Rock the Cash Box The Halliburton(s): They not only sing, but they talk e

[anarchy1999]

Rock the Cash Box
The Halliburton(s): They not only sing, but they talk economics as good as they rock


You may be going tone-deaf from listening to Bush's band of neocons. Time, then, for the Halliburton(s), protest rockers in Dallas who recently returned from a Lick Bush '04 tour of Ireland, where they played with the likes of White Cholera and Christy Moore. (See the poster for a June 25 Bush Comes to Shove gig in Dublin here.)

This summer, they've also been eagerly plugging it in right outside the offices of Dick Cheney's Halliburton in Texas, and are trying to line up gigs in New York for next week's Bush-league coronation.

This band, promoting what frontman Nat Berg calls "town-hall resistance-rock democracy," has some special numbers: Berg is a 31-year-old economics professor at the University of Texas–Dallas, and he's a prof with chops: He was a jazz-bass prodigy who got rave reviews in New York City when he was a teen playing with Maynard Ferguson, and later turned to Zappa-inspired rock. Along the way, he got a Ph.D. in economics. (Berg is the Cecil and Ida Green Assistant Professor of Economics and Political Economy in UT-Dallas's School of Social Sciences.) As a result, his bullshit detector has a built-in number cruncher.

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Berg says: "When the press—with notable exceptions, like the Voice, gratefully acknowledged—are, in the aggregate, failing to provide a transparent window into the decisions of the White House, then it falls to artists to make noise and, if possible, turn out angry voters in the street.

"Michael Moore is cool for what he is. But in the pundit class, there are so few with both fangs and facts. There are de-fanged, fact-equipped critics who ramble, and there are fun but rather fact-light rabble-rousers who, at best, enliven the left. Who can do it and pack a punch? That’s why I’m an economist. And that’s why I’m a protest rocker."

posted: august 18th at 5:02 pm

http://www.villagevoice.com/thebushbeat/


to find the whole article you have to scroll down to the 18th.

www.halliburtons.com

[anarchy1999]

1. Kicking up for the early morning coffee and donut crowd.

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Please listen and check in to "Lick Bush". It's a fun song with the chorus being from 50 ways to leave your lover.

Halliburton(s) is all about "GET OUT THE VOTE"!

on edit:

These guys are good. Too bad the leader has decided to leave the US. Just one more of many good friends and valued, talented leaders we have seen leave the last couple of years.

[anarchy1999]

2. One last kick up. I hope some of you check it out and like and spread

it around. "Lick Bush"!

[anarchy1999]

3. Okay, I give, I guess they just are not good enough.

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