Comments on: Eve of Destruction https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/14/eve-of-destruction/ Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:53:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Christophe Thill https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/14/eve-of-destruction/#comment-544916 Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:53:55 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/09/14/eve-of-destruction/#comment-544916 Also the singing Green Beret was Barry Sadler, not McGuire. Although McGuire had a song called “Green Green”, but it doesn’t count.

]]> By: Christophe Thill https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/14/eve-of-destruction/#comment-544915 Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:00:11 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/09/14/eve-of-destruction/#comment-544915 The songwriter is a musical genius named P. F. Sloan:
http://www2.gol.com/users/davidr/sloan/
http://www.myspace.com/pfsloan

As for McGuire, he’s now a born-again Christian, but it seems he still loves to sing the old protest songs.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/14/eve-of-destruction/#comment-544914 Tue, 15 Sep 2009 01:40:06 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/09/14/eve-of-destruction/#comment-544914 I’ll have you know the Turtles version was released first, and the version you are all fawning over was not by the original writer of the song … just some guy. I will not have disrespect for Flo and Eddy on this web site. Except that one song which shall not be mentioned.

But it is true that the Barry McGuire version makes a better ring tone.

]]> By: doug l https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/14/eve-of-destruction/#comment-544913 Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:40:12 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/09/14/eve-of-destruction/#comment-544913 Ah..the 60s. I recall the first time it was put on prime-time TV…on Hullabaloo or Shindig or Ed Sullivean maybe performed by the song’s writer Green Beret Sgt Barry McGuire..the set was a post-apolaclyptic junk yard with a couple of VWs and some high tension wires…very prescient of a Mad Max kind of world. Of course the whole family watched gathered around the family TV…And of course the eve of destruction has been postponed,and hopefully so has the next ice-age.

]]> By: Barry McGuire https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/14/eve-of-destruction/#comment-544912 Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:36:37 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/09/14/eve-of-destruction/#comment-544912 So is or is not Barry’s question appropriate?

]]> By: Stephanie Z https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/14/eve-of-destruction/#comment-544911 Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:23:14 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/09/14/eve-of-destruction/#comment-544911 Of course not, D. C. Any time you get worried, just look at Greg’s banner.

]]> By: D. C. Sessions https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/14/eve-of-destruction/#comment-544910 Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:08:15 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/09/14/eve-of-destruction/#comment-544910 Now I’m worried — does this mean that sciency perspectives are off-topic?

]]> By: Stephanie Z https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/14/eve-of-destruction/#comment-544909 Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:00:17 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/09/14/eve-of-destruction/#comment-544909 Barry, if you must troll, do try to be original. We’re over that.

]]> By: Barry McGuire https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/14/eve-of-destruction/#comment-544908 Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:51:24 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/09/14/eve-of-destruction/#comment-544908 Since this is ScienceBlogs, how did that hypothesis work out?

]]> By: MartinDH https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/14/eve-of-destruction/#comment-544907 Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:47:39 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/09/14/eve-of-destruction/#comment-544907 Yup…that was my pre-college anthem. And you say the polished, but soulless, Turtles’ version is better?

Hah! Fie on you, knave!

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