This image made my day...thought I'd share it with you...

[Ken Burch]

It's an entry in the weekly "Photoplasty" contest on Cracked.com. The topic is "If famous musicians had never Died/Quit/Broken Up". Most of the entries were comic, of course, but this one really moved me:




Have a nice Monday...La Lucha Continua!

[Egalitarian Thug]

1. Where are the women? n/t

[Ken Burch]

2. Most of them haven't died or quit.

(other than Mama Cass and Amy Winehouse, and I'm not sure either of them would've backed Occupy).

No offense to the stronger gender intended.

[Tansy_Gold]

3. Mary Travers is gone

I miss her every single day.

[Ken Burch]

6. me too.

And again, no disrespect to any fallen women musician/singers who were part of the struggle.

Someone could do an entry to the contest that includes them.

[Egalitarian Thug]

4. I didn't think it was intended, but we have to be the change.

At least as good as any of the guys.

[Ken Burch]

5. The contest is open...you could send in an entry that corrects the fault.

n/t.

[DreamGypsy]

7. Pete Seeger didn't die ...

...or quit, or break up. At 93, he is alive, still working for his rainbow race, and a representative of the whole movement. Pete's version of Ghost of Tom Joad by Springsteen, with Springsteen, always brings me to tears. And there are so many other great songs...

Phil Ochs died, broke up, quit; hanged himself, unable to deal with his obsessions, disease, and sense of failure at renewing the culture in which he lived. From Wikipedia:

By Phil's thinking, he had died a long time ago: he had died politically in Chicago in 1968 in the violence of the Democratic National Convention; he had died professionally in Africa a few years later, when he had been strangled and felt that he could no longer sing; he had died spiritually when Chile had been overthrown and his friend Victor Jara had been brutally murdered; and, finally, he had died psychologically at the hands of John Train.

But Phil really didn't die. Some of us still fall asleep singing:

Here's to the State of Willard Romney
Where they're teaching all the children they don't have to care
All the rudiments of hatred are present everywhere
And every single classroom is a factory of despair
And there's nobody learnin' such as foreign word as fair
Oh, here's to the land you've torn out the heart of
Willard Romney find yourself another country to be part of

Live forever Pete. We miss you Phil.

And, of course, we still have Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell ... not present in the photo, but present in our minds and hearts.

And so many others ...

[Ken Burch]

8. I know Pete didn't die, and that Phil's songs live on

Some people are missing the point. The idea is that if Phil and Woody still physically walked the earth, they'd be in these marches(and maybe they'd have been in the encampments, too).

That's all this image was saying. OK?