In this episode, Britt takes a trip to India (not really) to find the link between Rage Against the Machine’s Killing in the Name and The Beatles’ Dear Prudence.
A huge thank-you to Brett Marley for voicing the angry tweet, and to Rhys Auteri for his expert explanation of drop D tuning.
Keep in touch with The Chain on social media – @TheChainPod on Twitter and @TheChainPod on Instagram. You can also find Britt on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.
Stuff from the episode:
- Tom Morello and Twitter respond to people only just realising Rage Against The Machine are political via NME
- A guitar lesson with Tom Morello via LNWY
- Donovan interviewed by Rolling Stone Magazine
- David Lynch talks to Paul McCartney for the Transcendental Meditation YouTube Channel
- Prudence Farrow on Witnify
Rodney King/BLM:
- When LA Erupted In Anger: A Look Back At The Rodney King Riots via NPR
- The Legacy of Rodney King – Frontline transcript via PBS
- In Los Angeles, the Ghosts of Rodney King and Watts Rise Again in the New York Times
- Violent protests are not the story. Police violence is. via Vox
- A massive Google Doc full of #BLM resources compiled by @MedicinalMelanin_
- Guidelines for Being Strong White Allies by Paul Kivel
- The killing times: the massacres of Aboriginal people Australia must confront via The Guardian
- We must bear witness to black deaths in our own country via Amy McQuire
- How to support Black Lives Matter after it stops trending via ABC Life
- Ten Twitter accounts you should be following if you want to listen to Indigenous Australians and learn via The Conversation
- Some places to donate (AUS): NATSILS Stop Black Deaths in Custody GoFundMe, Black Rainbow, Pay the Rent, Sisters Inside, National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women’s Alliance
More interesting things:
- More on Drop D Tuning via Bax Music
- “No one was to know that sooner or later she was to go completely berserk under the care of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. All the people around her were very worried about the girl because she was going insane. So we sang to her.” – John Lennon on the end of the Esher demo of Dear Prudence
- Analysis of the theory and production of Dear Prudence, via Ethan Hein on YouTube
- Stems: Deconstructing Dear Prudence on YouTube
- Two great Rolling Stone articles about The Beatles’ time in America: The Beatles in India: 16 Things You Didn’t Know and How the Beatles in India Changed America
- The Beatles in India via Wikipedia