No Rock And Roll Fun

FISH AND CLIPS: It might do the cinderblocks (you know who you are; and chances are you work somewhere like Fox News or American radio) some good to read this piece on Country Joe and The Fish before yammering on about how anti-war activists are all the same uber-liberal patsies. It explains why a man who wrote on of the best pieces of anti-vietnam music will still go and put out a burning stars and stripes - and not by pissing on it, either.

Meanwhile, Merle Haggard has also gone and shown that politics can be three dimensional - of course, he wrote one of the Viet-era ra, ra, ra stompers; his new record is about the Iraq war. But rather than being a "good, let's getting killing" type song, it's a slagging of US media values. In its own way, likely to be about as popular as the Dixie Chicks with some stations.