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Wish I had been there ... a peaceful mob. Santigold "performing Unstoppable"

beautifully done ... Sungha Jung

I've been out walking for hours.
I've got something on my mind.
How did we get here? Where are we going?
And why is life so hard?

I read the stories, see the photographs.
Worlds in a crazy space.
I've got to hold on to my dreams;
There's just no other place.
There's just no other place.

Street musicians from around the world perform "Stand By Me". The musicians have joined Playing for change (www.playingforchange.com) in hopes of spreading peace and tolerance through music.

Willow performing an original song, Don't Talk No Trash (about New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina)

Street musicians in the French Quarter ... Grandpa Elliot and Dorise Blackmon covering Buster Brown's, Fanny Mae.
March 30, 2007

Malvasio covers Dan Bern's Albuquerque Lullaby

Don't let your heart
Get broken by this world
Don't let your heart
Get broken
At the bottom of the ocean
You might find a pearl

Jeff Beck, featuring Beth Hart, performing "You Shook Me"

Beth Hart in Amsterdam
Sept 24, 2008

Cause I wanna love
I wanna live
I don't know much about it
I never did,
I don't know what to do, can the damage be undone
I swore to God that I'd never be what I've become
Lucky stars and fairy tales
I'm gonna bathe myself in a wishin' well
Pretty scars from cigarettes
I never will forget, I never will forget
I'm still afraid to be alone
wish that moon would follow me home
I leave the light on
I ain't that bad I'm just messed up
I ain't that sad but I'm sad enough
God bless the child with the dirty face who

Janis Joplin in The Dick Cavett Show June 25, 1970

Janis Joplin & Big Brother and the Holding Company perform "Ball and Chain" live at Monterey Pop Festival 1967.

Janis Joplin on The Dick Cavett Show July 18, 1969

aby I see this world has made you sad
Some people can be bad
The things they do, the things they say
But baby I'll wipe away those bitter tears
I'll chase away those restless fears
That turn your blue skies into grey

Why worry, there should be laughter after pain
There should be sunshine after rain
These things have always been the same
So why worry now
Why worry now

Baby when I get down I turn to you
And you make sense of what I do
I know it isn't hard to say
But baby just when this world seems mean and

from Dire Straits' sixth and final album, "On Every Street", with drummer Jeff Porcaro from Toto.

reminiscent of the psychedelic sound of the 60s

Don't let the off-key singing and playing of just about every known musical instrument plus saws typewriters, kazoos, and a squeaky glass pot top stop you from hearing the lyrics:

sometimes we are every person
sometimes everyone is us
sometimes everything seems perfect
sometimes everything just sucks

too loud ... too fast ... too bad