tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-535464993811875931.post667845365050597368..comments2024-03-21T14:29:42.163-07:00Comments on A black man's grammatical chaos: closing time or the end of vacation...the power of music...what's goin' on...DDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07703902636087122441noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-535464993811875931.post-26400764724497741642009-04-25T19:13:00.000-07:002009-04-25T19:13:00.000-07:00I must agree with Erik...i saw them perform at the...I must agree with Erik...i saw them perform at the 2000 Democratic Convention...in the protest confinement cage with the rest of us rabble...they were not just awesome on stage, they were ruthlessly true to the political moment.<br /><br />Rage Against the Machine had been playing up until the time that the anarchist black bloc'ers manages to tip an entire handicapped parking sign (the only thing left in the cage to indicate that the "free speech area" was converted from a prohibitively priced parking lot) over the razor-wire-topped fence (apparently razor wire makes it easier to remember that one's speech is free) to within a couple hundred yards of the phalanx of riot police who surrounded the cage (presumably so they could bask in the freedom of our speech)...needless to say, the potential that this calorie-impoverished, defintionally-disorganized cadre would begin hurling 450-pound parking signs (complete with chunks of anchoring pavement) over the olympic-record-worthy distance between the police and us free speech malcontents prompted everybody's favorite public servants to Protect and Serve by declaring the free speech area (that they set up) an unauthorized assembly.<br /><br />At this point, de la Rocha and company decided it was best to Rage Against the Machine from a distance and abandoned ship (they should have called that last album "Ass and Elbows" 'cause that was all we saw of them during the encore), leaving Ozomatli to play a blistering set in the face of an onslaught of tear gas, rubber bullets and jack-booted free-speech-appreciation...it is hard to imagine a classier way to make the point, and without missing a beat...now THAT was Rage Against the Machine.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14940419452703659877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-535464993811875931.post-20066436061751136682009-04-23T23:24:00.000-07:002009-04-23T23:24:00.000-07:00I heard Ozo perform the entire "Embrace the Chaos"...I heard Ozo perform the entire "Embrace the Chaos" album live at the newly-opened Amoeba in LA several years ago. I fucking love those dudes. I enjoyed celebrating the election as soon as I got off of work (those racists made me work on what should be an international holiday).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-535464993811875931.post-41345311747720134392009-04-23T10:49:00.000-07:002009-04-23T10:49:00.000-07:00welcome back and btw, you're not oldwelcome back and btw, you're not oldamtnoreply@blogger.com