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Chaos or Community?
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George Potor plays acoustic guitar and sings the lead vocal, Fred Strickland plays 5 string electric bass and sings backup vocal, Joe DeCristopher plays electric guitar, percussion programming and sings backup vocal
chaos fukushima activism fracking hiroshima
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George Potor and Joe DeCristopher both were raised in New Jersey in the 1950's and 60's, and schooled and settled in Pennsylvania, but they didn't meet until late 1979. Though they played occasionally as a duo, their first excursion as a band was with the ppits, a motley crew of seven (and sometimes more), full of political irreverence and fun. The ppits morphed into a quintet, Veto and the Hitmen, which like the ppits, performed twice on WVIA's Homegrown Music with a bundle of original tunes, mostly by George, by George. Over the last few years, George and Joe, with Rick Totten, formed Good Without One, the drummerless rock trio fueled by the retrograde administration of Cheney and W, spawning such gems as "Less Scratch, More Itch", "The Ballad of W, M.D. (Ducking Like a Quack)", "Above the Law", "Things Could Get Worse", and "The Gitmo Swing." The winds of change continue to blow, and George and Joe continue to collaborate, sometimes as a duo, sometimes with the help of others. Happily, Fred Strickland has come onboard with his 5-string bass, vocals & songwriting. They look forward to introducing new tunes, some political (George's "Low Infaux Voter", Joe's "Subprime Blues" and Fred's "Fox U"), some not, like the rocking "Inis Mor", named for the island off the coast of Ireland that George visited in the summer of 2008.
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#3,298 today Peak #72
#1,280 in subgenre Peak #20
Author
George Potor
Rights
2011
Uploaded
November 11, 2012
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MP3 4.4 MB 128 kbps 4:51
Story behind the song
Originally written for a Hiroshima Day Memorial event, George hoped to both memorialize a tragic event and urge peace activists to move forward with their visions for a better world.
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Help me answer these questions 1 Fukushimas a-plenty, Toxins from above and from below Natural gas under pressure, Not the way we oughta go. And I hope to see: Expectant mothers, farmers’ markets on a Friday, Traffic in an alternating merge, Water filters, healthy girls and long, tall boys, Standing judges, sitting armies, singing birds. CHORUS: Chaos or community? Which of the two is it gonna be? Living in fear or planting a tree? I wanna answer these questions Help me answer these questions I’ve avoided these questions Before. 2 Unidentified illness, Temperatures that no one can explain. Radiation running higher, Power’s out again today. And I hope to hear: Saws and hammers raising up a roof, Storytellers spinning out a yarn, Family farmers baling up the hay, Music blasting from the rafters in the barn. CHORUS 3 Another lab’ratory sample, Testing out our food supply, Tiny trace o’ dioxin, Sick of always staying inside. I hope to know: Aging authors, architects, visionary miners, Laughing children skipping stones along the shore, Younger skeptics, wealthy artists, vegan poets, cattlemen, Living in a world without war. CHORUS
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