Hole in the Bucket! (SPEARHEAD!)

[Bennyboy]

Want to know who the leaders are of today? Look no further. Michael Franti is that guy. His band is one of the best on the road.
And nobody tells it like it is better through song that Michael Franti. I am still all aglow from the hug he gave me at Power To The Peaceful this year.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CszG_bR35Mw

[Bennyboy]

1. Sometimes (I Believe I can Do Anything)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C0fr4O_Svs&feature=fvw

[Bennyboy]

2. Its Never Too Late...

From the RNC in NYC http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpHEB8K4n1w&feature=related

[Bennyboy]

3. Bomb The World!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICL-4Onk0PA

[Bennyboy]

4. Hey World! (Don't Give Up)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01FE9cPXE3M&feature=related

[Bennyboy]

5. Is Love Enough?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKx--IhUIA4&feature=related

[Bennyboy]

6. Full length festival sets in here!

Multi Cameras, Perfect sound...incredible stuff

Videos http://www.megavideo.com/?v=AREDOW9S ROTHBURY (RIP) 08.

http://www.megavideo.com/?v=4QXP869E ALL GOOD 08

[Bennyboy]

7. Positive ..(How'm I gonna live my life if I'm.....)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rG94nBlcLYg&feature=related

[Bennyboy]

8. Oh My God (Who am I?)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSbdKDL8otc Acoustic version

And the album http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgBq_feHYQ4&feature=related

[Bennyboy]

9. Rock The Nation!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjTVAZDBUJ0&feature=related

[Bennyboy]

10. To The East To The West....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xb-VN88MHL8&feature=related

[Bennyboy]

11. A couple of Audio only shows.....

Oldest School: The BeatNigs http://www.archive.org/details/beatnigs1989-12-16.FM.flac16

The Beatnigs - 1989-12-16 Eindhoven

The Beatnigs was an early collaboration featuring Michael Franti and Rono Tse. The band's stage performance included the use of power tools such as a rotary saw on a metal bar to create industrial noise and pyrotechnics. One venue for the band was the infamous Barrington Hall. Franti at the time worked for Berkeley's Subway Guitars. Songs like "Television: The Drug of the Nation" were performed by the band and were later rerecorded for their next project, The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy.


Here we can hear them perform live at the Effenaar in Eindhoven, The Netherlands on December 16. 1989

Really old school: The Disposable Heroes of hipHopcrasy. http://www.archive.org/details/dhoh1992-06-08.shnf (with Charlie Hunter)



Old School 95. The very beginning of SPEARHEAD

http://www.archive.org/details/spr1995-08-31.shnf

Middle School: http://www.archive.org/details/spr2001-03-10.shnf

[Bennyboy]

12. Everyone Deserves Music!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ55OZ6bVsQ

[Bennyboy]

13. Television IS The Drug Of The Nation

disposable heroes of hiphoprisy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgOWTM5R2DA

[retread]

14. Yell Fire

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viYdHvYM6ao

[Forkboy]

15. One of the coolest dudes out there.

Been into him since The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy. I remember hearing his cover of the Dead Kennedys song California Uber Alles and being blown away, so I got the whole CD of his own stuff. The song Music and Politics is a theme song to my life.

He varies his styles from CD to CD, and his lyrics are the polar opposite of what I normally listen to (i.e. positive lol), so it's always interesting. I'd love to catch him live but it just hasn't happened yet.

[Bennyboy]

18. Well grab the shows I posted above.....

The vids are outstanding. Pro shot stuff.

[hippywife]

16. Love him!

He is all that and more. :hi:

[Sky Masterson]

17. I love this one. (I'm a recent convert)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQm6Zrj9gno
michael franti live #5 feelin free

[Bennyboy]

19. Some Photos of PTP....and war protests...

http://picasaweb.google.com/bennyboy420/PowerToThePeacefulSEPT09?authkey=Gv1sRgCODyosDWrrmlmwE#

[lillypaddle]

20. I don't know why, exactly

but the title of your thread reminded me of "Pants on the Ground."

I'm sick. I must go to bed.

[Bennyboy]

21. wow....

Hmmm?

[lillypaddle]

22. it's an "American Idol" thingee

I told you, I'm sick. Bedtime.

Edit to add link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMwhl4IrPNc