It's not all easy, Bono. Sure, it would be great if you could get Idi Amin, the Dalai Lama, Kim Jon Il and GWB back stage at one of your shows, and have them sort out everything. Yeah, it would really be great. Won't happen though. These are, no exceptions, men so buried in their power stuggles, in their structures, in their uber phallic alpha positions, that they cannot back down and be reasonable. You may be no different, you realize. You sing about stuff, I'm a fan of some of it myself, and it's a nice idea. Still though, for the position of power you feel on stage, and backstage at your shows, it's just where you're in control, it's where you are god. Much like the head offices, the executive controls for the nuclear bunkers, or the grand temples discussing dead sages, you're still trying to use where you're strong to affect everyone else. It's where you can get them to listen. For a moment anyways.
You know the old stories about wizards? Some had a "place of power". Their workshop, a cave, island, glade, or stretch of coast where they had special control or ability over things. Once out of that place though, no guarantees the effects will stick...
You've tried to do a lot with the backstage, as others have in their places, but jsut good ideas won't change men so set and empowered in their own places, where the masses listen and blue clad attendants felate.
Music, what you send out, can only do so much too. Some people may get it and take up your banner. Have you felt cold when you see some people bobbing their heads, loving every note, but missing the message entirely? That's what finally drove off Zach D. He spat a fine message, in his own words and Cypress Hill's. In the end the kids listened to it, felt angry, felt good about that, wore a t- shirt and thought they were done. I think it fucked him up a bit. He had nothing else good to say, and nothing that would get into people, so he quit the band and left for a bit, I figure.
I think you saw one of Zach's old buddies, a few years back. He was pissed. Still pissed about Zach, pissed at you, pissed over the whole mess of things, and so he decided to monkey up a statue on some awards show and make a scene as you were accepting the yearly something becasue you had released soemthing. You called out to him, reasonable and peaceful, a regular saint. A saint spared dragging him out the back door and introducing him to mace or tazers. It's easy to be a saint when you never have to get your hands dirty.
Zach D. = Zach de la Rocha, former lead of Rage Against the Machine. They covered "Kill a Man" by Cypress Hill.
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Wrong bono. My bad.
Is this for real?
Celebrities?
Seemed like good idea at the time. :|