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Sludgy fun in 3/4 time. Joe DeCristopher plays guitar, bass and drum programming. George Potor plays guitar and sings.
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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 #19
Peak in subgenre #3
Author
George Potor
Rights
2008
Uploaded
August 24, 2008
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MP3 4.4 MB 128 kbps 4:46
Story behind the song
Viktor Bout was arrested in the spring of 2008 while visiting Thailand. He's said to have sold and delivered weapons to all sorts of folks all over the world. This song just barely scratches the surface of his activities.
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1 Viktor Bout has got no rules; He's glad to sell some guns: RPGs, Kalashnikovs, He'll make a late-night run. Rocket grenades for bags of diamonds, Suitcases jammed full of gold, Angola, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Are some of the places he'll go. Overnight delivery, Ilyushin flies it in. One rule of business: "An empty plane is a sin." CHORUS: The victor is Viktor, the entrepreneur; There's nothing that he won't supply. There's weapons for winners, and weapons for losers; He's happy to arm every side. 2 Hezbollah in Lebanon, US invading Iraq, Taliban take over Kandahar, Northern Alliance attacks, Liberian kids are on the front line, Dictators without any hearts Couldn't continue to wage their wars If nobody shipped 'em the parts. Service the Surface to Air; You'll be fully equipped. Mortars, machine guns Mounted on any gunship. 3 Air Bas, General Trading, Centrafricain Air, Irbus, Jet Line, Yuralex in Delaware; KBR, Abu Sayyaf, Movements spurned by the West, Charles Taylor, Jonas Savimbi, Al-Qaeda, Federal Express. Overnight delivery, Ilyushin flies it in. One rule of business: "An empty plane is a sin." CHORUS
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