Ball of Confusion »
Posted by: cowboygrandpa 7 months, 1 week agoA look at the 60's with the music of the Temtations. How much like today. How much different? This was one of my favorite songs when I was younger, and I found it still is.
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jordan117 months, 1 week ago
I think this video is a reflection of the 60's, it could very well be right now with a few minor changes...>>>>>>>
It does give a peek into those very turbulent times, but leaves out the woman's movement. Men abused their wives wives with impunity,a woman had to beg a male judge for a divorce from her abuser, married women couldn't have credit in their own names, women couldn't find jobs anywhere they wanted, single mothers could legally be denied housing & jobs, 'divorce' was a dirty word and divorced women were ostracized, "illegitamate' was stamped on the birth certificates of children born 'out of wedlock'....& if what is happening today had happened in the 60's, we'd probably be in the middle of a civil war. The young of the 60's had a courage the young of today couldn't possibly understand.
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mntnman4447 months, 1 week ago
Here ya go Jordan...sorry Propeller this is not racial...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MD7of6trC-U
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ind067 months, 1 week ago
I was just thinking the same thing about this song earlier this afternoon.
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cowboygrandpa7 months, 1 week ago
Rinty:
I remember the Watts riots. Seeing them on TV. I can only remember asking why did it need to come to this? The violence at Chicago in '68 when the cops beat down the protestors and brutally broke them up. Yeah the wounded vets being helped is one I'll always carry with me.
It was the best of times it was the worst of times. We pushed this country forward but paid a heavy price.
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AnteUp7 months, 1 week ago
cowboygrandpa ~
We knew a few officers during that time period and they expressed the view - in confidence - that besides the poverty,it was the LAPD's policies that lit the fire under that kettle. Those were the days of DWB (if I remember the acronym correctly) - that would be "Driving While being Black". LAPD needed new leadership. H*ll, the whole country needed new leadership!
Remembering the Chicago Convention and Mayor Daley?
As the news coverage came through at the peak of the
abuse.......I said (for the first time) the "F" word
in front of my mother and a friend. Oh man - big mistake!
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Spadecaller7 months, 1 week ago
Are we on the edge of destruction or on the precipic of rebirth? That question from the sixties continues to be asked and remains unanswered.
We've made gains and we've had some losses. To me, the brutality of war drones on with no end in sight.
Where is the hope of our youth today? Is it waiting to be born again or has it perished in a fractured world of apathy?
Minorities have gained a greater foothold, but it is in a world riddled with forces preparing to destroy diversity.
I suppose the world is really not the same, but it reflects the flavors of the past; some bitter, some sweet.
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cowboygrandpa7 months, 1 week ago
mntnman444:
I used to sing that song. A friend of mine had it on a 45. We'd go to his room and crank that and play it.
Great song and so true.
Thanks.
We looked so young as soldiers, we were old when we came home. The eyes said it all.
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blinkers7 months ago
Thank you mntnman444. That song still send shivers up and down the spine.
It is depressing indeed that virtually nothing is learned from all this killing and unrest, but I take solace (tiny solace) in the fact that at least the world has moved on from the terrifying superpower stare-down of the 1950s-80s. Talk of "nuclear winter" and "fallout shelters" is heard no more. The world is no more peaceful now than it was then, but the imminent threat of overwhelming nuclear annihilation (and make no mistake, the capability was there)has receded.
If all these brush fires can be contained, the forest may not burn down.
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cowboygrandpa7 months, 1 week ago
blinkers:
Yeah, the pictures are from the past we seem to be repeating. The music is definetly timeless. I see the racial tensions brewing again. The war. But the kids now they seem content to play their video games.
I don't get it. Man I'd be up in arms over the things going on right now.
They don't seem to understand what it is costing them.
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AnteUp7 months, 1 week ago
GHOSTWHOWALKS ~
I'll agree with you about being side-tracked with hi-tech
toys but I think the media's job these days is to keep the
citizens tranquilized. A whole generation of Americans are
being deprived of an unvarnished look at our society.
These are pretty harry times ("harry"? - talk about going back to the 60's- lol) and yet where's the PROTEST?
Cindy Sheehan, that's one AND................??
There actually have been demonstrations but they don't receive
much more coverage than a 10 second film clip.
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blinkers7 months ago
cbg, what was so great about the 1960s was the idealism that was in the air. Young people in the Western world and Japan actually did feel for a short while, they could change the world -- for the better. Yes, it was ultimately a hollow sham, but my God what energy, what exuberance, what wonder, it brought!!
There are no youth movements any more, at least none based on new ideas about living together harmoniously, or constructive linkages between peace advocacy, music, art, fashion and lifestyles. Man, all this came together, during those fleeting years -- and this statement is nothing to do with "Good old days" nostalgia. It actually was happening.
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BronxBomber7 months, 1 week ago
That's a pretty incisive look at that decade CBGA. The music adds a perfect collage to that turbulent time. I love that "Motown" sound back then. Thanx for the look see.... I'm sure 'Aceofspades1' would concur...right Ace?
;o)
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AnteUp7 months, 1 week ago
not2needy ~
The Temps and their refrain, "And the band played on" -
I couldn't help but be reminded of one I use to this day,
Sly Stone, "And on and on - and on and on".
"Because All Men Are Brothers", "We Shall Overcome" and
so many others. They are there for us when we are hopeful
and they are there us when we are helpless.......Thank
goodness for MUSIC!............and thank you cowboyG!
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Silverghost7 months ago
Reckon it mans that we don't learn too well..."And the band played on." Gotta love that bass though, a real gem! Great harmony...Thanks Grandpa!
The only way we'll learn, is if we have a national revival & people start getting over themselves, start seeking the real truth & get concerned about the betterment of others. -Rev. S
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texangelwings7 months, 1 week ago
Several years ago we drove through Selma, Alabama. The memories of history past, came rushing through my thoughts.
A time in our history, when freedom was trying to prevail. We were like blind people who were trying to see!
I wonder why the Civil War was not a lesson learned.
Thanks cowboygrandpa for the video, nice find. This was the other half of the Sixties! The struggle for equality and justice for all.
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mozzer7 months, 1 week ago
Great vid. There were some unflinching, stark images at times. And I had no clue that the Temps were capable of creating such a layered, profound song.
Thanks cowboyg.
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jaern7 months, 1 week ago
Growing up in Detroit in the 1960s, I love this music. Thanks cg.
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mntnman4447 months, 1 week ago
More soundtrack...
"singing songs and carrying signs,mostly say Hooray for our side..."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30W3iRL48gQ
If only a certain 28% could comprehend this.
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mntnman4447 months, 1 week ago
It's the same problem today cowboy...if only the 28%ers realized how little they would have to compromise to get along and realize that the politicians are creating the division.
I never did and never will understand the problem some people have with a group of citizens holding up signs that say love and peace.
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river-rat7 months ago
Every one had some really good comments here. I lived through that time and wouldn't trade it for any thing. There was so much good that happened and yes we did pay one hell of a price. It wasn't all music, dope and loveins. We fought for what we believed in I marched in protests against nestle, against the war, and lots of other things that were going down. The cops and the older generation didn't like us much. Well now we are the older generation and it is hard to talk to the younger generation about how it was for us cause they don't understand and they don't care. Maybe they will start caring when all our freedoms are gone.
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CovalentBond7 months ago
I was 15 years old in the spring of 1970 when this song came out. It has always been one of my favorites. It is timeless and as true today as it was in 1970, Unfortunately.
I totally bought into the 60's hype.
But looking back I have to say the 60's generation was the most self deluded generation that ever lived. They have become the very people they tried to warn us about.
A Republican Ronald Reagan ended the cold war.
And a Democrat Bill Clinton is bringing back racism.
Talk about a Ball of Confusion!
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cowboygrandpa7 months ago
ConvalentBond:
That's wierd I thought the song had just come out when I got back from Nam in Feb. of '71. I know I went down and bought it and listened to it over and over. 37 years ago this month. Part of the reason I posted it. Looked it up and it came out in 1970. Wow. the mind plays tricks on one as we get a little older. Ha Ha Ha Ha.
Just to disagree on one thing though. Reagan did not end the cold war. It took 40 years of Soviet spending to bankrupt them. All the presidents from the end of WWII thru Reagan defeated the Soviets by forcing them to outspend their financial resources for military means.
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