THEY WERE TAUGHT
by visual cue
TAUGHT what to do
for every dislike
to kick... scream and holler...
jump, run, and cause squalor of what was
and will be out of reach
FOR THEIR BEHAVIOR.
BUT PROTESTERS
get hauled off.
They get set upon by dogs
prodded by electric poles
rasped aside head and torso.
They get stripped down
and finger poked into back side of glory's attempt
at finding secrets untold.
They get promenaded before the mass
in naked splendor
and shaken down as lousy.
They get sent to THEIR ROOM
and left
well past a decent diner's time
and wither they like or not...
left there until no one remembers
what they went there for.
They get REFINED
...and in the end
it was not of WEAPONS to be issued
....but CONTROL OF CHAOS in the community
BY CHOSEN AUTHORITY.
WE ARE ALL
THAT AUTHORITY
on the small scale
that begins at home.
I am within the authority line.
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"Do It Again" the track that would ultimately open the Beach Boys final album on Capitol Records which was released on February 10th 1969 had originally been released as a single in August of 1968. The track was the first of many post-Pet Sounds era throwbacks to the early Beach Boys sound which would become continually more cliched and eventually lead the Beach Boys to the level of self-parody they would eventually succumb to in the 1980s while their closest contemporaries The Beatles nearing the end of their run in 1969 would go on to be viewed as the most influential band of all time. However, the song itself is not bad on its surface, and it opens with a futuristic sounding (for 1969) drumbeat captured by then-Beach Boys engineer Stephen Desper using tape delays on the drums performed by Dennis Wilson and John Guerin. The song has been re-recorded numerous times over the years on various Beach Boys-related projects most notably the 2011 re-recording at Capitol studios featuring the five surviving Beach Boys at the time backed instrumentally by various members of both the Brian Wilson Band and Mike Loves touring "Beach Boys" to promote the then upcoming Beach Boys 50th Anniversary reunion tour in 2012. The hammering and power drill sound at the end of the song was an excerpt from a track called "Workshop" that was to be a part of the uncompleted "SMiLE" album.
By Sean Callaghan7 days ago in Beat
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