::hello:: welcome to my jamwave site. here you will find some of my songs uploaded for your review & personal listening. I will also try to explain what the tunes are about, why I wrote them and whatnot.
::FIRST AND FOREMOST:: I urge everyone to go and see "An Inconvenient Truth" playing in theaters NOW. Mr. Al Gore has invested a great deal of industry, time and emotion to present an audio-visual presentation about the emergency level issue of global warming and the greenhouse effect on all life on mother earth. It is the most important film I have ever seen. If you only see one film this year please don't overlook "An Inconvenient Truth" thanks.
The first tune that I have uploaded is "WAR".
On the surface "WAR" is my formal musical rock protest of the military industrial political/private sector machinery. But, in all reality, it addresses far deeper issues. It was written in 1991 during the Persian Gulf War and Operation Desert Storm. I wrote it while I was maintaining an apartment in Manhattan and a basement studio in Queens in the house of my good friend and very talented NYC lyricist Roy Spaloss (Thanks, Roy. I miss our "dark 30" conversations, man). While was recording "WAR" I had three (!!!) televisions running the major news stations at all times. I didn't want to miss a single news story or news byte. I was aghast. It was heart breaking to see what was happening over the fight for the control & manipulation of the flow of oil to the USA.
I believe that the song is as poignant today as it was then since, yet again, we are involved in a conflict in the same region for the same reason. even though, seemingly, we are in Iraq to "free" the people from the tyranny and violence of a dictatorship regime (in the latter, that much is true. Saddam Hussien is reportedly a monster.) The real reason goes back to the Vietnam War(!) ... the control of the Persian Gulf and the oil.
In all honesty, I don't get it. Through the above mentioned film, I have been enlightened to the facts that the US consumes 30% (!) of all global resources! In my opinion, that is too much for any one country/society to be responsible for. You may retort "We need it!" Well ... I say that we, as a nation, must rethink our consumptive habits and start thinking about alternative energy sources. Our usage is based on the antiquated notion that there will be no consequences for our actions and lifestyles. In all of recorded history, mankind has never been so close to a self perpetuating series of events leading to a probability of extinction level as we have in the last century with the advent of the "industrial revolution".
think about that for just a moment.
Lately I have even been entertaining the absolutely ridiculous notion of running for public office on the platform of common sense, human decency and global unity. the current administration doesn't care about what "we the people" want. that's obvious even to former staunch supporters of Mr. Bush and his cohorts. For better or worse we are forced to deal with cleaning up the mess he's created for intimate and personal objectives.
Unbelievably, the current administration refuses to subscribe to the Kyoto Summit Treaty, which is adhered to by all but two leading industrial nations on earth ... Australia and, yep you guessed it, the USA!
If you want to research more about what the real concerns of a percentage of our elected officials is, research The Carlyle Group, but I warn you ... be prepared to be angry. I have started you in the right direction in the hyperlink above. There you will find a 48 minute documentary (real player format) exposing this insidious lot for what they are ... takers. they don't care about the future. they only care about what happens and transpires in their lifetime and, more specifically, their bank accounts. Based on the consequences of their decisions, I don't think they even consider the world their own children will inherit! wow.
well that's about the long and the short of it. don't kill the messenger. damn.
::references::
"An Inconvenient Truth"
The Kyoto Summit
The Carlyle Group
::also visit my other music oriented websites::
Me at My Space
The Affiliates: funky soul brothers number one
Hello Goodbye: Florida's Premier Musical Tribute to The Beatles.
The Affilates on My Space!
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