Why the name Ranch Chimp? it was in humour because, science says that humans have similar DNA to a chimpanzee,so I felt some way related biologically to a chimpanzee. 2nd, everytime I was out of Texas on a vacation or for whatever reason I’m always asked things like, do I live on a ranch?,or have cattle? so I commonly call Dallas the Ranch. "Politically Depressed" was also humour inspired by the 1993- 2002 Bill Maher TV/ tele show "Politically Incorrect".
This is a crew that I just had to get into this journal's music/ arts honour roll society because of just how uniquely and multi- talented this crew is, called "Stolen Babies" out of Los Angeles (LA just has such a line- up of great inde music as well), and I also had the opportunity to catch their show "live" last year here in Dallas in an intimate type smaller venue/ setting which was really excellent as far as live sound too! But yeah, a pretty unique sort of line up as far as starting with their high school theatric's more or less with a dozen or so, then incorporating those aesthetic's as some type of theme for the music they would evolve into over time I reckon, been together since 2004, took a break away from each other for awhile and restructured. Really a treat as far as musical creativity and being instrumentally versatile as well.
One of the thing's that really grabbed me as well was not just the style, but the vocal abilities and range of Dominique Persi, who likes to throw accordian music into her performance too that sway's along nicely, the rhythm pattern's out of the bass/ guitar are all over the place from Rani Sharone as well as the drumming of his brother Gil. I really cant put this crew into a genre though, there are so many element's that take's them into different genre's, and I catch everything from metal to dark cabaret, but looking at the write- up's, there's at least a dozen their categorized into somehow, and you can also see from their alternative influence's how they evolved into what they are. But with this new surge they had in 2012, I really look forward to what they will be coming out with in the next few year's too, this is just an interesting crew and sure as Hell musically entertaining! ... Wishing them the best of the best too! ... Enjoy!
For Part 2 of Charlie and Part 22 of the "Incarcerated American" series, I wanted to highlight his courtroom testimony that is what I alwayz looked at as a reflection of society so clear and straight to the point, because each and everyone of us are a reflection of our societies, but this is a great piece, probably the best thing that came out of Charlie's mouth at that trial and covered/ acted out by actor Steve Railsback so well displaying the passion and truth of what the man sayz from the 1976 movie "Helter Skelter". Another favourite of mine would have to be Rev. Jeremiah Wright's "Sermon on the Hood" that was equally criticized by our politipop culture society. Also included is a short and straight interview and a sample of Charlie's music in 1967 when he was a free man.
I wanted to post a picture above of a young Charlie well dressed, since all the most pop cultured picture's of him so loved are in his latter year's, above you see a nice looking young man who "if" he didnt have the type childhood and parenting with all the bad luck thrown his way, could have been probably a respected citizen having even accomplishment's under his belt, such as with his music, etc. I post this because of what this newly risen corporate legislated establishment of today is turning our children into with their games and screwing our kids more than ever on everything from education to everything else which will be a foundation to how they turn out and what they are having to go through. I look at Charlie as a portrait of an American scapegoat because of what I point out in Part 1, the fact is that this man has been in prison for over 40 year's for a crime committed by other's who blamed it on him, and Charlie wasnt even anywhere's near the crime scene at that. If you want honesty ... listen or read below.
Dana Fuchs Band- Helter Skelter (Beatles Cover) ... Thanx to DANA FUCHS **** I wanted to post this song by the Beatles that was widely also associated to Charlie ... and the movie title of the above movie clip as well. But there probably isnt anyone that I love to hear more than Dana Fuchs doing this classic, her voice just makes me melt like Janis's did when I was a kid, and what an outstanding vocalist Dana is, again ... some of the best vocalist's I ever heard came out of gospel church choir's, such as Whitney did too, and Dana is also one of those. This will also be included in the journal's "RCJ Music/ Art's Honour Roll Society" ... Enjoy!
Part 6 of the "Public Parasites" series will definitely have to go to Hawaii state representative Tom Brower, and Thanx to Abby Martin, host of the show "Breaking the Set" and her presentation below bringing this to my atencion where I first heard this, and I didnt even know who Tom Brower was to be honest, so I had to do a lil reading up on him. But this is Tom's way of tackling the homeless problem in his beautiful State of Hawaii, and he sayz for now that his mission is accomplished after busting up the cart's and/ or property of homeless people, although I dont see how? But Tom apparently thought he would be some local hero and appear's on camera to be a real tough guy, you know, cracking down and all that other good shit, which is easier to do I reckon in a place like Hawaii and get away with it, I doubt he would have the same luck in a town like Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, or even Dallas for that matter. One of the problemo's though is, it is in part because of alot of our political representation across our nation why we have such an increased issue with homelessness, and I wonder how much property he may have destroyed that may have belonged as well to one of our homeless veteran's even?
But I know that he is also a loved guy and supposed to be in support of gay marriage and all the pop culture stuff, and a so called liberal, etc ... which is nice and all of that of course, but frankly Sir ... in my eyes your a piece of shit basically (and I would tell you this shit straight to your face, I dont put my picture and PO Box number and phone on this blog for nothing), and frankly I wouldnt give a shit if you supported marrying Barbie Doll's, fucking duck's in the ass, and smoking crack/ rock, I can tell ya straight up if I was on the street as a homeless person and you done this to all I had, I would be in your ass quicker than flies on day old shit! Enough from me and more below.
**** NFL UPDATE: Congratulation's to the Dallas Cowboys who just got finished beating the New York Giants in Jersey, I mean this was not only a NFC East battle but game of the day, and Dallas now is tied for first place in the NFC East with Philly's Eagles. But also a game just started that is a big one to me on NBC Sunday Night Football, because the 9 win/ 1 loss Denver Broncos are in Boston at the 7 win/ 3 loss New England Patriots, and this ought to be a kick ass game, with New England playing at home with so much pressure on them!
This is not the biggest news or talk of the week, as a matter of fact, this week it's politician's owning up to the fact that they smoke crack cocaine or whatever in Canada and U.S. ... I mean, one down in Florida said in a news confession that his wife was his "rock", yet law enforcement agent's that busted him say otherwise, that his "rock" is the kind that he bought on the street (cocaine) ... so buying street cocaine show's just how cheap he is as well {: ) ... No, frankly I dont give a shit if they use one dope or the other, meaning that many of them use legal dope that is just as addictive these dayz, getting prescribed thing's like Adderall or Oxycontin, so frankly there isnt even any need anymore to buy street meth/ ice, crack or even heroin, and most folk's in high place's are just as doped up as any street doper if they choose to be, and legally ... no biggie eh? Also let me add that many of those in higher places of society do these pharma opiate's, speed, etc, that are more expensive than street heroin, cocaine/ rock, speed/ meth, but it's ALMOST identical in the high, that is why the lower classes are addicted more to the street/ underground drug, because it's cheaper and you dont need a personal doctor to prescribe them to you, so what these folk's do who are addicted to the pharma drug's are no different than any dope fiend on the street, such as Rush Limbaugh was for example. Working poor class folk's get jailed and convicted, these folk's get fund's from us for rehab's and reinstated to their position's and get paid the whole time, and are the ones who legislate on behalf of the pharma companies, that is just how corrupted this nation is. What I am concerned more about though, is what many of these folk's in Washington are doing as far as their job's, eh? I mean ... you can fuck Rubber Duckies or get wasted on dope for all I care ... what are ya'll doing about our issue's while ya'll are getting great paycheck's and benefit's?
We really have very weak government representation when it comes to this sort of thing too, even telling us what some of these companies tell us that "you need to shop around". Well, we really need to shop around on getting some of this worthless crew out of Washington to be honest (on both sides at that). Now, can you imagine that you have to get some kind of sudden surgery (no matter if you got whatever colour, brand, plan or whatever of insurance) ... and then you have to shop around on top of it? how in Hell do you do that when they are already operating on you? or do you get online right before the surgery and bid like at a goddamn auction and/ or compare price's?, and most of these place's wont even dislose any of that info to you at that, and how in Hell would you get accurate or even close to accurate figure's when the billing is all after the fact? I really think this is so strong in America because for one of the enormous wealth here, and because I dont really know what other large scale country that would even tolerate this? I bet alot of countries would toss out these companies on their ass. And because we have an overall majority of representation in Washington that constantly like so much else sweep's this kind of thing under the rug, over and over and over and hardly ever addresses a damn thing on this, those who do are indirectly silenced in some fashion. You may say it isnt government's job to clear this up ... but do you expect any of these companies/ hospital's to do it? ... THINK!
So I wanted to post on this ABC News investigation, because this should be BIG NEWS! I call this "HealthCare PART F", cause frankly were getting "fucked" ... and the "Green Plan" ($$$$) as the mandatory alternative to the Bronze, Platinum, Gold, Silver or Red- White & Blue plan's or whatever their called. We been saturated with talk about affordable healthcare, and everyone has been fiddle faddling with what the President tried to make good on, ripping it to shred's, adding this, taking out that, while telling us that we as American citizen's need reform and cut's on every bloody goddamn thing from our municipal services, entitlement's, retirement's, education, etc, etc, thing's that we solely pay for at that! This shit has been going on for year's and get's worse year after year after year, I started this series nearly 4 year's ago, and as usual, were still debating and stalling the same shit now as we were then. You have to wonder as an American when you see this ... who in Hell is doing any bloody thing about this? I can only imagine what some folk's think in foreign countries that REALLY do have healthcare across the board for the human species that is affordable, thinking of what a fucken nightmare America must be on this avenue. More below ....
This posting to look at the importance of this to the "Awakening" and how "Public Patriot's" come in ALL classes too. Now whether you love or hate, or have any feeling's or opinion of these folk's, it is importante to hear them out here. As I explain throughout this series, the importance of the pressure's, suffering, and anger that we are now going through ... is healthy, for it's part of our enlightenment to come, and for ALL classes, races, gender's, communities, societies, etc. I am not trying to advocate the idea here either that "privatization" of everything is an answer, government is alwayz needed and to be a seperate entity that does it's responsibility as well. I feel we need to be far more versatile and open to many new idea's today to deal with todayz issue's in a world that has changed. These are individual's making this pledge, not some anonymous corporate/ international investment banking entity who doesnt disclose a damn thing in other word's, eh? They are shareholder's in so much of the big- game? Of course they are, and of course when folk's contribute I believe they ought to get greased and returned a favour, so I am not against even tax break's either ... if their corporation fail's due to bad judgement, bad oversight/ management, bad investment's, etc ... they need to solve that on their own, it's not government's responsibility on that end, so this is alot different than the corporate communism that I write about in this journal. I dont believe in other word's that we can just "bailout" every bad investment/ gamble, just as I personally wouldnt expect the government/ taxpayer's to bail me out if I lost my entire saving's in a casino at my own hand and choice, or at the horse- betting track, or if I made a lousy investment into a lousy venture, eh?
Before the "60 Minutes" presentation, I want to add a video from RT America where Lori look's at folk's like Warren Buffett as hypocrite's (and I like Lori and her commentaries too), but I dont care about what Warren does or how much tax he pay's ( Again ... taxing rich folk's to death is NOT going to clean up the outright corruption that goes on, nor is a silver bullet, eh?) or whatever, I'm looking for money to generate investment in various sector's where it's needed, instead of all being ratholed offshore, eh? As far as hypocrisy? ... we are all in part of the hypocrisy, I myself am whenever I fill my car up with gas from Exxon/ Mobil, or when I choose an internet provider such as AT&T U- verse, or Time/ Warner, etc, etc ... the media's even like RTA that advertise and except the money from major corporation's for their ad's are doing the same, etc, etc ... get my drift? It take's time to broaden the field of competition as well, just like anything else. Then below, the "60 Minutes" video or newsread (take your pick), then I want to add a bit after.
Thomas Hudson Pickering (aka "Ranch Chimp" & "Commie Tommie") with other half (wife) Rosalie Recto Vinas (2013)
Alot of folk's will have alot of different opinion's about this, and in these time's many will also be against it saying for instance that these folk's will get also tax write- off's, not lose a dime, they will have too much personal control over people, government/ community, etc, etc. We also worry too about what conservatism has became in these time's, from the wealth to corporate communism to religious fundamoralism oppression, and instead of embracing traditional American democracy and only changing slowly (conservatively), we have seemed to go backward's with no change, capitalism has even became an evil word, etc. Yet ... it took this to come to this conscious reality ... and being awakened and enlightened to what become's when we lose control, a reality that even those with the most wealth will feel and see and learn from ... in time. Every empire, culture, and land has went through this time and again if you look at history, and like the past ... this will also be history one day. But humanity will alwayz move forward as long as it continues to exist ... just a few bump's in the road and a few good healthy battle's here and there.
It's true we will alwayz have that element of a handful that will never change and alwayz be excessive in their greed or whatever, just like assholes will be assholes, and aint gonna change, heh, heh, heh, heh, heh {: ) But more folk's will wake up to smell the roses rest assured. As for these several folk's of wealth, do I think their sincere? I dont have no reason not to, it make's clear sense. Set aside the fashionable addictive financial intoxication cult wave that were experiencing, and even conservatively and democratically looking at the reality ... there is more than enough wealth and idea's to even spread it further around the species while keeping capitalism alive and well and adding a tad of socialism ... it cant be done you wonder? No ... it can be done as soon as the majority of us on the left and right both get our head's out of our asses.
These folk's are seeing reality for what it is, again ... none are going to the poorhouse, yet because of their commitment, it will keep many fold out of the poorhouse, it make's common sense ... when this achieve's a decent amount of atencion and result's and like any fashion spread's further and deeper as part of a culture overall, our democracy will improve ... poverty, crime, war, hatred and everything else ill related will also slowly decline, and you will see you have many more winner's than loser's in the long- run ... it's simply good business, which is truely more conservative and pro- business. Will these folk's get tax break's? So what if they do, one hand washes the other ... again ... I am not out (as I write throughout this journal) to condemn wealth, especially to those who "really" earned it ... I want to also hand out the olive branch (just like our President, which so many on his own side dont seem to understand his thinking) ... I want ya'll's business/ partnership's and money/ investment's, I want to see more investment's in our nation as well, and work together improving capitalism and at the same time protecting our environment more and people ... and we'll all win much more in the longrun!
This crew has been around for nearly 20 year's now and a very well seasoned and versatile group musically, they have managed to blend well into the commercial industry, yet at the same time able to keep their raw root's very strong, especially their political and philosophical view's which are very strong, and have been very open as far as incorporating a variety of instrumental change- up's too, not focusing on fitting into any genre, and frankly not sure where they are on that either, nor care much. Music influence's have been everything from Middle Eastern music to Zappa & The Mothers to Van Halen, and it's very clear as well in their art! I also think that Serj is a very strong front man and well rounded not just on vocal's but instrumental and composition- wise, producing, and incorporating political activism, which set's a sort of trade mark on that end.
But starting in the trenches at local Hollywood joint's, they caught the atencion of Rick Rubin too, and basically took off into the mainstream, as well as getting nominated 4x times for Grammy's and receiving one on their B.Y.O.B. piece which shot off around the globe. I like to focus on this crew as far as success in selling their product, yet staying serious to their base values, because they have achieved both, without becoming too over- produced or homogenized and open to expansion and idea's, despite heavy corporate recording influence's, contract's, etc. I was explaining this to a couple young musician's locally just last weekend, Hannah (a guitarist born in Israel who brought "City Rats" to my atencion) and her boyfriend Gabriel (bass guitarist) who graduated high school a couple year's ago and have played together since their senior year in high school, today are trying to find their root's and starting a project, looking to recruit a crew who is with them on thought, yet like many new in the industry and club scene's feel that if they change up too much and not stick to focusing on a specific genre and get pigeon- holed into it, they cant establish a strong following or are looked at as selling out, so this is a perfect example of keeping your root's and still moving into a more mainstream sound with it, dont worry or think much about it, let it like water naturally seek it's own level, eh (?), just stay with what's in your heart is my advice.
Below I wanted to highlight a couple of their official studio video pieces first and then a couple live pieces that are favs of mine ... and looking forward to more to come from these gent's! Enjoy! ....
Part 15 of the "Police Brutality" series will be another case that I took an interest in because of how close this is to call on what happened here and who is in the wrong? ... and I will be curious to see where this case goes, and have a good idea right now. But I will also have additional input here as to why I think this is a case of clear excessive force by overly aggressive police, and what I see as a new form of racism rising in America cloaked in classism. It's easy to assume looking at this, that this is another case of a mom putting her kid's in harm's way such as this case with Miriam Carey in Washington D.C. ... but looking deeper into this, I find it very clear what happened which so many in the mainstream say they CANT figure out yet, this case is nothing like the Miriam Carey case, nor do I believe that this mother was neglecting her kid's and damn sure didnt think of this as harming the kid's, but instead, a desperate scared mom sticking her neck out to try to save her children from danger, which I will explain below after the newread and video. I also want to commend Ms. Farrell's 14 year old son for his straight up bravery and trying to save his mom from these out of control cop's ... you are a brave young man Sir, and did DO the RIGHT THING!
***** OTHER THOUGHT'S: I also wanted to add here that my daughter Bear viewed this one earlier and had an opinion to this, saying that this woman is so dumb to even put herself in a situation like this when she get's pulled over by driving off. She also said that she should be cut some slack though by the court's, and the court's probably will since she is black and the reaction's physically of the cop's, but agree's that the cop's acted like they would normally do in a situation like that, that the woman provoked her own situation. And Thanx also to my daughter Bear for her opinion on this.
Thomas Hudson Pickering aka "Ranch Chimp", "Commie Tommie" and "Skool" (short for 'old- school') to the kids locally
Ms. Farrell was genuinely frightened for herself and her children and is why the chase speed's went to 100 mph, and most likely she thought they were going to all get killed is why she took them on such a speed chase, notice that she pulled over in front of a large hotel in a less rural area to surrender, which is the right thing to do, the reason she accelerated like that was because her adrenaline was pumping from the fear, because in a pursuit with aggressive cop's like this, they will damn near tailgate you, and your reaction is fear that they will cause a wreck, so you unknowingly accelerate just trying to keep distance without realizing your speed, you look more in your rear view mirror in a tense situation like this and less at your speedometer. Lord know's that with the way these cop's responded from physically trying to drag her and harm her to beating out car window's in front of frightened children screaming to shooting at her vehicle, she had every reason to think these cop's were out to kill her and her kid's, and responded to such in an appropriate manner, and I hope that this woman's lawyer's will clearly pursue such explanation in court at the trial. This woman was in a rural area of New Mexico who is from a major metro area of Memphis (TN) which can be a scary experience for any young lady ... there was no reason that from her experience that she should not fear of not only her kid's life, but wonder even if these cop's action's were legit ?, and fear that she may also be sexually assaulted and even murdered and left in a hole in the desert. Unlike the Miriam Carey case where it was in a heavily populated national high secured area for terrorism (the Capitol) and trying to crash the gates and run over police officer's to do so. Ms. Farrell was actually trying to save her children and rightfully so ... and the evidence is clear as day just looking at the video's alone.
There is no reason in Hell for any officer to react like this when they already seen the driver face to face, and the children, the travel pouch on top, with the out of state plates which they already called in and got a non- want response from dispatch on before they even pulled her over for the speeding violation when they run her tag's on the computer, a common speeding violation of simply 16 mph over the speed limit, I say common because many folk's (including myself) drive well over 90 mph in rural road stretches, she was only doing 71 mph. Which also tell's me that she is not familiar with the area, being that I have drove in rural Taos County N.M. several times myself and know to slow down because of the heavy cop radar on speeder's there, these more rural area's make their money on these speed trap's, and this area of Taos County is a well known one.
So why did the cop(s) get in such high gear? ... well ... where Ms. Farrell fucked up was trying to drive away after the initial stop, which tell's me right there that she isnt very criminally savvy ... this automatically changes a citable situation for the officer into a felony fleeing mode by law ... therefore the cop just react's like such without much thinking, they respond to offenses as the book's/ rules instruct, not instinctually, and are trained to act swift in emergency situation's, also this is a very highly travelled/ trafficked area in the illegal drug running trade, which show's again that Ms. Farrell isnt very criminally savvy. The cop automatically assume's that he has a "live one" (so to speak), a "runner", and pursue's it like she is trying to evade with criminal felon intent as reason. Yet at the same time, the aggressive move's by the cop(s) is clearly out of control and excessive. And race does play a factor in this, I doubt that the reaction's of the officer would have been the same if it were a white yuppie- ish couple with their kid's in the minivan. And these reaction's today are more common than I ever seen since way back in the 1960's with this class thing of today especially ... which enhances the targeting of folk's of colour.
I think the smart thing to do is for the court's/ jury to see this for what really happened here and drop the case against her and her son if anything (but no, I dont think she has sufficient ground's for civil action either against the department, at least in a court suit pursuit) ... including this petty pot (marijuana) pipe violation which is a waste to pursue of the court's time and tax money, and to definitely reprimand these officer's, perhap's sending them back to the academy for some retraining courses too! {: ) She was trying to only flee because of the rural surrounding's and get to an area where there were some people around, yet she shouldnt have let the cop intimidate her in the chase by getting too close, that was the reason for the intense speed increase, the cop should have kept a distance but close enough for clear visual ... and just continue to follow the vehicle, because in a case and chase like this when called in for backing you have your ground crew as well as air patrol, so you wont lose the subject/ suspect no way either. The beating out of the vehicles window's clearly show that the cop also lost it mentally momentarily, because if this was a criminal felon, he could have ended up shot dead right there in a heartbeat, being he put himself in a very unsafe and irrational position. Wishing you the best of luck Ms. Farrell!
Part 12 of the "Dont Be Alarmed" series will be to show a recent show of what illegally legislated austerity measures can lead to, and not just America, but this will be global, heh, heh, heh, heh, heh {: ) And I salute my neighbour's in Lousiana for the wake up call to America! {: ) Is this morally wrong? of course it is, however, when you have criminal's dictating who have no regulation's on themselves in our government and their corporate allies ... all rulez change, eh? ... dont whine to us ... ya'll created the reality that's to come, heh, heh, heh, heh, heh {: ) Is it criminal? ... well ... what ya'll do when you rob the American people like ya'll have been ... that's not criminal, is it? Beside's ... ya'll want us to consume and spend like ya'll dont you? ... you know, for the holidayz and all that other good shit, eh? ... well, that's what these folk's are trying to do, stimulating the economy {: ) You will cut us off? ... believe me ... in time the people are going to cut you off ... you will learn, or you will perish ... in time.
Of course the people will have to expect to get penalized (temp suspension of benefit's) ... and so be it, we are a nation of penalizing ... the talk is about criminal charges by some folk's ... dont be so dumb and silly, are you going to try to track those who left their cart's when the glitch was fixed, eh? and try to penalize/ charge on that? ... you cant you liar's, and you know it, without 'involving' the store in the action's as well. Are you going to charge the store for knowingly continuing to check groceries out, when they knew clearly that there 'must' be an error? (maybe so, then you'll have nationwide protest's to deal with ... on how ya'll treat minorities {: ) ... and where would you find a jury/ prosecution to indict/ convict ... Wall Street? ... and on what ground's looking at existing law's? Once again ... ya'll fucked up as usual, not the people {: ) Just like you fucked up giving all of our fucken surplus and taxes away to corporate subsidies and failing incompetent investment banker's to invest and create job's in the poorest undeveloped nation's to try to rob more people in those countries of their natural resources and slave labour. More below ... Enjoy! {: )
***** NOTE: I call this austerity push above 'illegal' because it actually is what normally in our society would be illegal, when a few corporate entities basically buy, sell, and draft up all the legislation to do this with their lobby power in Washington (legislation that is supposed to be for/ of America's districts, communities, and majority of people), many of those lobbyist's ex- politician's even, that we have on the payroll as well while doing so for life, and those are dictated through anonymous sources popularly called 'citizens united'. Most people that do this sort of slithering bribery would be investigated and probably imprisoned in a true democracy type society such as this country and what it was designed as. We're about as broke ONLY that they make us through taking all of our money in the first place for their special project's, not because we hand out too many entitlement's.
Of course it's about bloody time that Chuck Berry is inducted into this journal's music/ arts honour roll society, this is another great who need's not much intro as far as his influence on rock and roll music across the board, and obvious as well of the impact T- Bone Walker even had on him ... also Berry was such an influence on and idolized by Keith Richards (Rolling Stones), what was R&B for Chuck became rock and roll for the world basically and quite an impact on the shaping of todayz rockabilly too, and anyone who was anyone in this industry from past to present in those genre's brushed elbow's with this gent, and what a history behind Chuck. So many have covered this icon's work as well over the year's, in every contemporary related genre.
Chuck is as smooth as they come on his guitar lick's, in a way for me reminding me of the term they used for Eric Clapton when they called him "slow- hand" (being he moved so swift and smooth it looked in slow motion), Chuck is that smooth, and not only those classic lead picking's ... but those rhythm's really rocked, and I dont even think they used "Fingerease" back in them dayz, you just had them calloused fingertip's heh, heh, heh, heh, heh {: ) ... hallow body electric's and old school tube amp's {: ) As for his live performances, he could have a crowd sitting on their asses in a dance frenzy in less than 5 minutes and had his own famous strut's while he played all over the stage while rocking a dance crowd! Chuck toured solo alot using local band's in cities for a backing band in his performances, and thousand's must have played with him doing so over so many year's ... and he still playz!
Below I chose a few of his well known classic's to post and wanted to post the old school pieces as far as video just to capture that great moment and spirit in rock and roll history, including for anyone who may be as old as me ... off the tele show "American Bandstand" we loved to catch weekly when we were kid's. And BIG Thanx Sir for all the great music you inspired us with ... Sincerly! ... Enjoy!
This Part 29 of the "Global War'n'ing" series will be to look at Thorium for energy need's. A Hell of a morning though to be writing about global warming related, being that temperature's this morning across Dallas- Fort Worth are in the 20's ... but ... it's that time of the year, I got new neighbour's that moved here from the South Bronx (NYC) and telling me last night that they didnt expect it to get this cold down here, I told them they aint seen nothing yet. But this posting was inspired by the first opening video from The Young Turks about the thorium concept car, because I dont know a thing about thorium or this car for that matter, but thought to put it in this series because it is at least something that should be seriously looked at, although as you can read, there are still hazard's to using this, it is after all "radioactive" too, like anything else, it has a flip- side and is a choice of the lesser of two evil's basically, and life for us has alwayz been 'trial and error', eh? But so much is clear that this is also alot better than what were currently doing nuclear- wise as well. I also wanted to close out this posting with the YouTube video that Cenk & Ana of TYT suggested to watch. But this isnt just a car fuel thing by far, this is an energy source that can really go far, and of course appear's to have been swept under the rug time and again for many year's ... of course that all has to do with business, you can bet NOT safety concern's or worrying about the environmental impact, heh, heh, heh, heh, heh {: ) And we sure as Hell need new idea's to be used to at least get away from the usual fuel's for our transport vehicle's. I'm not even very scientific or educated in such for that matter, or even one of these pop- culture environmental folk's, I just would like to see us clean up our backyard a lil more and preserve some of what nature has blessed us with, including our lives is all ... and we better if were not all suicidal.
Whether or not you look at this as some type of magic bullet or some new thing that can cause an economic or environmental catastrophe or whatever, it's simply importante to look at, and see if it can be utilized at least to some extent, cause every lil bit help's with the way we are currently trapping these greenhouse gasses and such with all the warming it's causing. Just look at the last recent typhoon in the Philippines that couldnt even be categorized officially because we only have a 'category 5' storm as a max rating!, and this is an area that may not see many storm's as usual in the near future, but a Hell of alot more intense most likely, being those heavy populated 7000 island's or so is in probably the warmest ocean water's on earth, look at continental USA right here at home with Hurricane Sandy and the impact on the most heavily populated region of our own country for that matter. And yes, I believe again that all this recent global warming is accelerated by human activity, I dont see how on earth it cant be, if you just look at the basic's, take out all the corporate inspired political correctness and use basic common sense to look at the reality, eh?
The threat talk alwayz of using all these alternative energies and alot of concept idea's is that we will lose job's, the world market's would crash and we would all be tossed into the bottomless cesspool for eternity or other related nonsense. None of what we currently have is creating much new job's period, nor are any gas prices at one damn pump showing any significant decreases ... yet we are drilling, fracking, mining and refining more than ever in a century! It's got so bad that even the major investment bank's of the globe got more bloody interest's invested in oil speculation than damn banking for that matter, the only "banking" they do these dayz is ratholing our money! And you sure as Hell dont see any of the newly generated wealth creating a damn thing new as far as job's or anybody but a handful of people doing better ... so it's all bullshit, plain and simple. And the idea that using non gas vehicles would put the petro giants out of business is just as silly, just look at what all we use that is made with petroleum, eh? ... No ... they're just intoxicated with excessive greed and gambling addiction's is all ... so it's ALL 110% manufactured bullshit anyway you slice it, even these rent- a- scientist's who argue for decade's that we can throw million's of ton's of trash/ pollutant's into the air, ground, and water's ... yet it has no impact on the environment?, I mean how much of a scientific assessment is that, eh? ... common sense may make you wonder how in Hell can you establish an idea like that? ... well ... $$ pay off $$ enough of the right people is the ONLY way.
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