We didn't start out to make a protest record at all. That would have been too shallow. As usual, it was simply a case of absorbing what's going on around us.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Protest is patriotic. Since the beginning of musical time, American singers and songwriters have used their talent and bully pulpits to show us America's strengths and shortcomings.
It was of limited usefulness to head great rallies. The government did not listen, and, soon enough, the tear gas and the muzzles of the guns were turned against the people. The justice of our cries went unrecognized.
It wasn't my natural inclination to get into writing protest songs.
I was involved in some peaceful protests.
It was very hard to get any records, so the only source for us to really hear what was happening was listening to the Voice of America. We would be taping all the broadcast and then sharing the tapes and talking about it.
It seems the only way to gain attention today is to organize a march and protest something.
You can't just sit around and make protest albums all your life; eventually it comes to the point where you have to do something.
If we didn't get the record, we didn't exist.
Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren't about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and all that.
What if you threw a protest and no one showed up? The lack of angst and anger and emotion is a big positive.