FRIDAY FLASHBACK “One Planet One Utopia One Helmet…Revisited”
San Francisco 1984 and now
FRIDAY FLASHBACK “One Planet One Utopia One Helmet…Revisited”
–Today, in a recently made video, the Time Machine uses mid-80s San Francisco as a chirpy flashpoint.
Here on the streets of San Francisco, a day doesn’t go by without a protest march or some other hub-bub, which led me to create this song. It’s as close to a political bumper sticker as I get.
The lyrics were prompted by San Francisco mayoral elections in which punk rocker/poet Jello Biafra (of The Dead Kennedys) came in 5th in the vote count-off. The video you are about to watch fuses contemporary remixes of the song + new images cut with footage of me on a 1986 TV show.
On a cosmic jukebox this song would play next to ZIGGY-era David Bowie, The Who SELL OUT, and (especially) The Kinks katalogue cirka PRESERVATION ACT II and SOAP OPERA (deep-Davies fans will catch the neologisms).
Thanks for watching and listening—feedback welcome!
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