Three-Five-Zero-Zero

[shobizz2]

It's brilliant. And relevant! Why can't we learn?

[picklepeachplum11]

I can't believe myself! Even after my mom explained to me that this song was about war, I still thought it was saying, "It's a dirty little whore." Wow......

[nailedwit]

Don't despair, Melkite. The "Occupy" movement seems to be prodding youth to galvanize (Occupy protesters show up at Bachmann speech in Charleston).

[bonerfried]

Powerful song, this.

[MelkiteVideo]

What a shame that we did not learn the lessons of this musical ! I was one of those 60/70's free spirits . . . and now we are back in mindless wars . . . and no one care. I suppose the real meaning is that the Establishment always wins in the long run.

[AllTheCloudsArePink]

Nigger doesnt mean color. It means somebody has their foot on your neck. Today in the USA, we are all niggers.

[ccbuster16]

i was but a toddler in hartfod ct in the 60s w/ race riots ,triggered by agitators ,o but what a cost forever yours u genisus green xxxooo

[MrPopsman]

Yeah all wars dirty and immoral!

Peace

[blackheartedwolf1]

Thanks for upload- my Dad used to let me listen to this record when I was 2 and 3 and up. I grew up on this.

[AllTheCloudsArePink]

Thank you, Swordmaster. I am able to share these songs all over the place thanks to you. Passing on the knowledge...

[ccbuster16]

ggreenwood i was 3 when my mother and i protested down main st hartford ct made the front page of the hartford courant maybe page 2 never the less guns before butter?????????

[abbaduke]

prisoners in nigga town it's a dirty little war! Boy, they sure had guts to speak the truth before this insane political correctness!

[kallyn78]

@abbaduke down with political correctness, up with the truth!

[abbaduke]

We should always remember this song!

[ClaxmanG]

For those who are wondering what the words mean in this song, they are a reference to a poem by Alan Ginsburg

"Wichita Vortex Sutra" speaks of the power of language and the poet's desire to end war by making a mantra. Lines from the poem include, " Vietcong losses leveling up three five zero zero flesh soft as a Kansas girl's / ripped open by metal explosion ... shrapnelled / throbbing meat / While this American nation argues war / conflicting language, language / proliferating in airwaves."

[rivronjack]

Thanks punkzombie15, Looking back today, I was wondering if this tune was promoting the myth that there was a much high population of young black kids there. This of course wasn't true, to me it looked like a good cross section of kids my age (20ish) from across the USA. Hollywood has sure rewritten history unfairly and give virtually a Vietnam Veterans a bad rap.

[rivronjack]

Prisoners in niggatown?

[Jarrod005]

@rivronjack Precisely =)

[rivronjack]

I was in Vietnam the first time I heard this on a 8 track tape. None of us understood the words then, still don't. Prisoners in Niggertown? Thx.

[punkzombie15]

@rivronjack i believe they were referring to Vietnam as niggatown again to rebel against the norm again to them niggatown wasnt an insult of any kind we have to remember they were kids finding a way to understand their world and this was just another way to do just that

[ggreenwood4]

I saw Hair at the Aquarius theater many many, many times! It was THE BEST CAST in the WORLD, and THE ONLY UNRECORDED CAST...What a waste of the best musical talents in the world.

[eibmoz28]

Have a brother in law that has never got over it

[danettecute]

talking about the Vietnam War--

had a dear friend who went to heaven

over there.

[jthegeek]

256 Viet kong(sp)... Captured!!

I Will Never 4Get This Musical..

It's A Dirty little War.. 3-5-0...ZERO!!

[bluepantha84]

when i was a child my Dad had a lrge collection of LP's among them was the musical broadway "HAIR". And, ever since my first time hearing it, as a child still not quite understanding every word, it became one of my most favorite records to listen to. Over the years i've learned the importance of the songs and their words, and I believe this musical could still make a powerful comeback.

What an awesome musical achievement.

[PGHanon]

could make a comeback? in the past year it has become one of the largest broadway revivals to date.

[dogday1977]

A very important part of musical theatre. It was not only one of the First rock musicals (it opened on broadway in april '68), but also an important anti political statement. What a cool show. Too bad it is so dated now that no one has much inclination to preform it. Though since the war in Iraq started, it has been popping up a little more frequetly among college and high school theatres

[Jerseygirl989]

Its coming back to Broadway, starting previews March 5th and opening at the end of March.

CANT WAIT! This is one of my favorite songs from the show!

[aussieome]

The First Musical to use rock in it was "Bye Bye Birdie" and then one of the first anti political musicals was "The Cradle Will Rock" and that was way back butI LUV HAIR!!!!

srry if i sounded uptight its just i take a class in school and i have to know this stuff

[cdsnjs]

Hair was the first musical to actually be about the time it was being performed. It was written in 1968 to be about 1968. Rent got alot of it's ideas from Hair

[japguy360]

Sheer genius, yes...

[invadercheeze]

Such an angry song! "Hair" is such a genius piece of anti-political art. I saw this in the Delacorte outdoor theater in Shakespeare in the Park. It was mind-blowing.