Music as protest

[dreadnut]

So next time some group that I don't care for is protesting downtown, I would like to bring my guitar and amp, set it up next to them, turn it up to "11" and drown them out with some snarling blues. Freedom of speech goes both ways baby.

On second thought, I'd probably just be asking to get my butt kicked... better bring 2 or 3 big friends along, LOL.

 

[fronobulax]

The technique has been used before. I seem to recall a protest on a campus somewhere that was disrupted when a student decided to practice their bagpipes.

This might be it.



You probably would get your butt kicked so maybe you don't.

Much folk music has roots in "protest" so there is a tradition even if you protest a protest.

 

[dreadnut]

Oh yeah, bagpipes are really loud and even more annoying than a banjo!

 

[Westerly Wood]

Once I wrote an anti-protest song. Which in its own way is a protest song lol. I think this is the Santa Cruz. Probably should not have sold that one, but it went to a local bluegrass legend so I figure it's ok. He spent like 2 hrs in my living room playing it. Love hearing bluegrass like that. He even took out a set of EJ17s and put them on it. Of course he was tight on funds so I gave him a good deal. I even told him if he decided against it (he needed to wait a week before he actually bought it till he could pay his mortgage), I would give him $6 for the strings.

 

[walrus]

On second thought, I'd probably just be asking to get my butt kicked... better bring 2 or 3 big friends along, LOL.

You probably would get your butt kicked so maybe you don't.

Much folk music has roots in "protest" so there is a tradition even if you protest a protest.

Before this thread gets closed, I might just comment that the vast majority of any "traditional folk music", and in fact it's roots in musical history, would advocate for non-violent protest. There are exceptions of course. There shouldn't really be any need for anyone's butt to be kicked or to bring large friends.

walrus

 

[Rocky]

Is it that you just don't agree with them, or are they oppressing others?

I'm kinda fond of this

 

[dreadnut]

 

[dreadnut]

Before this thread gets closed, I might just comment that the vast majority of any "traditional folk music", and in fact it's roots in musical history, would advocate for non-violent protest. There are exceptions of course. There shouldn't really be any need for anyone's butt to be kicked or to bring large friends.

walrus

All depends on my target group...but if I actually thought I would incite violence, I wouldn't do it.

 

[chazmo]

Well, there you go... I will remind participants of this thread that LTG is not a platform for political discussion. Closing thread

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