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The Fire's Still Burning
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Written 45 days after September 11, 2001 as my response...
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Original Music: Indie Rock, Alternative Rock,
The Perfect Defectives are in a new incarnation again as The Jan Mayes Band. Gene Mayes who played mandolin, THEREMIN and Guitar, has left the band and is doing the college thing. While Phil and Jan do miss Gene they are excited to now have back one of their original members, Mike Cuthbertson who plays lead. Mike has some original songs added to the set list in addition to Jans many originals. AND NOW they have a new drummer, Frank McPhillips. Frank is an excellant drummer helping the band to new heights as well as adding a great bottom end sound. On stage Jan plays either of her electric or acoustic guitars while singing the bands songs. Phil McGreevy is still holding down the bottom end on Bass. Previously the group played in local clubs in the hampton roads area of Virginia for a couple years with more than 50% of their songs ORIGINAL [and well received] not easy to get away with in clubs. Now they are ready to do it again with Frank and Mike now added to the mix. SEE: The Jan Mayes Band at: http://www.soundclick.com/thejanmayesband
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Genre
Alternative • Indie
Charts
Peak #45
Peak in subgenre #16
Author
Jan Mayes
Rights
2001
Uploaded
March 15, 2006
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MP3 3.2 MB • 128 kbps • 3:28
Story behind the song
Images were a constant in those early days...smoldering remains of the Twin Towers in NYC. White powder substance causing death via the mail. Injustices endured by the indiginous people of Afghanistan at the hands of the Taliban. Veiled women with no hope. Bombs exploding on Desert sands...
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"The Fire's Still Burning" copyright 2001 The fire's still burning, the fire's still burning, THE FIRE'S STIL BURNING, THE FIRE'S Still BURNING... Forty-five days and still a thousand degrees. Anthrax continues-a snail mail disease. and hanging in the balance beneath the veil Humanity defined half a world away. And you wonder... Can peace really be achieved? Beneath the veil--NO FREEDOM TO BREATHE! And the sands are still burning. And the sands are still burning. AND THE SANDS ARE STILL BURNING. AND THE SANDS ARE STILL BURNING! Rivers of TRUTH flow through sands of time. Many of us STOP to wonder why for religeous truth do so many have to die? and beneath the veil you know they must cry. Can the veils be removed, like the stone was rolled away? Will all the prophets come back as ONE someday? And we're all still yearning. And we're all still yearning... BUT THE FIRE'S STILL BURNING, BUT THE FIRE'S STILL BURNING, yeah the fire's burning, For more info on this song see links: http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/special/asbestos.nsf/0/8DC49C62C3BDFD2186256CAD0076A1ED?OpenDocument http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/1410061.stm
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