Composer Top Ten

Bikers get a bad rap in this country. 
For decades, bikers were deemed "bad to the bone", 
A breed of outlaw unto themselves, 
20th century Boot Hill gang determined to see you and me
As nothing more than broken lines in the pavement.

But after some careful observance, I have changed my tune.
Bikers are by and large what is great and wonderful about America.
They are not young punks...those are out driving the SUV's 
Their suburban rich daddies bought for them to bribe them
To finish High School.

The average biker I encounter is between 50 and 60
Every one of them sports an American flag, either on their hog
Or on their denim or leather...or more likely both. 
They are not the ones texting at the red lights, 
Or sporting noise-cancelling Boze phones
And jutting their fat suburban butts straight into the intersection
Where an EMR is frantically trying to get to another fallen biker.

The bikers are first at the fires, first at the floods
They are the first to defend your faith, even if they don't share it
Or defend your guns, even if they don't own one.
For years we saw bikers as rebels, outlaws and miscreants.
But they indeed are the truest of patriots.

They will defend your right to speak your peace
Even if it's to badmouth their beloved country
But know this if you do, while one hand is raised to defend your rights
The other is squarely in your face. By the millions. 


The Two Million Biker Ride To D.C.

About the funnest thing I've ever done musically.  

September Harvest Rain

Weekend almost over, a couple more workdays, then zoom!  Jeff boards the big white bird to SeaTac, and his honey's arms.

Happy 'Cause We'll Be Together

John Takes The Fifth

A friend of mine and I are working on a rap track.  I figured I'd show him how it's NOT done.

White Boys Just Can't Rap

February approaches...a month of beginning, a month of ending.  It was the beginning of life for my sister Meri, and the month of passing for my Dad.  This musical elegy of his life reflects the profound effect his days in the Army had on his life, as well as the bittersweet struggle of life we all face as time and age slowly begin to sap us of strength, yet grace us with the joy of watching the generations that succeed us arrive and grow.  It reflects his delight in his family, his children,  grandchildren and great-grandchildren..as well as his most profound sorrow, the loss of his beloved and only daughter, Meri.  It is a musical tribute to the man who I loved more than any man on earth, and of whom not a day passes that I don't think of him. 

The Passing of Marvin Plissner

Ok, I know it's January, and this is an August thunderstorm.  Just moving some music over to my newly-discovered music publishing venue. 

Thunder in the Springs

Side By Side

What Does A Day Hold

Fifteen states have now petitioned to secede from the Union.   The Texas petition reads as follows:

The US continues to suffer economic difficulties stemming from the federal government’s neglect to reform domestic and foreign spending. The citizens of the US suffer from blatant abuses of their rights such as the NDAA, the TSA, etc. Given that the state of Texas maintains a balanced budget and is the 15th largest economy in the world, it is practically feasible for Texas to withdraw from the union, and to do so would protect it’s citizens’ standard of living and re-secure their rights and liberties in accordance with the original ideas and beliefs of our founding fathers which are no longer being reflected by the federal government.

The Second Great American Civil War of 2012

We sat on our buns
When they took our funds
Like marauding Huns
They took our guns

And now our sons
All dress like nuns
And spout off puns
Their fathers spun

America stunned
Because she shunned
The evil ones
Who took our guns.

In piles of tons
They took our guns
New season begun
Are now reruns
 


Mae Liz - Great American Gun Confiscation Resistance - 2013

Cover - Poco - Good Feeling To Know

A. Symposium o covers and originals in coneflower variety style

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Coneflower Basement Band