It's sad, because i am a Steppenwolf fan and i like that song. But you have deturned the original message that was anti capitalism excess and anti Vietnam war to an anti Barak Obama message, making him the "Monster" that everybody have to fear or fight against.
The real Monster is the monstruous greed and selfishness of Banks, Wall Street, and all corporate monsters that never have enough. The day americans will understand that sharing is the real freedom, it will get better.
Freedom is not always Justice... and Total Freedom is an unobtainable myth that the Universe does not care about a whit. We, as mortal Humans, are fundamentally interdependent and require a system that relentlessly attempts to afford Justice to thwart the ugly alternative of Social Darwinism.
Significantly unfortunate use of Obama images derails this otherwise valiant effort. Of interest is the JFK quotes over the outro... I guess he DID see what hit him...
@Pasdeaux First off, TY for the view & realistic comment. I can appreciate your observation. I've always subscribed to the assumption that just as there is no one right way to make a video; there is also no one right way to view a video; thus leaving it all open to the viewer to decide for themselves. At my channel; ALL points of view are both welcomed and appreciated.
In the spirit of your reply I'd add that I've loved this song since it first came out when I was a teen... also Chicago's first 3 albums & the cut "We Can Make It Happen"... some years later, I'm some still someone WHO hopes we don't get fooled again (like we often still do)... and part of that hope is that critical thinking skills evolve so that content may be parsed from presentation so that spoonfuls of credulity don't go down sweetly just because they were served up as tasty eye-candy... ;-)
@Pasdeaux I agree. What I though was a great compilation got derailed for sure. I was ready to share a link but I think I'll not do that at this point. If the creator would revise and throw in images of Congressional leaders from both sides, I'd be very willing to share. But as it is now, those Obama images seem childish and I'm not willing to have any of my friends think I thought they were OK. I'm not a Democrat, so my political leaning has nothing to do with my opinion.
@kittysave -> Chalk up one point up for Critical Thinking!... although recently I am not pleased at all with the Warrantless Detainment door he opened a crack for later Presidents...
@jefferyalbergo GWB horrors?? valid observation for sure. All in all it's still only 9 min to cover a bunch of history & I spose it could be argued that the GWB horrors are still being played out and will be until folks wake up.
Not timeless...prophetic! What they sang then has sadly become reality and there's no reason it has2be like this, but I think the keywords are "the people grew fat and got lazy. It's so fucking sad! But who knew before it came true?Now what can we do? It ain't the America that I used2know
@ccmac54 TY so much ccmac54, for the view, feature & comment. There are some fine patriotic versions o f this tune out there I jusy embellished mine a bit as to not make somebody else's vid. Not timeless...Prophetic...that's badass !! good call !!
I'm a Die Hard Liberal but I have to say I like how you did this Vid. All though I may not agree with the rep. of President Obama I think you did a good vid to a good song
@8BitJunkie81 Hey TY 8Bit; always like to see new folks giving a look. Liberal or conservative...makes no difference here, my friend. I don't even consider partisan politics when I make a vid...I'm just an illustrator here.
Just as there is no one right way to make a vid; there's also no one right way for folks to draw their own opinion...ALL are valued !!
@8BitJunkie81 YOU WILL DIE HARD MY FRIEND WHEN THE MUSLIMS LED BY OBAMA ENSLAVE YOU AND YOUR CHILDREN AND SET THEMSELVES AS DICTATORS AND KINGS...........CAN'T HAPPEN HERE???.....THE SAME THING HAS BEEN STATED IN EVERY COUNTRY THAT WAS TURNED INTO A DICTATORSHIP.......GERMANY....RUSSIA.......EVERYWHERE.......JUST WAIT AND SEE.........(IF IT DOESN'T CHANGE)..........
@timray99 Thanks my brother. You would have been the graduating class ahead of me back then. I had a draft lotto number in the lower 300's and was never called, so I just enlisted on my own in the mid 70's
We should recall that John Kay said in a live performance of this epic song -
“What it’s really all about is despite the things that are wrong with our country there are too many good things worth saving to let the whole thing go down the drain. So I think we should get together as much as we can and bring about change.”
This song is no Tea Party anthem. It is a call to revere and restore the principles and purposes that make America worthy of pride and patriotism.
@Cabellero69 TY Caballero for mentioning that JK quote from the live album. Been way too long for my memory=D Glad you don't see this as a tea party anhtem; not a tea party guy here. I do agree completely with you on the revere part...as in Paul Revere !!
I was considering making a video of Monster to post on YouTube and decided to see if anyone else had already done so. After seeing this version I know I cannot do better. Excellent job.
@asimov13647 TY Chuck for the view & kind comment. Please don't let this vid stop you from making your own. go ahead on Brother...it's a great tune & way open to interpretations...also comes in a variety of sizes too...live version, studio version.
There's no contest my friend & certainly no one right way to make a video. I'm sure everyone has a different way of what Steppenwolf meant in the lyrics...it's wide wide open...you gotta go for it...I'll watch it !!
@WozEelectrikPhil I thought The Evil SOB's was your motorcycle gang out there in the wild UK=) How was your road trip Brother...and aproximently just how much of that great local Scotch did you swill on my behalf...I woke with a headache several times here !
K! I figure Mr. Kay, and Mr. Peart, and Mr. Zimmerman and Mr. Carlin and Mr. Hicks among others found a way to get this message out- to the masses. Gotta wonder at this point in time if the ignorance isn't willful. Anyway, my wife stays pissed at me; says I never "grew up". Thank God you didn't, either. Cool you featured TC!
@asbestosicould Damn glad to see you in the seats asbestosicould; damn glad...TY for the view & cool comment about our great great friend TC... I miss that brother still; as do hundreds of folks !! This is the 3rd appearance by TexanCyclist in my vids...funny how he always seems to be around the truth=) In my version of Before The Deluge I inserted him with the lyric "When the light that's lost within us reaches the sky" He was everything good about us all, my friend !!
@patiodaddyo1 Shit! Did I un-sub you or sump'n? I don't recall doin' that, but now that I think on it, the only time I see ya' is when hoolie gets excited 'bout sump'n.
My Daddy always said you don't really know a man 'til you been shit-faced drunk w/him. So, I s'pose we need a place, us two and hoolie, some booze (or whatever) and four chairs. The biggest, comfiest chair is reserved for TC, just in case he'd like to visit.
@asbestosicould I'll tell you this much...I love Dave & Cheri like my own kin...but have to respect their newfound sobriety....their lives have spun a complete 180...go back a couple years & watch my BBQ vid when I went down to Bama....the yard was barren...now it looks like a farm...very very proud of them for sticking to it I always leave a cerimonial lawnchair out for all my viewers...dunno why kinda stoopid in a way...but I'm a hospitable dude
@asbestosicould Where U at geographically anyway. Always like to meet folks from YT...& yer pappy was right my friend !! Blues & Booze & BBQ's
Dave & Cheri were here for Christmas before; not sure what is up for this year...but then I've been known to do a BBQ roadtrip or two...& if that don't work out...I ship it=) Subs?? They got one at Navy Pier...me? I enjoy my friends
@patiodaddyo1 Yeah, I kinda forgot that Dave was on the wagon. Silly me.
Anyway, I'm in Woodstock, GA at this point in time. Somebody said something once about a place in NY by that name- I was 12- tho' I've got (or had) some R2R tapes of it somewhere. They came from an ex Uncle-in-law.
You're a good dude, and your hospitality is much appreciated. But, if you came to my door bearing gifts, I'd probably be out fuckin' off somewhere. It's what I do best.
@asbestosicould That's a fine list of free thinkers right there...mind if I include Mr Strummer?? Your thought on willful ignorance is more than plauseable...many folks just want to believe "all's well" no matter what. Folks'll c'mon round as they can. Pe@ce
Great Song! .. Over 40 years old now! ... However, whoever so artfully put this video together has the history sense of someone who was born 2 years ago! .... Obama is NOT the Monster, and until the teabaggers wake up and take credit for the mess that they made, they will never be aware enough to understand that dirtbags like the overlooked george w. bush and his gang of scum are the MONSTER that John Kay was obviously warning us about!
@sreddy58 sreddy..TY for the view & comment. Due to my limited video toolbox I have to handcraft every frame, which is tedious work at best .But this process according to some of my return viewers,lends an element of art to the"video" which maybe makes them have a familiarity about them some folks return for.
While I don't have a vast audience I do interact with all my viewers and more than several are close personal friends. I'm hoping you will check back to see what I am up to again
@sreddy58 Here's part 2..just as there is no one right way to construct this kind of art; there is also no one right way to view it or interpret it. That being said ALL points of view are worthy to be voiced here and your opinion is valued by me here.
So I am going to plead artistic license in your observation ofObama as the antagonist here...out of 932 stills I had to work with...I gotta use something...or it won't get made. Just trying to keep it in the ballpark here not always the home run=)
@donHooligan I was just a kid when "Monster" was released, but I wore that sumbitch out on my plastic Sears Silvertone record player. I just liked the song. I didn't understand much of the message back then, except:
@czarwright TY Mark Back in the day...well at night actually Hef had a TV show...on UHF called Playboy After Dark. Us kids would stay up late...to watch it " for the articles" But I recall seeing Steppenwolf on there playing live. I think we were waiting to see if they'd do The Pusher & swear on live TV
Huge thanx again buddy for first posting up some Woof on yer FB & for encouraging me to make Monster !!
It's sad, because i am a Steppenwolf fan and i like that song. But you have deturned the original message that was anti capitalism excess and anti Vietnam war to an anti Barak Obama message, making him the "Monster" that everybody have to fear or fight against.
The real Monster is the monstruous greed and selfishness of Banks, Wall Street, and all corporate monsters that never have enough. The day americans will understand that sharing is the real freedom, it will get better.
r00fecteau 3 weeks ago
Freedom is not always Justice... and Total Freedom is an unobtainable myth that the Universe does not care about a whit. We, as mortal Humans, are fundamentally interdependent and require a system that relentlessly attempts to afford Justice to thwart the ugly alternative of Social Darwinism.
BillPasdeaux 1 month ago
Obama is taking away your rights, our country, and your freedom wake up and get your head out of the dirt thats just where he/they want you...
mfj23mej 1 month ago
Significantly unfortunate use of Obama images derails this otherwise valiant effort. Of interest is the JFK quotes over the outro... I guess he DID see what hit him...
Pasdeaux 2 months ago
@Pasdeaux First off, TY for the view & realistic comment. I can appreciate your observation. I've always subscribed to the assumption that just as there is no one right way to make a video; there is also no one right way to view a video; thus leaving it all open to the viewer to decide for themselves. At my channel; ALL points of view are both welcomed and appreciated.
Pe@ce~
PDO1
patiodaddyo1 2 months ago 2
In the spirit of your reply I'd add that I've loved this song since it first came out when I was a teen... also Chicago's first 3 albums & the cut "We Can Make It Happen"... some years later, I'm some still someone WHO hopes we don't get fooled again (like we often still do)... and part of that hope is that critical thinking skills evolve so that content may be parsed from presentation so that spoonfuls of credulity don't go down sweetly just because they were served up as tasty eye-candy... ;-)
Pasdeaux 2 months ago
@Pasdeaux I agree. What I though was a great compilation got derailed for sure. I was ready to share a link but I think I'll not do that at this point. If the creator would revise and throw in images of Congressional leaders from both sides, I'd be very willing to share. But as it is now, those Obama images seem childish and I'm not willing to have any of my friends think I thought they were OK. I'm not a Democrat, so my political leaning has nothing to do with my opinion.
kittysave 1 month ago
@kittysave -> Chalk up one point up for Critical Thinking!... although recently I am not pleased at all with the Warrantless Detainment door he opened a crack for later Presidents...
BillPasdeaux 1 month ago
this is a great video they just dont make any songs like this
wilbsable 4 months ago
great job. Were is he GWB horrors
jefferyalbergo 5 months ago
@jefferyalbergo GWB horrors?? valid observation for sure. All in all it's still only 9 min to cover a bunch of history & I spose it could be argued that the GWB horrors are still being played out and will be until folks wake up.
TY Jeffery for the view & great comment
Pe@ce
patiodaddyo1 5 months ago
great job.
jefferyalbergo 5 months ago
Not timeless...prophetic! What they sang then has sadly become reality and there's no reason it has2be like this, but I think the keywords are "the people grew fat and got lazy. It's so fucking sad! But who knew before it came true?Now what can we do? It ain't the America that I used2know
ccmac54 5 months ago 4
@ccmac54 TY so much ccmac54, for the view, feature & comment. There are some fine patriotic versions o f this tune out there I jusy embellished mine a bit as to not make somebody else's vid. Not timeless...Prophetic...that's badass !! good call !!
patiodaddyo1 5 months ago
"If you mention extortion again, I'll have your legs broken." --exciting and provacative.
TopDiamondDog 5 months ago
AWESOME!!!! This is great, sharing at FB!
videodog52 6 months ago
it is a hippie song
paixetamour1 7 months ago
I'm a Die Hard Liberal but I have to say I like how you did this Vid. All though I may not agree with the rep. of President Obama I think you did a good vid to a good song
8BitJunkie81 9 months ago 2
@8BitJunkie81 Hey TY 8Bit; always like to see new folks giving a look. Liberal or conservative...makes no difference here, my friend. I don't even consider partisan politics when I make a vid...I'm just an illustrator here.
Just as there is no one right way to make a vid; there's also no one right way for folks to draw their own opinion...ALL are valued !!
Pe@ce
patiodaddyo1 9 months ago 2
@8BitJunkie81 YOU WILL DIE HARD MY FRIEND WHEN THE MUSLIMS LED BY OBAMA ENSLAVE YOU AND YOUR CHILDREN AND SET THEMSELVES AS DICTATORS AND KINGS...........CAN'T HAPPEN HERE???.....THE SAME THING HAS BEEN STATED IN EVERY COUNTRY THAT WAS TURNED INTO A DICTATORSHIP.......GERMANY....RUSSIA.......EVERYWHERE.......JUST WAIT AND SEE.........(IF IT DOESN'T CHANGE)..........
BerryGood777 8 months ago
amazing dude....actually you did a fair representation, most excellent
timray99 10 months ago 2
@timray99 Thanks my brother. You would have been the graduating class ahead of me back then. I had a draft lotto number in the lower 300's and was never called, so I just enlisted on my own in the mid 70's
Appreciate the feedback and viewing
PDO1
patiodaddyo1 10 months ago
@imdoubtful Danke my friend for the view, comment and feature.
Stay Strong
Press On
patiodaddyo1 10 months ago
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SheepDoggOne 11 months ago
@SheepDoggOne TY SDO I have minimal tools to work with plus I don't vlog cause I'm a toothless old bastid !!
There's No One Right Way to get the message out
patiodaddyo1 11 months ago
We should recall that John Kay said in a live performance of this epic song -
“What it’s really all about is despite the things that are wrong with our country there are too many good things worth saving to let the whole thing go down the drain. So I think we should get together as much as we can and bring about change.”
This song is no Tea Party anthem. It is a call to revere and restore the principles and purposes that make America worthy of pride and patriotism.
Cabellero69 11 months ago
@Cabellero69 TY Caballero for mentioning that JK quote from the live album. Been way too long for my memory=D Glad you don't see this as a tea party anhtem; not a tea party guy here. I do agree completely with you on the revere part...as in Paul Revere !!
patiodaddyo1 11 months ago
@patiodaddyo1
I can relate to Revere. I too have issued a call based on this splendid song.
If you care to, it can be found on Broowaha.
I commend it to your attention and welcome your comments.
Cabellero69 11 months ago
I was considering making a video of Monster to post on YouTube and decided to see if anyone else had already done so. After seeing this version I know I cannot do better. Excellent job.
asimov13647 1 year ago 2
@asimov13647 TY Chuck for the view & kind comment. Please don't let this vid stop you from making your own. go ahead on Brother...it's a great tune & way open to interpretations...also comes in a variety of sizes too...live version, studio version.
There's no contest my friend & certainly no one right way to make a video. I'm sure everyone has a different way of what Steppenwolf meant in the lyrics...it's wide wide open...you gotta go for it...I'll watch it !!
Pe@ce
PDO1
patiodaddyo1 1 year ago
Hey pd, great work as always. God knows they're evil sons of bitches ain't they.
WozEelectrikPhil 1 year ago 2
@WozEelectrikPhil I thought The Evil SOB's was your motorcycle gang out there in the wild UK=) How was your road trip Brother...and aproximently just how much of that great local Scotch did you swill on my behalf...I woke with a headache several times here !
Glad yer back Phil !!
patiodaddyo1 1 year ago
K! I figure Mr. Kay, and Mr. Peart, and Mr. Zimmerman and Mr. Carlin and Mr. Hicks among others found a way to get this message out- to the masses. Gotta wonder at this point in time if the ignorance isn't willful. Anyway, my wife stays pissed at me; says I never "grew up". Thank God you didn't, either. Cool you featured TC!
asbestosicould 1 year ago 2
@asbestosicould Damn glad to see you in the seats asbestosicould; damn glad...TY for the view & cool comment about our great great friend TC... I miss that brother still; as do hundreds of folks !! This is the 3rd appearance by TexanCyclist in my vids...funny how he always seems to be around the truth=) In my version of Before The Deluge I inserted him with the lyric "When the light that's lost within us reaches the sky" He was everything good about us all, my friend !!
Pe@ce
PDO1
patiodaddyo1 1 year ago
@patiodaddyo1 Shit! Did I un-sub you or sump'n? I don't recall doin' that, but now that I think on it, the only time I see ya' is when hoolie gets excited 'bout sump'n.
My Daddy always said you don't really know a man 'til you been shit-faced drunk w/him. So, I s'pose we need a place, us two and hoolie, some booze (or whatever) and four chairs. The biggest, comfiest chair is reserved for TC, just in case he'd like to visit.
asbestosicould 1 year ago
@asbestosicould I'll tell you this much...I love Dave & Cheri like my own kin...but have to respect their newfound sobriety....their lives have spun a complete 180...go back a couple years & watch my BBQ vid when I went down to Bama....the yard was barren...now it looks like a farm...very very proud of them for sticking to it I always leave a cerimonial lawnchair out for all my viewers...dunno why kinda stoopid in a way...but I'm a hospitable dude
Always ready to throw down Texas style 4 TC
patiodaddyo1 1 year ago
@asbestosicould Where U at geographically anyway. Always like to meet folks from YT...& yer pappy was right my friend !! Blues & Booze & BBQ's
Dave & Cheri were here for Christmas before; not sure what is up for this year...but then I've been known to do a BBQ roadtrip or two...& if that don't work out...I ship it=) Subs?? They got one at Navy Pier...me? I enjoy my friends
We'll figure this out
patiodaddyo1 1 year ago
@patiodaddyo1 Yeah, I kinda forgot that Dave was on the wagon. Silly me.
Anyway, I'm in Woodstock, GA at this point in time. Somebody said something once about a place in NY by that name- I was 12- tho' I've got (or had) some R2R tapes of it somewhere. They came from an ex Uncle-in-law.
You're a good dude, and your hospitality is much appreciated. But, if you came to my door bearing gifts, I'd probably be out fuckin' off somewhere. It's what I do best.
asbestosicould 1 year ago
@asbestosicould That's a fine list of free thinkers right there...mind if I include Mr Strummer?? Your thought on willful ignorance is more than plauseable...many folks just want to believe "all's well" no matter what. Folks'll c'mon round as they can. Pe@ce
K
patiodaddyo1 1 year ago
@patiodaddyo1 We're gonna need a shitload more chairs!
asbestosicould 1 year ago
Great Song! .. Over 40 years old now! ... However, whoever so artfully put this video together has the history sense of someone who was born 2 years ago! .... Obama is NOT the Monster, and until the teabaggers wake up and take credit for the mess that they made, they will never be aware enough to understand that dirtbags like the overlooked george w. bush and his gang of scum are the MONSTER that John Kay was obviously warning us about!
sreddy58 1 year ago
@sreddy58 sreddy..TY for the view & comment. Due to my limited video toolbox I have to handcraft every frame, which is tedious work at best .But this process according to some of my return viewers,lends an element of art to the"video" which maybe makes them have a familiarity about them some folks return for.
While I don't have a vast audience I do interact with all my viewers and more than several are close personal friends. I'm hoping you will check back to see what I am up to again
Welcome
patiodaddyo1 1 year ago
@sreddy58 Here's part 2..just as there is no one right way to construct this kind of art; there is also no one right way to view it or interpret it. That being said ALL points of view are worthy to be voiced here and your opinion is valued by me here.
So I am going to plead artistic license in your observation ofObama as the antagonist here...out of 932 stills I had to work with...I gotta use something...or it won't get made. Just trying to keep it in the ballpark here not always the home run=)
patiodaddyo1 1 year ago
AmRev2.1
donHooligan 1 year ago
@donHooligan Hey now.....it's little Donny Hooligan in the stands..!!
!Great to have ya back round my Brother!!!
Great big ole LOVE to you & Cheri...that Howlin Hellbilly !!!
patiodaddyo1 1 year ago
@patiodaddyo1 the lil redneck says she loves you and misses you SO much.
i say "ditto"
8P
donHooligan 1 year ago
classic!
Great Vid Yo
donHooligan 1 year ago
fknA
love this song
donHooligan 1 year ago
"how do you know she's a witch?"
"she turned me into a newt.........i got better."
donHooligan 1 year ago
"how do you know she's a witch?"
"she turned me into a newt.....i got better"
donHooligan 1 year ago
@donHooligan This ENTIRE video was made of wood....hehehe !!!
patiodaddyo1 1 year ago
@patiodaddyo1 i gotta watch that again sometime. my quote arsenal is low...
all i can think of offhand is "he says he's not dead, yet"
donHooligan 1 year ago
@donHooligan ...We thought you was a toad- Delmar
asbestosicould 1 year ago
@asbestosicould "no thanks, delmar...1/3 of a gopher would only arouse my appetite, without beddin her to back down."
donHooligan 1 year ago
@donHooligan I was just a kid when "Monster" was released, but I wore that sumbitch out on my plastic Sears Silvertone record player. I just liked the song. I didn't understand much of the message back then, except:
America, where are you now?
Don't you care about,
Your Sons and Daughters?
Don'tcha know?
We need you now.
We can't fight alone against the Monster.
BTW, we're the Goddamn paterfamilia!
asbestosicould 1 year ago
I love it , Love it, Love it =)
Great Job Brother =)
czarwright 1 year ago
@czarwright TY Mark Back in the day...well at night actually Hef had a TV show...on UHF called Playboy After Dark. Us kids would stay up late...to watch it " for the articles" But I recall seeing Steppenwolf on there playing live. I think we were waiting to see if they'd do The Pusher & swear on live TV
Huge thanx again buddy for first posting up some Woof on yer FB & for encouraging me to make Monster !!
K
patiodaddyo1 1 year ago
Man Big Dog Love your stuff. TRUTH! ★★★★★
TheWakeuptime 1 year ago
@TheWakeuptime TY Bro... I tried to nail it down w/ the soundbites...otherwise it's a dragged out & drugged out 60's album side
as always preciate da view
K
patiodaddyo1 1 year ago