The Arrogant Man (live, 1986)

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Live -- June 1, 1986 on the Black Wedge Tour, G.E.S.S.C.O Olympia, WA (unreleased, Smarten UP! Records)

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The Black Wedge 1986:
Anti-authoritarian poets and minimalist musicians reclaiming our voices, taking back culture, setting wild hearts free! We want to set some wild hearts and imaginations free. We want to release a riot of emotion – opening up a new arena for activist resistance culture. Disintegrate CONFORMITY. And hey, it’s going to be fun too.

David Lester, "We kicked off our first tour by selling out two nights in a Vancouver nightclub called "The Venue". Political poetry? Nightclub? Sold-out? No one had heard of such a thing."

We borrowed D.O.A.’s school bus and drove the west coast playing clubs, a soup kitchen, an alternative school, radio stations, parties, and the anarchist bookstore in SF.

Jean Smith continues, "Touring the west coast in 1986 opened our eyes to a whole different underground, a whole new punk rock. Everywhere we visited we met artists, writers, musicians and activists with a DIY aesthetic and their own methods for making things happen."

lyrics

The Arrogant Man

The arrogant man is obsolete
in his place a human being
refusing to play that manly role
respect for women is in his soul

that's new life
that's new life

Sometimes people they think he's gay
ashamed to be a man they say
well, hearing what I say
that's something new
he's wishing equality
it would come true

that's new life
that's new life

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released January 11, 2011
David Lester -- guitar, Jean Smith -- vocals

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