Pat Thomas author
@patthomashistorian.bsky.social
author of “Allen Ginsberg: Material Wealth”and “Listen Whitey! Sounds of Black Power” and “Did It! Jerry Rubin” - reissue producer / liner note writer for Fire Records
After 40+ shows on the American coasts and across Europe, ‘the Medicine Show’ moves on to the South and Midwest. Did any of you out there catch the Dream Syndicate on these earlier tours? If so, feel free to let everyone out there know what to expect this fall.
The original cover / title of Planet Waves
many death threats congresswoman Barbara Lee received this week in 2001 when she was the only one in congress NOT to endorse a war in the post-9/11 fall out. Makes me think of all the Yippies / Anti-Vietnam War activists I've met - who got their asses kicked for: Protesting killing and violence!
Steve Earle and I with a friend we met in Antwerp at a Waterboys gig
“Elaine Mokhtefi the Algerian revolutionary, has died. A fighter for justice, who worked with Black Panthers during their Algiers exile (here with Kathleen Cleaver), wrote a book about that, “Algiers, Third World Capital:Freedom Fighters, Revolutionaries, Black Panthers””
Do The Oz - Elastic Oz Band with John & Yoko
I love me a good Scots singer/songwriter he would have been 78 today
#TheWaterboys will headline Puca Festival in the Púca Big Top, Trim, Co Meath, Ireland on Sun, 1 Nov. Brother Paul has a prior commitment so for 1 night only the line-up will be Mike/James/Aongus/Eamon & Steve Wickham! Tickets go on sale Fri 11 Sept at 10am via pucafestival.com
“Remember, remember always, that most of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.” ― Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Are You Sure Steve Earle Done It This Way”
Apparently, the Waterboys have arrived in Amsterdam
Attention LONDON Waterpeople! Don't miss the final show on the #FishermansBluesRevue tour with #TheWaterboys, #SteveWickham & #SteveEarle, coming up THIS SATURDAY, 12th September. Tickets are on sale now at lnk.to/TWLdn26
Apparently, the Waterboys have arrived in Amsterdam
“Are You Sure Steve Earle Done It This Way”
Waterboys Stockholm tonight; Mike Scott & Steve Earle tag teaming the vocals on the Stone’s “Dead Flowers” accompanied by pedal steel (thank you Roar), Steve Wickham’s fiddle followed by Brother Paul’s B3 organ - is the perfect intersection of these two artists
Waterboys Stockholm tonight “Stolen Child” (words by Yeats) transformative, transcendent, meditative, ethereal - Mike on keyboards, Steve on violin, Colin on flute