Earlier this week, the Al-Qaida #2 offered an interview to anyone that wanted one. Details here.
Essentially anyone can submit questions and that al-Zawahri would
…take questions until Jan. 16, after which al-Zawahri would answer them “as much as he is able and at the soonest possible occasion.” It did not say whether his answers would come in writing, video or audiotape.
We all know the power of music and I believe the time has come to take the RTH brand of healing to the world stage. In an effort to foster peace, love and understanding amongst all of Earth’s beings, I present this special Dugout Chatter exclusively for Ayman al-Zawahri. Let the music be your master, Ay, and give us your gut reactions to the following:
• Best effigy burning album?
• What about for the morning after?
• Parliament or Funkedelic?
• What album did you spin the most during your first Jihad?
• What do you sing when you’re beheading a capitalist pig?
• Gwen or Shirley?
• Do you prefer your Replacements with or without Bob Stinson?
• Which musician would you most like to see volunteer for a suicide bombing?
• What bands are you rocking to these days?
At this point, I open this historical opportunity to my fellow Townsmen (sorry Townswomen but, for this exercise we’ll need you to go ahead and put your RTH burqas on). What would you ask al-Zawahri?
Every time someone sings a song with the words “she had” in it, do you mistakenly hear it as about jihad? Can you not do the reverse and embrace peaceful solutions? I declare she had!
The Effigies’ Forever Grounded
Actually it depends on whose effigy you’re burning. 🙂
Any Howlin’ Wolf collection with “Built for Comfort” and “300 Pounds of Joy” on it
Funkadelic
I have no experience in this arena, but I can tell that I used to own a split Lp by two anarcho-punk/crust bands called Ottawa and Jihad, respectively. Ottawa were from Michigan and a side project of Current. Their bass player, Justin Labo, eventually moved to San Francisco and joined Film School, though he no longer plays with them. As for Jihad, I think they were from Canada (Toronto, maybe), but I didn’t like their side of the split Lp nearly as much as Ottawa’s. I wish I still had that record, though.
Again, I have no experience in this arena, but I think The Dicks’ “Kill from the Heart” would be absolutely perfect. Given the behavior and attitudes of so many spoiled people like the ones The Dicks railed against in the early ’80s, I can’t say they weren’t justified, though.
Shirley, but man is that a Hobson’s choice or what. She at least seem to have some brains and I’ll take a second-rate Curve any day of the week over whatever Gwen has become.
I’ve been listening to them a lot lately as I just finished reading the great oral history that just came out. With that said, I have to go with the Bob years and by a mile, too. While I love the major label stuff, too, it just doesn’t have the same attitude, loose-ness and no holds barred abandon.
Is Scott Stapp available? How about Ted Nugent?
Oh tons. As I said before, I’ve been listening to The Replacements a lot recently, but now I feel like a big Wipers kick is oncoming (np: Over the Edge).
Great answers, Berlyant! For now all I’ve got is a question that I’d like #2 to field:
Was “Rock the Casbah” your first exposure to The Clash?
Would have said Parliament once, but definitely Funkadelic now.
I hope I won’t be called upon to offer any details, but… “Dedicated To The One I Love” and I sort of sing it in a stage whisper.
There are quite a few I’d like to see get in line for such a thing, but since it’s obvious that this is how Bono is going to go out one day, I’ll nominate him to avoid any more blood on my hands.
Most likely yes since I was 7 when that song was a huge hit and the only music I heard then was whatever was being played on Top 40 radio at the time and since it was a huge hit, well you do the math. I can also tell you that Combat Rock was the first Lp of theirs that I ever heard. My dad’s co-worker Kurt (who had previously turned me onto Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, among others) had this album in his collection along with The Specials’ debut, which I also heard around the same time. I must have been either 14 or 15 as this was in the spring or early summer of 1990. I loved both albums and The Specials’ album especially captivated me since I’d never heard anything like it before. Come to think of it, I’d never really heard anything like Combat Rock, either, but I didn’t REALLY start getting into the Clash until I found an Lp copy of the U.S. version of their 1st album the next year.
Damn, I hope Berlyant is not the “#2” that Mod referred to.
It would be one hell of a great cover though.
Here’s another question I would hope that #2 could field:
“Peace Train” or “Oh, Very Young”?
Oh, and Mad Props for the special Arabic Dugout Chatter font!
D’oh! I obviously didn’t read that question carefully enough and thought it was meant for everyone.
Don’t sweat it, my friend. The questions are open to everyone!
I bet al-Zawahiri and even Yusuf Islam himself would pick the Jimmy Cliff version of “Wild World”
I don’t know about those folks, but I certainly would! It’s simply the best Cat Stevens cover I’ve ever heard aside from maybe The Koobas’ fantastic version of “The First Cut is the Deepest”, which obliterates Rod Stewart’s version, not to mention the more recent, awful version by Sheryl Crow.
Anyway, I especially like the one on his live album In Concert: The Best of Jimmy Cliff from 1976 where he does it in “rockers” style.
Happy Holidays everyone!