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Is this the speech that's @the start of the shows?
flower_in_the_window
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flower_in_the_window Posted Wed 24 Sep, 2008 1:20 PM Quote
"I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's worth; banks are going bust; shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter; punks are running wild in the street, and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it.

We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat. And we sit watching our TVs while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be!

We all know things are bad -- worse than bad -- they're crazy.

It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out any more. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we're living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, "Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials, and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone."

Well, I'm not going to leave you alone.

I want you to get mad!

I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot. I don't want you to write to your Congressman, because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street.

All I know is that first, you've got to get mad.

You've gotta say, "I'm a human being, goddammit! My life has value!"

So, I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window, open it, and stick your head out and yell,

"I'm as mad as hell,

and I'm not going to take this anymore!!"
 
Re: Is this the speech that's @the start of the shows?
mili
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mili Posted Wed 24 Sep, 2008 1:27 PM Quote
It's something like that, I guess. Wasn't there a rant like that at the rehersal minitour, too?
 
Re: Is this the speech that's @the start of the shows?
flower_in_the_window
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flower_in_the_window Posted Wed 24 Sep, 2008 1:39 PM Quote
Yeah, same speech as the club tours. xx
 
Re: Is this the speech that's @the start of the shows?
rebekah
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rebekah Posted Wed 24 Sep, 2008 3:52 PM Quote
yeahhh it is..that's what they started with when i saw them in Feb (:
 
Re: Is this the speech that's @the start of the shows?
everyday_face
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everyday_face Posted Wed 24 Sep, 2008 3:55 PM Quote
It's from a famous scene in the 1976 film, Network.
 
Re: Is this the speech that's @the start of the shows?
rebekah
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rebekah Posted Wed 24 Sep, 2008 4:13 PM Quote
Here is a video i uploaded from one of their fists gigs where they played some Ode stuff..the sound and quality is RUBBISH but you get the idea lol.
 
Re: Is this the speech that's @the start of the shows?
Light
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Light Posted Thu 25 Sep, 2008 6:40 PM Quote
The original video of Network is posted here, just for the info:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dib2-HBsF08

(I´m sorry if it was posted already here.)
 
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