Bruce Cockburn - If I Had a Rocket Launcher - 1994

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  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ธ.ค. 2024

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  • @jameslee5520
    @jameslee5520 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Couldn’t be more relevant than it is today .

  • @franvarga709
    @franvarga709 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Powerful song, still resonates today. Unfortunatley.

  • @marceibel1131
    @marceibel1131 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    This is a masterful version..
    A real musician like cockburn always likes to add something different...
    He really is one of a kind..

  • @keithmuffty3501
    @keithmuffty3501 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Beautiful Beautiful SONG, my most fav song ever....

  • @intothemystic3374
    @intothemystic3374 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I understand why this popped up in my feed! It's how I've been feeling toward traitor trumph. Awesome guitar work and powerful lyrics. And I agree wholeheartedly.

  • @obiwazz6929
    @obiwazz6929 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I love his song writing, singing and guitar work, a unique artist...Brilliant, thank you for posting.

  • @JayTheLane
    @JayTheLane 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    This is fantastic but let's not forget the guy on the Strat playing slide.

  • @susanemery2992
    @susanemery2992 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I thought this beautiful, powerful, and wrenching song was pretty relevant for today. God bless us all.

  • @georgeesau3943
    @georgeesau3943 7 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    I saw him last week in Boston, he is amazing! This is one the most powerful songs I've ever heard, and I'm old!

    • @frednoble1833
      @frednoble1833 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      OH FUCK. I NEVER. KNEW HE WAS EVEN HERE. YOU LUCKY LUCKY P PERSON. FRED NOBLE. THE FENCE M AN. BRAINTREE MASS. JESUD CHRIST. I FUCKIN LOVE TH I S MAN. HE IS. GOD. TELLIN US. WHATS ☝ UP. HOLY FUCK

    • @frednoble1833
      @frednoble1833 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      YOU LUCKYUCKY MAN EMERDON LAKE AND PALMER. BASTARD. HOW COME.I.NEVER HEARD HE WAS HERE. JRSUS FUCKIN CHRIST. YOU ARE BLESSED. NIGHTFENCER GATEKEEPER NOBLE FENCE. BRAINTREE. I FUCKIN.LOVE LOVE THIS MAN. HE IS A GOD. WITH.A VERY IMPORTANT MESSAGE. TO THE SHEEP. THAT ARE ABOUT TO BE SLAUGHTERED AND DONT EVEN REALIZE IT. SONG IS 30. YEARS OLD. HAPPENNING NIW. THIS IS HIM TELLING THE FUTURE 30 YEARS AGO JUST LIKE JIM. FROM THE DOORS. B U STED FOR DRUGS. SEVERAL TIMES. WHY DO YA THINK THEY LET HIM KERP PLAYING. TO SPREAD FEAR. GOVERMENT. T H EN BOOM. H E WAS GONE. OD ? ????? ?? FARTGER HEAD OF INTELLIGENCE. MAN VERY HIGH UP. NAVAL? YOU F I GURE IT OUT. WOW. NIGHTFE N CER. I HOPE T H EY DONT COME AFTER M E NOW. HA HA. 30.OR 40 YEARS L ATER H I S DAD REALIZES WHATVA SIGNIFICANT. INFLUENTIAL. MAN. A N D SON HE HAS AND HAD. NIW HE REGRETS IT. SHAME ON HIM. BUT SONETIMES. WE HAVE TO LEARN THE HARD WAY. LIKE. YOU. A N D I. FRED THE FENCE. NIGHTFE N CER GATEKEEPER. ROCK ON. USA. MISS TRUMP. COME BACK DONALD. H O W YOUNG O R OLD D O ES S OMEOBE HACE4 TO BE. TI RUN. PUT HIS GENIIS4 SON IN THERE. HE HAS A HIGGER IQ. TH A N A BUNCH OF PEOEPLE PUT TO GETHER. GIID FARTHER. DONALD. SMART PEOPLE. WE N EED IN T H AT OFFICE. JES
      US CHR I ST HELP 🇺🇸 US. THATS NIT M E MISS SPELLING OR SKIPPING. MY WORDS. THATS FACE BOOK. FUCKING W I TH M E

    • @estedetringham7528
      @estedetringham7528 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Me, too. (Old, I mean.)

  • @BobWParks
    @BobWParks 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    When I find the magic genie I will play guitar like Cockburn.

  • @cheryl6404
    @cheryl6404 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    For you, Sam Powell. Miss you buddy.

  • @georgieminard8760
    @georgieminard8760 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Powerful song‼️🎶🎤🎧🎵🔥🔥🔥⚖️✊🏼‼️🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸‼️

    • @jamesc4812
      @jamesc4812 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thanks for your honest and sincere love towards my work,we have you to be most thankful for . 💓

  • @flashy5150
    @flashy5150 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    That looks like a Dan Electro guitar, awesome sound.

    • @frednoble1833
      @frednoble1833 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      LIFE SHATTERING. ACOUSTICS. HE ID THAT INCREDIBLE. ONE IF NOT. THE BESY GUITARISTS. I HAVE EVER HEARD. WOULD LOVE TO SEE HIM PLAY WITH ERIC. SLOW ✋ HAND. CLAPTON. OR. EMERSON. LAKE AND PALMER

  • @FuaConsternation
    @FuaConsternation 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    wow

    • @jamesc4812
      @jamesc4812 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thanks for your honest and sincere love towards my work,we have you to be most thankful for . 💓

  • @gcymous9160
    @gcymous9160 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    great song meaning . it's about when the US backed fascist regimes in Latin and South America . This song, if memory serves me, is about the the plight of Guatemalan refugees in southern Mexico and the Contra counter revolutionary killers in Nicaragua but can be applied to any US gov backed atrocities . imho the original recording is much better musically . the reason you hear a lot of guitars is not a lot of guitar dubbing by bruce cockburn but the inclusion of Fergus Marsh - bass and Chapman stick . it has ten or twelve strings. you don't pluck you just touch the strings . leaves the other hand free to play more notes and accompaniment . they are working on a totally acoustic "stick" which doesn't need any electric amplifier or synthesizer .
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stealing_Fire_(Bruce_Cockburn_album) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapman_Stick
    youtube playlist of chapman stick playlist : th-cam.com/play/PLOwMkE8bh9fgIrsuxb-6mGg-axoGLGGET.html

    • @GardnerMiller
      @GardnerMiller 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Was on his album 'Nicaragua' among others.

    • @JimAndyAllyn
      @JimAndyAllyn 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      "it's about when the US backed fascist regimes in Latin and South America" ... You mean it's about the mid-1850s up until today? We have always done that.

    • @hotelmario510
      @hotelmario510 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Fuck Reagan and his legacy. America's evil preceded Trump and it will succeed him

    • @BruceK10032
      @BruceK10032 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@JimAndyAllyn It's specifically about Guatemala in the 1980s.

    • @JimAndyAllyn
      @JimAndyAllyn 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@BruceK10032 I'm aware of that. But the US has backed fascist regimes in Central and South America for practically as long as there has been a US - and still does. Cockburn wrote the song while and after visiting Guatemalan refugee camps in Mexico, during the dictatorship of Efraín Ríos Montt, who like most dictators, terrorists, torturers and mass murderers in Central and South America, was trained by the United States. So while it was specifically inspired by the situation of Guatemalans in Mexican refugee camps, it could have been about just about anywhere in Central or South America, at just about any time.