our names
  And there's no value left
  In love and happiness
• Crash

  January 13

  Whoa. ON TARGET.
  
  ...I've also learned to like "War Pigs," too. Here's the iteration from Gov't Mule:
  
• Observant1

  January 13

  Crash said:

  Whoa. ON TARGET.
  
  ...I've also learned to like "War Pigs," too. Here's the iteration from Gov't Mule:
  

  I haven't previously heard this version of "War Pigs."
  I like it. Thanks!
• DrVenture

  January 13 edited January 13

  A friend of mine turned me on to this recently, while on the subject
  The Main Squeeze is essentially the ultimate cover band.
  
  
• catch22

  January 13 edited January 13

  War Pigs, the original version was on the reel to reel tapes. This song in particular, left nothing to be discovered; regarding the military and those in command during the 'war' of the period. I recall playing this song to friends who hadn't heard the song; and noting to really listen to the words. Most of them were 'damn'. The song changed some to appreciate another view point.
• Crash

  January 13 edited January 13

  +1.
  
  A.I.: "War Pigs" is an anti-war protest song by English heavy metal band Black Sabbath, serving as the opening track on their second studio album, Paranoid, released in 1970.
  The song was inspired by the Vietnam War, which was ongoing at the time, and reflects the band's opposition to war, particularly the involvement of political leaders who initiate conflicts while avoiding the dangers themselves.
• Crash

  January 13

  Joni Mitchell's "Woodstock." Performed by CSN&Y. (1971. Was it on the Deja Vu album?)
  
  Woodstock was in '69, of course.
  
  
  
• Crash

  January 13

  Joni Mitchell: "Woodstock."
  Remember? Arlo took the mike and informed everyone: "The NY State Thruway is CLOSED, man!"
  
• DrVenture

  January 13 edited January 13

  Closest that I ever came to anything that big was the Super Bowl of Rock at Soldier's Field in Chicago July 1977. I was 17 years old. 70,000 people to see 38 Special, Lynyrd Skynyrd, REO Speedwagon, Ted Nugent & Journey. We got in line at 3:00am and entered at 8:00am. There was plenty of LSD though, so not too unlike Woodstock. We were sitting in the center of the field for the music. Skynyrd crashed that year in October.
  
  
• Crash

  January 13

  I was 15 in '69. But I did get to the Watkins Glen thing. The Band, Grateful Dead, Allman Brothers. 28 July, '73. Nineteenth birthday. Took the parents' station wagon.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_Jam_at_Watkins_Glen
• Crash

  January 13 edited January 13

  We just lost Bob Weir. "Uncle John's Band."
  
• catch22

  January 13

  Another from the reel to reel tracks. One of my all time favorite progressive, rock bands, with overwhelming talent. A large gift, they gave to this/their music period.
  
  Chicago, Where Do We Go From Here, 1970, w/lyrics
• Crash

  12:17AM

  Written by Peter Cetera. I remember him! Lots of stuff in the '80s. Duets with the ladies: Cher, Amy Grant. (So gorgeous, A.G. I wanted to have her children. I first was introduced to her through her contemporary religious music.)
• catch22

  12:24AM

  Recalling sitting at a picnic table in the summer of 1965 (graduation year) and enjoying this new song from The Rolling Stone, named 'I Can't Get No Satisfaction'. A great beat, a common and simple theme; and great on the radio driving music. Much of America was still a "Pleasant Valley Sunday', the Monkees; not yet having a true understanding of the war of my time, Vietnam. Four years later, The Stones have moved from 'Satisfaction' to 'War'. My world, as with so many others had changed in ways we could not have guessed about in the summer of 1965.
  
  Gimme Shelter, The Stones, 1969, w/lyrics
• Crash

  2:19AM

  Yessir!