"BM2BLMWTF?!" by Trash Juice (Jazz Fusion Psychedelic Rock Electronica Music Video)
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One Media® presents "BM2BLMWTF?!" by Trash Juice (Jazz Fusion Psychedelic Rock Electronica Music Video)
"BM2BLMWTF?!"
Barney Miller theme, juxtaposed with Jimi Hendrix's 'Machine Gun' alluding to Black Lives Matter and the present day police state...
With this music video, One Media® entered Trash Juice into the Steemit Beat Battle League Season 2 Round One ... the theme for this #beatbattle round being 'Greatest Movie or TV Theme Songs' ... Well, other than a few binge watches, Trash Juice hasn't habitually watched TV in ... well, much longer than anyone at One Media® would care to admit ...
One cool beat the Trash Juice project cared to reminisce upon was the theme from 'Barney Miller' ... Besides that, the theatrical production of that show had some rather noble themes, including celebrating diversity and reconciling differences between various ethnicity, genders, and sexual orientations, as well as painting a rather humanist portrait of characters whom could otherwise, and indeed often elsewhere had been, at best stoic, but often intimidating authoritarian figures.
Trash Juice recognized the namesake leading roll character has initials 'BM', and as Black History Month in the United States approached, one would consider what progress society has made since the airing of Barney Miller ... insert 'L' as if Barney's middle initial ... local police forces have become militarized, and 'inclusiveness' has expanded ... for those entering the disenfranchised class...
Hence the juxtaposition of Jimi Hendrix's 'Machine Gun' into the Barney Miller theme. Jimi, himself a person of mixed African and Native American race, appealed to a large audience of mostly white young persons to whom his LIFE VERY MUCH MATTERED, and thus like the show Barney Miller, worked to reconcile differences in society. As one may interpret the metaphor Machine Gun as a reference to militarized police as 'the guns' for 'the machine' it seemed most appropriate to scroll the last paragraph of the famous Mario Savio speech , "Bodies upon the Gears", repeated here:
There is a time
when the operation
of the machine
becomes so odious,
makes you so sick
at heart, that you
can't take part;
you can't even
passively take part,
and you've got to put
your bodies upon the
gears and upon the
wheels, upon the
levers, upon all
the apparatus,
and you've got to
make it stop.
And you've got to
indicate to the
people who run it,
to the people who
own it, that unless
you're free,
the machine will
be prevented from
working at all!
)
Happy listening!
Zig
What an inventive combination. ;-) Jimi Was and Is The Man! A True Legend taken too soon from the world. And adding in a bit of BM... cool :-) Those sure were different times. Good luck in the contest. Have a great day.
Thank you my friend! I think Jimi was a strong influence on everyone who could comprehend his talent. Yeah different times indeed, could ponder on and on about what was and what is ... Best wishes to you, too!
It's a freeform jazz odyssey!
Thanks for giving it your ear and commenting. Love your work! Best of luck to you my friend!
Crazy stuff man! Sounds like an intense trip I've had once lol. Glad to hear someone doing something different with the competition. Good work man! Dug the Jimi riff too ;)
Funny you mentioned that ... The ghost of Jimi Hendrix visited me during a trip once, with a prophesy of how I'd be joining 'The Club of 27' as in my mind he is the supreme member of that club. In retrospect, I'm actually kind of happy he was wrong about that. ;-)
As far as doing something different ... 'different' wasn't the goal, but it seems inescapable in my creative process.
Thank you very much for listening and commenting!
Hahaha no kidding. I had a friend that thought he would go at 27 too. He didn't continue making music though unfortunately. I also have an art poster of Jimi, Janis, Jim and Kurt in my living room. Had it forever!
...actually they all were great ... Janis and Jim also really up there for me too ... Kind of ironic, when music didn't kill your friend, he gave it up! :-D I had to take a hiatus for parenting and other professional developments, but now I'm ready to let it take me, again, it can be heavenly, after all ...
Woahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh :)
Such an inspiring post and entry.
The absolute intensity which this fusion of genres you created is out of this world and is a treat to the conformist mainstream music.
Such a treat this production is and is woke my ears upppppppppppp and demanded attention :)
And paying homage to Jimiii wow wow. I have a feeling he is proud of this one
And that video so captivating holy smokes.
I don't how you do it but man I feel you are channeling the Universe so nicely.
Appreciate you being apart of this community. Much love and respect.
Oh thank you so much ... I got so obsessed over my next entry in the #smlchallenge I lost track ...
I love your in-depth analysis of the work ... what can I say ... Jimi was the bomb ... How could I go back to the decade he saw the beginning of, and so much shaped himself, without mentioning him ... then there was the unforgettable bass line from the Barney Miller TV show, actually the whole theme could have used further development in my treatment here ... thought the transition from Jimi back to Barney went smooth, though...
When it comes to channeling the Universe, something about listening to silence ... sorry if that's a bit vague, but more words hardly help in the matter ... ;-)
I am so happy to be part of this community, likewise.