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Get Behind Fanny: Episode 12

We’re calling Episode 12 the “Go Vote” podcast! Alice, Byron, and Kristen discuss 6 Fanny song lyrics that are relevant and timely to the 2020 U.S. election – “Think About the Children,” “I Just Realized,” “Cat Fever,” “Changing Horses,” “Conversation With a Cop,” and “Blind Alley.” Joined again by Jean and June, this is our take on those lyrics through the lens of the current political moment. We hope you enjoy this very special episode. Go vote!

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  2. What a supercharged and emotional podcast! Thank you all so much. It was wonderful to hear Jean so fired up and passionate (as were you all!!). This 12th podcast is unique as it documents an event *about* to happen… let’s hope the outcome isn’t a “Blind Alley”…
    Much love as always to you all for your hard work and devotion to Fanny. Byron’s “fuck yeah!” response to if he has voted is the “quote of the podcast”!!

      2. ?.
        It was so emphatic! Let’s hope for everyone’s sake that it changes the path of US politics!

    2. Hi Nigel,
      As I told you on the PM on FB, you were spot on with your comments with Kristen! I’m sure you heard the similarities….I’d say, “great minds…” but wouldn’t want to sound arrogant…LOL!
      Thank you,
      Alice

      1. Aww, thanks Alice! I spent so much time pondering over what to write… politics not being my strongest point…
        But, interpreting recent events and feelings through Fanny lyrics??? It really started to roll for me.
        You were spot on with your comments about Tr*mp being a TV personality. A narcissistic and vulgar one at that!

  3. I voted!

    The Groove Report

    Brilliant stuff once again, Fanny Rocks Gang!! A timely message delivered with the compassion we’ve all been missing lately!
    Fascinating how rock and roll reveals the truth in ways only music can. Poetry and prose have their place as written word to move and enlighten but words sung–leveraging the power of melody and rhyme uniquely–are empowered to lift the listener to an ethereal place, a sanctified (or sanctifying) place.

    Love the emphasis on getting off your fanny and voting!! Yes. Yes. Yes! It’s too important not to EVERY time and ESPECIALLY this time!

    Wake Up and Smell the Asphalt (one last word and it’s not even my own)!

    I love the quote by David Sedaris on undecided voters in 2020:
    “To put them in perspective, I think of being on an airplane. The flight attendant comes down the aisle with her food cart and, eventually, parks it beside my seat. “Can I interest you in the chicken?” she asks. “Or would you prefer the platter of shit with bits of broken glass in it?”
    To be undecided in this election is to pause for a moment and then ask how the chicken is cooked.”

    Ha!

    May the Groove be with You,
    Jim
    PS: Thank you supremely for the hilarious runout!! OMG! I spat coffee everywhere! You folks are having as much fun as allowed by law and I approve!

    1. Jim,
      I do love reading your comments, and look forward to them after every podcast. You did not disappoint. Here’s a secret….. We NEVER were able to get all three of us in unison on the outro/runout….. I said, “Byron, what’s the difference between 3,2,1 and 1,2,3. It’s the same damn beat!” Believe me, we tried. Byron had to “unify” us in post! Ha!
      I will never ask how the chicken was cooked!
      Best,
      Alice

      2. Well, Alice, as a drummer, have you ever counted down a song by counting backwards? I don’t think so. Also, I’m strictly a 4/4 player. None of this 3/4 stuff thank you very much. 🙂

        1. Agreed! And none of that godless metric meter either! 9.6/4 my ass!

          But my opinion on the matter (without a shred of expertise, mind you) is you have to sing a jingle in your head or the Bee Gees like they teach for CPR. Staying alive! Staying alive! Then once everyone’s got that groove going strong in their noggins, eyes closed, heads lolling, Grooving… Why, then you completely forget what the hell you were counting for in the first place! Win-Win!

          (guess maybe I do have a wee bit of expertise with that second thing!)

        2. Byron,
          I am sure, in my long and singular career, I have counted a song down with a “3, 2, 1” MANY times. You just weren’t in the band at the time……..

    1. Dr. K.,

      I’m waiting for the Behind the Scenes documentary on how you all do this! Fascinating!

      Jim

  6. HOLY SHIT! What a fantastic fucking (ode to Byron) podcast. I never realized how many of Fanny’s songs mirror today’s lousy political climate. You 3 have to be the coolest to work with. Delving deep into these songs makes them even more special. BTW more art on the way. The one of Jean I posted on Facebook was really fun to produce.

    2. Steve,
      Where did you post it, Steve? I don’t remember seeing it, and I would like to…. so, spill the fucking beans!
      Alice

  8. In absolute agreement with everything all of you said in this podcast, but dreading the next few days, for Civilisation’s sake as well as America’s. Is the corruption so entrenched that even a massive popular vote can make no difference? A Rump “victory” would embolden our own narcissistic mop-top muppet to do f..k knows what with his massive majority in Parliament, though he must realise that his position is precarious…

    “Think About the Children”, inspired by Bucky Fuller’s work and experience, makes an important point not mentioned as such in the podcast; the Universe is full of marvels to be explored, and we ignore science at our peril. June is a great storyteller, and I think her a cappella singing is so beautiful.

    Alice’s analysis of the one whose name means “fart” in British parlance just nails it! So perceptive, as always.

    “Conversation With a Cop” is heartrending, but we Brits find that ridiculing bent coppers seems to work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teSPN8sVbFU et seq. The SPG ( Special Patrol Group), a Metropolitan Police bunch of racist thugs, was disbanded not long after this sketch went out.

    I love the bridge in “Blind Alley” with Nickey’s church organ sound morphing into something jazzier as she sings “there’s a war going on”. I’ve always wondered why she chose Saracens as the blind fanatics, apart from the fact that it scans and sort of rhymes internally with “The Reaper grins”. Timeless religious dogma in conflict, I guess. This song has so much in common with “Won’t Get Fooled Again”, which brings us to “I Just Realised”… Same vibe, folks. GO VOTE!

    Welsh Dave

    1. Agreed! ‘Blind Alley’ could be a companion rocker to ‘Won’t get fooled again’. Both rousing tunes Love the link to ‘Not the 9 0’clock news’ – still hilarious today!
      Cheers

    2. Dave,
      You are SO SPOT ON!! Thanks for commenting, and I love how many of our listeners/friends “GET IT!” I feel like we’re all part of a secret (well, not SO secret) society of thinkers and activists who happen to take their music seriously, except for the odd, “Shut the fuck up!” tossed in!
      Be well!
      Alice

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