Give Me An “F”

Where is the music?

Baby Boomers know how to stop wars, and we’ve never needed it more than now. I mentioned in a previous post that I was in Grant Park in Chicago during the Democratic Convention when the Chicago 8 were busy stopping the Vietnam War.

We have several wars going on now, and it doesn’t seem like anyone has learned anything from the past. Music stops wars. There is relatively no music today to stop my kids from fighting. How the hell are we going to tackle Iraq?

There are a few anti-war songs out there now, but you really have to dig deep. “That Man I Shot” by the Drive By Truckers is not a song people are humming as they walk down the street.

We had our own clothes to stop the war:

And sometimes they even involved clothes:

Most of all, we had anti-war music. Edwin Starr sang out “War” and we found out it was good for absolutely nothing. Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young wanted us to please come to Chicago “or else join the other side.” There were “four dead in Ohio” that Neil Young wrote about the Kent State shootings of war protesters on May 4, 1970. Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez, and Janis Joplin did their part to stop the atrocities in Vietnam. Country Joe McDonald taught us how to spell “FUCK”…

Of course I wouldn’t forget John Lennon asking us to Imagine a better world, and dammit…he was willing to stay in bed to prove it.

The Baby Boomers knew how to stop a war. The music today isn’t aware there are wars. Some may say the music of the Baby Boomer Generation did nothing to stop the war in Vietnam, but that’s not true.

The music kept the war on everyone’s mind. The war in Vietnam created Woodstock. The war inspired everything in everyone.

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