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Markin comment:
This is great stuff for any music aficionado, especially of folk, social protest, and roots music. I am going to be "stealing" entries off of this site periodically but you should be checking it out yourselves. Kudos, Bob Feldman.
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On GI Coffehouses by Irwin Silber--Part 4
Current mood: contemplative
Category: Music
In a 1970 article, titled "About The GI Movement," former Sing Out! magazine editor Irwin Silber wrote the following about the GI Coffeehouses of the Vietnam War Era:
"Within a year of the opening of the UFO, GI coffee houses were operating at a number of bases, among them Fort Hood, Texas (The Oleo Strut), Fort Lewis, Wash. (The Shelter Half), Fort Knox, Kentucky, Fort Dix, N.J., Fort Ord, Calif., and Fort Carson, Colorado. At other sites--including naval training stations, marine camps and Air Force bases--FBI and military intelligence harassment prevented coffee houses from opening...
"Attacks on the coffee houses themselves have become more open and blatant. In Columbia, the UFO was clesed up by the civilian authorities and its organizers arrested on charges of conducting "a public nuisance." In an Alice In Wonderland trial, the UFO was fined $10,000 and three of the organizers sentenced to prison terms of six years each.
"At Muldraugh, Kentucky, adjacent to Fort Knox, ...the coffeehouse here has never been able to obtain required business licenses and the building has been fire-bombed several times by the Ku Klux Klan.
"At Fort Dix, a bomb was thrown into the coffee house completely destroying the entrance area and injuring several GIs and civilians...In Tacoma, Wash., the Army declared the coffee house adjacent to Fort Lewis " off limits," until public and even Congressional protest forced the military to drop its action."
Read more: http://www.myspace.com/bobafeldman68music/blog?page=3#ixzz0xwheSbtU
Markin comment:
This is great stuff for any music aficionado, especially of folk, social protest, and roots music. I am going to be "stealing" entries off of this site periodically but you should be checking it out yourselves. Kudos, Bob Feldman.
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On GI Coffehouses by Irwin Silber--Part 4
Current mood: contemplative
Category: Music
In a 1970 article, titled "About The GI Movement," former Sing Out! magazine editor Irwin Silber wrote the following about the GI Coffeehouses of the Vietnam War Era:
"Within a year of the opening of the UFO, GI coffee houses were operating at a number of bases, among them Fort Hood, Texas (The Oleo Strut), Fort Lewis, Wash. (The Shelter Half), Fort Knox, Kentucky, Fort Dix, N.J., Fort Ord, Calif., and Fort Carson, Colorado. At other sites--including naval training stations, marine camps and Air Force bases--FBI and military intelligence harassment prevented coffee houses from opening...
"Attacks on the coffee houses themselves have become more open and blatant. In Columbia, the UFO was clesed up by the civilian authorities and its organizers arrested on charges of conducting "a public nuisance." In an Alice In Wonderland trial, the UFO was fined $10,000 and three of the organizers sentenced to prison terms of six years each.
"At Muldraugh, Kentucky, adjacent to Fort Knox, ...the coffeehouse here has never been able to obtain required business licenses and the building has been fire-bombed several times by the Ku Klux Klan.
"At Fort Dix, a bomb was thrown into the coffee house completely destroying the entrance area and injuring several GIs and civilians...In Tacoma, Wash., the Army declared the coffee house adjacent to Fort Lewis " off limits," until public and even Congressional protest forced the military to drop its action."
Read more: http://www.myspace.com/bobafeldman68music/blog?page=3#ixzz0xwheSbtU
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