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Originally I was going to do this all in one podcast but thought I’d break it up. This one really isn’t that short, but was put together quickly so in a way this is still a quickie.

The songs in this podcast (Hendrix doing the national anthem, Eric Idle cursing everyone, Poster Children doing the Clash, my favourite Boston Irish punks the Dropkick Murphy’s covering Creedence, and an old Pearl Jam cut) all run kind of a protest like theme that I did for my music club at work. There are still some political observations in between but I keep them short (though these days I’m only as combative as the person I’m talking to) and with the hilarious exception of Eric Idle song, I hope the comments are all in perspective.

I’ll be posting a podcast of more new stuff in a day or two.

Howdy all, here’s the first of two 4th of July orientated podcasts. This new Cover To Cover features the Marvin Gaye song Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler), a song detailing the frustrations of being poor. My intention is to keep my personal politics out of this forum as much as possible, but the complexities involved with the poor aren’t really one side or the other.  The solutions are, but everyone agrees something should be done.  I tend to think about this sort of thing on big holidays.  Not sure why, and not in a guilt-ridden way. A lot of my reading is geared towards this line of thinking. I don’t know.  Anyway, this is a great, great, great, song and is my favourite off of What’s Goin’ On.  Enjoy Marvin’s version (of course) and The Dirty Dozen Brass Band.

In honor of a report, however vague, that the original line up of Genesis may be getting back together, I offer this recording of Robbery, Assault & Battery.  It was recorded right here in St. Louis on February 6, 1977 at the Kiel Auditorium.

It’s fair to note that the last time Genesis was here (according to this tour archive) was June 1980 so I’d say the chances are good we’ll be driving to Kansas City or Chicago if all this comes to fruition.

More trivia:  Today the Wind & Wuthering tour concluded and was the last show Steve Hackett did with Genesis.