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The Frapture
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Joe DeCristopher plays guitar, drum programmng and sings backup vocal, George Potor plays guitar and sings backup vocal, Fred Strickland plays 5-string bass and sings lead vocal
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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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Charts
Peak #184
Peak in subgenre #12
Author
Fred Strickland
Rights
2012
Uploaded
November 13, 2012
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MP3 4.5 MB 128 kbps 4:54
Story behind the song
Fred wrote this for DePotorLand's September 30th performance at the Fracking Awareness Concert at Central Oak Heights.
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Intro cameo: Jumpin’ Jack Flash The Pennsylvania countryside is bustling nowadays, with Out-of-state workers, outlandish machines in any direction you gaze. They’re taking the gas, they’re making huge cash,and they tell us we don’t need to fret. But the research, you see, that would prove our safety somehow isn’t finished just yet. Frack-a-frack-a-frack! Oh yes they are frackers! Frack and frack and frack! for their oil-company masters. 2nd cameo: Pump It Up You know you don’t need it! Watch ‘em while they bleed it! You don’t throw something up in the air and expect it not to come down. So why then is it safe to put into place a bomb down deep in the ground? So much pressure that it can break rock – it’s got to find release! Too bad for the water, too bad for the air, and for the folks who signed the lease. Frack-a-frack-a-frack! Could end in disaster. Frack and frack and frack! Who knows what comes after? 3rd cameo: Smoke On The Water We all should share the water and air and yes, the minerals too! But the folks we elect, who are ‘sposed to protect -- well, that’s not how they do. They open the door and give away the store; and probably line their pockets too. Frackers get the gas, their cronies get the cash -- Not much left for me and you. Frack-a-frack-a-frack! That behavior is shameful. Frack and frack and frack! To see it is painful. 4th cameo: Take The Money And Run A day will come when the gas is gone and the frackers are no longer around. And we’ll be left with whatever mess from all that they put in the ground. A self-styled elite, disappearance complete -- and the rest left behind to suffer. I’ve heard such before, in scripture I’m sure -- it’s a real-world version of Rapture! Frap-a-frap-a-frap! I call it the Frapture! Frack-a-frack-a-frack! They won’t be here after. Frack-a-frack-a-frack! It’s not their disaster. Frack-a-frack-a-frack! Who knows what comes after?
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