Capítulo 2: Washington D.C – The feast and the Famine
“Donde está el monumento de los sueños olvidados”
The feast and the famine.
El episodio se centra en una ciudad transitoria. Para muchos, Washington D.C es en muchos sentidos una ciudad de extremos.
Starland Vocal Band, Marvin Gaye, Duke Ellington, Nils Lofgren, Chuck Brown, Henry Rollins, Fugazi y Trouble Funk todos provienen de esta ciudad. En los años 70, el estilo de música go-go se originó allí y se ha mantenido en una moda local, desde entonces.
En el capítulo, Dave Grohl se sienta con Big Tony Fisher de ‘Trouble Funk’ para hablar del ‘go-go’, y explora sus orígenes con Chuck Brown, padrino indiscutible del género.
También habla con Don Zientara, dueño del estudio de grabación: Inner Ear, lugar en el que el mismo Grohl dice: «producí toda la banda sonora de mi juventud”.
La segunda canción del disco ‘Sonic Higways’ es la recopilación de las anécdotas que, todos los invitados que Grohl tuvo, contaron sobre la historia musical y su evolución en Washington D.C. La lucha algunas bandas de punk por hablar de la realidad que vivía esta ciudad tan llena de contradicciones, entre los ideales de un gobierno y la realidad de pobreza.
“Vivir los gloriosos sueños que nos gusta poner en monumentos y luego los olvidamos” Mark Anderson – Sonic Higways.
“Crecer en Virginia ha hecho a Dave Grohl quien es hoy” Taylor Hawkins – Sonic Highways.
«The Feast And The Famine»
That night they were burning for truth
Down on the corner of 14th and U
They took your soul and they took you for fools
Took all the windows from prisons and schools
Now what’s a poor man left to do?
One heart now broken in two
You start untying the hands of the youth
New kids hear the sound of the drumming
Mother Nature your Summer is coming
Yesterday and today
Revolution on its way
Amen
It was The Feast and the Famine
Amen
It was The Feast and the Famine
It was The Feast and the Famine
Feast and the Famine
Crossroads with nothing to lose
Out of the basement and in to the news
Come change, now shit getting heavy
Salvation at the ready
You look when I walked by
Still screaming ‘til I die
You can’t find peace if you can’t find a home
Black heart with a gaping wound
Put back together by a troubled groove
Check yourself
Wreck your brains
Where is that P.M.A.?
Amen
It was The Feast and the Famine
Amen
It was The Feast and the Famine
It was The Feast and the Famine
Feast and the Famine
Hey, where is the monument?
To the dreams we forget?
We need a monument
And change will come
Yeah change will come
Is there anybody there? (Anybody there?)
Anybody there? (Anybody there?)
There?
Amen
It was The Feast and the Famine
Amen
It was The Feast and the Famine
It was The Feast and the Famine
Feast and the Famine
Amen
Where is the monument?
To the dreams we forget?
Amen
We need a monument
And change will come
And change will come
Is there anybody there? (Anybody there?)
Anybody there? (Anybody there?)
There?