post your favorite protest song

[Manifestor_of_Light]

270. You're welcome.

Glad you liked that little discourse about the different instruments that make up a four piece rock band and who can do what part and whether they are leading or background. Of course the dynamics are different when you have a trio, like The Police, Rush or ZZ Top, or five or six pieces. It's harder to lead a coherent band with only three people but it can be done.

Someone else likes Led Zep, I have no problem with that. People have different tastes and I don't insist that everyone else like the same bands I do. I like to turn people on to music that I dig. Classical, opera, chamber music, folk, geezer rock and jazz.

I've painted silk scarves and pillows. You stretch a piece of silk or a scarf on wooden stretcher bars like it was canvas. You draw lines with a bottle of gutta percha, with a metal tip on it like a hypodermic needle. You let that dry and then paint between the lines with water based aniline dye. It's different from fabric paint because it is translucent and very intense. You can put rock salt on it while it's wet and get fabulous effects.

People get on Brian's case about his weird fashion taste, but that is a cool vest. Who cares? He can wear what he damn well pleases. And fix his hair the way he wants. Some people!! There is also a video that Freddie made of "These Are the Days of Our Lives" where he is wearing a similar vest painted with cats, because he was a cat person. Probably done by the same artist. It's in B&W and it's obvious that he is quite ill.

Roger Daltrey and Dr. Brian May (Ph.D. in Astrophysics, Imperial College, London, no shit) are at the height of their masculine beauty in their movements and light from their eyes and persona in that clip of I Want It All. When hubby told his son that we saw Tom Petty, the son said, "Tom Petty! He's older than God!". He's 63. The son is 31. Tom Petty does not physically attract me but I do appreciate his music now that I have seen him live and I rocked out!

I prefer my following of handsome rock stars (this includes Steve Winwood )to be "appreciating MATURE men".

I worship the ground Brian May walks on because he is a genius and a nice guy. And he's tasteful in his distortion. That's him in my avatar, when he had dark hair. The older he gets the more he looks like Isaac Newton, which is appropriate. He built his own guitar decades ago with his dad, called The Red Special. He has a new book out about it.

Recent Daily Mail article about the Red Special and playing it atop Buckingham Palace for the Queen's Jubilee in 2002. "God Save the Queen" of course. The British equivalent of Hendrix playing "The Star Spangled Banner" at Woodstock.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/event/article-2768463/Brian-May-How-I-built-guitar-rocked-The-Queen.html

There's a wonderful interview on YouTube where Rick Wakeman (former keyboard player of YES and a brilliant musician himself) interviews Brian May and starts out introducing Brian, and says, "Most people who climb on the roof of Buckingham Palace get arrested. Or they climb in the window of the Queen's bedroom and get arrested. Our guest of honor today actually had the honor of being invited onto the roof of Buckingham Palace, and getting away with it. Brian May."

You rock on as well!!