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The Reason Why Many Young People In The Vietnam War Era Were Active Was Their Lives Were Threatened By The Draft And They Were Going To Perhaps Be Forced To Go Overseas And Fight In An Immoral War.

Being A Musician Is A Given For Me-i Didn't Have Much Choice In The Matter.

My Take Is That There's Two Ways To Approach History. You Sit In Your Armchair And You Watch It On The News And You Return To Your Playstation. Or You Get Out In The Streets And You Make It. Like, When Those Supreme Court Justices, You Know, Legalize Desegregation, It Wasn't Due To Their Infinite Wisdom. It's Because People Whose Names You Do Not Read About In History Books, People Whose Faces You Will Never See, Were The Ones Who Struggled And Sacrificed, Sometimes Gave Their Lives, To Make This Country A More Equal One. When, It's Like Those People Don't Make History, It's Us.

America Touts Itself As The Land Of The Free, But The Number One Freedom That You And I Have Is The Freedom To Enter Into A Subservient Role In The Workplace. Once You Exercise This Freedom You’ve Lost All Control Over What You Do, What Is Produced, And How It Is Produced. And In The End, The Product Doesn’t Belong To You. The Only Way You Can Avoid Bosses And Jobs Is If You Don’t Care About Making A Living. Which Leads To The Second Freedom: The Freedom To Starve.

When I Am Most Successful As A Guitar Player Is When I'm Able To Just Sort Of Lose Myself. You Stop Thinking About Technique Or Anything Like That And Just Trying To Evoke The Emotion Of That Song Brings, Which Is A Very Strong Emotion For Me.