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dazedcola · 04.15.2006, 12:34 PM

It's called "living with war" and is being described as a "metal folk protest record" and it was recorded in three days........

ROTESTIN' IN THE FREE WORLD:

At SXSW last month, while introducing keynote speaker Neil Young, SXSW Managing Director Roland Swenson, referring to Young's indelible 1970 protest song "Ohio," said, "Neil, we need a new song." Young must have taken these words to heart, because he's just finished writing and recording—out of the blue—a new album called Life in War, according to filmmaker and Young confidant Jonathan Demme, who describes it as "a brilliant electric assault on Bush and the war in Iraq." The linchpin track, "Impeach the President," features an edited-together Bush rap set to a 100-voice chorus chanting "flip"/"flop." The album, with Young on Old Black, Rick Rosas on bass and Chad Cromwell on drums, took three days to finish. No word on when Reprise will release the album, but the Demme-directed concert film Heart of Gold arrives June 13 on DVD.

-From the Rust Group

more info here http://www.thrasherswheat.org/2006/0...fe-in-war.html

04.15.2006, 12:34 PM	#1
dazedcola the end of the ugly Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 1,075	It's called "living with war" and is being described as a "metal folk protest record" and it was recorded in three days........ ROTESTIN' IN THE FREE WORLD: At SXSW last month, while introducing keynote speaker Neil Young, SXSW Managing Director Roland Swenson, referring to Young's indelible 1970 protest song "Ohio," said, "Neil, we need a new song." Young must have taken these words to heart, because he's just finished writing and recording—out of the blue—a new album called Life in War, according to filmmaker and Young confidant Jonathan Demme, who describes it as "a brilliant electric assault on Bush and the war in Iraq." The linchpin track, "Impeach the President," features an edited-together Bush rap set to a 100-voice chorus chanting "flip"/"flop." The album, with Young on Old Black, Rick Rosas on bass and Chad Cromwell on drums, took three days to finish. No word on when Reprise will release the album, but the Demme-directed concert film Heart of Gold arrives June 13 on DVD. -From the Rust Group more info here http://www.thrasherswheat.org/2006/0...fe-in-war.html __________________ "I said I didnt mean to take up all your sweet time Ill give it right back one of these days If I dont meet you no more in this world then uh Ill meet ya on the next one And dont be late " -Jimi Hendrix ...And me just another dream theory, lost inside your eye "when my mind's uncertain my body decides what it will do to get through the hell of the night as I trip on the ocean that leads through your eyes well my eyes can't wait til they finally see through you"
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