IVIV (1) Watts: "Trouble comin' every day"
rich
richard.romeo at gmail.com
Tue Sep 1 12:59:49 CDT 2009
the Mothers were signed to a record deal based on (Tom Wilson?)
hearing this song--he thought they were a blues band. He learned
rather quickly they weren't
rich
On 9/1/09, Otto <ottosell at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Definitely one of the early songs that "shaped" our ideology here abroad.
>
> It includes some major lines that helped to made us think...
>
>> I mean to say that every day
>> Is just another rotten mess
>> And when it's gonna change, my friend
>> Is anybody's guess
>
>> Don't you know that this could start
>> On any street in any town
>> In any state if any clown
>> Decides that now's the time to fight
>> For some ideal he thinks is right
>> And if a million more agree
>> There ain't no Great Society
>> As it applies to you and me
>> Our country isn't free
>> And the law refuses to see
>
> 2009/8/30 Doug Millison <dougmillison at comcast.net>:
>> http://wiki.killuglyradio.com/index.php/Trouble_Every_Day
>> FZ liner notes on "Freak Out!" (1966): "'Trouble Every Day' is how I feel
>> about racial unrest in general and the Watts situation in particular. It
>> was
>> written during the Watts riot as it developed. I shopped it briefly all
>> over
>> Hollywood but no one would touch it... everybody worries so much about not
>> getting any air play. My, my."
>>
>> This song appears as "Trouble comin' every day" on the firsts LP versions
>> of
>> "Freak Out !"
>>
>
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