R.I.P. Bobby Sands 5/5/81
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Bobby Sands died on this day in 1981, in her majesty's maze prison in Northern Ireland after 66 days on hunger strike fighting for prisoners rights. More than 100,000 people attended his funeral in Belfast.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CBobwLJSQAE
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'He's Gone' dedicated to
'He's Gone' dedicated to Bobby Sands on 5/06/81 @ Nassau Coliseum (Track 17)
https://archive.org/details/gd1981-05-06.140903.senn421.wise.minches.miller.clugston.flac2496/Gd81-05-06S2T05HesGone.flac
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He's Gone Dedication into the
He's Gone Dedication into the best jam in the 80s or 90s by far!!!! Check it out. So killer.
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Saw my first Nasaau and NY
Saw my first Nasaau show a few days later on 5/8/81. Kesey was on harmonica during drums..Apparently Phil sang for the first time in years during US Blues. It's all a blur.
Did Phil really sing?!?
Only other Nassau was the Branford 90 show. I shit you not!!! But I really think the 3/30/90 WNEW broadcast show was better than the Branford show!
Pretty good choices hey??
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Yes he did.
Yes he did.
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>'He's Gone' dedicated to
>'He's Gone' dedicated to Bobby Sands on 5/06/81 @ Nassau Coliseum (Track 17)<
Correct, DJ. Which is why I posted it (with visuals).
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I was at that Nassau show on
I was at that Nassau show on 5/6/81 where Weir made the dedication. I knew of him because the Today Show every morning would run a brief update on how many days he has been on his hunger strike at what the cause was all about.
The 1981 Irish hunger strike started with Sands refusing food on 1 March 1981. Sands decided that other prisoners should join the strike at staggered intervals to maximise publicity, with prisoners steadily deteriorating successively over several months. The hunger strike centred on five demands:
1) the right not to wear a prison uniform;
2) the right not to do prison work;
3) the right of free association with other prisoners, and to organise educational and recreational pursuits;
4) the right to one visit, one letter, and one parcel per week;
5) full restoration of remission lost through the protest.[30]
The significance of the hunger strike was the prisoners' aim of being considered political prisoners as opposed to criminals.
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I was in the third row center
I was in the third row center for this one. Mind blown.
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Sorry I missedt hat, Mice Elf
Sorry I missed that, Mice Elf.
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Wasn't that show moved up a
Wasn't that show moved up a day because of the Islanders needed the place for the playoffs!?
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Great swept the Quebec
Great memory. Islanders swept the Quebec Nordiques in four straight games --the final being on May 4th but can't remember if that resulted in changing the date of the show. Anyone else recall that? We drove in from Pilly--had high school the next day and I can vaguely remember us puling into a White Castle somewhere in NJ post show and ordering like 200 sliders...
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In 1982, U2 withdrew from the
In 1982, U2 withdrew from the St Patrick’s Day Parade in New York when Bobby Sands, the leader of the IRA, was made the honorary marshal after dying in prison from the hunger strike he initiated the previous year.
Suddenly, U2 felt they did not fit in with an event that put terrorism alongside their Christian beliefs. To make up for the withdrawal, U2 decided to hold a performance at the New York Ritz.
"I would love to see a united Ireland, but could never support a man who would put a gun to someone's head to make that dream come true." - Bono
U2 are against the violence and all the pain it has caused.
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It definitely had a decision
It definitely had a decision in changing the GD dates there. I think I still have a Nassau Coliseum paper somewhere that says that. I'll scan and post it if I find it. But probably a little googling will prove it also.
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One person’s terrorist is
One person’s terrorist is another person’s freedom fighter.
I remember drinking in Irelands 32 on Geary St in San Francisco with a first generation Irish girl from work. It’s one of those bars that has thousands of pictures of random people hanging on the walls. After a few drinks she starts pointing everyone out to me. See him - he’s dead. That guy there is still on the run. Most of the pictures were active IRA and drinking there absolutely supported them. SF and Boston were both places they would come to when it got to hot for them back home.
Funny how after 9/11 America decided for a short while that tacit approval of terrorists would no longer be supported and that ended the IRA. They were forced to the table to negotiate a peace that still holds today.