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BILL SEE - OFFICIAL HOMEPAGE
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"UNION" IS NOW AVAILABLE! AS HEARD ON INDIE 103.1 - GO TO MILES OF MUSIC TO GET IT- http://store.milesofmusic.com/prodinfo.asp?number=30376
FREE DOWNLOADS AT
http://www.laweekly.com/frequency/index.php
http://www.indie911.com/index.php?cID=2490#
& http://artists.iuma.com/IUMA/Bands/Bill_See/
& http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-form/104-4843680-4017504
ALSO GO TO TOPPLEBUSH.COM for postings of more "UNION" SONGS: http://www.topplebush.com/music.shtml
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Divine Weeks News:
A packed house at the Gig saw the Weeks return for a special one off reunion show April 10, 2004 and from all accounts brought the house down. The show opened with curtains opening and the band basking in the roar of the audience while Jimi Hendrix's "Peace in Mississippi" played. Launching into a four song attack without pause of "Goddamn Real to Me", "All These People", "In the Country" and "When I Go" it was clear the band was on a mission. A rousing "Bitterness" was dedicated to George's mom followed by an insinuating "Idiot Child" which ended with bits of Bob Marley's "Get Up Stand Up." A relentless "Stay Hungry", sounding better than ever, followed before an incandescent "Animal Move Real Slow." Next, a plea for tolerance and a seething 10 minute version of "Dry September." A blistering double shot of "Look Book" and "Copper Wire" closed the show. An encore of the lullaby-like "Wide Eyed" made for wistful end to a torrid show.
Go to the newly launched www.divineweeks.com for pictures of the show and MP3s of songs from the gig as well as other MP3s of live & unreleased songs, vintage photos, tour diaries, merchandise, interactive message boards and more.
The band did some recording following the show but are undedcided about further releases or live shows. Stay tuned.
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The former frontman of the highly acclaimed, highly impassioned late-'80s indie rock outfit Divine Weeks, See resurfaces with his first proper solo effort, Union. However Howl might be a more appropriate title -- here is an album fueled the artist's impressions of life in George W. Bush's America, from war to disenfranchisement to the co-opting of God for one's own political agenda. The tones are supersonic -- from the alt-rock attack of the anthemic "Seize Back The Future" to the ambient embrace of Woody Guthrie's "This Land Was Made For You And Me," which closes out the epic set in poignant fashion.
"A lot of us over the past three years have been branded unpatriotic for simply speaking out against leadership in this country," he says. "What they fail to realize is voices of dissent celebrate democracy and project to the world the viability of a free society. This is something to consider when this administration tells us that we are in Iraq to win the hearts and minds after the death of 10,000 of its civilians."
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Miles of Music Review www.milesofmusic.com
This is no wimpy, flag-waving, shout-out for patriotism. Nor is it a heavy handed, in your face soap-box rap about what's wrong with our political system. It is, however, the first proper solo record from Divine Weeks singer Bill See, and it IS a political record, of sorts. Above that, assuredly, is that Union is really, really good. Its content may be best summed up by its closing number, a rather spacey and droning - but poignant - version of the Woodie Guthrie classic, "This Land Was Made For You And Me." The 13 tracks that lead up to that impelling finale rock fairly well with emphasis on sonics and vocal conviction. He makes songs like "Seize Back The Future" a passionate call to action. And although he's giving a most aggressive vocal performance here, he sounds not so much infuriated but simply impassioned. Across the board he takes on the improper use of God as a political crux, the disenfranchised, and the power of hope, among other poetically veiled issues.
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"Divine Weeks Returns; Bill & Raj - The Gig, Los Angeles, 4/10/04
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From The Pasadena Weekly - 8/5/04
A rocking political salvo whose CD jacket’s adorned with telling quotes by the likes of Thomas Jefferson (“Dissent is the highest form of patriotism”). The envelope in which it arrived was a mock magazine cover announcing “Chaney Begins Prison Term; Bush Resigns – The Nightmare is Over.” That doesn’t begin to convey the erstwhile Divine Weeks frontman’s majestic anger, or the rousing power he conjures by weaving snippets of Dubya speeches into atmospheric layers of guitar, bass and hard-pounding drums. See flings back busted presidential promises (“I thought I heard you say/That no one gets left behind”) as he screams out some of his own: “You failed us now step aside/And now that we’re looking hard/We see you for who you are/And we will seize back the future from you.” By Bliss.
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"It is lamentable that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind." - Voltaire
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“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction....The chain reaction of evil -- hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars -- must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.” -Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
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"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter, and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed oursevles." - Abraham Lincoln
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