quite extraordinary

[realthog]

This must be one of the most extraordinary, impassioned rock performances of recent years, and it could hardly be more relevant than right now. Bruce Springsteen and Tom Morello (of Rage Against the Machine) perform what is anyway one of my favourite Springsteen songs, "The Ghost of Tom Joad".

Even if you're not much of a Springsteen fan (myself, I think he's done some great albums and far too many that are a lot less so), please give this a try -- and persevere through a somewhat wayward violin permeating the opening moments. The performance moved me to tears -- tears for what the brutal, arrogant, destructive bastards of the current Adminstration have done at every level to this country, to the world, to our standards of morality, and to our children's future.