I tried. I really tried but this semi-amateur TV anti-war extravaganza is painfully bad. In fact, this is enough to put me off folk music for life.

Has anyone else had the misfortune to trip into this while channel surfing? It is a Community Access TV Station and I can't find an explanation on their website. Each artist is from a different state and has been filmed in a different venue - some church halls, some formal stages. The songs are all anti-war. The treatment so heavy handed and humorless totally lacking in insight or irony - navel gazing with an occasional "FUCK" thrown in for shock value. The 60s without a soul.

I sat through "Empire of Oil", "He Lies, He Lies, He Lies", and a young man with an electric guitar who mumbled incoherently into the microphone with great angst. A folksinger who has to have set the record for introducing his song talked a full five minutes before offering his Dylanesque "When The Soldiers Came That Day". The young man in tie dye with no face - his hair was in it - droned on totally tone deaf and I gave up.

So why was Mudcat not contacted for some talent? We have some brilliant anti-war singer-songwriters here. InObu comes to mind immediately.

Anyway - comments?