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Chocolate Supa Highway
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A Little Rain We could use a little rain What the world needs is a little rain Tomorrow the sun will come again What the world needs is a little rain
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01/27/2005 608 Gallery (FRANTI ACOUSTIC) Park City, UT
01/28/2005 Treasure Mtn. Inn (255 Main St.) ~*6pm Film Screening *~ Park City, UT
01/28/2005 Main St. Mall, 333 Main St., 2nd FLR. (4pm Franti Acoustic) Park City, UT
01/28/2005 SUEDE (11pm-FRANTI sit in w/ Bernie Worrell, Wil Calhoun & Doug Winbush...JAM!) PARK CITY, UT
02/19/2005 Moonlight Festival Perth, AU
02/21/2005 Manning Bar (Franti Acoustic) Sydney, AU
02/22/2005 Manning Bar (Franti Acoustic) Sydney, AU
02/24/2005 Prince of Wales (Franti Acoustic) Melbourne, AU
02/25/2005 Sidney Myer Music Bowl (MEL INT'L MUSIC & BLUES FEST) Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
02/27/2005 Sidney Myer Music Bowl (MEL INT'L MUSIC & BLUES FEST) Melbourne, Australia
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Do u rap for the money...or for fame..or for yourself?
To me, success is like a tree. you plant seeds and you hope to grow strong roots that can hold up a strong trunk, and have a lot of branches that spread out wide with lots of leaves to catch a lot of sunlight and a lot of rain. and in time, your tree will bear fruit, and you can eat that fruit or you can share it with your friends or you can plant the seeds back in the ground and plant more trees, or you can use it to fertilise, but it's not like a gold statue that you put on your fireplace, cos if you put fruit up on your fireplace it will rot and stink up your living room.
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Love Kamikaze: The Lost Sex Singles
Micahel Franti will do solo acoustic shows in Melborune and Sydney when Spearhead come to Austrailia for the Melbourne Jazz and Blues festival.
The shows coincide with the release of a new limited edition CD, Love Kamikaze: The Lost Sex Singles, which features six previously unreleased Franti/Spearhead tracks.
It seems the CD will be on sale at the shows (and possible later on Spearheadvibrations just like Songs From The Front Porch.)

I Know I'm Not Alone
Dan has found a video of the song I Know I'm Not Alone, the first time it was played. The lyrics are also available. Thanks Dan.
New lyrics
We've added some new lyrics (see below). Dan has sorted them all out. All songs are unreleased and lyrics taken from live performances.
We're back!
Thanks to Matt and Jen of loveisdashit.com for getting us back up - updates soon and please report any torubles with the site.
My email is back up richard@freakyandfree.com
It's so out of date!
It was been pointed out on the Spearhead Music Board that our chords (and also lyrics) are unreliable (incorrect). This
is a communication failing on our part. Also an indication of our slackness. Most of the chords
and lyrics have been sourced from the first (or early) live perfomrance. Some songs have since been commercially released with slight (or major)
changes. It has been an oversight on our part NOT to indicate the source performance of the lyrics or chords. In future we will
endeavour to attribute the source of the lyrics or chords. For example, both the chords and lyrics of Bomb The World were taken
from an early live performance, the lyrics and chords are not an entirely accurate in regard to the CD release.
We have recently posted chords and ltrics to a new song Life-saver. It was posted by loveisdashit.com from a March 30th performance at Santa Rosa.
Who knows, if it will ever recieve an offical CD release and with what differences in lyrics, melody or in key? From now on we will
acknowledge the source of these lyrics (and maybe even update when a commerical release is made!) in order to communicate the accuracy against an officail release.
Over the next few weeks we will attempt to go through the all lyrics and chords to acknowledge their source.
Thanks for your patience and understanding with this!
This site will now focus on lyrics, cd covers for the field
recordings, general info, setlists and past tour info.
If you have any chords or other info please send it in - even if you sent it before! I lost all my old emails as well.
Check out loveisdashit.com for all your spearhead needs.
freakyandfree.com is a fan-based resource
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Lyrics for:
A Minutes All I Need
Clean Up Man
I Know I'm Not Alone
I'm Like a Bee
It's Time To Go Home
Love Enough
Never Seen A Place So High
Not Sorry
Tolerance
Yell Fire
Yens and Euros
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Speedway Meadows, Golden Gates Park-San Francisco, California 4th Annual 911 Power To The Peaceful Free Concert, Social Justice & Peace Rally
9/7/2002
The day got started early (some earlier than others, Michael was there at 6:30am with the volenteers to make sure everything was going OK) with all sorts of people around setting up the stage, DJ tent, bike parking, art displays, food, activism and merch boothes and tables. Volenteers walked around with bright green shirts that said,"Ask Me" on them for people
looking for information about the days events. Michael was seen helping out and doing interviews throughtout the day as the field was starting to look like a huge organic music and activism stadium. After a slight generator problem, the concert would hit it's last obstical and the show would start about an hour late. Everyone's set would get cut short alittle but it wasn't just about the music today. This day would be about learning, sharing, talking, having fun and uniting! After Amy Goodman spoke, we heard from Sat Santokh and then Mumia Abu Jamal via tape recorder. From there it was all up to the boys to give the crowd of 15,000-20,000 people exactly what they had been waiting for.
Michael lead the band into Everyone Deserves Music ending the song with, "Even all my friends out here in Golden Gates Park, you all deserve music"!! Carl counted the guyz into People In The Middle reggae style. The sound by this time was dialed in perfectly by Tige,
Spearhead's soundwomen, and the band didn't miss a beat going right into Stay Human.
Being in S.F. you know the freaks come out in the day and by the first verse there were huge puppets, people dressed up supa freaky
and stilt walkers surrounding the front of the stage getting the crowd hyped and bouncin'. Karl Denson was in town playing two nights at
the Fillmore and stopped by just in time to hop on stage and rock out with the band. Next, the guyz would take it down a notch with the new song, Never Too Late which had the whole crowd singing. Radio took over
for a minute with his panflute and beatboxing as he then leads 15,000 to 20,000 arms swaying back and forth to the force of Rock the Nation.
What a site to see that many people all acting as one even if it was just arms swaying back and forth. Once the freny subsided from Rock The Nation, Michael speaks for a moment about it being so nice to look into the eyes of
so many other people today that believe that peace is not only the absense of war but the presence of justice! And then he said today
is a day that we come together to say that we should not be engaging in a war on terrorism, we should be engaging in a war on militarism!!
Michael then starts to play Bomb the World than stops and puts down his guitar because it was out of tune and sings acapella the rest of the verse while clapping. Dave joins in on electric guitar for the chorus as Michael gets the whole crowd of 20,000 clapping while he sings the chorus. The claps of the huge crowd echoed throughout the park and it was quite
eire yet powerful to here that kind of unity! Michael big ups everyone for thier articipation, thanks Anthony for the flower arrangement he provided for the stage and then He goes on to say that Anthony brought 300 roses for the band to pass out but they want everyone
to enjoy one for a minute and then pass it on so people all the way in the back can enjoy them aswell! He thanks KPFA 94.1fm and even the cops.
Michael lets everyone know that when they planned the event, everyone picked a job and Mike picked recycling. So he brought out a bunch plastic bags and passed them out and said that he wanted to leave this place leanner
than when they found it and not to leave even a cigarette butt laying around. Michael goes on to say, "but right now we are gonna rock you". Dave then proceeds to start playing the openning riff to Sometimes. Karl Denson comes back out to join the band as they rock everyone out one last time beforecalling it a day. The event was a huge success and hopefully tomorrow's social forum exploring, social and human rights issues at the New
College would be just as successful!
Dan
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Nemo
Nemo's site has lots of photos of his artwork
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