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Old 12-14-2013, 11:35 PM
 
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1 of the best rock n roll songs of all time and a personal favourite of mine!

This song really tells the truth of what they want people to believe,etc..

www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1532

I AM GRATEFUL TO HAVE THIS ON RECORD!! (In analogue)
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Old 12-14-2013, 11:39 PM
 
Location: Howard County, MD
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It's a favorite of mine, and I think it should be the official election coverage theme song.
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Old 12-14-2013, 11:40 PM
 
Location: Henderson, NV, U.S.A.
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one of the all time great screams in rock & roll.
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Old 12-14-2013, 11:44 PM
 
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I'm a foaming at the mouth Who fan........

Pete's mid 60's guitar pioneering is used by players even to this day.

One of the greatest R&R bands of all time indeed.

Can't say enough about them.
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Old 12-14-2013, 11:48 PM
 
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Factoid:

It wasn't Jimi Hendrix or Eddie Van Halen who came up with the pick up toggle switch technique....it was Pete in 1965.

Just one of MANY things he brought...


The Who Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere - YouTube



Jimi Hendrix Experience - Voodoo Child (Slight Return) - YouTube

You Really Got Me - Van Halen - YouTube
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Old 12-14-2013, 11:52 PM
 
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Sorry, "what" the heck are we/I talking about, right?

This......thanks Pete!



How To Play Like Van Halen Lesson - YouTube
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Old 12-15-2013, 12:05 AM
 
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Well, come on....somebody has to post it!!!



The Who - Wont Get Fooled Again - YouTube
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Old 12-15-2013, 12:21 AM
 
Location: Seoul
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It's not their best song, but I do think it's a very good song
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Old 12-15-2013, 01:56 AM
 
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We studied this album in one of my high school English classes.

The whole album. It is a music interpretation of George Orwell's Animal Farm. 'Won't Get Fooled Again" was the most overt on the album.

Animal Farm is an allegorical and dystopian novel by George Orwell, published in England on 17 August 1945. According to Orwell, the book reflects events leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and then on into the Stalin era in the Soviet Union. Orwell, a democratic socialist, was a critic of Joseph Stalin and hostile to Moscow-directed Stalinism. Animal Farm - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Essentially, this particular song delves into the concept that even if you shifted regimes to a new one, the new one will end up being just as bad if not worse and since you sold us a bill of goods to get into power once, we aren't going to fall for it again. The lyrics are pretty blatant with regard to this.

WON'T GET FOOLED AGAIN LYRICS - THE WHO
I'll tip my hat to the new constitution

Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around me
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
And I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
Don't get fooled again

And people think only folk music documents history.


There is a thread in here on political and protest songs and it's pretty good. http://www.city-data.com/forum/music...est-songs.html

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Old 12-15-2013, 02:14 AM
 
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This is an animated movie adaptation of the book 'Animal Farm' which is where the song gets it's premise.


Animal Farm - George Orwell [Full Length Animated Movie, 1954] - YouTube
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