Comments on: ‘When I was young the radio played just for me, it saved me’ http://www.escapevelocity.org/2005/03/02/when-i-was-young-the-radio-played-just-for-me-it-saved-me/ of random thoughts and pickled cabbage Sat, 22 Nov 2008 12:29:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: jp http://www.escapevelocity.org/2005/03/02/when-i-was-young-the-radio-played-just-for-me-it-saved-me/#comment-11 jp Thu, 03 Mar 2005 22:45:00 +0000 http://www.escapevelocity.org/wordpress/?p=68#comment-11 You do rock. This thread -- "When I was young the radio played just for me, it saved me" -- reminded me of a speech by Hungarian Ambassador Andras Simonyi at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland on Nov 8, 2003 -- �Rocking for the Free World: How Rock Music Helped to Bring Down the Iron Curtain� http://www.hungaryemb.org/News%20Archive/ClevelandSpeech.htm Brief synopsis -- The Ambassador, an accomplished blues guitarist himself, spoke of his personal experiences with rock music and the impact that it made in communist-ruled Hungary and other Soviet Bloc countries. His central thesis was that the free flow of American and British rock music, and the revolutionary ideas it represented, over the airwaves into Central and Eastern Europe was instrumental in loosening the communists' grip on power and contributed to the eventual downfall of dictatorships there. Since most Hungarians could not understand the lyrics to British and American rock songs coming into Hungary via Radio Free Europe and Radio Luxemburg, it was the music that captivated them, said Ambassador Simonyi. "Listening to the these radios made us part of the free world," he said. You do rock. This thread — “When I was young the radio played just for me, it saved me” — reminded me of a speech by Hungarian Ambassador Andras Simonyi at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland on Nov 8, 2003 — �Rocking for the Free World: How Rock Music Helped to Bring Down the Iron Curtain�

http://www.hungaryemb.org/News%20Archive/ClevelandSpeech.htm

Brief synopsis —
The Ambassador, an accomplished blues guitarist himself, spoke of his personal experiences with rock music and the impact that it made in communist-ruled Hungary and other Soviet Bloc countries.

His central thesis was that the free flow of American and British rock music, and the revolutionary ideas it represented, over the airwaves into Central and Eastern Europe was instrumental in loosening the communists’ grip on power and contributed to the eventual downfall of dictatorships there.

Since most Hungarians could not understand the lyrics to British and American rock songs coming into Hungary via Radio Free Europe and Radio Luxemburg, it was the music that captivated them, said Ambassador Simonyi. “Listening to the these radios made us part of the free world,” he said.

]]> By: Tamu's Devoted Person http://www.escapevelocity.org/2005/03/02/when-i-was-young-the-radio-played-just-for-me-it-saved-me/#comment-10 Tamu's Devoted Person Thu, 03 Mar 2005 06:01:00 +0000 http://www.escapevelocity.org/wordpress/?p=68#comment-10 OMG. are you my gear twin?!!! i swear this list is nearly identical to my gear agenda. with the following exceptions. i've been lured to the iPOD (3G 40 gig) side already. and i recently resolved my PDA search and upgraded from my embarassing first generation visor deluxe to a dell axim x50. i considered the x30 too, but i'm not regretting the higher model and price. i'm working w/my brother to build the ever elusive computer, but that's a ways off... OMG. are you my gear twin?!!! i swear this list is nearly identical to my gear agenda. with the following exceptions. i’ve been lured to the iPOD (3G 40 gig) side already. and i recently resolved my PDA search and upgraded from my embarassing first generation visor deluxe to a dell axim x50. i considered the x30 too, but i’m not regretting the higher model and price. i’m working w/my brother to build the ever elusive computer, but that’s a ways off…

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