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Johnny J. Blair + Jonny V of Social Spit - Fascist Architecture (Remastered 2020)

from SAN FRANCISCO SUSPENSION BRITCHES (Audio Diary Entries 1990​-​95) by Johnny J Blair "Singer at Large"

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This is a cover of a Bruce Cockburn song, recorded and produced by Jonny V during some 1984 sessions and released on a tape EP in 1997. This was recorded in a former pasta factory in North Beach, San Francisco, in the same neighborhood as Beat Generation coffee houses and spots where they filmed scenes for “Dirty Harry” movies.

Cockburn's version was urban folk, but on the heels of my bike messenger experiences, I punked it up with an influence from The Alarm and the first Pretenders album. Friends of mine who are Cockburn fans have been silent about my version. I think they suspect me of heresy.

Cockburn described the song as…“Bombastic, exaggeratedly heroic, it mocks the humanity it purports to glorify. It is overpowering, cold and makes you think of the baby sacrificing scenes in biblical movies. Sometimes we build structures like this in our own minds...The image 'fascist architecture' came from Italy. It was stuff that was built during Mussolini's period that was a particular style where the buildings are really larger that life and what is supposed to celebrate the greatness of humanity actually dwarfs humanity. And it makes you fell tiny and helpless next to it. And everybody hates this stuff. It seemed to me a suitable image for the things in ourselves, the structures we build that are built on false expectations or pretenses. The things we pretend to ourselves. And then when some catastrophe comes your way, like a marriage breaking up or some other thing, those things crack and you get glimpses through them, the light comes through them. It's not a comfortable thing."—from the publication CLOSER TO THE LIGHT by Paul Zollo, 1994.

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from SAN FRANCISCO SUSPENSION BRITCHES (Audio Diary Entries 1990​-​95), released April 26, 2011
Johnny J Blair: bass, rhythm guitar, vocals
Jonny V: drums, electric guitar, producer

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"Johnny is a virtuoso"--Brian Wilson
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