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To: Cautious_Optimist who wrote (33379)	2/26/2013 1:44:50 AM
From: Greg or e	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

You obviously have no idea about what the hippies stood for or what the movement was all about. They were anarchists from the get go and Manson fit right in with them. They talked about free love out of one side of their mouths and revolution and bloodshed out of the other. This is exemplified by the album "Blows Against The Empire" by Paul Kantner and Jefferson Starship featuring Grace Slick, Jerry Garcia and a host of the who's who of the hippie movement although it went straight to the heart of what the movement stood for from the beginning. The album was recorded in at Pacific High Recording Studios and Wally Heider Recording Studios in San Francisco by Kantner and Slick with a collection of musician friends that included members of Jefferson Airplane ( Jack Casady and Joey Covington), The Grateful Dead ( Jerry Garcia, Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart), Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young ( David Crosby and Graham Nash), David Freiberg of Quicksilver Messenger Service and Harvey Brooks of Electric Flag. Also appearing was Jorma Kaukonen's brother Peter Kaukonen, and Phill Sawyer, [5] the engineer at Pacific High Recording studios. The credit to Jefferson Starship reflected many things – the ad-hoc all-star line-up, the album being an evolutionary progression from Jefferson Airplane, and finally the story it relates of the hijacking of a starship. Yes "Though your masters heads blown off you gotta go with it" "the songs are delivered in the kind of improvised, free-form rock & roll representative of the Bay Area bands of the day. Lyrically, the album celebrates countercultural idealism; it is set in a future where the counterculture is able to unite and decide their own fate far away from planet Earth." Manson wanted to start a race war in order to precipitate a revolution that would destroy America and bring about a situation where the hippie anarchists could pick up the pieces and take over bringing about a new Heathen Utopia. The album is a narrative concept album that tells the story of a counter-culture revolution against the oppressions of "Uncle Samuel" and a plan to steal a starship from orbit and journey into space in search of a new home. The original vinyl release is divided into two album sides. "Mau Mau (Amerikon)" launched Side One, a counter-culture manifesto and call to arms. In the context of the narrative, this is the free music being performed in the park, drawing everyone together. "Put your old ladies back into bed, Put your old men into their graves, Cover their ears so they can't hear us sing, Cover their eyes so they can't see us play." "Get out of the way, let the people play, We gotta get down on you, Come alive all over you, Dancing down, into your town." It celebrates late-sixties counter-culture, depicting people celebrating mind expansion and free love, "We'll ball in your parks, insane with the flash of living...calling for acid, cocaine and grass." They've had enough of the military, domestic and abroad, "You unleash the dogs of a grade-B movie star Governor's war...so drop your fuckin' bombs, burn your demon babies, I will live again!" They condemn the divisive strictures of conservative society, and dream of finding a Utopia. Woodstock was the height of the Summer of "LOVE" and yet on the very day after Woodstock The Jefferson Airplane performed "We Can Be Together" on the Dick/Jim Cavett Show. Here are the lyrics of that song. Songwriters: Kantner, Paul We can be together Ah you and me We should be together We are all outlaws in the eyes of America In order to survive we steal cheat lie forge fred hide and deal We are obscene lawless hideous dangerous dirty violent and young But we should be together Come on all you people standing around Our life's too fine to let it die and We can be together All your private property is Target for your enemy And your enemy is We We are forces of chaos and anarchy Everything they say we are we are And we are very Proud of ourselves Up against the wall Up against the wall fred (motherfucker) Tear down the walls Tear down the walls Come on now together Get it on together Everybody together We should be together We should be together my friends We can be together We will be We must begin here and now A new continent of earth and fire Come on now gettin higher and higher Tear down the walls Tear down the walls Tear down the walls Won't you try Yes, Charlie was right in tune with the movement, only he wasn't a sell out like the rest of them.