{"article":{"id":26960,"heading":"ROCK AGAINST THE WAR! : MEGA CONCERT!!!","author":"Keith","created":"2003-01-23 03:47:11","modified":"2007-10-20 12:06:57","last_modified":"Sat, 20 Oct 2007 19:06:57","article":"

No story to tell (as of yet). Just an idea. Know any rock stars???<\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"Hundreds of thousands to rock against the war: Mega Concert!!!","numcomment":52,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2003\/01\/26960.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":26967,"heading":"a start, by mike","article":"\r\n\r\nsleater-kinney, pearl jam, system of a down, rancid, corrosion of conformity, Paul Weller, alanis morissette, ani difranco, jackson browne, springsteen, rollins band, distillers, don henley, anti-flag, patti smith, michael stipe, bruce cockburn, sheryl crow, jello biafra, pretenders, tom waits, x, good charlotte, Reveille, mighty mighty bosstones, moby, POD, steve earle, billy bragg, bad religion, elvis costello, george michael, arlo guthrie, bikini kill, dave matthews band, phish, john mellancamp \r\n \r\n","author":" repost","parent_id":26960,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-01-23 06:40:04","modified":"2003-01-23 06:40:04","fileurl":""},{"id":26968,"heading":"begin with her","article":"\r\n \r\n\r\n\r\nPATTI SMITH \r\n \r\n","author":"unknow","parent_id":26960,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-01-23 06:49:25","modified":"2003-01-23 06:49:25","fileurl":""},{"id":26969,"heading":"A bunch of them in OC","article":"Try OC bands: Tazumal, Cuauhtemoc, Over the Counter Intelligence, Branchless Tree, Automate, Standard. They all kick some serious ass","author":"demo\u00f1ia","parent_id":26960,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-01-23 07:01:17","modified":"2026-10-25 17:02:53","fileurl":""},{"id":26970,"heading":"Spearhead","article":"Michael Franti and Spearhead","author":"...","parent_id":26960,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-01-23 07:08:14","modified":"2003-01-23 07:08:14","fileurl":""},{"id":26971,"heading":"Marcy Playground!","article":"Marcy Playground!","author":"-bye","parent_id":26960,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-01-23 07:28:23","modified":"2003-01-23 07:28:23","fileurl":""},{"id":26972,"heading":"Rolling Stones!!","article":"Rolling Stones!!","author":"Rolling Stones!!","parent_id":26960,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-01-23 07:30:41","modified":"2003-01-23 07:30:41","fileurl":""},{"id":26973,"heading":"you should hear my band","article":"my band, coughs, is going to be in an anti-war concert happening here in chicago at the a-zone on march 1st. and we're the best punk band ever. who needs rock stars when you can have horrifying, pulsing rhythms and screaming? people go ape-shit at our shows and can't get our songs out of their heads... there's going to be other bands that are better than springsteen there too, including experimental hip-hop headz Occasional Detroit.","author":"jon","parent_id":26960,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-01-23 07:39:11","modified":"2003-01-23 07:39:11","fileurl":""},{"id":26974,"heading":"you should hear my band","article":"my band, coughs, is going to be in an anti-war concert happening here in chicago at the a-zone on march 1st. and we're the best punk band ever. who needs rock stars when you can have horrifying, pulsing rhythms and screaming? people go ape-shit at our shows and can't get our songs out of their heads... there's going to be other bands that are better than springsteen there too, including experimental hip-hop headz Occasional Detroit.","author":"jon","parent_id":26960,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-01-23 07:39:13","modified":"2003-01-23 07:39:13","fileurl":""},{"id":26976,"heading":"What about Ozomatli?","article":"Ozomatli rocks the house ;)","author":"Hali","parent_id":26960,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-01-23 07:47:37","modified":"2003-01-23 07:47:37","fileurl":""},{"id":26977,"heading":"and Bob Dylan","article":"..a couple of stars would be ok","author":"Bob Dylan!!","parent_id":26960,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-01-23 07:59:14","modified":"2003-01-23 07:59:14","fileurl":""},{"id":26990,"heading":"where would the concert be held?","article":"i have a friend who owns a staging company. free publicity, free staging. \r\n\r\npossible sound system could be donated too. \r\n\r\nvisuals.\r\n \r\nnelli fratado. (funny that have no idea how to spell her name but i am able to get the message to her)\r\n ","author":"ROCK ON.","parent_id":26960,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-01-23 16:24:04","modified":"2003-01-23 16:24:04","fileurl":""},{"id":26992,"heading":"Our own","article":"J5...\r\nDid anyone hear the DJ in Washington say, "West Coast Rappers are getting together to put on a anti-war song." He mentioned Snoop Dogg? ","author":"Mike Emcee","parent_id":26960,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-01-23 16:34:04","modified":"2003-01-23 16:34:04","fileurl":""},{"id":26995,"heading":"Is this a van call?","article":"hard core punk bands are great but a concert aimed at drawing a diverse crowd should stick to known names. just a suggestion. ","author":"ROCK ON.","parent_id":26960,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-01-23 17:06:40","modified":"2003-01-23 17:06:40","fileurl":""},{"id":27017,"heading":"notinourname","article":"franti, ani difranco, chuck d, ozomatli and saul williams will be playing a Not in our Name benefit show\r\n\r\nwww.notinourname.net","author":"*","parent_id":26960,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-01-23 19:45:03","modified":"2003-01-23 19:45:03","fileurl":""},{"id":27020,"heading":"COULD BE A SERIES OF WORLD CONCERTS, OR WORLD TOUR","article":"I STILL SAY, GET THE ROLLING STONES! JAGGER'S COOL, AND HE WOULD DRAW THE CROWDS. IF THIS THING GOT OFF THE GROUND, IT COULD REPLACE WOODSTOCK AS THE ULTIMATE CONCERT (OR WORLD-WIDE CONCERTS). MONEY COULD GO TO MOVE-ON TV ADS. IT'D BE COOL! USE THE SYSTEM TO BEAT THE SYSTEM (WITH A BEAT). BRAD","author":"ROLLING STONES !!","parent_id":26960,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-01-23 20:04:56","modified":"2003-01-23 20:04:56","fileurl":""},{"id":27041,"heading":"Do they still exist?","article":"Anyone know if the Waterboys (from Ireland) still exist? Their music was great.","author":"Waterboys?","parent_id":26960,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-01-23 23:09:09","modified":"2003-01-23 23:09:09","fileurl":""},{"id":27061,"heading":"true did","article":"Don't rely on super stars, thats whack. Dreaming of a day you get saved by famous knights in famous armour ain't enough. \r\n\r\nPeople don't need Celbrity People to know what is right. TRY being yourself and people MAY JUST LIKE WHAT you are saying, even if you've never been in People Magazine. \r\n\r\nOtherwise, keep waiting for the Knight to save you, and he never will. Never has. \r\n\r\nDIY until you die. Punk rock also equals ballads and watlzes. \r\n\r\nDIY means, DO it yourself! Thats the end of punk. \r\n\r\n\r\nDIY, or wait for Knights....You DECIDE. Don't let People Magazine decide for you. \r\n\r\n\r\nWord dis. \r\n","author":"true dis","parent_id":26960,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-01-24 01:21:21","modified":"2003-01-24 01:21:21","fileurl":""},{"id":27064,"heading":"Matty","article":"Propaganhdi is a must!","author":"Matt Darcy","parent_id":26960,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-01-24 01:42:53","modified":"2003-01-24 01:42:53","fileurl":""},{"id":27065,"heading":"hip hop","article":"what about some hip hop? why all the rock?\r\n\r\ni think jurassic 5 is based in l.a.\r\nwhy not try some bay area hip hop too? quannum, dj shadow, the coup, etc.\r\n\r\nmos def too.\r\n\r\ndanny hoch, hip hop activist theatre\/spoken word.\r\n\r\nkeep looking","author":"deri","parent_id":26960,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-01-24 01:49:09","modified":"2003-01-24 01:49:09","fileurl":""},{"id":27076,"heading":"100,000 amassed around the stadium","article":"After the Smashing Pumkins re-union, the surprise appearance of Mick Jagger AND Chuck Berry (doing "War Baby").","author":"Smashing Pumkins !! (re-union)","parent_id":26960,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-01-24 03:41:38","modified":"2003-01-24 03:41:38","fileurl":""},{"id":27242,"heading":"huh, is this real?","article":"or is it just a wish list? because if this is real were really unto something here, a sign of the year 2000s that have yet to be fought.\r\n\r\nThanks to Jello Biafra (and DK even if they suck now, what they built is timeless) and Chuck D (and the rest of the PE crew) for awaking the fire in me that can never be extinguished!","author":"Montrealer","parent_id":26960,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-01-25 14:01:54","modified":"2003-01-25 14:01:54","fileurl":""},{"id":27273,"heading":" the stones ..haha","article":"count out the rolling "bones " that wanka .mick ,got an mbe , obe ,i v f ,.or summit ( he' s a knight of the rimm) realm .. so he now one of them !!! when your a " shite of the realm" it means you cant do radical gigs anymore .. Got to stay in and play with the round table ..why not ask fat boy slim..he can pull in a crowd .","author":"shugmcc","parent_id":26960,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-01-25 21:25:02","modified":"2003-01-25 21:25:02","fileurl":""},{"id":27283,"heading":"Hey, kids, let's put on a show!","article":"Maybe we could get the Monkees! or Paul Revere and the Traitors! And we could make a fire and all sing some songs. Kumbaya is a perennial favotite.","author":"falushe","parent_id":26960,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-01-25 21:52:55","modified":"2003-01-25 21:52:55","fileurl":""},{"id":27305,"heading":"what is wrong?","article":"I want to know, are people oblvious that social movements do not have to be endorsed by celebrities. \r\n\r\nYes, its fine if some people who happen to be celebrities want to join in, just like anyone else, and lend whatever skills they have. \r\n\r\nyes, i know the "stark" realism of which is often spoken, that people will only come when a name brand endorses something. \r\n\r\nI agree, this is a social reality, many people are members of the cult of celebrity. yes, bono can get people out, maybe. but, the actual cause of an event will also get people out. \r\n\r\nare you telling me 200,000 people in DC, another 100,00 in San Fran (estimate) did not show up because no celebrity backed their cause? or that a million people have not marched in Italy, because Bono was not there to tell them its cool to march? \r\n\r\nif we don't break away from the useless conditioning, it will continue to determine to artificially determine the parameters if what are "realistic" and unrealistic behaviors. \r\n\r\nIn the middle ages we depended on lords and peers and faqirs and rajas to tell us how to think. now we let celebrities shilling for corporations tell us what is cool to think about. \r\n\r\nbe normal people. think for yourself. cos I can't think for you. That's a paraphrase of a George Harrison line. George Harrison was in the Beatles. Maybe you have heard of him. So now, you are officially sanctioned by a celebrity to "think for yourself." Go forth and prosper (a paraphrase of a Star Trek line). \r\n\r\n"this message was brought to you by a celebrity reading the lines she was paid to read by a writer employed by a corporation." \r\n","author":"what","parent_id":26960,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-01-26 03:32:33","modified":"2003-01-26 03:32:33","fileurl":""},{"id":27311,"heading":"Latest News!","article":"Rock Against The War Concert is being besieged by both Star and Underground groups wanting to play. Organizers are now thinking of either a woodstock type of fest, or a multi concert world performance (though a would tour hasn't been ruled out); all monies will go to sponser media ads against the war.\r\n","author":"IT'S HAPPENING!","parent_id":26960,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-01-26 04:38:21","modified":"2003-01-26 04:38:21","fileurl":""},{"id":27312,"heading":"I think...","article":"I think Bill Clinton should open up with the Star Spangled Banner on his sax.","author":"Marc","parent_id":26960,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-01-26 04:40:05","modified":"2003-01-26 04:40:05","fileurl":""},{"id":27374,"heading":"I think","article":"Unless someone out there actually spells their name the same as mine (faithful viewers, here's a hint: I never post that late at night!), they should have enough confidence to post with their own name\/moniker, or at least know me well enough to know that I am not\/never was a Bill Clinton fan, and that I know enough about music to rate Clinton on the Sax somewhere below Biz Markie on the piano.","author":"Marc","parent_id":26960,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-01-28 18:01:14","modified":"2003-01-28 18:01:14","fileurl":""},{"id":27415,"heading":"I think","article":"I think, therefore I am , I think. \r\n(je pense, donc je suis, je pense)\r\n\r\nListen Marc, this planet is just two small for two Marcs, therefore, I suggest that you change your name. \r\n\r\nMark? Marx? Marque? I don't care, but marque my words, Marc is me.\r\n\r\nYours truely, Marc","author":"Marc","parent_id":26960,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-01-29 04:00:03","modified":"2003-01-29 04:00:03","fileurl":""},{"id":27416,"heading":"Hey","article":"Hey, it's the Marcs Brothers!","author":"Marc","parent_id":26960,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-01-29 04:01:33","modified":"2003-01-29 04:01:33","fileurl":""},{"id":27446,"heading":"Fair enough","article":"Probably like you, I have endured the mispelling all my life. As such, I'm somewhat nostalgic about keeping the spelling distinct.\r\n\r\nMarc's Brothers I can live with.\r\n\r\nMaybe we can be mistaken as misanthropic doppelganagers...","author":"Marc","parent_id":26960,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-01-29 17:08:47","modified":"2003-01-29 17:08:47","fileurl":""},{"id":27476,"heading":"Hey, it's Marc y Marc","article":" Marc y Marc, \r\n\r\n(the latino underwear model?)","author":"Marc","parent_id":26960,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-01-29 23:05:44","modified":"2003-01-29 23:05:44","fileurl":""},{"id":27498,"heading":"FYI","article":"289 Million Americans Avoid Peace Rallies <\/b>\r\n(2003-01-19) -- Police across the nation estimate the crowd that avoided recent anti-war demonstrations at about 289 million. Americans from coast-to-coast voted in absentia against criticizing the Bush administration for Iraq's failure to comply with U.N. resolutions. \r\n\r\nAnti-anti-war demonstrators gathered in grocery stores, shopping malls and private homes to proclaim their disagreement with protestors marching in the streets of Washington D.C. and San Francisco. \r\n\r\n"Going about my regular Saturday routine is my way of saying I disagree with the radical left-wing agenda of the anti-Bush crowd," said college student Melanie Sampson, who spent the day preparing a term paper for a literature course. \r\n\r\nPolice reported no unusual problems with the droves that stayed away from the protests. \r\n\r\n"It was a normal Saturday in America," said one Sheriff's deputy.","author":"fresca","parent_id":26960,"mime_type":"text\/html","created":"2003-01-30 03:29:06","modified":"2003-01-30 03:29:06","fileurl":""},{"id":27514,"heading":"...a tip of the ice berg...","article":"I suspect, that for every Anti War protester there is at least 1,000 others who believe the exact same thing.\r\n\r\nProtests are only the tip of the ice berg.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n","author":"Kevin","parent_id":26960,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-01-30 07:00:18","modified":"2003-01-30 07:00:18","fileurl":""},{"id":27533,"heading":"I got one I got one","article":"Hey, If you guys are going to have a pro-fascist concert, why not see if you can get some of those Hitler Youth drummer boys! They are rad!","author":"I got one","parent_id":26960,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-01-30 16:46:55","modified":"2003-01-30 16:46:55","fileurl":""},{"id":27586,"heading":"No, you misunderstand.","article":"It's an anti fascist concert. It's against Bush and Sharon, not for them.","author":"Blair","parent_id":26960,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-01-31 05:01:48","modified":"2003-01-31 05:01:48","fileurl":""},{"id":27609,"heading":"Justadamnminnit..","article":"But, wait. Bush and Sharon were both elected in democratic elections. Your boys Saddam and Kim Jong Il were not. Bush and Sharon head up governments with functioning legal systems, independant media, and legal checks and balances. Your boys Saddam and Kim Jong Il do not.\r\n\r\nSo, you ARE planning a pro-fascist concert, and I suggest you get the Hitler Youth drummers in there before they get booked for another gig.","author":"Whazzat?","parent_id":26960,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-01-31 16:38:38","modified":"2003-01-31 16:38:38","fileurl":""},{"id":27623,"heading":"OneEyedMan","article":"...sounds like you're just 'drumming' up business...","author":"KPC","parent_id":26960,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-01-31 18:55:43","modified":"2003-01-31 18:55:43","fileurl":""},{"id":30313,"heading":"joan baez,dylan,etc","article":"IN THAT CONCERT MUST BE JOAN BAEZ,BOB DYLAN,PETE SEEGER,CROSBY STILLS AND NASH,PETER PAUL AND MARY ,ETC","author":"danilo","parent_id":26960,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-02-20 02:23:47","modified":"2003-02-20 02:23:47","fileurl":""},{"id":30410,"heading":"TOOL \/ APC","article":"hEY what about TOOL or A PERFECT CIRLCE, that are LA based too and they rock!","author":"Gonzinho","parent_id":26960,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-02-20 07:38:14","modified":"2003-02-20 07:38:14","fileurl":""}]}