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michael borkson
- anti-war folksinger
michael borkson
- anti-war folksinger
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1960s
anti-war
classic rock
peace
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I play acoustic guitar/singer/songwriter; I also play 12-string electric guitar (to get that "Byrds sound")and a little keyboard---from the Boston, Mass. area.I wrote all the songs uploaded here except the ones I've notated as cover songs. I like classic rock from the 1960s-70s; main influences are the Moody Blues,the Byrds , and Bob Dylan .I have recorded several CDs in the studio with a backup band-- drums, bass, keys.I play as a busker in the Boston subway.
Also, being a peace/social justice activist, I have written a lot of protest songs and have performed at some organized protests in Boston and New York.
Music should be free......All the songs on this page are free to download.
WEB SITES(copy and paste):
To see my anti-war and classic rock photos:
www.flickr.com/photos/protestphotos1/
To see my anti-war videos:
www.youtube.com/protestvideo
My anti-war page:
www.stopallwars.com
Anti-war organization:
www.ANSWERcoalition.org
Also, being a peace/social justice activist, I have written a lot of protest songs and have performed at some organized protests in Boston and New York.
Music should be free......All the songs on this page are free to download.
WEB SITES(copy and paste):
To see my anti-war and classic rock photos:
www.flickr.com/photos/protestphotos1/
To see my anti-war videos:
www.youtube.com/protestvideo
My anti-war page:
www.stopallwars.com
Anti-war organization:
www.ANSWERcoalition.org
Your influences?
INFLUENCES:
Moody Blues, Byrds,Bob Dylan, Cat Stevens. Gordon Lightfoot,
Jefferson Airplane, The Zombies, The Troggs, Badfinger, The Kinks
Moody Blues, Byrds,Bob Dylan, Cat Stevens. Gordon Lightfoot,
Jefferson Airplane, The Zombies, The Troggs, Badfinger, The Kinks
Favorite spot?
FAVORITE CITIES:
London(city with the best buskers and street performers), Boston(home of the Red Sox-World Series champions 2004 and 2007), Montreal, New York City, Washington DC(site of many an anti-war protest).
London(city with the best buskers and street performers), Boston(home of the Red Sox-World Series champions 2004 and 2007), Montreal, New York City, Washington DC(site of many an anti-war protest).
Equipment used:
INSTRUMENTS:
6- string electric and acoustic guitars,12- string electric and acoustic guitars. Roland keyboard/synth.
6- string electric and acoustic guitars,12- string electric and acoustic guitars. Roland keyboard/synth.
Anything else...?
MY PERSONAL MESSAGE:
STOP THE U.S. WARS -- Let's all live in peace, love, and freedom.
Vote peace in 2012--Green Party or Socialist Party.
John Lennon: " Imagine all the people, living life in peace..."
STOP THE U.S. WARS -- Let's all live in peace, love, and freedom.
Vote peace in 2012--Green Party or Socialist Party.
John Lennon: " Imagine all the people, living life in peace..."
Music
My 12 string guitar cover of the mega-protest song by Alvin Lee and Ten Years After--from 1970. I met the whole band at a record store album signing in Boston in 1989. God bless the late Alvin Lee-in rock and roll heaven.
Song I wrote with an ambient cosmic rock feel.
A SoundClick Top 50 song
song I wrote about the 1960s with Camelot symbolism.
Song I wrote in the genre of cosmic rock--I wrote this in tribute to The Moody Blues, the mystical band of the cosmic dimension.
A SoundClick Top 50 song
My cover of the beautiful song from 1968 by The Association-written by the Addrisi brothers, Richard and Donald; the photo here is one I took of The Association on July 22, 2010 at Mohegan Sun casino in CT.
Song i wrote- an attempt at poetic surrealism.
My studio cover of the Moody Blues classic from 1967--I met The Moody Blues in person-great artists/good people.
My cover of the cosmic Moody Blues song from 1971- I met The Moody Blues a few times--mystical music geniuses. The photo is the sheet music to the song-I bought it back in the 1970s.
My cover of the cosmic Moody Blues song from 1981- I had the privilege of meeting The Moody Blues--musical geniuses.
My humble cover of the many covered John Lennon song from 1971-- peace, love, and freedom.
My unplugged cover on 12 string guitar of the Emerson,Lake,and Palmer anti-war mega-hit from 1970. Greg Lake said he wrote the words when he was a teenager. I met all 3-Greg Lake, Keith Emerson, and Carl Palmer--great guys and great musicians.
My unplugged cover of the great anti-war song from Tommy James and the Shondells from around 1968--why don't people write songs like this anymore ? We need them.
My unplugged cover of the 1970 song by Bob Dylan--also covered by his good friend George Harrison on the 1970 "All Things Must Pass" album. Also, Olivia Newton John had her first hit with it in 1971.
My acoustic cover of the Bob Dylan song written about his former wife-- from his 1976 "Desire" album.
Romantic soft rock song I wrote back in the 1990s.
Song I wrote about social/political revolution. When will America's oppressed use their constitutional right to oppose America's war-making tyrants in Washington DC and on Wall Street? Hey, it's up to you and me.
A SoundClick Top 100 song
A psychedelic song I wrote.
Song I wrote that's kind of psychedelic---mind expanding--it shows you don't need drugs--you can get high on music.
A SoundClick Top 100 song
Song I wrote about the year 1967---flower children, Haight-Asbury, anti-war protests.
Song I wrote about the year 1968 in radical politics.1968--2012; 44 years gone-the same forces of oppression victimize us all--from Lyndon Johnson to Bush and now Obama. Photo-from the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City-John Carlos-black power.
An anthem I wrote for Harvard Square where Harvard University is in Cambridge, Mass.---everything from homeless people to yuppies......
My cover of the beautiful ballad from 1976 sung by David Soul.It reached number 1 in the US and UK charts. He is best known for playing Hutch in the TV series of the mid-1970s "Starsky and Hutch". This song kind of makes me want to cry......
My cover of the great Ray Stevens number 1 song from 1970.
A song I wrote in the last century.
A SoundClick Top 100 song
a song I wrote- a mellow psychedelic mind journey
A SoundClick Top 100 song
song I wrote--No flag is big enough to cover up our nation's sins and culture of violence-- STOP THE VIOLENCE-STOP THE HATE.
For King's birthday upcoming Jan. 15--Song I wrote about Martin Luther King, the greatest American of our time--he said we must oppose the evils of war, racism, and poverty. MLK-murdered by the US government April 4, 1968.
A SoundClick Top 50 song
For the Native American National Day Of Mourning(Thanksgiving Day)--Song I wrote about Native American political prisoner Leonard Peltier, unjustly imprisoned since 1976. Free Peltier and all U.S. political prisoners!!
A SoundClick Top 100 song
Song I wrote back in the 1990s-with 12-string electric guitar.
A SoundClick Top 100 song
A song I wrote after visiting Edinburgh, Scotland once---a bit sentimental.
A guitar instrumental I wrote on June 21, the summer solstice, back in the 1990s.
song I wrote and recorded back in the 1990s.
A SoundClick Top 50 song
Anti-war song I wrote in 1991 during the first US war of aggression against Iraq. For Memorial Day on May 28-no more war dead !!
A SoundClick Top 100 song
Song I wrote against Bush's and Obama's sick and murderous war on the Iraqi people. Also Afghanistan and Pakistan.
a love song I wrote on the astral plane.....
Song I wrote about a flower-child hippie girl from the 1960s---I play 12-string electric guitar on this to get that 60s folk-rock feel.
A song I wrote about the ancient Egyptian mythological creature, the phoenix.
A kind of spacy, psychedelic song I recorded back in the 1990s.
song about Sunday love I wrote a few years ago---but we all know romance can never be as pure in real life as it is in a song.......
This is the first song I ever wrote;way back in 1974. It is not an anti-IRA / Irish song--it was written to criticize the British government, too--criticizing both sides in the violence that existed for so many years in Northern Ireland.
I wrote a brief history of 1960s music from the Beatles to Woodstock. In tribute to the great Woodstock legend Richie Havens, who passed away April 22, 2013--the photo is an album Richie signed for me when I met him.
A SoundClick Top 50 song
My cover of the great Richie Havens anti-war song from 1967--Richie Havens 1941-2013; the guitar playing prophet will be sorely missed. Photo is an album Richie autographed for me when I met him in person.
My cover of the poetic Procol Harum song from 1967--lyrics by Keith Reid- adapted from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales- organ solo adapted from Bach. I met Gary Brooker, Matthew Fisher, and Robin Trower of Procol Harum at several performances in Boston.
Recorded by The Youngbloods and The Jefferson Airplane in 1967--In prayerful dedication to the Boston Marathon bombing victims-April 15, 2013. Love and peace will defeat violence and terrorism. I live in Boston.
A SoundClick Top 50 song
My studio cover of the Bob Dylan classic from 1965--a la Byrds style with 12-string electric guitar. I dedicate this song to my drummer who played drums on this song, Lee Pechilis, a great drummer and great guy, who passed on in 2011.
My studio cover, with 12-string electric guitar, of the Byrds version of this Bob Dylan song from 1965.
A SoundClick Top 100 song
For New Years 2013-a song about looking back and looking ahead. My studio cover of the Bob Dylan classic--a la Byrds style with my 12 string electric guitar...
I play 12-string electric guitar recording my cover of the 1965 song by Gene Clark of the Byrds.
my studio cover of the John Lennon-Beatles tune from 1965
My full band cover of the Paul McCartney/ Beatles song--from Let It Be.
Comments
commenting Running With The Night Wind
posted on Mon June 11, 2012
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Soundin Great Michael!!
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ALPHA ONE OMEGA
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posted on Fri January 20, 2012
You write very informative and thoughtful lyrics. I really appreciate that, especially the songs about King and Peltier. Music that encourages critical thought is becoming rare so it's good and reassuring to know that songs are being written in this vein still, eternally in a Just world we'll have to create. Thank you for being a revolutionary 
Eval Herz
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commenting Get Together
posted on Sun January 1, 2012
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Awesome sound Michael luv it
Happy New Year!!
*****
Happy New Year!!
*****
ALPHA ONE OMEGA
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commenting The Tide Will Turn
posted on Sat August 20, 2011
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Never heard anyone capture the essence of the 60's sound so well as you do, so authentic just takes me back
Great sound!
Great sound!
ALPHA ONE OMEGA
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commenting Ballad of Martin Luther King
posted on Thu April 21, 2011
Thanks for your music and your lyrics. And sorry for my English.
Stefano from Rome
Stefano from Rome
commenting Ballad of Martin Luther King
posted on Wed January 13, 2010
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Like everything about this track
Clem
Clem
Clem Gareau
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posted on Thu February 5, 2009
Thanks for the lovely comment. Check out my firend who I recorded and laid tracks for at soundclick.com/richcrossmusic think you would appreciate his tribal style. He is also on myspace
Dawn Maracle
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posted on Tue September 4, 2007
Hey Michael
You got a lot of great stuff going on here. Really takes me right back to the day. A real time tunnel.
I especialy liked "THE MOORS--" and "THE TIDE--". Great originals. Keep on building, Keep on working.
Will stop back.
PEACE
Andy A.
You got a lot of great stuff going on here. Really takes me right back to the day. A real time tunnel.
I especialy liked "THE MOORS--" and "THE TIDE--". Great originals. Keep on building, Keep on working.
Will stop back.
PEACE
Andy A.
posted on Fri May 11, 2007
Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him and He will make your paths straight!
posted on Sat March 10, 2007
Hey Michael! Thanks for stopping by, listening, and leaving the kind remarks! I like your influences and your style. Keep promoting peace and sow seeds of grace, brother!
Blessings,
Blessings,
posted on Tue December 5, 2006
i dig the sitar in '67, and the back pages cover. are you really old enough to know about the summer of love?
--stockwrock
--stockwrock
posted on Thu May 25, 2006
ay yo, how u doing, just want to let u know that i have new tracks up obn my page, im new and need some honest feedback, i'll holla at u as soon as possible with that feedback, and yo, if you want to promote ur tracks be happy to promote on my page, i always check bak
peace
peace
posted on Sun December 18, 2005
Hi Michael,
just listend to Getting Higher, loved it.
Also went to your website, Great stuff, keep it up. Kind Regards Tim Madden
just listend to Getting Higher, loved it.
Also went to your website, Great stuff, keep it up. Kind Regards Tim Madden
Def. one of your best covers to me
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