Welcome to DC's 2010 Weekend Music Festival. Tonight, we consider why the Lord failed to consider the Scots when the prophet Isaiah wrote of "beating swords into plowshares." For indeed, the Scots could pretty much beat everything -- including guitars -- into weapons.
They are madmen, I tell you, ruled by the "law of the feud." Having known a few, including mine own kinsmen, I can attest to this brutal truth. But let us experience and live -- rather than simply ruminate and allow our teeth to rot further, as the English are want to do -- those verities that make the world go 'round.
And one of such truth is this: You can take the damn Scots out of Scotland, but you cannot take Scotland out of the damn Scots. Need you any further evidence than the boys of AC/DC? Yes, this rock band/small unit hails from Australia, but the guitar players who formed the band -- Malcolm and Angus (Angus-for-crying-out-loud) Young -- were Scots and indeed were born there. Indeed, they joined up with Bon Scott, who was also a Scot (Of course, he was with a name like that. Plus, he had a chipped tooth to prove it). Then, the band took off.
They wrote the following song in 1976, at the dawn of Carter's malaise. Men with any, shall we say, fortitude, found themselves frustrated in those days. I say we go with the song for our election theme, except let's have the ending work out better.
They are madmen, I tell you, ruled by the "law of the feud." Having known a few, including mine own kinsmen, I can attest to this brutal truth. But let us experience and live -- rather than simply ruminate and allow our teeth to rot further, as the English are want to do -- those verities that make the world go 'round.
And one of such truth is this: You can take the damn Scots out of Scotland, but you cannot take Scotland out of the damn Scots. Need you any further evidence than the boys of AC/DC? Yes, this rock band/small unit hails from Australia, but the guitar players who formed the band -- Malcolm and Angus (Angus-for-crying-out-loud) Young -- were Scots and indeed were born there. Indeed, they joined up with Bon Scott, who was also a Scot (Of course, he was with a name like that. Plus, he had a chipped tooth to prove it). Then, the band took off.
They wrote the following song in 1976, at the dawn of Carter's malaise. Men with any, shall we say, fortitude, found themselves frustrated in those days. I say we go with the song for our election theme, except let's have the ending work out better.
When you consider the overall message, it is this ... the effort of the jailbreak itself ... "all in the name of liberty" ... the struggle to survive and dream about a better day ... was worth it, regardless of the end result. I like it, and here it is ... arguably the best song by one of the greatest rock bands of all time:
And now that we've whet your appetite, it's time for a "twin spin," as the band breaks out the 'pipes and reminds us that for anything worth having -- it's a tough go with a steep price to pay on the long way to the top. This is one goes out to those cranky but beloved patriots left behind in the Northeast who came down from Nova Scotia because it was so damn cold but stopped along the way in New England because they were pissed off at every one who made the trip with them:
And now that we've whet your appetite, it's time for a "twin spin," as the band breaks out the 'pipes and reminds us that for anything worth having -- it's a tough go with a steep price to pay on the long way to the top. This is one goes out to those cranky but beloved patriots left behind in the Northeast who came down from Nova Scotia because it was so damn cold but stopped along the way in New England because they were pissed off at every one who made the trip with them:
Folks, we will see you again next weekend as we dig deeper into DC's diverse music vault.
7 comments:
Hey DC, good lics, but I may have ya beat for a good theme,,,
http://christopher-conservativeperspective.blogspot.com/2010/09/rerun-great-slideshowaudio-of-restoring.html
Ahem. Senior came here in 1929 because he was pissed off about being pissed off. That's progress for us.
AC/DC pisses me off.
As far as not taking the Scot out of a Scot, one of my SF sons named his Iraqi dog "Claymore". That turned things around, not The Surge.
Okay, Chris, I will check it out.
Rhod, funny, but the papers didn't report on Claymore. We need a dogumentary.
I understand about AC/DC. They used to do it to me, too, and a lot of their music is over the top. But Scot-on-Scot feuding is part of the deal, too.
I feel the same about Herman's Hermits.
Chris, I took a look. She's cute, but that's pseudo-country. I was thinking something like Merle Haggard ("the fightin' side of me"), if you are going to head toward C&W. But hey ...
I've got some Brothers' Gibbs tunes that are stronger than that, Chris. And yes, we might just have some Bee Gees before we're done here ... not to spoil it or anything.
"All in the name of liberty ... I got to be free!!"
Rhod, you know you pull the curtains and break out the air guitar. Come clean, my kinsman.
Another great "Jailbreak" from 1976 is Thin Lizzy's album and song "Jailbreak."
I like AC/DC.
Do you ever think they should have named it DC/AC ?
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