ugh this live version is fucking horrible. I love the studio version but this is crap. A lot of the pauses are gone and this feels so wrong. it feels like he is just reading lyrics and is devoid of emotion. WTF. Let us have the Red Orchestra video back, JERKS.
This was the first Al song that I took to. I had bought Year Of The Cat and couldn't get into it. Then I found by accident,Past,Present & Future. I could not take it off my turntable!!! that was 1977,I've been sold on Al since
The wonderful distinction I like to enjoy, is that during the 60's and on through the years to follow, with all of the music that was coming out, and the rock 'n' roll of it all - There were two distinct and unique writers and singers who stood out from "the pack"
from all the others - Ian Anderson ( Jethro Tull ) and Al Stewart !
I always felt I had acquired knowledge and historical revelations that enriched me by my absorbing their literary content !
The last lines deal with one of the cruelest ironies of the war. Stalin, for some insane reason(well most of his reasons WERE insane, given that he WAS Stalin)decided that any Soviet soldier who'd been taken prisoner by the Nazis, rather than being given a medal and a pension for his heroism and strength in managing to survive Hitler's death camps, was to be treated as a traitor and placed in A SOVIET prison camp. What could possibly be a greater betrayal?
This is one of the saddest features of what they called the Great Patriotic War. The USSR lost over 60 million dead through combat and intentional mistreatment of their own. Stalin was, by any accounting, a much greater killer than Hitler, and the Russia is still after sixty years recovering.
Perhaps the Julian New Year will inspire some of us to remember, to have a measure of the good vodka, and perhaps shed a tear for those who fell, those shot by the enemy both in front and in the rear.
Now lets say they are NOT legal combatants as defined: as in the case of terrorists who sneak in disguised as civilians (this is the premise of how ALL murder bombers work, if you knew who they are by a uniform you would just shoot them) and blow themselves up killing others. BUT...Article 51.3 of the IV Geneva Convention also covers this interpretation: "Civilians shall enjoy the protection afforded by this section, unless and for such time as they take a direct part in hostilities."
OK, lets say that they are LEGAL combatants with uniforms a chain of command and all. Then that makes the ones being held prisoners of war and POW do NOT get trials and you can hold them until the end of the conflict.
4.1.1 Members of the armed forces of a Party to the conflict and members of militias of such armed forces PROVIDED that
They be commanded by a person responsible for his subordinates;
And that of having a fixed distinctive sign recognizable at a distance AND that of carrying arms openly; that of conducting their operations in accordance with the laws and customs of war.
Just who is saying America's actions in the last eight years been governed by the Geneva Convention? The GC has quite clear definitions of what is legal and proper treatment. The US Adminstration under Bush et al opted out of these and drew up their own "guidelines". The photos from the prisons in Iraq.Guantanamo is shutting.British Security Services (MI5 & MI6) are now being investigated by Scotland Yard for complicity in the US torture of innocent UK citizens and residents. Shabby, shabby ...
@engalicorn I have to admit..so far as much as I have read..the debate seems to be civil. But..you make a good point. Just kick back and enjoy the music. It is phenomenal that this music can be so easily replayed today.
There must be such a thing as a past life. Because I've always have had a love for Russian people. And this song tears at my heart. Thank you for posting this.
@songbirdsearching The Russians treated Americans better than the treated East Germans before the fall. They would welcome you in their homes, especially if you spoke Russian. Dont know what it is like today. And..although that is behind me now...the Moscow girls were hot!
Superb, thanks. I hadn't heard that for ages, but I never forgot how moving it was, nor how brilliant. Past, Present and Future was a work of genius. I think I will buy it again.
Uh, jbiro, you do realize that nobody -- NObody -- is arguing FOR communism any more, nor has done for over 50 years... except, of course, for the Rethuglican party. They need "socialists," "communists," "terraists," "islamofascists," and "jackbooted thugs in black helicopters" to scare their ever-shrinking voter base into voting for them.
That's right -- most of the "Daddy Party" voters are a buncha cowards, hiding under their beds, whining, "save us, you manly 'Publicans!"
Yep, like in all those other communist nations, such as the UK, France, Germany, Japan, Canada... in fact the entire industrialized world, which is as red as Lenin.
Lets put it this way...health care is created by doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and the business people and investors who put together hospitals and companies which produce medicine. When you assert that Health care is a right you assert that these people are slaves, and you need not trade with them, but rather need only steal what they produce. That is communism writ small. Apply that to everything and you have communism writ large.
Communists always start with lies, then proceed to theft, enslavement, torture and murder. The Socialists then claim they were only ok with the lies, theft and enslavement, that they never thought it would require torture and murder. Of course they get tortured and murdered too, for all that.
Yup, just like good old Guantanamo, Camp X-Ray. The bastion of freedom and all that is right with American brand Democracy. Just not like the communists at al in any way, shape or form.
Guantanamo is a marvel of nice treatment, compared to the Gulag. Have you seen how the terrorists treat their prisoners? Please note that even though these illegal combatants do not deserve Geneva protection, we still treated them in all respects as if they did. The harshest interrogation provided by the US was decided by legal opinion on what was allowed by law . I am terribly proud of the way my country acted in a very trying time, detaining despicable people attempting horrible atrocities.
If they are not wearing uniforms, do not separate themselves from civilian non-combatants, and intentionally target civilian non-combatants, they are illegal combatants. They are, legally, subject to summary execution. Shame on you if you support them.
According to the laws of war, when they are captured outside of uniforms, they are thus guilty. There is no need for a trial in order to detain even prisoners of war, much less illegal combatants.
It is really easy to find the appropriate sections of the Geneva Convention.
A combatant has to be in a uniform identifiable at a distance, have a chain of command. Of course the soldiers will not pick up just anyone on the street, because if they did we would have a lot more than a few hundred.
The laws of warfare require identification of the combatant through uniform or an equivalent. Those fighting out of uniform are, by the laws of warfare, automatically guilty. Know, first, whereof one speaks.
Ah..if life were so simple. Just hypothetically speaking of course, if you were serving and told NOT to wear your uniform, would you follow the order or disobey?
It WAS torture. Pure and simple. I love how the first excuse pro-torture idiots use, is "but they do that to us" as if that was ever a good reason for anything.
Don Maker is stupid. If he's so terribly proud of what was done, reveal the pictures then. Show us what there is to be proud of.
iraq was not neutral because they had signed an armistice which required them to do certain things. When they didn't do those things, they stopped being neutral, and returned to being a belligerent. And as for torture, it has a definition and the US didn't do it.
he is quite the historian, his music and lyrics are magnificent..i grew up with an stewart maniac (my father) and let me tell you every song tells a beautiful sometimes depressing story....
I just found out that the "special train to travel deep into the heart of Holy Russia" is to the Siberian gulag: the USSR feared russian soldiers that escaped from Nazi POW camps had been co-opted and sent them to die in prison! "A lucky break I say they only held me for a day, they stop and listen closer." So sad and tragic the tyranny of soviet communism. I wonder when I'll be home again and the morning answers never.
my grandpa was bon in russia.moved to romania during world war 2 was a german soldier.listening to telephone wire for the germans translating russian. caught by the russians and put in prisoner of war camp, fearing the russians would discover he understood their language.he was released .but never forgot camp even as he moved his life to the us.he feared someone would know he was a russian born translating for the germans. he passed and now can rest at ease war is awful
A great song. I remember being at school in the 1970's and borrowing my older brother's Al Stewart album's. Helpful if you are trying to revise for a history exam. How many other Rock or Folk singers mention General Gudarian in their lyrics ?
Very few writers in modern music produce poetic narrative like this - his awareness of history, the time and space he allows himself to tell the story, linked to great melody and lyrics like, "Two broken Tigers on fire in the night/Flicker their souls to the wind". Oh yeah! How good is that? How good is Al? Listen to 'The Dark And The Rolling Sea' and 'Modern Times' from the album 'Modern Times' then you'll know....
Since I first saw him do it on the Old Grey WT all those many years ago through pleading with him to sing it live whenever I've been lucky enough to have seen him live, this is still one masive magic song
I saw Al do this song a few years ago as the encore in a one man show. Of course we were asking him to do it, and you could see his face fall, like he thought he'd get away without doing it. It was awesome, but I do admit that the man looked pretty tired when he was finished :).
DId that happen to be in a little bar in Chicago by any chance?
I don't care how does it,just that he does.
I was transported to another place and time.....Al's music does that to me each and every time. I'm a history freak and Al has my number.He takes me there....wherever and whenever THERE is.
When I saw him do a solo show in 1976 he had three big screens behind him and a slide show coordinated as he performed his songs. This one, Year Of The Cat, Nostrodamus, On The Border, etc
That slide show featured lots of period gulag samizdat footage , and lots of Alexandyr Solsynetsyn, who I had to identify to my neighbors in the seats. they booed. Neykultutniy.
penanso..someone took the song and did a full length animated..sort of....video. soldiers, burning tanks,etc etc. it basically illustrated the lyrics. It was quite good and now it seems to be gone.
@glomofnit all the i ever.. moving dead reckon , came across road, jeep passed, out two soldiers, i's there first, not move, they bored, me more so... all that i wever able too see...
@penenaso He is talking about the one with an animated video. Search Roads to Moscow by NJG26 CO Capricorn. It is the studio version. I think I prefer this version with the drums. Thanks for posting it, it is truly fabulous.
beautiful lyric narrative, woven in the fabric of historical fact and with references to generals and towns, and surely one of the top ten lyric transition passages of all time - given the context of the song - as the narrative tightens to close relentlessly on the narrator's personal tragedy: "two broken tigers (german tanks, yes?) on fire in the night; flicker their souls to the wind............the lames of the tigers are lighting the road to Berlin...." the song conjures/enchants, yes?
what year is this? judging by Al's voice it sounds 1970s? Is that Peter White playing the lead acoustic guitar? It also sounds like a Mellotron for the orchestral segments - I saw Al perform this song at the Colston Hall in Bristol in the mid 70s with Francis Monkman of Curved Air fame playing Mellotron and this sounds like it might even be from that tour although the sound quality seems too good.
I purchased this music,i.e, Past, Present and Future LP, in the fall of 1974. I believe it had been recorded earlier that year. It's my favorite recording of his music.
A masterful ballad dedicated to the Great yet Unknown Patriotic War.
Who but Al Steward could write such provocative lyrics about Smolensk, Guderian or Stalingrad? - Urrah Pobieda!
MrFreekbrother 5 months ago
The video squats out on me.
moodysaaber99 5 months ago
I love the line, "In the footsteps of Napoleon, the shadowed figures stagger through the winter."
omega14j1 6 months ago
Al Stewart , in my opinion ,is one of the greatest balladeers of our time. He is really underrated.
vrujovrujo 8 months ago
Al Stewart , in my opinion ,is one of the greatest balladeers of our time.
vrujovrujo 8 months ago
Incredible story in lyrics, mesmerizing ballad. Could listen to this over and over.
Poplin2412 9 months ago
ugh this live version is fucking horrible. I love the studio version but this is crap. A lot of the pauses are gone and this feels so wrong. it feels like he is just reading lyrics and is devoid of emotion. WTF. Let us have the Red Orchestra video back, JERKS.
rotty40k 9 months ago
This was the first Al song that I took to. I had bought Year Of The Cat and couldn't get into it. Then I found by accident,Past,Present & Future. I could not take it off my turntable!!! that was 1977,I've been sold on Al since
jonruss56 11 months ago 2
The wonderful distinction I like to enjoy, is that during the 60's and on through the years to follow, with all of the music that was coming out, and the rock 'n' roll of it all - There were two distinct and unique writers and singers who stood out from "the pack"
from all the others - Ian Anderson ( Jethro Tull ) and Al Stewart !
I always felt I had acquired knowledge and historical revelations that enriched me by my absorbing their literary content !
rolynstone48 1 year ago 7
One of the really great songs, have been listening to it for nearly 40's now, still makes me shiver masterpiece
padraigpurseal 1 year ago 4
extremely moving song. love the lyrics, the storyline and the music.. couldnt be any better!!!
billpeart 1 year ago
can anybody upload a studio recording of this? there is only live recordings on youtube
Rahavin1 1 year ago
@Rahavin1 There are several studio versions around, including the rather good animated video version search for Roads to Moscow by NJG26 CO Capricorn.
It's a pretty good, though very literal, illustration of this wonderful song.
ahorwood 1 year ago
muchas gracias por tus fotos................son preciosas y un merecido tributo a este majestuoso artista
ATREQIUM 2 years ago
Dosn't matert if its live or by the original Al Stewart's Roads to Moscow has always caught me and that's over 35 years now thanks for the post
padraigpurseal 2 years ago 3
"Two broken tigers on fire in the night flicker their souls to the wind" Now that is poetry. True artestry!!
3shacks1house 2 years ago
should be panthers as not to many tigers !
foodboy747 2 years ago
'two broken tigers" refer to to the german panzers (tanks) Tigers
TheLeaflover 1 year ago
The last lines deal with one of the cruelest ironies of the war. Stalin, for some insane reason(well most of his reasons WERE insane, given that he WAS Stalin)decided that any Soviet soldier who'd been taken prisoner by the Nazis, rather than being given a medal and a pension for his heroism and strength in managing to survive Hitler's death camps, was to be treated as a traitor and placed in A SOVIET prison camp. What could possibly be a greater betrayal?
KennBurch 2 years ago
This is one of the saddest features of what they called the Great Patriotic War. The USSR lost over 60 million dead through combat and intentional mistreatment of their own. Stalin was, by any accounting, a much greater killer than Hitler, and the Russia is still after sixty years recovering.
Perhaps the Julian New Year will inspire some of us to remember, to have a measure of the good vodka, and perhaps shed a tear for those who fell, those shot by the enemy both in front and in the rear.
ktel60 2 years ago
One of the best songs ever written. Al has always been one of my favorites!!!!!!!!!
dlhippie58 2 years ago 3
Egal was er singt, die Stimme von Al Steward ist einfach großartig!
Lujacos 2 years ago
Yeah, Al is a great artist, despite the controversy. (did I parse the German correctly?)
ktel60 2 years ago
@Lujacos Ich bin auch derselben Meinung. Er kann singen..und den Text find' ich echt super.
Aoidi 2 years ago
(I was replying to engalicorn's comment)
ejckittylove 2 years ago
Now lets say they are NOT legal combatants as defined: as in the case of terrorists who sneak in disguised as civilians (this is the premise of how ALL murder bombers work, if you knew who they are by a uniform you would just shoot them) and blow themselves up killing others. BUT...Article 51.3 of the IV Geneva Convention also covers this interpretation: "Civilians shall enjoy the protection afforded by this section, unless and for such time as they take a direct part in hostilities."
Millhistorian 2 years ago 2
OK, lets say that they are LEGAL combatants with uniforms a chain of command and all. Then that makes the ones being held prisoners of war and POW do NOT get trials and you can hold them until the end of the conflict.
Millhistorian 2 years ago
Article 4 defines prisoners of war to include:
4.1.1 Members of the armed forces of a Party to the conflict and members of militias of such armed forces PROVIDED that
They be commanded by a person responsible for his subordinates;
And that of having a fixed distinctive sign recognizable at a distance AND that of carrying arms openly; that of conducting their operations in accordance with the laws and customs of war.
Millhistorian 2 years ago 2
Just who is saying America's actions in the last eight years been governed by the Geneva Convention? The GC has quite clear definitions of what is legal and proper treatment. The US Adminstration under Bush et al opted out of these and drew up their own "guidelines". The photos from the prisons in Iraq.Guantanamo is shutting.British Security Services (MI5 & MI6) are now being investigated by Scotland Yard for complicity in the US torture of innocent UK citizens and residents. Shabby, shabby ...
Lanarkish 2 years ago
Listen to the music... lose the political debate!
engalicorn 2 years ago 10
Ageed.
ejckittylove 2 years ago
@engalicorn I have to admit..so far as much as I have read..the debate seems to be civil. But..you make a good point. Just kick back and enjoy the music. It is phenomenal that this music can be so easily replayed today.
Aoidi 2 years ago
@engalicorn - fucking amen to that.
GaryNull 1 year ago
There must be such a thing as a past life. Because I've always have had a love for Russian people. And this song tears at my heart. Thank you for posting this.
songbirdsearching 2 years ago
@songbirdsearching The Russians treated Americans better than the treated East Germans before the fall. They would welcome you in their homes, especially if you spoke Russian. Dont know what it is like today. And..although that is behind me now...the Moscow girls were hot!
Aoidi 2 years ago
Thank you so much. I love this song, have since I first heard it in the 70's.
zoewolf 2 years ago 3
Superb, thanks. I hadn't heard that for ages, but I never forgot how moving it was, nor how brilliant. Past, Present and Future was a work of genius. I think I will buy it again.
ahorwood 2 years ago 2
Some of the BEST acoustic guitar, ever!!
cjsimmer 2 years ago 4
Are you retarded?
togapup 2 years ago
Yep , thats communism for you , opression , death , poverty , the works , as you have ever wanted in a so called utopia .
jbiro10 2 years ago
Uh, jbiro, you do realize that nobody -- NObody -- is arguing FOR communism any more, nor has done for over 50 years... except, of course, for the Rethuglican party. They need "socialists," "communists," "terraists," "islamofascists," and "jackbooted thugs in black helicopters" to scare their ever-shrinking voter base into voting for them.
That's right -- most of the "Daddy Party" voters are a buncha cowards, hiding under their beds, whining, "save us, you manly 'Publicans!"
smartalek1 2 years ago 4
Actually, when you argue for Obama care you are arguing for communism.
DonMeaker 2 years ago
Yep, like in all those other communist nations, such as the UK, France, Germany, Japan, Canada... in fact the entire industrialized world, which is as red as Lenin.
pinkhairgirl123 2 years ago
And in the UK a fellow had his appendix rupture. He was suprised since he had had it removed 3 weeks before.
DonMeaker 2 years ago
the uk germany france are no communist countries
ww2feak 2 years ago 2
Lets put it this way...health care is created by doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and the business people and investors who put together hospitals and companies which produce medicine. When you assert that Health care is a right you assert that these people are slaves, and you need not trade with them, but rather need only steal what they produce. That is communism writ small. Apply that to everything and you have communism writ large.
DonMeaker 2 years ago
Typical American standard reply.
Go learn the differences between socialist values and outright communism you stupid turd.
keasyman 2 years ago
Communists always start with lies, then proceed to theft, enslavement, torture and murder. The Socialists then claim they were only ok with the lies, theft and enslavement, that they never thought it would require torture and murder. Of course they get tortured and murdered too, for all that.
DonMeaker 2 years ago
Yup, just like good old Guantanamo, Camp X-Ray. The bastion of freedom and all that is right with American brand Democracy. Just not like the communists at al in any way, shape or form.
keasyman 2 years ago
Guantanamo is a marvel of nice treatment, compared to the Gulag. Have you seen how the terrorists treat their prisoners? Please note that even though these illegal combatants do not deserve Geneva protection, we still treated them in all respects as if they did. The harshest interrogation provided by the US was decided by legal opinion on what was allowed by law . I am terribly proud of the way my country acted in a very trying time, detaining despicable people attempting horrible atrocities.
DonMeaker 2 years ago
Illegal combatants. ?
Again once more because you believe your are the world police that they are illegal.
They are not tried, they are held in conditions fitting of people tried and convicted.
Innocent until proven guilty, unless America says so.
Pffft.
I would be ashamed if my country treated anyone like Gunatanamo.
Routine sensory deprivation and borderline interrogation torture.
Yeah, you hold your head real high mate,.
keasyman 2 years ago
If they are not wearing uniforms, do not separate themselves from civilian non-combatants, and intentionally target civilian non-combatants, they are illegal combatants. They are, legally, subject to summary execution. Shame on you if you support them.
DonMeaker 2 years ago
You still miss the point that they have are being held without trial presumed guilty and not innocent.
keasyman 2 years ago
According to the laws of war, when they are captured outside of uniforms, they are thus guilty. There is no need for a trial in order to detain even prisoners of war, much less illegal combatants.
DonMeaker 2 years ago
What ?
Someone is automatically guilty just because they're not wearing a uniform ?
They still need to be proved to be an active insurgent in the first place you nonce.
You just don't get it.
According to the laws of war...well something to substantiate that is needed some sort of citation.
Other words you're just making crap up to suit your own argument.
keasyman 2 years ago
It is really easy to find the appropriate sections of the Geneva Convention.
A combatant has to be in a uniform identifiable at a distance, have a chain of command. Of course the soldiers will not pick up just anyone on the street, because if they did we would have a lot more than a few hundred.
DonMeaker 2 years ago
The laws of warfare require identification of the combatant through uniform or an equivalent. Those fighting out of uniform are, by the laws of warfare, automatically guilty. Know, first, whereof one speaks.
ktel60 2 years ago
Ah..if life were so simple. Just hypothetically speaking of course, if you were serving and told NOT to wear your uniform, would you follow the order or disobey?
Aoidi 2 years ago
There is no borderline torture.
It WAS torture. Pure and simple. I love how the first excuse pro-torture idiots use, is "but they do that to us" as if that was ever a good reason for anything.
Don Maker is stupid. If he's so terribly proud of what was done, reveal the pictures then. Show us what there is to be proud of.
Savior20061 2 years ago
and when you argue for guantanamo bay (torture) and the iraq war (invading a neutral country) ... you argue for freedom and democracy
Sovnarkom 2 years ago
iraq was not neutral because they had signed an armistice which required them to do certain things. When they didn't do those things, they stopped being neutral, and returned to being a belligerent. And as for torture, it has a definition and the US didn't do it.
DonMeaker 2 years ago
@smartalek1 yeah, yeah, yeah, dream on
spider47 1 year ago
it beats capitalism - opression , death , poverty , the works.....hmmmmmm sounds familiar
JA92LZ 2 years ago 3
he is quite the historian, his music and lyrics are magnificent..i grew up with an stewart maniac (my father) and let me tell you every song tells a beautiful sometimes depressing story....
MsBeatles1 2 years ago 2
I just found out that the "special train to travel deep into the heart of Holy Russia" is to the Siberian gulag: the USSR feared russian soldiers that escaped from Nazi POW camps had been co-opted and sent them to die in prison! "A lucky break I say they only held me for a day, they stop and listen closer." So sad and tragic the tyranny of soviet communism. I wonder when I'll be home again and the morning answers never.
parceDomine 2 years ago 3
my grandpa was bon in russia.moved to romania during world war 2 was a german soldier.listening to telephone wire for the germans translating russian. caught by the russians and put in prisoner of war camp, fearing the russians would discover he understood their language.he was released .but never forgot camp even as he moved his life to the us.he feared someone would know he was a russian born translating for the germans. he passed and now can rest at ease war is awful
MsBeatles1 2 years ago 4
Thank you for shairng your grandfather's story. And never forget. Tell it to your children and so on. History should never be forgotten.
WINDYCLAIR 2 years ago
it made me weep...
777SimonTemplar 2 years ago
A great song. I remember being at school in the 1970's and borrowing my older brother's Al Stewart album's. Helpful if you are trying to revise for a history exam. How many other Rock or Folk singers mention General Gudarian in their lyrics ?
rarebully 2 years ago 3
Very few writers in modern music produce poetic narrative like this - his awareness of history, the time and space he allows himself to tell the story, linked to great melody and lyrics like, "Two broken Tigers on fire in the night/Flicker their souls to the wind". Oh yeah! How good is that? How good is Al? Listen to 'The Dark And The Rolling Sea' and 'Modern Times' from the album 'Modern Times' then you'll know....
chrisharro 2 years ago 5
Since I first saw him do it on the Old Grey WT all those many years ago through pleading with him to sing it live whenever I've been lucky enough to have seen him live, this is still one masive magic song
Thanks for the memory
P
padraigpurseal 2 years ago 3
great song
cannibalchild99 2 years ago
gives me the chills every time i listen
billpeart 2 years ago 2
I saw Al do this song a few years ago as the encore in a one man show. Of course we were asking him to do it, and you could see his face fall, like he thought he'd get away without doing it. It was awesome, but I do admit that the man looked pretty tired when he was finished :).
redwing871 2 years ago
DId that happen to be in a little bar in Chicago by any chance?
I don't care how does it,just that he does.
I was transported to another place and time.....Al's music does that to me each and every time. I'm a history freak and Al has my number.He takes me there....wherever and whenever THERE is.
HansieDZ 2 years ago
I too was looking for the video that someone had put to this music. It was a music video made from game play from Red Orchestra put to this music...
It was very very well done, and very moving.
Unfortunately it seems to have been removed.
Johno42 2 years ago
The Red orchestra one was deleted. I had it on one of my playlists and it said that it had been removed.
They also got rid of a half dozen other copies of this song, there is only thsi version and a tape of a live version left.
2bsomerandomperson 2 years ago
This has been flagged as spam show
This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by WMG. Seriously who are these ***holes?
MaceMn 2 years ago
yes it's gone - googled - but the song is still here - perhaps it tells us even more now of the powers we face
lol al - the man
xtcxtc123 3 years ago
When I saw him do a solo show in 1976 he had three big screens behind him and a slide show coordinated as he performed his songs. This one, Year Of The Cat, Nostrodamus, On The Border, etc
AWESOME SHOW!
TheBetoOchoa 3 years ago
That slide show featured lots of period gulag samizdat footage , and lots of Alexandyr Solsynetsyn, who I had to identify to my neighbors in the seats. they booed. Neykultutniy.
ktel60 2 years ago
penanso..someone took the song and did a full length animated..sort of....video. soldiers, burning tanks,etc etc. it basically illustrated the lyrics. It was quite good and now it seems to be gone.
glomofnit 3 years ago
come to see that video but would not know where to tell you find that song was a studio version, but what pleases me most is the live version.
penenaso 3 years ago
@glomofnit all the i ever.. moving dead reckon , came across road, jeep passed, out two soldiers, i's there first, not move, they bored, me more so... all that i wever able too see...
normankeena 8 months ago
what heppened to that wonderful animated video of this?
glomofnit 3 years ago 2
I do not understand what you mean.
penenaso 3 years ago
@penenaso He is talking about the one with an animated video. Search Roads to Moscow by NJG26 CO Capricorn. It is the studio version. I think I prefer this version with the drums. Thanks for posting it, it is truly fabulous.
ahorwood 1 year ago
the one with the computergame-video? maybe deleted... ( -.- )
w0iL 2 years ago
@glomofnit the animated version was a video game called red orchestra...... it was amazing but they took it down for copyright reasons :(
Ccaven 1 year ago
beautiful lyric narrative, woven in the fabric of historical fact and with references to generals and towns, and surely one of the top ten lyric transition passages of all time - given the context of the song - as the narrative tightens to close relentlessly on the narrator's personal tragedy: "two broken tigers (german tanks, yes?) on fire in the night; flicker their souls to the wind............the lames of the tigers are lighting the road to Berlin...." the song conjures/enchants, yes?
lighttakesthetree 3 years ago 5
thanks for your contribution to this description.
penenaso 3 years ago
Could somebody teach me to play the chords? :(
LucaTurilli89 3 years ago 2
what year is this? judging by Al's voice it sounds 1970s? Is that Peter White playing the lead acoustic guitar? It also sounds like a Mellotron for the orchestral segments - I saw Al perform this song at the Colston Hall in Bristol in the mid 70s with Francis Monkman of Curved Air fame playing Mellotron and this sounds like it might even be from that tour although the sound quality seems too good.
ricadia 3 years ago
I purchased this music,i.e, Past, Present and Future LP, in the fall of 1974. I believe it had been recorded earlier that year. It's my favorite recording of his music.
ImDunks 3 years ago
A great Al Stewart song!!
uroktim 3 years ago