More passion. :)
I think I need to find more of their stuff. Thanks!
"Claes: Tell me about your single: “Ain’t Gonna Fight in a Rich Man’s War.”
Palmer: I wrote that back in the spring. Of course, that was before the Democrats won back both the House and the Senate (laughs). I’m not sure what to do with that one now.
Anyhow, I woke up one morning and I guess I was kind of irritated about the war. I was thinking of these lines — people think that rednecks and salt-of-the-earth type people all support the president and that isn’t true. So I had lines that talked about fishing, hunting, working hard and all of that coming to me so I needed a pen and paper. I couldn’t find a pen or a piece of paper. What I found was a page out of my kid’s coloring book and a crayon. So I just started scribbling these lyrics down. When I finished the song, I grabbed my guitar and started pounding it out and my wife, Felicia, said, “That’s cute, a little ornery.”
When we got together to pound it out as a band it turned into to this real country-sounding anthem. When we got up to Santa Fe in June I knew it probably wasn’t a song I wanted to put on a record, because I don’t like to date my records, but I thought maybe it would be a really good song to put where people could download it off the Internet for free and access it. Not only to draw attention to ourselves, but to draw attention to the war and the fact that not all rednecks support the war.
Big John Treadwell, who owns Frogville Records, just for the fun of it, pieced together this little video our of images from the Internet. The next thing we knew it was on the chart of Neil Young’s “Living With War” Protest Video (www.neilyoung.com/lwwtoday/) chart. I think it got up to number 7 (as of press time it sat at 35). It just came from a crayon on a coloring book."
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