Alex Baldizón con su guitarra y su grupo tocaron hoy, en la Universidad Francisco Marroquín. Entre la música que ofrecieron estuvo Tom Sawyer, de Rush. Las letras de Rush están fuertemente influidas por el Objetivismo, la filosofía de Ayn Rand
¡Por supuesto que mi cámara no le hace justicia al sonido de esta banda!; pero la comparto porque tocaron muy bien y porque la letra es hermosa. El concierto ocurrió en la Plaza de la Libertad, luego de la carrera de zombis que estuvo muy alegre y divertida.
A modern day warrior
Mean, mean stride
Today’s Tom Sawyer
Mean, mean pride
Though his mind is not for rent
Don’t put him down as arrogant
His reserve, a quiet defense
Riding out the day’s events
The river
What you say about his company
Is what you say about society
Catch the mist, catch the myth
Catch the mystery, catch the drift
The world is, the world is
Love and life are deep
Maybe as his skies are wide
Today’s Tom Sawyer
He gets high on you
And the space he invades
He gets by on you
No his mind is not for rent
To any god or government
Always hopeful, yet discontent
He knows changes aren’t permanent
But change is
What you say about his company
Is what you say about society
Catch the witness, catch the wit
Catch the spirit, catch the spit
The world is, the world is
Love and life are deep
Maybe as his eyes are wide
Exit the warrior
Today’s Tom Sawyer
He gets high on you
And the energy you trade
He gets right on to the friction of the day.
La banda, de Alex está integrada por Carlos Pepió, voz; Alberto Villagrán, Guitarra; Roberto Mazariegos, bajo; Anthony Hernández, Batería; y Alex Baldizón, Guitarra.
Esto es algo que leí sobre Rush, en The Objectivist Standard.
Luisfi, que bueno que menciones a Rush, gran banda de rock canadiense surgida en los años ’70.
Su baterista, Neil Peart, se encontró con las ideas de Ayn Rand unos años antes de formar la banda, cuando vivía en Inglaterra. Rand inspiró un album de la banda, “2112”, y un tema de un album anterior, Fly by Night, que precisamente se llama “Anthem”.
La letra dice:
Know your place in life is where you want to be
don’t let them tell you that you owe it all to me
keep on looking forward, no use in looking ’round
hold your head above the ground and they won’t bring you
down
Anthem of the heart and anthem of the mind
a funeral dirge for eyes gone blind
we marvel after those who sought
new wonders in the world, wonders in the world,
wonders in the world they wrought
Live for yourself — there’s no one else
more worth living for
begging hands and bleeding hearts will
only cry out for more
Well, i know they’ve always told you
selfishness was wrong
yet it was for me, not you, i
came to write this song
Saludos,
aaaa Rush…. su música me vuelve loco…. recurrentemente me encuentro a mí mismo poniendo Tom Sawyer a todo volumen al subirme al carro, y me siento todo un ganador jaja… por cierto, no sé si le gusta south park, o si ha visto esto, pero me mata de la risa:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFGVDWc_5Q8
Saludos Lusfi
jajaja, muy bueno!
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