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And to think that that goddamn shot almost caused Eric Clapton never to be able to play his guitar again, makes me wanna throw up...

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God bless Eric Clapton. And IMHO that performance of Can't Find My Way Home is sublime.

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Sep 2, 2022Liked by Mark Crispin Miller

MCM's Substack, The One That Frequently Makes Me Cry for Various Reasons. Today it was the beautiful performance of "Can't Find My Way Home" one of my fave / special songs. Goes direct to my Blind Faith/Cream/Clapton/Winwood playlist. My Dad really hated Wheels - crank it up!!!

THANX

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“In the struggle against lies, art has always won and always will. Conspicuously, incontestably for everyone. Lies can stand up against much in the world, but not against art.“ - Solzhenitsyn

Bless the artists, writers and musicians who call out the falsehoods. Check also the full album by Puscifer (musicians from TOOL), called “apocalyptical”.

I also did a corona-era music video rendition of sounds of silence here:

Hello Darkness | Kate Wand | The Sound of Silence

https://youtu.be/qeafo5LCzAg

Thank you for everything you do Mark. I read your work everyday. Bless you.

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Thanks for this, Mark!

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Sep 2, 2022·edited Sep 2, 2022

This is my experience as an entertainer - NYC arts organizations are STILL the worst gestapo 'SHOW ME YOUR PAPERS' Nazis!

Amazing Amy: Eccentric Yoga Entertainer!

As an entertainer, I have been devastated and practically destroyed by the closure of all performance venues and then when they reopened, because MY BODY, MY CHOICE - being made a total untermenschen pariah outcast in NAZI NIGHTMARE LAWLESS 'SHOW ME YOUR PAPERS' JAB CROW APARTHEID/DISCRIMINATION/SEGREGATION HELL NYC WHERE THE MAD/DRUNK WITH POWER TYRANT POLS DOUBLE DOWN ON THEIR ILLEGAL MANDATES. I am trapped here with zero financial resources to leave or do anything else about this 'wish I were dead' endless misery life has become. The tragic irony is that my SPREAD THE YOGA LOVE performances are all about health, miraculously overcoming age (67) and injury to achieve feats of flexibility few can attain at any age. So BIG PHARMA who wants to addict every person on the planet to their toxic products hate people like me who prove that we do not need them if we eat healthy organic food and exercise daily!

https://www.reverbnation.com/artist/amazingamycontortionistuniqueyogadancer

Anyone in the NY Metropolitan region, PLEASE book me to perform in your event/venue - starving and desperate for gigs!

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How to defeat the madness/solutions:

1. Below is a legal strategy that ICANdecide.org lawyers are using: Using FOIA to Compel Federal Agencies to Prove Claims:

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/using-foia-to-compel-federal-agencies-to-prove-claims

2. Del Bigtree had a brilliant interview with FL Surgeon General, Dr. Joesph LadapI, on 09/01: https://thehighwire.com/

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Thanks. Know many musicians who are just beginning to record the work written over past few years. Should be some great times ahead for us fans.

One of my favorites (written by Dylan):

https://youtu.be/bhWiq3BE3zY

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Low spark of high heeled boys

Or any of my own work, especially

The Rule of Freedom suite you can hear in YouTube

Grasshopper Kaplan

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Great stuff! Love the Claudia Fernety tunes. Thank you for sharing. We will win this!

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Thank you so much Mark, for posting my protest songs. Keep up the good fight! Best wishes, Claudia Fernety

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might I humbly suggest:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rynxqdNMry4

Richie Havens @woodstock

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It's not the most polished recording but I recently recorded a song I wrote called "I Don't Need Your Fucking Vaccines". Might strike a nerve with others who feel similar about what we've been through the last year. https://soundcloud.com/mattybrown-958664065/i-dont-need-your-fucking-vs?si=b58bcd96a9ac46e3a6b7a6bc2c2a0ede&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

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