Barry McGuire performs "Eve of Destruction" live on Spicks & Specks.

Barry McGuire performs "Eve of destruction" live with Terry Talbot on Spicks & Specks [australian tv show]
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Recorded on March 12, 2008.
Lyrics updated with with new lines such as, "You're old enough to kill/ you just started voting" and "... can live for ten years in space". The reference to "Red China" was also removed. [thanks wikipedia].

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[sharlenemusiclover]

Have you seen this video yet? Colorado Man Renounces His U.S. Citizenship?

[Bananas1973]

@sharlenemusiclover

Thanks for the heads up, very interesting. From there I stumbled across some guy named Ken O'Keefe. The guy is brilliant. Im now a big Ken O'Keefe fan :-)

[manoddy]

WOW!!!!! OVER AND OVER AGAIN !!!!!!!! Still gives me the shivers!What a song!

[quillendaniel]

It is even more passionate and minimal than the earlier version.....super stuff!!

[frankywanky007]

I can't stop watching this! So good!!

[TheNative1854]

I personally felt that the lines,

"Handful of senators don't pass legislation/

And marches alone can't bring integration" and

"Think of all the hate there is in Red China/

Then take a look around to Selma, Alabama"

were some of the most poignant and still relevant lines of the song. I wish they were not removed for whatever reasons -- be they reasons of political correctness or simply because this was performed in Australia.

[herrzyklon]

Excellent, fantastic, great

[ssssaaafff]

WOW WOW normally I like the young original versions of singers but this guy blows me away, not only did he improve the lyrics but is older roughed looks helps present the sound. How can a man sing a song 1000's of times yet looks emotionally like he is singing it for the first time is beyond me

[suttomans]

Wow awesome stuff. He has changed the words slightly from the original but love the part that says '..... hate our next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace'.  I saw Barry live way back in NZ Palmerston North in the early 80's at a Christian concert. Wonderful, gentle, Godly man.

Sutto

[hoytchristmas]

Sends chills up my spine. The man has a unique voice (something that can't be said for most singers of today).

[PacificCircle1]

Conservative minds are a ball and chain on societal advancement.

They fought - emancipation 150 years ago! - science 500 years ago  - ending human sacrafice 2000 yeas ago!

[anonymusum]

@brownclown2010

If you would believe in the same values than McGuire then you would have aged the same way.

[brownclown2010]

Barry Mcguire sure doesn't look like he aged well. This song and his voice suck just as bad today as they did 43 years ago.