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BY LUIS BUENAFLOR JR.
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Friday, September 8, 2017
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“Almost cut my hair.
It happened just the other day.
It’s getting kinda long.
Could have said it was in my way,
But I didn’t and I wonder why.
Feel like letting my freak flag fly.
Yes, I feel like I owe it to someone.
Must be because I had the flu for Christmas.
And I’m not feeling up to par.
It increases my paranoia.
Like looking in a mirror and seeing a police car.
But I’m not giving in an inch to fear.
Cause I promised myself this year
I feel like I owe it to someone.
But when I get myself together.
I’m gonna get back in that sunny southern weather.
And I’ll find a place inside to laugh.
Separate the head from the chair.”
-Songwriter David Crosby
-Performed by: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
IT’S BEEN quite an interesting week politics-wise, so time to take a break from Jed Mabilog et al. who were really a disappointment to say the least.
I thought he was made of sterner stuff but it turns out he was a coward. At the first sign of Senior Police Chief Inspector Jovie Espenido he immediately flew to Japan, I’m assuming, to wait it out till Jovie gets tired of waiting for him.
Meanwhile in Japan, let Jed Mabilog gorge on sushi and sashimi; but it would probably be best for everyone if he just eats fugu fish sashimi and let the poison of the fugu (puffer fish) take effect.
If that, indeed, would happen, then the prayer rally and candlelight thingy was just timely, a sort of premeditated funeral event.
We were all overtaken by events. The police finally catch up with Richard “Buang” Prevendido and eliminate him, of course just before Police Chief Inspector Jovie Espenido gets here. Moi must say the timing is uncanny.
So things are more or less back to normal and before moi pukes from all the undying love for Jed Mabilog posts on social media, let’s talk about music, real music written and performed by real artists with relevant advocacies, not cute boy bands with zero talent.
The ‘60s till the ‘70s was a tumultuous time of protest and social upheavals; archaic and obsolete values were shattered; it was the “summer of love” and a social and cultural revolution.
One of the most popular media to channel the protest was music and artists used it to express the message and this song is one such.
From that free online encyclopedia:
Almost Cut My Hair is a song by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, originally released on the band’s 1970 album Déjà Vu.
The song describes a real-life dilemma faced by many hippies: whether to cut one’s hair to a more practical length, or leave it long as a symbol of rebellion. It was written by David Crosby, and features solo vocals by Crosby, with the rest of the band joining in on instruments rather than (as in many of their other songs) on vocal harmony. Unlike most of the tracks on Déja Vu, the quartet and their studio musicians, Dallas Taylor (drums) and Greg Reeves (bass), all recorded it at the same place and time. It was one of only two songs from the album that Neil Young joined in on despite not writing.
Although the notion of long hair as a “freak flag” appeared earlier, notably in a 1967 Jimi Hendrix song “If 6 Was 9”, Crosby’s song has been credited with popularizing the idea of long hair as a deliberate and visible symbol of the wearer’s affiliation with the counterculture, and opposition to establishment values. James Perone writes that, “more than any other song of the entire era”, it “captures the extent to which the divisiveness in American society … had boiled over into violence and terror.”
Yes people, back then having long hair for men is a form of protest against the establishment, today it’s almost mainstream just a hairstyle no more meaning.
What was revolutionary then is mainstream today.
The song, written in simple open guitar chords, features a nearly hoarse solo vocal from an emotional David Crosby and some of the most intense guitar dueling Stephen Stills and Neil Young had ever laid down in a studio.
Written by Crosby as a reflection of the post-Woodstock nation, it, like the musical Hair (1967), links the fashion of the time with the political and emotional zeitgeist of the Baby Boomer generation. While some have praised it as celebrating individualism in the face of repression, others have called it overblown, self-indulgent hippie rhetoric. Crosby has said: “It was the most juvenile set of lyrics I’ve ever written, and it’s certainly not great poetry, but it has a certain emotional impact, there’s no question about that.”
And that, folks, is the music of my generation. This aging hippie suggests you check it out on YouTube, play it loud, light a joint and sip a chilled glass of Chablis, enjoy. ((brotherlouie16@gmail.com/PN)
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