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Friday, August 22, 2008
JACK-ASS
Beck
Odelay
Geffen : 1994
[Buy It]
JACKASS BLUES
Fletcher Henderson
1926
Avalable on : A Study in Frustration
Sony : 1994
[Buy It]
THINGS TO DO IN DENVER WHEN YOU'RE DEAD
Warren Zevon
Mr. Bad Example
Elektra : 1994
[Buy It]
GET OUT OF DENVER
Bob Seger
Seven
Reprise : 1974
[Buy It]
GET OUT OF DENVER
Bob Seger
Live in Denver, 1974
GET OUT OF DENVER
Bob Seger
Live Bullet
Capitol : 1976
[Buy It]
GET OUT OF DENVER
Dave Edmunds
Get It
Swan Song : 1977
[Buy It]
GET OUT OF DENVER
Bob Dylan
Live in Detroit, 2004
A man with minimal experience in the United States Senate runs for president. Heard this one before? During the intense campaigning, his opponent maligns the honor of his wife. He also calls the candidate a jackass. The candidate, a tough military hero -- see, you haven't heard this one before -- likes the name and wears it as a badge of honor. Forty-some years later, a German-American political cartoonist, the most famous satirist of his era, revives the jackass label and uses it as a symbol for the modern Democratic party, which the original jackass helped to create. Perhaps you have heard of the satirist, Thomas Nast. You have certainly heard of the jackass, Andrew Jackson.
I locked Paul Harvey in the laundry room until he wrote that paragraph for me.
Monday night, the Democratic Convention kicks off in Denver. There will be drama! There will be Obama! There will be Oprah! There will be hope! There will be a Veep! There will be VIPs! There will be performances from, among others, Kanye West, Black Eyed Peas, Sheryl Crow, Melissa Etheridge, Scarlett Johansson, and Wyclef Jean, who for this occasion have banded together to create a supergroup called "No White Men." Should be great.
None of their music will be featured here today. Instead, we have jackasses from Beck and Fletcher Henderson and a paean to/dismissal the host city by Warren Zevon, who, being dead, may well be there. Finally, of course, we have the best Chuck Berry song that Chuck Berry forgot to write, Bob Seger's "Get Out of Denver," represented by no less than five versions: the original studio track from 1974, a live performance in Denver that same year, the more famous "Live Bullet" version recorded in Cobo Hall in 1975, Dave Edmunds' cover from 1977, and Bob Dylan's live Detroit reprise from 2004. Seger wrote the song, as he explains on a spoken intro to the 1974 live version, after a real incident that says something about the mountain states' traditional response to leftists, radicals, and youth culture:Better go! Get out of Denver, better go
Get out of Denver, better go go
Get out of Denver, better go
Get out of Denver cause you look just like a commie
And you might just be a member
Better get out of Denver
Better get out of Denver In 1924, Fletcher Henderson's year, Calvin Coolidge carried the state handily; the Democratic nominee, John W. Davis, was in a distant second-place tie with Progressive candidate Robert LaFolette. In 1976, Bob Seger's year, the famed Republican understudy Gerald Ford, with 54 percent of the Colorado vote, beat Jimmy Carter, who received only 42 percent. In 1980, Ronald Reagan steamrolled Carter 55-31 (John Anderson took 11 percent), and he whipped Walter Mondale even worse in 1984. The only Democratic victory in recent memory came in 1992, when Bill Clinton won the state by a narrow margin, thanks in large part to Ross Perot. They say that the state is trending Democratic and that Obama has a chance, but they say lots of things:Better go! Get out of Denver, better go
Get out of Denver, better go go
Get out of Denver, better go
Get out of Denver cause you look just like a commie
And you might just be a member
Better get out of Denver
Better get out of Denver Labels: ben
posted by Ben
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