Oh yes, and all the soldiers fighting in Vietnam.
Here's the intro to "Machine Gun":
Machine Gun intro mp3
Jimi says:
"Happy new year, first of all. We have about a million or two million more of them, if we can get over this summer. Heh heh heh. We'd like to dedicate this one to uh to the ... scene that's going on, all the soldiers that are fighting in Chicago, and Milwaukee and New York. Oh yes, and all the soldiers fighting in Vietnam. We'd like to do a thing called 'Machine Gun.'"
posted by Tense Past at 3:05 PM
5 Comments:
Sweet!
7:22 AM
who were all the soldiers fighting in chicago, milwaukee, and new york? What specifically was that referring to?
3:29 PM
Jonathan,
I think he was referring to the Vietnam war protests that were happening in those cities, which led to the arrest of the "Chicago 8" and "Milwaukee 14" for example.
Cheers.
3:39 PM
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10:28 AM
I always thought he said, "draggy scene." Like it's a drag!
11:57 AM
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