Keep on Rockin in the Free World

[Charles]

Keep on Rockin in the Free World
by Charles Carreon
June 15, 2025

Ground Zero at the Revolution against the Trump Regime, the soundtrack begins with raw anarchy, the fuel of change.



London's burning!

All across the town, all across the night
Everybody's driving with full headlights
Black or white turn it on, face the new religion

Everybody's sitting 'round watching television!

London's burning with boredom now
London's burning dial 99999
London's burning with boredom now
London's burning dial 99999

I'm up and down the Westway, in an' out the lights
What a great traffic system - it's so bright
I can't think of a better way to spend the night

Than speeding around underneath the yellow lights

London's burning with boredom now
London's burning dial 99999
London's burning with boredom now
London's burning dial 99999

Now I'm in the subway and I'm looking for the flat
This one leads to this block, this one leads to that
The wind howls through the empty blocks looking for a home
I run through the empty stone because I'm all alone

London's burning with boredom now
London's burning dial 99999
London's burning with boredom now
London's burning dial 99999

London's burning!

[Charles]

Order in disorder is the path through chaos. Spin the dial and it settles on This is Radio Clash!



Interrupting all programs
This is radio clash from pirate satellite
Orbiting your living room,
Cashing in the bill of rights
Cuban army surplus or refusing all third lights
This is radio clash on pirate satellite
This sound does not subscribe
To the international plan
In the psycho shadow of the white right hand
Then that see ghettology as an urban Vietnam
Giving deadly exhibitions of murder by napalm
This is radio clash tearing up the seven veils
This is radio clash please save us, not the whales
This is radio clash underneath a mushroom cloud
This is radio clash
You don't need that funeral shroud
Forces have been looting
My humanity
Curfews have been curbing
The end of liberty
Hands of law have sorted through
My identity
But now this sound is brave
And wants to be free - anyway to be free
This is Radio clash on pirate satellite
This is not free Europe
Not an armed force network
This is Radio Clash using audio ammunition
This is Radio Clash can we get that world to listen?
This is Radio Clash using aural ammunition
This is Radio Clash can we get that world to listen?
This is Radio Clash on pirate satellite
Orbiting your living room,
Cashing in the bill of rights
This is radio Clash on pirate satellite
This is radio Clash everybody hold on tight
A-riggy diggy dig dang dang
Go back to urban 'nam

[Charles]

The cultural blitzkrieg begins now. No resistance will stand. We want the airwaves!



Nine to five and five to nine
Ain't gonna take it, it's our time
We want the world and we want it now
We're gonna take it anyhow
We want the airwaves (that's right, that's right)
We want the airwaves (that's right, that's right)
We want the airwaves, baby
If rock is gonna stay alive
Oh yeah
Well, all right
Well, let's rock
Tonight, all night
Oh yeah
Well, all right
Well, let's rock
Tonight, all night, all night
Where's your guts and will to survive?
Don't you wanna keep rock 'n' roll music alive?
Mr. Programmer, I got my hammer
For to smash my, smash my radio
We want the airwaves (that's right, that's right)
We want the airwaves (that's right, that's right)
We want the airwaves, baby
If rock is gonna stay alive
Oh yeah
Well, all right
Let's rock
Tonight, all night
Oh yeah
Well, all right
Let's rock
Tonight, all night, all night
We want the airwaves, airwaves
We want the airwaves, airwaves
We want the airwaves, airwaves
We want the airwaves, airwaves
We want the airwaves, baby

[Charles]

Jimi's "Straight Ahead" is an electrical storm making sense of itself. Conflict, dissonance, tenacity in the face of it all.

[Charles]

There's no way out of here

created and performed by David Gilmour

When you come in
You're in for good
There was no promise made
The part you played
The chance you took
There are no boundaries set
The time and yet
You waste it still
So it slips through your hands
Like grains of sand
You watch it go
There's no time to be lost
You'll pay the cost
So get it right
There's no way out of here
When you come in
You're in for good
There never was an answer
There an answer
Not without listening
Without seeing
There are no answers here
When you look out
You don't see in
There was no promise made
The part you played
The chance you took
There's no way out of here
When you come in
You're in for good
There never was an answer
There an answer
Not without listening
Without seeing
There's no way out of here
When you come in
You're in for good
There are no answers here
When you look out
You don't see in
There was no promise made
The part you played
The chance you took
(When you come in)
(You're in for good)



No one can do psychedelic dread like David Gilmour. Loved this song the first time I heard it. This studio-perfect live rendition featuring Gilmour's impassively impassioned face is a treasure. Strange to say, there's not a word of this song a Dzogchen yogi can disagree with.

[Charles]

Spider and the Peach


live recording of a genius level smack rock grindathon performed by obviously smacked out musicians
a prize otherwise only to be found on the rare vinyl LP, "Life's So Cool" posted by Metallica frontman Lars Ulrich

[Charles]

Peter Tosh's
Johnny B. Goode

a masterpiece of reggae pacing, a bass-led presentation that fronts Peter's exquisite voice'

I must look up whether Chuck Berry ever expressed an opinion on this presentation of his tune of the same name, since Peter tweaked the lyrics and abandoned the tune, to the delight of us all

Deep down in Jamaica, close to Mandeville
Back up in the woods, on top of a hill
There stood an old hut made of earth and wood
Where lived a country boy named Johnny B. Goode
He never learned to read or write so well
But he could play his guitar like ringin' a bell yell

Said go, go Johnny!
Johnny be good tonight!
Said go, go Johnny!
Johnny B. Goode...

He used to carry his guitar in a gunny sack
Sit beneath a tree in the railroad track
Old engineer in the train sittin' in the shade
Strummin' with the rhythm that the drivers made
People passing by would stop and say:
"Oh my, oh my, what the boy can play"

Said go, go Johnny!
Johnny be good tonight!
Said go, go Johnny!
Johnny B. Goode...

Mama said: "Son, you gotta be a man,
You got to be the leader of a reggae band
People comin' in from miles around
To hear you play until the sun goes down
Boy, someday your name will be in the lights
Sayin' JOHNNY - JOHNNY B. GOODE TONITE"

I said go, go Johnny!


Johnny be good tonight!
Said go, go Johnny!
Johnny you better be good

Said go, go Johnny!
Johnny be good tonight!
Go, go Johnny!
Johnny B. Goode...

[Charles]

Peter Tosh
Steppin' Razor

Incredible tower of dreddiness,
I and I approach with reverence


If you wanna live
Treat me good
If you wanna live, live
I beg you treat me good
I'm like a walking razor
Don't you watch my size
I'm dangerous
Said I'm dangerous
I'm like a walking razor
Don't you watch my size
I'm dangerous
Dangerous
If you are a bully
Treat me good
If you are a bully, a bully
I beg you treat me good
I'm like a stepping razor
Don't you watch my size
I'm dangerous, dangerous
I'm like a stepping razor
Don't you watch my size
I'm dangerous, dangerous
If you are a chucky
Nobody chucky from me
If you are a chucky, a chucky
Nobody chuck from me, yeah
I'm like a stepping razor
Don't you watch my size
I'm dangerous, I'm so dangerous
I'm like a chopping razor
Don't you watch my size
I'm dangerous, dangerous
If you eat asphalt
I beg you treat me good
If you drink lead soup
You better treat me good
I'm like a stepping razor
Don't you watch my size
I'm dangerous, dangerous
I'm like a stepping razor
Don't you watch my size
I'm dangerous, dangerous
If you are bull bukka
Nobody buk from me, yeah
If you are duppy
You move away from me
I'm like a stepping razor
Don't you watch my size
I'm dangerous, dangerous
I'm like a stepping razor, walking by
I'm dangerous, dangerous
If you wanna live
Treat me good
Warning you if you wanna live, you better treat me good
I'm like a stepping, walking, cutting, flicking
Jumping, chopping, walking
I'm dangerous, I'm dangerous
I'm like a stepping, jumping, flicking, bumping, boring
I'm dangerous, I'm dangerous
If you drink mortal
Treat me good
And if you eat brick
Treat me good
I'm like a flashing laser and a rolling thunder
I'm dangerous, dangerous
I'm like a stepping razor
Don't you watch my size
I'm dangerous, I'm dangerous
Treat me good
If you wanna live
You better treat me good
If you wanna live
You better treat me good
You could a drink lead soup
I'm dangerous, dangerous
You could a eat asphalt
I'm dangerous, dangerous
You could a eat brick crackers
I'm dangerous, dangerous
And I don't know why
I'm dangerous, dangerous
Look at this father, ooh
He's dangerous, dangerous
I saw the sun, ooh
What a danger

[Charles]

Peter Tosh
We Don't Need No Nuclear War

I want the entire United Nations to bring their children to work and join hands and sing this song

Listen up world -- the man is right and that is all that need be said

His pleas to end suffering instead of menacing all humanity with the power to end life on earth

Is a cry of sanity too rarely heard

We don't want no nuclear war
With nuclear war we won't get far
I say that we don't want no nuclear war
With nuclear war we won't get far
Said no, just another holocaust, yeah
Holocaust
It's just another holocaust
And we can't take no more
We can't take no more
We can't take no more
Too many people are hungry
They don't have food to eat
They are naked
'Cause they don't have clothes to wear
They're goin' insane
Because of the condition whoa-ah
Little young babies
Are suffering from malnutrition
And I say that
We don't want no nuclear war
With nuclear war we won't get far
No, I say that we don't want no nuclear war
With a nuclear war we won't get far
Say no, just another holocaust
Yeah, another holocaust
Can't take another holocaust
I can't take no more
Said I can't take no, no more
I can't take no more
I saw World War One
Where lotsa trouble begun
I saw World War Two
When the pirates came right through
Lookin' for World War Three
But you got to set me free
Free from the chains
And this here misery
'Cause I say that
We don't want no nuclear war
With nuclear war we won't get far
I say that we don't want no nuclear war
With nuclear war we won't get far
Oh no
Just another holocaust
Who-ah
Another holocaust
Can't take another holocaust
And we can't take no more
We can't take no no more
We can't take no more
Unemployment
I said the rate is high
So much sick people
I'm sure they gonna die
So much mad people
Gettin' ready to explode
'Fore somebody
Come help them carry this here load
And I say that
We don't want no nuclear war
With nuclear war we won't get far
I say that we don't want no nuclear war
With nuclear war we won't get far
No no no
Just another holocaust oh-ah
Another holocaust
I say it's another holocaust
And we can't take no more
How can we take any more?
I said we can't take more
One country
Deploying MX
Another country
Deploying SS
Inflation
Goin' way up high
And the dollar
Is going way down low
Say that we don't want no nuclear war
With nuclear war we won't get far
I say that we don't want no nuclear war
With nuclear war we won't get far
No, another holocaust
Who-ah another holocaust
It's another holocaust
I say people can't take no more
They can't take no, no more
They can't take no more
They can't take no no no
They can't take no
They can't take no more
Crying, see they can't take
They can't take no, no more
They can't take no more
Crying, sighing, bawling, they can't take no more
I hear them moaning, moaning, moaning
They can't take no more
They don't wanna die
They want to go to Heaven, yeah
But they can't
They can't take no more
They gettin' low
They can't take no more
They gettin' grief
They can't take no more
They gettin' beat
They just can't take no more
They gettin' lazy
'Cause they can't take no more
Bored
They can't take no more
Frustrated
They can't take no more
Pleading for them
They can't take no more
Can't you hear me pleading for them?
'Cause they can't take no more
No more
No more
They want to live in peace
And happiness
Let trees grow
Let the waters flow