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Me, Dann, Just As I Am

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A good friend asked if I would publish this for him on my Blog pages .... and I am happy I have. True sign of the times in this age - a musician who wants to be a minstrel - long live the wisdom of song!!!!

I'm 20, i have so much potential but I don't use it. I have just realized that I want to change everyone's life I come into contact with.  I want to make music and write lyrics for kids that have been through life's trials that I have personally experienced.  Starting tomorrow, I am quitting smoking and drinking and all forms of partying because if weighs down on my potential. We didn't grow up as kids worrying where we were; we grew up as kids not caring we we were, because we knew that we would become something greater.  Everyone has the potential in them to be a star inside, most people just give up because they don't believe in themselves. I am here to say that the potential is within everyone's grasps. Join me in the movement to become extraordinary.  Don't let pure pressure, partying, drinking, act as a way to bring you down and prolong your destiny.  Use your sorrow and trauma to create the amazing person that you were meant to always b...

Please Help Stop This Atrocity!!!!

OK, let us see how many of you out there really want to change things - here is the letter I just sent Wynne. "What the Hell is wrong with you? I only wish that more people had voted last election. Is there any logic to your incessant desire to confuse children even more then society already is doing? Maybe you were brought up different, but, personally, I came from a very Christian family that was taught that children have the right to be children and that sex and all it's p erversions should be taught at the APPROPRIATE age. You and your fledglings are destroying Ontario's reputation. Most of the other provinces believe we are the next Sodom and Gomorrah. Take a deep breath, look around, HELL, talk to your own family, and you shall see that you are one of the biggest violator's of family moral's. Please bring back moral's to Toronto and Ontario and do us all a favour and resign!!!!!" Now let us see yours...... here is a link to that thin...

2015 – THE JOURNEY CONTINUES

    2015 – THE JOURNEY CONTINUES 2015, February 21 – A very long journey from October 5, 1057.  Never imagined I would still be standing, even after all those years. But, yet, here I am, Dann, just as I am. I was born a “blue” baby on a blue moon in a city full of downtrodden blues breakers. Brought into this existence by two beautiful 100% Irish Catholics. Living a Protestant life in a chaotic equinox of time and space. Rock and roll had begun the war against the country and western machine. Gospel had begun to morph into rhythm and blues eventually birthing the offspring, ‘hip hop’. Music would change beyond any misconceptions of our elders. Music would once more become the universal language of all.  Messages would be delivered via the rhythmic laminations of the minstrels of society. And the child such as I, well, we would/will witness changes of which society will never see again. Who but a soul born in the fifties could have been a Hippi...

Thank you Neil Young for "After The Gold Rush"

Here are the lyrics to one of the best songs ever to come out of the Hippie era. I play this everyday for the past 45 years. This was written in a time when every song told a story - remember when songs used to do that???? "Well, I dreamed I saw the knights, In armor coming, Saying something about a queen.  There were peasants singing and Drummers drumming, And the archer split the tree. There was a fanfare blowing, To the sun That was floating on the breeze.  Look at Mother Nature on the run In the nineteen seventies.  Look at Mother Nature on the run In the nineteen seventies. I was lying in a burned out basement, With the full moon in my eyes. I was hoping for replacement, When the sun burst thru the sky. There was a band playing in my head, And I felt like getting high. I was thinking about what a, Friend had said I was hoping it was a lie. Thinking about what a Friend had said, I was hoping it was a lie. Well, I dreamed I saw the silver, Space ships...

TAC Campaign - 20 year Anniversary retrospective montage "Everybody Hurt...

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Everyone should take five minutes out of their day and watch this. Especially now during the holiday party season. HEAVY!!!

THE RIOT POLICE LIVE

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So proud of these homies, new age hippies for sure!!! Proud to call them friends - BUY THEIR MUSIC!!! Hear their message ....... Bless  Here is a link: The Riot Police on CHCH December15, 2014

Street Level Reality

Follows are video's from a street level hip hop artist born and bred here in Toronto. Within you shall find the true  picture of life within the streets of Toronto, of growing up a youth in Orton Park. Here lays a man who tells you of the brotherhood, the love, the PAIN and the life of being a man who grew up on the streets of one of Earth's biggest cities. Bless!!! (All video rights remain with DSG Productions)

Hunger Heroes December 28th

Check out this link and support this fantastic initiative. Hunger Heroes Post by Matte Black .

My Life As A Thought

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My life has been a twisted, almost paranormal trip. Many experiences that few have had the pleasure of living. Met tens of thousand various people of every walk there lays in life. I have been evil, I have been good. I have met unholy and walked with the Holy. I have been homeless and I have fed the homeless. I have died seven times and lived eight. I would not change a thing except maybe being able to sing.